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Humanity is a way of life
By Matshidiso Makhalanyane “I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to study further. For that to happen, the heavens had to forge a way.” Mixed feelings on Jean-Pierré van der Walt`s face as he recalls the miracles and hardships of his journey. Jean-Pierre is one of the ambassadors of the Student Bursary Fund Campaign which was launched by the University of the Free State (UFS). The aim of the project is to raise R100m in order to fund talented, deserving students who do not have financial support to obtain university degree. “When I was in matric, going to University was never an option. It made me feel despondent and I thought to myself: after school, what would life be like, where am I going?” this was the time that a funding opportunity enabled him to pursue his dream of making a through education. He completed BEd degree in Senior and FET in 2015. “Varsity taught me to stand up for myself, to make my voice heard,” Jean-Pierré says. “If I did not have the opportunity to attend University, I would have missed my calling in life: to show the world that, despite your physical restrictions, you can still make a difference.” Jean-Pierré is looking forward to being both English and Sesotho teacher. Photo courtesy of: Sonia Small
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How did Boohoo start and how it’s continually taking the UK by storm
Posted on April 11, 2019 July 3, 2019 Author Admin
When it comes to value fashion in the UK, Boohoo has been the name on everyone’s lips for a while. Boohoo is a popular UK based online retail clothing store aimed at 16 to 30 year olds.This exclusively online brand is one clothing label that continues to stand out in the crowded online fashion world. But how are they doing it, and how did they build such a successful brand?
BRIEF HISTORY OF BOOHOO
Like every great successful start up, Boohoo started from one golden idea. It was founded in 2006 by co-owners, Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane who are Joint Chief Executives of the company, respectively serving as the Group Executive Chairman and Executive Director.
Kamani, who used to be a fashion wholesaler working with his father on a market stall and selling handbags in Manchester, spotted the potential to transform their business by selling online, and used his knowledge of what sells in the 16 to 30 age group to open up their range to a far larger audience online.
Kane has a strong background as a fashion wholesalers supplying fast fashion to high street retailers. They jointly founded boohoo.com to tap into the growing online retail market. Boohoo as a company was incorporated and registered in New Jersey on the 19th of November, 2013 as a public company under the name Boohoo Group PLC.
BOOHOO’S OPERATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Although Boohoo’s major operations centre on the United Kingdom, with its head office in Manchester, it supplies clothing to over 100 other countries outside of the United Kingdom, including France and the United States. Boohoo employs over 2000 workers making it one of the biggest and most recognised online businesses. Boohoo’s core products include a strong variety of dresses and tops, with a selection of over 27,000 styles of clothing making them a leading force in the world of online fashion and retail. Boohoo has made a name for itself as being different from the likes of other online-only fashion giants such as Asos, because all the clothes it sells are own-brand and its price points are lower than competitors, with an average selling price of around £17.
Boohoo uploads about 120 new pieces of clothing onto their site every day and sells an average of 50 items of clothing per minute.
Boohoo not only offers value and choice for the extremely fashion-conscious 16 to 30 year old market, but it also offers convenience as well; vital for this particularly audience who expect fast fashion and deliveries straight to their door. Items on the Boohoo site can be ordered up until midnight for a next day delivery, even on a Sunday. Between 2016 and 2017, the Boohoo customer base had increased by 29%, making their reach an incredible 5.8 million customers.
BOOHOO’S MARKETING STRATEGY
As an online fashion store, Boohoo continues to make strong use of social media as a key tool in their brand marketing strategy. In 2012, they appointed a Social Media Manager and created a social media team whose sole responsibility was to drive the online presence and awareness of the brand. All other members of staff were encouraged to support the social media team by supplying content, feedback, messages and images to the team.
By September 2017, Boohoo already had 4.4 million Instagram followers, 3.1 million Facebook likes and almost a million followers on twitter. As of April 2017, Boohoo had recorded a total of 2.2 million downloads of its mobile app across the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Customers browsing from mobile devices accounted for about 70% of total browsing sessions, which was a steady 4% increase from previous years.
Bohoo’s consistent and steady growth over their thirteen years in business has meant they’ve hit major milestones year after year. It’s no surprise that they’ve become such an empire in their corner of the online fashion retail business.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF BOOHOO GROUP PLC
In April 2018, Boohoo recorded an enviable financial performance as it announced it had almost doubled its revenue on the previous year, taking in a total of £580 million, with pre-tax profits rising by 40% to £43.3 million. Combined with a 22% increase in their customer base, it’s fair to say that Boohoo is doing a lot of things right. Whatsmore, it shows no signs of slowing down either. Boohoo continues to enjoy a strong financial performance into the first quarter of 2019 with a 44% jump in revenue to £328.2 million.
The online retail fashion store is now worth a whopping £2.6 billion ($4.4 billion), making it one of the largest and most wealthy online assets in the world.
Boohoo has won major awards across the industry both in the United Kingdom and outside of it, including;
BT Online Retail Excellence Awards in 2007
Best Newcomer at the 2009 Cosmopolitan Online Fashion Awards
Best for Bargains at the 2010 Cosmopolitan Fashion Awards
Best Online Retailer at the Lorraine Awards, 2012, 2013 and 2014
com also won the City A.M’s Business of the Year award in 2017
The evolution of Boohoo from a wholesale stall to a business giant is in itself a great inspiration and lesson for business owners worldwide. It shows the power of innovation. Boohoo took off as a clever way to combine fashion insider knowledge with the unlimited possibilities of the internet while its competition was still waging analogue wars. They ensured they were straight out of the starting blocks when new opportunities and innovations came along, and kept a keen eye on their customer base all the way through.
As a relatively new company with an impressive market share of customers, they have also shown up-and-coming businesses the way to level the playing field when it comes to playing with the big guns. The internet and specifically social media marketing have helped narrow the gap in the marketing power balance between huge companies and start ups, and Boohoo have exploited every opportunity to create a buzz about their brand. They know their market inside out, showing that with the right knowledge and an eye for opportunity, it is possible to become an overnight success story even in a highly competitive scene.
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This is a feminine given name used in different countries. It is a form of the Middle French female name “Alis” (Old French and Norman French: Aalis and Aliz). The modern form Alice and its variation represents the short form of “Adelais”, which is derived from the Germanic name Adalhaid / Adalhaidis, composed of two elements: “*aþalaz” (noble, nobleman, aristocratic, eminent, glorious, excellent) plus “*haiduz” (kind, sort, appearance, personality, character, manner, way). The name Alis became very common in France in the twelfth century. 1) Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843–1878) was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to be outlived by their mother, who died in 1901. 2) Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska (1899–1939) was a Polish nun, head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo between 1934 and 1939, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church and a martyr killed by the German Nazis in 1939 in the Mass murders in Piaśnica. 3) Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover as spouse of William IV of the United Kingdom. Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is named after her. The name is first recorded in Scotland in the 12th century. It was popular until the early 19th century and, spelled Allison, was the 45th most common name given to baby girls in the United States in 2005.
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What the Entire Internet Looked Like in 1973: An Old Map Gets Found in a Pile of Research Papers
in Technology | December 20th, 2017 2 Comments
In 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered the universe—or rather, he discovered a star, and humans learned that the Milky Way wasn’t the whole of the cosmos. Less than 100 years later, thanks to the telescope named after him, NASA scientists estimate the universe contains at least 100 billion galaxies, and who-knows-what beyond that. The exponential growth of astronomical data collected since Hubble’s time is absolutely staggering, and it developed in tandem with the revolutionary increase in computing power over an even shorter span, which enabled the birth and mutant growth of the internet.
Modern “maps” of the internet can indeed look like sprawling clusters of star systems, pulsing with light and color. But the “weird combination of physical and conceptual things," Betsy Mason remarks at Wired, results in such an abstract entity that it can be visually illustrated with an almost unlimited number of graphic techniques to represent its hundreds of millions of users. When the internet began as ARPANET in the late sixties, it included a total of four locations, all within a few hundred miles of each other on the West Coast of the United States. (See a sketch of the first four “nodes” from 1969 here.)
By 1973, the number of nodes had grown from U.C.L.A, the Stanford Research Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah to include locations all over the Midwest and East Coast, from Harvard to Case Western Reserve University to the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, where David Newbury’s father worked (and still works). Among his father’s papers, Newbury found the map above from May of '73, showing what seemed like tremendous growth in only a few short years.
The map is not geographical but schematic, with 36 square “nodes”—early routers—and 42 oval computer hosts (one popular mainframe, the massive PDP-10, is sprinkled throughout), and only naming a few key locations. Significantly, Hawaii appears as a node, linked to the mainland by satellite. Just above, you can see an update from just a few months later, now representing 40 nodes and 45 computers. “The network,” writes Selina Chang, “became international: a satellite link connected ARPANET to nodes in Norway and London, sending 2.9 million packets of information every day.”
These early networks of global interconnectivity, created by the Defense Department and used mostly by scientists, predate Tim Berners-Lee and CERN’s development of the World Wide Web in 1991, which opened up the enormous, expanding alternate universe we know as the internet today (and was, coincidentally, invented around the same time as the Hubble Telescope). Though maps aren’t territories (a 1977 ARPANET “logical map” disclaims total accuracy in a note at the bottom), these early representations of the internet resemble medieval maps of the cosmos next to the beautiful complexity of glowing colors we see in 21st century infographics like the authoritatively-named “The Internet Map.”
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Martin Cohen says:
In the mid-70s, I was a graduate student in Computer Science at USC. I was often at the Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, doing research in program verification.
I remember being at an Arpanet terminal and logging into London and feeling “Wow! This is incredible.” This was at a quite fast 50 kb.
In the early 80s, I worked at Northrop’s Research and Technology Center, and often logged in from home using a borrowed 1200 baud modem. Even at that speed, it was quite usable staying in Emacs for everything.
Don’t get me started on punched cards and paper tape.
Julie Biddle says:
This map, or one very much like it, appeared in a science fiction novel whose title and author I can’t remember at the moment. The main character was a rock star with psychic powers who could control computers. He faked a deep coma and was ‘stored’ in some research facility where brain waves were studied which gave him access to the internet. From there he could monitor everything and I vaguely recall that he destroyed all weapons systems. Haven’t read it in a long time. I’m pretty sure the word “star” was in the title but I can’t quite recall.
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Experience : The Fremantle Prison
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One of the things that we got heaps of recommendations for was to visit the Fremantle Prison. It’s a historically rich gem that opened in 1855 and during its 136 years of operation, it housed over 350,000 convicts and prisoners.
The Gatehouse is where you enter and prior to the prison’s closure in 1991, it was all that the public knew of the maximum security prison. These days, visitors can wander in and out and check out the art gallery, gift shop, visitor centre and café, but the best way to see the prison is on one of the great tours they offer.
We did all the tours – each one telling a different story – and we learnt so much about the history and inhabitants of the prison, how it was built, the riots, the executions, and the daily life behind bars. It was an amazing experience and we highly recommend a visit to the Fremantle Prison.
The history of the Fremantle Prison is the most fascinating thing about the prison – how it was built, how the prisoners lived, were punished, and died, the riots they started and the spooky stories from the night officers.
It all started with a severe labour shortage within the Swan River Colony in the early 1800s. Because of the collapsing infrastructure, many were heading east to New South Wales and Tasmania for greener pastures and a better life and by 1840, only 6,000 settlers remained. In the meantime, the British Government was dealing with overflowing prisons so a deal was made to send some convicts over to Australia.
During the 1850s, thousands of convicts arrived for labour to build the roads, bridges, buildings and helped to establish the colony as a permanent settlement. They also built their own house – The Convict Establishment – and it is the largest convict-built structure in Western Australia. Carved out of a limestone hill, the establishment was completed in 7 years and in 1855, the first convicts moved in. A few decades later, an onsite reservoir was built by convicts using around 200,000 bricks. It holds 1.5 million litres and fed the prison and half of Fremantle before a diesel spill in 1988 seeped into the reservoir and contaminated the water.
Over time, the Convict Establishment needed to start letting colonial offenders into the prison, particularly when the Gold Rush of the 1890s saw an influx of crime. During World War II, the prison acted as a military detention centre.
The prison was finally decommissioned in 1991 and reopened in 1992 as a cultural, historical and educational attraction. The Fremantle Prison was added to the National Heritage List in 2005 and gained World Heritage status in 2010.
THE CELLS
During the Doing Time Tour, they had set up a row of cells in one of the divisions to demonstrate the evolution of living conditions over 136 years. We strolled from room to room, amazed by the simplicity and lack of space. We definitely wouldn’t have wanted to be inmates in this prison.
From when the prison started in 1855, cells were 1.2 metres by 2.1 metres and included a hammock, stool, fold down table and a poo bucket. By the 1860s, poor plumbing led to drippy pipes and insect infestations and in 1870 a Royal Commission recommended that the size of the cells be increased, so they doubled the size of all the cells by removing a shared wall between two cells.
Oil and kerosene lamps were replaced by electricity in 1907, and in the 1950s, hammocks were replaced by simple, metal frame beds, which were then replaced with bunk beds in the 1960s. In the 1980s, power points were installed in cells so prisoners could plug in electrical goods like small TVs and radios. Poo buckets were never replaced by flushing toilets… ever.
Painting and drawing on cell walls was strictly forbidden up until the final year of the prison’s operation. There was one exception to this rule – Pegleg Pete, who was incarcerated for brutally violent crimes against women. He was allowed to have the artistic outlet of painting on his cell walls because it made him noticeably calmer and more compliable. Here are a few images of his cell, as well as another cell painted by another aboriginal inmate, and drawings from James Walsh’s cell.
Riots were a rare but furious occurrence and usually broke out over the poor conditions. In 1968, prisoners were sick of food covered in maggots and grease so they made demands for a prison menu and sweets. When the Superintendent refused, the prisoners rebelled, but the situation was diffused fairly quickly.
The last riot in the prison happened on a 42 degree day in 1988. Two prisoners were carrying buckets of boiling water for afternoon tea when they suddenly poured the water over a few prison guards. The guards were taken hostage and the prisoners started to burn things, which eventually set the jarrah wood roof on fire. The fire brigade was stalled because their trucks couldn’t fit through the gates of the prison, and after 18 hours and $1.8 million worth of damage, the prisoners backed down and released the hostages.
FAMOUS PRISONERS
Moondyne Joe
In 1848, Joseph Bolitho Johns was convicted for stealing bread, several cheeses and some bacon and was sentenced to 10 years. After a few years in UK prisons, he was shipped over to Western Australia and arrived in Fremantle in 1853. He served two years before being released for good behaviour and he went to live in the rugged bush in the Darling Range, in an area the Aboriginals called Moondyne.
In 1861, Joseph was found guilty of stealing a horse and got locked up in jail, only to escape with the stolen horse using the magistrates bridle and saddle to ride off into the night. He was caught the next day and sentenced to three years.
After a few more escapes and recaptures, Moondyne was transferred to Fremantle Prison where an inescapable cell was built especially for him – stone walls lined with jarrah sleepers secured with over 10 nails. Funnily enough, he managed to escape again while doing stonework in the yard and disappeared for two years before being discovered, drunk as a skunk sipping stolen wine in the cellar of Houghton Winery in the Swan Valley.
After a few more escape attempts, he was finally given a conditional pardon in 1873 and became a respectable stockman and carpenter and married in 1879. About 20 years later, he was admitted to the Fremantle Asylum for senile dementia and died in 1900.
Convicted in 1852 for forging a request for goods, he was sentenced to 15 years and transported to Australia, arriving in Fremantle in 1854. After 5 years in the convict establishment, he was conditionally pardoned, but reconvicted four months later for forging a one pound note and got another eight years.
During this time, he decorated his cell with the most intricate drawings, covering them up with porridge and whitewash so he wouldn’t get punished for marking his cell walls. His cell was on display and the drawings reminded us of those from Michelangelo and Leonardo – just beautiful!
There are four tours available – Doing Time, Great Escapes, Torchlight and Tunnels.
We loved the Doing Time Tour! It gave us great insight into how the inmates lived their lives inside the prison. From the initial processes of strip, shower and search which was jovially demonstrated on Dave (assume the position!), to living in the small cell, punishment and the final walk to the gallows, we were shown how the prisoners spent their days. If you prefer break out stories, the Great Escapes Tour reveals all the grand plans and opportunistic escapes of both convicts and prisoners. Learn about famous inmates like Moondyne Joe and the Fenian convicts, and marvel at the bravery and determination, or the foolishness and silly mistakes.
For a real spooky experience, come back after dark for the Torchlight Tour and walk around the prison grounds in the dark. Probably not the best choice if you’re afraid of the dark, ghosts, scary stories, cold shivers running down your neck or unexpected surprises that make you scream. The amount of times Juz jumped and grabbed onto Dave during this tour was just funny.
The Tunnels Tour is perfect for the adventurous types and goes 20 metres underground into 1000 metres worth of tunnels that were built by the prisoners. Juz was a bit squeamish about going underground so Dave did this tour on his own and he loved it! The tunnels are only accessible by boat and Dave got to share the lead boat with the tour guide, Karl. At one stage during the tour (you’ll know when you get to it!) Dave and Karl heard a kafuffle behind them and stopped to allow the rest of the group to catch up. A few seconds later, they appeared – one group ended up backwards while another group had lost their oar, which was later found in someone else’s boat. One of the great features of this tour is a plaque that commemorates convict labour. It is the only plaque that celebrates the hard work that the prisoners did, and it’s deep down in the tunnels. This tour is best suited for the physically fit who aren’t afraid of heights or enclosed spaces.
The Fremantle Prison is on The Terrace and is open 7 days a week from 10am and it is an absolute MUST for anyone visiting Fremantle.
The space is also available for functions and events such as receptions, Halloween parties, art exhibitions, murder mystery nights and Christmas Parties. It can also host weddings because the prison chapel is a bonafide, consecrated church – just in case you’re interested in starting your life sentence in at the Fremantle Prison.
Website: www.fremantleprison.com.au
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5 thoughts on Experience : The Fremantle Prison
Dougie on March 15, 2013 at 7:25 pm said:
YOu both look great & Juz looks real cool after the scary prison tour
juz on March 17, 2013 at 9:13 pm said:
Hehe thanks Dougie! But don’t judge a book by its cover – there were a few moments during the Torchlight Tour that got me grabbing Dave’s arm. He probably would have gotten bruises if he wasn’t so tough.
david Kelly on May 26, 2015 at 2:10 pm said:
sick one xx
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Ella rich on April 11, 2013 at 3:40 pm said:
You’ve reminded me of some of the great places there are to explore in Fremantle – and exploring is one of my favorite pastimes!
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The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion
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The Diamond Sutra, a mainstay of the Mahayana tradition, has fascinated Buddhists for centuries because of its insights into dualism and illusion: the “diamond” can cut through any obstacle on the road to enlightenment. In the Diamond Sutra, the Buddha responds to a disciple’s question about how to become a Buddha. The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion presents a dialogue between the Buddha and his disciple, Subhuti, which illuminates how our minds construct limited categories of thought. The answer: we must move beyond personal enlightenment to follow the path of the Bodhisattvas, fully enlightened beings who postpone Nirvana in order to alleviate the suffering of others. It offers us alternative ways to look at the world in its wholeness so we can encounter a deeper reality; develop reverence for the environment and more harmonious communities, families, and relationships; and act in the world skillfully and effectively.
This revised edition includes Thich Nhat Hanh’s translation of the Sutra from the Chinese and, in his commentaries, his own diamond sharp insight, including new work on the environmental implications of the Diamond Sutra. A beautiful edition of one of Buddhism’s central texts.
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Author`s name Dmitry Sudakov
Texas injustice; The tragedy of Timothy Cole
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Within its borders arguably resides the most corrupt legal system in the United States, if not the world: at one time, to increase the prospect of winning convictions, “training” manuals were circulated in some prosecutors’ offices explaining how to exclude racial minorities from juries; one prosecutor who sent an innocent man to prison later joked about this injustice by boasting, “Anybody can convict a guilty man. It takes talent to convict an innocent one”; an African-American activist was sentenced to thirty years in prison for allegedly passing one marijuana “joint” to an undercover police officer; by contrast, a white, high-school football hero only received probation for killing a “punk rocker” by first striking him with his car, then backing over him; one single county has had more wrongful convictions than entire states; its legal “system” executed a man even though the United States Supreme Court had agreed to review his case; this “system” may also have executed two innocent men, Carlos DeLuna and Ruben Cantu; George W. Bush, while governor of this state, routinely denied thirty-day reprieves to death row inmates requesting DNA testing, even though such testing could potentially have exonerated them; during his murderous reign, this “pro-life” governor executed over one hundred and fifty people, then arrogantly bragged that no innocent person had been executed “under his watch.” This claim was an easy one to make since all evidence was routinely destroyed after an execution, making posthumous DNA testing impossible.
Still, even in the State of Texas, tyrants occasionally forget to cover their tracks, and such was the case when posthumous DNA testing recently exonerated Timothy Cole. In 1985, Cole was convicted of rape and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. At the age of thirty-nine, he died there—another victim of Texas injustice.
The tragedy of Timothy Cole’s case is a litany of everything that is wrong with Texas and America’s criminal justice “systems.”
Anybody familiar with the “day care molestation” hysterias of the 1980s, and the injustices it sired, are easily reminded that, more often than not, wrongful convictions occur whenever police and/or prosecutors are on a crusade, or, perhaps more accurately, a vendetta. In such cases, instead of following the scientific method—which dictates that objective analysis of the evidence should lead to a conclusion—investigators, far too often, simply assume that a crime has been committed and/or who the perpetrators are. This, in turn, often compels them to ignore, withhold or conceal evidence that contradicts their predetermined conclusions, and, in some cases, even causes them to fabricate or plant evidence to support these conclusions.
According to articles from CNN and The Associated Press [AP], this practice of ignoring contradictory evidence was present in Timothy Cole’s case. The victim had informed police that her attacker had smoked throughout much of her ordeal, something a person who suffered from severe asthma, as Cole did, would never have been able to do.
A second problem in the Cole case is the flawed methodology that was used (and in many places continues to be used) when dealing with eyewitness identifications. THE INNOCENCE PROJECT reports that many, if not most, wrongful convictions result from faulty eyewitness identifications—a problem that Iowa State University professor Gary Wells has spent years examining.
In 2001, I attended a seminar that included Wells as one of the guest speakers. He began by showing the audience a video reenactment of a crime. During the course of this video, audience members were able to get at least three good looks at the perpetrator.
After the video ended, Wells projected six photographs onto the screen, and asked the audience to identify the perpetrator. He also cautioned the audience that the perpetrator’s photo might not actually be in this line-up. Despite this warning, roughly eighty-nine percent of the audience identified one photograph as the man they saw in the video.
Wells then projected the photograph of the man who was actually in the video next to the one the majority of the audience had chosen. While there were some similarities between the two, this side-by-side comparison clearly established that the audience was looking at two different men.
Wells then explained that whenever the actual perpetrator is absent from a photographic line-up, and even when eyewitnesses are advised that this might be the case, people have a tendency to select the photograph that most closely resembles the perpetrator, simply because they convince themselves that the police would not be showing them the line-up unless they included a photograph of the actual perpetrator.
Wells further stated that erroneous eyewitness identifications are often validated by police officers, either through their body language or actual comments. In Timothy Cole’s case, for example, the victim stated that after she identified him as her attacker, the police reinforced her selection by describing Cole as “a violent criminal and a thug.”
A third issue in the Cole case is the penalty one pays for refusing to accept a plea-bargain, which outside of the legal arena would probably be labeled extortion.
Plea-bargaining occurs whenever prosecutors offer criminal defendants reduced charges and/or prearranged punishments in exchange for pleading guilty. Critics of this practice argue that it often treats the guilty too leniently, while supporters contend that the legal system would collapse if every criminal defendant demanded to be placed on trial.
The primary problem with plea-bargaining, however, is that innocent people, to avoid the prospect of spending years in prison, might feel compelled to admit to crimes they did not commit.
Attorneys, who have no illusions about the system, often call going to trial “rolling the dice” because the bias of the presiding judge, the evidence this judge admits or excludes, the race or gender of the victim and/or defendant, the predispositions of the jury, and the competency of the attorneys, or the lack thereof, can all serve to mask the truth.
Calvin Burdine learned this the hard way. After being convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, he appealed on the grounds that his defense attorney had occasionally dozed off during portions of the trial.
Commonsense would dictate that Burdine received “ineffective assistance of counsel.” After all, it does not require a stretch of the imagination to realize that any juror watching this slumbering lawyer would presume Burdine was guilty, since even his own attorney showed so little interest in defending him.
But this trial occurred in the execution-crazed state of Texas, and Texas justice decreed that Burdine’s conviction should stand, because he could not prove that his attorney had slept through any “relevant” testimony.
This was the system that Timothy Cole placed his faith it. Turning down a plea-bargain offer to plead guilty in exchange for probation, he chose to exercise his constitutional rights and go to trial. Unfortunately such a choice often makes vindictiveness the order of the day. Instead of probation, he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.
But, just as there is an “innocence penalty” that can get you into prison, there is an “innocence penalty” that can prevent you from getting out. Timothy Cole remained in prison until his death because he refused to admit to a crime he did not commit.
This happened because, in most states, people cannot receive parole unless they are willing to “take responsibility” for their crimes, which means that the wrongfully convicted have to lie in order to become “honest citizens.” This is how the legal system, not unlike Pontius Pilate, endeavors to wash its hands of innocent blood and maintain its pretense of “infallibility.”
Many supporters of America’s criminal justice system will undoubtedly argue that while no humanly created system is perfect, Timothy Cole’s case is an aberration since most wrongfully convicted people are not only eventually released, but even receive financial compensation for their years of wrongful imprisonment.
But tell that to Richard Alexander. In 1998, Alexander was sentenced to seventy years for a series of sexual assaults that occurred in South Bend, Indiana.
After spending almost five years in jail and prison, Alexander was released after DNA evidence pointed to another perpetrator. He subsequently sued members of the police department and the City of South Bend to obtain financial compensation for his years of wrongful incarceration.
During the course of his lawsuit, details of the “investigation” that led to his conviction emerged: one victim had described her attacker as a “well-muscled” African-American man, so Alexander was placed in a line-up wearing a skintight T-shirt, while others in the same line-up wore loose fitting coveralls; DNA evidence excluded him in one of the attacks he was charged with, and three other attacks occurred while he was in custody; in one of those cases, the victim identified Alexander as her assailant, even though he was in jail awaiting trial when this attack occurred.
In 1997, a mixed-race jury failed to reach a verdict. So, a year later, prosecutors, taking a page from the Texas “training” manual, convicted Alexander with the aid of an all-white jury.
Still, despite all the machinations that led to this wrongful conviction, a federal magistrate dismissed Alexander’s lawsuit, claiming that Alexander had failed to prove he had been prosecuted “in bad faith.”
It doesn’t take a legal genius to recognize the absurdity of this “bad faith” standard. Apparently before wrongfully accused people can receive financial compensation they have to possess the psychic ability to read the minds of the very people working to convict them.
In fact, in Alexander’s case, many of the people who profited were the same people responsible for his wrongful conviction. The judge who sentenced him later accepted a lucrative position at a prestigious law firm, the Chief Prosecutor was appointed to an appeals court, and the Deputy Prosecutor who actually tried the two cases became Chief Judge of the Superior Court.
Tragically, this pattern of rewarding purveyors of injustice has been repeated, and continues to be repeated, throughout America’s criminal justice system. Many, if not most, prosecutors go on to become elected officials or judges, or find high paying positions in the private sector. Meanwhile those they wrongfully put away languish in prison, losing days they cannever gain back. And even when an injustice is exposed, oftentimes the reactions of these former prosecutors are disdainful indifference or, as in the case of the recently released Joshua Kezer, a refusal to even concede a mistake may have been made.
In fact, any argument that the legal system does not reward unethical behavior should be forever silenced by the recent appointment of Roland Burris to the United States Senate.
According to an AP article, while Burris was serving as Attorney General of the State of Illinois during the 1990s, his assistant Mary Hayes expressed concerns about the conviction of Rolando Cruz, who was on death row for the murder of a ten-year-old girl. Yet, instead of listening to these concerns, Burris refused to see Hayes, compelling her to resign in protest.
In explaining her position, Hayes demonstrated that she, not Burris, truly understood the ethical duty of prosecutors: “It wasn’t our job to simply rubber-stamp every jury’s verdict. It was our job to analyze whether the trials had been fair, and I could not in good conscience argue that this had been a fair trial or that any of the mistakes that had been made were harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Yet it was Burris, and not Hayes, who was elevated to the United States Senate.
Still, perhaps it is fitting that Burris was appointed by a disgraced, and now impeached, Illinois governor. Also, in what may be called “a case of karma,” it appears that Burris’s interpretation of “ethics” might be returning to haunt him. Questions about the way he obtained this Senate seat have recently arisen, prompting demands for investigations and calls for his resignation.
According to a CNN article, the current district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, Craig Watkins, is working on ways to reduce the potential for wrongful convictions. One proposal—inspired by the case of James Woodward, who was wrongfully imprisoned for twenty-seven years because prosecutors withheld evidence they were legally obligated to give to Woodward’s attorneys—is to criminally prosecute prosecutors who “knowingly hide or suppress evidence that could help a defendant.”
Predictably Watkins’s proposal has caused an uproar in a criminal justice system that rewards injustices perpetuated by those who serve it. Their principal argument is that nobody will want to be a prosecutor “because they’d be afraid an honest mistake could cost them their careers or even jail.”
But is this not a better alternative than the current situation where dishonest misconduct launches lucrative careers and sends innocent people to jail? In actuality all this proposed law will do is ensure that prosecutors err on the side of caution.
It must be remembered that nobody requires the assistance of a defense attorney until they have been criminally charged, or risk being criminally charged. Prosecutors are the gatekeepers, and their decisions can cost individuals thousands of dollars in legal fees, and cause them to lose their freedom and, in capital cases, their very lives. Is it too much to ask that laws be created to ensure that these gates are opened cautiously and responsibly?
But how effective would such laws really be? Perhaps the answer can be found in the aforementioned case of Rolando Cruz. He and a co-defendant were found to be innocent after it was discovered that police and prosecutors had engaged in perjury and other deliberate misconduct to obtain their convictions. These revelations resulted in the police and prosecutors being criminally charged themselves.
What was the result?
Well, for a preview, remember that this trial occurred in the Chicagoland area, where dishonesty and corruption have been a way of life for decades. The city that wants to host the 2016 Summer Olympics is the city where seven police officers were acquitted after participating in what many described as a “police riot” during the 1968 Democratic Convention; where a federal grand jury refused to indict the police officers who extrajudicially executed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark during a “raid” in December of 1969; where county prosecutors have used every conceivable excuse to avoid prosecuting former police detective Jon Burge, even though officers under Burge’s command allegedly used torture to extract false confessions and send innocent men to prison; where, by contrast, these same prosecutors have used every conceivable excuse to harass Hampton’s son, Fred Hampton Jr.; and where judges often accepted bribes to return “not guilty” verdicts in cases involving organized crime figures.
So it was not surprising when a “good-old-boy” Chicagoland jury not only acquitted the police officers and prosecutors who handled the Cruz case, they even celebrated with them afterwards.
There is a saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Well the legal system in America is broken, perhaps irreparably so. But far too many people profit from the system the way it is, so they aren’t about to fix it.
Unfortunately this means there will be more injustices—like the tragedy of Timothy Cole.
David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru
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Shatrughan Sinha Likely To Be Replaced by Ravi Shankar Prasad As BJP Candidate: Sources
Shatrughan Sinha has been meeting the Bihar grand alliance leaders (File)
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Patna Sahib Lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha, who over the years have attacked his party–the BJP–and its central leadership, may be replaced by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as the party candidate from the constituency, sources say. Mr Sinha may contest the Lok Sabha elections as the grand alliance or independent candidate as he has said time and again that he would contest polls from Patna Sahib. "As far as elections are concerned, Patna is my first, second and last choice," Mr Sinha had recently said.
Mr Sinha has parried questions as to his future course of action, however, he has been meeting the Bihar grand alliance leaders. He recently met RJD chief Lalu Yadav's family. He attended Mamata Banerjee's rally in January as a representative of former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's newly formed party.
Shatrughan Sinha, who won elections in 2014 on BJP's ticket, had a fall out with the party leadership when he was not included in the cabinet. Since then, he has been making adverse comments at the party and its leadership, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ravi Shankar Prasad is a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar.
Keeping with its seat-sharing formula in the state, the BJP has given 17 seats to the Janata Dal (United) – including its traditional constituencies of Gaya, Siwan and Katihar – while keeping an equal number for itself. However, the BJP has refused to part with Darbhanga, which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wanted for his close aide, Sanjay Jha, sources said.
For the BJP, all Union Ministers from Bihar – barring Giriraj Singh – will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from their old constituencies, the BJP has decided, according to sources. This time, Mr Singh will stand from Begusarai instead of Nawada, which has gone to the Janata Dal (United) as part of their seat-sharing arrangement in the state.
From Madhubani, the BJP has decided to give the ticket to Ashok Yadav, who is the son of Hukumdev Narayan Yadav. BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy will be fielded from Chhapra. Another BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain may not get the ticket. State BJP chief Nityanand Rai is likely contest from Ujiyarpur.
The Janata Dal (United) will contest from Nalanda, Purnea, Gopalganj, Siwan,Valmiki Nagar, Jhankharpur, Sitamarhi, Supaul, Kishanganj, Madhepura, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Karakat, Munger, Gaya and Jehanabad, leaving Hajipur, Jamui, Vaishali, Samastipur, Khagaria and Nawada for the Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party.
The general election is scheduled to be held from April 11 to May 19. Polling in Bihar will be conducted in seven phases.
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School of Brass & Youth Brass Band
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The RCB School of Brass, a new two-semester extracurricular program, was designed by River City Brass in partnership with the Penn Hills School District and Duquesne University.
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James Gourlay was born in Scotland, where, at the age of ten, he was "volunteered" to play in his school brass band. Being the tallest in class, he was serendipitously given the tuba, an instrument he loves and continues to promote all over the world.
After much success as a solo champion, Gourlay entered the Royal College of Music but left after a short time to become the Principal Tuba of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the age of eighteen. He continued working at the BBC Symphony Orchestra for ten years, then performed for an additional ten years with the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera. Gourlay's career as a chamber musician and soloist continues to flourish. He has been a member of the Philip Jones and English Brass ensembles with which he has toured the world, and also continues to perform as a soloist extensively. He has recorded five solo CDs, the latest being British Tuba Concertos recorded for the Naxos label with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, which has since received international critical acclaim.
Gourlay's early work within the Brass Band Movement forms a vital component of his creative output. After early success with the Brass Band Berneroberland, he became music director of the Williams Fairey Band with which he won the English Masters and British Open contents. Gourlay has also been the professional conductor of the Grimethorpe Colliery and the Etoiles, with which he has won the Swiss National Championships, the Swiss Open Championships, and second place at the European as well as at the World Brass Band Championships.
Gourlay's commitment to music education is a continuing passion. He has been Head of Wind and Percussion at the Royal Northern College of Music and Deputy Principal and Music Director at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Salford University, a Masters degree from Leeds University, a Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music, a Fellowship of the London College of Music, and is also a recipient of the Henry Iles Medal, presented by the Worshipful Company of Musicians for services to the Brass Band Movement. Currently, Gourlay is International Vice President of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association and Artistic Director of the River City Brass.
DREW FENNELL, PRINCIPAL FLUGELHORN & RCYBB CONDUCTOR
Drew Fennell joined the River City Brass in 1998 as Assistant Principal Solo Cornet, and currently occupies the position of Principal Solo Flugelhorn. He solos very frequently with the ensemble, both as a flugelhorn/trumpet player and as a singer. He also worked as Associate Conductor of the ensemble for ten years (1999-2009), and has conducted the River City Youth Brass Band since 2005. In 2007, he joined the faculty at Grove City College (PA) as Adjunct Professor of Trumpet.
A 1994 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, he studied with the inimitable Anthony Pasquarelli. Fennell performed extensively during this time, including several solo appearances with the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic. After receiving his degree, he served as principal trumpet with the Butler, Altoona and Youngstown Symphonies, as well as a six-month appointment to the position of second trumpet with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, his solo playing has been heard locally and internationally in recital, and on International Public Radio.
In addition to playing, he has built a solid reputation as a fine composer and arranger. He has completed well over 100 projects for the River City Brass, a dozen of which appear on various RCB recordings. He also created arrangements for numerous other groups, such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale.
ALGIRDAS MATONIS, EUPHONIUM
Originally from Lithuania, Algirdas Matonis started playing euphonium at the age of eight. In 2000 he entered his first ever competition which was ‘Juozas Pakalnis Woodwind, Brass and Percussion Solo Competition’ held in Lithuania. At only 9 years old Algirdas managed to win the 8 – 13 age group. This was the beginning of his active participation in various music events. Algirdas continued to enter and win solo competitions throughout his teenage years. 2009 was his last year as a teen competitor. He was offered to perform as a soloist with the Lithuanian Military Band at the ‘International Band and Orchestra Championships’ held in Lithuania where he received the best solo player award and performed at the prestigious ‘Siemens’ arena in front of over 5000 people at the Gala event.
In 2010 Algirdas Matonis decided that he wanted to pursue the life of a professional euphonium player. He entered the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he studied under the guidance of the legendary euphonium pioneer Steven Mead. In 2014 he got his Bachelor degree and was awarded with entry scholarship for his Master’s degree studies.
During his study years at the RNCM he kept actively performing as a soloist. Algirdas was invited to perform as a guest artist at the biggest low brass festival in the world, ITEC, in 2012 and 2014. In 2013 Algirdas won the ‘Fodens’ open solo competition in UK and received a Besson prize award. As a part of prize he was invited to perform as a guest soloist with the only full-time professional brass band in the world, the River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh. In 2014 Algirdas did a concert tour with the band, which led to a scholarship at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a move to the U.S.A. a year later.
Since 2015 Algirdas has been living in Pittsburgh, where he started playing with River City Brass on regular basis as well as continuing his Master’s degree in music performance. At the moment Algirdas is an actively performing soloist with various solo recitals under his belt, having performed at venues in the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Scotland, USA and Austria. Very recently he performed an opening recital in a well-recognized festival in Lithuania called “Sugrizimai”. His performance received positive reviews from music experts and critics through multiple music magazines and public media. Algirdas’ upcoming season schedule is looking extremely busy, filled with not only solo and brass band activities but also many innovative projects which will take place in the near future.
SAMANTHA CROACH, CORNET
Samantha Croach plays cornet with the River City Brass. She graduated in 2012 from Slippery Rock University, where she received a bachelor's degree in Music Education. She went on to continue her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a Master of Trumpet Performance as a recipient of the School of Music Fellowship. She studied with Mr. Neal Berntsen of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Samantha is currently an elementary music teacher in the Ambridge Area School District. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, crocheting, and spending time with her husband, Brian.
MICHAEL DINGFELDER, EUPHONIUM
Michael Dingfelder, joined River City Brass in July of 2017.
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Why Cancun Trumped Copenhagen
As we begin the year 2011, a look back at 2010 confirms that the greatest environmental achievement of the past year was the success that was achieved at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico, in early December. I wrote about this in some detail in my December 13th essay, “What Happened (and Why): An Assessment of the Cancun Agreements.”
The challenges awaiting delegates later this year (December, 2011) at COP-17 in Durban, South Africa, will be tremendous, particularly in regard to trying to negotiate the massive divide that exists between most Annex I countries and virtually all non-Annex I countries on the fate of a second (post-2012) commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol.
However, on this first day of 2011, it may be helpful to reflect again on the recent success in Cancun, and ask – in particular – why it occurred, because understanding that could provide some valuable lessons for the organizers and hosts of COP-17 in Durban. This was the question I addressed in a brief December 20th Op-Ed in The Christian Science Monitor, and so rather than attempting to summarize or expand it, I simply reproduce it below.
Why Cancun trumped Copenhagen: Warmer relations on rising temperatures
By Robert N. Stavins
After the modest results of the climate change talks in Copenhagen a little more than a year ago, expectations were low for the follow-up negotiations in Cancun last month. Gloom-and-doom predictions dominated.
But a funny thing happened on the way to that much-anticipated failure: During two intense weeks of discussions in the Mexican resort that wrapped up at 3 AM on Dec. 12, the world’s governments quietly achieved consensus on a set of substantive steps forward. And equally important, the participants showed encouraging signs of learning to navigate through the unproductive squabbling between developed and developing countries that derailed the Copenhagen talks.
Unprecedented first steps
The tangible advances were noteworthy: The Cancun Agreements set emissions mitigation targets for some 80 countries, including all the major economies. That means that the world’s largest emitters, among them China, the United States, the European Union, India, and Brazil, have now signed up for targets and actions to reduce emissions by 2020.
The participating countries also agreed – for the first time in an official United Nations accord – to keep temperature increases below a global average of 2 degrees Celsius. Yes, that goal is no more stringent than the one set out in Copenhagen, but this time, the participating nations formally accepted the goals; a year earlier, they merely “noted” them, without adopting the accord.
Other provisions establish a “Green Climate Fund” to finance steps to limit and adapt to climate change, and designate the World Bank as interim trustee, over the objections of many developing countries. And new initiatives will protect tropical forests, and find ways to transfer clean energy technology to poorer countries.
The Cancun Agreements on their own are clearly not sufficient to keep temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius, but they are a valuable step forward in the difficult process of constructing a sound foundation for meaningful, long-term global action.
Small steps vs. global accords
The progress was as much about changing the mindset of how to tackle climate disruption. Significantly, the Cancun agreement blurs the distinction between industrialized and developing countries – a vital step to break through the rich-poor divide that has held up progress for years. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol assigned emission targets only to the 40 countries thought to be part of the industrialized world, which left the more than 140 nations of the developing world without any commitments. But today, more than 50 of those so-called developing countries have higher per capita income than the poorest of the countries with emission-reduction responsibilities under Kyoto.
Implicitly, the process in Cancun also recognizes that smaller, practical steps – some of which are occurring outside the United Nations climate process – are going to be more easily achievable, and thus more effective, than holding out for some overarching thunderclap in a global accord.
The parallel processes of multilateral discussions on climate change policy, including the G20 meetings and the Major Economies Forum, have been useful. For the first time at Cancun, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, under the new leadership of Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, offered a positive and pragmatic approach toward embracing these parallel processes.
Fixing the past (and future)
The Kyoto Protocol, which essentially expires at the end of 2012, is fundamentally flawed, especially in dividing the world into competing economic camps. At Cancun, it was encouraging to hear fewer people holding out for a commitment to another phase of the Kyoto Protocol. It was politically impossible to spike the idea of extending the Kyoto agreement entirely, but at least it was punted to the next gathering in Durban, South Africa, a year from now. Otherwise, the Cancun meeting could have collapsed amid acrimony and recriminations.
Usefully, the Cancun Agreements recognize directly and explicitly two key principles:
1) All countries must recognize their historic emissions (read, the industrialized world); and
2) All countries are responsible for their future emissions (think of those with fast-growing emerging economies).
This also helps move beyond the old Kyoto divide.
A better dialogue
An essential goal in Cancun was for the parties to maintain sensible expectations and develop effective plans. That they met this challenge owes in good measure to the careful and methodical planning by the Mexican government, and to the tremendous skill of Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa in presiding over the talks.
For example, at a critical moment she took note of objections from Bolivia and a few other leftist states, and then ruled that the support of the 193 other countries meant that consensus had been achieved and the Cancun Agreements had been adopted. She pointed out that “consensus does not mean unanimity.” Compare that with Copenhagen, where the Danish prime minister allowed objections by five small countries to derail the talks.
Mexico’s adept leadership also made sure smaller countries were able to contribute fully and join any meetings they wanted, avoiding the sense of exclusivity that alienated some parties in Copenhagen. That’s a sign that Mexico is one of the key “bridging states” that have credibility in both worlds. Another is South Korea. They will need to play key roles going forward.
It’s also vital to note that China and the United States set a civil, productive tone, in contrast to the Copenhagen finger-pointing. From the sidelines in Cancun, I can vouch for the tremendous increase in openness of members of the Chinese delegation.
The acceptance of the Cancun Agreements suggests that the international community may now recognize that incremental steps in the right direction are better than acrimonious debates over unachievable targets.
Author Robert StavinsPosted on January 1, 2011 Categories Climate Change Policy, Energy Policy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Policy, Positive Political EconomyTags Brazil, Cancun Agreements, China, Christiana Figueres, COP-15, Copenhagen Accord, environmental politics, European Union, G20, global climate policy, Green Climate Fund, India, Korea, Major Economies Forum, Mexico, Patricia Espinosa, South Africa, United Nations, United States, World BankLeave a comment on Why Cancun Trumped Copenhagen
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Investment, UK
Recovery? UK capital investment hits new low in 1st half of 2013
On Friday, the Office for National Statistics published its latest estimate of GDP for the 2nd Quarter of 2013. The previous quarter-on-quarter ‘growth’ estimate (in volume terms) was raised from 0.6% to 0.7% (and 1.5% year-on-year). This has sparked a veritable bubble in reports of a great British economic recovery.
However, GDP is just 2.2% higher today than in Q2 of 2010 (when the Coalition Government came to office), which means that GDP per head of population (UK population is increasing at about 0.8% per year) is completely flat, following the big drop in 2008/9.
Just before the 2010 election, the then Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, gave the Mais lecture in which he set out his economic approach. He said:
“We have to move to a new model of economic growth that is rooted in more investment, more savings and higher exports.”
Amongst the “eight benchmarks” against which to judge a future Conservative government over the next Parliament, he included:
"We will increase saving, business investment and exports as a share of GDP"
On the GDP figures, the FT and Daily Telegraph quoted an anonymous Treasury spokesman as saying:
“This data confirms that the British economy is moving from rescue to recovery, supported by balanced growth across the economy.”
But a closer look shows that so far, UK’s growth is far from “balanced”. Compared to 2010, when the government came to office, exports have indeed risen (though a wide trade gap remains), but capital investment has fallen back severely, overall industrial production has fallen, manufacturing has stagnated and construction collapsed, while some service areas have surged ahead.
The most worrying aspect of all is capital investment. Far from taking off again, it has continued to slide. The ONS statistics for real-terms investment (GFCF) show that total capital investment in the first 6 months of 2013 was the lowest half-year since the first half of 1998 – 15 long years ago. Worse still, in the first half of 2013, business investment - George Osborne's benchmark - fell to its lowest level since the ONS dataset began in 1997.
It is one-third lower than the highest half year in 2007, and 22% below the average for the whole period!
Here are the charts showing total investment (1998 to 2013), and business investment (1997 to 2013), using ONS data
UK total investment 1998-2013 2
UK business investment 1997-2013 2
NB the chart for business investment is taken from the NSA (non seasonally adjusted) dataset from ONS, since this demonstrates more clearly the picture over the 1st half of this year, absolutely and compared to recent years, than the seasonally adjusted data. If one takes the seasonally adjusted dataset, the performance in the 1st half of 2013 still remains among the worst on record – 1997 as adjusted comes out lower, as does the 2nd half of 2009 (the deepest part of the slump). Also lower is H2 of 2005, though this appears to be a statistical quirk as the 1st half figure is by far the biggest in the whole record, and 2005 was the second highest year as a whole.
The figures for investment in dwellings are scarcely any better, and the government has - for ideological not economic reasons - also cut back on government capital investment despite the collapse in private investment.
An "economic recovery" based on the worst figures for investment on record is not sustainable. What we are facing is a good old-fashioned pre-election bubble based on rising house prices and consumer debt. George Osborne, it seems, is following the lead set by his predecessor Anthony Barber (in Edward Heath's government) who stoked a crazy bubble-recovery 40 years ago, rather than following his own commitment to create "a new model of economic growth."
This article was amended by the author on 27th August to clarify the use of SA and NSA data - see in particular the passage in italics above
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The ketogenic diet is a mainstream dietary therapy that was developed to reproduce the success and remove the limitations of the non-mainstream use of fasting to treat epilepsy.[Note 2] Although popular in the 1920s and '30s, it was largely abandoned in favour of new anticonvulsant drugs.[1] Most individuals with epilepsy can successfully control their seizures with medication. However, 20–30% fail to achieve such control despite trying a number of different drugs.[9] For this group, and for children in particular, the diet has once again found a role in epilepsy management.[1][10] https://www.facebook.com/Philosophy-Of-Health-382703465921301/
The ketogenic diet is indicated as an adjunctive (additional) treatment in children and young people with drug-resistant epilepsy.[26][27] It is approved by national clinical guidelines in Scotland,[27] England, and Wales[26] and reimbursed by nearly all US insurance companies.[28] Children with a focal lesion (a single point of brain abnormality causing the epilepsy) who would make suitable candidates for surgery are more likely to become seizure-free with surgery than with the ketogenic diet.[9][29] About a third of epilepsy centres that offer the ketogenic diet also offer a dietary therapy to adults. Some clinicians consider the two less restrictive dietary variants—the low glycaemic index treatment and the modified Atkins diet—to be more appropriate for adolescents and adults.[9] A liquid form of the ketogenic diet is particularly easy to prepare for, and well tolerated by, infants on formula and children who are tube-fed.[5][30]
On the ketogenic diet, carbohydrates are restricted and so cannot provide for all the metabolic needs of the body. Instead, fatty acids are used as the major source of fuel. These are used through fatty-acid oxidation in the cell's mitochondria (the energy-producing parts of the cell). Humans can convert some amino acids into glucose by a process called gluconeogenesis, but cannot do this by using fatty acids.[57] Since amino acids are needed to make proteins, which are essential for growth and repair of body tissues, these cannot be used only to produce glucose. This could pose a problem for the brain, since it is normally fuelled solely by glucose, and most fatty acids do not cross the blood–brain barrier. However, the liver can use long-chain fatty acids to synthesise the three ketone bodies β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone. These ketone bodies enter the brain and partially substitute for blood glucose as a source of energy.[56]
The ketogenic diet is a medical nutrition therapy that involves participants from various disciplines. Team members include a registered paediatric dietitian who coordinates the diet programme; a paediatric neurologist who is experienced in offering the ketogenic diet; and a registered nurse who is familiar with childhood epilepsy. Additional help may come from a medical social worker who works with the family and a pharmacist who can advise on the carbohydrate content of medicines. Lastly, the parents and other caregivers must be educated in many aspects of the diet for it to be safely implemented.[5]
It usually takes three to four days for your body to go into ketosis because you have to use up your body's stores of glucose, i.e., sugar first, Keatley says. Any major diet change can give you some, uh, issues, and Keatley says he often sees patients who complain of IBS-like symptoms and feeling wiped out at the beginning of the diet. (The tiredness happens because you have less access to carbs, which give you quick energy, he explains.)
In 1921, Rollin Turner Woodyatt reviewed the research on diet and diabetes. He reported that three water-soluble compounds, β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate, and acetone (known collectively as ketone bodies), were produced by the liver in otherwise healthy people when they were starved or if they consumed a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.[10] Dr. Russell Morse Wilder, at the Mayo Clinic, built on this research and coined the term "ketogenic diet" to describe a diet that produced a high level of ketone bodies in the blood (ketonemia) through an excess of fat and lack of carbohydrate. Wilder hoped to obtain the benefits of fasting in a dietary therapy that could be maintained indefinitely. His trial on a few epilepsy patients in 1921 was the first use of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for epilepsy.[10]
I never set out to lose a certain amount of weight when I started, I just wanted to be healthy for myself and my kids. In the beginning it was tough, I was used to eating a whole large pizza with ranch for dinner, or 3 grilled cheese sandwiches dipped in barbecue sauce. Veggies were eschewed unless they were a topping on my cheeseburger. I remember my first week I packed a salad with chicken and bacon and blue cheese dressing, and that was pretty good. Then I made some brats and sauerkraut and mustard with a side of broccoli. Hey this isn't so bad. I got in to the habit of picking a protein and a veggie and mix and matching for variety. Chicken, pork chops, brats, steak, and broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, green beans were my staples. I didn't weigh or count macros, I just avoided the bad carbs and focused on the good. https://philosophyofhealthorg.tumblr.com/
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Is Suboxone A Cure Or A Curse?
Greg Morrison | September 30, 2018
Matt: What’s going on guys? This is Matt and Greg with Project Unbroken. We are trying to raise awareness about addiction and we talk about some of the things that Greg and I have experienced through our heroin addiction, and things that have helped us kind of come out on the other side more successful and more happy than we really thought we could be.
Matt: Today we wanted to talk about Suboxone, cure or curse. We’ve had a couple of conversations about Suboxone, and mainly my benefit with Suboxone, Greg took the Mephedrone in his recovery journey, and we get a lot of mixed feedback.
Greg: Yeah, we do.
Matt: Some people love it, some people hate it. Some people say it ruined their life. Some people say that it saved their life. And we want to talk about some of those different opinions, and again what we think the main perceptions are about Suboxone and how you could be successful with it.
Greg: Yeah, so first, there’s a lot of people I think that we get feedback from that they get down to 2 mg or so, then they’re stuck. They’re like fuck, it’s the same thing as being on heroin. I’m just stuck on it, I can’t get off. And I think in that sense, for those people, if you look at it in a different way, I think it’s addicts, like being on heroin, being on pills, Methadone and Suboxone that we’re so used to always being comfortable, that we’re a little bit of uncomfortable, how do you say? Uncomfortability. When you feel uncomfortable a little bit it kind of freaks us out. And I remember going through that, and it wasn’t until I was like, “All right, you know, fuck, I just got to go through it.”
Greg: I prepared myself to start being uncomfortable a little bit, and it really wasn’t that bad for me. I came of Methadone, heroin, Suboxone. I know you kind of did the same things, we talked about this. So first of all, for those of you out there who gets stuck on it, kind of realize you going to have to be uncomfortable a little bit, it doesn’t last that long. And you can really minimize how uncomfortable you are by coming down very slow. Matt has a video on how he came off Suboxone, we’ll put below up for those people, that’s one of the biggest topics I guess, so I want to bring that up.
Greg: But cure or curse, I think it’s whatever you make it out to be, for most people. Now, for some people I think it can be a curse because people’s bodies just react differently to different substances. Some people Suboxone’s just going to be no good. Now I’ve had people telling me that Suboxone was way worse for them than Methadone, but for most people it’s the other way around. So obviously there is different reactions to the drug, but I think for the most part, for me I would say cure. As long as your mind is in the right place.
Matt: Yeah. Well, and to Greg’s point I think that makes a lot of sense. It’s like that old phrase, whatever it is, whether you think you’re wrong, or whether you think you’re right, you know. It’s completely how you frame the whole situation. We had a comment on a video, I believe it was yesterday or the day before from this guy who was saying that he was thankful to hear that coming off Suboxone didn’t have to be as scary as a lot of people say that it is. He mentioned that he’s been on Suboxone for 10 years.
Matt: So I wrote back, maybe because he just had a lot of anxiety. So it’s like I got to come off now, and I’m freaking the fuck out. And I wrote back, I replied to his comment, I said, “Dude, if you’re trying to think about coming off of something you’ve been on for 10 years, that’s like breaking up with somebody that’s your life has revolved around for a decade. It’s going to be really nerve wrecking to try to think about your life without this crutch, or without this what you think was helping you along.” And we talk about placebo and all that stuff. Once you’re 10 years on anything, there’s going to be a pretty dramatic shift when that has to go away. And the way you have to frame that out in your mind is exactly what Greg was saying. You have to kind of look at this uncomfortable situation and this is going to be one of the first of many unfortunately. But this is going to be one of the first of many times that you are going to have to face that uncomfortable feeling. And I think that you’ll realize it’s not that bad.
Matt: And something that Greg and I both talk about a lot now is we are very comfortable being in uncomfortable situations, whether that’s mentally, physically. I think we almost thrive in those circumstances now. Where it’s like, this is really going to suck, let me dive into it and not brace myself for impact. But just to open it up and just let it happen, feel it. And that will just make you so much stronger in so many different ways. That’s where you build just that, like strong mental attitude. It’s when you’re like, let me just see how bad this is. And you’ll see there’s not much there.
Greg: It’s a good point. When I was coming Methadone and heroin, I wasn’t exactly fun. I couldn’t sleep, nothing there too terribl. But I think I learned later on that going through that made me so much happier overall. I think once I realized that they’re going through a struggle made me stronger. I started looking for struggle. That’s why today I do Crossfit, I do jiu jitsu, I want to get into MMA, I try to build businesses. I do things that challenge me because I realize coming off one of many things, coming off heroin and Mephedrone told me was, when you get through a struggle, when you’re going through it, it makes you better in Yen. And that’s a true statement. It sounds like so stupid, like we never done that, you don’t realize yeah, whatever. You know what I mean.
Matt: Okay yeah.
Greg: That’s bullshit. But when you go through it you kind of feel the effects of it. You’re like, “Oh, now that I realize that I started looking for that because I realize how much better it makes you feel overall.
Matt: It’s huge. I put a post out yesterday on my Instagram, and I was talking about overcoming weakness. And it’s literally become one of my favorite things to do was where I find a weakness in my character, or for us in a gym, whatever it is. And I’m like, “Oh my God, I get to suffer through this, and I know it’s going to make me better on the other side.” It’s so crazy, because once you find that, you realize that the pain is never that bad, or that feeling of being uncomfortable is never that bad. And it ends up being something that you seek out. And instead of, I think growing up or through my teenage years, and early 20’s even.
Matt: I used to always really avoid any conflict, any difficult situations. I would avoid it, and avoid it, because I used to think that seeking comfort would be whatever. Would make me happy. And really all that it did was just it made me push all these things to the side that I needed to address. And I just want to address them now, I just look at the stuff head-on, and you just fix it, and you feel better, I don’t know.
Matt: Then I learned all that through just that slight uncomfortable feeling of getting off of Suboxone.
Greg: Yeah, for those of you maybe who Suboxone’s been a curse for, maybe try and look at it at a little different perspective. Look at it a little different way. Be prepared to be a little bit uncomfortable coming off it. There is some people I think that it is a curse for, where it just doesn’t react well on their body. We had a comment the other day, and this women was like, “Is it normal that I’m taking 8 mg and it’s not taking away any withdrawal symptoms. I take eight more, and there, that’s not normal, we don’t hear that much.
Greg: Maybe Suboxone isn’t for you if that’s the case. That’s the only case I’ve ever heard of is that women commenting on stuff that’s not done something for someone. So in her case it’s probably just not for her. It doesn’t mix well with her system. But I think for a lot of people, when used correctly, and you had the right mindset, I think it’s a [cure. They can do really good things, and I saw that through you.
Matt: Yeah, yeah.
Greg: Another way it could be a curse is the way I used it for a while. Where I would just use it to not withdraw. So, when I couldn’t get dope, I’ll have my Suboxone on the side. I’ll take a little Suboxone for the day as I couldn’t get the dope. It’ll just keep my addiction a while longer.
Matt: Hold you off.
Greg: Yeah, so it can be a curse in that way as well. But when used correctly with the right mindset, I think it’s a cure. But, anything can go either way, right?
Matt: Absolutely.
Greg: We can be bad in ways, but we can be really good in ways where it has medical benefits and the [inaudible 00:08:52]. So there’s always a good and a bad to a lot of things.
Matt: It’s a 100% how you structure it. I mean, and to that point that you’re saying where you’re just … And this is not uncommon. People use Suboxone again, just to keep them from being sick, and they can find more dope, and then it’s whatever. It’s almost like a get out of jail free card. You don’t want to use it like that. When Greg and I referenced Suboxone or Mephedrone or any maintenance program, it’s assuming that the person taking it is taking it with best attentions to work their way out of it. You can abuse literally anything. Again, just depending on your mindset with it, your mindset with coming out of this addiction. Or you’re just trying to use it as a stepping stone to when you can get more dope.
Matt: If you’re doing that, you’d be better off withdrawing and feeling the pain of not having heroin, because, I mean, that was probably the main motivator for us quitting. We’re like man, “This sucks.” If we always had Suboxone, that might not have happened.
Greg: Yeah, so cure or curse for me. Overall I would say cure. A little bit of curse in there for some people. But not me, I think overall cure for me, and really, I’m just speaking from experience. I saw Matt use it as a cure. It could have worked for me as a cure if I had my mind right. Once my mind was right, I use Mephedrone as a cure. So I think that could be a cure as well. It’s a really different topic, but overall for me I’d say cure.
Matt: Yeah, yeah. Same with me. It did cure me. So I have to stick up for Suboxone a little bit on this one.
Greg: Make sure you check out Matt’s story. I think it’s like a 15 minute interview between me and you, and we go over this full-time mind of … I think it’s about a year and a half it took you to get off it. He slowly came off it, and that’s the thing you got to do. You got to slowly come off it, you got to be patient that way around, because with you coming off you said you didn’t withdraw at all pretty much. Little bit of anxiety at the end.
Matt: A little bit yeah.
Greg: But it’s possible to get off Suboxone with little or no withdrawal as long as you’re doing it correctly.
Matt: Yeah, just be smart about it. Have a game plan. Again, in all of our videos we talk about how to structure that. You can go back and check those out. Have a support system, you know, hopefully you’re getting your Suboxone through a reputable doctor or physician, whatever. You should be able to set up a game plan where you guys can both schedule out how you want to work your way out of it. It doesn’t have to be a nightmare. You should have an exit strategy and you’ll be fine.
Greg: Cool, so hope you all enjoyed this video on Suboxone, cure or curse. Make sure you subscribe below. We got plenty more videos coming out, and we’ll be covering lots of health topics coming up as well. So subscribe below and we’ll see you all soon.
Matt: See you guys.
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New Research From Unmetric Reveals Banking Industry Social Media Trends
Content with helpful financial tips and retirement planning information resonates well with bank customers on social media
NEW YORK (PRWEB) October 27, 2017
Unmetric, the leading brand-focused social media intelligence company, today released new research that shows how 23 banks doing business in the U.S. have embraced social media and the trends that have emerged in the industry over the past five years.
The banks analyzed in Unmetric’s report across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram include: Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BB&T, Chase, Comerica, Huntington, BBVA Compass, Capital One, Citi, Citizens Bank, Fifth Third Bank, PNC, M&T Bank, Regions, Santander, TD Bank, Union Bank, SunTrust, KeyBank, Bank of the West, Umpqua Bank, Harris Bank, and US Bank. The insights from the report were the result from analysis of 27.6 million user interactions across 304,818 pieces of brand content.
Unmetric Discover, a searchable database of over 500,000,000 pieces of brand content, surfaced the most popular topics that banks talked about on social media in the last five years.
Financial tips form a key pillar of social media content for banks and were used in 31,200 posts. Fifth Third bank’s post that encouraged parents to educate their kids about financial planning resonated well and was one of the most liked posts in the category.
Retirement savings is another common topic for banks on social media. Regions Bank did a post encouraging recent graduates to start planning for retirement citing that 70% of Millennials are already saving, and the average person starts saving at 22. It was the most engaging post around the topic of retirement.
Banks have a far larger average audience size on Facebook than any other social network. With an average of 650,000 fans, it’s more than three times larger than the average audience on LinkedIn. For many industries, brands to not have a large LinkedIn presence. However, with an average of 187,000 followers per bank, LinkedIn should play an essential part in any bank’s social media strategy. Surprisingly, only 10 banks analyzed in the report had an Instagram presence. The average audience size is just 16,000 but is growing at a rate of 27%.
Other Key Trends Include:
Total social media content published by banks is falling.
There was a 44% drop in content since Q2 of 2014. Each year since has seen a pronounced drop in social content from banks with the biggest casualty being Facebook. Banks have gone from publishing a maximum of 60 posts per quarter to 18. Wells Fargo publishes 95% less content on Facebook than it did in 2013, but an exception to the trend is Santander US, which now publishes twice as much content compared to 2013.
Banks are generating more interaction on their content.
There was an 80% increase in interactions per post since 2013. Capital One dominates on Facebook with content garnering 317,904 interactions on its 79 posts in 2017. Bank of America lead the way for total interactions on its Instagram content in 2017, but Wells Fargo generates twice the amount of interactions per post.
Video content grows in importance for the banking industry.
There was a 631% increase in video content published by banks since 2013. 59% of TD Bank US’ posts on Facebook were videos in 2017. BMO Harris Bank was a close second with 56% of posts being videos. Capital One generated the most interactions on its videos published on Twitter, but its animated GIFs saw almost four times more interactions per tweet.
Banks are replying to more tweets and doing so faster.
There was a 55% increase in replies on Twitter by banks since 2013. Bank of America’s customer support handles replies to around 170 tweets per day. 38% of tweets are replied to within 15 minutes. TD Bank had the fastest response time. It replied to over 3,100 tweets in an average of 43 minutes, and 75% of those tweets were replied to within 15 minutes.
The full report with additional data and insights is available as a free download here.
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The South Brighton Surf Life Saving Club was formed on the 19th of March 1929 with the objective of patrolling the South Brighton beach to ensure the safety of swimmers. Eighty years on we have grown into one of Canterburys most successful sporting organisations. Boasting an exceptional patrolling and competition record, the club has won over 300 National titles since its inception and has won the award for the top club in NZ numerous times. Our active members still maintain voluntary patrols at the South Brighton beach during the summer season with the safety of swimmers our number one priority.
As one of the larger clubs in Canterbury, South Brighton SLSC has more than 350 active and social members ranging in age from five to the late 80s. This number includes 150 junior surf members aged under 14 who train at the beach on Sunday mornings through summer to become the future lifeguards at the beach.
The focal point of the clubs activities are the club rooms on the main beach at South Brighton. We have a spacious club with a large hall, gear storage facilities, kitchen, recreation area, meeting room, changing rooms and a first aid room. Membership entitlements include open access to these facilities, use of club equipment and some of the best coaching in the country. Everyone from the beginner lifeguard to the elite athlete is catered for in programs ranging from Sunday morning sessions for children right through to a year around program for elite athletes. Socially the club is also very active with BBQ's, parties and social get togethers.
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Southport Reporter Bourder
Southport Reporter�
Edition No. 139
Date:- 14 February 2004
Liverpool schoolchildren are now Fighting Fit
BLACKMOOR Park Junior School in West Derby received an Activemark award from Sport England in recognition of its commitment to physical activities, including judo and fencing and keeping pupils fit and active.
The school has been presented with a plaque and a certificate, along with information about activities and games from the British Heart Foundation.
With the current campaign against obesity in children, the school was earmarked as one of the main contributors against the current problem by offering sport as an alternative to computer games.
Head teacher, Martin Davies, said:- "We are trying to raise the profile of physical activity with children and enjoy taking part in the activities. Judo and fencing are proving to be especially popular."
Liverpool City Council is spearheading the fight against obesity amongst primary school children through a comprehensive health and fitness program.
Liverpool City Council's Executive Member for Education, Councillor Paul Clein, said:- "The recent reports about childhood obesity show how crucial it is for children to take regular exercise.
It is excellent to see Blackmoor Park Junior School achieving high standards in promoting healthy living."
More than 9,000 pupils are physically tested each year as part of the city's SportsLinx project, which has been nationally recognized by Sport England as an example of best practice in tackling obesity.
Business to gain from Mentoring Program
A NEW program of small business support, developed by an Oxford-based company, Business Boffins Ltd, has completed a yearlong trial with 147 young businesses, winning a 95% approval rating from those taking part and radically improving their prospects of survival and eventual success.
Professor Russell Smith, an entrepreneur who combines a role as Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University with running the new business advice and mentoring service, has had results that have exceeded original expectations; Combining online practical education with an interactive business mentoring network, it has taken three years to develop and will now be rolled out nationally with support from industry and government partners.
One of the objectives of the program is to bring practical information of proven quality within the reach of small businesses of all kinds, including sole traders, part-time workers and firms with less than 10 employees.
�We thought that our idea of delivering bite-size business support every week via email would be really helpful to small businesses�, said Prof Smith, �especially when coupled with a question and answer service giving access to free advice from professional experts including lawyers, accountants and others. But we were delighted to get the thumbs up from business owners and to see an unexpectedly high business survival rate.�
The Business Boffins program is being launched nationwide as a membership scheme that includes the university qualification. Potential partners including banks are now in discussion with the company about rolling the program on a national scale.
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Outstanding Parliamentarians honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards 2015 in the 6th Edition
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(L to R: K Srinivasan, P P Chaudhary, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Dr Justice AR Lakshmanan, Anandrao Adsul, Shrirang Appa Barne, Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy and Dr Sudarshan Padmanabhan)
IIT Madras, Prime Point Foundation and EMagazine PreSense organised National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (4th Edition) at IIT Madras on 11th July 2015. During this event, Dr Justice A R Lakshmanan (Former Judge of Supreme Court of India and Chairman of Law Commission of India) presented Sansad Maha Ratna Awards and Sansad Ratna Awards.
The following 3 Parliamentarians received Sansad Maha Ratna Award for their 'consistent' performance during the 15th Lok Sabha in their respective category.
Shri Anandrao Adsul - 5th Time Shiv Sena MP from Amravati, Maharashtra. He was the Minister of State for Banking and Insurance during Prime Minister Vajpayee’s regime. He ranked No 1 for 'Raising Questions' and for 'Total Tally' in both the 14th Lok Sabha and the 15th Lok Sabha. During 15th Lok Sabha, he raised 1266 Questions with a Total Tally of 1304. He attended 74% of the sittings in the 15th Lok Sabha.
Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - 4th time BJP MP from Chandrapur, Maharashtra. He is now the Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers. He ranked No 1 for introducing 'Private Members Bills'. He introduced 31 Private Members Bills and secured a Total Tally of 1150 in the 15th Lok Sabha. He attended 72% of the sittings in the 15th Lok Sabha. He is also the whistle blower for the Coal Scam.
Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal – 2nd time BJP MP from Bikanir, Rajasthan. An IAS officer turned Member of Parliament, Shri Meghwal is now the Chief Whip for BJP in the Lok Sabha. He ranked No 1 for 'Participation in Debates' in the 15th Lok Sabha. He participated in 430 Debates with a Total Tally of 1199. He attended 99% of the sittings in the 15th Lok Sabha.
The following two MPs received Sansad Ratna Awards for 16th Lok Sabha.
Shri Shrirang Appa Barne – 1st time Shiv Sena MP from Maval, Maharashtra. He ranks No 1 for 'Raising Questions' during the first year of the 16th Lok Sabha till the end of Budget Session 2015. He raised 314 Questions with Total Tally of 355. He attended 87% of the sittings. He ranks No 2 for Total Tally in the entire Lok Sabha.
Shri P P Chaudhary – 1st time BJP MP from Pali, Rajasthan. He ranks No 1 for 'Participation in Debates', ranks No 1 in Total Tally in the entire Lok Sabha, and No 1 among the 'First time MPs', for the first year of the 16th Lok Sabha till the end of Budget Session 2015. He participated in 176 Debates with Total Tally of 384. He attended 100% of the sittings of the 16th Lok Sabha till the end of Budget Session. He receives two awards – the first for 'Participation in Debates' and the second for 'Overall Tally among the first time MPs'.
During the first session of this National Seminar, Shri Srinivasa Prabhu, Director of Lok Sabha Secretariat gave a presentation on the 'Indian Parliamentary System' and explained the functions of the Parliament.
In the afternoon session, 8 eminent experts viz. Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy (Director of IITM), Shri T Theethan (Former Director General Audit of Indian Railway Board), Shri V Ponraj (Scientific Advisor to Dr Abdul Kalam), Dr Mariazeena Jhonson (Mg. Director of Sathyabama University), Dr Anbumani Ramadoss MP (Former Union Health Minister), Shri T K Rangarajan MP, Shri P P Chaudhary MP and Shri Mafoi Pandia Rajan MLA spoke on Technology, Railways, Energy, Education, Health, Agriculture, Judicial Reforms and Human Resources respectively. They talked under the theme 'Towards India 2020'.
At the end of the event, all the team members of organising committee were introduced to the audience.
We will separately upload some of the important speeches for the benefit of readers.
Complete set of photos (1200 plus) may be seen and downloaded from here.
https://picasaweb.google.com/109541940180695882222/SansadRatnaAwards2015AtIITMadrasOn11thJuly2015
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David Broza: East Jerusalem-West Jerusalem - Movie
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Published in Music News
David Broza has started a campaign to raise funds to produce and complete his first documentary based on his album "East Jerusalem West Jerusalem".
"East Jerusalem West Jerusalem" was recorded over an eight-day and night period in January 2013 under the musical direction of the American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Steve Earle, who also filmed the process.
The musicians, both Israeli and Palestinian, gathered in predominantly-Palestinian East Jerusalem recording studio and shared their musical and vocal talents showing that "camaraderie and bridge-building can take place through music, even in a longtime war zone".
The documentary will include not only videos relating specifically to the 13 songs from the album, but also behind the scene moments such as the interactions between Israeli and Palestinian chefs as they prepare daily banquets "of the highest level of cooking and the finest variety of foods," interviews with musicians in the studio, conversations with the children from the YMCA Jerusalem Youth Choir and other unique experiences that only would occur within this special project.
The album, "East Jerusalem West Jerusalem", was released worldwide in January 2014, and since then, Mr. Broza has been focused on performing shows relating to the album while working on completing the documentary.
"This is my first experience at producing a finished cut of a film based on my work" he says on his indiegogo campaign. "It has been a challenge and a very exciting one!"
To find out more, go check out his indiegogo campaign site at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/david-broza-east-jerusalem-west-jerusalem-movie
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Skilled Nursing Facility Agrees to Pay $17 Million to Resolve
False Claims Act Allegations
Largest Settlement of Alleged Anti-Kickback Violations by Skilled Nursing Facility in the United States
Qui Tam Whistleblower to Reveive $4.25 Million
Seattle Whistleblower Attorneys report that Hebrew Homes Health Network Inc., its operating subsidiaries and affiliates, and William Zubkoff, the former president and executive director of Hebrew Homes Health Network Inc. (collectively Hebrew Homes), have agreed to pay $17 million to resolve allegations that Hebrew Homes violated the False Claims Act by improperly paying doctors for referrals of Medicare patients requiring skilled nursing care. This is the largest settlement involving alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute by skilled nursing facilities in the United States.
“Illegal inducements paid to physicians in exchange for patient referrals will not be tolerated,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “Medicare funds should be used to provide care for our senior citizens, not as an inducement to physicians to refer business.”
From 2006 through 2013, Hebrew Homes allegedly operated a sophisticated kickback scheme in which they hired numerous physicians ostensibly as medical directors pursuant to contracts that specified numerous job duties and hourly requirements. The various facilities had several such medical directors under contract at any given time, paying each several thousand dollars monthly. The United States alleged that in reality these were ghost positions, and that most of the medical directors were required to perform few, if any, of their contracted job duties. Instead, they were allegedly paid for their patient referrals to the Hebrew Homes facilities, which increased exponentially once the medical directors were put on the payroll.
“The record settlement announced today demonstrates this office’s commitment to rooting out all forms of illegal kickback schemes,” said U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida. “And that is certainly true in the context of nursing homes, where the Department of Justice will not allow healthcare decisions for elderly Medicare patients to be influenced by kickback payments to physicians. The integrity of our public health care program requires that such decisions be based on quality of care.”
“Hebrew Homes’ intricate kickback scheme in this record-setting case threatened the impartiality of physician referrals, the financial integrity of Medicare and the public’s trust in the health care system,” said Special Agent in Charge Shimon R. Richmond of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). “Our agency will continue to investigate nursing homes and other health care providers that seek to illegally boost profits at the expense of federal health care programs.”
The Anti-Kickback Statute is intended to ensure that a physician’s medical judgment is not compromised by improper financial incentives. The Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits offering, paying, soliciting or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by federal health care programs, including Medicare.
“Illegal kickbacks undermine the integrity of the Medicare system by putting profits in front of patient welfare,” said Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office. “The investigators who helped unravel this intricate scam are to be commended for their diligence and commitment to root out fraud within our health care system.”
As part of the settlement, Mr. Zubkoff has agreed to resign as Hebrew Homes’ Executive Director and to no longer be an employee of the company. Also, as part of the settlement announced today, Hebrew Homes has entered into a five-year corporate integrity agreement with HHS-OIG, and has agreed to change its policies on hiring and maintaining medical directors.
The settlement announced today resolves allegations made in a lawsuit filed by Stephen Beaujon, a former CFO of Hebrew Homes, under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit private individuals to sue on behalf of the government for false claims and to share in any recovery. Mr. Beaujon will receive $4.25 million.
This settlement illustrates the government’s emphasis on combating health care fraud and marks another achievement for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative, which was announced in May 2009 by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The partnership between the two departments has focused efforts to reduce and prevent Medicare and Medicaid financial fraud through enhanced cooperation. One of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act. Since January 2009, the Justice Department has recovered a total of more than $24.3 billion through False Claims Act cases, with more than $15.3 billion of that amount recovered in cases involving fraud against federal health care programs.
The settlement was the result of a coordinated effort by the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida, the FBI and HHS-OIG.
The case is captioned United States ex rel. Beaujon v. Hebrew Homes Health Network, Inc., et al., Case No. 12-20951 CIV (S.D. Fla.). The claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only and there has been no determination of liability.
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Stop Communist Core
Why America is Devolving Towards Absolute Government Control
Provided courtesy of SayNOtoSocialism.com
With America Headed Towards Socialism, Most Care Not Enough to Resist
The relentless encroachment of socialism upon America’s economic, cultural and governmental landscape is like a bad dream to most red-blooded Americans. When society changes it can seem like the ineluctable drift of evolution or chance. But in the case of America’s ongoing continued expansion of government powers, spiking taxes, and shrinking military, it’s all part of a planned elitist push into socialism. And one need not believe in secret conspiracies when contemplating this shift. In fact, for those paying attention, it was all outlined long ago by the Fabian Socialist society, and other groups such as the Frankfurt School, as explained below.
I. Basic Socialism: History & Dogma
Socialism is a European phenomenon, beginning after the French Revolution with writers from Paris and London forming the core. The definition of socialism is: “a centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production.” While most believe Karl Marx (1818-1883) was the father of socialism, he wrote very few specifics on the topic. In fact, one of Marx’s most signal shortcoming was his failure to describe his own working economic system. Instead, it was Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), first leader of the new USSR who developed the theory in situ, according to the Library of Economics & Liberty. Lenin’s attempts at creating a profit-free economy was a spectacular failure, only bettered by Joseph Stalin’s larger failure.
A. Vladimir Lenin’s ad hoc Socialism
The Library lists Vlad’s four critical factors he believed necessary for economic success:
Lenin began from the long-standing delusion that economic organization would become less complex once the profit drive and the market mechanism had been dispensed with—“as self-evident,” he wrote, as “the extraordinarily simple operations of watching, recording, and issuing receipts, within the reach of anybody who can read and write and knows the first four rules of arithmetic.”
The four laws were apparently insufficient to drive en economy towards productivity:
In fact, Soviet economic life under these first four rules was so disheveled within four years of the 1917 revolution, productivity fell to 14% of its pre-revolutionary level. By 1921 Lenin was forced to institute the New Economic Policy (NEP), a partial return to the market incentives of capitalism. This brief mixture of socialism and capitalism ended in 1927 after Stalin instituted forced collectivization meant to mobilize Russian resources for its leap into industrial power.
Suffice it to say that no version of socialism has ever provided longterm economic growth or security anywhere in the world, because it lacks a cohesive economic theory.
B. Karl Marx’s Vision: Revolution
Karl Marx claimed to have discovered a “science” of economics that proved his ideas true. In fact, according to author Paul Johnson in Intellectuals, Marx was a moralizing journalist, with the faculty of a poet, masquerading as a science-minded intellectual. Writes Johnson:
But in a deeper sense he was not really a scholar and not a scientist at all. He was not interested in finding the truth but in proclaiming it. There were three strands in Marx: the poet, the journalist and the moralist. Each was important. Together, and in combination with his enormous will, they made him a formidable writer and seer. But there was nothing scientific about him; indeed, in all that matters he was anti-scientific.
Further, according to Marx’s writing partner, lifelong benefactor and friend, Frederick Engels, Marx should be remembered as a revolutionary. He said grave-side at Marx’s burial:
For Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being…
So Marx’s main interest in writing was to foment revolution, because without the collapse of capitalism, the promised paradise of total government control would never have room to occur. Knowing this, American leftists have long done whatever they could, in small and large ways to help birth the revolution upon American soil. The following is a partial history of that struggle.
II. Congressional Record January 10, 1963
On January 10, 1963, Florida US Representative Albert Sydney Herlong, Jr gave a speech outlining what he believed to be the 45 methods communists were using to take over America. Ponder the staggering number of these goals already achieved, much to our mortal damage.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Control schools. Use them to transmit socialist & Marxist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Infiltrate teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Discredit American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. Promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate churches. Replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit Bible & emphasize need for intellectual maturity, rejecting a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit US Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle American culture & discourage teaching of American history because it’s only part of the “big picture.”
32. Support any socialist movement to centralize control over any part of the culture: education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
III. Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School were a group of German intellectual Marxists who established the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University, modeled after the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. This became known as the “Frankfurt School.” After Hitler came to power, these Marxist professors fled to the West to preserve their lives. Setting up shop in Columbia University, they decided to launch a mission to convert America to Marxism via a soft war. According to one source they did certain things to aid this:
To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution - but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future - the Frankfurt School recommended (among other things):
The creation of racism offenses.
Continual change to create confusion
The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
Huge immigration to destroy identity.
The promotion of excessive drinking
Emptying of churches
An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
Dependency on the state or state benefits
Control and dumbing down of media
Encouraging the breakdown of the family
A main idea of the Frankfurt School was exploiting Freud’s ‘pansexualism’ - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:
attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces
declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’
Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.’
IV. Fabian Society: Slow Conquering Socialism
The Fabian Society of Britain was named after Roman general Fabius Maximus, famed for a warfare style that eked out victories via patience and attrition. Fabian socialists likewise seek to take over their host countries by slowly changing standards until the dumbed-down populace no longer has the wit to notice or care. A sociological analogy might be—how predators groom their victims, often waiting years for a chance to exploit their prey. An author sums up their strategy:
Like their namesake, today’s Fabians avoid open confrontation with the forces of freedom and, subsequently, tend to shield their true agenda from the light of day.
The creed of the Society, written in 1887, was as follows:
“It (The Fabian Society) therefore aims at the reorganization of society by the emancipation of land and industrial Capital from individual and class ownership…The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property in land.”
The Fabian plan was to infiltrate America by targeting our legal system. Fabian convert Felix Cohen, a law professor at Yale, wrote the following:
“It is possible to attempt the overthrow of capitalism as an economic system without at the same time attacking the substance of capitalist law…Socialists can learn from their adversaries that it is always possible to attack existing law, in the name of democracy, justice, and liberty, in the name of the great ideals of the American Constitution, and in the name of law itself.”
Fabians sought to overthrow our system by changing the meaning of our stated legal concepts, and to codify those changes with cases brought by Fabian lawyers before Fabian Judges. The effect of this has been that while the technical wording of American law hasn’t changed much, the implementation has been transferred from the citizen and his elected representatives, to appointed bureaucrats. The Fabians have, diabolically, used our own laws to change the law. Freedom is the victim of these Socialist manipulations.
America is infiltrated by Marxists active so long in undermining our institutions and ideals that socialism is now in our collective DNA. They seek an end to private property, representative democracy and rule of law. But once America has turned over leadership to committed liberals, who will be left to protect the world from takeover by globalists intent on universal tyranny?
Unfortunately, the question answers itself.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened"
"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: 'Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.' Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.'”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Edward E. Ericson, Jr., “Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag,” Eternity, October 1985, pp. 23-4)
Obama Doubling Down on His Leftist Radicalism
You can't even casually surf the Internet on any given day without numerous reminders of just how radical [Alleged] President Obama is -- and this is during an election year, when it should be in his political interest to mask his radicalism.
Minding my own business, I happened on an article by Jacob Laksin on FrontPageMag.com, titled "Obama's Pick for World Bank Hates Capitalism." I'd heard a bit about this before but hadn't yet studied it. I'm so used to Obama's extremism that such revelations hardly move me, much less surprise me. I know where he stands; I just wish everyone else did.
Obama has nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank. In 2000, Kim edited a collection of studies under the title "Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor."
The "book's radical central premise," writes Laksin, is that "capitalism and economic growth (are) bad for the poor across the world." Kim co-wrote the introduction, which includes the claim that the book shows "that the quest for growth in GDP and corporate profits has in fact worsened the lives of millions of women and men." It says that even in those instances in which free trade and free markets have led to economic growth, they've done so without benefiting "those living in 'dire poverty,' one-fourth of the world's population." Can't you just hear Obama himself in those words?
One thing that helps the plight of the very poor, according to one chapter, is a socialized health care system, such as the one in Communist Cuba. The chapter's author touts that system because of the Cuban government's "commitment not only to health in the narrow sense but to social equality and social justice." As we opponents of Obamacare have said repeatedly, Obamacare is hardly just about making health care more affordable or more accessible, neither of which it will do in the end, but is a stealth vehicle to greatly expand governmental control over limitless aspects of our lives to enable the leftist central planners to effectuate "social equality and social justice" under the innocuous guise of providing health care.
As with so many of its ideas, the left is wrong about the record of free markets on the poor, notes Laksin, who points to "overwhelming evidence" that economic growth raises income levels and reduces global poverty. But again, leftist ideologues aren't motivated by a desire to improve the lot of the downtrodden, domestically or globally, but by a burning passion for statism.
This book is right out of Obama's playbook. Can you not see the common thread running through these alleged glories of the Cuban system and Obama's approach to health care and his war on oil, coal and gas, along with his corresponding commitment to green energy and his various stimulus bills, all of which increase our national deficits, debt and unemployment but greatly increase governmental control?
Obama's nomination of Kim should be no surprise to anyone, considering his consistent record of radical associations and appointments, from Van Jones to transnationalist Harold Koh. For Obama, one's radicalism is not a deterrent to one's resume, but an enhancement. His appointment of Van Jones was not a mistake owing to the administration's failure to vet him as Obama's defenders later claimed once Jones' radicalism was exposed. Obama appointed Jones precisely because his administration was intimately familiar with Jones' views; indeed, the White House carved out a new position -- green energy czar -- specifically tailored for his worldview and then happily placed him in it.
Tearing myself away from this uplifting article, I next encountered one detailing Obama's ongoing fulfillment of his promise to bankrupt the coal industry -- with his Environmental Protection Agency's issuance of new proposed rules on carbon emissions, which will please the goddess Gaia but won't do much for the production of energy, economic growth, jobs or the poor, for that matter. This was after watching a report on Fox News earlier that morning highlighting Obama's obstruction of oil shale production based on other dubious environmental doom-saying.
Next, I saw John Fund's piece on National Review Online outlining Obama's background in the sordid community organizing tactics of famed leftist radical Saul Alinsky and Obama's close ties with the now fallen ACORN. According to New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor -- in her new book on Obama -- Obama still thought of himself as a community organizer when he was senator. He still does today, and, Fund warns, conservatives should be prepared for his Alinsky tactics in the 2012 campaign.
Maybe this all wouldn't be so exasperating if Obama didn't hold himself out as a uniter, but he is the furthest thing from it, as he, if anything, is doubling down on his polarizing radicalism and his unswerving commitment to a statist agenda for America.
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Calif. DA says Toyota to pay $16M settlement
Robert Beatty— April 9, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A $16 million settlement over the safety recall of Toyota vehicles that were at risk for unintended acceleration and braking issues was announced Friday by Orange County prosecutors and Toyota Motor Corp.
The suit was one of a flood of cases brought against the automaker after more than 14 million vehicles were recalled in 2009 and 2010, many of them still waiting to be heard or settled.
In the suit, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas claimed deceptive business practices, alleging Toyota had concealed safety issues related to its floor mats and "sticky'' gas pedal issues. The suit sought $2,500 per violation under California's consumer protection laws
Under the settlement, Toyota continues to deny all the claims made by the suit.
"Having addressed floor mat and `sticky pedal' issues with effective and durable solutions, we are gratified that Toyota vehicles are once again widely recognized as among the safest and most reliable on the road,'' Christopher P. Reynolds, an attorney and vice president for Toyota, said in a statement.
In the past, the carmaker blamed driver error, faulty floor mats and stuck accelerator pedals for the problems.
A highway tragedy in suburban San Diego sparked the recalls and numerous lawsuits against the Japanese carmaker.
An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer and three family members were killed after he lost control of the car, a Toyota-built Lexus, in a grisly accident. The car reached speeds of more than 120 mph before it hit an SUV, launched off an embankment, rolled several times and burst into flames.
That case was settled for $10 million before similar cases were consolidated in federal court.
At the end of 2012, Toyota agreed to pay a $1 billion payout to settle claims from owners who said the value of their vehicles dropped after the recall.
In the Orange County case, half the $16 million will go to a gang reduction program and the other half will be used to pay the costs of the case and the pursuit of future economic crime cases.
*Pictured aboves is Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.
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Home » Arts and Culture » Empire of the Sikhs Exhibition Opens in London
Over 100 dazzling artworks and objects tell the story of a cosmopolitan empire that almost ended British rule in India
This summer heralds a major exhibition telling the story of the last great native kingdom which challenged the British for supremacy of the Indian subcontinent. ‘Empire of the Sikhs’ will be on view at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS from 12 July to 23 September 2018.
The Sikh Empire (1799–1849), which spanned much of modern day Pakistan and northwest India, as forged by the ‘Napoleon of the East’ Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839). He became known as Sher-e-Punjab, the Lion of Punjab, over his forty-year reign during which he established a powerful military meritocracy that included many European officers. The one-eyed king of Lahore was a trusted ally of the British but also a potentially formidable opponent and his empire offered a crucial buffer between them and incursions via the Khyber Pass.
The inevitable clash came in the form of two bitterly fought Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845–46, 1848–49) in which British pre-eminence hung in the balance as they came within hours of a total surrender. But through treachery, victory was turned into defeat for the Sikhs whose territories, treasury and fighting men became incorporated into British dominion.
A source of great interest to western visitors to the Sikh royal court prior to annexation was the Koh-i-nûr diamond, which was wrested from Afghan hands in 1813. The fabled jewel was eventually presented to Queen Victoria on 3 July 1850 in the armlet that Ranjit Singh had specially made for it. Fitted with a rock crystal replica of the original, uncut Koh-i-nûr, it is now preserved as part of the Royal Collection and will be one of the highlights on display along with a stunning array of over 100 objects and works of art from leading private and public collections.
Among them will be glittering jewellery and weaponry from the Sikh Empire including personal items that belonged to Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the most famous of his thirty ‘official’ wives, Maharani Jind Kaur. They were the parents of the deposed boy-king Maharaja Duleep Singh and grandparents to prominent suffragette (and goddaughter to Queen Victoria), Princess Sophia Duleep Singh.
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COMELEC Adheres to New Airtime Allotment Rule for Political Ads, GMA Network Files an Appeal
Posted on February 11, 2013 by GMA-7 // 0 Comments
Broadcast company GMA Network filed a petition for certiorari with a prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order and/or a writ of preliminary injunction with the Supreme Court to declare null and void the controversial provisions of the Commission on Elections’ (COMELEC) Resolution No. 9615, and to enjoin the latter from implementing such provisions during the 2013 national and local elections.
This stemmed from the decision of the COMELEC to stand by its new airtime allotment rule despite the Network’s earlier appeal to seek clarification, and pray for the recall and modification of the said resolution, as well as the re-application of the per station airtime limits observed during past elections.
In its petition, GMA, thru legal counsel Atty. Roberto Rafael V. Lucila, Atty. Pierre M. Cantara, Atty. Paul Erik D. Manalo, and Atty. Felipe Enrique M. Gozon, Jr. of Belo Gozon Elma Parel Asuncion & Lucila Law Office, stressed on the urgency of the matter involved in light of the approaching start of the campaign period.
GMA said that “the consequent damage in the event that the New Rules are not immediately enjoined is likewise clear, widespread, and irreparable” primarily owing to the “the need of the voting public to be effectively and adequately informed.”
The Network submitted that “the aggregate airtime limits imposed by the COMELEC in the New Rules are so restrictive that they amount to a State-sponsored suppression of the right of the people to know their candidates, and the right of the candidates to bring across their qualifications and platform of government to the people, which are integral to the right of suffrage under Article V, Section 1 of the Constitution.”
GMA said that the new airtime rule is “indeed a throwback to the days when the so-called political ad ban was in effect.” Given that access to media is impaired, GMA noted that “the New Rules therefore contradict and defeat the intent of the Fair Elections Act,” a law which the COMELEC is supposed to implement.
The Network also raised that “candidates and their political parties, to whom GMA is mandated by law to provide equal access, will be prejudiced particularly the lesser known candidates or political parties because they will not be able to reach most of the voters and will be deprived of the most effective means of campaigning on a national level.”
GMA also noted that the application of a candidate’s or a political party’s aggregate airtime limits under the New Rules constitutes “an infringement of the constitutionally protected freedom of speech, of the press, and of expression.” According to the Network, “there is no legitimate and substantial public or governmental interest, deserving of the subservience of the right to free speech and expression that is being advanced by the New Rules.”
GMA added that, under the New Rules, media entities will be “constrained to undertake the impossible task of monitoring the broadcast of other radio and television stations and cable TV providers,” which would entail enormous added financial and logistical burdens, “in order to avoid administrative and criminal liability.
GMA also raised with the Honorable Court its concerns on the manner of the issuance of the New Rules, which was promulgated “without prior public participation particularly from those affected by the said resolution.” The Network stressed that depriving the stakeholders of a “meaningful participation in the drafting of said administrative rule directing them” is a “clear denial of the right to due process of law as regards the exercise of rule-making functions of government agencies.”
GMA also asserted that the hearing conducted by the COMELEC on January 31, 2013 cannot be deemed as compliance with “the requirement of public consultation or even a recognition of the affected parties’ right to due process” given that the hearing was conducted only after the issuance of the New Rules on January 15, 2013, and only after GMA and the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas sent their respective letters “assailing the constitutionality, legality, and practicality of the New Rules.”
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Sonoma Stompers Welcome Three-Time World Series Champion Vida Blue, Fall 7-3 to Vallejo Admirals
Three-time World Series Champion Vida Blue was on hand at Peoples Home Equity Ballpark Wednesday night to share insight with Sonoma Stompers players, throw out the first pitch and mingle with fans. (James W. Toy III / Sonoma Stompers)
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SONOMA, Calif.– The Sonoma Stompers Professional Baseball Club, presented by Virginia Dare Winery, welcomed former Major League Most Valuable Player and three-time World Series Champion Vida Blue prior to Wednesday night’s matchup with the Vallejo Admirals.
Blue played 17 years in the Major Leagues for teams including the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. He was part of the A’s team that won three consecutive World Series titles in 1972-74 and won both the MVP and the Cy Young Award in 1971.
Before the game, Blue met with the Stompers team to answer questions and share insight from his illustrious baseball career.
“He’s a force in the game. He’s a big name. It was just an honor to even have him in our presence and come talk to us,” said Stompers shortstop Derrick Fox. “It was a joy to meet him.”
Blue also threw the first pitch, a strike, and signed autographs for fans.
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STOMPERS DOWNED BY ADMIRALS
Derrick Fox is greeted with a tunnel in the dugout after hitting a solo home run in the third inning of Wednesday's 7-3 loss to the Vallejo Admirals at Peoples Home Equity Ballpark at Arnold Field. (James W. Toy III / Sonoma Stompers)
Later in the night, the Admirals defeated the Stompers 7-3 in part with a pair of two-run homers.
The Admirals, who finished in last at the end of the first half, have caught fire in the second and sit just one game back of the league-leading Stompers.
Fox also caught fire, but for Sonoma. Fox knocked two base hits on Wednesday, one of which was a solo shot to right in the third. It was Fox’s first home run as a Stomper since returning to the team this season.
“I was just looking for something to drive, really just trying to get on base at that point in the game,” Fox said. “When I hit it, I kind of knew it was gone.”
The Admirals also made noise early with the long ball. Mike Blank went yard in the first, driving in two Vallejo runs. Sonoma starter Scott Plaza struck out eight in six innings of work, allowing four earned runs.`
The Stompers offense steadied in the later innings. By the end of the night, all but two Stompers had a hit. Fox and Matt Hibbert, who celebrated a birthday on Wednesday, both recorded a pair of hits while Brennan Metzger extended a hitting streak to 11 games.
“We had good approaches, we stayed positive throughout the whole game. I feel like we’ve just got to come out and play hard and just keep upping the intensity,” Fox said.
It was a two-run home run in the ninth that solidified the win for Vallejo. With Graylin Derke on base, Quintin Rohrbaugh homered to make the score 7-2. The Stompers answered with one run in the bottom of the frame, but did not overcome the five-run lead.
With the loss, the Stompers drop to 40-19 on the season and 12-8 in the second half while the Admirals climb to 23-36 overall, 11-9 in the second half. Since they won the first half title, if the Stompers finish in first place in the second half they will be the outright champions.
“I love being out here in Sonoma. I love having this jersey on my back,” Fox said. “I came out here just to try to get another championship for this organization.”
ON DECK AT THE BALLPARK
The last game of the series is slated to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday night, which will also feature a pre-game ceremony for Japanese Heritage Night and a book signing from Ila Borders biographer Jean Ardell.
Ardell will be selling and signing copies of the book she and Borders wrote together, “Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey.”
Tickets and merchandise are available now either online or at the fan shop at 234 W Napa Street in downtown Sonoma. Tickets will also be available at the box office on game days, beginning 30 minutes prior to the game.
For more information, please contact the front office at 707-938-7277, or email info@stompersbaseball.com.
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Home | News Tuesday 29 September 2009
US prepares to unveil its new Sudan policy
September 28, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — Senior US administration officials are scheduled to meet tomorrow to put the final touches on the long awaited policy review of dealings with Sudan, the Washington Post reported today.
The Obama presidential campaign team has promised to release the policy early in the administration term but divisions within the government agencies has slowed down the process.
The US special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration appointed last March by Obama has been pushing for a softer approach with Sudan’s ruling party, the National Congress Party (NCP).
Gration has called for unwinding some of the sanctions on Sudan and lifting the East African country from the list of states that sponsor terrorism calling it a “political” decision.
The public position of the retired air general while lauded by Khartoum, put him at odds with advocacy groups in Washington, Darfur rebels, South Sudan and even some US officials namely Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice.
Even though Gration later appeared to back down from his earlier asserting he was misunderstood he still believes that engagement and carrots are the way forward.
“We’ve got to think about giving out cookies,” said Gration. “Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement,” he told the Washington Post.
Gration said that in his view, the ruling party deserves credit lately for allowing some foreign aid groups to return after Bashir expelled others following his March indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
Even though Khartoum said it will allow new aid groups to come and replace the evicted ones, there has been no announcement of any new relief organization actually starting work in Darfur.
Furthermore, aid workers still in the region told Gration that Khartoum was still delaying their permits and access to the camps. He said he was surprised that these problems are still occurring saying there maybe a “disconnect” between Khartoum and low-level bureaucrats.
The Sudanese presidential adviser Ghazi Salah Al-Deen in his speech before the UN General Assembly today hailed the new tone in Washington toward his country.
“We welcome the declaration made by the American President, Barack Obama, before the UN General Assembly on his country’s readiness to help find solution to the question of Darfur. Noting the positive tone in the statements voiced by the American President vis-à-vis the developing countries in general,” Salah Al-Deen was quoted by state media.
“We hope that his words will be translated into actions in order to correct the misguided policies of the previous American administration which compromised bilateral relations and aggravated the region’s problems. This requires first and foremost lifting the unilateral sanctions and removing the name of the Sudan from the American list of terrorism” he added.
But on the other side Gration is growing widely unpopular among Darfuris and those opposed to NCP’s rule.
In southern Sudan’s capital of Juba, the region’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, told Gration he is concerned that the envoy’s approach is emboldening the ruling party to dictate unfavorable terms for the south’s secession vote, such as demanding 75 percent turnout.
Southerners have repeatedly accused the government of arming militias to create chaos ahead of the vote, and tribal violence has killed 2,000 people in the south this year.
But in his meeting with Kiir, Gration backed the ruling party’s argument, saying it had legitimate concerns about the referendum. Gration urged southerners to trust the government that waged a brutal war against them for 20 years.
“It is the other side that can build trust,” Kiir countered during a news conference. “How will you trust that person that was killing you yesterday?”
Darfur IDP’s bluntly told Gration that they have concerns that “he will go to Bashir and ask him what to do”.
Gration told the IDP’s that he cannot change the past but he can try and make life better for their children.
He also said that despite the advices he received on the stalling and delaying tactics deployed by Khartoum “he is willing to take the risk that he may be betrayed”.
“And if that trust is violated, then I believe pressure should come” he said.
But Sudan activists issued a statement reacting to Gration’s interview describing what they see as a “devastating portrait” of the special envoy.
“The quotes from Special Envoy Gration are deeply troubling. The time is well past for the President, Vice President and Secretary of State to exert much-needed leadership over U.S. diplomatic efforts with Sudan or face the prospect that Sudan will descend into much broader violence” The Enough Project, Save Darfur Coalition, and Genocide Intervention Network said in a press release.
John Norris, Executive Director of the Enough Project, noted, “It is incredibly offensive for the Special Envoy to argue that ’psychological stuff’ is the main impediment keeping Darfuri refugees and the displaced from going home. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, government-backed Janjaweed militias still roam freely in Darfur, and U.N. peacekeepers can’t even protect themselves. The Special Envoy seems to lack even a rudimentary understanding of humanitarian principles or the real situation on the ground. People aren’t going home because they fear being killed, raped and robbed”.
Jerry Fowler of the Save Darfur Coalition added, “It’s jarring to hear talk of ’gold stars’ and ’smiley faces’ for a regime headed by an indicted war criminal. We have always insisted that the best way to deal with Khartoum is a sensible balance of pressures and incentives. The pressures part of that calculation seems to be missing in General Gration’s comments. The Sudanese government is primarily responsible for creating the political instability in Sudan and bears the brunt of the responsibility for ending it. And blaming the victims for not being more open minded towards their oppressors defies logic”.
This week the Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Chief Khalil Ibrahim blasted Gration saying that he has “no strategy or program for a solution”.
Washington has also been grappling with how to deal with Khartoum over violence in Darfur, where UN estimates say up to 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have fled their homes amid violence the United States has labeled genocide
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194C, NO TDS between Contractor or Subcontractor if contract is not available.
In the below case , it has been clarified that in the absence of contract , there is no liability of TDS on assessee under section 194C.
TAT MUMBAI
Ratnakar Sawant, Dinesh N. Shah & Co. v. ITO
IT Appeal No. 2941 (Mum.) of 2011
[Assessment year 2006-07]
Amit Shukla, Judicial Member – This appeal has been filed by the assessee against order dated 2-2-2011, passed by the CIT(A)-24, Mumbai for the quantum of assessment for the assessment year 2006-2007.
2. The solitary issue involved in various grounds of appeal relates to addition of Rs. 18,70,375/-, on account of payment made for hiring of vehicles in violation of Section 40(a)(ia). The factual matrix of this ground are that the assessee is an individual and proprietor of two concerns, namely, ‘M/s Ratan Transport’ and ‘M/s Ratan Forklift Hiring Services’, which are engaged in the business of forklift hiring. The hire charges so received from the various parties from hiring of forklift vehicles were either through the forklift vehicles owned by him or taken on hire from outside parties for which he had to make payment to such other parties.
3. The Assessing Officer during the course of the assessment proceedings noted that the assessee had declaredturn over of Rs. 82.73 lacs in M/s Ratan Forklift and Rs. 15.82 lacs in M/s Ratan Transport from hiring business. As against this, the assessee has claimed hire charges paid in both the proprietary concerns aggregating Rs. 81,17,595/-. He proceeded to scrutinize the payment which were made in excess of Rs. 50,000/- to various persons, which amounted to Rs. 18,70,375/-, the details of which has been given at para 11 of the assessment order. The Assessing Officer observed that the assessee had not deducted TDS as per the provision of 194C(2) on these payments and therefore, same is not allowable as expenditure. The assessee contended that he had offered his income u/s 44AE and therefore, such a disallowance cannot be made and secondly, provision of Section 40a(ia) will not be applicable to assessee in this year as he is individual not liable to deduct TDS u/s 194C. The Assessing Officer rejected the explanation and held that the assessee was engaged in the business activities of forklift and hiring and had made transactions with various persons and therefore, non-deduction of TDS clearly violates the provision of Section 40(a)(ia) even in this year. Accordingly, sum of Rs. 18,70,375/- was added to the income of the assessee.
4. In the first appeal , the assessee submitted that forklift vehicles were hired from different owners not for any specific job or contract but for carrying out his own obligation as a contractor with the principals. There was no element of contract between the assessee and the parties from whom he had hired the forklift, either oral or written and therefore the provision of Section 194C(2) are not applicable. It was further submitted that individuals are not liable to deduct TDS under Section 194C(2) in respect of payment to sub-contractors under sub-section (2) of Section 194C, which has only come in the statute w.e.f. 1- 6-2007. Further reliance was placed on the following decisions :-
(i) Punjab & Haryana High Court in the case of CIT (TDS) v. United Rice Land Ltd. [2008] 174 Taxman 286.
(ii) Mythri Transport Corporation v. Asstt. CIT [2010] 124 ITD 40 (Visakha.)
(iii) Order of CIT(A) 24 in the case of Janardhan V. Sawant, A.Y. 2007-2008 (Appeal No. CIT(A) 24/ACIT, 13 (2)/337/09-10 dtd.11.06.2010).
5. Learned CIT(A) dismissed the assessee’s contention simply by affirming the finding of the Assessing Officer.
6. Learned AR appearing on behalf of the assessee submitted that firstly, it was not a case for hiring of forklift vehicles from the outsider under a contract and therefore, it does not come within the purview of sub-contract under Section 194C (2), as there was no oral and written agreement and secondly, hiring of forklift vehicles is a machinery which falls within the scope of Section 194(1) and not 194C.Even the Explanation to Section 194(1) provides for TDS liability on hiring of machinery which has come w.e.f. 13-7-2006, hence, does not fall in the impugned assessment year. She also filed copy of decision of ITAT Mumbai Bench in ACIT v. Janardhan V. Sawant, in ITA No.6505/Mum/2010, vide order dated 28-3-2012, wherein on similar facts in the case of assessee’s brother, the Tribunal has dismissed the case of the department.
7. On the other hand, learned Senior DR submitted that there was a clear violation of Section 194C as the assessee has not deducted TDS and the finding given by the Assessing Officer and affirmed by the CIT(A), is liable to be upheld.
8. We have carefully considered the rival submissions and also the findings given in the impugned orders. The assessee is an individual, who has undertaken a contract to provide forklift on hire to his principals, on which he has received hire charges. Besides his own forklift vehicles, he has also hired forklift vehicles from the outside parties for which he has paid hire charges to them and has been claimed as expenditure. In such a case, the assessee is solely responsible for executing the contract with the persons to whom he has given forklift vehicles on hire and it is only for fulfilment of this contract that he has also engaged the forklift vehicles from the outside parties. In case of hiring from outside parties the responsibility and the risk involved for performing the contract work lies with the assessee only and no such risk and responsibility seems to have been transferred to outside parties vis-à-vis his principals. The provisions of Section 194C applies to any payment made to a contractor forcarrying out any work in pursuance of a contract between the contractor and the specified persons. The contract also includes sub-contract. For application of provisions of Section 194C in this case it has to been seen, whether the assessee has entered into any kind of sub-contract with the outside parties from whom he has hired the forklift vehicles on random basis to fulfil his own commitment towards his principals. There is no material on record to remotely suggest that there was any kind of oral or a written contract or sub-contract with the outside parties from whom he has taken the forklift vehicles. Until and unless risk and responsibility of the contract undertaken by the assessee is shifted to the sub-contractors, it cannot be held that these persons are the sub-contractors of the assessee. The judgments as have been relied upon by the assessee before the CIT(A) clearly clinches the issuein favour of the assessee. The relevant proposition laid down in these cases are given here under :-
United Rice Land Ltd. (supra)
“The assessee-company was engaged in the business of manufacture and export of rice. Whenever there was need for transportation of goods from business premises to the part the assessee used to engage trucks through transporters. The consideration was charged by the transporters from the truck owners or operators and the hire charges were paid by the assessee directly to the truck owners or drivers or through the transporters. There was no contract with any of the local transporters or truck owners. The Assessing Officer treated the assessee as in default for short deduction of tax under Section 201 of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 and levied interest under section 201(IA) of the Act. The Commissioner (Appeals) partly allowed the appeal filed by the assessee. The appeal filed by the revenue was dismissed by the Tribunal. On further appeal:
Held: dismissing the appeal, that the Assessing Officer had held the assessee liable to deduction of tax only on the assumption that the assessee had agreement with the parties through whom trucks were arranged for transportation of goods. The Commissioner (Appeals) had recorded a finding that there was neither an oral nor written agreement between the assessee and the transporters for carriage of goods nor had it been proved that any sum of money regarding freight charges was paid to them in pursuance of a contract for a specific period, quantity or price. This finding of fact was recorded after considering the certificate furnished by the transporters. The tribunal also recorded that this finding of fact had not been controverted by the Department.”
Mythri Transport Corporation (supra)
“In the instant case, there is no material to suggest that the other lorry owners involved themselves in carrying out any part of the work undertaken by the assessee by spending their time, energy and by taking the risks associated with the main contract work. In the absence of the above said characteristics attached to a sub-contract in the instant case, the payment made to the lorry owners stands at par with the payments made towards salaries, rent etc…… Hence, in our considered opinion, it cannot be said that payments made for hired vehicles would fall in the category of payment towards a sub-contract with lorry owners. In that case the assessed is not liable to deduct tax at source, as per provisions of section 194C(2), on payments made to the lorry owners for lorry hire. Consequently, the provisions of section 40(a)(ia) shall not apply to such payments.”
9. This issue has also come up for consideration by the coordinate Bench of the ITAT in the case of Janardhan V. Sawant (supra), which was rendered in the case of the assessee’s brother wherein on similar facts, the appeal of the department has been dismissed.
10. So far as the second contention that hiring of forklift vehicles comes within the purview of hiring of machinery and, therefore, it will fall within purview of Section 194(1), is not adjudicated upon and is left upon to be decided in some other matter. The issues regarding applicability of Section 194C in the cases where income is computed u/s 44AE and also applicability of amendment as contended before the authorities below is also not adjudicated upon as we have already decided the issue on merits.
11. Thus, in view of our finding given above, and also respectfully following the decision of the ITAT in the caseJanardhan V. Sawant (supra), we hold that the assessee was not liable to deduct TDS under Section 194C(2) in relation to payment made to the outside parties and accordingly there is no violation of Section 40(ia). Hence, the addition of Rs. 18,70,375/- is deleted.
12. In the result, the appeal filed by the assessee is allowed.
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Entwined Tales Launch Party on Facebook
I had a very interesting evening, celebrating the release of the Entwined Tales series on Facebook with the six lovely authors of the books from the series. I've never seen a release party quite like this before, but then, I've never seen a book series quite like this either. Each author has her own independent set of fairy tale novels, which brought them together based on their similar story content. They combined their talents to create an original series about a bumbling fairy godfather who goes around granting unwanted gifts to princesses from six different fairy tales. Some of the fairy tales they picked are rather obscure, such as "The Goose Girl" and "East of the Sun, West of the Moon," (which was turned into a live-action movie called The Polar Bear King in 1991, but I wasn't a fan of it). Of course, the one I'm looking forward to the most is inspired by my favorite fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid." Coming March 5th, A Little Mermaid by Aya Ling will tell the story of a mermaid who is in love with a merman, but due to a misunderstanding, has her voice taken and is turned into a human against her will. What a fun twist on a classic tale! The final book in the series will be An Inconvenient Princess, a "Rapunzel" story, by Melanie Cellier, whose books I've been reviewing for the past couple of months.
If I wasn't already excited about the Entwined Tales series, the launch party did the trick tenfold. It was both fun and chaotic watching the notifications pop up endlessly on my Facebook feed from the fans and authors alike to talk about their careers, favorite faity tales, and participate in a few challenges just for fun. I won a set of adorable Disney Princess magnets from K.M. Shea by being the first to respond correctly to a fairy tale emoji challenge. Apparent, my new faster laptop that I just got paid off. Many of the challenges were also based on who came up with the most clever or funny response, which I did not do as well in. There was even a naked cat photo challenge at the end of the night! Some of these authors have some interesting side hobbies. The festivities lasted for four hours, and there was never a dull moment.
I thought I had my hands full already with the Four Kingdoms series, but it turns out that each of these authors has a unique fairy tale-inspired series to offer. With so many beautiful and inspired options to choose from, I can't figure out which one I want to read first! To help new readers get started, many of the authors threw in freebies of their ebooks during the event, while others provided them via their mailing the that they linked to. Once I complete the Beyond the Four Kingdoms series, I now have The Countess and the Frog by Kenley Davidson, Cinderella and the Colonel by K.M. Shea, Moss Forest Orchid and Fire and Heathers by Shari Tapscott waiting for me in my Kindle library. Of course, that's not counting the book recommendations I received tonight from these talented ladies that look incredibly tempting including The Autumn Fairy trilogy by Brittany Fichter and The Little Selkie by K.M. Shea. Let's just say it's a good thing I'm taking a break from Netflix until the next season of A Series of Unfortunate Events comes out.
Don't get me wrong though. It wasn't just about the freebies. The party gave fans from all over the world a rare opportunity to interact with six successful fairy tale authors. Each one gave her own unique introduction with a little bit of background on her career, likes, and dislikes. It was like casually hanging out at a party with celebrities... if the party happened to take place on Facebook. Then again, maybe we're all just a bunch nerds. I'm not ashamed. Two hundred twenty-five fans showed up to share jokes, Facebook likes, and compare their lives to the fairy tale characters who they love to read about. A lot of fun was had by all, and I hope to attend other events along the same lines. I also hope I find the time to tackle my newly bloated reading list soon.
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Mary Davis said…
This sounds so much fun!! I wanted to come so bad but as I'm in the UK it was much too late my time. :'( I love KM Shea's books and am excited to check out the other authors!!!
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Woman abducted at Kingsport Dollar General
Rain Smith • Jul 8, 2019 at 7:00 PM
KINGSPORT — As a woman departed a Lynn Garden business on Sunday, a stranger allegedly jumped into her car, issued threats and made her drive him around town.
The victim escaped when they returned to the scene of the alleged kidnapping, Dollar General, and he went inside the store to make a purchase. The suspect, Timothy H. Romine, 33, was later located with help from the victim's phone — which he allegedly stole — and had to be Tasered by police.
Kingsport Police Department records state the 46-year-old woman had been shopping at the store on Sunday evening. At about 6:20 p.m., she exited and got into her car to depart. While she was still in the parking lot, an unknown man reportedly opened the passenger side and entered. The suspect, later identified as Romine, reportedly threatened, "It is in your best interest to take me where I want to go, or else."
The woman told police that out of fear, she drove Romine to multiple places he requested in the Lynn Garden community. Records state that as she was driving Romine, he rummaged through her belongings in the vehicle and took her cell phone.
"The male advised he couldn't find the place he wanted to go and that he needed a phone charger," reads a KPD incident report. "(The victim) stated the male advised her to go back to the Dollar General."
Upon returning to the store, Romine allegedly told the woman she "better not leave" while he was inside, as he would be back quickly. As soon as he was out of sight, the victim fled the scene and drove to her nearby house, then used her husband's phone to notify police.
A responding officer called the number for the stolen phone and Romine reportedly answered. He was told to meet back at Dollar General to return it and agreed to do so. While en route, police called the phone again, at which time Romine advised he was walking on Tranbarger Drive.
Officers then spotted Romine and stopped to speak with him. Police say that while he was being handcuffed Romine became hostile, kicking at officers and refusing to enter the cruiser. An incident report says that to gain compliance, officers had to punch him in the ribs and implement a "drive stun" from a Taser.
Romine, address listed as East Sullivan Street in Kingsport, is charged with aggravated kidnapping, theft of property and resisting arrest. The stolen cell phone was reportedly found in Romine's possession and returned to the victim.
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Nobel Laureate Boris Pasternak Signed and Inscribed "Lara" Poems Included in Dr. Zhivago
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Typed Manuscript Signed ("Pasternak” in Cyrillic ) and Inscribed, carbon copy, entitled "Stikhi iz romana v proze" [Poems from a Novel in Prose], being 10 of the 25 "Lara" poems included in Doctor Zhivago, 20 pp, small 4to, n.p., 1948, in Russian, original string-bound tan wrappers, one leaf loose.
Provenance: gift from the author to luri Aleksandrovich Afanasiev.
WARMLY INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: To dear luri Aleksandrovich for good memory in wishing a speedy settling of your home life Pasternak 8 March 1948." This signed typescript comprises ten of the 25 "Lara” poems in Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago (1957). Pasternak was one of Russia's greatest poets when he conceived his epic tale of the Soviet Union. He worked on the novel for many years (the earliest passages date from the 1910s) and composed the poetry at various intervals during its gestation. For example, "Gamlet” [Hamlet] was written in 1946 while Pasternak was working on his celebrated translation of Shakespeare's drama. The date of the composition of 'Vesennyaya rasputitsa" [Spring Thaw] has been given as 1953, but the typed copy of the poem included in this 1948 manuscript compilation proves that it was apparently written with the other poems in 1946 and 1947. Pasternak published "Stikhi iz romana v proze 'Doktor Zhivago"' in Znamya (no. 4,1954, pp 92-95) prior to their appearance in the book. The poems in this carbon vary only slightly in language, capitalization and layout from those in Doctor Zhivago and appear there as numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 10,15, 18, 19, 20 and 21. Pasternak instructed his typist Marina Kazimirovna Baranovich to prepare copies of "Stikhi iz romana v proze” for distribution among friends. Only four other carbon copies of the work have been located: one inscribed to Olga Petrovska, Sotheby's, Dec 5, 1991, lot 554; a second inscribed to Pasternak's close friend Mikhail Alexandrovich Zenkevich now in a private collection in Russia; a third inscribed to literary historian M. P. Gromov (Pasternak, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 9, pp 515-16); and a fourth inscribed on April 10,1948 to his translator Cecil Maurice Bowra, Collection of Irwin Holtzman.
Doctor Zhivago takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905, and World War II. Due to the author's independent-minded stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR. The manuscript was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event which embarrassed and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Upon handing his manuscript over, Pasternak quipped, "You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad. Despite desperate efforts by the Union of Soviet Writers to prevent its publication, Feltrinelli published an Italian translation of the book in November 1957. So great was the demand for Doctor Zhivago that Feltrinelli was able to license translation rights into eighteen different languages well in advance of the novel's publication. In 1958 Pasternak wrote to Renate Schweitzer, Some people believe the Nobel Prize may be awarded to me this year. I am firmly convinced that I shall be passed over and that it will go to Alberto Moravia. You cannot imagine all the difficulties, torments, and anxieties which arise to confront me at the mere prospect, however unlikely, of such a possibility... One step out of place—and the people closest to you will be condemned to suffer from all the jealousy, resentment, wounded pride and disappointment of others, and old scars on the heart will be reopened… On 23 October 1958, Boris Pasternak was announced as the winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, and responded with a telegram to the Swedish Academy: Infinitely grateful, touched, proud, surprised, overwhelmed. Several days later, acting on direct orders from, the KGB, they surrounded Pasternak's dacha and threatened him with not only arrest, but the KGB also vowed to send his mistress back to the gulag, where she had been imprisoned under Stalin. It was further hinted that, if Pasternak traveled to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Medal, he would be refused re-entry to the Soviet Union. As a result, Pasternak sent a second telegram to the Nobel Committee: In view of the meaning given the award by the society in which I live, I must renounce this undeserved distinction which has been conferred on me. Please do not take my voluntary renunciation amiss. To which the Swedish Academy announced: This refusal, of course, in no way alters the validity of the award. There remains only for the Academy, however, to announce with regret that the presentation of the Prize cannot take place
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Another NHL team in Toronto? Not for me….
I admit, I always find it a bit exciting when I hear about the big, new hockey rink that will evidently be built in Markham, just north of Toronto. (It now looks like the project is officially going ahead.) Ostensibly, this is all about attracting another NHL franchise to this market—a region with, obviously, a huge appetite for hockey.
Even setting aside Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment—which has, clearly, unlimited self-interest in this unfolding little drama—there is a fairly big question that lingers: do the rest of us hockey fans even want another NHL team in these parts?
I’m very open to hearing differing thoughts on the matter. But as I think I have mentioned here previously at some point, while I acknowledge that the idea of a new arena is neat, I have zero interest in another team actually parking itself in Toronto, whether it be within the “city limits” of Metropolitan Toronto or in the so-called Greater Toronto Area (GTA), which of course includes Markham.
I will try to explain my position, which I hope goes beyond the classic “not in my back yard” syndrome (though you may come to the conclusion that is precisely what I am saying…)
First things first; let’s go over some of the basic arguments/discussion points in favour of another NHL franchise here:
The New York area has three teams, and Toronto is a better hockey town than New York and the surrounding area.
Toronto is clearly a stronger hockey market than Phoenix, Florida, Anaheim and wherever it is that the Hurricanes play, so surely if those lousy markets can have a team, we can house two...
Toronto has the infrastructure and the corporate activity to support a second franchise.
Too many Leaf fans can’t even get to games at the ACC, because long-time season-ticket holders have first dibs on tickets, so this would be an opportunity for more folks to get to NHL games.
I don’t really know what to say about the New York comparison. The Islanders play in an awful old building. (I have to believe they are moving to Brooklyn, like the NBA Nets, though I know nothing about any such possible arrangement.) The Devils play in a gorgeous new building, but are bankrupt, or something. (I’m sure that will be taken care of with new ownership at some point….) Yes, Toronto could “handle” a second team, but I do wonder this: will all the current “hockey fans” in Toronto suddenly support a new team? I don’t mean simply in terms of attendance at the games, but more, well...emotionally.
What will the identity of this new team be? Are some Leaf fans going to jump ship and start cheering for, say, the transplanted former Phoenix Coyotes? What if this supposed new team is an expansion franchise? Does that make them less, or more, appealing to the local hockey fan base? (I’ve always felt the baseball Blue Jays, for example, benefitted by being a fresh “start-up” organization back in 1977, as opposed to what almost happened- a re-location of the San Francisco Giants.)
Yes, Toronto is a “better” hockey market than most of the locations in the southern U.S., but I’m not sure that means we should necessarily have two teams here. While I sympathize with those who have a hard time getting tickets to see Leaf games (I’m one of those who also has no “inside access” to tickets, though I was a season-ticket holder for a brief time way back in the mid-1970s, way up in the wonderful old ‘greys’) but again, that still doesn’t make me yearn for another team here.
I don’t really have a good argument for my views other than this: I’m a Leaf guy and Toronto hockey, for me, means Maple Leaf hockey. All the great names who have played in Toronto for the past 80 years or so have been Maple Leafs, from King Clancy and Babe Pratt to Charlie Conacher, not to mention Syl Apps, Turk Broda, Teeder Kennedy and all the greats of my own youth—Johnny Bower, Frank Mahovlich (at right), Horton, Keon, Duff, Ellis and so many more in recent years. Conn Smythe built the Toronto Maple Leafs. They represented more than just Toronto, for sure, but those players, and this proud franchise, have always been a huge part of the fabric of this great city.
While I’m a hockey fan, yes, I’m primarily a Leaf fan who has made a career out of not liking other teams—on principle. (My hatred of the Montreal Canadiens, for example—muted in recent years since they have fallen to the same kind of mediocrity that has afflicted the Leafs—has been well chronicled on this site…). So Leaf-oriented have I been over the decades, that I have often found it difficult to cheer for guys from other teams when they performed with Team Canada. (I realize I may be alone in this regard...)
Bottom line, the idea of another team in Toronto just doesn’t work for me. This is a Maple Leaf town. I’m not even sure it’s a hockey town, frankly. In the modern era, junior hockey has largely died here. The Marlies finally drew when they went far into the AHL playoffs this past spring. But I don’t know how successful a second NHL franchise would really be as the years went on, after the initial excitement wore off.
Does this mean there shouldn’t be a second team here? Of course not.
I’m not trying to rain on Markham’s parade. Hey, if they can somehow make this happen, and convince the NHL to come here, good for them, I guess. Personally, I’d rather have a team in Hamilton, which has long deserved the opportunity and would seem to be a natural rival to both the Leafs and the Sabres. (Heck, I’d rather have a team in Saskatoon, where I know they would absolutely love their team.)
I’m just not sure what the point is of another team here, when we already have the Leafs—albeit not a recently successful franchise, but one filled with almost a century of history, heritage and personal meaning for millions of their fans around the globe.
I mean, I’m not going to chain myself to a fence or anything when they start construction of this new building. Again, if the league wants to place a franchise in the GTA, whether an expansion team or a re-located franchise, I’ll certainly not protest.
To be clear, this has nothing to do with supporting the obvious financial interests of MLSE. It wouldn’t concern me in the least if someone cut their grass in this market, from a business perspective. (In fact, I suppose it could be argued that this might spur the organization to really try and produce a winner, though I’ve never believed the theory that management hasn’t "cared" in the past. Ownership may not have always cared deeply about winning over the years, but every Toronto GM in my memory has wanted to win badly…) My views are simply those of someone who has been a fan of the Maple Leafs as a team for more than 50 years. I’ve always liked the team; I don’t have to love ownership.
In any event, I’d like to get some feedback from you. What are you pulling for? Whether you live in this area or not, if you’re a hockey fan, a Leaf fan, would you like to see another NHL team in the Toronto market?
If you are from or live in the area, would you consider switching allegiance away from the blue and white to a new Toronto team, one where you could (ideally?) bring your family to a game and it wouldn’t cost you $1,000 for a night out?
Maybe there are some positives to this that I’m simply missing. Again, I’m not trying to be an old ogre, just being honest that I’m a Leaf guy and am not particularly enthused at the idea of another team here, when there are other Canadian markets that deserve a franchise.
Let me know what you're thinking!
KiwiLeaf August 8, 2012 at 10:10 PM
The very couple who introduced me to hockey back in 2000 have stopped watching and supporting the Leafs over the last few years out of disgust at how little the ownership seemed driven to produce a championship winning team. They felt that, because a full-house at the ACC was basically guaranteed, there was no motivation within MLSE to improve.
They will become a supporter of a new GTA franchise, I'm sure, as they love the NHL and I would be very surprised to hear that they are alone in their feelings.
Maybe for those very reasons another Ontario team would be good for everyone, including MLSE, if it gives the Leafs back their competitive edge.
Michael Langlois August 8, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Interesting, KiwiLeaf. I wonder if that sentiment is more widespread than I realize....
Gerund O'Malley August 9, 2012 at 2:53 AM
Yes, I'd love a new Toronto team. But no, I wouldn't be changing my allegiance.
Yes, because I think the only way the Leafs will be forced to improve is if they have some competition for fans' dollars. Right now, the incentive just isn't there from a business point of view, and let's face it, the MLSE is all business. Another team in the Toronto market would definitely put pressure on Leaf management to upgrade their product - particularly if the new team was viable - say, if the Coyotes moved here. And just imagine the rivalry when the two teams played! I see it as a positive - and since there are tons of fans in the area, the new team likely wouldn't suffer financially as much as if they were starting in an unproven market.
However, I've been a Leaf fan all my life, and that's the way I'm going to stay - no matter how much they frustrate or disappoint me! The blue and white is in my veins, and apparently there's nothing I can do about it. They've been a constant in my life longer than anything or anyone, immediate family excepted. I can't imagine not supporting them.
But a new team in the neighbourhood wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
Darryl August 9, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I'm afraid I don't really understand the sentiment here. I know what you're getting at in a way, but I have to ask, why does it actually matter?
Who cares if there's another team in Toronto? Leafs fans will be Leafs fans. Blue blood won't turn auburn (Phx color?).
This really will have no bearing on the Leafs or fans of the Leafs at all, except that it will create a cross-town rivalry of sorts and give GTA fans more hockey to watch.
I'm a Leafs fan til death, but I'm also a hockey fan. I watch other games if there isn't a Leafs game on, does that make me less of a Leafs fan? I will probably go to Markham games because the tickets will be cheaper, and much more readily available. I'll take the 15 minute drive up there and wear one of my 3 Leafs jerseys proudly as I cheer raucously for whoever is playing Markham.
Another team in Toronto is a good thing for Toronto and a great thing for the NHL. The TML made $150mil in HRR last year to lead the league, the NYR a distant second with $120mil. Another GTA team likely hovers around the $100mil mark with the national/local broadcasting, 20K seats, and merch. There's plenty of hockey fans to go around in the GTA.
It really just doesn't have anything to do with Leafs fans. Leafs fans weren't affected when the NHL expanded in to Tampa or Atlanta or Ottawa or moved back into Winnipeg or Minnesota were we? I don't really see how this is different, except for being closer. Toronto is and always will be Leafs town. That doesn't mean that another team can't exist in Markham.
You may not like the NYC comparison, and it's not really that similar (NYC, Buffalo, Long Island being geographically much further apart), but the idea that New York City (the differences between NY and NYC and Long Island/Buffalo/NYC are important) is a 3-team town is not really based in reality. New York City has 1 team. The Rangers.
Toronto will still have 1 team. The Maple Leafs.
SteveW August 9, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I have an uncle that proposed that same theory -- another GTA team would light a fire under MLSE's butt (so to speak) to produce a winner and remain the dominant team. The more I think about it, the fluffier that argument seems. Yes, the ACC is sold out every game, and yes the Leafs are one of the crown jewels of North American sport.
But take this example: Look around Toronto this summer, and what do you notice? Blue Jays merchandize EVERYWHERE. I can't remember a time when excitement for a mediocre team was this high. It goes to show that it only takes a few little tweaks (a star player, hope for a winning season or playoffs) to get people on board. Even at my most cynical, I can't imagine the businessmen and women at MLSE don't grasp that. They want to win with every team they own.
In any case, would I cheer for another GTA team? I suppose I'd feel good for any new team and for the regional fans. I probably would have felt good for Ottawa fans when the Senators were founded in '92 if I hadn't been 6 years old at the time (and before Sens fans became the target of my unrelenting hatred).
A new team would never, ever supplant the Leafs as my favourite. I'm with you in that I think Hamilton would be a far more interesting spot for a team (not to mention a smarter location, since it's nearer to more universities than Markham, i.e. McMaster and Brock, big sporting schools). But the Leafs would stay my #1 team, even if the newfound Hamilton Predators win a Cup in their first year.
Michael Langlois August 9, 2012 at 10:01 AM
All great points, Gerund O'.
I certainly understand the perspective that a new team around the block may well push the Leafs to improve their product- though as I mentioned in the post, for me, that's more of an ownership issue, rather than a "management doesn't care" issue.
Great stuff, thanks for commenting on this one.
Well-said, Darryl. I would never criticize a Leaf (or any hockey follower) fan if they supported another team in the GTA, or went to games, etc. I totally understand why this idea to appealing to a lot of people.
I'm more reflecting on my own (perhaps narrow) view that this is really a Leaf town and always has been. We both see that- you simply have a different take on this, and I get that.
Thanks for contributing on this one, Darryl.
I'm trying to get my head around that argument, too, SteveW, that a new team would drive the Leafs/MLSE to "try harder". I get it, but as I mentioned to Gerund, I think every GM I've ever seen in that job has tried hard to build a winner in Toronto.
MLSE is motivated by money, sure. But as you mention, they have to understand that winning teams would bring in even more revenue...so they already are motivated to succeed, one would think. But I get what people are saying.
Jim August 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM
I would love to see another team in Toronto, or Hamilton or London for that matter. It would be a financially prudent move for the NHL. The leagues interests have to be better served by having a team where there are actual fans willing to pay to go to the games. Fans in the southern US get a tonne of free tickets/promotional give away packages that inflate ticket sales.
I will always be a Leaf fan, always. I know that in my social circles I am encountering a lot more hockey fans than I ever have before. With the availability of games on TV and the internet you can see any game you wish. This is a good thing, I think. A lot of people I know are watching hockey, not solely the Leafs, as when I was younger. Heck Michael, if we weren't hockey fans at least a little we would have forgotten what the playoffs were altogether.
Can choice in a marketplace ever be a bad thing? I don't presume to know that it would make the idiots at MLSE put more effort into winning Stanley Cups, instead of developing condos. More live world class hockey in our proverbial backyard is my vote on this one. Who knows the new team might even catch lightning in a bottle and win the cup. That would be some kind of interesting wouldn't it?
I can't argue with your thinking, Jim.
I'm reading all these comments closely and I understand what everyone is saying. That's why I wanted different perspectives.
I hear you on the playoff reference, as well. My favourite hockey of the year is always the first round of the NHL playoffs, and we haven't been there for a while!
Carm August 9, 2012 at 11:41 AM
As a die hard Leafs fan all my life and a Markham resident, I am in a bit of a unique situation.
Will my allegiances change if (when?) Markham obtains an NHL Franchise? I don't think so. I have too much invested emotionally in the Blue and White to switch allegiances. But, I also have two sons (9 nad 11 years old), both love playing and following hockey and while they would prefer if the Leafs won they are not hard core followers of the team. Conversely, I was already drinking the blue/white kool aid by the time I was their age.
Neither of my sons can remember the Leafs playing in a playoff game and have been subjected to generally horrible Toronto teams during their short lives. Not surprisingly, they have developed an attachment to teams like Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington (you know, teams that win occasionally and with identifiable stars) and this is true of many of their friends and teammates.
Now this is just anecdotal, but I think there are many kids who like my sons have simply looked to alternative teams to follow because the local side is so pathetic. These kids I believe could form part of the new fan base for the Markham club. Plus, there are many other NHL fans in the GTA who hate the Leafs so I could see them supporting the new GTA franchise as well.
I think another franchise in the GTA could be successful and I for one, would welcome them.
Very thoughtful post, Carm. I see what you are talking about with your sons.
You also raise a point which I thought of earlier but somehow missed in my post: there are plenty of local hockey fans who hate the Leafs, and for those people, another team would provide a possible cheering outlet.
Well said, thanks Carm.
cbh747 August 9, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Have to agree with a lot of your points. I'm not sure what I would make of an NHL team in Markham.
First of all I am a Leaf fan and, for better or worse, always will be. Since I live near Hamilton I would not be making use of a new facility. Others may want to, however, Toronto is much more a Leaf town than a hockey town. Also, those that imagine reasonably priced tickets in such a venue are likely in for a rude awakening.
I am with you on the Team Canada thing. I have never felt anything but ambivalence towards any of "Canada's" teams. To me they are just a bunch of guys I didn't like the week before. Can't get on the bandwagon. The exception for me is the World Juniors.
I am a Leaf fan. I never miss a game, pre-season or regular season. We no longer participate in the playoffs. Like you I spent a lot of time at the Gardens growing up (third row greens, centre ice).
Having said that, I would no longer pay to go to a game. Since the ACC opened I have been to 3, all on free tickets. It is an investment in time and money to get downtown and it is presently not worth it. To me the Leafs are like an alcoholic sister, you still love them but you will no longer enable them. Once they show that they want to change then maybe they will see my money again. But not until.
As far as Markham goes, time will tell I suppose. I would much rather see it in Hamilton.
Michael Langlois August 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Thanks cbh747. I appreciate your comments on the Team Canada thing. I've never been able to comfortably cheer for guys that, as you say, I hated a week before....
Third row, center ice greens may have been the very best seats in the whole house at the old Maple Leaf Gardens. Those must be wonderful memories.
As I've said to those who have posted in support of a team in Markham, I respect their views. If people would enjoy and/or support a team there, great. I just don't have the enthusiasm for it, though people are making some really good points in their posts here today.
In terms of rivalries, that may be something to consider, too, but for me, I'd just as soon we re-establish and reinforce traditional rivalries with teams like Montreal, Boston, Detroit and Chicago and even Ottawa and Buffalo. The Leafs need to be good, though, for that to really happen.
Thanks cbh747.
DMacQ67 August 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Whenever I hear about how a new team in T.O. (or alternatively, if fans stopped supporting the Leafs) would force the Leafs to be "better" I am left with the same question: what is it that the Leafs aren't doing that they should be? What action will they be forced to take with a new local team, that they haven't done already?
They always spend to the cap. They have hired a high-priced G.M. and many, many assistants. They have put money into their minor league affiliates.
What is it that they aren't doing because they "don't care enough" or aren't pressured?
Those were good times at the Gardens.
I lived in Etobicoke at the time and pretty much every Wednesday and Saturday I would hop on the bus and subway and head on down. You would pop out right by the Gardens to the sound of the scalpers and the smell of roasting chestnuts.
Before every game I would go and stand at the visiting players bench and watch the pre game skate. After the game I would head for the hallway outside of the dressing rooms and watch the players come out. I was absolutely in awe of them. I remember being down there one time when Darryl Sittler came off the ice. I was terrified to say anything to him. He was my hero after Dave Keon left.
In those days the referee was almost as important as the opposition, if Wally Harris was in the house you knew the Leafs were in for a long night.
The games against the Flyers in that era were epic. It wasn't until about 5 years ago that I stopped foaming at the mouth whenever someone mentioned Philadelphia.
I got a chance to referee there, I used to do MTHL games and they had an annual tournament at the Gardens. That was a thrill.
I hope that one day the Leafs will once again be relevant to the kids growing up.
For me that's a fair question that you raise, DMacQ67.
As I noted in my earlier comments above (and often here in the past) I don't question for a minute that every GM the Leafs have had since I can remember wanted to win. Now, there may have been times over the past 45 years when ownership had other priorities, but I believe management always strives to win.
I think I understand what people are saying in terms of another franchise nearby perhaps pushing the Leafs toward a greater sense of urgency, but again, you raise a very good point. Thanks.
I connect whole-heartedly with your memories, cbh747. Because I lived in the Essex County area, I only got to one game in my "childhood" at the Gardens (I did see quite a number of games at the old Detroit Olympia), but made up for it in my young adulthood when I was going to school in Toronto. I was also at the Gardens a fair bit in those '70s Sittler-era years.
Fans who weren't around in those "Broad Street Bully" years probably can't quite understand why we hated the Flyers so intensely back then, and it carried over, as you say, for years afterwards.
It must indeed have been so neat to call youth games at the Gardens.
That's a wonderful post- thanks cbh747. I could talk about these memories all day....
One suggestion I have heard from people who believe the Leafs could be doing more is that the Board maybe should have "cut bait" a little sooner with JFJ when it became clear that he wasn't getting the job done.
Which leads to the question: how much longer does Burke get?
I have seen it written that the new owners will demand better results, but, again, how?
To me, the major reason for the Leafs' demise since the lockout, is their inability to find good, consistent goaltending. If they had that, a lot of these questions or issues, might not have risen.
I also believe that this talk of a second team in the GTA (or Hamilton) is a form of kicking the Leafs while they are down, especially by the media. When the Leafs were competitive (pre-lockout), we didn't get this kind of talk.
The Leafs provide the NHL with a lot of revenue, much of which is used to assist some of the lesser performing franchises. I wonder why the NHL would do something that could conceivably (although doubtfully) economically harm a "Golden Goose".
DMacQ67 , I think a lot of Leaf supporters agree that goaltending is a huge factor in a team's success, and certainly when it comes to the often thin line between making or not making the playoffs.
Regarding the financial contribution the Leafs make to the league- yes, it is significant. I would imagine that will be part of the discussion between MLSE and the NHL if we ever come to a serious discussion about another franchise in the Toronto market. Any fee to allow a new team into the Leaf "territory" would likely be massive.
TML__fan August 10, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Michael, I'm not in favour of another Toronto team, but I will admit it would put huge pressure on the Leafs to improve. Call it what you want, a management/ownership/business decision. But lets face it, if you have another store down the street which is more successful and stealing your business and your customer loyalty, you'll go to almost any measure to compete with them, and hold onto your place in the marketplace.
I'm a loyal Leaf fan and always will be, but this team has not raised the cup since 1967. Part of the reason has been that the management and owners of this team always succeed financially no matter how bad the team may be. I know they want to succeed, but realistically the only pressure they have is their own internal desire to win. Right now the customers continue to flock to their store, quietly grumbling about the product, yet hoping each year that one or two new store items may reward their loyalty.
If a new team opened up shop just down the street, would the Leafs improve?? I'm not sure, but the pressure to stay ahead of its competition would force the Leafs to make moves/decisions that it has been reluctant (at times) to make since 1967.
Pete Davies August 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM
I don't think a second team will hurt the Leafs finances or affect the size of its fan base. Leaf fans are Leaf fans, period, and no amount of failure or frustration they have given us will make us turn away. What the new team would inherit is hockey fans who never were die-hard enough to stick by the Leafs. History also shows that it takes a LONG time to build a true fan base in an area where there already is history.
Case in point-my cousin is a Senators fan. Hard as it was for me to understand how any boy growing up in central Ontario could be anything but a Leafs fan, when I thought about it, the circumstances are different. I was born in 1972, and through my childhood, there was only one team. Only three in all of Canada for that matter. My cousin is much younger, born in 1988. So by the time he was old enough to know, there were many other choices, including Ottawa. It was the same situation reversed with baseball. I was a Blue Jays fan from day one, after all, they had been around pretty much from the time I was aware of the sport. Older fans of course were Detroit Tiger fans, and it took a long time to convert southern Ontario. We're going on twenty years now that the Senators have existed, and their fans STILL get shouted down in their own stadium when the Leafs play there. New York Mets and Islanders? Still second fiddle after all these years.
Toronto is so many light years ahead of other North American cities in its combination of hockey passion and corporate wealth that there is no question it can handle two teams. Heck I'd even say three teams in Toronto would still make money. It's no secret that the average fan cannot afford to take a family of four to a Leafs game without putting his first born son up as collateral for a loan. That fan would gladly take his kids to see the other option if only for the love of hockey. And the Leafs will still sell out every night.
Michael Langlois August 10, 2012 at 9:13 AM
I guess that's the thing, TML__fan. It's not, as I stressed above, that management (past and present) did not/does not want to win. It's perhaps that another team nearby would nudge the organization to do everything possible to try and win, which they maybe haven't always necessarily done. Thanks.
I really relate to your comment about the Detroit Tigers, Pete. I was born and raised right across from Detroit and while I have always been a Leaf fan (and never a fan of any of the "local" Detroit teams) I understand the tug that people felt in southwestern Ontario. There were a lot of Red Wing and Tiger fans, for sure.
It would take time to build the fan base for a new team in Toronto, but they would no doubt develop one, and the Leafs would "survive" nicely, financially.
Well said. Thanks Pete.
I think they should move the marlies to Markham , better and bigger than Ricoh, more people likely to attend games, more affordable and the GTA stays leaf nation!!
Horus August 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Hi Michael - Great post and question posed.
My view on a prospective Markham GTA NHL team is this: Bring it on!
Having grown up in the GTA and (naturally) a Leaf fan, I am very unlikely to change allegiances. (Living in the Ottawa area now and being exposed to the anti-Leaf vitriol almost daily only makes my allegiance stronger). However, that is not to say that there are not those who would welcome and readily switch to another team should one appear in Markham. I have no doubt that any new team in the GTA centre would have a ready fan base to draw from - particularly a relocated team who would likely have some "die-hard" fan base already established. But, as you mentioned, Toronto is, and always will be, a Leaf town first.
However, I think there are some other benefits to having a team in our Leaf backyard that have not yet been mentioned.
1. This team would become the top rival to the Leafs. Unlike the Habs rivalry which pretty much died once the Leafs and Habs were placed in separate divisions/conferences, or the rivalry with the Senators which is a mere shadow of what it once was, a team in the same city will ALWAYS be a rival.
2. This could dispel many of the ‘myths’ that Team Management and/or Local Media use to frame the Leafs present situation. This includes the “Players want to play in Toronto” myth or the “Opposing teams play more intensely in Toronto” myth that are constantly brought up to validate the ridiculous trade rumours or explain poor team performance. It could also dispel the “Toronto media is too intense” myth by potentially spreading the media attention out a little more. A second team could render useless many of these excuses used by the Team, Media and fans alike.
3. A little competition for eyeballs can’t hurt. The Leafs reign supreme because there is simply no better alternative. When stories of the GTA team start invading the local papers and newscasts and take time away from what would have been Leaf stories, it could make the team have to try a little harder to get the attention they’re used to (if they want to keep that level).
Finally, I think there is a synergy that could be created with a 2nd team in the area. Think about it. Right now we all go to work, school, wherever and discussion will always be about the Leafs. We all have that colleague who is a fan of another team, who tries to work up the discussion, but inevitably fails. With a 2nd local team, there will be more opposing fans, more viewpoints and ultimately – more passion! Doesn’t an increase in fan passion ultimately benefit both the Leafs and the GTA team?
Michael Langlois August 10, 2012 at 2:25 PM
I love your "point 2", Horus. That one has me thinking, for sure.
And I completely agree- anything that instills (potentially) even more rivalry and passion for hockey in general and in this market would likely be a good thing.
Really well articulated- thanks Horus.
"But take this example: Look around Toronto this summer, and what do you notice? Blue Jays merchandize EVERYWHERE. I can't remember a time when excitement for a mediocre team was this high."
Except the Leafs every year.
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Should Brian Burke be the GM of Team USA for the 2014 Olympics in Russia?
Hey, I realize that we may not even have NHL hockey when the next Olympic Games come around. At the rate the two sides in the ongoing dispute are meeting (much less agreeing on any issues of substance), it will be a while. And if this thing lasts one full season, which is entirely plausible, what will be the impetus to play again a year from now?
In other words, if there are supposed “principles” at play for both the league owners and the NHLPA, those principles will still be keeping the sides apart next year at this time, right?
In any event, that’s neither here nor there, to a certain extent, when it comes to my thought for the day. I know that Hockey Canada has already gone back to Steve Yzerman, the former Red Wing captain and current Tampa Bay General Manager, to head our efforts for the Sochi Winter Olympics. (This assumes not just a new CBA, but, I presume, an agreement between the players and the league on the actual issue of participating in the event…)
But I’ve been thinking about the 2010 Games, and how close the U.S. came to “upsetting”, if I can call it that, the Roberto Luongo-led Canadian squad. It took a peculiar goal by Sid the Kid to ensure an overtime “golden goal’ victory for the Canadian side.
I’ve admitted in this space before that I loved the Olympics more when I was a kid, especially when it comes to hockey. Back then, there was a mystery about the great players from “foreign” countries who played against Canada. Whether it was Vaclav Nedomansky or one of the great Russian players, you knew they were considered sports heroes back home. One of those sides (Czechoslovakia or Russia) usually won gold at the Olympics every four years—and at the annual springtime Winter Championships- which have always been a big deal for European players…
I also loved the fact that Canadians used to send true amateurs, basically college players, to take on the best in Europe. It wasn’t an approach that would usually lead to medals, but there were some gutsy performances when Fr. David Bauer, the Canadian national team coach, prepared the youngsters who were playing for pride—and truly representing Canada. Names like Morris Mott, Fran Huck and Seth Martin are some that I still remember from those golden days at various points in the 1960s. (Seth Martin is the goalie in the first row, above, in the great old team photo of the Trail Smoke Eaters. That great British Columbia-based senior team won the World Championships for Canada in 1961, and I remember cheering for Seth Martin when I was maybe 7 years old or so. Martin also went on to play briefly in the NHL with the St. Louis Blue and Glenn Hall in the early expansion days...)
But things are different now. The Olympics is an even bigger business than ever before. Plus, I’m not a fan of these one-game elimination events. I’m much more old-school, I guess, in the sense that I live for NHL-style playoffs. You know, when you have to win four games in a grueling 7-game series against teams just as amped up as you. And if you are good enough—and lucky enough—to get through one round, you have to do it three more times successfully to become champions.
That not easy.
But for today, I’m thinking about the U.S. team and how good it has become with the growth in the game in the United States over the past thirty years, especially since the dramatic gold-medal win by the U.S. in 1980. I also read quickly through a piece (I think it was on ESPN) that suggested it was pretty much a slam dunk that Maple Leaf General Manager Brian Burke would get the nod again as the U.S. Olympic squad GM.
As much as Burke did a great job last time, and has a formidable background as an NHL General Manager, I couldn’t help but think that there are a lot of other guys, as the article alluded to as well, that could also deserve this kind of appointment.
Who, you may ask, has similar credentials to Burke?
Well, here are some awfully good names (and I’m probably missing some) that are eligible to handle the responsibility for the United States, including:
Paul Holmgren
Lou Lamoriello
Dean Lombardi
Dale Tallon
David Poile
I believe those are all qualified guys. My personal favourite is probably Davis Poile, because I’ve watched his career over more than two decades. He totally revamped a very bad Washington Capitals franchise through the ‘80s and into the early ‘90s and built them into a perennially strong team- sometimes a Cup contender.
He has done the same thing with the Predators, taking a first-year expansion team more than a decade ago and not only selling hockey where (Nashville) no one much cared initially, but again building a class organization with a tremendous work ethic—and a heck of a team, too. He has kept the same coach since day one, and doesn’t blame others for his team’s failings. He’s just a first-rate guy and hockey executive.
So if the decision was up to me, I’d select Poile. His Dad was a big name in hockey circles, too, but David has earned a reputation as a well-respected GM in his own right, and for me, he is the best of the bunch.
That said, we all know that Lamoriello has won a few Stanley Cups and turned a “Mickey Mouse” (according to Wayne Gretzky in that memorable 1980s quote) organization into one of the best in hockey over the past twenty years.
I like Holmgren’s approach a lot. Tallon basically built the Chicago team that won the Cup a couple of years ago. Ray Shero won a Cup with the Penguins. Dean Lombardi did a fine job in San Jose, and now has built a Cup winner in Los Angeles.
How do you feel? Objectively, any Leaf bias aside, is Burke the guy you would choose to lead Team USA this time around?
Labels: Brian Burke, Fran Huck, Seth Martin, Trail Smoke Eaters
Jim September 27, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Besides of course, that Burke has a job to do with the Leafs. If I remember their record over the last four years has been terrible. It would seem to me that Burke should get his priorities in order. I will even help him. Leafs first, every other ancillary thing second. No exceptions. His team sucks and he needs to be focusing every effort on making them better. Maybe go and scout the players at the Olympics and see if you could trade for one of them. Hey, its so crazy it just might work.
With that said, I would love for Burke to be in charge of team USA. It would give team Canada a much better chance at winning the gold medal. At least if you judge him by his record with the Leafs.
I must confess that I like the Olympic hockey better than the NHL. There is something magical to me watching the best players play with, and against the best in the world. If it was a best of 7 tournament, I would watch it endlessly on Blu-Ray. That would get me to ignore the NHL, for a good long time.
Michael Langlois September 27, 2012 at 11:53 PM
You raise a fair point Jim. You would think, in some ways, that Hockey Canada and Hockey USA would hire a young executive who does not have full-time responsibilities with an NHL team (as Hockey Canada did with Yzerman last time, when he was not in as senior or important a position as he is now...)
While it may seem as though being a national team GM doesn't take much time, it actually does- even with other people helping you.
I can appreciate what you're saying about Burke being at the Olympics- but working strictly for the Leafs, assessing players without a rooting interest!
Gerund O'Malley September 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM
The maddening conundrum of sports!
Simply put, why would you hire a guy who, in his day job, hasn't been able to put a competitive team on the ice for four years? Doesn't make sense. Poile is a great choice, I'd say, and Tallon too.
Then again, Burke and Wilson - the coach he eventually wasn't on the same page with! - almost won the gold. That can't be ignored.
Michael Langlois September 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM
That is a key question, Gerund O'...Burke and Wilson did have great success the lat time- what to do when there are other deserving candidates as well?
Uh...isn't Tallon a Canadian?
You're right, Anon. My bad. I remember he was with the Marlies, I believe, in the late '60s. Drafted by Vancouver in the expansion year just after Perreault. Must have been Canadian!
Pete Cam September 28, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Dale Tallon is definitely a Canadian, born in Noranda, Quebec. Ron Wilson was also Canadian, born in Windsor, Ontario although I believe he has dual citizenship.
It is not absolutely necessary (though maybe desireable) for a national team coach to be a citizen of the team's country. For example Sean Simpson, the Swiss National Team coach, is Canadian.
I would hate to see Burke take the U.S. job, It is a time consuming endeavor that could only take him away from his job with the Leafs at a time when a 100% commitment is needed here. Having said that, I believe he will jump at the opportunity to manage the U.S. team if it is offered.
If it were my decision I would definitely choose David Poile.
Poile would be a solid pick, PeteCam. Burke has certainly done a good job for Team USA in the past- I just wonder if others aren't at least as deserving....
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Superintendent’s Spotlight: Stella Serafin, Sanfordville Elementary School
Stella Serafin, Sanfordville Elementary School
Published Feb 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm (Updated Feb 7, 2019)
Stella Serafin
WARWICK — Stella Serafin doesn’t quite remember the first time she was ever on a skateboard. Asking her is a lot like asking other kids to remember their first steps or the first time they tasted solid food. Skateboards, she says, were simply always around, but she figures she’s been a skateboarder since she was three years old.
In the years since she’s built a notable career around the sport, most recently as a designer whose art has been featured on skateboards, T-shirts and stickers. Skateboarding remains a realm populated predominantly by guys - both as the athletes on the boards and the business people who sell the gear, clothing and accessories.
But that hasn’t stopped Stella. Being in third grade hasn’t either.
“Some boys think that skateboards aren’t for girls,” said Stella. “Some boys have told me that. But skateboarding isn’t a boy thing. It’s not a boy thing and it’s not a girl thing. That stuff doesn't matter. All that matters is if you like to skateboard.”
Stella was introduced to skateboarding by her dad. The family used to live in Brooklyn and he and Stella would go to parks to practice.
She’s fallen down a lot, she says, and has learned that even though it’s fun to go fast, it’s more important to stay in control of your board so you don’t crash.
Crashing, she says, is no fun at all.
“I think of the story of the rabbit and the turtle,” says the Sanfordville Elementary student. “The turtle made it.”
Stella so loves skateboarding that when her teacher assigned a “how to” essay to the class, Stella’s topic was “How to build a skateboard,” and she created illustrated step-by-step instructions.
Her skateboarding dad was impressed by her work, and sent it along to Street Plant, a skateboard company in California.
They were impressed, too, and Stella’s instructions are now shipped along with their orders.
She has since designed other packaging inserts, as well as her first skateboard.
And earlier this year, she volunteered at a Baltimore fund raiser to build a skateboard park in memory of a skateboarder killed in an accident. The goal, she said, is to build a skateboard park so kids will have a safe place to skate and have fun.
She’s a voice for skateboarders here, too, and she and her dad worked the Greenwood Lake Skateboard Park’s booth during Applefest, raising money and bringing awareness to the project. She sees herself as an “ambassador” of her sport, and she passed out flyers and chatted with passers-by about the fun of skateboarding and the importance of exercise, fresh air, and a safe place to skateboard.
“I tell people that if they want to skateboard they should do it,” says Stella. “It feels like what fun feels like.”
Each week, Warwick Valley Central School District Superintendent Dr. David Leach shines the “The Superintendent’s Spotlight” on one of Warwick Valley’s students. “Superintendent’s Spotlight” features students who reach goals, face challenges, and are role models to their peers.
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'Tis Season for Nearly Nude Calendars
By DINESH RAMDE
Tuesday, December 26, 2006; 3:54 AM
MILWAUKEE -- Miss December is wearing nothing but a Santa hat and a smile. Oh, and holding one strategically placed cat.
Chandra Gates decided the Humane Society of Jefferson County was a worthy enough cause for her to bare it all _ well, some of it _ for a nude-calendar fundraiser.
"I'm shy about the picture but definitely proud of the cause," said 39-year-old Gates, an animal caregiver there. "I was big on the fact that the cat was tame and wouldn't be running off."
The Humane Society in the city of Jefferson, about 50 miles west of Milwaukee, is one of many nonprofit organizations from Australia to Wisconsin selling tastefully nude 2007 calendars, although one philanthropy expert says the practice is, er, overexposed.
A group of women ranging in age from mid 50s to early 70s in Yorkshire, England, pioneered the idea in 2000 when they sold a calendar of discreet nude photographs of themselves to raise money for cancer research. The women, whose story inspired the 2003 movie "Calendar Girls," raised $2.55 million through sales of 800,000 calendars as well as book and film royalties.
The women have released a 2007 calendar, the group's third, that has a photo of the women _ clothed _ with Prince Charles.
In Gates' black-and-white photo in the Humane Society calendar, she is pictured from the waist up, holding a cat against her bare chest as she stands in a snowy yard.
Humane Society executive director Lisa Patefield said the calendar's other pictures are equally artistic. Her group expects to raise $30,000 through the sale of 1,500 calendars.
"For nonprofits, it's getting tough to raise money," Patefield said. "In order to be competitive in fundraising, you have to come up with something new, something exciting."
But one philanthropy expert suggests calendars are only a short-term solution for charities looking to maintain long-term viability.
"From a fundraising point of view, it's probably more appropriate to look for people who care about the (charity's) mission _ people who can help financially or with time, with talent," said Peter Rea, a business professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
Some customers say they buy nude calendars to support a cause even though the calendar will sit in a drawer.
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Wednesday, February 1, 1865.+-
Wednesday, February 1, 1865.Washington, DC.
President approves resolution submitting Thirteenth Amendment to states. Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States, 1 February 1865, CW, 8:253-54.
Interviews J. W. Singleton, who has talked with President Davis. Randall, Lincoln, 4:330.
Confers with Sen. Howe (Wis.) about idea of furloughing sick, proposed in letter of Mrs. Porter. Howe to Lincoln, 1 February 1865, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Interviews Henry Ward Beecher relative to outlook for peace. Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Beecher, 27 February 1865, CW, 8:318-19.
Responds to serenade of crowd at White House celebrating passage of resolution sending Thirteenth Amendment to states. N.Y. Tribune, 3 February 1865; Response to a Serenade, 1 February 1865, CW, 8:254-55.
President seldom gets to bed before midnight. William H. Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," Harper's Monthly Magazine 114 (December 1906):110-11.
Telegraphs Maj. Eckert at City Point, Va.: "Call at Fortress-Monroe & put yourself under direction of Mr. S. [Seward] whom you will find there." Abraham Lincoln to Thomas T. Eckert, 1 February 1865, CW, 8:252.
Telegraphs Gen. Grant: "Let nothing which is transpiring, change, hinder, or delay your Military movements, or plans." Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 1 February 1865, CW, 8:252.
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Western University Alumnus Forging Success on ‘Atypical” Career Path
March 22, 2017 / Natalie Allen
By Krista Habermehl
If there’s one thing Travis McKenna didn’t want to do with his life, it was work a regular 9-5 job.
A career in aviation seemed anything but traditional, so out of high school he applied, and was accepted to the Commercial Aviation Management (CAM) program in Western’s Faculty of Social Science.
“I wanted a career that was atypical and I thought piloting was the answer for me,” said McKenna, BMOS’15, “but as I learned more about the industry itself, I discovered there were a lot of factors I didn’t like – from the increased automation of planes to the seniority system.”
Although he carried on with flight training in spite of his reservations, McKenna spent his summers dabbling in various entrepreneurial opportunities with friends: first a painting business, then a car detailing venture and, later, an app endeavour he admits failed commercially.
While those experiences showed him there was money to be made outside of a traditional career path, McKenna ended up taking a job in a corporate setting after finishing flight training.
“Even if you know you want to work for yourself, there’s a lot of external pressure – from your parents, from your program, from your friends. There’s a lot of pressure to go the normal route. I found it very hard.”
It was a repeat concussion injury, however, that forced him to reconsider his options.
“The job (post university) was intense. The hours were long – 12 to 14 hour days sometimes – and I just couldn’t do it. It was really hard on me and at the end of my contract, I had to call it quits.”
This turn of events gave McKenna the freedom to pursue a different path, and he joined a group of friends from Western who had recently launched an e-commerce bracelet venture, called Wrist & Rye. The company sells accessories and markets itself as a “social lubricant company,” tying its product line to names of popular drinks. Its purpose is “to deliver intoxicatingly beautiful accessories that incite social conversations,” according to the Wrist & Rye website.
“When no one was expecting anything of me, I was able to work for myself and make my own hours. I could bring a lot of expertise and knowledge. As my health started to get better, I took on more and more responsibility with the company,” he said.
Today, McKenna is the company’s CEO, a role he formally stepped into in April of 2016. Since that time, he’s worked to legitimize the business, establishing supply line management, inventory, manufacturing, legal and accounting systems.
In addition, he brought the company to Western’s Propel Entrepreneurship – an initiative that provides co-working space, mentorship, seed funding and acts as an advocate for local startups in the community.
McKenna said assistance and expertise from Propel helped the company navigate rough waters and set them up for success at a time when a major dispute between the company’s partners had the potential to implode the business.
“We pretty much have Propel to thank for helping us through the transition. When you’re a struggling entrepreneur, no one gives you respect. Propel helped legitimize the path. Instead of saying I was working on my business, I could say my business is part of an ‘accelerator’ that believes in us and is giving us grant funding. It legitimized it. Even my parents were proud of me.”
McKenna said the financial support Wrist & Rye received, as well as access to a community of like-minded entrepreneurs, through Propel was priceless.
“They held us to our milestones. We learned a ton from the workshops,” he said. “It also gave us a network of people who were doing the same things. People our age, all in different stages of business, but working toward the same thing and going through the same struggles.”
Since the launch of the company, the majority of bracelet sales – in the range of 50,000 – have been online through organic and celebrity marketing. Wrist & Rye has recently landed a wholesale contract, signed with a Canada-wide sales team and is now selling its product in select retail stores. These changes have the company poised to make sales in the hundreds of thousands range, said McKenna.
The company also sells a special bracelet, called the “Mustang” at The Book Store at Western, which provides students with a $10 Uber gift card when they purchase the product. The goal is to encourage students to make safe choices and avoid drinking and driving.
“We really want to take a proactive stance on students drinking responsibly,” said McKenna. “We’re hoping that if the bracelet is successful at Western and has an impact, we’ll roll out the concept nationwide.”
While McKenna admitted he finds it odd when aspiring entrepreneurs ask for his advice, since Wrist & Rye hasn’t quite attained commercial success, he does have a few words of wisdom to impart: “Start a business when you’re at school. It’s the perfect place. You have a large social network. A test market. School resources. There is no better time than university to start a business.
“The other thing is, don’t wait for that perfect idea. That million-dollar idea is never going to just come to you. Get to work on an idea. Learn a lot. Don’t get emotionally attached and blow all your money. Just start working away and you’ll learn. Then find a job close to, or in a similar field as your idea, so you can get mentorship and get paid to learn.”
Wrist & Rye bracelets are available at The Book Store at Western, or online at wrist-rye.com.
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When international longevity expert Terry Grossman stated recently toot in afeui years, 80 will be the new 40, it made news around the world. Experts the world over agree that the average lifespan ofhuman beings has increased in the pastfew decades. And with thefocus on all things anti-ageing, it will only get better.
Staying Young Forever!
There is an ancient saying that "life is a disease with 100 percent mortality". This is a universal truth applicable to every life born on this earth.
Men need hormones too
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Study associates Alzheimer’s risk with banned pesticide DDT.
Reports that a study published online Jan. 27 in JAMA Neurology associates “exposure to the insecticide” dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) “with Alzheimer’s disease.”
Higher omega-3 levels may help preserve brain volume in older women.
Reports that research published in Neurology indicated that “older women with the highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil, had better preservation of their brain as they aged than those with the lowest levels, which might mean they would maintain better brain function for an extra year or two.” For the study, which received support from National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, investigators “looked at the omega-3 fatty acids levels in the red blood cells of 1,111 women who participated in the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study.”
Obese people who take low-calorie drinks may also benefit by modifying diets, study says.
Reports "overweight and obese adults" who take diet drinks in their attempts to lose weight should “to take another look at the food they eat,” citing researchers who disclosed “Thursday that those people ate more food calories than overweight people who drank sugar-sweetened beverages.” In a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, the researchers did not say “the dieters should give up on no- and low-calorie drinks; rather, they said the dieters should look at what else they’re consuming, especially sweet snacks, to find other ways to modify their diets.” Researchers used data about people 20 years and older from the 1999-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The paper highlights the significance of the study, noting that the consumption of diet beverages has jumped from 3 percent of adults in 1965 to 20 percent today, “and the beverage industry has said it is responding to the obesity epidemic in part by producing more low- and no-calorie choices for consumers.”
Calling Obesity A Disease May Make It Easier To Get Help
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Overweight People In Developing World Outnumber Those In Rich Countries
People are getting fatter around the world. And the problem is growing most rapidly in developing countries, researchers reported Friday.
"Over the last 30 years, the number of people who are overweight and obese in the developing world has tripled," says , of the Overseas Development Institute in London.
Vitamin E slows Alzheimer's progression
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Chelation therapy reduces cardiovascular events for older patients with diabetes
Chelation treatments reduced cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, and death in patients with diabetes but not in those who did not have diabetes, according to analyses of data from the National Institutes of Health-funded Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT). However, researchers say more studies are needed before it's known whether this promising finding leads to a treatment option.
Obesity is a disease, doctors’ group says
The American Medical Association officially designated obesity as a disease on Tuesday – a disease that requires medical treatment and prevention.
The organization doesn’t have any kind of official say in the matter, but it’s influential nonetheless, and the vote of the AMA’s policy-making House of Delegates is one more step in the evolution of social attitudes towards obesity.
"Recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue that affects approximately one in three Americans," AMA board member Dr. Patrice Harris said in a statement.
One third of Americans are obese – and that’s on top of the one-third who are overweight. Obesity is more than just a matter of carrying around too much fat, says Dr. Michael Joyner, an exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
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If the Yukon is the far north at its most accessible, the Northwest Territories is the region at its most uncompromising. Just three roads nibble at the edges of this almost unimaginably vast area, which, together with Nunavut, occupies a third of Canada’s landmass. The Northwest Territories is about the size of India but contains only 60,000 people, almost half of whom live in or around Yellowknife. Unless you’re taking the adventurous and rewarding Dempster Highway from Dawson City across the tundra to Inuvik, Yellowknife will probably feature on any trip to this territory, as it’s the hub of the flight network servicing the area’s widely dispersed communities.
The region experiences a diverse climate. The north has Arctic and sub-Arctic winters whereas the south is more temperate with mild summers and cold winters. Regardless of the season, brings lots of warm clothes with you when travelling to the Northwest Territories.
The present population of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut is approximately 60,000. Dene, Inuvialuit and Métis make up 48%, non-Aboriginals about 52%. Most live in small communities; Yellowknife, the capital, has a population of more than 15,000.
Most visitors are here to fish or canoe, to hunt or watch wildlife, or to experience the Inuit cultures and ethereal landscapes. More for convenience than any political or geographical reasons, the Northwest Territories was formally divided into eight regions, each with its own tourist association. From 1999, a new two-way division will apply, the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories being renamed Nunavut, a separate entity administered by and on behalf of the region’s First Peoples. One effect has been the renaming of most settlements with Inuit names, though in many cases the old English-language names appear in much literature.
The Northwest Territories lie north of the 60th parallel, above Saskatchewan, Alberta, and eastern British Columbia, and between the Yukon and Nunavut. These dimensions represent a recent change. With the creation of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, the area of the former Northwest Territories, which stretched from the Yukon east to Baffin Island and included all of the Arctic archipelago, was reduced by approximately two-thirds, from 3,426,320 square kilometers to a still impressive 1,171,918 square kilometers.
The economy relies heavily on resource industries subject to wide fluctuations in world markets. Mining is by far the largest private industrial sector of the Northwest Territories economy. Oil and gas exploration and development are also important. The Aboriginal peoples’ traditional subsistence activities – fishing, hunting and trapping – also have an impact on the Northwest Territories economy. Sport fishing and big-game hunting play a small role as well. Commercial fishery development in the Northwest Territories – freshwater and saltwater – is being encouraged. Fur harvesting continues to be very important, supplementing the income of many Aboriginal families. Recently, tourism has become increasingly important. The Northwest Territories offers a variety of landscapes of great natural beauty, conducive to fishing, wildlife observation and other outdoor activities.
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Regular Work in an Irregular Economy
Carmen Martino
Ending the temp agencies' control of low-wage labor markets
Imagine that you are a young person trying to find your first full-time job in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a small city about 35 miles southwest of New York. You don't want to work in a restaurant or a fast-food joint, because they won't give you enough hours to make a living, and they don't provide benefits. There aren't many full-time opportunities in your neighborhoods, because most factories and warehouses have left town for the suburbs. Commuting to suburban regions where there are more employers is impractical; mass transit is inadequate, you can't afford a decent car, and fuel prices are high.
If you are a Latino worker, your only option is to register at one of the labor agencies that have flocked to your neighborhood in recent years. One is probably within walking distance, with a big sign saying, "Workers wanted." Most of these labor agencies are organized along racial and ethnic lines. If you're African American, chances are there won't be a labor agency for you nearby. These firms locate where desired workers live; most employers request Latinos, who are promoted as reliable, compliant -- and often desperate.
If you are serious about finding work, you arrive at the temp office at 6 A.M. and begin your wait. At 7, the boss begins issuing work orders; if you're lucky, you'll be told the name of the company where you'll work that day. Nothing's in writing: not your assignment, not your pay rate, not the length of your contract.
For most jobs, you'll be paid the minimum wage, and you can forget health insurance or other benefits. The pay is not only low; it's unpredictable. You don't know whether you'll have six hours of work or eight, and you don't know whether you'll be paid the advertised rate or less, without explanation. The agency issues you a separate check for each job you work that week, and somehow, when your hours for all the jobs are added up, you're never paid the overtime rate.
This system is also costly to you. The agency -- or the business that rents space at the agency office -- charges you $1 to $2 to cash each check, and since your neighborhood has no bank where you can open an account, you have to pay. For your transportation, the agency deducts $7 per day, regardless of how far you are going and no matter how long you have to wait for the van to pick you up before and after work or how many stops it makes on the way to the workplace. Many of the vans are overcrowded, old, and unsafe; their drivers may be unqualified or unlicensed; and they're still getting into well-publicized accidents, despite the "van safety" law passed by the New Jersey legislature.
When you get to the workplace -- it makes little difference whether it's a well-known company's warehouse or the backroom of a local grocery store -- you will receive little training or instructions. Whether you are unloading trucks, filling pallets, digging a ditch, or cleaning a bathroom, your chances of working with dangerous materials are high, but you're not told about any hazards to which you may be exposed. If you are injured, you won't be paid for your time out of work, regardless of whether or not the agency has paid its workers'-compensation insurance. And more than likely, you won't know your rights under the state's laws, because no one has told you what they are.
At the end of the day, you wait for the van to take you back to the agency office. You may have to wait an hour or two, for which you won't be paid, and if the van never shows, you'll have to walk home or pay for a cab. Whatever the case, your van fee will still be deducted from your paycheck, and after the fees for check cashing and transportation have been deducted, more than a third of your earnings are gone.
Next week won't be any better; there are no job ladders in the temporary-labor industry, no pay increases, no paths to permanent employment. (You have to sign a form agreeing not to go to work for the agency's client.) When you tire of the temp agency and you go back out on the job market, you'll find once again that few full-time jobs are available at any wage rate.
And street-corner day labor also feeds into ethnic stereotypes and fuels anti-immigrant feelings. It is in the interest of everyone -- except exploitive businesses -- to regularize these employment relations.
The exploitation of today's temporary low-wage labor markets is made possible by several factors. One is the impact of residential segregation, which separates workers from job opportunities, rendering them dependent on the agencies, which have a near-monopoly of jobs that can add up to full-time work.
The second factor is the collusion of employers, who rely on the firms to provide them with cheap labor without strings -- maximum flexibility, minimum responsibility. Employers don't have to worry about paying workers' comp fees, Social Security taxes, or payroll and benefit administration. They don't have to pay for idle hours, job training, or unemployment insurance. Recruiting fees are eliminated, background checks avoided, and the threat of unionization nullified.
The third and most important factor in the exploitation of low-wage labor markets is the complicity of government. Exploitation is so intense in low-wage labor markets because the temporary-labor industry has been exempted from the regulations imposed on equally exploitative employment agencies before the New Deal.
For more than a century, American reformers worked to regularize the employment relationship -- with laws on wages, hours, health and safety, unemployment compensation, and procedural rights. Today's labor agencies serve industry's desire to return to the 19th century.
While union hiring halls are strictly regulated to prevent discrimination against nonunion workers, over the past 20 years employer associations succeeded in lobbying state legislatures around the country to give labor agencies the freedom to maneuver around laws. Decisions by Bush administration?appointed regulators and courts nullified decisions by the National Labor Relations Board that would eliminate abuses.
As a result, the temporary-employment industry controls today's low-wage labor markets. Temp firms are able to meet the needs of their business clients for the positions they have contracted to fill, across whole industries and regions throughout the country. And as long as the industry is able to manage and dominate low-wage labor and consistently meet fluctuating client-firm demands, it will continue to play the role of gatekeeper for bad jobs that are increasingly the only form of employment available to larger numbers of low-skilled workers. Given the incentives that are built into the agency/client-firm relationship, it is highly unlikely that low-wage temp jobs could ever be anything more than dead-end jobs for most workers.
The cure for this portion of low-wage America is not very different from the remedy for other low-wage jobs -- unions. If temp workers could figure out how to persistently disrupt regional low-wage labor markets, they could force client firms to recognize union hiring halls as logical alternatives for maintaining a consistent and efficient supply of labor.
In the past when hiring halls provided the best option, it was because they accepted all the employers' fluctuating and erratic work schedules and labor demands as a given. Instead of demanding more stable work, union hiring halls sought to raise wages and equalize work opportunities so that the greatest number of members were able to enjoy consistent pay and improved work conditions.
Unlike for-profit temp agencies that are driven by the need to hold down wages in order to skim more profits off of the hourly rate of each temp worker (for themselves and their client firms), the union hiring hall's primary goal is to equalize work, raise wages, and improve conditions -- a process that can ultimately turn bad jobs into good ones, as has happened in Las Vegas' culinary industry and the warehouses of the Bay area. Unions also have a much better record than private temp agencies do of resisting racial and ethnic stereotyping and sorting of workers, and of providing more equal opportunities across racial lines.
How could we force employers to abandon temp agencies and sign agreements with union hiring halls? To answer that question, we need to go back to those somewhat-isolated neighborhoods where significant portions of the current low-wage labor force live. In recent months we have had the opportunity to hear immigrant Latino workers talk about their jobs. Nearly all of them have at one time or another worked for temp agencies -- many of them still do. Among current and former temps exists a strong and deep-seated dislike for agencies, or as one former temp put it, "Agencies are shit!" Such anti-agency sentiments are not isolated and could, over time, be used as a catalyst for raising worker expectations and strategically organizing union hiring halls.
It might also be possible to create hiring halls in more diverse communities where the agencies have established recruitment centers at client-firm sites. Here, the demands for hiring-hall recognition might look more like traditional on-site union-organizing campaigns. However, even in these situations, disrupting the flow of labor will only be effective if workers can mobilize the support of their neighbors.
In some industries where full-time staff employed by the client firm work side-by-side with temp workers and reside in the same communities, the efforts to organize hiring halls might create a spillover effect that leads to more traditional union-organizing campaigns and union contracts on an industry-wide scale. That, in turn, would help break down the current stifling division between "permanent" and "temporary" work forces.
We need to reform the defects of low-wage America from the ground up. Replacing street-corner hiring and storefront temp agencies with union hiring halls is a good place to start.
Carmen Martino is a strategic researcher and the director of Latino Occupational Safety and Health Initiative (LOSHI) at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick, NJ.
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Lamar Odom Kicked Out Of BIG3 Basketball League
posted by Peyton Blakemore - Jul 11, 2019
Lamar Odom's BIG3 journey has come to an end.
According to TMZ, the legendary Lakers player's return to basketball came to screeching halt after he was kicked out of Ice Cube's professional basketball league following one game.
BIG3 announced the news on Wednesday (July 10), saying, Lamar as well as Baron Davis, Jermaine O'Neal and Bonzi Wells, would be "deactivated" for the remainder of the 2019 season. As for why LO — who was a player of the "Enemies," playing alongside Gilbert Arenas and Royce White — didn't make the cut, sources told the entertainment news site, the retired NBA star "was nervous about being embarrassed on the court because he wasn't prepared to compete with his fellow ex-NBA hoopers and there was little hope it would work out." A second insider added, Lamar just wasn't ready to play.
Following the league's announcement, Ice Cube shed additional light on the situation, telling TMZ, "We want players that are actually playing." He added, players who aren't playing or who "can't play" or have "health issues" that prevent them from playing shouldn't be a part of the BIG3 organization. When asked if he was concerned about Lamar, given his difficult history, Cube replied, "Always, I love the guy."
While Lamar has had a tough few years, 2019 has been a comeback year of sorts for the 39-year-old. In May, he released a telling memoir — that went on to become a New York Times bestseller — and said that while he was still fighting addition, he was winning.
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1985 in Film – Jewel in The Nile
Release Date: December 11th
Michael Douglas is from proper Hollywood royalty. His father, Kirk Douglas, is one of the last living actors from the Hollywood Golden Age. He worked with Kubrick and Wilder and Bacall and Lancaster. The man helped to end the Black List for crying out loud.
Thats a hell of a shadow to be under.
The fact that Douglas not only stepped out of that shadow but became a huge star of his own is impressive. It took his a while, first of all with a several year stint on the TV show The Streets of San Fransico before he produced One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest bagging himself an Oscar in the process.
He first became a proper movie star with Romancing The Stone the previous year. This teamed him up with Kathleen Turner and was a fun adventure romp through South America. The success of the film meant that the studio wanted a sequel.
Not that Turner and Douglas necessarily wanted to do one themselves but contracts were contracts. That and a $25m lawsuit aimed at Turner who threatened to back out of the film.
All of this is probably why the film doesn’t quite work; picking up after the first film, Douglas and Turner are mercenary Jack Colton and author Joan Wilder. After their adventures in the first film, they are now a couple travelling around the Mediterranean as Wilder rights her next novel. At a book party she ends up meeting a charming Arab ruler who invites her to his kingdom. Before you know it someone has been kidnapped, a jewel needs to be found and a kingdom needs to be saved.
It all sounds like a hoot, but something never quite clicks. Maybe it’s because in this film Douglas and Turner are a couple. Their bickering in the first film was a large part of it’s success, invoking Bogart and Bacall in The African Queen. Here, whilst the film tries to drive a wedge between the characters, that spark is missing and with it goes the heart of the film.
It also helped that Romancing was directed by Robert Zemeckis. Whilst he and Turner may have had their differences, he sure knew how to make a film. Jewel is directed by Lewis Teague, a man who would go on to make Navy SEALS and Wedlock. Now, I’m not going to stand here and poor scorn on Wedlock as it’s a Rutger Hauer classic, however there is still a step down in quality. Whilst he was given a decent sized budget, which was double the size of the first film, it all ends up being just thrown at the screen with no real purpose.
As a franchise, it was dead after this film. It may have made more than the first film and was one of the top ten grossing films of the year but the critics saw right through it. Douglas and Turner wouldn’t be hurt too much by the film; Douglas would go on to define the 80s in Fatal Attraction and Wall Street and Turner star as the iconic Jessica Rabbit. Both would also team up again in The War of The Roses.
The Jewel of The Nile ends up being a blip, a brief low spot in their careers during a period of success. It’s biggest legacy will probably be giving the world the song When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Gets Going so there’s always that.
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Maria Jimenez was born in New York City and is a contemporary representational artist. While working towards her undergraduate degree at the School of Visual Arts, she began working as a freelancer illustrating trade and mass-market paperback covers. After graduating, Maria studied in academic schools such as the New York Academy and National Academy and was awarded a residency scholarship at the Vermont Studio School. She currently divides her time between teaching high school and pursuing painting. Maria Jimenez’ objective in her work is to capture the essence of people in arresting moments and in everyday situations, including landscapes and still-life.
In 2017, Maria completed her MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her paintings and drawings have appeared in National exhibitions and juried competitions including the Long Island Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gallery, Salmagundi Club, and Museum of American Illustration winning the Richard Amsel Memorial award. She was also awarded a grant from The Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation. Her work is owned by private collectors and corporations and has been published three times inPoetsArtists. Maria’s work has appeared in Artists Magazine winning second prize in the Shades of Gray competition. She was interviewed in Whatshamptoning, an online magazine by Laura Connelly in 2018.
Maria Jimenez was born in New York City and is a contemporary representational artist. While working towards her undergraduate degree at the School of Visual Arts, she began working as a freelancer illustrating trade and mass-market paperback covers. After graduating, Maria studied in academic schools such as the New York Academy and National Academy and was awarded a residency scholarship at the Vermont Studio School. She currently divides her time between teaching high school and pursuing painting. Maria Jimenez’ objective in her work is to capture the essence of people in arresting moments and in everyday situations, including landscapes and still-life. In 2017, Maria completed her MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her paintings and drawings have appeared in National exhibitions and juried competitions including the Long Island Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gallery, Salmagundi Club, and Museum of American Illustration winning the Richard Amsel Memorial award. She was also awarded a grant from The Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation. Her work is owned by private collectors and corporations and has been published three times inPoetsArtists. Maria’s work has appeared in Artists Magazine winning second prize in the Shades of Gray competition. She was interviewed in Whatshamptoning, an online magazine by Laura Connelly in 2018.
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Alan AtKisson
Letter to Future Generations (2015)
13 April 2018 Alan AtKisson
Above the clouds / photo by Alan AtKisson
This was originally published in 2015 on my personal Facebook page just before I launched my North Star column on GreenBiz. If anything, the situation I attempted to describe three years ago in this popular-audience piece (written while on a trans-Atlantic flight) has continued to intensify, so I am republishing it again now.
Dear Future Generations:
I’m sure it’s obvious to you — you can see things better than we can, in hindsight — but I want to report to you that we are living through a time of dramatic change. Historic change. The kind of moment where everything seems to be balanced on a knife edge, and it could tip either way.
I am writing to you from Stockholm, Sweden. I’ll start with what is happening here, then I’ll paint you a global picture. Because it’s all connected.
Not long ago, this was a quiet little corner of Europe, a place where everything “worked.” There was essentially no poverty. No homeless people. There was a shared belief in something we called “solidarity.”
We don’t use that word much any more. In a few short years, we now have beggars on every street corner. There are people here who have fled from poverty or war, only to wind up living in tents, or sports halls, or outside on the street. Many thousands more war refugees, after traveling thousands of miles, are knocking on our door — so many that our government just decided to close that door. This is a pattern being repeated in many other countries, too. (Though one country, Canada, just decided to open their previously closed door. Good for them.)
Meanwhile, our “Western” part of the world is reeling from a series of small but extremely violent, deadly, and scary attacks — we call it “terrorism” — whose purpose is to strike fear into people’s hearts, ratchet up tensions, and provoke us into global war. The strategy is almost working. Our extreme right wing political groups are gaining strength, countries are rattling swords, and demagogues reminiscent of the 1930s are rising up amongst us. (Unfortunately, these populist rage-baiters have access to technologies far more powerful than the microphones used by Hitler and Mussolini.)
Meanwhile, it’s warm this winter — again. According to global data, this year is the warmest our modern, industrial civilization has ever measured. And we (as you well know) are the ones warming things up. That’s not all we’re doing to the planet, either. Huge alarm bells are ringing for Nature, everywhere. Some of us are trying to wrestle down our overall “footprint” on this Earth. But so far, humanity’s “foot” keeps pressing down harder and heavier, pinning us to the mat.
We’re also struggling to leave a bit of wildness for you to enjoy, but it’s extremely hard work. All it takes is a small number of uncaring or greedy or needy or ignorant people to destroy wild Nature — by setting fire to Sumatra, say, or poaching African elephants. I’d like to be able to say about these people, “They know not what they do.” But in fact, they know exactly what they are doing. And there are global markets ready to absorb the “profits” of their illegal activities. They are extremely clever about getting past our increasingly desperate defenses, too. It’s starting to seem obvious why the mammoth, the dodo, and the passenger pigeon are no longer with us: it only takes one of us to kill the last of anything.
That sounds like a pretty bleak picture, and it is. A dismal thought crosses my mind at least once a day: we could all too easily tumble into an abyss of war, political dystopia, and ecological catastrophe.
But that’s the bad news, one side of the knife edge. The other side — the good news — is, well, surprisingly good.
Despite dangerous and viral pockets of poverty and war, our human population is overall getting less poor, and less violent. We have made amazing strides in providing people with education, better access to food and energy and health care, a sense of hope for their children’s future. We have far to go — hundreds of millions are still living in misery — but many trends are moving rapidly in the right direction. We just need to figure out how to keep those positive trends going, while not destroying the planet’s ecosystems, and before social instabilities make the challenge insurmountable.
But there is good news on the action side, too. This year, the world’s governments completed an unprecedented series of global agreements. Recently, they finalized a new deal on climate change that was better than most of us hoped for — even if we know it is still not enough and will have to be improved later. We also have, for the first time, a truly global vision and a set of global goals for where all of humanity should be heading. You probably take the idea of “SDGs” (Sustainable Development Goals) for granted by now. For us, they were an unprecedented historic breakthrough.
We are even starting to understand the fundamental principle that “everything is connected to everything else” — and we are starting to build that principle into our government policies, corporate strategies, and community development programs. It’s not just talk, either: I am watching serious change happen, with my own eyes, every day.
Given everything happening now in our world — the good, the bad, and the ugly, to borrow an old movie title — I find myself thinking about you more and more.
It seems like this time, this specific time, is really going to be decisive for you. Our descendants.
So I just want you to know: things are really, really shaky just now. We’ve had global war before, kicked off by similarly unstable conditions. So we know, unfortunately, that it’s all too possible to fall into that huge and deadly trap.
We also know what it’s like to fudge and hedge and not do what is necessary to secure the health of Nature, and the wellbeing of People — because we are seeing the consequences of insufficient action, on the global scale, right now. We are finally waking up to the fact that these two things, human happiness and ecological integrity, must go together. When they don’t … well, among other things, we get the conditions we are struggling with in Sweden, and many other places, right now.
Basically, we know what failure looks like. And we can see all too clearly that failure, when it comes to managing our presence on planet Earth sustainably, is still a possibility.
But we also know — because we are starting to experience a little of it — what success feels like. Setting clear goals. Working together to achieve them. Maintaining an optimistic vision and intense effort, no matter what. Tackling problems head-on, intelligently, compassionately. Working on making systems better, not just symptoms.
I just want you to know, dear Future Generations, that many of us are working very, very hard to try to make things better. More and more of us, all the time. Working for you, for ourselves, and for all life on this planet. And I believe we are starting to tip that balance in the right direction.
But please — if you can — let me know how it turned out.
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C is for Charming
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Title: A Charming Trap
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: Cinderella
Character/Pairing: Charming/Cinderella (not shown in a good light)
Rating: PG-13/T
Challenge/Prompt: 1_million_words A to Z: C
Warning(s): Dark AU
Date Written: 19 February, 2016
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to Disney, not the author's, and are used without permission.
Charming. She can remember when she first heard the name of the royal family who presided over her small kingdom. She had been merely a child at that time, her father still alive. She'd giggled, thinking it was awfully big of them to call themselves such, but had quickly forgotten about it. Most children have no need of thinking about royals, and she'd certainly not cared to concentrate too much on them. Every animal she met certainly held her interest far better.
Over the years, she had from time to time, as every subject does, heard tales of the royal family, especially of the Prince who grew as she did. Her stepsisters were constantly gushing over him, and although she'd wanted to go to the ball, the Prince had actually had very little to do with her desire. She had simply wanted to be included in a fun festivity that was supposed to be open to her, as well, and with her Fairy Godmother's help and her animal friends, she had managed to do just that.
She had not realized at the time that it had been a trap. Her Godmother had given her a plethora of warnings, but over all, she had wanted her to enjoy herself but just be safe. The girl from the ashes had certainly enjoyed herself, but she'd done so far too well. She had been swept up into that Prince, into his kind eyes and dashing smile, from the moment she'd first set eyes on him.
He is certainly charming, but then, most men are, she's learned. They are also, sadly, full of deceit, and for all her husband's charms, Cinderella has come to know for a cold, hard fact that he, too, is full of lies. It had taken her a long time to come to see pass his charms. Every one around her had been quicker than she. The birds had stopped visiting, and the mice hid. She'd almost left him the day she'd found a trap set.
But there's something about her husband that always brings her back to his side. That, she knows, is part of his charm. He can smile away most arguments, and even when she's at her angriest for some injustice he has allowed to happen, a hand on her skin and a whispered promise hushes her immediately. In her moments of clarity, she knows none of those promises are kept for long, but then he looks at her again, strokes her flesh once more with those kind fingers that still make her tremble inside, and she's putty in his hands again.
The world is watching his every move now as he tries to form an alliance between two neighboring kingdoms. She has heard the General and other military members whispering with him, however. He's turned his charm onto the world at large, but they're going to start a war. She shivers at the mere thought. She'd like to take her friends, those few who remain, and run, but she knows she can't. All he has to do is kiss her, and she's forgotten all about the impending war again.
She's forgotten about the dangers, not just the coming dangers but those that are right here in the palace with her. Her husband is charming, but he's not what he appears. She vividly remembers their wedding night, and how when his arms circled her so lovingly and she laid her head upon his chest, she heard absolutely nothing. No heart beats within him. His skin is always cold.
And yet, he lives. He plots. He destroys. She holds a constant fear that she will be the next thing he destroys, but the people like her. She is beautiful, and her kindness is genuine. He lets her walk into the kingdom and help their people to help his reputation as King. She knows everything she does is because he allows it, and the thought is terrifying. If she ever steps out of line, she has no doubt that she will be the next thing he destroys.
It's strange, she thinks at times, how the world thinks she was granted her kingdom by True Love. What they share is not love. She's not entirely sure what to call it, but she knows now that she traded one prison for another. Her husband is charming, but his charm only goes as deep as his lying, bright smile. If the world could see what he is behind closed doors, she is certain that they, too, would fear him.
But they can not. Only she sees him for what he is. Only she knows how greatly she cringes when he touches her, and yet, with every lie, he soothes her fears. He soothes her until she is beneath him again, giving him her all again, and receiving nothing in return. A creature without a heart can not love, and as she lays with him each night, she listens again to the hollow in his chest.
She'd like to run, but there's nowhere in this world, she knows, where she would be safe. He would find her wherever she went, and her friends, and perhaps even some of her gentler people, would pay the price. She can not bear the thought of her agony being forced upon others, so Cinderella keeps her mouth. She lies, too, with every smile.
That's why she's still here, she knows. It's why she hasn't been one of the many people throughout the palace to disappear. As long as she is good to him, as long as she is dutiful and plays her part, as long as she helps him to lie to the world, he'll keep her near his side, close enough so he can always call her to him to show the world what a fragile beauty he saved.
And yet it is he who condemned her. It is he who broke her. It is he who has made her cry every night now for two hundred years. It is he who has kept her alive all this time to serve her usage to him and he, she fears, who will keep her alive for at least another two hundred years and perhaps, even, forever. Another tears adds to the endless river as the sun sinks, giving way to another night of terror. Happily ever after was so very long ago.
You are kicking butt with all the words!!!
Feb. 22nd, 2016 08:29 am (UTC)
WOOT! You're already rocking this challenge! ;-)
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President Buhari orders military to eliminate Boko Haram from the face of earth
By DAVID CHIMA
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, urged the military to remain focused and committed to winning the war against Boko Haram, saying that the terrorist group must be wiped out from the face of the earth.
He also added that the military must remain very vigilant especially during the 2019 electioneering.
Buhari who held a minute silence for fallen soldiers in the recent Melete attack noted that he is aware of the gallant soldiers who paid the supreme price in the war against the insurgent.
“I will be visiting some of our injured troops in hospitals and also talk to others at their bases to assure them of our continued support. It is a must win war; I want to encourage our troops not to be distracted by speculations but to remain focused and committed to the task of eliminating Boko Haram from the face of earth,” Buhari said while addressing top military officers at the Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference in Maiduguri.
“One of the cardinal objectives of this government is security. In this regard, the Nigerian Army’s efforts have led to the dislodgement of insurgents from areas hitherto viewed as their strongholds, rescue of abducted persons, return of internally displaced persons and the gradual return to normalcy in the North -East.
“The effort of the military has also stabilised the security situation in the Niger Delta and other parts of the country and curtailed the clashes between herdsmen and farmers.
“I must commend the selfless sacrifices of our armed forces especially the heroic officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army who by virtue of their commitment to operations all over the country have brought about the desired peace.”
“The officers and soldiers who are fighting against the scourge of terrorism in the North-East deserve all the attention our country’s leadership can demonstrate to them.
“As President of the country, I am determined to ensure that every citizen feels safe and secure in all parts of the country. To achieve this, the security agencies must rise to the challenge and curb threats to security in our country.”
“The Armed Forces play a critical role in safeguarding the country, hence you must all ensure that your plans and programmes meet the challenges we face.
“I am glad that this conference is holding at this time, because it serves as a platform to assess and evaluate your performance for the Year 2018.
“There has been a remarkable improvement in the security situation in the North-East since 2015 when this administration came into government and you are a major part of the successes that have been achieved.
“I am aware that in the recent months and in recent days, there have been some operational losses in the northern part of Borno State, particularly in Jilli, Arege and Metele.”
“I know that you are doing your best to reverse this trend and I want to assure you that no effort will be spared in providing the necessary support you require to complete the task. We remain committed to ending the crisis in the North-East and making the entire area safe for all. I urge you all to keep up the good work.”
“I am also painfully aware that some gallant officers and soldiers have paid the supreme price in the course of these anti-terrorist operations. While we remember them, I must also convey the deep gratitude of the government and people of Nigeria to the late soldiers and their families for their heroic sacrifices. Our thoughts and prayers are also with all other victims of Boko Haram’s atrocities and their families.”
“As we approach the 2019 general elections, I want to urge all members of the Armed Forces to live up to their responsibilities and remain non-partisan.”
President Muhammadu Buhari at the COAS Annual Conference 2018 at Command Guest House in Maiduguri, Borno State Capital.
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Writing For Hollywood Outside of Hollywood
Join this panel of writers for a discussion on ways to build and maintain your writing career outside of LA.
Courtenay Hameister
moderator; host/head writer PRI's Live Wire Radio 2003-2015; co-writer of The Benefits of Gusbandry (web series)
For nine years, Courtenay Hameister was the host and head writer for Live Wire, a nationally-syndicated live public radio variety show distributed by Public Radio International.She's interviewed over 500 filmmakers, screenwriters, comics and other creative makers including Bob Odenkirk... Read More →
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Macon Blair is a screenwriter, actor, and director who lives in Austin, Texas. His directorial debut, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore won the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for Jeremy Saulnier's new film, Hold the Dark... Read More →
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C. Robert Cargill is a novelist, former film critic, and a screenwriter on Marvel’s Doctor Strange and both of the Sinister films. His recent novel Sea of Rust was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He lives and works here in Austin, TX.
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writer/executive producer Chappaquiddick
Andrew Logan is a writer and producer based in Austin, TX. As a writer, Andrew was listed on the 2015 Black List for the screenplay he co-wrote called Chappaquiddick, a political thriller that chronicles the true story of what is described as the seven most dramatic days of Senator... Read More →
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Home General News ICU Stay Can Result to Depression
ICU Stay Can Result to Depression
By Frank Spector
A new study suggests patients treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) and survive are prone to depression. Furthermore, depression in ICU survivors was connected with a higher risk of death in the next two years, researchers found.
According to the study published in Critical Care, over half of former ICU patients reported signs of psychological disorders, along with anxiety, depression and PTSD.
The study’s lead author Robert Hatch, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care Medicine and Honorary Clinical Research Associate at the University of Oxford said “Psychological problems – anxiety, depression, PTSD – after being treated for a critical illness in the ICU are very common and often complex when they occur, “Patients who reported symptoms of depression were 47 percent more likely to die from any cause during the first two years after discharge from the ICU than those who did not report these symptoms.”
Hatch and his teammates studied 4,943 ICU patients who had spent at least 24 hours in one of 26 ICUs in the UK between 2006 and 2013. They were asked to fill out questionnaires at three and 12 months following discharge from intensive care.
The questionnaires investigated for signs and symptoms of psychological disorders. When the responses were analyzed, the researchers found that 46 percent of the patients were undepatients had symptoms of more than one disorder. As a matter of fact, 18 percent of the pargoing symptoms constant with a diagnosis of anxiety, 40 percent reported depression symptoms, and 22 percent reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Often, tients met the benchmark for all free psychological conditions.
Patients who reported symptoms persistent with a diagnosis of depression were 47 percent likely to die from any cause during the first two years after release from the ICU than those who did not report these symptoms. Swollen risk of death was not associated with symptoms of anxiety or PTSD.
Hatch said in an email The reason detecting and recognizing psychological problems is so important, is that they are a major cause of poor quality of life following critical illness and they are potentially treatable, “Our findings suggest that depression following care of a critical illness in the ICU may be a marker of declining health and clinicians should consider this when following up with former ICU patients.”
Dr. John Bienvenu, an associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medicine, was urprised at the new findings.
Bienvenu said“We knew that symptoms of depression were associated with a worse quality of life after a critical illness, “But this shows that they are also associated with mortality. I was struck by the fact that they were 47 percent more likely to die.”
Bienvenu said that same study in the U.S. would most likely find similar results.
Bienvenu said,While the study doesn’t explain why depression might shorten life, there are studies in other areas of medicine that might help shed light on the subject, “In patients with diabetes and heart disease, depression doesn’t just affect how they feel, it affects their behavior,”
He explained. “From the diabetes literature we know that depressed patients are often not taking as good care of themselves: they don’t take their medications and they miss appointments with their doctors.”
Bienvenu said.The solution may be better monitoring of patients after they leave the ICU, “At Hopkins we’ve been talking about doing a better job of screening patients for psychological symptoms after they’ve been treated and released from the ICU,” he added. “Then we can get treatment for all of those who screen positive.”
Frank Spectorhttps://360aproko.com/
Am a writer, blogger and a singer. Just love to live my life to the fullest with God by my side.
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The blackout:
Bush said on Thursday: "The one thing I can say for certain, this was not a terrorist act." At that time, there was no Official Story as to what caused the blackout, and in fact the facts are still in dispute. How, then, could Bush be certain that it was not a terrorist act? Isn't it odd how quickly the Bush Administration knew all the facts about who was supposed to be behind 9-11, and how quickly Bush could confirm that the blackout wasn't caused by terrorists? The speed of Bush's omniscience is frightening.
The system is designed to isolate any problem to the area where the problem occurred. In this case, the Official Story seems to be that the system didn't work as designed, and the initial problem was allowed to infect adjacent areas, with those adjacent areas then affecting further areas, and so on (the problem spread like an epidemic, and is perhaps best understood in the terms of epidemiology). Not only did the Ohio system break down, but the same system of automatically isolating problems, which existed in each geographically separate part of the whole system, failed in every single possible instance. Michehl R. Gent, President and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Council, a private standards-setting organization that oversees the transmission system, and which had been formed specifically to prevent cascading blackouts, said: "The system has been designed and rules have been created to prevent this escalation and cascading. It should have stopped, we think, after the first three" line failures. The problem with the Official Story is that not only had there to be a screw up in Ohio, but the same screw up in Michigan, Ontario, New York State, and so on. At every step when the problem could have been contained, it was not. The completeness of the failure, and the impossible coincidence that the exact same type of failure had to reoccur in so many places, makes the Official Story suspect.
I don't believe that part of the Official Story that nobody had any clue what happened until late on Friday, when the story seemed to be firming up that the problem began in the area of Cleveland. Somewhere, and probably in a number of places, there must be real time monitoring of all power flows and surges, which should have revealed the origins of the problem immediately. In fact, the coincidence required by the Official Story, that the same extraordinary failure had to occur in different places, is so difficult to believe that one is forced into seeing the whole problem as one occurring in some central control facility, and that same facility would be where you would expect to find monitoring of the whole system.
In the two hours before the blackout, there the Official Story is that there was a series of problems in transmission lines in Ohio. Voltages sagged too low at a number of times. The last two drops in voltage didn't correct themselves. There was initially some thought that the line problem was caused by tree contact, but the lines appear to be undamaged and that sort of problem occurs so often that it is extremely unlikely to have resulted in the massive blackout. One of the lines may, however, have overheated and sagged, thus hitting a tree (another story is that a tree fell on a line). This is all very interesting, but of course in no way explains what happened. It may very well be that the problems with power lines were a symptom, rather than a cause, of the problem, particularly as FirstEnergy Corp. is now reporting that there were unusual energy flows well before there was a problem with the lines. Since the problem was of a type which would have occurred in a matter of seconds, it cannot be blamed on human error, as the shut-off mechanism must have been set up to work automatically (claiming that the operators did not notice the problem quickly enough won't suffice as an excuse, as this type of thing happens so quickly that human intervention could not possibly have helped). Of course, human error may be responsible for failing to notice earlier warning signs or failure to take any steps to prevent the problem from starting once the warning signals occurred.
Due to criminally incompetent planning by Ontario politicians and electricity bureaucrats, Ontario is in a deficit position with respect to electrical power, and was drawing power on the line from Michigan (for weird Canadian political reasons, Quebec, which produces massive quantities of hydroelectric power and sends most of it to the United States, provides hardly any power to Ontario). The Official Story was that the power flow, which was headed towards Ontario, suddenly reversed direction and surged back to Ohio. Although this has not been fully explained (except for the insufficient explanation of the power line and the tree), presumably the surge occurred because Ohio suddenly found itself in a power deficit, probably because a local source suddenly stopped producing.
The initial accounts that the problem began in Canada, particularly by Mayor Bloomberg, probably derive from the fact that energy is often routed through Ontario. The breakdown of the Canadian system, probably caused by a breakdown in the transmission of energy into Ontario at Detroit, then would cause Ontario to be unable to send the energy back down to New York by sending it across the border in the Niagara area. From a New York City perspective, it appears that the problem derives from Canada. The line between Michigan and Ontario has not been hooked up again, with the claim that this is "due to operational security reasons", but I suspect it is because Ontario power bureaucrats still aren't confident in being hooked up to the same problem, particularly as its origin is still shrouded in mystery.
After blaming Canada, New York state officials said they thought the problem originated at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant near Cleveland. This is denied by the plant on the rather odd basis that there were several transmission lines in Michigan that had tripped out of service first, which of course begs the question as to why this happened in Michigan and whether it was caused by something that happened in Ohio.
The Perry plant, and at least two of the lines that are said to have been involved in the problem, are owned by FirstEnergy Corp. (FirstEnergy Corp. also owns the extremely troubled, and troubling, Davis-Besse nuclear plant near Toledo). FirstEnergy Corp. is a very large political donor to George Bush, and that fact may have something to do with the information blackout which accompanied the power blackout, perhaps providing time to craft the Official Story. Financial difficulties caused by Davis-Besse may mean that another problem may have required hiding.
The whole series of official Canadian explanations is, to the say the least, very odd. The Prime Minister's office initially said that the problem originated in the Niagara Mohawk power grid in upstate New York, and was caused by a lightning strike on a power plant. Then they said it was caused by a fire at a power plant in that area. No one knows where these ideas came from, as there was no lightning in the area at the time, and apparently no fire. John McCallum, Canadian Minister of Defence, said at a press conference that he understood that the problem originated at a fire at a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. He said he was aware of earlier erroneous Canadian reports, but had learned the latest information from his U. S. counterparts about 10 minutes before the conference. He said:
"We're going by the latest information we have received from our U. S. counterparts. We are told this as a fact."
He specified a fire at a nuclear power plant, and said he believed the plant to be in Pennsylvania. He indicated that his information had just come in from U. S. military officials. Part way through the press conference he was interrupted by his press secretary, and corrected himself to say that it was an incident at a nuclear plant, and not a fire. It is as if someone in the Canadian or American military monitoring the conference stepped in to ensure that the record was corrected. It is very difficult to dismiss the whole McCallum press conference, as apparently has been done by everyone, some making the comment that McCallum is a drunk (which is true, but probably irrelevant!). McCallum is a very smart man (a former chief economist of a large Canadian bank and the Dean of Arts at McGill University), seemed very confident of his American military sources, and was specific enough in his version of the cause and his source of the information that it seems unlikely to be a mistake. As well, Thoren Hudyma, a senior spokeswoman for the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa, said:
"It was caused by a power outage at a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania."
However, Pennsylvania officials vehemently deny that there was any such problem at any Pennsylvania nuclear plant. Since McCallum was vague about Pennsylvania, we should look for a likely nuclear plant near Pennsylvania. My first thought was the troubled Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey, but it appears that it was shut down in an orderly fashion as a result of the blackout, and was not a potential cause. If you look west, however, quite close to the Pennsylvania-Ohio border is the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, which is quite near Cleveland and about 65 miles west of Erie, Pennsylvania. Could McCallum have been referring to this plant when he referred to a plant which he thought was in Pennsylvania? This plant appears to be under particular protection against terrorist attack. It is also one of the first causes mentioned by New York State officials after they got over blaming Canada, and is owned by FirstEnergy Corp.
The bomb incident in Florida is an interesting parallel. In that case, a soldier from Fort Stewart, Georgia was arrested in May 2002 at a power plant in Jacksonville, Florida (not a nuclear plant, as there is no nuclear plant in Jacksonville), and held on charges of attempting to discharge a destructive device. In the light of 9-11, this caused some consternation. He claimed he was in the area to "practice recon tactics." He pled no contest and will receive 18 months probation. You have to wonder if the puny sentence reflects the fact that he was on (semi-)official business. The Army seems rather nonchalant about the whole thing.
Some thoughts:
Was the whole system intentionally shut down?
Did something really bad happen at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant? Was there a terrorist attack, or a threat of one? Was it necessary to find some sort of excuse to shut down all nuclear power plants in the northeast?
Bush and Cheney are keen to allow the construction of a whole new series of nuclear power plants. Any huge safety threat would bring back images of Three Mile Island, and scuttle their plans to enrich their greasy friends. Was the blackout a way of disguising some safety threat at a nuclear power plant?
Is there a central control facility where all problems can be monitored, and where the whole system can be shut down if necessary? Given the current American paranoia about terrorism, I'd be surprised if such a facility didn't exist, and even more surprised if it wasn't somehow connected with the Homeland Security bureaucracy.
The combination of privatization and deregulation of essential government services, including such things as power, roads, health care, and security, is so utterly and obviously stupid that it is not worth while even writing about it. Sadly, the existing neocon orthodoxy, backed up by autistic economic theory, will no doubt lead to more of the same corporate corruption which has recently so greatly reduced the quality of life for the majority of the population. I fully imagine that we'll start to see articles pointing out that the problem was caused by insufficient privatization and deregulation. Visionary civil servants like Robert Moses and Adam Beck, whose plans for government production of inexpensive hydroelectric power led to the prosperity enjoyed in New York and Ontario respectively, must be spinning in their graves.
Is the whole story of the source of the problem, involving power lines in Ohio and power surges, just an elaborate construct of misinformation intended to hide some awful truth?
Looking over the internet, I am quite surprised at the lack of crazed conspiracy theories concerning the blackout. Are we actually starting to believe all the lies that we are being told, no matter how implausible they may be? The Official Story, which involves unlikely Bushian omniscience about terrorism, implausible official inability to immediately pinpoint the problem, the Canadian Minister of Defence spouting oddly specific nonsense, and simultaneous multinational failures of a system across widely-spaced geographical areas, is difficult to believe.
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Recordings of Convocations
Convocation: Gary Telgenhoff
Created 9 January 2009; Published 21 January 2009
Gary Telgenhoff is a forensic pathologist and consultant for the hit television drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." As the Deputy Medical Examiner at the Clark County Coroner's Office in Las Vegas, Nevada, Telgenhoff sees approximately one thousand bodies a year, 450 of which he autopsies. His presence is often required in court with regard to his findings and determination of cause and manner of death. "CSI" has brought crime scenes into America's living room and has sparked a wave of interest in forensic science as a career. Telgenhoff uses science, experience, and his own macabre sense of humor to explain how he speaks for the deceased in trying to solve their demise. The title of his presentation was "Speak for You: Telling the Tales the Dead Can't Tell."
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Created 20 February 2009; Published 2 March 2009
Convocation: David Quammen
David Quammen is a science journalist and nonfiction author. He travels on assignment for various magazines, usually to jungles, deserts, or swamps, and his accustomed beat is the world of field biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. He currently holds the positions of Contributing Writer for National Geographic Magazine and Wallace Stegner Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. In his book The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, Quammen focuses careful attention on Charles Darwin, father of modern biology and source of an idea so radical its implications are still only imperfectly understood: evolution by natural selection. Quammen tracks the naturalist's life through the two decades following his epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution, a time during which Darwin kept his explosive idea under wraps and pondered when and how to release it to the world. Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, Quammen’s presentation was titled "Charles Darwin Against Himself: Caution versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary."
Created 13 February 2009; Published 18 February 2009
Convocation: Tyrone Hayes
Tyrone Hayes is a biologist and herpetologist who knows that scientific breakthroughs don’t begin and end in the laboratory. They also come from the field. Which is why, more often than not, Hayes can be found wet, muddy, and knee-deep in a swamp at 2 a.m., the time when the frogs come out. Associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Hayes’ primary research focuses on the role of environmental factors on growth and development in amphibians. His studies have revealed how synthetic chemicals (such as the pesticide atrazine which is frequently used in Minnesota) interact with hormones in a variety of ways to alter developmental responses. As these studies also help predict effects in other wildlife and humans, Hayes’ findings reveal a crucial new link between conservation and health. The title of his presentation was "From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men".
Created 6 February 2009; Published 13 February 2009
Convocation: Mark Anthony Neal
Mark Anthony Neal jokes that if you "Google" the term "black male feminist," his name will invariably show up near the top of the search results. His work, and life, are dedicated to challenging sexism and misogyny. Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University, Neal teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in black popular culture, black masculinity and hip hop aesthetics. A nationally recognized scholar, Neal has been examining issues of race, gender and sexuality for more than a decade. His book Soul Babies examines black popular culture since the end of the civil rights movement. Two of his books, What the Music Said and Songs in the Key of Black Life, examine the ties between black music and culture in the post-civil rights movement. The title of his presentation was "Barack Obama and the Era of the New Black Man."
Created 30 January 2009; Published 10 February 2009
Convocation: David McMillen
David McMillen is the External Affairs Liaison with the National Archives and Records Administration, where he is also Director of Congressional Relations. He has advised members of Congress on a broad range of information policy issues including the Freedom of Information Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Presidential Records Act, the Privacy Act, the confidentiality of information collected by the government on individuals and businesses, and the laws governing the operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. McMillen previously worked at the U.S. Census Bureau, and has a flair for making the imperative of the Census accessible and engaging. He has a current and historical perspective on how the Census has functioned as an orderly revolution in the distribution of power. The upcoming Census will again be a hot issue, as it will be outrageously expensive to conduct, and the political ownership and status of subgroup populations will continue to be contested. The title of his presentation was "Revolution is in the Air: The American Census."
Convocation: Doug Blackmon
Doug Blackmon is the Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief in Atlanta. Over the past 20 years, he has written extensively about the American quandary of race, exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a Mississippi Delta farm town, lost episodes of the Civil Rights movement, and, repeatedly, the dilemma of how a contemporary society should grapple with a troubled past. Many of his stories in The Wall Street Journal have explored the interplay of wealth, corporate conduct and racial segregation. In 2001, he revealed how U.S. Steel Corp. relied on forced black laborers in Alabama coal mines in the early 20th century. The article led to his first book, Slavery By Another Name, which broadly examines how a form of neoslavery thrived in the U.S. long after legal abolition. The title of his presentation was "A Persistent Past: Reckoning with Our Troubled Racial History in the Age of Obama."
Created 16 January 2009; Published 21 January 2009
Convocation: Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Melissa Harris-Lacewell is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning book Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought. She is currently at work on a new book, Sista Citizen: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough. Her academic research is inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and to better understand the multiple, creative ways that African Americans respond to these challenges. Her creative and dynamic teaching is also motivated by the practical political and racial issues of our time; for example, exploring the multiple political meanings of Hurricane Katrina. She has taught students from grade school to graduate school and has been recognized for her commitment to the classroom as a site of democratic deliberation on race. On the occasion of the celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the title of her presentation was "King in the Age of Obama."
Created 7 November 2008; Published 11 November 2008
Convocation: Enrique Morones
Enrique Morones is the founder of Border Angels, a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides support and relief to migrant workers on the United States-Mexico border. A high percentage of deaths among migrants have been the results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions in the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. Border Angels is an all-volunteer group that places food, water and other provisions on the border areas to help save migrant lives. Morones’ presentation was titled "The Human Side of the Story: People Behind the Immigration Policy Debates."
Created 31 October 2008; Published 11 November 2008
Convocation: Charlene Teters
Charlene Teters is a Native American artist, teacher, writer and activist. Her paintings and art installations have been featured in over 21 major exhibitions, commissions, and collections. As an internationally recognized artist, Teters expresses her personal and political views about America's dehumanization of Indian Peoples by creating multimedia installations that examine the social presumptions and portrayals of Indian people in pop culture and media. For the past two decades, Teters has been active in opposing the use of Native American mascots and other imagery in sports, and is a founding board member of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media. Teters delivered the Native American Heritage Convocation to help us celebrate and reflect on the legacies and the richness of Native American communities and individuals. Sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Life, the title of the presentation was "If Not You, Then Who?"
Convocation: Scott Olson
Scott Olson is known worldwide as the man who invented, named and marketed Rollerblades, praised by Time magazine as one of the 100 coolest products of the 20th century, alongside computers, cell phones and Post-it notes. The success of slapping four roller skate wheels down the middle of an ice skate was only the beginning for Scott; after growing bored with rowing on a stationary rowing machine in an indoor gym, Scott thought: "Why can’t I put this thing on wheels and go outside?" And his next successful invention, Rowbike, was born. Scott has gone on to invent and market many products, including Antarctic Lawn Penguins, Lunar Bed, Kong Pong and his biggest endeavor yet: a cross between cycling, riding a roller coaster and human-powered flight known simply as Sky Bike. With the same passion and excitement it took to create his inventions, Scott shared his exciting entrepreneurial journey and the keys to his success in his convocation address: "Fit Innovation: Exercise Your Entrepreneurial Spirit."
Created 17 October 2008; Published 23 October 2008
Convocation: Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo is a Cuban-American medical doctor who teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has also received wide critical acclaim as an author and poet. This hybrid of physician and poet, referring to himself as a healer, is interested in the ways in which voice and narrative can explicate the experience of human suffering, which is reflected in his book "The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry." Poetry has the power to heal, and he argues for physicians to adopt a practice of integrative medicine, one in which the demands of the mind and soul are understood to play as important a part as those of the body. Rafael Campo delivered the Latino/a Heritage Convocation to help us celebrate and reflect on the legacies and the richness of Latino/Latina communities and individuals.
Convocation: Joseph Melrose
Joseph Melrose, who served three decades in the Foreign Service, is the former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, where he helped broker a peace treaty. After leaving Sierra Leone in 2001, he was Task Force Coordinator for the post-September 11 task force with the Department of State, and later was a Senior Consultant on Counterterrorism for the Office of the Secretary of State’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism. He has also served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly for the State Department. As the president of the National Model United Nations board of directors, he oversees programs for more than 3,400 student delegates. Examining the legacy of former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, one of the signers of the United Nations charter, Melrose's presentation was titled "US Role in the UN: From Stassen to the 21st Century."
Created 3 October 2008; Published 23 October 2008
Convocation: Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson has served as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 1994, where he has earned respect for his hard work and superb legal decision-making. Previously, he was Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals (1992-1994). The author of many important decisions, including the leading case on bail, Justice Anderson has been a leader on improving racial fairness in Minnesota’s justice system. As a strong advocate for an impartial, nonpartisan judiciary, Justice Anderson believes it is critical that we keep partisan politics out of the courtroom. He reaches out to communities across the state, explaining our court system, inspiring public service, and promoting public confidence in our judicial system. Focusing on the freedoms that have permitted our nation to flourish and the judiciary’s role in protecting those freedoms, Anderson’s presentation was titled "Freedom is NOT Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose."
Created 26 September 2008; Published 17 October 2008
Convocation: James Watson
James Watson, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, is an ethnographer who has spent over 30 years working in south China, primarily in villages. His research has focused on Chinese emigrants to London, ancestor worship and popular religion, family life and village organization, food systems, and the emergence of a post-socialist culture in the People's Republic of China. In recent years Professor Watson has worked with graduate students in Harvard’s Department of Anthropology to investigate the impact of transnational food industries and genetically modified food in East Asia, Europe, and Russia. Focusing on changing patterns of food consumption and provisioning in south China and exploring transformations that have occurred in the Chinese family during the past century, Watson's presentation was titled "A Cultural Biography Of Meat (In South China): Globalization, Modernization, and Family Transformations."
Opening Convocation: Deborah Bial
Deborah Bial, president and founder of The Posse Foundation, was the featured speaker at Carleton’s opening convocation for the 2008-09 school year, with an address titled “Make It Happen: The Importance of Transformative Leadership.” The Posse Foundation is a youth leadership development and college access program that identifies, recruits, and trains youth leaders from urban public high schools and sends these groups as teams, or “posses,” to top colleges and universities around the country.
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Job Title: Human Services Program Supervisor (Division Director) OC011
Job Number: OC011
Organization: Virginia Department of Health
Classification: Public Health - General
Position Description: The Office of Health Equity leads the Commonwealth of Virginia in its mission to ensure that all Virginians have the fair and just opportunity to achieve health. The Office of Health Equity seeks a socially conscious, personable, detail oriented, community-engaged, self-starter to fill one Division Director position. The Division Director promotes health equity and social justice for all Virginians by creating and leading strategic vision, mission, goals and programming oversight for the Division of Multicultural Health and Community Engagement while also serving as a spokesperson and content expert on the systematic, institutional, interpersonal, and structural impacts of racism and other forms of discrimination, on health outcomes in the Office Director’s absence. This position coordinates statewide health equity initiatives aimed at assisting in enhancing health among racial/ethnic minorities, low income populations, immigrant communities, disability, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized populations in Virginia. Position actively oversees the development, design, and implementation of projects and initiatives aimed at intervention, research, and analyses of health data and conditions related to the social determinants of health. The Division Director will identify funding sources, successfully write grants, and manage/administer grants related to the elimination of health inequities in under resourced populations.
Qualifications: Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Public Health, Population Health, Public Policy or related degree from accredited college or university; with content expertise in community health, the social determinants of health, health disparities/ health inequities among special populations including: racial/ethnic minorities, immigrant communities, disability community, and LGBTQ+ community. Comprehensive knowledge of public health policy activities related to health equity, minority health, and culturally competent, linguistically appropriate services. Knowledge of principles of health equity and social justice, population health, community action models and Public Health 3.0. Demonstrated skills in community coalition building, public speaking, group facilitation, creative and business writing, grant writing, and community health assessments. Technologically savvy with exceptional computer skills and experience using web-based data/reporting systems, email, and Microsoft Office Suites. Proven ability to successfully manage multiple relationships and collaborations with diverse levels of leadership both internally, and in the community. Significant expertise and proven track record in building community partnerships and relationships with unique stakeholders. Demonstrated experience in communication with and working on coalitions with state government agency administrators, Executive branch staff and state legislators. Demonstrated successful experience in establishing collaborative working relationships with coalitions, academic institutions, healthcare providers, organizations, community representatives and state and local health organizations. Excellent facilitator with proven experience creating curricula and leading training’s on topics of health equity, the impacts of racism and discrimination on health outcomes, culturally linguistically appropriate services, and population health. Experience managing and analyzing data for public health programs. Disparities/health inequities among special populations including: racial/ethnic minorities, immigrant communities, disability community, and the LGBTQ+ community. Expert knowledge of public health policy activities related to health equity, minority health, and culturally competent, linguistically appropriate services. Expert knowledge of principles of health equity and social justice, population health, community action models and Public Health 3.0. Advanced skills in community coalition building, public speaking, group facilitation, creative and business writing, grant writing, and community health assessments. Demonstrated experience creating state level reports focused on health equity, population health, and the social determinants of health, and crafting policy recommendations that improve the social determinants of health, and enhance health equity. A Doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with a focus on public health, community health, population health, health communication, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience. Knowledge and training in the use of statistical and data analysis software’s including but not limited to: NVivo, RedCap, Tableau, STATA, R, SASS, SPSS.
Organization Description:
Contact Name: Tamesha Fleming-Kennedy, Human Services Program Supervisor (Division Director)
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Web Address: http://virginiajobs.peopleadmin.com/postings/147373
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Category Archives: Rose Royce
A MOUTHFUL OF PENNIES PRESENTS: ON THE GOOD BLOOD (VOL. 1-3)
Well I’ve got another triptych treat for you here today!
A friend recently asked me to create roughly four hours worth of appropriate tunes for an event she was helping to plan and present. Unfortunately, at the last minute she couldn’t use them. However–despite being put together on some short-notice and the fact that the majority of my albums are still packed up in boxes from a recent move–what I got left holding are what I consider to be some real dope MixTapes with a nice and easy forward groove going for them.
And that’s exactly what I’d like to share with you all.
Hopefully they’ll help you bend your knees, bop your head, and swivel your hips a bit on through this whole supposed “…in like a lion and out like a lamb…showers/flowers…” business we’ve been going through.
On The Good Blood (vol. 1)
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A Mouthful Of Pennies Presents: On The Good Blood (vol. 1)
Real Life Dreams On – Bernie Worrell
I Can’t Get Next To You – Al Green
Flute Thing – The Blues Project
Love Having You Around – Stevie Wonder
Brand New Orleans – Prince
Corinne Corrina – Joe Turner
Swegbe and Pako – Fela Kuti
Going Down On Love (demo) – John Lennon
Going Down Slow – Aretha Franklin
Do Your Duty – Candi Staton
It’s Your Thing – Lou Donaldson
River Deep Mountain High – Bobby Doyle
For You – Prince
Listen – Imani Coppola
Mama Get Yourself Together – Baby Huey and the Babysitters
I’m In Love With You – Christopher Ellis (Cojie of Mighty Crown remix)
Village Soul – Lennie Hibbert (Cojie of Mighty Crown remix remix)
Warning Of Dub – Lee “Scratch” Perry
Don’t Brag, Don’t Boast – Clancy Eccles
Do Unto Others – Pee Wee Crayton
Chops And Thangs – Beat Konducta [Madlib]
Norwegian Wood – Count Basie
Sir Greendown – Janelle Monáe
Root Down – Jimmy Smith
Behind the Scenes: Jazz – J.Period & Q-Tip
“Let’s Do It” – Billie Holiday
Bags’ Groove – Milt Jackson
Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay – Peggy Lee
I’m Shakin’ – Jack White
Get Out Of My Life, Woman – Joe Williams
Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl – Patty & the Emblems
Hit Or Miss – Bo Diddley
Mystic Brew – Ronnie Foster
Medley: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Here Comes The Sun/Come Together – Booker T. & The MG’s
A Light In The Attic – Shel Silverstein
Shakara – Fela Kuti
Priority – Mos Def
Viceroy’s Row – Elvis Costello & The Roots
Armagideon Time (A.M.O.P. remix) – Willie Williams
Lock Down – Cypress Hill
Treat – Santana
Suite V Electric Overture – Janelle Monáe
Every Now and Then – The Shotgun Wedding Quintet
You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks – Funkadelic
In Time – Sly & The Family Stone
Watching The Detectives – Elvis Costello
Come The Meantimes – Elvis Costello & The Roots
Jah Jah Me No Born Yah – Cornell Campbell
Everything Is Everything – Booker T. Jones
I Am the Walrus – Bud Shank
Groovin – Willie Mitchell
Fred Berry – Baby Elephant (Bernie Worrell, Prince Paul, Newkirk)
Spinning Wheel – Peggy Lee
Compared To What – John Legend & The Roots
Security Of The First World – Public Enemy
That’s The Way Love Is – Marvin Gaye
Let Me Roll It – Paul McCartney & Wings
You Gotta Move – Sam Cooke
Born To Love You – Rose Royce
“Broaden Our Minds” – The Joker (Jack Nicholson)
Soulful Dress – Sugar Pie DeSanto
Maggie’s Farm – Linda Gayle
Medley: Because / You Never Give Me Your Money – Booker T. & The MG’s
Call On Me (A.M.O.P. edit) – Big Brother And The Holding Company (feat. Janis Joplin)
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The Blues Project
Joe Turner
Bobby Doyle
Imani Coppola
Baby Huey and the Babysitters
Christopher Ellis
Cojie of Mighty Crown
Lennie Hibbert
Pee Wee Crayton
Beat Konducta [Madlib]
Billie Holiday (with Mister Downbeat)
Milt Jackson
Patty and the Emblems
Ronnie Foster
Booker T. & The MG’s
Mos Def (aka Yasiin Bey)
Willie Williams
Cypress Hill (B-Real, Sen Dog, DJ Muggs)
The Shotgun Wedding Quintet
Booker T. Jones (w/ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Kirk Douglass, & Owen Biddle)
Bud Shank
Baby Elephant (Bernie Worrell, Prince Paul, Newkirk)
The Joker (Jack Nicholson)
Sugar Pie DeSanto
Linda Gayle
Big Brother And The Holding Company (feat. Janis Joplin)
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A MOUTHFUL OF PENNIES & BEAN PRESENT: BEAN STEW: VOL. I & 2
I know, “back so soon?…,” but today’s post is for a good cause! The good ladies of BEAN (Bushwick Eco Action Network) asked me if I could put together an entertaining two hours of music to serve as the background sound for the Fall Mixer they’re throwing this evening: B.E.A.N. STEW!
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Calling All Bushwick Cultivars, Permies, Gardeners, Farmers, Environmental activist, Organizers, Community leaders and the Eco-curious!
Join us for the Bushwick Eco-Action Network’s Fall Mixer.
Sunday, September 29th from 5-7pm, join us in the lovely garden of Fritzl’s Lunch Box at 173 Irving Avenue.
Come meet amazing groups and individuals who are working hard to do a little good in New York City. Permaculture enthusiasts, community farm members, hydroponic specialists, food co-op organizers, recycling leaders, environmental justice advocates and you, coming together for a sweet happy hour. We are all working hard to realize a better world and a better New York City. Let’s get together in a relaxed and joyous environment to share, mingle and have a few laughs!
Fun raffles prizes include discounts at farm-to-table restaurants, bars with local brews, workshops and more! Happy hour with $2.50 beers! RSVP here.
Fritzl’s Lunch Box
173 Irving Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11237
(Other than being what a great deal of my wife’s energy goes towards) the Bushwick Eco Action Network (BEAN) provides a forum for ecological observation, exchange, organizing and action. Inspired by the principles of Permaculture, they seek to create a more balanced urban ecosystem in relationship to Bushwick’s neighborhood growth. — You can learn more about BEAN and see what they’re up to over here….
…Or, you can come on out to Fritzl’s Lunch Box this evening, Sunday, September 29th, to chit-chat and chew-the-fat face-to-face, y’know, the old-fashioned way.
I hope you all can make it out for this fun meeting-of-the-minds, and I hope you all enjoy the tunes I’ve assembled for this 2 volume MixTape for a mixer. I didn’t have too much free time to finely stitch all these together, so there’s certainly some loose threads and a rough patch-job or two, but I’m sure you can dig it! …On a more personal note, I can already hear Autumn creeping in to my taste. Anyway, thanks, and as always–
–Enjoy yourself-
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A MOUTHFUL OF PENNIES & BEAN PRESENT:
BEAN STEW: VOL. I
by A Mouthful Of Pennies (Bobby Calero)
Cover art by Keri Kroboth-Calero (w/ an amateur twerk or two by Bobby Calero)
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BEAN STEW: VOL. II
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I’VE BEEN COMING TO WHERE I AM FROM THE GET GO: Part II: The 3-Pack Bonanza, or: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in The Land of LA & Dust —SIDE A: THE INITIAL SPIN
ADAM YAUCH, MCA: AUGUST 5, 1964 – MAY 4, 2012; R.I.P.
[Before we begin I’d like to note that this past month state senator for the 25th district of the New York State Senate, Daniel Squadron, wrote up J4637-2011, which was a resolution that officially called for a pause of deliberations on the legislative floor to honor Adam “MCA” Yauch. Text and video below:
WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to honor and pay tribute to those individuals whose commitment and creative talents have contributed to the entertainment and cultural enrichment of their community and the entire State of New York; and
WHEREAS, Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, the rapper, musician, activist, film director and founder of the pioneering New York hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died on Friday, May 4, 2012, in Manhattan at age 47;and
WHEREAS, Adam Nathaniel Yauch was born on August 5, 1964, and raised in Brooklyn Heights; he was the son of Frances Yauch, a social worker, and Noel Yauch, an architect and painter, and attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood; and
WHEREAS, Adam Yauch taught himself the bass guitar while growing up and joined the Beastie Boys, originally a hardcore punk outfit, playing his first show with the group when he was just 17 years old in 1981; and
WHEREAS, The Beastie Boys became well-known in the innovative music scene in Manhattan’s East Village and Lower East Side with a sound and a style all their own; and
WHEREAS, The album “Licensed to Ill” was the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard chart; and
WHEREAS, The music and message of the Beastie Boys evolved over the years, but they can’t, they don’t, they won’t stop changing the face of hip-hop, of music, and of our culture; and
WHEREAS, The Beastie Boys exemplified New York through a period in which grassroots creativity and a community of iconoclastic artists helped redefine and rejuvenate a city on the ropes, with iconic imagery from Brooklyn to Ludlow Street; and
WHEREAS, Having consistently produced multi-million selling albums and receiving Grammy awards, in April 2012 the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Adam Yauch was unable to attend due to deteriorating health; and
WHEREAS, In addition to his contributions to music, Adam Yauch was an activist and founder of the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness about abuses in Tibet and against Tibetans, and later in life became a successful filmmaker, founding Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film distribution company; and
WHEREAS, A man of colossal talent and charisma, Adam Yauch is survived by his wife, Dechen Wengdu, and their daughter, Losel; he will be missed by his family, his fans and all who knew him; his dedication to his music, his activism, and his heritage leaves an indelible legacy of inspiration for all other artists; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to mourn the death of famed rapper and activist Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted to the family of Adam Yauch.”
SIDE A: THE INITIAL SPIN
[It must be noted that this post would have been impossible to write without the invaluable resources of Dan Leroy’s Paul’s Boutique for Bloomsbury Academic’s 33⅓ series, and Soopageek’s website, http://www.beastieboysannotated.com/]
July 25, 1989: George H. W. Bush has just recently become president, Tim Burton’s Batman has just been released, the airwaves are being dominated by New Kids on the Block’s “Hangin’ Tough” as well as by a slew of songs off of Madonna’s Like a Prayer LP, and it’s been nearly three years since those NYC assholes and party animals the Beastie Boys released an album—and you’ve just acquired their follow-up to the #1 selling Licensed To Ill:
The panoramic cover photograph of Ludlow Street by Jeremy Shatan
Insert Photo by Ricky Powell
You press the horizontal triangle on the play button (or drop the needle into the groove) and wait for the opening track “To All the Girls” to begin. And you wait, and wait, and wait…finally you hear faint drums and electric piano fading in on a slow, open, buoyant groove—it’s the moody intro to jazz drummer Idris Muhammad’s “Loran’s Dance” off of his ’74 LP Power Of Soul (keyboards supplied by Bob James[1]*) but most likely you don’t know that. You were maybe expecting a guitar riff supplied by Kerry King[2]* of Slayer, or something of that sort.
Loran’s Dance
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Like it? Buy it.
[1]* Bob James is perhaps best known for the 1978 instrumental “Angela,” which was used as the theme music for the sitcom Taxi. He’s also the man behind ’74 track “Nautilus,” which has been sampled numerous times, most prominently in “Daytona 500” from Ghostface Killah’s 1996 solo debut Ironman.
[2]* Kerry King supplied guitar for the sixth single off Licensed to Ill: “No Sleep till Brooklyn.”
As the music grows louder you can begin to make out what the mumbling voice has been saying; it’s MCA doing a Barry White-like spoken paean to the ladies. This makes sense as, with his George Michael combo of stubble and black leather jacket, he’d been known as the ladies’ man of the Beastie Boys. Although, the latest magazines have shown that his stubble had now grown out to “a beard like a billy-goat.”
To all the Brooklyn girls
To all the French girls
To all the Oriental girls
To all the Swiss girls
To the Italian women
To the upper east side nubiles
To all the Jamaican girls
And to the top-less dancers
And Brazilian
To the southern belles
To the Puerto Rican girls
To the stewardesses flying around the world…
“Shake Your Rump,” released as the B-side on the Love American Style EP[3]*
Then BAM! With “Shake Your Rump” the mood is abruptly shattered by the rapid, successive outburst of a tom-tom fill. The music that follows sounds like the B-side on some vintage vinyl, its the only record ever released by the greatest band that never made it/the music that follows sounds like four full-tilt funk bands all scheduled to play the same disco-themed house party, and they simply cannot wait their turn: you don’t know what it sounds like, but somehow it’s all right on time. The music twists and turns just out of reach, determined to keep you on your toes and your ass on the dance floor.
And then there are the vocals. You hear those three familiar voices: the two adenoidal whines of Ad-Rock and Mike D (although each inhabiting either end of that spectrum, with Ad-Rock pushing a hard sneer, Mike D’s voice richer) contrasted against MCA’s hoarse baritone. Yet, they’re different—looser. They no longer seem so rude, but happy. Line after sinuous line darts out every which way over the music, and the three play hot-potato with the rhymes—beginning and ending each others sentences, sometimes all three ganging up on one word. They seem so exuberant while hollering out these hilarious lyrics that are just flat-out ridiculous. A procession of images fly by: something about having a lava lamp inside their brain hotel[4]* and schlepping around a disco bag; driving around bare foot Like Fred Flintstone. If you are paying attention it will leave you “staring at the radio, staying up all night.” All together, it’s the sound of frantic precision. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard before, and you only wanted a Beastie Boys record.
The dense, lush vinyl sounds of “Shake Your Rump” were meticulously assembled, as with the rest of Paul’s Boutique, one layer and loop at a time, and culled from the massive record collections of seven audiophiles. An arduous labor of love, “[…] the team behind Paul’s Boutique was testing the absolute limits of still-embryonic technologies like computer recording and automation” (Leroy, 2006). Co-producer (and one half of Grammy Award winning[5]* producers the Dust Brothers) “E.Z. Mike” Simpson later recalled:
“Basically, we would find a groove, and we would loop it, and then
we would print that to tape, and we would go for five minutes on
one track of the tape. And then we would find another loop, and we
would spend hours getting that second loop to sync up with the first
loop, and then once we had it in sync, we would print that for five
minutes on another track. And we would just load up the tape like that.
And once we had filled up the tape with loops, we would go in, and
Mario [C.] had this early, early, mixing board that had this very primitive
form of automation. It was pretty complex, but if you knew which tracks
you wanted playing at any given time, you typed the track numbers into
this little commodore computer hooked up to the mixing board. And each
time you wanted a new track to come in, you’d have to type it in manually.
It was just painful. It took so long. And there was so much trial and error…
there was no visual interface to show you what was going on”
(Leroy, 2006).
[3]* In June of ’89, just prior to the album’s official entrance into the marketplace “Shake Your Rump” was released as the b-side to Paul’s Boutique’s first single “Hey Ladies.” The two tracks along with the remixes “33% God,” and “Dis Yourself In ’89 (Just Do It)” were released as a 12” EP entitled Love, American Style. The title was a throwback to the Garry Marshall produced ABC show from which Happy Days was a spin-off, and the cover art (credited to one Nathanial Hörnblowér) is a photo of the kitchen in Ad-Rock’s Los Angeles apartment. If you look close you’ll find three hidden women.
[4]* This image closely echoes those of “Epistle to Dippy,” the 1967 single by Scotland’s psychedelic-troubadour Donovan, with its line: “Elevator in the brain hotel.” At the time of Paul’s Boutique’s recording, Donovan’s daughter, Ione Skye was in the midst of leaving Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis for Adam Horovitz, who she would go on to marry.
[5]* Oddly, despite the overwhelming merits of their other work they would win this award for their contribution to Santana’s 1999 album, Supernatural. Their contribution being a song featuring Eagle-Eye Cherry entitled “Wishing It Was.”
It all begins with that rapid roll on the tom-toms: snipped from the opening seconds of drummer Alphonze Mouzon’s “Funky Snakefoot” off his 1974 album of the same name for Blue Note. Mouzon had been the drummer for McCoy Tyner before joining the initial ’71 lineup (alongside Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Miroslav Vitous, and Airto Moreira) of jazz-fusion pioneers Weather Report.
Alphonze Mouzon’s “Funky Snakefoot”
Drums – Alphonze Mouzon
Clavinet – Harry Whitaker
Piano – Leon Pendarvis[6]*
Saxophone – Andy Gadsden
Trombone – Barry Rogers
Trumpet – Randy Brecker
Then, as Ad-Rock informs you that he can “[…] rock a house party at the drop of a hat” the sample that will serve as the backbone beat for the majority of the song kicks in: 1979’s “Dancing Room Only” by soul vocalist, songwriter, and arranger Harvey Scales[7]*. Raised in Milwaukee, Scales spent the early ’70s recording singles for Stax and the Cadet Concept division of Chess Records before signing with Los Angeles based Casablanca Records. Taken from his second LP for that label, the disco-funky Hot Foot: A Funque Dizco Opera, the track’s drums supplied by Jeffrey Williamson serve to propel “Shake Your Rump” right on through to the other side of its dozen-plus samples, just as they urge the listener to comply with Scales’ command to “shake your you-know-what.”
[6]* Leon Pendarvis has been a member of the Saturday Night Live Band since 1980 and now works as Co-Musical Director as well.
[7]* Scales is noted as the first songwriter to have a single certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the ’76 hit by Johnnie Taylor “Disco Lady,” which featured Parliament-Funkadelic members bassist Bootsy Collins, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and guitarist Glen Goins (RIAA, 2012).
Dancing Room Only by Harvey Scales
Produced, Arranged, and Written By – Harvey Scales, Melvin Griffin
Vocals – Harvey Scales
Bass – Robin Gregory
Conductor [Strings & Horns] – Melvin Griffin
Drums – Jeffrey Williamson
Guitar – Cedrick Rupert
Keyboards, Saxophone [Alto] – Melvin Griffin
Percussion – Shondu Akiem
Piano – William Scott Harralson
Saxophone [Baritone] – Ben Petry
Saxophone [Tenor] – Kenny Walker
Synthesizer – John Eidsvoog
Trombone – Kevin Lockett
Backing Vocals – L. C. Coney, Thomas Causey
– Harvey Scales, Melvin Griffin
With MCA’s emphasis on the word pimp in the line he shares with Mike D—“so like a pimp I’m pimpin’/I got a boat to eat shrimp in”—enters the cleverly sped-up and looped layer of Roland Bautista’s[8]* funk-scratch rhythm guitar from saxophonist Ronnie Laws’ 1975 instrumental rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Tell Me Something Good[9]*” Released by Blue Note, the album from which this track originates—Pressure Sensitive—would be Laws solo debut.
“Tell Me Something Good” by Ronnie Laws
Producer – Wayne Henderson
Saxophone – Ronnie Laws
Guitar – Roland Bautista
Clavinet – Joe Sample, Mike Cavanaugh
Electric Piano – Mike Cavanaugh
Synthesizer – Jerry Peters
Bass Guitar – Clint Mosley
Tambourine – Joe Clayton
[8]* Bautista was also a featured member on Last Days and Time, the 3rd studio album by American R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, as well as playing on Tom Waits’ Blue Valentine and Heartattack and Vine.
[9]* A year earlier, “Tell Me Something Good” had been a hit for the Chaka Khan incarnation of Rufus.
A clatter of cymbals and descending drum rolls spill into the frame as Ad-Rock and Mike D divvy up a single line, each taking only a few chunks out of the syllables before spitting it back and forth:
“Routines I bust and the rhymes that I write”
They then alley-oop the vocals over to MCA who steps up and rasps:
“And I’ll be busting routines and rhymes all night”
“Supermellow” by Paul Humphrey
“Super Mellow” by Paul Humphrey, Louis Bellson, Willie Bobo, and Shelly Manne
The break-beat clatter that bestows the Beastie Boys’ rap with buoyancy has been clipped from the opening section to “Supermellow.” Composed and originally performed by Paul Humphrey as the title track for his ’73 solo debut released on Blue Thumb Records, the version utilized here however comes from 1975 when he rerecorded the song for The Drum Session LP, which featured a line-up partly comprised by three other all-star percussionists: drummer for Duke Ellington’s big-band, Louis Bellson; Spanish Harlem’s greatest conga player, Willie Bobo[10]*; and the man who has played with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Tom Waits, Shelly Manne. Humphrey himself was a renowned studio musician who played with preeminent jazz artists like Wes Montgomery and Charles Mingus, as well as on Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats LP of ’69 and on the seduction masterpiece that is Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. The Drum Session also features Chuck Domanico on bass, Mike Wofford on keys, Jerome Richardson on sax and flute, and the incredible trumpet player Bobby Bryant whose cover of “Happiness is a Warm Gun” I discussed here.
“[…] rhymes all night”
MCA has hardly finished his sentence when Ad-Rock returns to the mic to rapidly deliver:
“Like eating burgers or chicken or you’ll be picking your nose
I’m on time, homey, that’s how it goes”
MCA and Mike D jump on the next line in unison:
“You heard my style I think you missed the point”
Then (extracted from Diana Ross & the Supremes’ ’69 single “No Matter What Sign You Are”) there’s the crude thap-thap-thap-thap-thap of a drum announcing The Bronx’s own Funky 4 + 1[11]*, their marathon nine-minute party jam here boiled down to the three essential words needed to conclude this verse: IT’S THE JOINT!
[10]* William “Bobo” Correa’s son, Eric, would end up joining the Beastie Boys’ touring line-up, as well as contributing percussion to their albums beginning with 1994’s Ill Communication.
[11]* Funky 4 + 1 are noted not only for having a female MC, (Sha Rock) way back in ’76, but also for being the first hip hop group to appear on a national television show: a Valentine’s day episode of Saturday Night Live in 1981, hosted by Deborah Harry.
“6 O’Clock DJ (Let’s Rock)” by Rose Royce
Suddenly the whole song is swallowed up by one of the thickest (and certainly the most tweaked out) bass notes you’ve ever heard. It rolls its sinuous weight across the steady backbeat, writhing its attenuated tail end until it twitches directly into another roll of the drums, which transports the Beastie Boys right back to front-and-center. Fattened and warped, this bass note is the brief but ominous Moog intro to Rose Royce’s 1:14 long instrumental “6 O’Clock DJ (Let’s Rock)” on their debut double album, the soundtrack to the 1976 comedy Car Wash, which guest starred both Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Creatively helmed by legendary Motown producer Norman Whitfield[12]*, Rose Royce were in the process of recording their 1st album when Whitfield was hired to supply the score for director Michael Schultz’s follow-up feature to his “urban” high school comedy, Cooley High. Whitfield convinced the group to abandon their work-in-progress and allow him to compose new music for them that was closely tied to the film. They obliged and the world was rewarded with two discs of Rose Royce’s classy brand of funk.
[12]* Whitfield is the producer and co-writer behind what Bob Dylan once characterized on his radio show Theme Time Radio Hour as “a jumbo jet of a song”: The Temptations’ #1 epic soul/head-trip, “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” A former coworker of mine, Ms. Walker, once turned to me half-speaking, half-singing the chorus “Papa was a rolling stone/Wherever he laid his hat was his home/and when he died, all he left us was alone,” before stating, “that’s some sad, fucked-up shit right there.” Really, who couldn’t help but agree.
As Mike D declares that he’s “back from the dead,” Rose Royce return with Lequeint “Duke” Jobe’s roundabout bass lick from another track on the Car Wash soundtrack: “Yo Yo.”
“Yo Yo” by Rose Royce
The guitar groove of “Tell Me Something Good” reemerges as a series of parabolic frames for the clipped, rising and descending cadence of MCA’s insolent declarations of psychedelic independence despite the edicts of perception imposed by both the dollars behind him and the audience in front. Full to capacity with internal rhymes, the lines are all defiance with a smile:
A puppet on a string I’m paid to sing or rhyme
Or do my thing, I’m in a lava lamp inside the brain hotel
I might be freakin’ or peakin’ but I rock well
As the three recite a brief list of dance-steps the break-beat clatter alerts you that that monstrous Moog spawned bass is about to arrive, but first, to close MCA’s announcement that he’s “got the peg leg at the end of my stump,” comes the sample from which the songs takes its title: Afrika Bambaataa’s command that you “Shake your rump!”
In 1984, Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown released their six-part drum-machine-funk duet “Unity” for which the above video was made by Tom Pomposello, Marcy Brafman, and Peter Caesar by utilizing footage of the duo recording the song in Studio A at Unique Recording Studios, NYC. However, the video is for “Unity (Part 1: The Third Coming)” while the “Shake your rump” sample is actually snipped from “Unity (Part 2: Because It’s Coming).”
When the trio returns it’s to shout out the song’s original title of “Full Clout,” when it existed only as a Dust Brothers’ audio experiment, never imagining anyone would ever attempt to place vocals atop this insane, dense mosaic of disco funk. The sound of a bong-hit supplied by co-producer Matt Dike then introduces the third contribution by Rose Royce, again from the Car Wash soundtrack: “Born to Love You.”
“Born To Love You” by Rose Royce
As Mike D states that he’s “running from the law, the press, and the parents,” a security guard at the Record Plant is brought in to ask, “is your name Michael Diamond?” to which he snidely replies, “No mine’s Clarence.” After the three share a hometown shout out of “downtown, Manhattan, the village,” the track is overwhelmed by the hoots and hollers of an entourage crowded vocal booth. Suddenly, save for the backbone drumbeat and the washtub-rub sounds of Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five’s “Jazzy Sensation” from 1981, the song becomes relatively quiet.
“Jazzy Sensation” by Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five
Then, descending into the wind tunnel of “One of These Days” (the opening instrumental rave-up from Pink Floyd’s ’71 album Meddle), “Shake Your Rump” is just gone—. Dumped onto the folky strip-show swamp of David Bromberg’s “Sharon,” which serves as the primary musical element for Mike D’s tale of a washed-up rockabilly star now turned Manhattan vagrant by the name of “Johnny Ryall,” you’re still reeling from what you’ve just heard. You’ve just been gleefully bumped this way and that along the seamless series of dovetail joints that construct “Shake Your Rump” and now for you the art of music has been changed forever. “Changed into what?” You are not quite certain of the answer but you’re sure that something momentous had just occurred. Yet, the entire thing only lasted three minutes and eighteen seconds.
[I must note that after the completion of the writing of the above section, I came across this video in which Long Island’s DJ Funktual performs a similar vivisection, albeit a much more entertaining one:
As the album goes on until its full run-time of just seven minutes shy of an hour, your brain is delighted through a mosaic array of cultural references, associations, and intimations; both real and fictitious:
The “3-pack Bonanza” with its mysterious contents of three older pornographic magazines shrink-wrapped together and usually found in cheap bodegas and liquor stores.
the 7-Eleven chain convenience stores
Town drunk Otis Campbell (portrayed by Hal Smith) on The Andy Griffith Show.
The great Muhammad Ali
Adidas classic “Shell Toe” design.
Stanley Kubrick’s ’71 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of sociopathic-social-commentary: A Clockwork Orange.
Australian rock band, AC/DC
Brooklyn’s annual street festival, The Atlantic Antic.
World champion racecar driver, Mario Andretti.
Sam the butcher and Alice from The Brady Bunch.
Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s superb 1976 film Taxi Driver.
Ballantine Ale brand of beer.
The Band’s 1969 single, “Up on Cripple Creek.”
David Bowie, his addiction of choice, and the mirrors used to facilitate that addiction.
The Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
The Bible,
Particularly the tale of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from Chapters 1–3 of the book of Daniel: The three young men who were tossed into a furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, because they refused worship the golden image. They would burn as they were protected by an angel of God.
Chicago Bears’ legendary linebacker (1965-1973) Dick Butkus .
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) [Napoleon Crossing The Alps by Jacques Louis David]
Actor Raymond Burr’s portrayal of a wheelchair bound detective on the 70s NBC television series Ironside. [1974 TV Guide Magazine cover by Robert Peak]
Cadbury Easter Eggs
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ [The Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Salvador Dali, 1951]
Vaughn Bodé’s underground comic strip character, and self-proclaimed “Cartoon Messiah,” Cheech Wizard, which, beginning in 1967, was often featured in National Lampoon magazine until Bodé’s death in ’75.
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1968 ode to a riverboat, “Proud Mary.”
Tom Cushman, Long-time friend and member of MCA’s ’87-’88 side-project Brooklyn, which also featured Daryl Jenifer of Bad Brains, and Murphy’s Law drummer, Doug E. Beans.
Fonzie’s cousin, the Scott Baio portrayed Chachi on the television series Happy Days, who the received his own ’82-’83 spin-off, Joanie Loves Chachi
Charles Turner a.k.a. Chuck Chillout, influential DJ at New York’s 98.7 KISS-FM, who later In 1992 became a VJ for “Uncle” Ralph McDaniels’ Video Music Box.
Colonel Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken (comedian Jerry Lewis is also mentioned).
Johnny Cash [Hugh Morton’s famous image of Johnny Cash holding aloft a tattered American flag. –NC, 1974]
Fastnacht, 1888, by French Post-Impressionist, Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).
French, All-inclusive Club Méditerranée.
Cadillac’s Coupe De Ville model (1959 through 1993).
Rudy Ray Moore and his most famous performance as Dolemite, in the 1975 film of the same name.
John Hough’s 1974 Dodge Charger featuring chase-film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.
Clint Eastwood, and his “Dirty Harry” series of films, initially released in 1971.
Dragnet, the radio, television, and film crime drama about L.A. detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, starring, created, and produced by Jack Webb. The series will always be remembered for its famous opening narration: “Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”
El Diario, (literally “The Daily”) particularly El Diario la Prensa, with its offices at 1 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, it is the largest and oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in NYC, and the oldest Spanish-language daily in the United States.
“I’m just chillin’ like Bob Dylan.”
Bruce Willis and his reluctant-hero series of Die Hard films. The franchise, so far lasting over 20 years (with a new one to be released in 2013), all began in 1988 with Reginald VelJohnson’s (most famous for his portrayal as Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters) shouts of “Shots fired at Nakatomi Plaza!”
Scottish psychedelic-troubadour and scenester Donovan
Victorian author and social critic Charles Dickens.
International doughnut and coffee retailer, Dunkin’ Donuts (with time-pressed mascot, Fred the Baker pictured).
George Drakoulias, A&R man at Def Jam who was involved in the signing of both L.L. Cool J and the Beastie Boys. He later went on to produce Shake your Money Maker, the debut album by The Black Crowes, and Dust, final album by Screaming Trees. Perhaps the most interesting trivia surrounding Drakoulias (other than the Beastie Boys claiming that they bought a hot-dog off him in “Stop That Train”) is that he was an inspiration for Billy Bob Thornton’s character “Big George Drakoulias” in the Johnny Depp starring, Jim Jarmusch directed “Psychedelic Western,” Dead Man.
[Stepping a little off-track here, this really is one of the finest films by all involved and is a must-see if you haven’t already.]
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein.
Production team E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo (John King), aka The Dust Brothers.
Cartoon series, The Flintstones (pictured here in a 1960s commercial for Winston Cigarettes).
Benjamin Franklin depicted harnessing the power of electricity in Benjamin West’s 1816 oil paniting, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.
Footwear company Fila, which the Beasties claim they “never rock,” as they are in favor of Adidas.
Fundamentalist televangelist and co-founder of the Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell (pictured here with President Reagan). Upon Falwell’s death in 2007, friend (and courtroom opponent) Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt had this to say about the man: “My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.”
Fruit Striped Gum.
Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Galileo Galilei (pictured here in Galileo facing the Roman Inquistion by Cristiano Banti, 1857).
The state of Arizona’s geological wonder, the Grand Canyon.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Bernhard Goetz, the controversial “Subway Vigilante” who on December 22, 1984, while riding the 2 Train, shot 4 teenage muggers. This incident occurred at a time when NYC had a reported crime rate over 70% higher than the rest of the U.S. In 1984, there were 2 homicides, 18 violent crimes, and 65 property thefts reported per 10,000 people.
The Beatles 1968 blister-inducing, proto-heavy-metal “Helter Skelter.”
Humpty Dumpty (ill. Here by John Tenniel), character from the famous nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/All the king’s horses and all the king’s men/Couldn’t put Humpty together again. However, more appropriately when discussing the general vibe of Paul’s Boutique, I present an excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’” Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course
you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice
knock-down argument for you!’”
“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,”
Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a
scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither
more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words
mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute
Humpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them
—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do
anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”
Escape-artist and magician (and Queens resident), Harry Houdini (1874-1926).
American motorcycle manufacturer, Harley-Davidson.
Guitar savant, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) [photo by Gered Mankowitz, 1967]
The CBS produced Hawaii Five-O, which ran from 1968 to 1980.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr, portrayed by Steve Martin in Carl Reiner’s 1983 comedy The Man with Two Brains. Although, the reference is actually to a supposed brand of ale that bears his name.
The apparently multipurpose gelatin dessert, Jell-O.
NBC coming-of-age drama during the 1977-1978 season, James at 15.
“America’s most familiar law firm,” Jacoby & Meyers
Jamaica, Queens; where the Central Library of the Queens Borough Public Library and numerous stores like Young World and V.I.M are located.
Popular NYC mayor, Ed Koch, who held this office from1978 to 1989.
Kool menthol cigarettes.
the chain of discount stores, K-Mart
Literary figure, pioneer of the Beat Generation, and iconoclast inspiration for nearly every artist to develop after him, Jack Kerouac.
Commander of the USS Enterprise and intergalactic lover, Captain James T. Kirk (as played by William Shatner in the original Star Trek franchise).
Miss Crabtree (as played by June Marlowe) and the Little Rascals from the Our Gang shorts, which ran from 1922-1944.
Chuck Woolery, who hosted Love Connection from 1983 to 1994.
Psychologist, philosopher, and psychedelic advocate, Dr. Timothy Leary (photo by Pat York).
Lee Press-On Nails.
Rock‘n’roll spitfire, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Lee blue jeans and their famous patch.
World famous reggae and dancehall artist, Barrington Levy.
Mardi Gras parade floats (Photo by Grant L. Robertson).
1973 blaxploitation film, The Mack, starring Max Julien as “Goldie” and Richard Pryor as “Slim.”
North American chain of budget hotels, The Motel 6.
Fast-food empire, McDonald’s.
1960s British beat band, Manfred Mann, perhaps most famous for their 1964 #1 hit song “Do Wah Diddy Diddy.”
Hanna-Barberra cartoon character, Magilla Gorilla.
the New Orleans native of Creole ancestry who helped invent jazz music throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941).
The world’s most famous reggae artist, Bob Marley (1945-1981).
The west coast’s Nix Check Cashing.
‘] `Zzw33x3xxEnglish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and alchemist, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (Illustration by Jean-Leon Huens, for National Geographic).
Naguals, the spiritual/scientific leaders and protectors of Mesoamerican cultures like the Toltecs.
Anglican clergyman and author the abolition hymn “Amazing Grace,” John Newton (1725-1807).
Mad magazine poster-boy and pictorial depository for cultural criticism, Alfred E. Newman. He’s pictured above physically relating his motto of “What, me worry?” on the June 1975 cover of Mad Magazine #175.
A favorite in 40oz., O.E.
OTBs, now banned within NYC.
Sadaharu Oh, who holds the world career home run record of 868, as well as holding Japan’s single-season home run record of 55, set in 1964.
The coast-to-coast chain of fruit drink beverage stores, Orange Julius, which has been in operation since the late 1920s.
The ABC sitcom that ran a total of 104 episodes from 1963 until 1966, The Patty Duke Show. Child star Patty Duke (born in Elmhurst, Queens) went on to shock audiences with her portrayal of the drug-addicted singer “Neely O’Hara” in Mark Robson’s 1967 film Valley of the Dolls:
The Puma brand of footwear.
Elvis Presley and his 1956 single for RCA, “Blue Suede Shoes.”
MCA is seen here during the Licensed to Ill Tour, hanging from the marquee of legendary Manhattan nightclub, Palladium. Located on the south side of East 14th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue, it is now a dormitory for NYU students. (photo by Sunny Bak).
Spanish explorer Ponce De Leon (1474–1521), often associated with the legend of the Fountain of Youth, reputed to be in Florida. [Illustration by F. R. Harper].
George Clinton’s Parliament and their 1975 LP Mothership Connection.
One of the greatest films of all time, Robert Downey, Sr.’s Putney Swope from 1969.
Extraordinary NYC photographer Ricky Powell (pictured here with Andy Warhol). Often referred as the “fourth Beastie Boy,” his reputation was further cemented with their lines: “Homeboy throw in the towel/Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell.”
Forest Hills’ own punk rock legends, The Ramones, seen here performing at CBGB’s March 31, 1977 in a photo by Ebet Roberts.
The hip hop trendsetters from Hollis, Queens, Run DMC; seen here in Paris during the “Together Forever Tour.” (Photo by Ricky Powell, 1987).
Robotron: 2084, the popular arcade game released in 1982.
Drake’s Cakes’ Ring Dings.
The celebration of American muscle and bullets that is the Sylvester Stallone featuring “Rambo” film franchise. Above is the poster for 1988’s Rambo III, wherein Rambo aids Afghan rebels, the Mujahideen, to fight the Soviet invaders.
The Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Rapunzel.
The November 3, 1988 episode of Geraldo Rivera’s talk show that involved a full-out brawl between white supremacists, anti-racist skinheads, black activists, and Jewish activists.
New York Yankees Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto, and his TV ads for The Money Store.
Rolo, the chocolate candy with a caramel center.
The chain of seafood restaurants, Red Lobster.
Outlaw hero of English folklore, Robin Hood, who would steal from the rich to give to the poor.
Children’s book author and illustrator, Dr. Seuss (1904-1991); depicted here alongside his most famous creation at The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden in his birthplace of Springfield, MA—which I had the good fortune to visit once. These statues were created by sculptor Lark Grey Dimond-Cates, who also happens to be Dr. Seuss’s step-daughter.
Looney Tunes’s iconic half-pint hot-head with the itchy trigger-fingers, Yosemite Sam.
Shea Stadium, baseball park for the New York Mets from 1964 to 2008.
The Starkist tuna company
Dave Scilken (the one with the Mohawk) who was a childhood friend of Adam Horovitz and member of Ad-Rock’s original group The Young and The Useless. Dying of a drug-overdose in 1991, the Beastie Boys 1992 album Check Your Head is dedicated to him.
David Berkowitz, better known as the serial killer Son of Sam. Between July of 1976 and until his arrest in August 1977, Berkowitz prowled New York City, killing six people and wounding several others in the course of eight shootings with a .44 Caliber handgun. Upon his arrest he claimed that he was commanded to kill by a demon that had possessed his neighbor’s dog.
St. Anthony’s Feast
Kew Gardens songwriter, Paul “Rhymin’”Simon.
80’s straight edge hardcore band, S.S. Decontrol.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), writer of Gulliver’s Travels, and A Modest Proposal, a satirical essay that suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.
American author, J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) best known for the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, and my favorite, Franny and Zooey.
Pentecostal evangelist (and cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis), Jimmy Swaggart.
1973 film, Shamus, starring Burt Reynolds as the hard-nosed private detective Shamus McCoy.
Russell Simmons, co-founder of pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, founder of the Phat Farm clothing company, and also owner of Rush Artist Management—referenced in the song “Car Thief” with the lines: “…I had to deal with a money hungry mieser had a ‘caine filled Kool with my man Russ Rush.”
American business magnate, and somehow celebrity, Donald Trump (pictured here on the night of June 27, 1988 for the Tyson Vs. Spinks Fight).
Gonzo journalist and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005).
Landlord Ralph Furley, as portrayed by Don Knotts on sitcom Three’s Company, which ran from 1977 to 1984.
English folklore character (and the first fairy tale printed in English) Tom Thumb. The name was appropriated by Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), who, as General Tom Thumb, achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.
33rd President of the United States (1945–1953) Harry S. Truman (1884-1972). As it turns out, The “S” did not stand for anything, but was chosen as his middle initial to please both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.
1887 self portrait by Dutch post-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), who was completely disregarded during his lifetime but is now hailed as a true visionary of the art.
Raymond White, aka Runny Ray of Run DMC’s crew
Whippets: the recreational drug used by inhaling a steel cylinder or cartridge filled with nitrous oxide (N2O)—a popular recreation for the crew behind Paul’s Boutique.
A 1986 ad for French fashion house founded in 1854 by its namesake, Louis Vuitton.
ABC sitcom Welcome Back Kotter, which ran from 1975 to 1979 and launched the career of John Travolta.
All-star Hawthorne Wingo, who played for the New York Knicks from 1973-1976.
The Bronx based Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees.
Farmer, Max Yasgur, best known as the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.
Houston, Texas rock group, ZZ Top, comprised of the phenomenal musicians, Billy Gibbons (guitar and vocals), Dusty Hill (bass and vocals), and Frank Beard (percussion).
And these are only some of the references made through the lyrics; the music itself floods your mind with a concurrent ribbon of references and associations. For a culturally inquisitive kid growing up in NYC, the album presented a map for certain chambers and corridors of your mind–and it presented signposts suggesting where to look next. Although steeped in nostalgia, the album utilizes this nostalgia as a platform with which to leap forward; and it compels you to laugh as you leap. It is in fact this sort of informational mosaic that is alluded to in the faux-erudition of this blog’s tagline: the product of an upright hominid with a palimpsest encephalon.
Furthermore, for the same snotty kids behind Licensed to Ill, the album is noticeably devoid of insults. Exuberant, the Beastie Boys are “cool,” but with none of the exclusivity that typically is associated with that label. They are still fighting for their right to party, but it is a party that they truly want you to attend with them.
“Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men’s souls to joy.”
——————— from On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
Art has many purposes, innumerable reasons for being, and The Beastie Boys here fulfilled a function like that of Louis Armstrong, or Charlie Chaplin—in the words of a master of this art, Mark Twain—they: “[…] excite the laughter of God’s creatures.”
Paul’s Boutique is a masterpiece of modern music, with a modern sense of acceptance and inclusion of both the high- and low-brow, both the stars and the intestines; and its poor reception would nearly end the Beastie Boys’ career.
Stay tuned for Side B of I’VE BEEN COMING TO WHERE I AM FROM THE GET GO: Part II! Where we will further explore the creation of Paul’s Boutique and the architects behind the Sounds of Science!
————————-BOBBY CALERO————-
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Scales, H. (1979). Dancing Room Only [recorded by Harvey Scales] On Hot Foot: A Funque Dizco Opera [Vinyl] Casablanca Records (1979).
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Cherokee Nation attends Murphy hearing in front of US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree and Assistant Attorney General Paiten Qualls attended the U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Carpenter v. Murphy on Tuesday.
“Arguments made during Tuesday’s hearing by both Murphy and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation were persuasive and reaffirmed the tribe’s sovereignty,” said Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree. “If the U.S. Supreme Court follows precedent, it will determine that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation still exists in eastern Oklahoma and that Congress never disestablished the reservation.”
In the case, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from 2017 that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s reservation was never formally disestablished.
The Cherokee Nation previously filed an amicus brief in the case, joining the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in support of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
The State of Oklahoma is appealing the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion.
Hembree said if the Muscogee (Creek) Nation prevails, the Cherokee Nation looks forward to continuing to work with state and federal officials in making safety a priority.
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide the case by early 2019.
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Night is Short, Walk on Girl Review
Demelza • 24th June 2018
As a fan of anime series The Tatami Galaxy I was extremely excited when Anime Limited brought director Masaaki Yuasa’s next project, Night is Short, Walk on Girl, to cinemas. Both it and Tatami Galaxy are based on books in a trilogy written by author Tomihiko Morimi, so with this in mind, my hopes were high for what this movie would bring to the table. With Night is Short about to hit its home video release in the UK, does it live up to be what I wanted?
When the movie was first released in cinemas last year, fellow Anime UK News writer Darkstorm was sent to review it. In her review she talked about how difficult it was to sum up just what Night is Short is about – and that’s true for me as well. In summary, the movie is about ‘Senpai’ who wants to confess to ‘The Girl with Black Hair’, his junior in university. Note that this work follows in the footsteps of Tatami Galaxy in neglecting to name its characters. On the night Senpai finally works up the courage to tell The Girl with Black Hair his feelings, she’s having a lively night out. The story that follows surrounds the mysterious things that happen to her and Senpai over the course of this night and the eccentric (but lovable) people they share their experiences with.
Summing it up doesn’t even begin to do justice to what a wonderful film Night is Short is, though. Through the course of the 92 minute runtime we see The Girl with Black Hair in numerous different situations, including a charming book fair and a musical! Each story is connected and has two sides to it: what happens to The Girl with Black Hair and what’s happening to Senpai behind the scenes as he attempts to catch up with her. When these situations involve secret societies and the god of books, you just know you’re watching something that doesn’t even remotely take itself seriously.
If you’ve watched The Tatami Galaxy previously then the humour and quirky storytelling on offer here won’t surprise you. It might also interest you to know that various characters from The Tatami Galaxy turn up in Night is Short. The film never pins itself down to definitely being set within the same universe but the characters have largely kept the same personalities we’ve seen previously – so I like to think they’re one and the same. It’s not necessary to have seen The Tatami Galaxy before watching Night is Short but for existing fans like me it was a real treat.
The story of Night is Short is a bit of an odd one because in some ways I think it would have been told better in an episodic anime format – but on the other hand it really does work as a film. While the setup of the film is meant to take place over the course of a single night, a lot of the stories do make you wonder if they’ve happened over a much larger time span. Even after watching the film twice I’m not certain what I think of the ambiguity of the timeline, but in the grand scheme of things this isn’t something that actively hurts Night is Short.
Up until now I’ve not talked in-depth about the characters because I feel it’s extremely difficult to do so without spoiling key parts of the story. Both The Girl with Black Hair and Senpai have fairly simple personalities and are going with the flow of things, but their true charm is in how they interact with those around them. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that the characters aren’t the driving force of this film so much as the situations they find themselves in. That might seem like an odd thing to say but, for as good as these characters are, I don’t really see Senpai and The Girl with Black Hair as being that unique; much of the enjoyment purely comes from the story.
Animation for Night is Short has been handled by studio Science SARU (Lu over the Wall, Devilman Crybaby) instead of Madhouse, who adapted The Tatami Galaxy. Due to retaining the original staff, however, the animation and director’s influences are still what you’d expect to see from a Masaaki Yuasa project. The interesting thing about Masaaki Yuasa’s works is that, as a director, he has a very distinct flair that doesn’t match traditional anime styles. It’s such a unique style that I think it could turn off some viewers but I always find myself enthralled with the colourful and quirky worlds that Yuasa portrays. Although Night is Short is not a fantasy work, the story often lends itself to fantastical elements and they’re always a great joy to watch in motion. The whole thing is a style you don’t see elsewhere and Yuasa does a good job of leaving his stamp on his projects.
The soundtrack for the movie has been handled by composer Michiru Oshima (The Tatami Galaxy, Fullmetal Alchemist) and offers a really fun, pop-influenced score. I believe the composer is also responsible for all of the ‘musical’ tracks on offer in the later half of the movie and these are also well done (with some ridiculous but fitting lyrics). The ending theme for the movie is “Koya o Aruke” by Asian Kung-Fu Generation (who also created and performed the opening of Tatami Galaxy) and while it doesn’t sound that unique compared to other songs from the band, it works well within the context of Night is Short.
Just a quick note regarding voice actors! While the cast is varied and full of some great VAs overall, I find myself most impressed with Kana Hanazawa (Hinata Kawamoto in March Comes in Like a Lion, Anri Sonohara in Durarara!!), who plays The Girl with Black Hair. Hanazawa plays the carefree, sometimes ditzy role of The Girl with Black Hair well and provides a likable performance that is unlikely to put anyone off – which is especially important given this is a Japanese audio only release.
This release comes to the UK thanks to Anime Limited and is available on DVD, Blu-ray and as a collector’s edition DVD/Blu-ray combo. The collector’s set comes bundled with a 52-page art book and if you order from Anime Limited’s store you’ll get an exclusive poster as well. As previously mentioned, this set does not have English audio; it’s Japanese only.
Overall The Night is Short is a real treat for fans of Tatami Galaxy, but even if you’re a newcomer there is definitely plenty to enjoy here. With a quirky and whimsical way of storytelling, Night is Short is sure to win your heart.
Demelza
When she's not watching anime, reading manga or reviewing, Demelza can generally be found exploring some kind of fantasy world and chasing her dreams of being a hero.
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Due to the huge success of the Sibyl System, a surveillance and biological monitoring system that gauges the likelihood that individuals will commit a crime before they do so, Japan has begun the process of exporting the technology in the hope that one day Sibyl will be in use all around the world. The first … Continued
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“Just like you said, we might not be able to turn in a performance that we can live with. But we’re going to play. So long as we have a chance to play, and an audience that will listen, I’m going to play with everything I’ve got. So that the people who’ve heard me will … Continued
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Live Now: CTV News at Six
'It's heart-wrenching': Hit-and-run victim's grieving sister speaks out
Published Friday, December 28, 2018 6:15PM PST
Last Updated Friday, December 28, 2018 7:07PM PST
The sister of a man killed in a hit-and-run in East Vancouver this week says she can't stop thinking about how things might have turned out if the driver had just stopped to help.
A passerby found 39-year-old Donnell Auger seriously injured on Kingsway near Glen Drive just before 3 a.m. on Thursday. The victim died shortly after being rushed to hospital for treatment.
"It's heart-wrenching to know that he could have maybe survived," Auger's sister, Suzette Amaya, told CTV News Friday. "You left my brother there alone and didn't take responsibility and that's really hard for our family right now."
Just hours after police put out a statement appealing to the public for help in locating the driver and vehicle involved, Sgt. Jason Robillard confirmed police had identified a suspect, but said they wouldn't be deciding on charges until a full investigation had been completed.
"The 54-year-old driver in this case eventually did the right thing by coming forward," Robillard said. "He has been released pending further investigation."
It's unclear how long Auger had been left at the scene before he was discovered, a fact that is making these already difficult days even harder for his grieving family.
"Our family is in a lot of shock right now," Amaya said. "This all happened so suddenly. We just celebrated Christmas together as a family."
Auger leaves behind three children and a community of people Amaya said he considered his family.
"My brother was the kind of person that anybody who becomes his friend becomes his family, so there's a lot of people mourning right now," she said. "It's just such a tragedy, and we're just having a hard time coping."
Auger is being remembered as a funny, loving person who was dedicated to his job as a landscaper.
"It was his passion and he loved talking about it and he loved his children," his sister said. "He was a family man."
And this isn't the first time this type of tragedy has struck the family.
Auger and Amaya lost their father after he was hit by a bus on Hastings Street in the 1980s.
The victim's family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil at the spot where he was killed Friday night.
With files from CTV Vancouver's Emad Agahi
Driver comes forward after deadly hit-and-run in East Vancouver
Donnell Auger (centre) is seen in this undated photo.
Suzette Amaya speaks to CTV News on Dec. 28, 2018.
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Main The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune
The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune
Oliver Lindsay
ISBN: 13: 978-0773536302
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The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 is illuminated by the remarkable personal story of John Harris. An architectural student, he was pitched into battle as a subaltern in the Royal Engineers and was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years. His powerful testimonial describes the appalling struggle to survive in a Japanese prison camp.
Thoroughly researched, particularly through exceptional access to war diaries, The Battle for Hong Kong also explores the catastrophic repercussions of the sudden collapse of the British Army Aid Group (cover name for the agency that handled spies in Southeast Asia) and the resulting suspicion that Britain's senior intelligence officer was working for the Japanese, the role of military leaders in prolonging the fighting and the serious casualties that resulted, and the true extent of the atrocities inflicted on POWs and internees.
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28 February, 2018 5 March, 2018 Awards Degree in Architecture Studies
The UIC Barcelona Ceramics Chair, award recipient at the CevisamaLab Design Competition for the 14th straight year
It happened again. The UIC Barcelona Ceramics Chair, through its students, once again occupied a place of prominence in the latest edition of the Ceramic Design Competition, organised each year by the Cevisama Idea Lab, the ceramics sector’s international trade show in Valencia.
In the category “Ceramic Products Formed by Other Methods”, the jury awarded joint first place honours to the projects “Ceramic Squama”, by Guillermo Marfà Permanyer, and “Neo Blind”, by Ariadna Rodríguez de San Gregorio, both students at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. In the case of “Neo Blind”, the jury distinguished the project’s reinterpretation of a roll-up blind with a combination of laminated ceramics and wood, “putting thin ceramics to new use”. As for “Ceramic Squama”, a system that uses ceramics to make façades mobile, the jury praised “the versatility it gives ceramic material, which opens the door to future hi-tech applications”. The award carries with it a cash prize of €1,500 per student.
In addition, Kay Curtis, another School of Architecture student, was awarded second prize in the “Semi-Dry Pressed Ceramic Products” category for her project “Tritela”. This technical solution proposes “an adaptable design in the form of a second skin”. The jury pointed out that “with this exterior, we commended its capacity to generate organic surfaces, as a starting point for a project with high-tech ceramics”. This award includes a cash prize of €1,000.
In the same category, the jury, by unanimous decision, decided to award runner-up honours without economic compensation to the student Ignacio Morente-Gemas for his project “Pla/cer”, which consists of a ceramic sandwich panel, “thanks to the flexible compartmentalisation of a ceramic panel which could evolve into a self-supporting system for both ephemeral and permanent use.” Fellow School of Architecture student Nieves Blackstead was also part of the creative team behind the aforementioned award-winning projects, alongside Ignacio Morente and Guillermo Marfà.
The projects were assessed by a multidisciplinary jury made up of Pablo Peñín, from the Regional Association of Architects of Valencia; Rafa Muñoz, from the Association of Interior Designers of the Community of Valencia; designer Vicent Clausell; researcher and trend watcher Pepa Casado, founder of the company future-A; and journalist Eugenio Viñas. The project analysis took place on 25 January at the Feria Valencia Expo Centre, where, under the coordination of María Fontes, the jury selected the winners from, in their words, “a large number of excellent projects”.
This is the 14th straight year that the UIC Barcelona Ceramics Chair has left its mark on this international competition, one of the ceramics sector’s most prestigious international contests. The Ceramics Chair, which is sponsored by the Spanish Association of Tile and Ceramic Pavement Manufacturers (ASCER), has formed part of the School of Architecture’s Department of Architectural Construction at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) since 2004-2005. Vicenç Sarrablo, its director, describes the subject taught as part of the Chair as “a mix between ceramic design and construction that you won’t find at any other schools of Architecture, which don’t explore the potential of ceramics, or schools of design, which have difficulty gaining a foothold in architecture. That’s why”, he points out, “I think it’s so hard for other centres to outdo our students’ projects. It’s great that people from outside the university recognize how well-prepared our graduates are”.
This year’s award-winning projects will be on display in Pavilions 2 and 4 at the Feria Valencia Expo Centre during Cervisama, which is scheduled to take place from 5-9 February. The awards ceremony will be held on 9 February at 1 p.m. in the lobby inside the expo centre.
PreviousArchitecture students now have the opportunity to extend their studies at UCLA
NextArchitecture students take part in the eighth edition of the LLUM BCN festival
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UPMC Hillman Cancer Center names veteran cancer specialist Ferris director | TribLIVE.com
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center names veteran cancer specialist Ferris director
Fri., June 16, 2017 10:24 a.m. | Friday, June 16, 2017 10:24 a.m.
Dr. Robert Ferris
UPMC announced Friday it has appointed a specialist in head and neck cancer as the new director of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.
The health system promoted Dr. Robert Ferris, who has worked at Hillman for 15 years, to the post following a nationwide search, according to a news release.
Ferris will start July 1, replacing former director Dr. Nancy Davidson, who left last year for the Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium. Dr. Edward Chu is the interim director.
Ferris is Hillman’s chief of the Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery in the departments of Otolaryngology and Immunology, according to the release. His work has focused on boosting the body’s immune response to fight cancer. He serves on several national cancer boards and has contributed to more than 280 peer-reviewed papers, along with editing three books, the release states.
He received his medical degree and a doctorate in immunology from Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Baltimore, where he completed his residency in otolaryngology, a specialty that focuses on the ear, nose and throat.
“I am very excited to take on this new role in an institution that has been a proven leader in cancer research and treatment, with more than 400 clinical trials offering hope and cutting-edge therapies to our patients in the communities where they live,” Ferris said in the release.
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Recognition for Actinogen Medical advisor
August 9, 2018 Latest News
Actinogen Medical (ASX:ACW) has announced that one of its clinical advisory board members, Professor Jeffrey Cummings, has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Alzheimer’s Association.
The award was announced at the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 in Chicago.
It is presented to honour individuals who have made a significant scientific contribution and lifetime commitment to progress the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Professor Cummings is a founding member of Actinogen’s clinical advisory board and continues to provide advice and research expertise to the company in the development for Xanamem.
Professor Cummings founded the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Centre for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada and Cleveland, Ohio.
He is currently the Principal Investigator and Director of the NIH/NIGMS-funded Centre for Neurodegeneration and Translational Neuroscience and the founding director of the UCLA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre.
According to CEO of Actinogen Medical, Dr Bill Ketelbey, “Having one of our Advisory Board members receive such a prestigious award reflects the exceptional calibre of internationally recognised academic experts supporting Actinogen’s development of Xanamem.
"Jeff is a renowned Alzheimer’s researcher and has devoted much of his life to researching and developing treatments to fight against this devastating disease. No one deserves this award more than Jeff and we’re delighted to have his intellect and research expertise to advise on the development of Xanamem.”
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This Man Not Only Invented The Gas Mask But Rescued 32 Men During An Explosion With It
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Garrett Morgan – Biography
The son of former slaves, Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky on March 4, 1877. His early childhood was spent attending school and working on the family farm with his brothers and sisters. While still a teenager, he left Kentucky and moved north to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of opportunity.
Although Garrett Morgan’s formal education never took him beyond elementary school, he hired a tutor while living in Cincinnati and continued his studies in English grammar.
In 1895, Morgan moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he went to work as a sewing machine repair man for a clothing manufacturer. News of his proficiency for fixing things and experimenting traveled fast and led to numerous job offers from various manufacturing firms in the Cleveland area.
In 1907, the inventor opened his own sewing equipment and repair shop. It was the first of several businesses he would establish. In 1909, he expanded the enterprise to include a tailoring shop that employed 32 employees. The new company turned out coats, suits and dresses, all sewn with equipment that Garrett Morgan himself had made.
In 1920, Garrett Morgan moved into the newspaper business when he established the Cleveland Call. As the years went on, he became a prosperous and widely respected business man, and he was able to purchase a home and an automobile. Indeed it was Morgan’s experience while driving along the streets of Cleveland that inspired him to invent an improvement to traffic signals.
On July 25, 1916, Garrett Morgan made national news for using his gas mask to rescue 32 men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie.
Morgan and a team of volunteers donned the new “gas masks” and went to the rescue. After the rescue, Morgan’s company received requests from fire departments around the country who wished to purchase the new masks. The Morgan gas mask was later refined for use by U.S. Army during World War I. In 1914, Garrett Morgan was awarded a patent for a Safety Hood and Smoke Protector. Two years later, a refined model of his early gas mask won a gold medal at the International Exposition of Sanitation and Safety, and another gold medal from the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
The Morgan Traffic Signal
The first American-made automobiles were introduced to U.S. consumers shortly before the turn of the century. The Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 and with it American consumers began to discover the adventures of the open road. In the early years of the 20th century it was not uncommon for bicycles, animal-powered wagons, and new gasoline-powered motor vehicles to share the same streets and roadways with pedestrians. Accidents were frequent. After witnessing a collision between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage, Garrett Morgan took his turn at inventing a traffic signal. Other inventors had experimented with, marketed, and even patented traffic signals, however, Garrett Morgan was one of the first to apply for and acquire a U.S. patent for an inexpensive to produce traffic signal. The patent was granted on November 20, 1923. Garrett Morgan also had his invention patented in Great Britain and Canada. Garrett Morgan stated in his patent for the traffic signal, “This invention relates to traffic signals, and particularly to those which are adapted to be positioned adjacent the intersection of two or more streets and are manually operable for directing the flow of traffic… In addition, my invention contemplates the provision of a signal which may be readily and cheaply manufactured.”
The Morgan traffic signal was a T-shaped pole unit that featured three positions: Stop, Go and an all-directional stop position. This “third position” halted traffic in all directions to allow pedestrians to cross streets more safely.
Garrett Morgan’s hand-cranked semaphore traffic management device was in use throughout North America until all manual traffic signals were replaced by the automatic red, yellow, and green-light traffic signals currently used around the world. The inventor sold the rights to his traffic signal to the General Electric Corporation for $40,000. Shortly before his death in 1963, Garrett Morgan was awarded a citation for his traffic signal by the United States Government.
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Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?
Mihir Bhagat@mihirbhagatTwitter LogoSenior Analyst IIIMarch 22, 2010
Wouldn't it be great to make nearly $111 million a year simply to play a game? Tiger Woods, along with many other professional athletes, certainly think so. But do these athletes really deserve all that money?
In my mind, absolutely not. Professional athletes are making too much money in a society where salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of one's work. In today's society, one should be paid according to the job’s economic importance and their value to society.
Teaching is one of the most economically important occupations because our future economy relies on the education of its youth, yet teachers are paid astronomically less than the average professional athlete is. In fact, each basket Kobe Bryant scores earns him equivalent to the average classroom teacher’s yearly salary.
However, some may argue that while teacher’s only provide service to a single classroom, superstar athletes are entertaining fans all around the world, enticing people with a feeling of relaxation and excitement.
Obviously, what these individuals must not be aware of is the most important man in our nation, the president, who makes critical decisions that affect the entire world every day, only makes $400,000 a year. While President Obama is hard at work reviving the economy, the unproven rookie in the MLB is earning way over that figure.
Furthermore, police officers, firefighters, and doctors save lives while risking their own for a fraction of what sports stars make. People in the military leave their families at home to defend and protect the country knowing they may never return. It's truly a pity that none of these true heroes are given the same recognition by society as athletes such as Brett Favre or Michael Jordan are given.
While I do understand that making it into the pros is not an easy thing to do, and that it takes a tremendous number of hours of hard work and dedication every day to earn a job in professional sports, these people do nothing more than entertain the general public.
Moreover, in my mind, if these athletes want to continue to be rewarded with the fame and fortune that is unfairly bestowed upon them, they must prove to the world that they are going to be positive role models for future athletes, and those who admire them.
These infamous players must grow up, and prove to America that they can be positive role models for kids on and off the field. They may get leeway when it comes to their salaries, but the law should be overpowered by any amount of talent.
If Alex Rodriguez earns the same amount of money as it would take to feed the nation's poor for a year, he can’t cheat and take steroids. What kids learn from successful ballplayers like him is that “It’s okay for me to use illegal substances, because in the long run, it will pay off by earning me an enormous contract.”
In order for these players to gain respect, they need to have a more significant impact on the community.
Finally, what really puzzles me, is how athletes get upset when athletes say that millions of dollars won't be able to support him and his family, and that they need more. What puzzles me even more, is how after holding out for weeks, and sometimes months, the owners give in and pay them what they don't deserve.
Think about Jamarcus Russel, the former No. 1 overall pick in the '07 draft. He is on a six-year $68 million contract, with $31 million guaranteed. In simpler terms, that means that despite currently being recognized as one of the biggest busts of all time, and even if he were to get injured tomorrow and never play again, he will still have $31 million in the bank. In any other job, if you don't perform to your expectations, you're fired. There is no guaranteed money.
The whole system that allows professional athletes to just swim around in money is simply ridiculous, and it needs to stop. When asking people whether they think athletes are paid way too much money, most agree with me.
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What's the Deal with North Korean Airspace?
Posted by Sarah Simonovich on November 01, 2016
If you use a flight tracker to view live air traffic (such as flightradar24) or another type of map outlining flights across the world, it can seem a bit congested. With some exceptions , it appears that airplanes either touch (or at the very least cross over) almost the entire world.
Using flightradar 24, the following image was captured 1 November 2016 at approximately 11:30 AM:
The blue markers indicate major airports. Disclaimer from Flightradar24: "Please note that coverage and aircraft visibility is dependent of many parameters including aircraft type, aircraft transponder type, aircraft altitude and terrain, so coverage can be different for different aircraft, even on the same location." So while it's perhaps not perfect, the information presented is accurate, at least in understanding the berth of aviation coverage across the globe.
Airspace Regulation
There are a number of reasons why an aircraft might avoid a particular airspace, although usually it's for safety concerns. Temporary reasons for airspace avoidance include stadiums/sporting events, weather conditions, and wildfires. Airspace can be uncontrolled, controlled, restricted, or prohibited.
Uncontrolled airspace is airspace where Air Traffic Control (ATC) service is either considered unnecessary or cannot be provided for practical reasons. Of ICAO's airspace classes, both class F and class G are uncontrolled.
Controlled airspace is opposite of uncontrolled and is classes A to E. Controlled airspace is typically established for 3 reasons: high-volume air traffic areas; IFR traffic under ATC guidance; security.
Restricted airspace is an area (typically) used by military where controlling authorities determined air traffic must be restricted (if not continually prohibited) for safety or security concerns.
Prohibited airspace is an area where aircraft flight is not allowed--usually due to security. It's different from restricted airspace in that entry is typically forbidden at all times from all aircraft and is not subject to clearance from ATC or the airspace's controlling body.
Groom Lake, also known as "Area 15" is a famous example of a permanently prohibited "no-fly zone" area within the United States.
North Korean Airspace
North Korea is known for being one of the most mysterious places in the world. Most avoid the country--and airlines are no exception.
In the late 1990s, North Korea began making attempts at normalizing relations with the Western world. These attempts include opening North Korean airspace to international commercial flights in 1997. Still, the country is extremely isolated, and flights over N. Korea are infrequent--and in some cases restricted.
US Regulation
The Federal Aviation Administration has prohibited U.S. air carriers or commercial operators from using N. Korean airspace almost since the time airspace was first opened in 1997. Initially, U.S. carriers couldn't fly over the area because the Office of Foreign Assets Control prohibited payment of the "overflight fees." On April 7, OFAC lifted that restriction, but less than 2 weeks later, the FAA issued Special Federal Aviation Regulation number 79 (SFAR 79), which took action to "prohibit certain flight operations within DPRK airspace."
From an FAA publication (posted 27 May 2016):
SFAR 79 prohibits U.S. air carriers or commercial operators; persons exercising the privileges of an airman certificate issued by the FAA, except such persons operating U.S.-registered aircraft for a foreign air carrier; and operators of aircraft registered in the United States, except where the operator of such aircraft is a foreign air carrier, from flying in the Pyongyang (ZKKP) FIR west of 132 degrees east longitude
N. Korean airspace includes and expands beyond the land borders of the country to also include a portion of the Sea of japan and a small region above the Yellow Sea (West Sea). This section of airspace is called the Pyongyang FIR (flight information region).
The FAA cites safety concerns for this airspace prohibition--specifically N. Korea's unannounced ballistic missile test launches into Sea of Japan, which continue today.
From the same publication posted 27 May 2016:
Unannounced ballistic missile launches pose a potential hazard to U.S. civil aviation operations, which includes flights operating on air routes B467 and G711. Additional unannounced North Korean ballistic missile launches which may travel beyond the eastern boundary of SFAR 79 into the Pyongyang FIR (ZKKP) are possible, particularly during periods of heightened political tension, military training exercises, and/or significant North Korean national anniversary dates. U.S. operators are advised to use caution when planning to operate in or near the Pyongyang (ZKKP) FIR east of 132 degrees east longitude.
Not everyone avoids N. Korean airspace to the extent of the United States. Several European airlines (such as Lufthansa, Air France, Turkish Airlines, KLM and Finnair) use a portion of airspace (including western side of the 132 degrees East latitude line, which the FAA has said is too dangerous for U.S. carriers). These flights are between Europe and the central and west Japan cities of Nagoya and Osaka (Kansai International Airport).
South Korea airlines completely avoid North Korean airspace.
China Southern Airlines offers a flight between Tokyo's Narita and Shenyang that flies directly over the country, crossing close to Pyongyang. This same flight path roughly follows the same flight path as N. Korea missile test firings. In fact, on March 4, 2014, A China Southern Airlines airplane carrying 220 passengers passed through the trajectory of a rocket launched only 7 minutes earlier by North Korea.
http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/us_restrictions/#restrictKN
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-05/chinese-passenger-plane-passed-north-korean-rocket-trajectory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibited_airspace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_airspace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_airspace
http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/08/01/whos-using-north-korean-airspace/
http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/07/25/whats-going-on-with-north-korean-airspace/
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King-Beyond-the-Wall
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King-Beyond-the-Wall. Art by Henning Ludvigsen. © Fantasy Flight Games
King-Beyond-the-Wall[1][2] (or King-beyond-the-Wall)[3] is the title given to a person who has united the many tribes of free folk (or wildlings) who dwell beyond the Wall. Despite its name, the title is not a hereditary or absolute position. It is not a position of any authority except that of the person who can establish it through persuasion and force. For long periods of time there have been be no recognized kings.
The free folk leaders have been described in Maester Herryk's History of the Kings-Beyond-the-Wall.[4]
2.1 A Game of Thrones
Joramun, the legendary first King-Beyond-the-Wall,[5] was a contemporary of the Night's King, the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Together with the King of Winter Brandon the Breaker they defeated the Night's King. Another story tells of how he found the Horn of Winter and woke the giants.
The brothers Gendel and Gorne were joint kings some three thousand years ago. They made a tunnel under the Wall and invaded the north. Gorne managed to slay the Stark king but was killed by his son and heir. According to the people of the north Gendel and the remaining wildling army were killed by the armies of the Starks, the Night's Watch, and the Umbers. In the free folk stories, Gendel led his people back to the tunnels, but they could not find the exit. His children and descendents are said to still live underground, and are always hungry.
The Horned Lord is said to have used magic to pass the Wall a thousand years after Gendel and Gorne.[2]
Bael the Bard was a famous bard, raider and womanizer. According to free folk legend, he went to Winterfell as a bard and impregnated the daughter of the lord. When he was king, he led the free folk against the Wall, where he was killed by his own son, who had inherited Winterfell. Later, his son was skinned by the Boltons in their centuries-long struggle for dominance with the Starks.
Raymun Redbeard gathered the wildlings in either 212 AC or 213 AC,[5] and breached the Wall in 226 AC.[6][5] They were defeated by the Starks and Umbers in a battle at Long Lake.
Mance Rayder, the most recent King-Beyond-the-Wall, is a man who competed against multiple other contenders, bribing and bargaining with the many tribes to recognize him as their leader.
One of the goals of the great ranging of the Night's Watch is to defeat Mance Rayder.[7]
Mance leads a great host of free folk against the Wall, but is defeated by the Watch and Stannis Baratheon.[8]
↑ A Dance with Dragons, Prologue.
↑ 2.0 2.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Wildlings.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran I.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Dawn Age.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Wall and Beyond: The Wildlings.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Lords of Winterfell.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 70, Jon IX.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 73, Jon X.
Known Kings-Beyond-the-Wall
Joramun
Gendel and Gorne
Horned Lord
Bael the Bard
Raymun Redbeard
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Roy Taylor is Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of a new stealth start up designed to make pixels intelligent. He is also a Director for the Board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) Los Angeles and Technology Advisor to three film schools.
Previously he was Corporate Vice President and Worldwide Head of AMD Studios based out of Hollywood, Los Angeles. Before that Taylor ran worldwide channel sales at Advanced Micro Devices responsible for more than $2 Billion annual revenue.
Prior to AMD Taylor served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Display Devices Division at MasterImage 3D, where he was responsible for autostereoscopic (glass-free) 3D business and ecosystem for smartphones, tablets, automotive and avionic industries. Taylor served as Vice President in many roles at NVIDIA, first as a founder of NVIDIA Europe and later internationally after a transfer to NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara.
Taylor is principally known for the invention of the ecosystem sale whilst at NVIDIA and for his roles in supporting the video game industry and the catch phrase ‘can it play Crysis?’. More recently he has been a vocal advocate for immersive technologies including VR, AR and AI. In his role as head of AMD Studios, Taylor has picked up Executive Producer credits for three VR productions.
Taylor is also Chair of the VR Society, Director of the Board of Governors for the Advanced Imaging Society and Technical Advisor for Immersive Technology to Dodge Chapman Film School, Beijing Film Academy and NFTS (National Film & Television School).
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Heston: dessert through the ages
Posted by Anna Jones On April 27, 2016 In Desserts No comments
Just desserts? You must be joking. The pudding course has a rich history.
Although what we eat and how we eat varies from country to country, in general we think of eating as a fixed set of habits and practices. But scratch the surface and you discover that this isn’t the case. Forks weren’t used in Britain until the 1600s. Up to the late 1800s the food at formal dinners would be served all at once (service à la française ) rather than sequentially (service à la russe). In top restaurants food wasn’t plated up by the chef until Jean-Baptiste Troisgros did it in the 1960s. And the restaurant didn’t really exist until the French Revolution (1789-99) brought down the aristocratic families and their chefs ended up on the streets. They were employed in taverns and inns, creating more gastronomic concerns: before the revolution there were fewer than 50 restaurants in Paris; by 1814 there were more than 3,000.
Dessert is another aspect of eating that has changed. The final stage of a meal wasn’t called dessert in Britain until the 1700s. Before that it was “the banquet”. Originally, it consisted of spiced cakes and fruit and was served in another room. It was thought of as a medicinal finale to the meal, with spices aiding digestion. Gradually, though, it changed to include marmalades, fruit tarts and preserves, marzipan and jelly.
The word dessert is from the French desservir ( “to clear the table”), which captures the sense of occasion that was associated with it — the stage cleared for the final act. In 18th-century France, dessert at the tables of the rich was an elaborate affair, with pyramids of fruit interspersed with architectural fantasies called pièces montées or extraordinaires — temples, rotundas and bridges recreated in a mixture of marzipan, pork fat and pastry and decorated with spun sugar or fruits. Dessert caught on in Britain, as did the theatricality. At a dinner given by Lord Mountjoy in 1722, the dessert was architecturally arranged, with preserved fruits, jellies and ratafia or lemon creams on footed gilt salvers, raised glass plates or in glasses. The celebration of sweetness was in part because by the mid-1700s Britain’s colonial expansion had provided greater sources of sugar. It was cheaper and more accessible and began to feature heavily in recipes, edging out elaborate spicing, which had previously done the job of enlivening food and masking bitterness. (After this, although sugar prices would fluctuate, once people had acquired the sweet habit they couldn’t kick it. Even when it was costly, the poor would still buy what they could.) It’s not clear how the notion of dessert shifted from sculptural extravaganza to a collective name for everything from puddings to cheese. It has been suggested that this sense of the word comes from America, where as early as 1800 dessert was a catch-all term for whatever was served at the end of a meal. It wasn’t until the 1900s, however, that we began using the word in this looser sense.
Although dessert is now a vague term, it still has a spirit of indulgence attached to it. There is also something nostalgic about desserts. We have a sweet tooth when we’re kids and sweet dishes stay in the memory. I have great affection for Black Forest gateau, even though most of those I ate in the 1970s were poor imitations of the real thing, with leaden cream, dry sponge, cheap chocolate and a toxic-looking glacé cherry. It wasn’t the flavour that captivated me, it was the excitement of the dish, the drama of its presentation. Perhaps that’s why desserts so often involve showmanship — it’s an attempt to reignite that childlike delight in what’s on the table.
Here’s a spiced poached fruit recipe that could have suited the original banquet. Put 2 litres of water and 750g of unrefined caster sugar in a large casserole and bring to the boil on a high heat, stirring till the sugar has dissolved, then remove from the heat. Cut a vanilla pod in half, scrape out the seeds and add seeds and pod to the casserole. Add 8 ripe nectarines, 5 slightly broken-up star anise, 8 rosemary sprigs, 10 fresh bay leaves, some fresh ginger root, a cinnamon stick and the zest of a lemon. Cover with a cartouche (a circle of parchment paper pierced with holes, which helps the food to cook evenly), making sure that some of the syrup sits on top of it, keeping the fruit submerged, and simmer for 10 minutes, then remove from the heat. Allow the fruit to cool in the liquid before serving with a dollop crème fraîche.
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A few books with linguists as characters
Posted by Catharine Cellier-Smart (Smart Translate) in books, translation and tagged with books, translation July 11, 2012
[Updated February 2018]
I love reading and I though I’d share a few novels with you that have translators or interpreters as characters. Some I’ve already read, and some I’m looking forward to reading soon.
Books in French I haven’t read yet
I haven’t had the chance to read any of these books yet. Let me know your opinion if you have!
Mensonges by Valérie Zenatti. Published May 2011. The translator of Aharon Appelfeld pretends to be him. A book where the fate of the writer and his translator are intertwined.
Aharon Appelfeld, 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Assommons les pauvres ! by Shumona Sinha. Published August 2011. Sinha is an interpreter who worked for the OFPRA (French office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons). This (autobiographical?) novel is about an interpreter who works with asylum seekers. You can see a video on ARTE about it here.
La traduction est une histoire d’amour by Jacques Poulin. Published in 2006. Set in Quebec. Originally from Ireland, Marine is a translator working on a novel written by Jack Waterman. She ends up meeting him, they beome friends, and he finds her somewhere to live: a chalet on l’Île d’Orléans. One day they discover a black cat, and together they start looking for the cat’s owner, who might need help.
Books in French I have read
Je l’aimais by Anna Gavalda was published in 2002, and has been translated into English by Catherine Evans as Someone I Loved. Two men have an affair. One leaves his wife and children, the other stays. Which one was right? Gavalda explores this dilemma from the unusual point of view of a relationship between a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law. One of the mistresses, Mathilde, was an interpreter (annoyingly called a translator throughout the book), however she remains she remains a secondary character and the story is never really explored from her point of view.
La Daronne by Hannelore Cayre, a lawyer. Published in 2017. Patience Portefeux is a sworn Arabic-French translator and interpreter in Paris who starts having criminal dealings. While this prize-winning novel shines a spotlight on those who work for the French justice system it doesn’t do so in a very flattering way; while Patience’s work is undoubtedly professional, her welfare situation isn’t (this is ultimately what makes her turn to crime), and the profession is portrayed as being peopled by those who don’t pay social security contributions. For more details about this see the SFT press release (in French).
Les amandes amères by Laurence Cossé, was published in September 2011. A translator and occasional interpreter, Edith, wants to teach her Moroccan home-help, Fadila, how to read and write. Edith realises how complicated and humiliating life is for somebody who is illiterate. But Fadila is not young and Edith is not trained to teach literacy. It turns out to be harder than Edith thought – what she thought Fadila had learnt is forgotten by the following week. This is a novel, but is based on the author’s real experience of trying to teach a Moroccan woman in her 60s to read and write. While the overall themes of immigration and illiteracy could have been interesting, I didn’t like the book very much as I found the multiple descriptions of teaching far too detailed and rather uninteresting. The faithful transcription of Fadila’s way of speaking is also rather difficult to read, and occasionally confusing. There are occasional references to Edith’s work, but they are few and far between. We only learn that Edith is a translator one-third of the the way through the book.
Some books I haven’t read yet
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker. Book originally in Dutch, translated by David Colmer. Winner of the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The novel follows Emilie, a translation professor and Emily Dickinson scholar, who retreats from her life in the Netherlands to an isolated farm house in Wales following an affair with a student.
Gerbrand Bakker (left) and his translator David Colmer (right).
The Missing Shade Of Blue by Jennie Erdal. Lonely Parisian-raised translator Edgar Logan arrives in Edinburgh to study the Enlightenment sage David Hume; once there his life becomes entangled with those of Harry and Carrie, a self-destructive philosopher and his artist wife.
The Past by Alan Pauls. Book originally in Spanish (Argentina), translated by Nick Caistor. This is about a translator who works on movie subtitles and as a conference interpreter. His 12-year relationship with his girlfriend comes to an end and, after some time and a few important events in his life, he starts to suffer from amnesia and language issues: he ends up forgetting the languages he used to work with, which is the nightmare of all translators. In 2007 it also became a film, starring Gael García Bernal, and directed by Hector Babenco.
Kornél Esti by Dezso Kosztolányi. Book originally in Hungarian, translated by Bernard Adams. In 1933, Kosztolányi released a series of short stories whose protagonist is his most famous character, Kornél Esti―sort of the author’s alter ego. Some of this stories gave shape to the “The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti,” a celebrated Hungarian movie from the mid-1990s. Different editions of the book received different names, depending on the short story editors decided to highlight. In Brazil for example it became O tradutor cleptomaníaco (“The Kleptomaniac Translator”), based on the fact that the translator is stealing elements from the original text, such as jewelry, money, chandelier…. It’s a metaphor for the fact that there always seems to be something lost or “stolen” in translation―even though the vast majority of translators do not suffer from kleptomania.
The Translator: A Novel by Nina Schuyler. “When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers from an unusual but real condition — the loss of her native language. Speaking only Japanese, a language learned later in life, she leaves for Japan. There, to Hanne’s shock, the Japanese novelist whose work she recently translated confronts her publicly for sabotaging his work. Reeling, Hanne seeks out the inspiration for the author’s novel — a tortured, chimerical actor, once a master in the art of Noh theater. Through their passionate, volatile relationship, Hanne is forced to reexamine how she has lived her life, including her estranged relationship with her daughter. In elegant and understated prose, Nina Schuyler offers a deeply moving and mesmerizing story about language, love, and the transcendence of family.
The Interpreter by Suzanne Glass. At the end of a demanding day of translating speeches at an international medical conference in Manhattan, Dominique Green accidentally overhears something she is bound by her interpreter’s contract never to reveal. But she can’t forget it.
The Interpreter by Suki Kim. Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system. Young, attractive, and achingly alone, she makes a startling and ominous discovery during one court case that forever alters her family’s history.
Pinball,1973 by Haruki Murakami, translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum. This novel published in 1980 is the second book of the author’s ‘Trilogy of the Rat’ series. The plot centers on the nameless first-person narrator’s brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play.
Cover of the English translation of ‘Pinball, 1973’
Books I have read in English
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. In an unnamed South American country a group of terrorists hold some VIPs hostage; one of the hostages, Gen, is the multilingual interpreter of the Japanese guest of honour. The book explores how the terrorists and hostages cope with living in a house together for several months. Bel Canto won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize in 2002, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named the Book Sense Book of the Year. It sold more than a million copies in the United States and has been translated into thirty languages. I enjoyed this book, although it was rather annoying that Gen was consistently referred to as a translator and not as an interpreter.
The Mission Song by John Le Carre. Interpreter Bruno Salvador is fluent in numerous African languages in London. Sent to a mysterious island in the North Sea to interpret during a secret conference between Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace to a bloody corner of the world. But then he hears something he should not have … . I read this in Mongolia two years ago, and while the story as a whole was interesting enough, from a professional point of view there were a number of inconsistencies concerning Bruno and his work. Conference interpreter Tiina wrote a good review covering these inconsistencies here.
House on Moon Lake by Francesca Duranti. An Italian translator becomes obsessed by a German novel he is translating. I read this a while back but it didn’t leave much of an impression.
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones. Lucy Fly from Yorkshire is a Japanese to English technical translator who’s been living in Tokyo for ten years. She becomes the principal suspect in a murder case when her friend Lily is killed. During the novel you gradually discover how Lucy and Lily became friends, and whether or not Lucy is guilty. Talking about her work Lucy says: “[she] spent her days putting Japanese sentences into English, twisting the words so that the end went at the beginning, articles and plurals appeared, vagaries became specifics”. Lucy’s work, and the Japanese setting are merely backdrops in this mystery, but they add to the strong narrative. A good read.
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. New England professor and translator David Zimmer lost his family in a plane crash and spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. One night his interest is piqued by a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and he embarks on a journey around the world to research a book on Mann, who vanished in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter invites him to meet Hector … . Zimmer is the central character but his translation activity is not really an important part of the story. I read this book a few months ago for a book club and enjoyed it – it reconciled me with Auster as I’d read one of his books 15 years ago (The Music of Chance) and it hadn’t made me want to read any of his others.
The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy. A romantic mistake at the American college where he used to teach has cost Harry Ricks his job and marriage, and he flees to Paris where he ends up having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. He meets beautiful and mysterious Margit, a Hungarian translator, but soon their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events. Margit is not all she seems to be, and Harry finds himself in a nightmare from which there is no easy escape. This is an easy and compelling read, but you might have to suspend your belief in reality. By the way, it’s much better than the film.
Bad Girl: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. Book originally in Spanish (Peru), translated by Edith Grossman. Young Peruvian Ricardo has only two ambitions in life: loving bad girls and living in Paris. He moves to the capital of France, where he becomes a translator and interpreter at UNESCO. His muse will come in the shape of the same woman who takes different forms: an amateur revolutionary in 1960s Paris and Havana, the wife of a British millionaire in 1970s London, and the lover of a Japanese mob boss. The book has several interesting reflections on the profession:
“So what were you Ricardito? Maybe … nothing but an interpreter, somebody, as my colleague Salomón Toledano liked to define us, who is only when he isn’t, a hominid who exists when he stops being what he is so that what other people think and say can pass through him more easily”.
“I had acquired the skill of the good interpreter, which consists in knowing the equivalents of words without necessarily understanding their contents (according to [my colleague], understanding them was a hindrance),”
“[My colleague] never accepted a permanent position because as a freelancer he felt more liberated and earned more money. Not only was he the best interpreter I had met in all the years I earned a living practicing the “profession of phantoms”—that’s what he called it—but he was also the most original.”
[My colleague] asked, “If we suddenly felt ourselves dying and asked ourselves, “What trace of our passage through this dog’s life of drudgery will we leave behind?,’ the honest answer would be: ‘None, we haven’t done anything except speak for other people.’ Otherwise, what does it mean to have translated millions of words and not remember a single one of them, because not a single one deserved to be remembered?”
“I felt less ghostlike as a literary translator then I did as an interpreter.”
Lists of books with linguists as characters
ANCHE NOI SIAMO PROTAGONISTI (in Italian)
Proz Wiki
Books with Translators (Blog entry in “Brave New Words” by B.J. Epstein)
Librarything – forum thread, books with ‘translator’ tag and books with ‘interpreter’ tag.
The programme of Transfiction, the first Conference on Fictional Translators in Literature and Film which took place at the Center for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna in September 2011 includes a number of relevant books.
Carolyn Yohn
July 11, 2012 at 8:32 pm ∞
Thanks for sharing! I have a hard time keeping up with the non-English literary world here in the States… Will definitely be trying to acquire some of the French books listed!
July 14, 2012 at 12:55 am ∞
Voici une page wikipedia sur les interprètes dans la fiction:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interprètes_de_conférence_de_fiction
A vous d’en créer une autre avec les traducteurs 😉
Hélène Alexis
Merci de ces bonnes idées de lecture !
Françoise Wirth
August 14, 2012 at 8:04 pm ∞
A propos des traducteurs/ interprètes de fiction, ne manquez pas le dernier numéro de Traduire (226, juin 2012). Le sommaire en est disponible ici
http://www.sft.fr/traduire-anciensnumeros.html
Sandrine Gaëstel
Another book having a translator as character : “Les larmes du traducteur, journal du Maroc” by Michel Orcel, Grasset. Published about 9 years ago I think. Great insight.
Catharine Cellier-Smart (Smart Translate)
Thanks Beejay, Françoise & Sandrine for your suggestions!
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wordstogoodeffect
November 14, 2012 at 2:04 am ∞
Fascinating post, Catharine. Your comment on Paul Auster struck a chord – I’ve only read one book of his, I think it was the New York trilogy. Which I hated – it was possibly one of the first books I gave up on (I used to always soldier on to the end, thinking that books somehow deserved the effort on my part).
I can’t think of any books I’ve read with linguists as characters – films, yes (Charade stands out). This summer I read “The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai” by Ruiyan Xu – which is about (among other things) a speech therapist trying to restore her patient’s ability to speak his mother tongue (Chinese). However, although I’m interested in both languages and speech, I didn’t enjoy the book at all. It’s for the Oxfam shop, I’m afraid.
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Afternoon Tea with Sara Sheridan
Largs Adults Panel Event / Author Reading Crime, Scottish Writers
Afternoon tea followed by a talk from Edinburgh-born author Sara Sheridan. Sara has received a Scottish Library Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire Book Prize. She sits on the committee for the Society of Authors in Scotland. She's taken part in three '26 Treasures' exhibitions at the V&A, London, The National Museum of Scotland and the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. She occasionally blogs on The Guardian's site about her writing life. She has recently reported for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent. Sara is a member of the Historical Writers Association and the Crime Writers Association. She will talk about the latest Mirabelle Bevan murder mystery Russian Roulette and The Ice Maiden, in which Karina stows away on a ship which she believes will take her to England, but finds herself in ice-bound Antarctica.
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Sri Lanka's On the Radar
With the first direct flights from Gatwick to Colombo already on sale, I reflect on Sri Lanka as a corporate and luxury travel destination.
A Country on the Up
Sri Lanka truly seems to be on the ascendant from a travel industry point of view. The World Travel Industry Report has tipped it as an emerging destination alongside other SLIMMA countries (Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Argentina) just this month, and British Airways is selling seats on its direct Gatwick to Colombo route which will be jetting off three times a week from the 31st of March 2013. These developments are the result of a general economic and political progression that’s been happening in Sri Lanka in recent years after a period of troubles. Previously, there had been devastation in the country after the Asian Tsunami in 2004 and the civil war from 2006, so when peace was declared in the country in 2009, it marked the resumption of growth, and of travel. Now with GDP growth of 8.2%, Sri Lanka has the seventh fastest growing economy in the world. But enough with all the stats, what can Sri Lanka offer the corporate travel industry?
Three Destination Tests
Before seriously considering a new and untested destination I like to reflect on three criteria.
Firstly, there has to be the potential for luxury- this comes from availability of a range of venues and opportunities for relaxation and comfort.
Secondly, there is nothing worse for me than a destination which offers limited scope for entertainment. Our clients should never be bored, so it’s important to have access to a range of activities, or, the means to design activities ourselves.
Thirdly, the ideal destination has to be unusual and exciting for delegates who want to experience something unique.
A Little Luxury?
According to the official tourism website for Sri Lanka, the island has loads to offer in terms of luxury. The Island boasts 14 large 5 star hotels which is a good base for accommodation. There are also many buildings from the colonial period which, by design, suggest power and privilege. Some of these have been turned into more exclusive, smaller boutique hotels which certainly seems to tick the box for luxury accommodation! In addition to hotels, the ‘beauty of Sri Lanka as a destination’ was highlighted by the World Travel Industry Report as a reason to choose the island above a similar destination. The quality of the beaches and general atmosphere seems well suited to luxury travel. What makes Sri Lanka stand out for me as a luxury destination is an emphasis on spiritual and physical healing. The island’s Buddhist history emphasises relaxation and spa treatments. The traditional form of spa services is called Ayurveda. This consists of a mixture of baths, massages, meditation and herbal remedies whilst other forms of eastern and western therapies are now also widely available in spas along the west coast. Overall, the availability of this sort of luxury accommodation and relaxation suggests Sri Lanka’s potential as an elite destination.
But What of Activities?
It is easy to cite the culture of Sri Lanka when looking for activities. There is a wealth of history to be explored and local customs and cuisine to be savoured. However, when looking from a design perspective, it is important to recognise potential to design activities which are off the beaten track. Recent investment in infrastructure leaves opportunities open for designing a unique experience with relative ease. After all, a beautiful blank canvas with good infrastructure is all we need! As for ready-made, tried and tested activities, Sri Lanka surprisingly seems to offer lots of sporting activities. Cycling is a unique but popular way to travel into places where local culture really comes alive, as this report from the independent shows. See the importance of local culture as an integral part of travel in our blog about incentive travel in China. Other than bikes, there are plenty of beaches for water sports which always go down well. It seems that even upon first investigation there would be plenty to ensure our delegates don’t suffer from boredom.
Unique Mystique?
So is Sri Lanka unique enough to add something new to our destination portfolio for corporate clients? Since the very north of Sri Lanka was off limits to tourists until fairly recently it may still be seen as an unusual destination, especially if you leave the comfort of the resort and deliver an activity-filled adventure. There is also the possibility to present Sri Lanka as one of twin centres with the Maldives. BA is even going to touch down in Male on the way to Colombo. This would add an extra dimension to an already exciting destination prospect. In conclusion, Sri Lanka is definitely on the radar for investigating luxury and corporate travel for our clients in 2013. Time will tell whether it can live up to such high expectations.
Why not check out our Pinterest board for some luxury destination inspiration? And let us know on Twitter what you think of judging a destination before the first visit?
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The Real Deal with CompStak Data: Mashable eyeing new NYC headquarters
Published on 26 November
Mashable, the "leading source for news, information & resources for the Connected Generation," is looking to leave its Park Avenue space and lease something much bigger! Check it out below!
Mashable eyeing new NYC headquarters
November 26, 2013 03:50PM By Hiten Samtani
Mashable founder Pete Cashmore and 304 Park Avenue South
Digital news website Mashable is on the prowl for a new headquarters of up to 60,000 square feet, The Real Deal has learned. The burgeoning media organization has been rapidly scaling up its workforce and will leave SL Green Realty’s 304 Park Avenue South next year. CBRE’s Sacha Zarba confirmed that Mashable was shopping for space, but declined to provide further details except to say that the company’s new headquarters would be between 40,000 and 60,000 square feet. Mashable and its 80-plus full-time employees have outgrown its current 17,444-square-foot space at 304 Park Avenue South on East 23rd Street, an insider familiar with the search process told The Real Deal. Mashable would likely look to remain in the Gramercy Park neighborhood, or move to the nearby Flatiron District, the source added. Representatives for Mashable and SL Green couldn’t immediately be reached for comment, but data from CompStak indicates that Mashable’s sublease with IMG Models at 304 Park Avenue South — for which it currently pays rents in the mid-$30s per square foot — expires in September 2014. Founded by Scotland native Pete Cashmore in 2005 as a social media blog, Mashable has rapidly grown into one of the world’s most high-profile digital media websites, and has expanded its coverage in recent years to business, technology and national affairs. It recently hired former New York Times assistant managing editor Jim Roberts to oversee its editorial coverage. TAMI (technology, advertising, media, and information) tenants are usurping financial and legal companies as the power players in the Manhattan office market, as The Real Dealhas reported. Indeed, TAMI tenants accounted for over a quarter of the top ten leasing deals in the first and second quarters of 2013. Recent high-profile TAMI leases include a deal struck by Yahoo, which in May took four floors at the former New York Times building at 229 West 43rd Street and announced its intent to increase its New York presence by 60 percent; and Facebook, which in June took 100,000 square feet at Vornado Realty Trust’s 770 Broadway. Qatari media giant Al Jazeera is also mulling a 200,000-square-foot space at Boston Properties at 250 West 55th Street.
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Brazil is the giant of the Latin American region. It is the world’s fifth largest nation in terms of area and population. Its landmass is far larger than Europe combined or the continental USA, and it is just a small matter of being 35-times larger in area than the entire United Kingdom. Brazil is not really a country, it is more of a continent and you can’t explore continents in just a couple of days, so do give yourself sufficient time when visiting to do Brazil the justice it deserves.
Nine tenths of Brazil lies in the Tropics between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. Covering over half of the continent of South America, Brazil borders every South American country apart from Ecuador and Chile.
For Europeans the Brazilian story began over 500 years ago when on 22 April 1500 the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Álvares Cabral, landed close to what today is Porto Seguro in the state of Bahia. Cabral and his crew – who were greeted warmly by the native Amerindians – may have been the first European visitors, but many more have followed in their footsteps either to visit or to settle.
Brazil currently has a population of approximately 210 million. There are 28 metropolitan areas in the country with a population of over one million, of which São Paulo is the largest with 21 million residents, and Rio de Janeiro second with just over 12 million.
For business Brazil is one of the world’s largest economies and markets. The country is home to the world’s third largest stock exchange; it is one of the world’s top eight agricultural producers; it is the world’s largest exporter of coffee and the largest producer of sugar and orange juice; it is one of the world’s major steel producers and the sixth largest aluminium producer; it is the world’s largest producer of iron ore; it has the largest healthcare market in Latin America; Embraer is the world’s third largest commercial airline manufacturer; Brazilians are the largest consumers of luxury products in Latin America and the world’s eighth largest luxury goods market; the country is the seventh largest producer of vehicles in the world; and 45% of all the energy consumed in Brazil already comes from renewable sources, in part thanks to the world’s largest hydroelectric plant. The numbers are impressive and that is why so many international business executives find themselves on a plane to Brazil, a country that for many nations is their most important trading partner in Latin America.
Latin America’s largest industrial and commercial centre, and often the gateway to Brazil through its modern international airport, is São Paulo. The city is known for being the economic engine that pulls the rest of the Brazilian economy behind it. São Paulo, you will also discover, is one of the world’s great cosmopolitan cities and is only not better known and respected due to the proximity of its somewhat more famous and infamous neighbour, Rio de Janeiro.
Europe to scale when placed over Brazil.
Flying Down to Rio
If people have only heard or only know of one city in Brazil or South America, it will be Rio de Janeiro. A city of unrivalled beauty and fun, once the country’s capital it is rapidly regaining its importance as a business centre thanks to being at the very heart of the Brazilian oil and gas industries. Hosting the 2016 Olympics and the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup has done no harm to the city either in terms of update infrastructure, nor was being elected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Rio has been a global icon ever since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers started “flying down to Rio” back in the 1920s. It is glamorous, sexy and fun. A major city, yet also a tropical beach resort.
Rio is home to globally recognizable attractions that include the statue of Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado Mountain; Sugar Loaf Mountain; the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema; and the Maracanã, a stadium built for the 1950 World Cup, which was rebuilt to host the 2014 World Cup Final, and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics.
Rio is equally famous for its artistic contributions that include bossa nova and samba, as well as the city’s famous carnival. Although today Rio is rivalled in that respect by the carnival celebrations in Salvador and Recife, amongst others. But Rio is also home to Rock in Rio, the largest music festival in South America (which next takes place in September 2019), and the country’s film industry that is behind such global successes as City of God, Central Station and Tropa de Elite. The city has also been the inspiration and backdrop to international productions as 20th Century Fox’s animated hits, Rio and Rio 2; as well as Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist, Blame It on Rio, Moonraker, Notorious, OSS: 117, Expendables, and Twliight: Breaking Dawn. Rio has also been used as the backdrop for many music videos and advertisements, and was seen by billions during the 2014 World Cup.
But Brazil, as many visitors have already discovered, and will be happy to tell you, is much, much more than just Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is a country of many hidden treasures and experiences waiting to be uncovered and discovered, and Rio is just the opening chapter.
As well as being home to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and nearly half of the Brazilian population, the southeast of Brazil is where the historic towns of Minas Gerais are to be found. A collection of towns and villages that make up one of mankind’s great colonial legacies, this in a country that is full of artistic and architectural masterpieces. At last count, Brazil boasts no less than 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites of which the towns of Ouro Preto and Diamantina, and the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus in Congonhas, are in Minas Gerais.
Further to the south is a prosperous, sub-tropical region that has been influenced by the countless European immigrants who have flourished here over the centuries, helping to develop the great cities of Porto Alegre, Florianópolis, and Curitiba. It is the region that is responsible for Brazil’s fine wines and outstanding beef, as well as one of the world’s great natural wonders and one of the most popular tourist sites in Latin America – the waterfalls at Foz do Iguaçu. It is also home to the exceptional beaches of Santa Catarina from where whale watching is growing in popularity; the majestic highlands of Rio Grande do Sul; and the Jesuit Missions.
Five times larger than its North American cousin, Niagara, the 275 individual falls at Foz stretch nearly 1.8 miles (3 kms) across the Iguaçu River to Argentina. The main fall is the largest in the world in terms of volume of water per second and the entire national park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Away from the coast, in the geographical centre of South America, there is Brazil’s Central West that offers the striking contrast between the country’s futuristic capital, Brasília, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in its own right along with the historic centre of nearby Goias, and the Pantanal, Brazil’s own wild west that holds one of the largest and richest reserves of flora and fauna known to man.
In the north the Pantanal links up and merges with the many undiscovered wonders of the Amazon, which has at its heart the man made oasis of Manaus. Once, during the rubber boom, one of the world’s richest and most cosmopolitan cities, today Manaus acts as a gateway for visitors looking to explore the Amazon rainforest. In 2014 it was one of the 12 and most remote host cities for the World Cup.
Over 60% of the Amazon is located in Brazil, it is a rainforest that is responsible for generating over half of the planet’s oxygen while the river, which flows for over 4,200 miles (6,760 kms), pours enough fresh water into the Atlantic on a daily basis to supply the water needs of the UK for over two years.
The Northeast of Brazil, with its mix of tropical beaches and culture, is the country’s very own holiday playground. It spreads from Maranhão in the north to Bahia in the south, by way of such popular coastal destinations as São Luiz, Jericoacoara, Fortaleza, Natal, João Pessoa, Olinda, Recife, Porto de Galinhas, Maceió, Praia do Forte, Salvador, Morro de São Paulo, Trancoso and Itacaré.
In total, Brazil offers its visitors more than 4,500 miles (7,250km) of warm, white beaches that go to make up part of the longest continuous coastline of any country in the world.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Northeast include the historic centres of Salvador, Olinda, São Luis, and São Cristóvão, as well as the Serra da Capivara National Park, the Atlantic Rainforest, and the ecological archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, a highly sought after dive site.
In short, Brazil is a treasure trove of experiences, attractions, and locations just waiting to be unlocked by the discerning traveller.
For a guide to things that are typically but uniquely Brazilian click here
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Jennie Lee ’16
Jennie Lee has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award and will spend 10 months teaching English in Germany. But she won’t be your typical English teacher. Building on the interests and activities she discovered at SMU before graduating in 2016 with bachelor’s degrees in music and world languages, she’ll teach English through extracurricular activities like after-school yoga classes and singing lessons.
“I studied opera in college and got a degree in vocal performance and world languages,” says Lee, who came to SMU from a traditional conservatory prep school background and earned a place in Pi Kappa Lambda, the musical honor society at SMU.
“The thing that drew me to SMU is the ability to get conservatory style training – a super intense, really intense program where I would study arts and music – but also have the opportunity to double major, because I wanted to do that too and a lot of schools don’t offer that,” Lee adds. “That was a huge pull for me at SMU.”
Germany, which is home to one of the world’s leading-edge opera scenes, will offer a perfect place for Lee to continue her study of opera while also staying in touch with her new-found passion for world languages.
“German professor Gordon Birrell (in SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences) really helped me with the Fullbright application and strongly encouraged of to pursue learning German while I was a student at SMU,” Lee says. “He would always support me and answered any questions I had with a lot of enthusiasm, so I think working with the entire world languages department really made me want to go abroad.”
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Spotlight on Mercedes’ New EQ Electric Car
Mercedes is a company that is committed to innovation and their new electric car, the EQ, represents that. EQ is the new generation of electric vehicles that promises the safety, connectivity, functionality, and comfort that you know and expect from Mercedes-Benz. Here’s what you need to know about this car:
About the EQ
EQ stands for “electric intelligence.” Mercedes has a whole line of cars planned for this brand starting with the EQC, an electric crossover. This new generation of electric cars is based on an architecture developed for battery-electric models. And because it’s scalable, it can be used across all models no matter the wheelbase and track width. These components are all variable due to the modular building-block system. The goal with EQ is to have an emission-free future.
The Mercedes EQC SUV
The Mercedes-Benz EQC400 4MATCIC, or the EQC for short, has a clear distinguishing feature, which is on the front end’s black panel. This panel is framed by fibre-optic lighting that surrounds the grille from headlight to headlight. The headlights themselves are blue LEDs. You can choose the wheel size you prefer: 19, 20, or 21 inches. Two of the wheel sizes also come with the option of blue highlights.
These unique features make the ECQ easily recognizable day or night. Instead of a roof rack on the EQC, there are attachment points integrated into the roof to improve the vehicle’s aerodynamics. Other unique style features to the EQC are found on the inside. Rectangular air vents have been swapped for turbine-style vents. The widescreen infotainment system catches the eye with its bold colors. The EQC will feature the MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience) infotainment system, which offers voice recognition, gesture recognition, and gets to know more about you and your habits every time you drive.
The intuitive operating experience allows for a less distracted driver. The highlight of the MBUX system is its touch operation concept. The piano-black surfaces and rose gold accents also add to the interior of the EQC. The variety of colors and finishes in the cabin will be a pleasant surprise.
How the EQ Works
Two electric motors will power the four-wheel drive EQC, one for each set of wheels. Together they will produce 402 brake horsepower and 564lb ft of torque. You’ll be able to go 60mph in just 4.0 seconds with a top speed of 112mph. The EQC will give you approximately 280 miles between charges. You will be able to charge the EQC at home via a wall-box or wall socket and there are plenty of charging stations on the road. The slow-charging process can take hours, but with a fast-charger will get an 80% charge in about 40 minutes. The battery pack features a water-cooled charger. The EQC will offer several driving modes.
This new line of cars from Mercedes is sure to be a hit. The EQC has been designed so that people will instantly know it’s a Mercedes. If you’re in the market for an electric car that offers everything that Mercedes is known for, you should really consider the EQC!
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Whoopi's 'View' on Teacher Tenure
By Mark Walsh on August 6, 2014 5:22 PM | No comments
My colleague Stephen Sawchuk, in his Teacher Beat blog, linked to some video comments on teacher tenure by Whoopi Goldberg this week, and he noted that at the rate celebrities were weighing in on the topic, tenure "may exceed the Common Core State Standards as an education policy lightning rod."
But the "Whoopi's Rant" segment he linked to was only the tip of the iceberg. Goldberg, the host of ABC's "The View," led her co-hosts in a heated discussion on tenure on Monday's and Tuesday's show.
The discussion started during Monday's "hot topics" segment with a mention of one of the two lawsuits challenging New York state's teacher-tenure laws.
"This is for all the teachers in the audience," said Goldberg, suggesting the New York state lawsuit and similar attacks on tenure "will most likely become a big issue in the 2016 presidential elections."
"Now, no one wants a teacher in the classroom who is not a good teacher," Goldberg said.
Regular (and soon departing) co-host Jenny McCarthy cited some of the lawsuit's examples of bad teacher behavior and said: "Who's protecting the students?
Guest co-host Nicolle Wallace, a former communications adviser to President George W. Bush and now a frequent commentator on cable news shows, paraphrased an unspecified op-ed from that morning, saying, "The teachers have a union. The kids don't have a union."
Guest co-host Kayleigh McEnany, another conservative commentator, added some backstage context. "Whoopi, you were sounding a little conservative back in the green room on this one."
Goldberg, the Oscar-winning actress who comes off as liberal on most issues, said: "I'm a thinker. I think about what's best for us. To me, bad teachers don't do anybody any good. So the unions need to recognize that parents are not going to stand for it anymore. And teachers, in your union, you need to say these bad teachers are making us look bad, and we don't want it."
That was Monday. The ladies of "The View" returned to the topic on Tuesday's edition.
Goldberg said, "Yesterday ... some of our viewers lost their minds about this," referring to Twitter reaction and comments that she said failed to understand her point from Monday.
"Let me clarify," Goldberg said. "We were not talking about good teachers, who do a great job. We were talking about getting rid of teachers who don't do a good job."
"This is not about bashing teachers," she added. "We said, teachers who do not do a good job in teaching have no right to have tenure. "
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History Welcomes New Graduate Tutor Tim EllisPost from History at Teesside
Teesside University has recently appointed Tim Ellis as a Graduate Tutor for History. We asked him to tell us about his past and future research.
I am originally from and now live in Sunderland (just 40 minutes away from Middlesborough), but in the past five years, I have spent time in Oxford (where I did my BA at St Hugh’s College) and Belfast (where I completed by my MA at Queens University). I first became fascinated with Irish history at Oxford where I had the great privilege of being taught by Prof. Roy Foster, Dr Senia Paseta and Dr Guy Beiner in my second and third years. On their advice (after taking some time out to backpack around China and teach English in the Amazon rainforest) I spent a year in Belfast, studying a specialist MA in Irish History, under the supervision of such great names as Dr Fearghal McGarry, Prof. Mary O’Dowd, Dr Marie Coleman and Prof. Sean Connolly. During my year at Belfast I became particularly interested in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939. My dissertation examined the role of political cartoons in the political culture of the Free State.
I spent much of my year in Ireland pouring over books in the McClay library and searching through printed cartoons in the National Library in Dublin. Time spent in Belfast City Cemetery, off the Falls Road, cataloguing gravestones as part of Public History internship proved to be a useful counterbalance to time spent in the library. One of my more memorable research trips was to Sligo, on Ireland’s west coast, to visit a remote country house owned by the UK’s first female MP, Constance Markievicz, a renowned Irish republican, socialist and feminist. She is less well known for her incisive political cartoons, produced during the Irish Civil War, 1922-3.
During the course of researching my dissertation, it became apparent that political cartoons were rarely just an innocuous diversion to serious textual discussions in newspapers. They frequently touched on many controversial subjects: such as anti-imperialism, feminism, race and class. During the authoritarian years of the Civil War the political cartoon rarely caught the censor’s attention. Gender was an almost constant theme in Irish political cartoons: whether it was through subtle critiques of the new Irish state’s attitude towards women, or less subtle denigrations of politicians’ masculinity.
My masters’ research got me interested in visual sources in Irish history. Historians, especially those who study Ireland, often neglect visual sources, yet they provide much insight into how the voting public ‘see’ their political leaders. They are vital in fashioning politicians’ public image. In the 1920s and 1930s, democratic and authoritarian leaders across Europe carefully set about using the new media of photography and cinema to promote political support and, in some cases, ultimately build personality cults. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini’s use of visual culture to project a triumphant self-image is well-established. All three figures enjoyed thriving personality cults, which nonetheless lasted no more than three decades.
There was one leader in Europe whose personality cult was far more enduring than any of the dictators. This leader exerted a magnetic hold on his nation’s politics from 1916 to 1975. He enjoyed a personality cult which lasted longer than that of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin or Franco. He created a political party which came first in every general election held between 1932-2007 (inclusive). Surprisingly, this leader was not the leader of a totalitarian dictatorship, but rather one of the most democratic nations in the world: Eamon de Valera, the central figure of twentieth-century Ireland.
Little research has been done on the creation, maintenance and operation of the de Valera cult. However, I am convinced the use of visual media played a part. De Valera owned and operated a newspaper which was very sympathetic to him and his party (the Irish Press), which frequently featured large front page images of himself. De Valera had a talent for the theatrical; for choreographed public spectacle, appearing conspicuously with the Papal legate at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. He famously conducted late-night visits to Irish villages, on horseback, wrapped in a black cloak, accompanied by torch-bearing followers.
His political rivals were equally conscious of the importance of the visual in creating electoral support. William Cosgrave (de Valera’s predecessor as head of government) was the first Irish leader to speak to the electorate on film, and his party (Cumman na nGaedheal) commissioned slick election posters, produced with the help of Ireland’s new advertising agencies. Eoin O’Duffy, the leader of Ireland’s ‘Fascist’ movement, ‘the Blueshirts’, was equally a manipulator of the visual and the theatrical, staging rallies and appearing (more unusually) in photo-shoots with Hollywood film stars.
My PhD examines the role of the visual in Irish political culture, 1922-39. It will firstly examine the changing nature of image control by politicians: comparing and contrasting the censorship of images in newspapers during the Civil War, with de Valera’s careful management of the Irish Press in the 1930s. It will then ask the more complex question: ‘how did the Irish public view images of their politicians?’ looking at complex role of symbolism played in a politician’s self-presentation at public events. As my MA dissertation has already shown, images of politicians frequently intersected with contemporary discourses of class, race and masculinity in Irish society. Something as simple as an item of clothing carried several loaded meanings. Headgear was particularly controversial.
I am carrying out this research thanks to generous support from Teesside University who have generously appointed me to the new position of Graduate Tutor, where I will be funded to carry out both research and teaching. I currently teach European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to first years, an experience which I am finding so far to be both enjoyable and stimulating. I am also supported intellectually by my supervisor, Dr Roisin Higgins, who is a key part of a burgeoning Irish history research community in the North East of England. Her research interests in the political use of spectacle by the Irish government make her an ideal supervisor for this thesis. She is joined by Professor Nigel Copsey whose research and expertise on Fascism will no doubt allow him to offer sound advice on the wider European context to this study, and on the role of the Fascist-leaning Eoin O’Duffy. Dr Linsey Robb will also be able to offer supervision and advice on all aspects of this thesis concerning the visual representation of masculinity: a research interest which will be carried over from my MA dissertation.
I am also excited to be joined by a fellow PhD student, Sean Donnelly, who is currently examining the role of Cumman na nGaedheal in the early years of the Irish state, from a new theoretical angle, that of post-colonialism. Irish historiography has traditionally been rather intellectually conservative: suspicious of new theoretical angles and restrictive in the sources it often employs, though this is now beginning to change. The recent centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising has injected much new international attention into Irish history. Irish historians are now increasingly beginning to employ transnational and gendered perspectives in their work, and are also turning to material and visual sources to provide new insight on key events in Irish history. Both Dr Higgins and many of the academic staff at Queens University Belfast who taught me have played a key role in this regard. As a community, Irish historians now find themselves in a very exciting time for their discipline.
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RHS Symposium: Political Thought in Revolutionary Ireland c.1913-23, Teesside University, 8/9 September 2016Post from History at Teesside
Royal Historical Society Symposium
Political Thought in Revolutionary Ireland, c1912-23
Teesside University 8-9 September 2016
TG.02, the Curve
Thursday 8th September
5.00 – 5.45: Tour of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima)
6.00- 7.30: Reception (with music, poetry and prose) in the Curve, Middlesbrough Campus.
9.00-9.15: Registration in the foyer of the Curve.
9.15-10.00 Prof Senia Paseta (University of Oxford)
‘Feminist Political Thought’
10.00-11.00 Dr Colin Reid (Northumbria University)
‘Unionist Political Thought’
Dr James McConnel (Northumbria University)
‘The Political Thought of the Irish Parliamentary Party’
11.20-11.50 His Excellency Dan Mulhall, Irish Ambassador to Britain
11.50-1.10: Dr Ultán Gillen (Teesside University)
‘Empire and Irish Political Thought’
Dr Charlie McGuire (Teesside University)
‘Socialism in Ireland’
Dr Roisín Higgins (Teesside University)
‘The Politics of Patrick Pearse’
2.00-3.00: Dr Lauren Arrington (Liverpool University)
‘The Political Ideology of Countess Markievicz’
Dr Emmet O’Connor (Ulster University)
‘The 1919 Democratic Programme’
3.00-4.00: Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (Sheffield University)
‘Republican Political Thought after 1916’
Dr Marc Mulholland (Oxford University)
‘The Counter-Revolution’
4.30-5.30: Keynote Address: Prof Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Reflections on the Political Thought of the Irish Revolution’
The event is free. To register contact arts@tees.ac.uk.
The organisers are grateful for the support of the Royal Historical Society
Author MarkPosted on August 1, 2016 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
Holocaust Memorial Day Programme 2016Post from History at Teesside
ALL EVENTS HELD IN THE TOWER BUILDING, TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
12:00-1:00pm – Commemorative Service: Don’t Stand By (CLT)
– Prayers, readings and reflections
1:00-1:30pm – Coffee and Seminar Registration (CLT Foyer)
1:30-2:30pm – Professor Frank McDonough, Liverpool John Moores (CLT)
‘The Gestapo and the Persecution and Deportation of the Jews’
2:45-3:45pm – Parallel Seminar Sessions:
A) Paul Grace, PhD. student, Fine Art (CLT)
‘Bystander – Witness: The Act of Spectatorship’
B) Mark Handscomb, Media and Journalism Lead (M4.04)
‘Not Standing By: Survivor Stories from the Holocaust’
C) Paul Stocker, PhD. student, CFAPS (M5.02)
‘Wars of Memory: The Holocaust in Contemporary Estonia’
D) Teesside History Undergraduates (M5.03)
‘Stand up and speak out!’
E) Teesside History Undergraduates (M5.04)
‘Examples of Bystanders in the Third Reich and Holocaust’
4:00-5:00pm – Chris Webb, Director of holocaustresarchproject.org (CLT)
‘Oskar Schindler: From Bystander to Saviour’
5:00-6:00pm – Mark Handsomb, Media and Journalism Lead (CLT)
Screening of Holocaust films and Survivors’ testimonies
* Through the month of January 2016 there will be an exhibition of Chris Webb’s private photographic archive on Jewish persecution and bystanders under the Third Reich, to be held in the Constantine Gallery, The Tower Building
Red Army Footage of the Liberation of Auschwitz
Entrance is free, but booking is necessary. To reserve your place, please contact J.Whittaker@tees.ac.uk OR arts@tees.ac.uk
Hosted by the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies, Teesside University, working in partnership with Middlesbrough Council
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
– Martin Niemöller, imprisoned in Nazi Germany
Author MarkPosted on January 25, 2016 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
Dear Mrs Pennyman…Post from History at Teesside
Photo: Mary Pennyman, E. O. Hoppé © 2015 Curatorial Assistance, Inc. / E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection
Bessie Walker from York had been married only six weeks when the platoon lieutenant wrote to say that her husband had been killed shortly before the end of the First World War. She wrote: ‘I try to be a comfort to his poor old Dad & Mother, they feel it dreadful. Perhaps its wicked to say so, but I sometimes wish I could be old with them, as life feels rather empty at times.’ A new Heritage Lottery project aims to discover what happened to Bessie Walker and women like her in the years that followed.
The project, co-ordinated by Dr Roisín Higgins, at Teesside University, is inspired by 120 letters discovered by volunteer archivists at Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough. Mary Pennyman was the secretary of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Widows and Orphans Fund and was just 26 years old when she began writing to the wives and mothers of men who were missing or killed during the First World War. The letters from cross Britain and Ireland, which are now held in Teesside Archives, provide a window into the thoughts and feelings of women who would otherwise remain unnoticed by history, and this makes them very valuable.
Image copyright: Teesside Archives
Through their letters we encounter these women at a moment of profound sadness. Most try to manage their grief through recourse to religious beliefs and a sense of patriotic duty but occasionally fear, sorrow and even anger seep into their correspondence.
Pennyman’s role was to provide practical advice about pensions and recovery of personal effects. However she also asked the women about their lives and became a point of emotional support. One widow, Mary Smith from Sanquar, had to sell her house and take a position as a Lady’s maid. She wrote ‘… it is all too sad as we were so devoted to each other, I get about a great deal with my Lady and my mind is partly taken up with my work that really I shouldn’t grumble, I often think of those who are left worse off than I am’. By researching Mary’s story the project will bring greater understanding not just to the life of a Lady’s maid but also to the way in which women’s social and economic status were changed by war.
Pennyman herself is also an interesting figure. Her husband, a machine-gun officer, was declared missing during the war and this helped to bridge the class gap between her and the women who wrote asking for help. She tried to find ways to console them and wrote to one widow, ‘I am very glad to hear you have the children, they will make all the difference to you, for you will feel that you have something of your husband.’ Mary Pennyman died in childbirth at 35 and had no children.
Many First World War projects focus on the dead; this one focuses on those who had to live on.
Roisín Higgins will train and support two student interns and a number of volunteers to research the lives of the women who wrote to Mary Pennyman and the project will tell their stories. Through the letters it will be possible to build a picture of the struggles and triumphs of women’s lives in the post-war period.
The ‘Dear Mrs Pennyman’ project will share its work online. The letters are being digitized and a website is being constructed which will have a crowd-sourcing facility so that members of the public can get involved and contribute information. Public events will be organized to share the project’s findings and to learn from the experiences of volunteers. The culmination of this work will be an exhibition to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice in 2018. This will provide a point of reflection on the impact of war on individual lives and on the fact that, for many, the ending of the war did not mean the end of sorrow. Ada Thornton from Sheffield wrote that she was not so anxious about the war ending now that her brother was dead, ‘You’ll understand this won’t you. We shall have no one coming home’.
Mary Walton from Colne who was one of the young women who wrote to Mary Pennyman. Image copyright: Teesside Archives
For more information contact R.Higgins@tees.ac.uk
Author MarkPosted on November 2, 2015 November 9, 2015 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
Dr Neil Armstrong. Post from History at Teesside
It is with great sadness that the History Section at Teesside University learned of the tragic and sudden death of our friend and colleague, Dr Neil Armstrong.
Neil was a talented colleague, scholar and teacher. Anyone who worked with him knew the uncompromising dedication and dry wit that made him popular with both staff and students.
An expert on the history of Christmas in the nineteenth century and on religion in twentieth-century Britain, Neil contributed immensely to every aspect of the work of the History Section since joining us in June 2010.
Margaret Hems, head of the History Section, said:
“Neil’s death is a grievous loss not only to those of us who worked with him in History at Teesside University, but also to the wider community of social and cultural historians, nationally and internationally. He will be greatly missed and fondly remembered.
We at Teesside send our sincerest condolences to Neil’s wife Catriona and his wider family.”
Author MarkPosted on March 30, 2015 November 9, 2015 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
Remembering Evacuation. Post from History at Teesside
As part of a Knowledge Exchange Project for last year’s third year module, ‘The People’s War’, Catherine Hulse interviewed a relative who had been evacuated during the Blitz.
From the outset of the ‘People’s War’ the whole nation, even children, were included. With technological advancements made in the interwar years and the growing tensions in Europe, aerial bombardment posed a huge threat and in 1938 Sir Arthur MacNalty, Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education stated that ‘the industrial cities of our land are no longer fenced cities for the little ones, but may become the most vulnerable centres of attack’. The sheer idea of evacuating a whole generation of children without their parents was unprecedented, but now the danger seemed so great that a full evacuation plan was devised and in place by summer 1939.
On the 1st September, two days before the official announcement of conflict, the official move from city to country began – in this first transition 827,000 school-aged children left their homes. These children were not just a uniform mass, but individuals with individual experiences, and it is crucial that we listen and record them while the opportunity is still available. One child who did not have the experience that one might expect from the reading of history books was Marlene Williams, now Kenneally, who shares her story below. At the start of the War she was just short of five and living in Forest Gate, Greater London.
Photographs from http://www.bbc.co.uk
We understand that you were not evacuated in 1939 in the main national scheme – what happened that caused you to eventually be sent away?
We lived very close to Wanstead Flats, which in the first year of the War was home to the army and there was a huge anti-aircraft gun battery – this was a main target for the Germans.* Our house was directly hit on the 20th September 1940 – many houses in our road were demolished that night. The blast caused everything in the shelter to become dislodged and I can remember choking on the dust… we were trapped for a day and a half.
* Over thirty high explosive bombs directly hit Wanstead Flats in the Blitz, and two hundred and sixteen fell on the Royal Docks to the south, another obvious key target.
That must have been terrifying! What was it like when you finally got out?
Horrific. There were chairs, other furniture, bedding and curtains high in the trees which were blown up by the blast, the only things we were left with were our nightclothes which we were wearing. Next door, only the children survived, and they had to be pulled out through the coal hole. The WVS (Women’s Voluntary Service) washed us, sorted out our grazes and found us some clothes.
Where were you eventually taken?
At first to Saxmundham near Ipswich – there was me, my mum and brother, and many others who travelled there by open top lorry and who were taken in by a farmer the first night. The next day we set off for Aylesbury, and lived in Waddesdon Village Hall for about a week.
During the war, Suffolk, where Marlene spent her first night away, saw so many more children from Dagenham, less than ten miles from Forest Gate, arrived than had been expected that no billets could be found for them and some had to be put up in temporary accommodation without bedding or blankets. So much attention had been paid to the logistics of getting children away, that the consideration of how they would fare and how the receiving communities would cope was neglected.
What was your experience of the temporary accommodation like, and what happened to you after leaving it?
We were all given sacks which we had to fill with straw for a mattress and very hairy, itchy blankets. I will never forget the smell of oil stoves and the vats of vegetable soup.
We were eventually allotted the Water House at Winchendon which we shared with another family – two rooms each. Water from the pump, no gas or electricity. The Red Cross gave us each a camp bed , enamel mug and plate, knife fork and spoon, oil lamp, kettle and two big pots.
What was the Waterhouse like, and how was life there, given how little you really had?
It was at top of a field, church and graveyard next to us and farm at the bottom, where the farmer let us have eggs and milk. We grew all our own vegetables. From the top of the hill we could see London burning. They (the Luftwaffe) used to drop masses of incendiary bombs and the sky on the horizon was bright red – it happened night after night so we were constantly fearful for our family and friends. The school was five miles away and we walked. My brother and I regarded it as a great adventure, but how terrible for the women especially as their husbands could be anywhere. It was my birthday seven days after we were bombed out and Mum made me a doll out of a stocking. No arms or legs but she had managed to get some wool to embroider eyes and a mouth and wrapped it round with a piece of rag. My dad visited us on compassionate leave and chopped a great pile of logs; also bought a small axe for my brother to make life easier. The clothing was indescribable, all second hand via Red Cross, and we had to line shoes with paper cut outs to try and keep wet out. Can only remember one Christmas there and Mum made me a dress out of white crepe paper. It was very poverty stricken.
Where did you go from there?
In 1942 when the air raids subsided we came home and stayed with my Auntie Bessie in Ilford as we were homeless. We continued to have raids however, and we would all dress up every night to get in the shelter. The mums made them fun nights with all kinds of word and number games and then we would all crawl out in the morning to see what damage had been done. I was evacuated again before the V1s and V2s started to become a threat. Remember the fear when we heard about the next thing we had to look forward to. No warning just bang. Everyone was very scared.
The arrival of the V1 and V2s brought about a so called ‘second blitz’ between 1944 and 1945. Over four hundred of the latter, the more sophisticated and accurate V2s, hit London and its immediate surroundings. Ilford, being in the east side of Greater London, suffered greatly in this time – it was the worst affected area by the V2 rockets, being struck 35 times (and 34 times by V1s). This led to another flurry of evacuation, largely in a scheme known as Operation Rivulet which saw many of London’s schoolchildren evacuated, in some cases, like Marlene’s, for the second time.
How did you feel at having to leave home again?
I went on my own that time and was very sad to leave my mum but not my brother who I thought was a clever bossy boots. The train journey took about eight hours but I was still full of optimism and looking forward to the new life. I was very lucky but some children had a very bad time.
How unlike the first evacuation was it?
I was billeted with a very wealthy family in Yorkshire, so very different to the first evacuation. The house I was taken to was huge with three storeys and three double fronts with tennis courts, a huge summerhouse for entertaining, stables, and a river at bottom of garden with a boat. We had a nursery equipped with every game imaginable and a full sized billiard table. ‘Uncle Paul’ was the village doctor and also Medical Officer for West Riding of Yorkshire, his surgery and dispensary were in the house. They also had a farm at Seatoller in the Lake District where we would go for a month each Easter and another at Morecambe Bay where we would spend August. I had never seen so much food in my life – huge platters of sausages, bacon, eggs and fried bread.
It sounds as though you were treated well?
They were a very kind family – they had three boys and had always wanted a girl, so yes, I was very well looked after. I was started on music lessons, taught how to swim and play tennis, and when we went to the Lake District, was kitted out with walking boots and kilt. I was lucky – two sisters who lived in my road were so unhappy and badly treated that their mother took them home.
For some children, the experience of evacuation was nothing less than traumatic, as suggested by the sisters Marlene knew. Problems ranged from billets being simply unsuitable, to cases of child neglect and even child cruelty. Another lady who visited her evacuated younger brother and sister in their time away saw the effects of this. The siblings begged to be brought home for they were so hungry from being given so little food that they had broken into the pantry and stolen a jar of jam, and as a result had been beaten. Such experiences add strength to Juliet Gardiner’s argument that children’s loss was compounded by the draining away of their normal expectations of childhood, years that could never be recovered. Marlene’s story, to a large extent, fights back at such a generalization – thankfully there were children who were given wonderful opportunities and treated with much kindness and care. Even so, most children experienced home sickness in some form as Marlene went on to tell us. They also had very mixed feelings about returning to their old lives at the end of the War.
I always felt rather distant from ‘Auntie Eileen’, although she was very kind. The family’s beautiful red setter, Rhoda, became my saviour, something I could cuddle – she and I were inseparable. She would run by the bike each morning when I went to school and every afternoon she would be by the school gate waiting. I was torn in half when it was time to come home, desperately wanting to see everyone but was devastated at the thought of leaving Rhoda. I remember sitting in the stable with her telling her not to go to school anymore and it was this that upset me so. When I got home there was much whispering about me wishing to be back up north but I could not even speak about Rhoda without crying, so could not say what was really wrong but I did love being home. I went back in summer holidays every year until Rhoda died and I couldn’t go any more.
Evacuation is an important and unique part of British history. This article has hopefully not only demonstrated the realities of the danger on home soil and how many complex issues there were associated with evacuation, but also shown that feelings and stories are as important as solid facts in remembering and learning about the past. The experience of all the children who were part of this piece of history cannot be summed up in one paragraph, for they varied greatly. The way evacuation both affected and was affected by the government and other large organizations, and the social issues that arose from it, whilst not unimportant by any standards, will forever be available in books and on the internet. People, on the other hand, will not last forever, and their memories and stories should be captured while they can be, treasured and learnt from.
Catherine Hulse is currently studying for an MA at the University of Glasow
Author MarkPosted on January 21, 2015 November 9, 2015 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
Funded PhD Opportunities in History at Teesside. Post from History at Teesside
History at Teesside is part of not one but two consortia that offer funded PhD opportunities.
If you wish to apply for a PhD in the AHRC-funded Heritage Consortium, the deadline is Thursday 26th February. Click here for the details of how to apply.
We are also part of the North of England Consortium for the Arts and Humanities, and you can apply to study any area of history. The deadline is Thursday 5th March. Click here for details of how to apply.
A Journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Post from History at Teesside
Teesside University students are making arrangements to travel to Poland early next year so we asked students Sophie Fixter and Matthew Jones, who made the trip last year, to reflect on their experience.
After a long journey to Krakow, travelling through the night, we settled into our hotel ready to begin our visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau the next morning. It was an early morning start travelling to the most infamous concentration camp of the Second World War, Auschwitz. On arrival the sheer scale of the camp was truly overwhelming. We met with our guide who assured us this would be one of the most memorable mornings that we, as young historians, would ever experience.
We walked through the entrance gate to the camp. It was harrowing to remember that over seventy years ago so many people had walked through these gates not knowing the torture that their lives would now become. As a group we travelled through the camp passing by barracks and housing for the inmates, perhaps the most shocking barrack shown was Block Ten, the Reproductive Test Centre, this was shut off to the public.
We saw the ‘execution wall’ which was placed casually between barracks, the bullet holes clear to the eye in the concrete. Our tour guide told us that a girl aged nine was the youngest victim of the execution wall which was mainly used to execute those openly going against the Nazis.
Seeing the gas chambers for ourselves is an image which will always stay with us, the building was built with thick concrete slabs, however, when you look on the inside there were claw marks of hundreds of desperate people. It is hard to imagine the desperation faced by these people; that they would physically try and escape what is clearly inescapable.
After an emotional and long morning we paused for a break whilst travelling to Birkenau. The short coach journey led us to the much larger camp. We stood at the infamous train tracks and paused. Seeing this for ourselves and imagining what people felt arriving to the unknown was really difficult for the group. Although close to a busy main road, once entering the camp it became eerily quiet. The image here was the stereotypical view of what you expect a concentration camp to look like, barracks for as far as the eye can see.
We were again taken around by our guide who showed us where Mengele had performed his experiments, where the women were kept and where the Nazis had blown up even more barracks in a desperate attempt to cover up their actions.
The journey back to the hotel that night was very quiet and reflective. As historians we had read widely about the Nazi extermination camps, but seeing it with our own eyes underlined their magnitude.
Galicia Museum
The second day was another early start which began with a short walk from the hotel down to the Jewish quarter of Krakow and a visit to the Galicia Museum. We were taken around the permanent exhibition, ‘Traces of Memory’, by a guide. This was very much a contemporary look at the Jewish past in Poland.
The exhibition was made up of photographs by the late Chris Schwarz along with words from Professor Jonathan Webber. The aim of the exhibition was to offer a new way of looking at the Jewish past in Poland and it pieced together artefacts of the lives and culture of Jews in Polish Galicia. This was both thought-provoking and very informative and shed light on how the Jewish population had settled in Eastern Europe.
A replica of the wall that surrounded the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow during the Nazi occupation.
The exhibition was divided into five sections. The first section, ‘Jewish life in ruins’, includes images of destroyed synagogues and the second section, ‘Jewish culture as it Once Was’, displays remaining signs of the original Jewish culture and indicates how strong this culture once was in Poland.
An original Star of David arm band that the Nazis forced the Jewish population to wear to single them out.
The third section then took us onto ‘Sites of Massacre and Destruction’ which shows some of the true horrors of the Holocaust. We were shown graphic images of what happened to Galicia Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Images from Auschwitz were included in this section and, after our visit the previous day, we had a much deeper understanding of what we were viewing.
The fourth section, ‘How the Past is being Remembered’, recognises the efforts that are being made to preserve the traces of Jewish memory. The final section of the exhibition, ‘People Making Memory Today’, was mainly to remember the past and offer hope to the future. This was cleverly done by showing what people are doing today to recreate the memory of the Jewish past in Poland. This ended the tour of the exhibition on a more positive note than it started.
Oskar Schindler’s Factory
We crossed the Wisla River to Number 4 Lipowa Street, which was the site of Oskar Schindler’s Factory and is now a museum. The museum is devoted to the wartime experience in Krakow under the five-year Nazi occupation during the Second World War. The exhibition combines period artefacts, photographs and documents along with multimedia in an attempt to create a fully inclusive experience.
Oskar Schindler’s desk
The exhibition takes you on a journey from pre-war Krakow to the Soviet capture of the city. In between there were various themed sections including the sorrows of everyday living in the ghetto, the resistance movement, family life and the war time history of the Krakow Jews. Again this was an informative and thought-provoking experience.
Meeting Lidia Maksymowicz
After lunch we met back at the Galicia museum for a meeting with an Auschwitz survivor, Lidia Maksymowicz. Lidia was a Russian political prisoner and was only three years old when she arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother and grandparents. Lidia told us how her grandparents were selected for gassing straight away and her mother was put to work and Lidia herself was sent to the children’s huts.
Lidia explained to the group how she was one of Dr Mengele’s “Patients” and how all the children feared him. After the Red Army liberated the camp Lidia was adopted by a local Polish family. Her biological mother survived Auschwitz after being sent on one of the infamous death marches when the Nazis retreated westwards. Although Lidia was told that her mother had died, she did track her down and was reunited nineteen years after leaving Auschwitz.
Meeting Lidia and hearing her story was a humbling and emotional experience. At one point during her talk she lifted up her cardigan arm to display the original number that had been tattooed on her arm by the Nazis after her arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau. She went on to explain that she looked at it every day to remind herself of the struggles that the victims of the camp faced.
The trip was both an enlightening and a humbling experience that everybody who attended will not forget. The effects of the Holocaust are still evident today and after going to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the museums, and especially after meeting Lidia, we feel a sense of responsibility to pass the experiences on to others so the horrors of the Holocaust will never be forgotten.
Author MarkPosted on October 30, 2014 November 9, 2015 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
Grief and the First World War: Student as Researcher. Post from History at Teesside
Teesside University runs a Student as Researcher scheme which provides funding for students to undertake research alongside members of staff. In 2014 History at Teesside was given the opportunity to employ two third-year students to undertake archival research into the home front in the Tees Valley during the First World War. This work will form a significant part of the University’s community outreach activities during the centenary period. Ami Becker discusses her research.
The ‘students as researchers’ scheme is something I am incredibly grateful to have been part of. I have just completed my BA (Hons), and the aspect I found most enjoyable on the course was using archives and libraries to gain insight into contemporary experiences, and so instantly I was extremely interested. The areas I explored as part of this scheme were grief and memorial, and I did this by producing a report on letters from and to Mary Pennyman at Ormesby Hall during and after the war, and another report detailing the history of the development of the Dorman War Memorial on Linthorpe Road, both accompanied by primary sources.
Mrs Pennyman, who lived at Ormesby Hall, became the secretary of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Battalion Widows & Orphans Fund after the First World War. She wrote to widows offering financial and emotional assistance, ensuring they were comfortable financially, and were aware of the pensions available to them. By reading the incredibly emotional letters written in reply, it is clear the soldiers’ deaths not only mean a sacrifice of one life, but that their wives’, and families’ lives also alter drastically. So often the deaths of the soldiers are the focus of memorial, but this research, both in Teesside Archives and at Ormesby Hall, provided a voice for those at home who had to recover and build a life around this loss.
The letters also make clear the struggle of those who never received any information on their husbands’ death, or anything physical to mourn. Many soldiers remained missing or unidentified, and this proved to be very difficult. Following the greatest loss of fathers in British history, wives had to deal with practical problems such as making sure their children were not distracted from their schoolwork, and earning money to feed and clothe their children. This is regrettably not a point of view I had previously given much thought to, and I am glad that I am able to present this interpretation to the public.
I also studied the history of the Dorman War Memorial, for which I read War Memorial Committee minute books. It was clear that whilst there was substantial public support for a memorial, the direction in which the memorial went was not particularly supported. It is clear that the public would have preferred something functional, such as a hospital, a crèche, or an art gallery. However, Arthur Dorman donated the land upon which the cenotaph was erected, provided a monetary donation toward the final product and was influenced by the cenotaph in London, and decided that Middlesbrough was to have a cenotaph as well. As a result, it became difficult to raise funds for the memorial. It was particularly interesting to compare the minutes to photographs of the unveiling, which suggest that there was substantial support from the public, in spite of the lack of financial support.
To provide context to this, I also researched the importance of memorial and the First World War, and realised that I had not previously appreciated the significance of war memorials to those who had lost somebody in the War. The construction of thousands of war memorials following the Great War has been described as ’one of the greatest spontaneous public-sponsored building projects in history’, and some will argue they provide surrogate graves for the war dead.
I have particularly appreciated gaining insight into personal experiences, and exploring alternative points of view. I very much look forward to sharing our reports and documents with the public, and am extremely grateful to have been able to partake in the scheme. It has been invaluable to me both in terms of employability and enjoyment, and it has been very exciting to explore how an international event on such a huge scale affected ‘normal’ people in my hometown.
Student As Researcher Opportunities, Including in History. Post from History at Teesside
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Teesside University undergraduate students to undertake some short term work as research assistants over the summer, supporting academic staff at Teesside with their research projects.
A position is available for a History student to work with Dr Roisín Higgins on an outreach project that examines the First World War in the North East of England.
If you can answer ‘yes’ to all or some of the following statements this opportunity could be for you!
I can commit 65 hours over the next few months
I am interested in doing research as part of my job when I complete my undergraduate studies
I am considering doing a Masters, or a research degree
I particularly enjoy the research elements of my programme/course
I am organised and committed to my subject area
There are 10 projects in a number of areas. The rate of pay is £5.70 per hour (if you are aged 18-20) or £7.02 per hour (if you are aged 21 or over). The hours will be spread over the summer by negotiation with the project leader.
For more information about the student researcher scheme, the projects, and details of how to apply, go to: http://ift.tt/1fUsfeS
The deadline for applications is Friday 23rd May 2014.
If you have any further queries, or if you have difficulties accessing the link above, contact: joanne.davies@tees.ac.uk
Author MarkPosted on May 7, 2014 November 9, 2015 Format ImageCategories HistoryTags HistoryatTeesside History at Teesside
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The Scottish-American Influence
Of the fifty-six members of the Continental Congress of 1776 who signed the Declaration of Independence, James Wilson of Pennsylvania and John Witherspoon of New Jersey were natives of Scotland. William Hooper of North Carolina, George Ross of Delaware, Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Virginia, and Philip Livingston of New York were of Scottish descent. Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire and James Smith and George Taylor of Pennsylvania were natives of Ulster; and Thomas McKean of Pennsylvania and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina were of Ulster-Scottish descent. John Hart of Hunterdon County, N. J., and Abraham Clark of Elizabeth, N. J., both from their names and the fact that both were from centers of Scottish settlement, were doubtless of Scots descent. Robert R. Livingston of New York and John Houston of Georgia, both of Scots descent, were active members of the Congress, but were absent on duty when the engrossed copy was signed (August 2, 1772) and their names do not appear.
Dr. John Witherspoon, one of the leaders in the movement for independence and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born in the parish of Yester, February 5, 1722. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, and at the age of twenty-one was licensed to preach. He shortly afterwards became minister of Beith in Ayrshire, and held that charge for twelve years. He then accepted a call to Paisley, and remained there until 1768. His position in Scotland was a prominent one and Aberdeen University marked its appreciation of his scholarship by conferring on him the degree of D.D. in 1764. His essays and sermons were reviewed in the leading magazines of London and Edinburgh as often as they appeared, and a number of them were translated into Dutch.
In 1766 he received a unanimous invitation from the trustees of the College of New Jersey to become its president. At first he was unwilling to accept, but found it his duty to do so when the call was repeated, and arrived in America with his family in August, 1768. When the Continental Congress met at Philadelphia in September, 1774, he represented his county at the New Jersey convention for the election of delegates to that Congress. In 1776 he was elected to the New Jersey Provincial Congress, where he played a prominent part not only in unseating British rule in the colony, but also in the deposition of William Franklin, New Jersey’s last royal governor. His energetic action in these matters caused him to be elected one of the five representatives of New Jersey in the senior body (June, 1776), with definite instructions to vote for independence and the declaration of that independence. To a member of the Continental Congress who said that the colonies were not yet ripe for a declaration of independence Wither-spoon replied, “In my judgment, sir, we are not only ripe, but rotting.” He held his seat in Congress through 1782, with the exception of the year 1780. In addition he served on three important committees, the Committee on Clothing for the troops, the Board of War and the Committee on Secret Correspondence. While holding his seat in Congress he did not neglect his college, and did not fail to attend every meeting of the Board of Trustees and presided at every Commencement, and indeed all his time spared from public service was devoted to his classes. On the reconstruction of the Presbyterian Church in America after the war the task fell to him to direct the framing of the new order. As the most prominent Presbyterian in the young Republic he was chosen to preach the opening sermon at the meeting of the first Assembly (May, 1789), and to preside as the first Moderator. His latter years it is regrettable to add were clouded by financial embarrassment, by ill health, and for more than two years before his death by blindness. The end came suddenly to him, November 15, 1794, in the seventy-third year of his age. He lies buried in the Presidents’ Lot in the Princeton Cemetery.
Hon. Thomas McKean (1734-1817) was born of Scottish parents in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar when he was twenty-one years of age. He was for seventeen years a member of the General Assembly; a member of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765; the only member of the Continental Congress who served continuously from 1774 to 1783, and president in 1781; and from 1777-1779 Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. He was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1799 and twice re-elected, serving until 1808.
George Ross was born in Newcastle, Delaware, in 1730, son of Rev. George Ross, a former Presbyterian minister of Scotland who had entered the Church of England and came to America in 1703 as rector of the church in Newcastle. The son received the best education the colonies afforded, was a lawyer and statesman of superior ability, an upright judge, of singular sweetness and modesty of character, and had been the King’s prosecutor and a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania previous to the war.
He was a valued member of the Continental Congress from 1774-1777, when compelled to retire on account of ill-health. He served on nearly all the important committees, including that with General Washington and Robert Morris appointed to devise a national flag. To Elizabeth Griscom, “Betsy Ross,” the wife of John Ross, nephew of George Ross and son of Rev. Aeneas Ross, the making of the first flag was entrusted. George Ross died July 14, 1779, in Philadelphia.
Dr. Matthew Thornton was born in Ulster about 1714. He was brought to this country by his father when only about three years of age, the family settling first in Wicasset, Me., and afterward in Worcester, Mass. Dr. Thornton was a noted physician and Revolutionary patriot, and afterward was Chief Justice of Common Pleas of New Hampshire and a member of Congress. He died in 1803.
Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) was a brother of John Rutledge and the youngest son of the Ulster-Scot, Dr. John Rutledge, who came to South Carolina in 1735. He was educated in law at the Temple, London, and was a member of the Continental Congress 1774-1777. He served on many important committees, and with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams conferred with Lord Howe at the Billopp House on Staten Island, September, 1776, the only conference for the purpose of arranging peace during the war.
The meeting was without result, but Lord Howe afterward wrote in the highest terms of the personality and intellectual eminence of the commission. After the war, he held many high offices. Another brother, Hugh Rutledge (1741-1811), also attained prominence as a jurist in his native State, South Carolina.
Emerald Irish Dance
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Emerald, Queensland
Emerald, Queensland is situated on the intersection of the Capricorn Highway and the Gregory Highway section of the Great Inland Way. One of the largest towns on the Central Highlands, Emerald is the regional centre and thriving hub for many government facilities including council, education, and health and industries including mining, beef cattle, cotton, cropping, sunflowers, gemstones, tourism and citrus. With so much activity going on, there is always something to see and do around the town.
Emerald is a large, friendly country town that was established in 1879 as a base for the building of the western railway. Although the famous Sapphire Gemfields are situated close by, Emerald was named after the lush green pastures on ‘Emerald Downs’, a property settled by early pioneers just north of town.
In 1972, the construction of Fairbairn Dam and the Emerald Irrigation Scheme allowed for the significant development and expansion of agriculture across the region. Located 25 kilometres southwest of Emerald, almost on top of the Tropic of Capricorn, the dam was built across the Nogoa River, to create Lake Maraboon, Queensland’s second largest lake. At capacity, Fairbairn Dam can hold up to 5 times the water in the Sydney Harbour, and is a favourite spot for skiing, boating, and fishing. The lake is stocked with several kinds of fish, including barramundi, perch, bass, saratoga and red claw crayfish.
The primary purpose of Fairbairn Dam is for irrigation, with farmers supplied with water for cotton, citrus and other horticulture operations. The construction of the dam also assisted the development of the large-scale coal mining within the Bowen Basin, which today produces around 80 per cent of Queensland’s total coal exports.
Further down on the banks of the Nogoa River are the Emerald Botanical Gardens, which are a ‘must-see’ on any visitor’s list. Situated on both sides of the river, the 42 hectares of gardens include a rose garden, maze, wedding chapel, sculptures, rainforest, and 6 kilometres of walking tracks leading to different plant communities.
After admiring the different species of plants in the Botanic Gardens, check out the ‘big sunflower’. Building on its reputation as a major sunflower producer, Emerald is now home to the world’s biggest Van Gogh sunflower painting on an easel located in Morton Park. The superstructure is 25 metres high with approximately 13.6 tonnes of steel involved in its construction.
Adjacent you’ll find the ‘straw bale’ Visitor Information Centre where the friendly staff can provide information on exploring Emerald and the surrounding Central Highlands.
There are great photo opportunities down the street at the National Trust listed Railway Station. Built in 1900 and restored in 1986, the building has elaborate wrought iron lacework and pillared portico.
For more history, head into the Centre of Town and to view the ancient fossilised tree at the Town Hall aged 250 million years. Discovered in 1979 when a new railway bridge was being built across the Mackenzie River, it was presented to the town by BHP, who operated the Gregory Crinum Mine.
Emerald is the perfect place to stay and explore or base yourself while you experience the rich diversity of the Central Highlands, Queensland region.
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Impact of the Financial Crisis on Africa
Shimelse Ali
Summary: The drop in Africa's economic growth will do the most harm to the continent's poor, who are particularly vulnerable to economic volatility and temporary slowdowns. The G20 commitments, vague as they are, make it more likely that social protection measures will be enacted and new investments will be targeted to encourage African trade.
Africa’s underdeveloped financial systems and relatively limited links to the global economy have not insulated the continent from the impacts of the financial crisis, as low commodity prices, depressed external demand, and declining remittances wreak havoc on the long awaited growth acceleration that characterized the last quinquennium. African economies will likely suffer about $578 billion in lost export earnings over the next two years, representing 18.4 percent of GDP and five times the aid to the region over the period. Oil exporters will suffer the largest losses, with a shortfall of $420 billion over the next two years. Capital inflows, tourism receipts and remittances are all declining in parallel, and trade financing is drying up. The effect of this massive external shock on growth and poverty is severe.
Channels of Transmission
The global financial crisis is impacting African economies in a variety of ways. The most significant are the decline in export prices and volumes. Largely as a result of falling prices and demand for their commodities, many countries have experienced sharp drops in primary commodity exports. During the second half of 2008, non-energy commodity prices plunged 38 percent. Oil prices fell 69 percent between July and December 2008. The expected decline in exports is huge: 42 percent in 2009 and 43 percent in 2010.
African countries that have been dependant on remittances for the last two decades, and have typically seen remittances grow rapidly, will face severe contractions in the flow of these funds. According to World Bank, remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa will drop between 5 to 8 percent in 2009. Declines in remittances contribute to foreign exchange shortages and increased poverty, as some of the most vulnerable and poorest populations lose a significant source of income.
Private capital flows to the region, mainly consisting of foreign direct investment (FDI), have slowed to a trickle, hindering economies that had been relying on these flows to finance much-needed infrastructure and natural resource access projects. In Mozambique, for example, FDI related to expansions of hydroelectric and mining projects has been delayed or suspended.
The inflow of portfolio capital has also been affected. For example, Ghana and Kenya have postponed sovereign bond issues worth about $800 million. The stocks of foreign exchange reserves are deteriorating. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, reserves are down to only a few weeks of import cover. At this pace, many countries will not be able to afford even basic commodity imports such as food, medical supplies, and agricultural inputs.
The Effect on Growth and Poverty
The financial crisis will reverse the recent achievements by African countries in raising growth rates. According to African Development Bank (AfDB), real GDP growth is expected to slow to 4.6 percent in 2009 from 6.2 percent in 2007. Southern Africa will be hit the hardest with its forecast growth rate slowing to 4.0 percent in 2009. Oil exporting countries will also be badly affected—for example, Angola’s growth is projected to decline from 20.9 percent in 2007 to 7.6 percent in 2009. East Africa will grow at a rate of 6 percent in 2009, down from 8.4 percent in 2007.
Fiscal balances are also expected to deteriorate significantly as tax revenues, especially those that are tied to commodity sales, decline sharply. Fiscal balance in Sub-Saharan Africa will deteriorate by as much as 6 percentage points of GDP to a deficit of about 4 percent of GDP in 2009. Rising demand for social spending is compounding the stress on government budgets. With fewer resources, countries will be unable to reach their development goals of reducing poverty and investing in infrastructure.
Although some African countries were making significant progress toward their Millennium Development Goals before the crisis, the shortage of export revenues, foreign finance, and slower growth will certainly hamper these advances. Growth collapses are costly for human development outcomes, which can be irreversible, and which deteriorate more quickly during growth decelerations than they improve during growth accelerations. As just one point of reference, countries that suffered economic contractions of 10 percent or more between 1980 and 2004 experienced more than one million excess infant deaths. The average GDP growth rate of African countries is now projected to fall in 2009 to less than half the pre-crisis rate, as will growth in developing countries as a group. Unless reversed, this corresponds to a total of 1.4 to 2.8 million excess infant deaths during this period.
In contrast to the severe beating taken in many of the region’s other sectors, the African financial sector has been hit relatively mildly by the global crisis. Changes in ownership structure and integration of African banks into the global financial market have been slow. Most African countries have little or no access to market flows of capital other than FDI. As a result, African banks’ exposure to foreign capital markets has not been as deep as in other developing regions In the third quarter of 2007, international claims (claims denominated in foreign currency) to sub-Saharan Africa accounted for only 6 percent of their total.
Yet despite having weaker financial linkages to the rest of the world, African countries have not been immune to financial havoc. The Nigerian stock exchange all Share Index fell 37 percent this year, the steepest quarterly decline in more than a decade and the sharpest decline in the world. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange—the largest in the region—ended 2008 with a 25.7 percent loss.
Can the G20 Come to the Rescue?
On paper at least, leaders of G20 agreed to provide $250 billion in new trade credit guarantees, $100 billion for more lending by Multilateral Development Banks (including the African Development Bank), gold sales to support concessional finance for the poorest countries, and support for a new allocation of Special Drawing Rights of $250 billion, as well as recapitalization of the IMF to the tune of $500 billion. While some of these large sums (especially IMF contributions) are likely to materialize, it is unclear how much, and also how much will find their way into support for Africa.
The AfDB estimates that sustaining African growth in the face of today’s crisis would require an injection of at least $50bn this year, and more next, on top of existing aid flows. To accelerate progress towards eradicating poverty to rates in line with the Millennium Development Goals would require more than twice that amount.
The G20 commitments, vague as they are, increase the likelihood that social protection measures will be enacted and that new investments will be targeted to encourage Africa trade. Still, in the best of circumstances, the impact of many of these measures will take time to bear results. Their speedy implementation should now be the top priority. In the meantime, attention should be directed towards protecting the poor through expanded safety nets to mitigate the human impact of the crisis.
The impact of the financial crisis has been transmitted to African economies not through the credit crunches and liquidity freezes that are currently strangling advanced and emerging economies, but rather through the global recession that followed.
The slowdown in growth will likely deepen the deprivation of the poor and of the large number of people clustered just above the poverty line, who are particularly vulnerable to economic volatility and temporary slowdowns. There is also a possibility that the real economy impacts may spill over into the financial markets, as weaker growth blunts new business and increases bad loans.
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Firhouse Educate together National School first opened in September 2013. For the past 6 years, it has added two new classes each year. It moved, to its new permanent home in November 2017 to start an exciting new chapter in the school’s development.
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Dreaver’s Buildings
Address: 149-165 George Street
Designer: William Grasby
Builders: Finck & Grasby
From the 1870s to the 1950s, the enterprising Dreaver family made George Street their place of business. Elizabeth Creilman McHoul was born in Glasgow, and worked as a domestic servant before migrating to Otago in 1870. In 1873 she married James Dreaver, who opened a toy and fancy goods store. Mrs Dreaver opened a second family business, the Red Flag Drapery, in June 1877.
In November 1878, a fire destroyed eight wooden buildings in George Street, including the Dreavers’ property. No time was wasted in erecting new premises, which opened for business on 22 February 1879. They were built by Finck & Grasby and designed by William Grasby of that firm. Constructed of brick, they comprised a block of three shops with living apartments above. All were owned by the Dreavers, who occupied the southernmost portion. Their first tenants were Miss Vaile, who ran a ‘Young Ladies’ Seminary’, and Hans Pauli, who purchased James Dreaver’s fancy goods business.
The Otago Daily Times reported that ‘seldom, indeed, are blocks of buildings turned out in such a complete manner’. The flats each had coal ranges in the kitchens, fireplaces in the bedrooms, and gas and water connections. Workrooms for the drapery were built behind the shop, and there were brick washhouses and other outbuildings. The shops had tongue-and-groove linings and were fronted with large plate-glass windows. The cemented facade above was in the simple Revived Renaissance style favoured for commercial buildings at the time. After 137 years the first floor still outwardly looks much the same, though missing are a string course below the dentil cornice, and a modest arched pediment at the centre of the parapet.
Elizabeth Dreaver’s early advertisements offered costumes to fit at a few hours’ notice and described the firm as the cheapest house in the city. The Red Flag name was not used after the rebuilding, and the business became popularly known as Mrs Dreaver’s. Stock included dresses, jackets, skirts, mackintoshes, children’s wear, and feather boas. Dreaver’s had its own dressmaking department and became well-known for a parcel post service (with money back guarantee) offered to country customers.
Mrs Dreaver was an expert milliner and at a carnival at the Columbia Rink she won first prize from about 100 entries for the most original hat, with a design representing a pair of roller skates. She also won the prize for the smallest hat. Other milliners who worked for her included Miss Graham, formerly head milliner to Mrs W.A. Jenkins, and Mrs Mitchell, who had worked at Madame Louise’s in London’s Regent Street.
In 1885 Elizabeth left Dunedin for Scotland, she said due to bad health, and after five months returned with a stock of purchases made in London and Paris. In the following years she vigorously promoted the ‘scientific’ method of pattern cutting that was revolutionising sewing around the world. She was one of the first in New Zealand to import the pattern books of the Butterick Publishing Company, which then had over 1,000 agencies throughout the United States and Canada. She became Otago’s sole agent for American Scientific System of Dresscutting, gave lessons at Otago Girls’ High School, and offered board to out-of-town pupils. By 1893 she had taught the system to 700 people.
A Muir & Moodie postcard showing George Street from St Andrew Street. Dreavers is on the right, below the tower.
Hans Pauli remained in the northern shop until 1892. His name became familiar to the public through his outspoken opposition to the organised movement for early shop closing. From 1883 to 1903 ‘Professor and Madame’ McQueen ran one of Dunedin’s leading hairdressing establishments from the middle shop, to which they added the Bon Marche children’s clothing shop in 1898.
The drapery expanded to take over all three shops in 1904, not long before the death of James Dreaver on New Year’s Day 1905. In the first decades of the twentieth century Elizabeth Dreaver continued to manage the business, which some advertisements described as the ‘Shrine of Fashion’. A hairdressing and beauty salon became part of the operation.
In 1920 a new company was formed, Dreavers Ltd, with Elizabeth Dreaver holding 73% the shares and her children Hugh, James, and Catherine, each holding 9%. Additions were made at the back of the property in 1909, and in 1925 Mandeno & Fraser designed stylish new shop fronts, with arches over recessed entrances, and decorative tiles and glass. Fletcher Construction were the builders. A section of this work survives in altered form as the front of the northern shop, where the name ‘Dreavers Ltd’ can still be seen in the mosaic floor.
Further rearward additions were carried out in 1944, leading to the saddest event found in researching this story. A shopper named Alice McMillan (58) was killed when a beam fell through a skylight into the mantle department.
A 1945 advertisement
Elizabeth Creilman Dreaver died at her home in Clyde Street on 30 November 1934, aged 86. Dreavers continued to trade until 1952, its old premises afterwards becoming the Bruce Shop, a retail store for Bruce Woollens. This closed in the mid-1960s, when the name of the block was changed from Bruce Buildings to Perth Buildings.
Other businesses to occupy the buildings have included the Otago Sports Depot, a Queen Anne Chocolate (Ernest Adams) shop, Ace Alterations, Martins Art Furnishers, and Don Kindley Real Estate. One shop is currently vacant, while another is taken by Brent Weatherall Jewellers. The third contains the $ n’ Sense bargain shop, which harks back nicely to the toys and fancy goods shop at the beginning of the Dreaver’s story in George Street.
A 1925 shop front, surviving in altered form. Decorative windows were removed and original timber window joinery (with more slender profiles than shown here) replaced in 2012.
‘Dreavers Ltd’ mosaic tiles
Evening Star, 16 June 1877 p.3 (Red Flag Drapery), 29 November 1878 p2 (fire), 27 December 1920 p.3 (registration of company); Otago Witness, 10 August 1878 p.21 (advertisement), 6 September 1879, p.3 (advertisement), 29 April 1887 p.9 (sole rights), 4 January 1905 p.47 (death of James Dreaver); Otago Daily Times, 22 December 1874 p1 (toy shop advertisement), 15 January 1879 p.1 (description of buildings), 4 June 1879 p.3 (description following completion), 29 December 1884 p.3 (advertisement), 26 March 1887 p.3 (advertisement), 29 August 1944, p.6 (inquest into the death of Alice McMillan), 19 March 2011 p.46 (‘Stories in Stone’); North Otago Times 3 May 1890 p.4 (lessons at Otago Girls’ High School).
Baré, Robert, City of Dunedin Block Plans Dunedin: Caxton Steam Printing Company, [1889].
Jones, F. Oliver, Structural Plans of the City of Dunedin NZ, ‘Ignis et Aqua’ series, [1892].
Dunedin City Council permit records and deposited plans
Dunedin City Council cemeteries database
Shipping list for Robert Henderson, 1870 (Otago Gazette)
Register of Otago and Southland Marriages 1848 to 1920 (St Andrew’s Parish)
Death registration for Elizabeth Dreaver (1934/10770)
This entry was posted in Buildings, Uncategorized and tagged 1870s, Drapers, Dreavers, Elizabeth Creilman Dreaver, Finck & Grasby, Fletcher Construction Co., George Street, Mandeno & Fraser, Milliners, Renaissance revival, William Grasby on 4 May 2016 by David Murray.
Victoria Foundry (Barningham & Co.)
Address: 434 George Street
Architect/designer: Not identified
Builder: Not identified
The foundry as it appeared from George Street in the 1880s. Ref: Field and Hodgkins family photographs, Alexander Turnbull Library, PA1-q-079-07.
The plain facade of a popular George Street eatery was once the exuberantly decorated front of the Victoria Foundry. A nineteenth-century photograph shows decorative cast iron set in and otherwise attached to neat, exposed brickwork, promoting products produced by Barningham & Co. in the buildings behind.
Samuel Barningham was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1853, and moved as a child to Victoria, Australia, where he later learnt the pattern-making trade. He had a talent for invention, and his hobby was making microscopes and other scientific instruments. In 1878, at the age of twenty-five, he established the Victoria Foundry on the south-west corner of Frederick and Great King streets. It specialised in ornamental cast iron (verandahs, balconies, tomb railings etc.), grates, and coal ranges. According to an Otago Witness report from January 1879:
The premises lately known as the Railway Foundry [established in 1871] are now occupied by a company of ironworkers, who, under the style of Barningham and Co., have commenced the manufacture of ornamental ironwork of every description, particularly that used in the construction of balconies, etc. Hitherto it has been difficult to obtain this description of ornamental ironwork, except from Europe or Melbourne, and consequently our architects and builders were in a great measure deprived of one of the most pleasing adjuncts of their art. This want may now be supplied. The firm have just completed their first order, a verandah and balcony for Mr G.H. Madden, which is certainly a handsome piece of work.
In the second half of 1883, the foundry took a site fronting George Street, and rates records indicate that new buildings were erected at this time, while Barningham also bought three adjoining houses and a shop.
Barningham & Co. produced the ‘Zealandia’ cooking ranges with patented designs for draught supply and regulation, and they were sold throughout New Zealand, competing strongly with the Orion ranges manufactured by rival H.E. Shacklock. Examples of decorative ironwork made by the foundry can still be seen on many Dunedin buildings, including a terrace of houses at 618-626 Great King Street (built 1903-1904). Among the foundry’s most elaborate productions were gates and railings designed by Louis Boldini for the second synagogue in Moray Place (consecrated in 1882 and demolished in 1971).
Gates and railings on the synagogue in Moray Place, designed by Louis Boldini and manufactured by Barningham & Co. Detail from Muir & Moodie photograph, ref: Te Papa C.012193.
Advertisement from the Otago Witness, 21 December 1904 p.35.
An aerial view from November 1947 showing the foundry complex (with dark coloured roofs near the centre of the image, behind the buldings facing the street). Detail from White’s Aviation photograph, ref: Alexander Turnbull Library WA-10679\F.
Sam Barningham, a good-humoured man of ‘ever genial and kindly qualities’, died in 1911 but the foundry continued to operate until 1951. Shop fronts to George Street had been installed in 1914, and in 1942 Robert MacFarlane opened a fishmongers behind one of them. This changed hands several times over the next decade, and around 1951 it was taken over by Yuen Kwong Chin, a migrant from Canton in China. He operated the business as the George Street Fish Supply, and a few years later it passed to his son, Poy Seng (Bill), and daughter-in-law, Cole Woon.
The fish shop closed in 1971, when the Chins opened the August Moon Restaurant and an adjoining ‘burgers and meal bar’. The restaurant was panelled in dark timber contrasting with white facings and ceilings, and further decorated with red and gold wallpaper, and a large hand-carved camphor wood wall panel imported from Hong Kong. In 1976 Mr Chin said the restaurant was attracting more and more tourists, particularly Americans, while it was also popular with Malaysian and Chinese students studying at the University. There was growing general demand for traditional Chinese and Indonesian cuisine that had not been readily available in Dunedin, and full Chinese meals with up to ten courses were made available.
A 1972 advertisement for the August Moon Restaurant, courtesy of Owain Morris.
In 1986, Sui Ching and Pik Hung Yip transformed the August Moon into the Phoenix Chinese Restaurant and associated takeaway. Chinese curries and tofu dishes were specialties, and the takeaway was one of the first in Dunedin to sell tofu burgers. The Phoenix was refurbished in 1993 and closed in 2001, when it was replaced by the Friendly Khmer Satay Noodle House. The new restaurant’s founder, Hain Seng (Hamish) Te, arrived in New Zealand from Cambodia in 1979, and began selling chicken and beef satay from a stall in the Octagon in 1988 before opening his first Khmer Satay Noodle House in 1991. Khmer Satay Ltd grew to establish a chain of restaurants throughout New Zealand (many now owned independently) and its Satay peanut sauce and a meat marinade are widely sold in supermarkets.
As these stories demonstrate, a theme throughout the history the building is one of creative and industrious migrants finding success in business, whether they be from Yorkshire or Canton, or working as engineers or restaurateurs.
It is unclear how long the ironwork remained visible on the facade, but a verandah was added at a relatively early date and later replaced. A permit for plastering the exposed brickwork was issued in 1954, and it was likely round this time that the original arched pediment was reformed as a square one. A bracketed stone cornice remained in place until the early 1980s.
Much of the foundry complex behind the George Street building has been demolished but the largest portion survives and was occupied for some years by the University of Otago Pharmacy Department. It is now known as the Barningham Building and has housed the Dunedin Multi-Disciplinary Health and Development Unit since 1985.
The University of Otago’s Barningham Building.
Bruce Herald, 22 February 1871 p.2 (Railway Foundry); Otago Daily Times, 3 December 1878 p.3 (advertisement), 17 June 1881 p.6 (elaborate railing for synagogue), 2 September 1911 p.14 (obituary for Samuel Barningham), 16 May 1934 p.14 (description of Barningham & Co.), 28 July 1971 p.11 (opening of August Moon), 18 August 1976 p.15 (fifth anniversary of August Moon), 4 March 1985 p.2 (Dunedin Multi-Disciplinary Health and Development Research Unit), 21 July 1993 p.10 (Phoenix Restaurant), 15 November 2004 p.20 (Khmer Satay), 17 October 2009 p.50 (‘Stories in Stone’ biography of Samuel Barningham), 10 August 2013 p.7 (Khmer Satay); Otago Witness, 4 January 1879 p.20 (Zealandia ranges), 19 June 1880 p.18 (Zealandia ranges); Clutha Leader, 7 September 1883 p.4 (advertisement with new address). Thanks to Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand, for the pre-1920 references.
Leading Business Establishments of Dunedin: Being a Series of Illustrations and Descriptive Letterpress (Dunedin: Otago Daily Times and Witness Co., 1895)
Dunedin City Council permit records and deposited plans (with thanks to Glen Hazelton)
Dunedin City Council rates records (with thanks to Chris Scott)
A version of this story was published in the Otago Daily Times, 21 February 2015.
This entry was posted in Buildings and tagged 1880s, August Moon, Barningham & Co., Chinese Community, Foundries, George Street, Industrial buildings, Khmer Satay, Phoenix, Restaurants, Samuel Barningham on 22 February 2015 by David Murray.
John Thomson’s building
Address: 23-25 George Street, Port Chalmers
Sometimes I come across an honest wee building of little pretension, that I’m unable to attribute to any particular designer or builder. This can be a bit frustrating, as I’m the sort of person who likes classifying things and even finds it fun, but sometimes I should just put my trainspotting-like tendencies aside. Simple buildings often suit their function most effectively and can contribute as much to the character of a place as grander ones, while shedding light on different layers of history.
This building in George Street, Port Chalmers, is a plain and relatively utilitarian example of Victorian architecture that was likely designed by the builder who constructed it. Containing two shops with residential space above, it’s of a type seen elsewhere (there’s another example further along the same street) with a hipped roof left visible rather than screened behind a parapet, giving it a somewhat domestic appearance. The brickwork facing the street was originally exposed, as it still is on the side walls, and early photographs show a verandah that was removed in the twentieth century.
In the mid 1870s the site was a vacant space, and its development seems to have been delayed by a need to excavate part of the hillside. A report in the Otago Daily Times of 30 July 1877 stated: ‘In George street, Port Chalmers, a fine two storey brick building is just about completed, next to the general store of Sutton Brothers. It was erected for Mr John Thomson, and is thirty feet square by twenty-four feet high, and comprises two places of business, with dwelling rooms above. One of them is already in occupation as a soft goods store’. The description of the building as ‘fine’ should be seen in the context of the other buildings in the street, which were mostly simple timber structures viewed as inferior and less permanent.
Detail from a 1905 photograph by Muir & Moodie. Ref: Te Papa C.011810.
The building was an investment for John Thomson (1813-1895), who owned various adjoining properties on the eastern side of the street, and had established the Dalkeith subdivision in the 1860s. Thomson was born at Dewartown, near Dalkeith in Scotland, and after working in coal mining had charge of a sawmill on the estate of the Duke of Buccleugh. He arrived at Port Chalmers in 1848 and worked saw milling and then managing the Government stores, before briefly going to the goldfields. He was afterwards a sheep and cattle inspector, and his Otago Witness obituary stated that he was ‘greatly respected for his sterling manliness of character’. He was survived by his wife, seven children, and nearly forty grandchildren.
William Scott was the first tenant of the northern shop (rated at £60) and Mrs Lean took the smaller southern shop (rated at £30). Scott was a tailor who had previously occupied premises a few doors further north, and he remained in his new premises until about 1893. The other shop was a butchery for Francis Lean, Lean & Harrison, and then J.W. Harrison (from c.1881). Harrison remained in the shop until 1903 and faded signage for his business is still visible on the southern wall. The building was sold from the estate of Elsie Thomson in 1906.
Later occupants have included the laundry proprietor Yat Lee (c.1906-1912), watchmaker and jeweller Cecil Rose (c.1924-1936), greengrocer Sam Shum (c.1936-1950), and greengrocer Peter Kan (1950-1980). At the time of writing the shops are occupied by The Changing Room (no.23) and Blueskin Bay Honey and Supply Co. (no.25).
Otago Daily Times, 16 April 1862 p.2 (Dalkeith subdivision), 30 July 1877 p.3 (City Improvements), 19 October 1903 p.6 (to let), 17 September 1906 p.8 (sale); Otago Witness, 5 December 1895 p.15 (obituary for John Thomson).
Church, Ian. Port Chalmers and its People (Dunedin: Otago Heritage Books, 1994), p.71.
Church, Ian. Some Early People and Ships of Port Chalmers (Dunedin: New Zealand Society of Genealogists, n.d.) pp.312, 719.
Port Chalmers rates records (with thanks to Chris Scott)
This entry was posted in Buildings and tagged 1870s, Brick, George Street, John Thomson, Port Chalmers, Victorian on 18 January 2015 by David Murray.
Irvine & Stevenson buildings (part one)
Architect: John Arthur Burnside (1856-1920)
Clerk of Works: John Wright
An 1890s photograph by W.R. Frost. The grocery store and two other shops face George Street under the verandah. At the left of the image are the factory buildings.
‘St George’ was one of the most successful brands to come out of Dunedin, becoming a household name throughout New Zealand as well as exporting to overseas markets. Irvine & Stevenson’s St George Company produced jams, soups, tinned meat and fish, other preserved foods, and household products such as laundry crystals. In terms of buildings, it was generally associated with the old Keast & McCarthy brewery site in Filleul Street, where it operated a preserving works from 1897 to 1977. Before that, however, it was based on a site at the corner of St Andrew and George Streets, and that’s what this story is about.
In the early 1860s James Irvine owned three grocery stores in Kilsyth, near Glasgow. In 1863 he came to Dunedin with his wife, Jane, to start a new life in what was then a booming gold rush town. He opened a shop in Filleul Street, and was one of the first bacon curers in the city. The store relocated to George Street (between Hanover and St Andrew streets) around 1870.
William Stevenson was 23 years younger than James Irvine. He came out from Scotland as a boy, and at the age of 21 became a partner in the grocery firm Stevenson & Ford, which occupied one of ‘several insignificant wooden buildings’ on the corner of George and St Andrew streets. There had been a grocery store on the site since James Wallace opened for business in 1864. Immediately to its south were premises occupied by Robert Brown’s cake shop (established in 1879), and next to this was the Oddfellows’ Hall (erected in 1862). Behind these structures were brick stables, and a double cottage facing St Andrew Street.
Stevenson married Irvine’s daughter, Barbara, in 1881, and the following year the two men went into partnership as Irvine & Stevenson. They opened a temporary shop in the Southampton Buildings (now part of the Golden Centre mall) while a block of three new shops and offices was built on leasehold land occupied by the old Stevenson & Ford store, Brown’s shop, and the Oddfellows’ Hall. The architect J.A. Burnside called for tenders in April 1882, and by the following January the building was complete. Irvine & Stevenson used the corner shop as their grocery store, and beneath it was a large storage cellar. Two smaller shops fronting George Street were leased out: one of them to Robert Brown and the other to the drapers M.W. Green & Sons.
A late 1880s view, showing Irvine & Stevenson’s buildings behind the A. & T. Inglis store. They include the tall chimney stack and the building immediately to its right. Ref: Te Papa O.002091.
Constructed from brick, with a stone foundation and a slate roof, the buildings cost £2,898. An Otago Daily Times reporter wrote approvingly:
Although appearance has not been the main object in view, it must be admitted that the front elevation of the buildings displays an exceptionally neat style of architecture, and that the block is by no means the least creditable of many fine buildings in the city. It is needless to remark that the buildings are of a substantial character, while the dimensions mentioned show that they are commodious.
The architecture was loosely Renaissance Revival in style, showing some of the emerging eclecticism also apparent in James Hislop’s design for the Boot Palace (1885-1886) on the opposite corner. Features included rounded corners to the window heads, and small chimneys integrated with the St Andrew Street parapet. The incised decoration above the windows was uncommon in Dunedin with other examples from around the same time including the Coulls Culling warehouse in Crawford Street (since demolished), and the former Dowson’s building at 305 George Street. The verandah was described as one of the best in the city. It had a glazed roof, and its iron pillars and ornate fretwork were manufactured locally by Barningham & Co.
The appointed builder was Henry Martin, but he met with financial difficulty and his contract was terminated before the project was far advanced. Subsequent work was carried out through various contracts, with John Wright apparently acting as Clerk of Works. A few years before Wright had performed a similar role in the building of the Terminus Hotel, also designed by Burnside.
Behind the shops and offices, a two-storey building was erected for curing ham and bacon. It was completed a little later in 1883 and cost a further £555. Between 1886 and 1887 ‘sheds’ were demolished and replaced with a smoke house for sausages at a cost of £275. In 1888 a jam factory building and a large chimney stack were built on the site previously occupied by cottages. They were likely designed by R.A. Lawson, as company accounts shows fees paid to him in connection with the project, which cost £815.
Label for tinned boiled mutton. Ref: Alexander Turnbull Library Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-03.
Irvine & Stevenson registered their ‘St George’ trademark in 1885, and it’s possible (though perhaps unlikely) that the idea for the name was inspired by the streets where the company buildings were sited: St Andrew and George. The brand symbol was a shield containing the image St George on horseback, slaying a dragon. By 1889 the company was producing 300 cases of jam per week, with stoneware jars from Graham Winter & Co.’s Milton Pottery Works. Jam production moved to the former Peacock & Co. premises in Moray Place, soon after Irvine & Stevenson bought it as their ‘no. 2’ factory in 1891.
In 1894 the original complex was described as having 100 x 66 feet of floor space on each of its two storeys. Activities included bacon curing, sausage making, tea blending, coffee and pepper grinding, and washing powder manufacture. There was also a short-lived diversification into confectionery. The Keast & McCarthy brewery premises were acquired in 1896, and the company opened new preserving works there the following year. A freezing plant was installed with insulated rooms and compressed-air freezing machine with enormous pistons. Industrial operations in the rear buildings continued until the structures were rebuilt as shops in 1929, but I’ll leave this for further discussion in my next post.
The shop on the corner was occupied by Irvine & Stevenson’s grocery store for thirty-one years up to 1913, when the company sold it to focus on manufacturing activities. A grocery store remained on the site for another ten years, first run by McIlroy Bros, and then B.J. McArthur. In 1922 the shop and upstairs rooms were taken by the optometrists Hugh & G.K. Neill, who over time developed the complementary photography business Hugh & G.K. Neill Photographics Ltd. In 1997 Neill’s Camera & Video became Jonathan’s Camera & Video, which expanded into the shop next door. Jonathan’s Photo Warehouse remains in the middle shop today, while the corner site is once again in the hands of the optometrists Milburn & Neill (the current iteration of the old firm), who have now been based in the building continuously for over ninety years.
The corner hasn’t always been a peaceful spot. In 1892 George Street was the scene of demonstrations in support of the Saturday half-holiday movement, and one of Irvine & Stevenson’s plate glass windows was smashed. There were also demonstrations during the Great Depression, and it was at this intersection where in April 1932 protestors stopped the taxi carrying the Mayoress, Helen Black, attempting to pull her out and overturn the vehicle. She had been involved in running a relief depot where there was anger that chits for supplies were handed out rather than money orders. It was also said that there was some resentment towards Mrs Black for handing out relief wearing white gloves – a symbol of privilege. These days any altercations at this location are likely to be of the late night drunken variety.
A 1925 advertisement for Hugh & G.K. Neill reproduced from a Dunedin Choral Society programme.
A view of George Street in 1949, showing a ‘St George Jam’ neon sign on top of the building. Ref: Hocken Collections 96-106 (box 96), reproduced at builtindunedin.com courtesy of Perpetual Trust.
The middle shop was originally occupied by a succession of small draperies: M.W. Green & Sons, Carter & Co., and William McBeath, before Irvine & Stevenson put their own retail butchery in the space. For twenty years from 1910 it was occupied by the fruiterer William Carlton Ruffell, whose views on Chinese taking up his line of business reflected some of the racism in New Zealand society at the time. The Evening Post (Wellington) reported in 1920:
A deputation from the Dunedin Retail Fruiterers Association waited on the Dunedin City Council last week in reference to the Asiatic question […] Mr. H.E. Stephens said one shop had been opened in Dunedin, and they knew the Chinese were feeling for about a dozen other businesses. In the North, the trade was practically run by the Chinese. They were not desirable citizens, for they were not bound by our laws, could work as they liked, and were therefore unfair competitors. In California it was proposed to keep Asiatics from buying or holding land, and it was time something was done here. Mr W.C. Ruffell said what they really aimed at was the elimination of foreigners. They thought New Zealand should be white.
Ruffell’s shop became an outlet of Star Stores for nearly thirty years from 1930. It was then Adkins Foodmarket (1959-1973), Adams Fruit (1973-1987), and the clothing retailer Slick Willy’s (1987-2004), before Jonathan’s took it.
The southernmost shop (present no. 186) was leased by the confectioner Robert Brown in 1882 and was kept by his family for nearly seventy years. In later years it traded as Brown & Son, Brown’s Cafeteria, and Brown’s Cake Shop. It became Jordon’s Milk Bar around 1953, and photographs from the Hocken Collections show a slick American-influenced hangout of the rock ‘n roll era. It was a place where ‘milkbar cowboys’ gathered outside on Sunday afternoons (the Beau Monde was the spot on Friday nights), the coolest among them with Triumph Speed Twin and Thunderbird motorcycles. Inside, Oriental fans were a feature of the decoration. As well as traditional milkshake flavours, the Fla-va-tru range (‘America’s Latest!’) included: Blue Lagoon, Fruti Tuti, Chop Suey (can anyone enlighten me on that one?), Fruit Salad, Yankee Doodle, Smoky Joe, Nutti Cream, Butterscotch, Mint Julep, and Pink Lemonade. A wide variety of chocolates were sold, from Nestlé and Cadbury bars through to Winning Post, Caley’s Majestic, and Cadbury’s Centennial boxes. The snack bar offered spaghetti, baked beans on toast, poached eggs on toast, tomato soup and toast, and hot pies. Jordon’s closed in 1969 and was replaced by the Four Seasons Restaurant, which was in turn succeeded by Buyck’s Restaurant (1975-1980), the Pig ‘n Whistle Restaurant (1980-1982), and the Capri Coffee Lounge (1982-1987). The closure of the Capri ended the space’s role as an eatery after more than a century. Meanwhile, upstairs was dieting HQ, as Weight Watchers had their premises there for twenty years from 1976. The downstairs shop was occupied by Payless Shoes from 1987 to 1996, before the current tenant, Dollar Store 123, opened for business in 1998.
The street frontage of Jordons Milk Bar in 1957, complete with Melody Master jukebox. Ref: Hocken Collections P11-012, S14-117c. Ritchie’s Studio photograph.
The interior of Jordons Milk Bar in 1957. Ref: Hocken Collections P11-012, S14-117b. Ritchie’s Studio photograph.
Staff of Jordons Milk Bar, Yvonne third from right. Ref: Hocken Collections P11-012, S14-117a.
The property arm of Irvine & Stevenson retained a financial interest in the buildings up to 1962. The corner premises went into the ownership of Hugh & G.K. Neil, and the remainder to the Butler Family who named their portion Larent Buildings. I’m unsure why this name was chosen, as I haven’t found any obvious links between the name and the building, but it may have been because it was an investment property and ‘Larent’ is an anagram of ‘Rental’! The first floor windows in this part were replaced in 1970, giving the buildings their present lopsided appearance. The original verandah, cornice, and parapet have also been destroyed and their restoration together with the first floor windows would transform the building from its somewhat awkward and unassuming look to a striking and handsome feature of the street.
So as not to confuse things, I’ll treat the historical development of the old factory buildings separately in the next post. So, as they say:
A recent view
Facade detail showing incised decoration
Otago Daily Times, 22 October 1873 p.2 (James Irvine, ham and bacon), 18 January 1882 p.2 (auction of leasehold), 20 January 1883 p.2 (description of George Street buildings), 3 June 1887 p.1 (opening of pork and provision shop), 19 May 1894 supp. (description of Irvine & Stevenson premises), 27 January 1908 p.7 (freezing plant), 20 November 1919 p.10 (‘The Preserving Industry’), 8 November 2008 p.6 (‘Recalling Dunedin’s Dark Days’ by Mark Price); Evening Post (Wellington), 28 June 1920 p.6 (W.C. Ruffell)
Irvine & Stevenson’s St George Co. Ltd records, Hocken Collections UN-016
Stevenson, Geoffrey W., The House of St George: A Centennial History 1864-1964 (Dunedin: Irvine & Stevenson’s St George Co. Ltd, [1964])
Council of Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Associations of New Zealand, block plans, 1927
Thanks to Allan Dick for his memories of Dunedin milk bars.
Note: some occupancy dates may be a year out either way due to reliance on annual directories.
This entry was posted in Buildings and tagged 1880s, Barningham & Co., George Street, Grocers, Industrial buildings, Irvine & Stevenson, J.A. Burnside, John Wright, Milk bars, Optometrists, R.A. Lawson, Renaissance revival, St Andrew Street on 11 July 2014 by David Murray.
City Boot Palace
Architect: James Hislop (1859-1904)
Builder: Arthur White
Advertisement from supplement of the ‘Evening Star’, 10 April 1893. Ref: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-01. Alexander Turnbull Library http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23156921.
The City Boot Palace! The name conjures up images of a vast array of footwear in a setting of Victorian opulence, perhaps presided over by some magnificently moustachioed manager. It may not have been quite like that, but Dunedin’s Boot Palace did have an air of grandeur which set it apart from most George Street buildings of the 1880s.
The building was erected for Benjamin Throp (1845-1933), a dentist who occupied the upstairs rooms and leased out the lower level. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, Throp arrived in Dunedin with his mother in 1861 and qualified as a dentist in 1868. In the early days he used only hand instruments, and his equipment and supplies had to be imported from England and the United States, often taking over a year to arrive. Up to 1900 the only anaesthetic he used was cocaine, and he later produced his own nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He also made his own gold plate, having worked as a goldsmith during his youth in Australia. Throp’s meticulous notes held in the Hocken Collections record that he made 37,162 extractions over 37 years.
One day, when fitting the gold mining entrepreneur Alex McGeorge with some false teeth, Throp was offered a partnership in the Electric Gold Dredging Company. This proved to be a lucrative venture that ultimately netted him between £20,000 and £30,000. He retired in 1905 to take up farming at Moa Flat Estate, but his son Frank Throp continued the dental practice at the same address until 1942. Two other sons were killed in action during the First World War. Another dentist, Andrew Aitken, kept the rooms up to 1958, and during this period the building remained in the ownership of the Throp family.
Architect James Hislop designed the building, which was erected on the site of the old Dornwell & Rennie butchery. Tenders were called in June 1885. The contractor was Arthur White and the cost approximately £2,800, but White went bankrupt during the course of the contract because his tender had been too low and he found he couldn’t afford to pay all of the creditors connected with the work.
The building has a foundation of Port Chalmers stone that rises above the footpath, and the two storeys over this are constructed of brick rendered with cement plaster. An abundance of ornamentation includes pairs of Corinthian pilasters, arched and triangular hoods, rustication, and more mouldings than you can shake a stick at. Originally, there was a bold and elaborate parapet with balustrades and pediments that balanced the composition. A pillared verandah for the George Street shop front featured decorative cast ironwork. The overall effect was more ostentatious than elegant, but the building made a confident statement on the busy corner site. It is a good example of the later phase of Victorian Renaissance Revival architecture, which in its more florid forms drew from increasingly eclectic influences combined in unconventional ways. Hislop provided a further example of this movement a few years later when he designed the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition buildings of 1889 in a flamboyant quasi-Moorish style.
The Evening Star published a description in January 1886:
Among the new buildings which are being erected in the City, that designed by Mr James Hislop for Mr Throp, and situated at the corner of George und St Andrew streets, is deserving of description. It has two storeys, and is of Italian design. Constructed of Port Chalmers stone and brick, with cement, it presents a very fine appearance. The exterior of the building is, however, more than equalled by its internal disposition and finish, and its novel and chaste fittings do credit to all concerned. In the lower portion of the building a boot business is to be carried on, the apartments in the upper storey being utilised by Mr Throp in his profession as a dentist. The building has a frontage of 75ft to St Andrew street, and of 23ft 6in to George street, and its height from footpath to parapet is 38ft. The shop fronting George street is 40ft x 23ft 6in by 14ft 6in high, and a show-room behind this is 36ft x 22ft. The latter has a tiled floor and hand-painted windows, and, with the shop, is fitted up in a most picturesque style. Over the footpath in front of the shop there is a cast-iron verandah, roofed almost entirely with glass, and on the corner of the two streets stands a novel pediment containing the name of the premises, ‘The City Boot Palace.’ Three plate-class windows, 7ft6in x 12ft, which give light to the shop, are probably the largest containing one piece of glass in the City. The exterior of the shop is in picked red pine and American walnut. The first floor is approached from St Andrew street, and the entrance vestibule belonging to it is neatly tiled. At the top of the stairs there is a lantern light of especially neat design, and the different apartments are lighted with hand-painted windows. The nine rooms which are contained in the floor are all cemented and decorated with stencillings and paintings, which reflect infinite credit on Mr Scott, who had charge of this department of work. The rooms are all 12ft 6in high, and, with their tiled hearths, over-mantles, dadoes, etc., are most luxurious looking. Special attention has been paid to the ventilating of the building, and the system which Mr Hislop has worked upon cannot fail to be attended with beneficial results. An ingenious piece of mechanism in connection with the building is an electric bell, which rings as anyone ascends the stairs leading to Mr Throp’s apartment. It is worked by two steps as they are trod upon, and the mechanism is so arranged as to be temporarily thrown out of gear by anyone descending the stairs. If Mr Throp is to be visited by burglars, this little device may come in useful in more ways than one. This building has been in course of erection since July, and will be finished in a week or two.
Advertisement from the Otago Witness, 20 February 1907 p.84. Image from Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand.
Otago Witness, 10 June 1908 p.92. Image from Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand.
Throp took occupation of his rooms around the beginning of March 1886 , and the Boot Palace opened soon after. The City Boot Palace had been established in 1883, when it succeeded the business of the boot maker John Elliott. The same name was used elsewhere in Australasia: John Hunter’s City Boot Palace in Sydney opened in 1877, and both branches and separate businesses with the name operated in centres that included Adelaide (opened 1882), Brisbane (1888), Perth (1893), and Hobart (1906). In New Zealand there were boot palaces in cities and towns that included Timaru (opened 1885), Invercargill (1885), Oamaru (1886), Napier (1893), New Plymouth (1903), and Christchurch (1906). The name became almost generic and although there may have been some sort of licence or franchise agreement, the New Zealand boot palaces appear to have been independent businesses. The Dunedin manager from 1885 to 1908 was Joseph McLoy McKay, who in the Edwardian period ran humorous advertisements such as the one above, which emphasises the bargain prices and good value of the merchandise. Some featured the character ‘Parsimonious Sam’, whose penny pinching ways were satisfied by the deals to be had at the City Boot Palace, suggesting that they should be good enough for anyone.
The building in 1949, during its days as ‘Fashion Corner’. Perpetual Trustees records, Hocken Collections, S13-583b.
An evocative depiction of the intersection: ‘Street corner’ by Ralph Miller, conté and wash c.1945-1955. Reproduced by kind permission of Brian Miller.
A wartime advertisement for Fashion Corner from Otago Daily Times, 4 July 1944 p.3.
The boot palace ran for over 40 years and eventually vacated the building in 1929. It was then fitted with new shop fronts with mahogany facings and granite, and a new steel hanging verandah. The alterations were designed by the architects Mandeno & Fraser, and the contractors were the Love Construction Company. The women’s clothing store Fashion Corner opened for business in December 1929. It operated until 1958, when the ANZ Bank took the building as a branch office. It was around this time that the parapet ornamentation was destroyed and the St Andrew Street entrance moved. Old interior features have also disappeared through numerous renovations.
In 1983 the architects Salmond & Burt drew up plans for a new bank building on the site, but the scheme was abandoned. After nearly 40 years the ANZ consolidated on a new site in 1997. The ground floor is now occupied by the clothing retailers Jay Jays, making it once again a ‘fashion corner’. Most of the external character remains intact, and with some restoration perhaps the building will one day reiterate the vivacious statement it once made on this busy retail corner.
Otago Witness, 21 July 1883 p.29 (J. Elliott at 75 George St), 6 March 1886 p.16 (Throp’s new premises); Otago Daily Times, 30 May 1885 p.3 (Boot Palace business sold by Hislop), 1 April 1886 p.2 (Boot Palace in ‘new premises’), 21 April 1886 p.4 (Arthur White insolvency), 26 November 1889 p.6 (Hislop named as architect); Evening Star 5 June 1885 p.1 (call for tenders for removal of old buildings), 11 June 1885 p.1 (call for tenders for construction);30 January 1886 p.2 (description), 10 December 1929 p.5 (description of alterations).
New Zealand Dental Journal, vol. 58 (1962) pp.88-89; vol. 76 (1980) pp.137-188
Sinclair, R.S.M. Kawarau Gold (Dunedin: Whitcombe & Tombs printers, 1962), pp.44-45.
Throp, Benjamin: Dental practice records book. Hocken Collections Misc-MS-0871.
Entwisle, Peter. Draft report DDPL110-35, Dunedin City Council Heritage Schedule Review (and further discussion with the writer).
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1880s, Arthur White, Boots and shoes, Dentists, George Street, James Hislop, Mandeno & Fraser, Renaissance revival, Retail, St Andrew Street, Victorian on 21 November 2013 by David Murray.
Royal Albert Hotel
Built: 1880 / 1939
Architects: Louis Boldini / Stone & Sturmer
Builders: Norman Wood / D.P. Murphy
A Labour Day procession makes its way south along George Street, some time between 1892 and 1896. The Royal Albert Hotel can be seen on the right. The bay with the shop front at the left-hand end was added in 1882. (Hocken Collections S09-219e)
There has been a pub on the site of The Bog Irish Bar for nearly 150 years. In April 1864, James Ramage Hood was granted a license for a new public house named the Black Bull Hotel. An early photograph shows it was a single-storey wooden structure. Hood was succeeded as licensee by William and Margaret Carveth (from 1866 to 1877), and Johann Luks (1877-1879).
Luks was a German immigrant who had previously worked as a fruiterer in George Street. In late 1878 he commissioned the architect Louis Boldini to design a new hotel building, but was declared bankrupt in August 1879 before the project could go ahead. Daniel White purchased the fourteen-year lease on the property the same month, and in December was granted a license for the establishment which he gave a new name: the Royal Albert Hotel. The replacement building was erected in 1880 by contractor Norman Wood to Boldini’s plans, and completed by October. It was built of brick, with ornate cemented facades in the revived Italian Renaissance style, and made the most of a tricky triangular site. The ground floor had a bar, three sitting rooms, a dining room, and a kitchen. There were nine bedrooms and a sitting room on the first floor.
Louis Boldini was the only Italian or Continental European architect who worked in Dunedin in the late nineteenth century, and as most of his work has been destroyed this building is a significant survivor. Boldini’s most impressive designs included the second Dunedin Synagogue, the AMP Building, Butterworth Brothers’ warehouse, and the Grand Hotel. Of these only the Grand remains (as the Dunedin Casino within the Southern Cross Hotel).
Daniel White, first licensee of the Royal Albert Hotel (Toitū / Otago Settlers Museum, A566-1)
Daniel White (c.1834-1907), known to some as ‘Black Dan’, was born on the Caribbean Island of St Thomas. He arrived in Dunedin in 1859 and initially worked as a barman at the Provincial Hotel. After running a restaurant called the Epicurean, he opened the Crown Hotel at the intersection of Rattray and Maclaggan streets in 1862. He was later the founding proprietor of Royal Hotel in Great King Street, the Queen’s Hotel in Castle Street, and the Ravensbourne Hotel. He was also a West Harbour Borough councillor.
Given his surname, his nickname, and his ethnicity, it’s not surprising that White got rid of the Black Bull name! For many years he was one of the most respected publicans in Dunedin, but in 1882 he was refused a renewal of his license for the Royal Albert Hotel on grounds of ‘immorality’. Separated from his wife of twenty years, he had fathered children by two of his servants, one of whom he had been found guilty of beating (for which he was fined one pound). He was forced to give up the Albert, but eventually returned to the Queen’s Hotel in 1888 and remained there for ten years. His last pub was the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel in Russell Street. White died in December 1907 at the age of 73.
The Albert passed to Francis O’Kane in 1882, and to Joseph Strong before the year was out. Building additions, again designed by Boldini, extended the hotel in a southwards direction. The next licensees were Robert Allen (1883-1889), Alfred Low (1889-1890), Mary Campbell (1890-1892), and Michael Moloney (1892-1896). The hotel was refurbished during Moloney’s time and alterations designed by architects Mason & Wales were carried out. Moloney was succeeded by John McLeod (1896-1900), Margaret Braun (1900-1904), Thomas Laurenson (1904-1907), Robert McClintock (1907), George McGavin (1907-1911), Michael Cahill (1911-1912), Eliza Cahill (1912-1918), and Sarah Laurenson (1918-1928).
Advertisement from the New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1892 p.24 (Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand)
The longest serving publican of the Royal Albert Hotel was Henry Mathie Allan, who ran the business from 1928 to 1961 together with his wife, Frances Annie Allan. Above the corner entrance can still be seen the words: ‘H.M. Allan, Licensed to Sell Fermented & Spirituous Liquors’. This wording was uncovered when layers of paint were stripped from the fanlight in 2007. Harry Allan was the son of Eliza Cahill, one of the earlier licensees. He had a keen interest in trotting and owned a number of horses, the most successful of which were Blue Horizon and Will Cary. In Allan’s time the hotel underwent its most radical transformation. The architects Stone & Sturmer (Gorton R. Stone and Frank Sturmer) were commissioned to design extensive internal alterations, a large extension facing London Street, and an art deco makeover of the old exterior. The work was carried out in 1939 by D.P. Murphy and cost £5,443. Stone & Sturmer reworked a number of other nineteenth-century facades in Dunedin during the 1930s, including the Victoria Hotel in St Andrew Street (since demolished) and the Victoria Chambers in Crawford Street. As with Mandeno & Fraser’s remodelling of the Manchester Unity Chambers, previously discussed in this blog, the final result is a marriage of two styles and periods.
Perspective drawing by Stone & Sturmer, architects (Evening Star, 21 March 1939 p.3, with thanks to Dunedin Public Libraries)
An Evening Star newspaper report stated: ‘The exterior of the building will be changed to suit present-day tastes with coloured plaster ornaments rising from a brown-tiled base’. Boldini’s ornamentation was removed and plastered over, but the first floor window openings remained and the building retained much of its original rhythm and some of its Victorian character. The new decoration included fluting, floral motifs, and string courses with scroll patterns. Leadlight windows were installed in the first floor and for the fanlights. The ground floor windows were enlarged but mostly filled with glass bricks, the idea being to let light in but keep noise out and the temperature stable. The new private bar was ‘modern to the extreme with colours of black, red, cream, and chromium predominating in a design of sweeping curves and horizontal lines’. It featured a 100-foot continuous counter. The London Street additions were likewise modern in style, with a flat-roofed building erected over the old yard space.
View from George Street, August 1963. Reproduced by kind permission of the photographer, Gary Blackman.
The building in 1983, photographed by Frank Tod (Hocken Collections S13-531a)
The building in 1983, photographed by Frank Tod (Hocken Collections S13-531b)
James McNeish mentioned the Albert and its publican in his 1957 book, Tavern in the Town. Describing it as a ‘student pub’, he wrote:
‘Its bar-room displays toby jugs of enough nationalities to start a revolution […] Henry Allan is the present landlord of the Royal Albert, a publican with a dual passion: toby jugs and roses. He has been collecting jugs since 1937. He is probably our only publican who wears a fresh rose in his buttonhole each day.’
Edward and Lindsay Young bought the hotel 1963 and remained the licensees to 1977. They gave up the accommodation side of the business and in 1971 the London Lounge bistro opened on the first floor, taking space previously used for bedrooms. A New Zealand Breweries publication reported: ‘The decor shows foresight and courage: a challenging psychedelic (cloth) wallpaper, brightly-hued lampshades, vari-coloured seats, [and] contrasting drapes’. A tavern license was issued in 1978 when the Royal Albert Hotel became the Royal Albert Tavern.
The next big makeover came after Michael Bankier bought the tavern in 1988. The Royal Albert was renamed the Albert Arms and given a Scottish theme, complete with Royal Stuart tartan carpet. The menu included ‘Kildonald Fried Chicken’, ‘Loch Lomond Salmon Salad’ and ‘Isle of Orkney Pork Chops’. Loch Lomond is not known for its salmon, nor Orkney for its pigs, but the names were only intended to be fun. The ground floor windows were reglazed to allow patrons to watch what is one of Dunedin’s most buzzing street corners, and the exterior was repainted in a distinctive green and red colour scheme selected by Peter Johnstone and Sue Medary of the Design Consultancy. The refurbished bar and restaurant opened in June 1989.
The green and red colour scheme of 1989-2007, photographed by Axel Magard in 2000 (Creative Commons license)
For a short period from 2004 the Albert Arms returned to the ‘Royal Albert’ name and the bar was branded as Albie’s, but the large Albert Arms sign remained on the parapet. The most recent refurbishment came in 2007, when the Royal Albert became The Bog Irish Bar, one of a chain of four bars in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The exterior was repainted blue, with gold and grey detailing. The London Lounge closed but a new restaurant was later opened in the space. Steel grilles were added in front of four first floor windows and a variety of textured and coloured glass panes installed in the existing ground floor windows. There are many appealing features, but to me it’s a pity that the old name has gone and there is no celebration of the site’s own 149-year history amidst the large amount of generic Irish history that decorates the interior.
There is a curiosity in the exterior plasterwork in that two dates, 1859 and 1939, are engraved on the parapet. The second commemorates the rebuilding, but the first is something of a mystery. The original 1880 decoration also featured the 1859 date. The site was first licensed in 1864, so is the reference to 1859 a mistake? Was Dan White referring to the year he first arrived in Dunedin? Or was there some other business on the site from this date? It’s something to ponder – perhaps over a beer!
The building in 2013
View from London Street, showing the 1939 additions on the right
Detail featuring the ‘Royal Albert Hotel’ name and the dates 1859 and 1939
Leadlight window with the name of Harry Allan, licensee from 1928 to 1961
Newspaper references: Otago Daily Times, 20 April 1864 p.4 (Black Bull Hotel), 15 June 1864 p.4 (Black Bull Hotel), 12 August 1879 p.1 (bankruptcy of Luks), 23 August 1879 p.4 (sale of hotel), 3 December 1879 p.3 (transfer of license), 13 May 1880 p.2 (White in City Police Court), 5 October 1880 p.2 (description of new building), 19 June 1882 p.2 (White’s license), 25 July 1882 p.2 (additions), 3 April 1894 p.3 (alterations by Mason & Wales), 23 March 1911 p.12 (‘Black Dan’), 25 March 1961 p.2 (hotel sold), 19 June 1961 p.3 (retirement of Harry Allan), 14 June 1989 p.21 (refurbished as Albert Arms), 24 May 2007 p.10 (refurbished as The Bog Irish Bar), 18 October 2007 p.22 (The Bog); Evening Star, 31 December 1878 p.1 (call for tenders), 31 July 1882 p.2 (additions), 21 March 1939 p.3 (description of rebuilding); Otago Witness, 6 September 1879 p.15 (sale of hotel).
Dunedin City Council permit records and deposited plans.
Frank Tod papers, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena MS-3290/049.
McNeish, James. Tavern in the Town (Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1957).
Tod, Frank, Pubs Galore (Dunedin: the author, 1984).
This entry was posted in Architects and tagged 1880s, 1930s, Art deco, D.P. Murphy, Daniel White, Facelifts, Frank Sturmer, George Street, Gorton R. Stone, Hotels, Louis Boldini, Norman Wood, Renaissance revival, Stone & Sturmer on 14 May 2013 by David Murray.
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Tag Archives: Kodachrome
The first ‘Dunedin in Kodachrome’ post on this blog showed a Ray Hargreaves image, looking south along George Street in 1957. This fascinating image above, taken by David Green, makes an excellent companion piece, as it looks north along the same street five years later.
It can be dated unusually precisely to Otago Anniversary Day, 23 March 1962, at 4:35pm (if the Arthur Barnett clock was functioning properly). The traffic movements, including the Triumph Herald and Hillman Minx (or possibly Humber 80) in the foreground, give an energy to the scene. The buildings on the left are Victorian, but with remodelled facades that have stripped them of ornamentation. The tell-tale sash windows remain. Shops include the Disabled Servicemen’s Shop and Modern Furniture. Further along is the Arthur Barnett department store. On the right is another department store, the DSA. The now-demolished State Theatre is the taller building. In the background the tower of Knox Church can be seen. The hanging boxes are quite spectacular. Are those red hot pokers?
Thanks to David Green for generously sharing this image.
This entry was posted in Streets and tagged "David Green", 1960s, Kodachrome on 14 January 2018 by David Murray.
A Maclaggan Street vista
It can be interesting to look at some of the changed vistas along our city streets. Here is a Gary Blackman image of Maclaggan Street taken in August 1963, and an approximate comparison from February 2017. The silhouette of the First Church spire is prominent in the earlier picture, but obscured by Scenic Hotel Dunedin City (formerly Cargill House) in the later one. Philip Laing House on the right, opened in 1973, is the other large addition. The magnificent AMP Building designed by Louis Boldini was demolished in 1969. All of the buildings visible on the left and right hand sides of Maclaggan Street have been pulled down, with the exception of the Crown Hotel on the Rattray Street corner. These included the western end of the old Broadway Arcade, taken down in 1970. Today the realigned Broadway is a busy traffic route, and Harvey Norman (left) and The Warehouse (right) take up much of the remaining real estate. Notable survivors on Princes Street (seen here from behind) include the former Excelsior Hotel and Everybody’s Theatre with their fascinating roofscapes. The Calder Mackay building, covered in scaffolding in August 1963, is still standing, as is Speight’s Shamrock Building to its left. The telegraph poles and their busy wirescape have been removed. Of course one photograph was taken in winter and the other in summer, but the trees that now bring greenness for much of the year are another addition.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1960s, 1963, Calder Mackay, First Church, Kodachrome, Maclaggan Street, Princes Street, Rattray Street, Speight's on 7 February 2017 by David Murray.
In an earlier post I touched on the colours and qualities of mid-century Kodachrome film, and the research value of old slides. I am always eager to find more images of Dunedin in Kodachrome, and over the past few years have spent a lot of time working through slides of the late Hardwicke Knight. More recently, well-known photographer Gary Blackman has introduced me to his own wonderful collection.
Any student of Dunedin architecture should be familiar with Ted McCoy and Gary Blackman’s Victorian City of New Zealand (1968). It was the first book dedicated to the subject of Dunedin’s historic buildings, and opened the eyes of many to the beauty and value of the city’s built heritage. A number of the buildings featured have since been destroyed.
During the period Gary was taking some of the black and white images shown in the book, and even much earlier, he was also shooting in colour. The slides were primarily intended as documentary records, but naturally the photographer’s skill in composition, framing, and other technical and artistic elements, is ever apparent.
The passage of time has added further dimensions. Some images are evocative through their sense of oldness – of the kind sometimes mimicked through Instagram filters. Conversely, a sense of freshness is often even more striking. There can be something unsettling about an image that looks as though it might have been taken yesterday, but shows a scene that has undergone radical transformation. Scenes that have only undergone partial transformation can be the most disconcerting, as familiar points of reference hammer home that this really is the same place. In other cases, it is amazing how little a place has changed in fifty or sixty years.
With special thanks to Gary for sharing them, here is a group of his images taken in Great King Street, all in 1963:
The first looks east towards the Otago Museum. The building in the foreground was a Congregational church before it was purchased by the Catholic Church in 1932. It was demolished around 1971 to make way for the present Holy Name Church. Buildings and blossom are together the subjects. The gold of the museum’s masonry harmonises with the church’s timbers – a colour once ubiquitous for Dunedin buildings but relatively uncommon today. Motor cars (then older models) give a sense of period.
The second image looks south along Great King Street, and makes a study of telegraph poles and wires. Gary tells me that at first he avoided such infrastructure, before increasingly incorporating and sometimes even featuring it. This particular image was used in a talk in which he illustrated the ‘visual clutter imposed on our streets by poles and wirescape’. The photograph was taken from a position approximately outside where Galaxy Books is today (just north of Moat Street), and the Wellingtonia in the distance, then already over a century old, is a familiar point of reference. In 1963 the one-way system was still five years away.
The final slide, taken in the mid-morning sun, shows a modest dwelling opposite the North Ground. It stood south of the Dundas Street corner, near where Coupland’s Bakeries is now situated. Unfortunately this charming little home with its pretty lacework was demolished long ago. It is contextualised in this image by the houses on the hillside, while the glimpse of the attached barber’s shop provides a delightful contrast.
All images in this post © Gary Blackman 1963
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Colour photography, Gary Blackman, Great King Street, Kodachrome, Otago Museum on 30 May 2016 by David Murray.
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Experimental AIDS Vaccine Delivers Good News
Thai trial is first test in humans to show vaccine can work against HIV
THURSDAY, Sept. 24, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- In an apparent milestone advance, an experimental AIDS vaccine tested on more than 16,000 young adult volunteers in Thailand cut the risk of infection by a third, researchers reported Thursday.
The researchers acknowledged that the protection offered by the vaccine was relatively modest and did not represent a breakthrough. But the trial results marked a significant gain in the so-far frustrating fight against AIDS, which has killed an estimated 32 million people worldwide since it struck more than a quarter century ago.
Experts said the findings should give scientists important insights into HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and how it attacks the body's immune system, with the ultimate goal of producing a more effective vaccine.
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"I don't want to use a word like 'breakthrough,' but I don't think there's any doubt that this is a very important result," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the trial's sponsors, told The New York Times.
"For more than 20 years now, vaccine trials have essentially been failures," he said. "Now it's like we were groping down an unlit path, and a door has been opened. We can start asking some very important questions."
The World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the results "instilled new hope" in the field of HIV vaccine research.
The vaccine is a combination of two vaccines that had previously been unsuccessful in clinical trials. When the Thai clinical trial began in 2006, many scientists thought it would also fail.
"I really didn't have high hopes at all that we would see a positive result," Fauci told the Associated Press.
The study, which used strains of HIV common in Thailand, tested the two-vaccine combination in what's called a "prime-boost" approach. The first vaccine primes the immune system to attack HIV and the second one strengthens the response, the AP reported.
The two vaccines are called ALVAC and AIDSVAX. ALVAC contains canarypox -- a bird virus that has been genetically altered so it can't cause disease in humans -- to transport synthetic versions of three HIV genes into the body. AIDSVAX contains a genetically engineered version of a protein on HIV's surface. Because the vaccines aren't made from a whole virus -- either dead or alive -- they can't cause AIDS, according to the AP.
The study was done in Thailand because U.S. Army scientists did key research in that country when the AIDS epidemic emerged there, isolating virus strains and providing genetic information on them to vaccine makers. The Thai government also strongly supported the idea of doing the study, the AP reported.
For the trial, half of the 16,402 volunteers were given six doses of the two vaccines in 2006 and half were given placebos. They then got regular HIV tests for three years. Fifty one of those who got the vaccines became infected compared to 74 who were given placebos, the Times said.
Although the 31 percent reduction in rates of infection was modest, Col. Jerome H. Kim, a doctor who manages the U.S. Army's HIV vaccine program, called the finding statistically significant. And, he added, it's "first evidence that we could have a safe and effective preventive vaccine," AP reported.
The Thais chosen for the study were a cross-section of that country's young adult population, not just high-risk groups like intravenous drug users or sex workers, Kim added.
One curious finding showed that the vaccine induced very few antibodies. Most vaccines consist of parts of a virus or bacterium that prompt the immune system to make antibodies, which then protect the body by attacking the invading pathogen.
The chief usefulness of the ALVAC-AIDSVAX vaccine will probably be what it can teach infectious-disease researchers about what is happening in the immune system when a person is even somewhat protected against HIV, the Washington Post reported.
"We really need to go through the data to see if there are effects here that are potentially useful," Kim said.
He predicted that information gained from the trial after the results are fully analyzed will have "important implications for the design of future HIV vaccines," the Post reported.
Fauci stressed that the new trial results do not mark "the end of the road," but he was surprised and pleased by the outcome, the AP reported.
"It gives me cautious optimism about the possibility of improving this result" and developing a more effective AIDS vaccine, he said. "This is something that we can do."
Leaders in the search for an AIDS vaccine were also heartened by the news.
Dr. Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise in New York City, said, "The results themselves are modest: 30 percent protection is not a level of protection that we can actually go out and give to people, but it's a landmark day because it says that achieving protection in humans against HIV with an HIV vaccine is possible."
"It's going to be so exciting over the next few years to go from 30 percent protection to 100 percent protection," he added.
Rowena Johnston, director of research for the Foundation for AIDS Research, New York City, added, "This is an important step, it's an encouraging step, but it is not the final step."
"These results are interesting from the perspective of what we are going to learn out of them," she said. "There are probably few people who would say this is the product we should be making available to people around the world. But it is showing us directions in which we might look."
Seth Berkley, president and chief executive officer of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, said in a prepared statement: "It's the first demonstration that a candidate AIDS vaccine provides benefit in humans. Until now, we've had evidence of feasibility for an AIDS vaccine in animal models. Now, we've got a vaccine candidate that appears to show a protective effect in humans, albeit partially."
In 2007, 33 million people around the world were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 64.9 million people have been infected with HIV since the pandemic began. AIDS is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa, and the fourth leading cause of death globally, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
ALVAC is made by Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine division of French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis. AIDSVAX was originally developed by VaxGen Inc., and the patent is now held by Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, a nonprofit group founded by some former VaxGen employees, AP reported.
In addition to the two vaccine patent holders and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, participants in the Thai trial included the United States Army, and the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the Times reported.
More information on the trial will be presented at an AIDS vaccine meeting in Paris later this fall, the Post reported.
To learn more about HIV and AIDS, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCES: Alan Bernstein, M.D., executive director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, New York City; Rowena Johnston, Ph.D., director of research, Foundation for AIDS Research, New York City; Sept. 24, 2009, news release, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise; Sept. 24, 2009, news release, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Associated Press; The New York Times; Washington Post
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Task Force: Routine Genital Herpes Screening Not Recommended
Unless someone has symptoms, testing offers little benefit because the sexually transmitted disease has no cure
TUESDAY, Aug. 2, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. federal task force is prepared to recommend that teens, adults and pregnant women not be routinely tested for genital herpes if they don't have signs of infection.
About one in every six Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The disease, which is transmitted through vaginal, anal and oral sex, causes symptoms like blisters, discharge, burning and bleeding between periods. Though symptoms can be treated, genital herpes is incurable.
Flu Vaccine Safe During Pregnancy
In support of its proposed guidelines, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says the benefit of routine herpes screening is small, because early treatments aren't likely to make much of a difference.
"Because there's no cure, there isn't much doctors and nurses can do for people who don't have symptoms," Dr. Maureen Phipps said in a news release from the task force, of which she is a member. Phipps is chairwoman of obstetrics and gynecology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Rhode Island.
The task force also says screening people who have no signs of herpes may cause harm, because the blood test can be inaccurate.
Still, "people should be aware of the signs and symptoms of genital herpes and should talk to their doctor or nurse if they are concerned," said Ann Kurth, dean of the Yale University School of Nursing. "This is especially true for women who are pregnant because there are things clinicians can do to help women who have genital herpes protect their babies during delivery."
The task force does, however, recommend screening for other sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. It also recommends health care professionals counsel patients who are at high risk of developing sexually transmitted diseases.
For more about genital herpes, try the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCE: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, press release, Aug. 2, 2016
-- Randy Dotinga
Last Updated: Aug 2, 2016
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- Rating Of Land Values And Feu Duties. Part 2
This section is from the book "The Rating Of Land Values", by Arthur Wilson Fox. Also available from Amazon: The rating of land values.
"In the Feu charter there are usually special conditions that the vassal shall erect buildings of a certain value, say of an annual value equal to six times the feu duty, and also that the buildings shall conform to the general plan for the laying out of the estate as an urban district, and also providing for roads, drains, etc."
Mr. Sargant points out the legal differences in the case of the English freehold rentcharge system and the Scottish system of feu duties: "According to the law of England, a landowner who disposes of his land for the whole duration of his estate is unable to create any tenure between himself and the person who deals with him, and is unable, therefore, to reserve any rent strictly so called, since rent is only one of the incidents of tenure. Rent can only be reserved if the landowner parts with something less in point of duration than his whole estate in the land, so that he has left what is called a reversion - that is, some period of time of whatever length at the commencement of which the land will revert or come back to him on the expiration of the lesser estate which he has granted away.
"Whenever then an English landowner is minded in accordance with a custom in the locality, or for any other reason, to grant land for ever for building purposes in consideration of a periodical payment, he does not attempt to reserve a rent, but limits to himself a rentcharge of the agreed amount, with special provisions (now given by Statute) for securing its payment. And from this time forth he is considered in law not as having any estate whatever in the land (which would be the case if he had granted a lease for however long a period, short of the duration of his own estate), but as merely entitled to a rentcharge issuing out of the land. And this system of payment, or development for building purposes, is conveniently known as the 'freehold rentcharge system,' while the rentcharges created under it are often (though inaccurately) known in Manchester and other places where the system is prevalent as 'chief rents.' In Scotland a difference of law allows landowners, while granting away their land for ever, to create a tenure between themselves and the grantees, and to reserve a perpetual periodical payment of the nature of rent. These payments are generally known as 'feu duties' and the system as that of 'feuing.'"
Urban Rating by Sargant, pp. 9, 10.
The following observations from the Report of the Committee on "Town Holdings" may perhaps be quoted with advantage: "It is frequently the case that the original feuar (usually the builder) realises his profit by granting subordinate feus, reserving increased or improved feu duties of a larger amount than he himself pays. In such cases he fills a double relation, viz., that of feuar to the original superior, and of superior to his subordinate feuars. In former times it was often a condition in the original charter that the vassal should not thus sub-feu, and in order to evade this restriction, the practice arose of creating what are called ' ground annuals ' instead of subordinate feu duties. In the case of these ground annuals, the feudal relation of superior and vassal does not exist but they are purely 'conventional,' or, in other words, are dependent entirely upon the contract of the parties. Like the feu duties, they consist of a perpetual yearly charge of a fixed amount, and, except that they do not carry with them the incident of casualties, they are, for the purpose of our inquiry, practically in the same position as feu duties. When we do not specially mention them, it is to be understood that our observations referring to feu duties are to be taken as applying to ground annuals also.
"In the case of both English fee-farm grants and of Scotch feus, the rights of the parties appear to us (with one exception, hereafter mentioned) to be substantially the same. There are technical differences between the two cases, but the interest of the ground landlord in England, and the superior in Scotland is (subject to the exception referred to) practically limited to the fixed annual sum agreed to be paid to him in perpetuity and to the remedies he possesses for its recovery, which may be described as the right to sue for the rent as a debt, to seize and sell the movable property on the premises, or, in certain cases, to resume or recover possession of both land and building.
House of Commons Paper, No. 214 of 1892, p. xxvii.
"There is one important point in which the two systems differ. In Scotland, in consequence of the continued existence of the feudal tenure, it is usual to contract for certain payments to become due from the feuar or vassal to the superior, known as casualties. Formerly these payments accrued upon a change in the ownership of the vassal's interest by death, alienation, or otherwise, and were frequently indefinite in time and amount. By a statute passed in 1874 it was made illegal to contract for indefinite casualties in feu charters thereafter granted, and as regards casualties under charters of earlier date, powers were given by which the casualties could either be redeemed or restricted in amount and time. The casualty now most prevalent is a payment of one or two extra years' feu duty, made at fixed periods, such as every 19th or 25th year, although in a more limited number of cases the payment consists of a year's rent or value of the subjects as they stand."
The amount of the feu duty annually paid cannot be increased by any expenditure of local rates, by the aggregation of population, or any other cause, but its selling value may possibly be increased by the improvement of the security, but this is not important, because a feu duty is usually secured by about five or six times its value. The increase of selling value, due to improvement of the security, should be distinguished from that due merely to the fall in the rate of interest, which has affected all investments of a somewhat similar character.
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Free Books / Real Estate / The Law Of Real Property /
Discharge of obligation secured-(a) General considerations. Part 9
This section is from the book "The Law Of Real Property and Other Interests In Land", by Herbert Thorn Dike Tiffany. Also available from Amazon: A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land .
Even conceding that a tender of the debt at maturity may operate to discharge the mortgage lien, a tender, unless kept good, will not have such an effect, it has been decided, if made by a purchaser of the land, who as not having assumed the debt, is under no personal obligation in reference thereto.30 In jurisdictions where payment after default is insufficient to divest the mortgagee's legal title,31 a mere tender of payment after default can obviously have no greater effect.32
- (e) Merger. The question whether the acquisition of the mortgaged land and of the mortgage debt by one person has in the particular case the effect of discharging the debt and extinguishing the mortgage lien is frequently one of some difficulty. When such is the result of the union of the two interests in one person, it is said that a "merger" of the mortgage occurs, or that the mortgage is "merged." The words "merge" and 'merger," as used in this connection, are calculated to suggest false analogies drawn from the doctrine of merger of a less in a greater estate upon their acquisition by one person,33 but there appear to be no other available expressions, and they will here be used in accordance with universal practice. "What is, it is conceived, even more misleading, as regards erately and intentionally refused," and that "sufficient opportunity must have been afforded to ascertain the amount due".
29. Manning v. Burges, 1 Ch. Cas. 29; Gyles v. Hall, 2 P. Wms. 378; Kinnaird v. Trolloppe, 42 Ch. D. 610; Greenwood v. Sut-cliffe (1892), 1 Ch. 1.
30. Harris v. Jex, 66 Barb. (N. Y.) 32; Brunswick Realty Co. v.
University Inv. Co.,. 43 Utah, 75, 134 Pac. 608.
31. Ante, Sec. 640(b), note 76.
32. Shields v. Lozear, 34 N. J. Law, 496, 3 Am. Rep. 256; Rowell v. Mitchell, 68 Me. 21; May-nard v. Hunt, 5 Pick. (Mass.) 240; Currier v. Gale, 9 Allen (Mass.) 522; Parker v. Beasley, 116 N. C. 1, 33 L. R. A. 231, 21 S. E. 955.
33. Ante, Sec.Sec. 34, 59(e).
In order that the debt may be regarded as merged, it is necessary that it be held in the same right as the land. For instance, if the debt or land is held by one in his own right while the land or debt is held by him as trustee or executor, no merger will occur.36
34. Brown v. Bartee, 10 Sm. & M. (Miss.) 268.
35. See Hatz's Appeal, 40 Pa. St. 209.
In the present state of the law as to married women, no merger can result from the fact that the land and the mortgage debt are held, the one by the husband and the other by the wife.37
Merger can evidently not occur when the land is conveyed to the mortgagee after he has assigned the debt with its lien to another,38 nor can it occur when the mortgage debt is transferred to the mortgagor after he has transferred the land to another,39 though in the latter case, if the transfer of the land by the mortgagor contains covenants of title covering the mortgage lien, the mortgagor is estopped, on acquiring the debt, to assert the mortgage against the land.40
In case the owner of the mortgaged land, whether the original mortgagor or his transferee, conveys the land to the mortgage creditor under an agreement that this shall operate to extinguish the mortgage debt, such conveyance ordinarily extinguishes the lien of the mortgage. In that case the extinguishment of the
36. Hough v. De Forest, 13 Conn. 472; Denzler v. O'Keefe, 34 N. J. Eq. 361; Swayze v. Schuyler, 59 N. J. Eq. 75, 45 Atl. 347; Angel v. Boner, 38 Barb. (N. Y.) 425; Clowney v. Cathcart, 2 S. Car. 395.
37. Skinner v. Hale, 76 Conn. 223, 56 Atl. 524; Bean v. Boothby, 57 Me. 295; Bemis v. Call, 10 Allen (Mass.) 512; Cormerais v. Wesselhoft, 114 Mass. 550; Bray v. Conrad, 101 Mo. 331, 13 S. W. 957; Power v. Lester, 23 N. Y. 527. But this may affect the right to foreclose. T acker v. Fenno, 110 Mass. 311; see Butler v. Ives, 139 Mass. 202, 29 N. E. 654.
38. International Bank of Chicago v. Wilshire, 108 111. 143; Cole v. Beale, 89 111. App. 424; Campbell v. Vedder, 1 Abb. Dec. 295; Curtis v. Moore, 152 N. Y. 159, 57 Am. St. Rep. 506, 46 N. E. 168; Lime Rock Nat. Bank v. Mowry, 66 N. H. 598, 13 L. R. A. 294; Case v. Fant, 53 Fed. 41, 3 C. C. A. 420; Oregon, etc., Inv. Co. v. Shaw, 6 Sawy. (N. S.) 52.
39. Pratt v. Buckley, 175 Mass. 115, 55 N. E. 889; Mickles v. Townsend, 18 N. Y. 575.
40. Mickles v. Townsend, 18 N. Y. 575; Byles v. Kellogg, 67 Mich. 318, 34 N. W. 671; Jones v. Lamar, 34 Fed. 454, debt and its attendant security is properly by way of payment or accord and satisfaction,41 but the courts usually refer to it as a case of merger. Occasionally even in the absence of any evidence of an intention to extinguish the debt by such a conveyance, the debt has been regarded as extinguished by such a conveyance to the mortgage creditor provided the amount paid by him for the transfer and the amount of the debt did not together exceed the value of the land, the theory being said to be that there is in such case the equivalent of a strict foreclosure, which extinguishes the debt to the extent of the value of the land.42
-Intention ordinarily controlling. The theory on which, upon the acquisition by one person of the mortgaged land and of the mortgage debt with the incidental lien on the land, the debt, and with it the lien, may ordinarily be regarded as extinguished, would seem to be that, under such circumstances, the person owning and controlling the debt can usually have no object in keeping it alive, it being in substance a claim against his own property, and he may consequently be presumed to intend that the debt shall be extinguished, a presumption to which, as tending to the simplification of titles, the courts are ready to give full effect. In accordance with this view are the numerous decisions that the intention of the holder of the two interests is the decisive consideration, and that no merger will take place if there is proof of an intention on his part to the contrary.43
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Music List
The band’s formation in 1953 was during a transitional time for many Japanese Americans, for they were reestablishing their lives after spending the wartime years in internment camps.
Throughout the years the band has held an annual concert and has performed at the Obon festival in San Jose. The band has also performed at many Obon festivals in neighboring Bay Area towns including Alameda, Mill Valley, Mountain View, Oakland, San Francisco and Union City. The band has traveled to other California towns such as Cortez, Fresno, Hanford, Livingston, Lodi, Los Angeles, Monterey, Penryn, Sebastopol, and Stockton to perform at senior appreciation events, concerts, Japanese community reunions, and church anniversaries.
The San Jose Chidori Band has played a unique role in San Jose and in many towns in California.
Purchase CDs
Last year, the band released its CD, The San Jose Chidori Band, produced by Duane Takahashi of Highbridge Music. The CD includes popular Japanese songs that the band has performed at its annual concerts and Obon songs like “Obon No Uta“ and “Tanko Bushi.” The CD costs $15 and will be available for purchase at the concert. It also may be purchased at Nikkei Traditions in San Jose and Taiyodo Record Shop in San Francisco. To purchase a CD by mail, call (408) 260-2533.
Here's our schedule for the upcoming year.
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ceutical companies. A weak international market and intense price pressure has spurred a reconfiguration of product portfolios by companies such as Ranbaxy, 11'okchar and DRI, in favour of the finished dosage segment. Ranbaxy; for example, hopes to slash the contribution of bulks to its total product portfolio to less than 25 per cent over the next three years. This trend is likely to ease competition between the tsvo countries.
The opening of new export markets such as Europe and US for both India and China will help reduce the competitive pressure. Stringent quality control systems and increasing compliance with international good manufacturing practices are now helping pharmaceuticals majors from these two countries to break into the North American market. Indian companies such as Cipla, Ranbaxy and DRL have success-fully adopted good manufacturing practices and obtained product approvals from the US, while the top 10 per cent of Chinese pharmaceutical producers also meet these quality assurances.
Discriminatory controls
However, like most foreign pharmaceutical joint ventures, the Indian companies in. China are suffering from the discriminatory price controls announced by China's State Planning Commission. in 1996.- The new pricing plan seeks to implement a marginal price control pro-gramme to cap mark-ups at each step in the multi-lave red distribution chain and thus scale down escalating medicinal costs. Unfortunately, it exempts most locally made drugs and traditional Chinese 'medicines, and consequently hurts imports and. foreign. joint ventures.
In fact, unpredictable policies on price cuts and healthcare directly hit RGCL's revenues in 19%-97. The Guangdong Price Bureau stashed prices for all RGCL products by 10 per cent in August 19%, giving a serious jolt to the company's financial results that year.
Yet .another threat to the Indian branded pharmaceutical producers in China is the implementation of a 1992 agreement to grant a .20-year patent protection. for new drugs along with seven years of 'administrative protection.' for certain products now under development in. China. Last year the Beijing yilinistry of Health. approved generic versions of Merck's Fosamaz (alendronate, a type of sodium salt used to treat post-menopause disorders) just days before the US company was scheduled to gain market approval for the product. This may be a harrier to Sino-Indian joint ventures even as China -moves towards membership of the World Trade Organisation.
Adecade ago there were hardly any international schools in mainland China. In the leading cities, waiting lists were long and elsewhere there were simply no international schools at all.
The influx of foreign investment into China over recent years has precipitated a massive increase in the number of expatriate families. A. greater number are choosing to bring their children with them, rather than send them to a boarding school. back home.
Longer postings
Embassies were important founding members of the first schools to be established in the 1980s. Later, as demand grew, expatriate parents and foreign companies were a driving force behind creating schools which met their requirements. I.n the case of the Western Academy in Beijing, founded in 1994 and now with. an enrolment of 430, multinational corporations such as Motorola, Shell and GE were the major sponsors. In other cases, the initiative has come from non-profit making organisations such as the Hong Kong Yew Chung Education Foundation..
The leading coastal cities are seldom now regarded as hardship postings and parents are happier about the prospect of their children growing up in. a Chinese city. "People are staying longer and there is a big boom in Western housing," says Mr Alex Horsley, Director of the International School of Beijing. "It is a more pleasant expatriate life than it used to be and remuneration is still very good."
Postings tend to be for a longer duration, another important reason why parents want their children with. them. "Expatriates are staying longer in Guangzhou," says Ms Nancy Stephan, Director of the American School in Guangzhou. "Just- four years ago they stayed for less than. two years on average ?now it three years plus. Proctor & Gamble employees are staying typically for four to five years. In terms of teaching, this greatly improves the continuity.,, Continuity is also helped by the tact that foreign teachers are also staying longer, despite their relatively low salaries.
In the past, families coming to Beijing tended to be younger since expatriates don't like to uproot when children areabout to take important examinations. "In recent years, this situation has changed as education standards have improved," says Mr Robert Thomas of Beijing Yen Chung International School, u hich has classes in .English and Chinese. "Nov parents have the opport-unity to explore many educational options within Beijing."
According to a Price Waterhouse survey conducted a few years ago, the majority of foreign employers in China are pre-pared to provide educational allowances for expatriate staff. The costs are significant, although perhaps no more than in other countries. Taking into account a capital payment charged by some, fees are in the region of USSI5,000 a year for primary schoolchildren and. a little more for secondary schoolchildren. Then there are additional costs such as extra-curricular activities and transportation. Worsening congestion means that getting children to and from school can be a laborious process. . hhe International School of Beijing currently operates a fleet of 40 buses and more may be needed when the school opens new premises near the air-port in the year 2000, when it will he able to cater for up to 2,000 students.
Enrolment is booming
Responding to growing demand, more international schools have opened. in the city of Beijing, home to thousands of diplomats and their families, there are now no less than. 14 schools catering for expatriates, of which half are English speaking. Shanghai and Guangzhou are also well catered for — for example, Guangzhou International School, a China-Hong Kong joint venture, will soon open while another in the Golden Lake development is also being built. However, there are also new facilities springing up in the secondary cities. Smaller schools are starting to appear in places like Xiariien, Nanjing, Kunming and Qingdao, making these cities more attractive as investment locations to foreign companies.
"Enrolment has boomed over the past tbA"o years in Beijing and China generally " comments the ISB's Horsley. "There has been a proliferation of international schools all over China."
There is now greater equilibrium
between supply- and demand for educating overseas children. International schools are no longer turning away children and parents can choose between schools and the different types of education -which they otter, such as bilingual or single language classes, an American or English curriculum.
However there are still shortages in certain areas. For example, the ISB remains the sole the English language school in Beijing teaching all the -vay up to grade 12 (university entry level.). The only such school in Shanghai is the American School, which is currently moving campus to. the Shanghai Links complex in. Pudong. Other schools are expanding — for instance the Beijing International School Singapore currently teaches up to grade 10 and it has said it will go up to grade 12 in the next. couple of years — but Horsley' says there is insufficient supply and a general absence of vocational facilities required by older students; such as woodworking classes.
Local Chinese schools are also starting international programmes with the backing of their municipal departments of education. The courses they offer are price competitive and. the bilingual teaching they provide is certainly, in demand. However, as local schools they are required to follow the Chinese curriculum and all the political baggage that goes with it, and this is proving a strong deter-rent to foreign families. Dr Brian Wilks, head of the Western Academy, believes these schools are targeted mainly toward` the very long-term expatriate and/or for those with lower-than-average incomes.
The Korean factor
Just as many new schools are coming on stream, it seems that the long period of growth may now be at an end. The financial crisis in. east Asia, especially in South. Korea, is having a big impact on international schools in China. The 'Aestern Academy claims not to have been impacted significantly. More common is the experience of the International School of Beijing, where Korean student numbers have fallen from 130 to just 90 in the past three months, although total enrolment has remained about the same.
"Generally the [Korean] companies have stopped subsidising their school fees," say's Ms Barbara Nlarkland,a co-principal of Yew Chung Shanghai International School whic}1 has recently lost 30 Korean children. "Parents have also taken a pay- cut of about 30 per cent. Some have even gone back to Korea while others have put their children into local schools."
School administrators are placed in a difficult position. — not wanting to disrupt the education of Korean children but, as non-profit making organisations, aware that special favours are unlikely to be viewed favourably by all parents. "We haven't yet figured out a way [in is hich we can help them. financially]," says Stephan. "It is difficult for us to make an exception. However, we have been looking at spreading out the payments rather demanding that Korean parents pay up front."
A growing trend for returning main-land Chinese parents to educate their children at international schools might -mitigate against the impact of the Asian crisis but numbers are still few and their presence may pose a problem to school dministrators. For example under the existing rules of Yew Chung Shanghai Inter-national School, at least one parent must be a foreign passport holder.
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The Benefits Of Climate Change
We think the effects of climate change are awful. Combating our seemingly inevitable slide into chaos is unquestionably the greatest challenge any generation has faced in a thousand years.
But never let it be said that we're not even handed in our analysis. There are two sides to every story, so pour yourself a nice glass of water (while you still can), strap in and come with us on a journey through the looking glass as we explore:
THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF A CHANGING CLIMATE
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Welcome to 2168, everything we thought might go wrong back in the first half of the 21st century has totally gone wrong. The temperature has risen and so has the water levels. Ironically though, the availability of drinkable water has plummeted. There are more fires, the deserts have expanded, the desserts aren't as nice and we all watched as the last polar bear sunk beneath the churning waves as the ice caps melted away to nothing. We still don't know why no one actually helped the poor thing.
BUT SOME THINGS ARE A LOT BETTER NOW.
For one thing there are areas of higher ground that are going from strength to strength. They may only be the pointy tops of mountains surrounded by dirty, fetid water but boy is their agricultural industry thriving. They can grow stuff up there that they'd never even dreamt of back at the start of the millennium. Lucky devils. Greenland is having a field day too. It's the perfect climate there now, they're having a ball. And don't talk to us about our sour orange trees production - those things eat climate change for breakfast. If you were worried the heat was going to make Vitamin C a thing of the past then you can rest easy. We've got you covered for that one specific fruit. Boom!
And remember when winter used to claim the lives of vulnerable elderly people? Well today's elders don't give that kind of thing a second thought. They can relax and devote their dotage to more exhilarating pursuits - like fighting over a dwindling water supply and avoiding the Petrol Pirates that sail up and down our former motorways.
What else? There's an ice-free Northwest Passage now, providing a wonderful shipping shortcut between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. Icebergs aren't really a concern anymore, so if the movie Titanic happened now, Leo and Kate would be happily steaming up car windscreens for the foreseeable future. And Kate wouldn't have had to share her floating door.
(we should have got that polar bear a floating door too - still can't get my head around the fact we let it drown)
Yeah, here in 2168 we've really got it made in the shade (whatever that is). You name it - increased plankton biomass, bigger marmots and more chinstrap penguins (we know, it was a surprise to us too). Life here is pretty sweet.
We wouldn't change a thing.
We can't change a thing.
But YOU could if you wanted to...
...please?
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The Works of JASON OURS – (NSFW!)
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Oldboy: Then and Now
…and by then I mean only ten years ago. Still, it isn’t as bad as the [REC] and Quarantine timeframe – with [REC] coming out in 2007, and Quarantine coming out not even a year later in 2008. As much as we bitch and groan, remakes of good films are inevitable, and that inevitability only increases if the original film was foreign – because “I’ll be damned if I have to read subtitles!” – or so that’s how it seems Hollywood thinks of the average American film viewer. So, it was only a matter of time before one of the holy grails in film, Park Chan Wook’s Oldboy – a film held by many, including myself, as their favorite film of all-time, was seen through the sniper scope of Hollywood. Seeing as how the original is a very dear film to me, I am going to try and stay as objective as possible with this, we’ll see how it goes.
(Spoilers are marked when appropriate)
OLDBOY 2003
Currently holding the #81 spot on the IMDB top 250 films, and sporting 18 wins, and 11 nominations, Park Chan Wook’s Oldboy is a heart-wrenching and soul-crushing tale of a man who was mysteriously imprisoned in a hotel-like room for fifteen years with no answers as to why. (“If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?”) He is suddenly released, and given three days to find out both who imprisoned him, and why, which leads him on a dark path of revenge and violence, and one of the most shocking endings of all time.
The man, Oh Dae-su, is played by Min-sik Choi, who excels at making the audience feel his agony of both the imprisonment, and the questions (and answers) that follow after his release. When we first see Oh Dae-su, he is on a rooftop holding a man with a dog off the ledge by the man’s tie – what circumstances escalated to this moment in time?
He flashes back to ‘the beginning’ and he is drunk and in a police station. The scene escalates as alcohol continues to take over his blood and we see Oh Dae-su making an ass out of himself. He is bailed out by a friend, and it is revealed that he is missing his daughter’s birthday. While talking with her on a payphone outside the police station, he passes the phone off and wanders out of the booth. After the phone conversation is done, Oh Dae-su is nowhere to be seen.
The rest of the first act is Oh Dae-su in his cell. He gets fed through a slot in the door and is never given any information as to where or why. As the years pass, Oh Dae-su comes to grips with his situation – first going insane and trying to kill himself, then transforming his body (Min-sik Choi actually gained and lost twenty pounds for this transformation) so he can confront whoever put him in there. He receives an extra chopstick one day with his usual order of fried dumplings and decides to start tunneling his way out. Years pass, and the hole gets bigger, with Oh Dae-su, after years of picking away at the wall, one day being able to stick his hand outside and feel rain for the first time in fifteen years. Suddenly, gas fills his room and he passes out. He awakens enclosed in a trunk on top of a roof, nearby, a man with a dog looks puzzled at him. The journey begins.
In the event that you haven’t seen the film (you need to change that RIGHT FUCKING NOW) I will not spoil the events that follow. For the full impact of the film, one needs to go in as blind as possible, trust me on this one.
What makes the original SUCH an amazing film? The way I see it, it is one of those rare – call it serendipitous – moments in film where every ingredient (or damn near every one) is perfect – from the cast to the script to the music to the cinematography – EVEYRTHING is synched up perfectly. Add to that some incredible emotions – some of which one does not see much in movies, given the subject matter – and some insane violence, you have a perfect soup of ingredients. Slurp it up, bitch.
All bitching and moaning aside, I tried to go into this one as clear-minded as possible. Yes, it was a remake of my favorite movie. Yes, it was Spike Lee. Yes, it was not a necessary remake – I tried to push all those immediate hostile thoughts aside and just watch on an empty slate. Also, by necessary remake, I say there are some (very few) films that benefit from the remake treatment – be it to modernize the story (The Fly) or add a different perspective to a great premise (The Thing). However, most films do not need it (Total Recall, Robocop, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, 13 Tzameti, The Amityville Horror, Solaris, Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13, The Wicker Man, Pulse, Wizard of Gore, The Fog, Bangkok Dangerous, Straw Dogs, I Spit on your Grave, Quarantine, When A Stranger Calls, Prom Night, Carrie, Psycho, Dark Water, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Haunting, Funny Games, Let Me In, Night of the Demons, The Grudge, My Bloody Valentine, The Manchurian Candidate, I Am Legend, The Last House on the Left, and The Karate Kid to name a FEW.)
Now, the original came out only ten years ago – does it need to be modernized? Not really. Sure, cell phone technology has evolved – with most of the film’s exposition and mandatory research scenes happening via iPhone – but you know what, there was more of a mysterious element to the original when everything wasn’t at the tip of his fingers, more of a journey. Nothing else has radically changed in terms of necessity to the story or technology – there were a few tiny upgrades, such as a camera in his cell, but all in all, it just felt like a commercial for Apple. Did Spike Lee offer a different perspective? By watching the trailer, you would think it was 90% the same movie, and by watching the movie you would say that holds about true, so no. This was not a necessary remake.
What was changed? There was a lot more in the first act of this new one that made the viewer dislike Oh Dae-su – I’m sorry, John Doucett (get it?!) such as his penchant for alcohol and poor decision making. In the original, you were introduced to a drunken Oh Dae-su, but you never think that is his baseline, as it is John’s. That being said, the viewer does not feel the same emotions during the imprisonment scenes – by making the audience dislike the protagonist, somehow twenty years (yes, they added five years) doesn’t seem as agonizing and unjustified as it did in the original. The infamous one-shot hallway fight scene was presented in this one, again in one shot (or using that awesome, unnoticeable editing style that Gaspar Noe uses a lot) and even added another dimension to it, however even with that, the fight seemed a little weak – we all know Spike Lee is not an action movie director, and it showed here.
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The reveal of the original was also kept intact, with a little bit more added to the antagonist’s side, which did a good job adding to his hatred for John. Also what John decides to do in the end is different, but equally intense.
(For a more intensive spoiler-tastic list of changes, check out THIS.)
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What didn’t work in the remake? The main thing that bothered me is the fact that so much time is spent on the first act, that the second and most definitely the third act felt VERY rushed. In the original, the pacing was fluid throughout – the journey was never rushed. Here, it seems like everything happens in the last 30 minutes and bam, he is already at the penthouse. Rumor has it there is a 3-hour work-print that this final version was edited down from, so perhaps that had the appropriate level of pacing.
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The third act explanation scene was painfully trite compared to the original, and even the reaction was watered down – in the original, Oh Dae-su took some very drastic measures to prove himself, here we just get a Darth Vader “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” It surprises me that the ending was kept intact for the American remake, given how taboo the topic is (and how much of a bitch American audiences seem to be) so, why not have the same, or even more of a reaction than a laughable cry?
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What worked well in the remake? Honestly, I can only think of one solid ingredient I really enjoyed, and that was Josh Brolin’s portrayal of John Doucett. While not as strong as Min-sik Choi’s performance, Josh does an amazing job with the script he is given – especially in the first act. Another thing I enjoyed was a little addition to the reason/back story – not too much, but enough to justify everything the antagonist did. Also, the scene I am referring to really reminded me of one of the most brutal scenes from Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs, so bonus points there. Also, I thought of two more reasons I liked the remake: Elizabeth Olsen’s tits. I said it.
Ok, so, final verdict.
This remake did NOT need to exist – and I am not just being a protective fan boy – nothing really new was added to the table, sans a few technological upgrades, a new dimension to the infamous hallway scene of the original, and a different ending. Sadly, the inconsistent pacing of the second and third acts (most likely a result of cutting from a three hour work-print) severely impacts the journey and it ultimately feels rushed. There were a few little nods to the original, such as a Chinatown vendor wearing the fairy wings, and John Doucett looking at a squid in a fish tank, but really, stick with the original for the best telling of this tale.
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When Black Birds Fly – Unpublished Fangoria Article
AGP Cast/Crew Round Table Interview (GoreZone #35)
American Guinea Pig – Bouquet of Guts and Gore
Men Behind the Sun: Exploitation or Education? (GoreZone #33)
Guinea Pig Cover-Story (GoreZone #31)
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You've Heard of the Might of Big Ag. Now Francis Fukuyma Illustrates the Power of Big Identity
By Jerry Kammer on January 1, 2019
In the world of immigration politics, the might of the agribusiness lobby is legendary. Exhibit A is the 1952 "Texas proviso", a legislative card trick with which Congress outlawed "harboring" or "concealing" an illegal immigrant, only to add a provision to give a pass to those who hired illegal immigrants. That chicanery anticipated Big Ag's triumph in shaping the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). That landmark law, still on the books, pretended to impose firm limits. But in reality, it ensured that illegal immigrant workers would continue to flow into vast fields of vegetables and fruits as reliably as the water from federally provided irrigation projects.
Now political scientist Francis Fukuyama has illuminated a force that rivals the clout of Big Ag. His new book is Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment. It explains the long drift of the left away from working-class demands for limits on immigration.
Many Democrats, typified by Sen. Kamala Harris of California, now regard illegal immigrants as one of many marginalized groups needing protection from the oppression of government authority imposed by a racist white majority. They see the "undocumented" as part of the noble, necessary struggle for diversity, inclusiveness, and equality.
Fukuyma explains how liberal battle lines that once formed along lines of class struggle have shifted to a broad front occupied by battalions of aggrieved identity groups. The book is concise, a compelling read. Here are a few excerpts:
"The problem with the contemporary left is the particular forms of identity that it has increasingly chosen to celebrate. Rather than building solidarity around large collectivities such as the working class or the economically exploited, it has focused on ever smaller groups being marginalized in specific ways."
"Many activists came to see the old working class and their trade unions as a privileged stratum with little sympathy for the plight of groups such as immigrants or racial minorities worse off than they were. ... In the process, the old working class was left behind."
"The left's agenda shifted to culture: what needed to be smashed was not the current political order that exploited the working class, but the hegemony of Western culture and values that suppressed minorities at home and developing countries abroad."
Fukuyama does not absolve the right from responsibility for the centrifugal forces gripping our politics and enervating the sense of a unifying American identity. He is troubled by the white nationalism that has emerged in response to extremism on the left. He sees President Trump as symptomatic of the widening divide and deepening dysfunction. "Since his rise, white nationalism has moved from a fringe movement to something much more mainstream in American politics," Fukuyama writes.
Fukuyama observes with alarm that:
[T]he right has adopted the language and framing of identity from the left: the idea that my particular group is being victimized, that its situation and sufferings are invisible to the rest of society, and that the whole of the social and political structure responsible for this situation (read: the media and political elites) needs to be smashed. Identity politics is the lens through which most social issues are now seen across the ideological spectrum.
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Shabbos to Help Jews in Recovery
A weekend retreat next month, with known speakers, offers people in addiction recovery to celebrate and connect in fellowship. Full Story, Video
The Jewish Recovery Center has announced plans for a fourth annual Retreat and Shabbaton weekend on March 13-15, 2015 at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Boca Raton.
The weekend-long celebration is expected to generate continued interest and excitement, as attendance has grown each year. Sponsored by Caron Renaissance, the retreat offers Jews in recovery an opportunity to connect with other Jews in fellowship and camaraderie.
“We are very excited to continue our relationship with the Jewish Recovery Center,” said Sid Goodman, executive director for Caron Renaissance, sponsor for the fourth consecutive year.
“The Jewish community faces unique challenges in recovery, and we recognize the importance of incorporating spiritual healing into the recovery process. Retreats such as this one allow the community to do just that, providing a space and opportunity for members of the community to reflect upon their spirituality, support one another in recovery, and celebrate sobriety. It’s truly an uplifting experience.”
An incredible lineup of world-renowned speakers and lecturers highlights a weekend filled with workshops, meditation groups, recovery meetings, family support groups, and Jewish Spirituality classes. Inspirational keynote speakers include Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD, Rabbi Shais Taub, Rabbi Dov Greenberg, Davida Schoentag, Tempany Verzaal, Lewis J. Abrams, Arnie Wexler, and Sheila Wexler.
“Because addiction is a disease, recovery is something that should be celebrated,” said Rabbi Meir Kessler, founder and executive director of the Jewish Recovery Center.
“However, the stigma that has been long associated with addiction is something that Jews in particular often find themselves battling with. The Jewish Recovery Center was founded to provide resources for those struggling with addiction and to ultimately address addiction treatment in the context of Judaism. Plans for our fourth annual retreat are well underway and we are extremely grateful to be able to provide this type of support for the community.”
Costs for the retreat weekend are $299 per person, which includes activities and all meals. A block of rooms have been reserved for March 10, 2015 – March 17, 2015. The special room rate will be available until February 23rd or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first. For more information or to register for the retreat, please visit www.JewishRecovery.com.
Sponsor of the Jewish Recovery Center retreat for the fourth year, Caron Renaissance is a leading drug rehab facility located in Boca Raton, Florida. Pioneering advances in addiction treatment, including such advances as the Residential Family Restructuring program, Caron Renaissance has also developed unique spiritual services for patients.
In addition to the spiritual leaders, patients also have access to pastoral counseling from the director of spiritual services and the chaplain. They are further encouraged to take full advantage of local places of worship according to their traditions.
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski on “What prayer is all about” at last year’s retreat
“Why Take a Father So Young?”
Bochurim Answer to AntiSemitism
not a flute.on yom kippur
he boy called out kookaricoo. not with an instrument.
seems important to note. kedushas shabbos.
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Talking With a Terrorist: An Endless Call to India
Orthodox Jew and Indian P.V. Viswanath spent grueling hours attempting to negotiate with the terrorists in the Mumbai Massacre, but to no avail. “Put us in touch with the Indian government and we will let the hostages go,” the voice on the line said. "But when we did find an Indian police official ready to join our call, we lost our connection." Full Story
By P.V. Viswanath
Thu. Dec 04, 2008
On the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving I was in my office in New York, preparing notes for a finance class I was set to teach the next week. I grew up in Mumbai, India, and I had heard earlier in the day from my brother about the terrorist attacks in my hometown, but I had thought it was going to be over quickly. Then my nephew called. He told me that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was looking for Indian language speakers to help them keep track of developing news after terrorists took over the Chabad house in Mumbai. This was the beginning of a nearly 17-hour ordeal that soon had me in prolonged negotiations with the terrorists holed up in the Jewish center, moving toward a deathly denouement.
I was uniquely suited to help out, being both an Orthodox Jew and an Indian; in India I am known as P.V., in Jewish circles as Meylekh. I know several Indian languages, including Hindi and Urdu, thanks to the 20 years I spent growing up in Mumbai, then called Bombay. During recent professional travels around the world, Chabad emissaries have been unfailingly helpful to me, and I wanted to give back. But the attack on Nariman House in Mumbai hit even closer to home — I had visited Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the Chabad emissary in Mumbai, just last summer when I was there with my son. Holtzberg and his wife had hosted us then and at the previous Passover. And so I was happy to have an opportunity to help out, even though the circumstances were not pleasant.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, a Chabad emissary in Washington, D.C., had been among the many Chabad leaders trying to dial through to Holtzberg’s various phones since the terrorists entered the Nariman House. Sometime before 10 p.m. New York time, somebody on the other end had picked up the phone and identified himself as an Urdu speaker. When Shemtov found out that I was available and could speak Urdu, he called again and put the three of us on a conference call.
This was around midnight, and when I got on the line I heard a low male voice. Following Shemtov’s promptings, I asked the person where he was. “You know where I am speaking from,” he said. (I did not take notes during these events; my account of the conversation is from notes that I jotted down afterwards.) This was the sort of uninformative response that was typical over the course of the next hours.
Given the long distance, and noise on both ends, at times I wasn’t sure exactly what my interlocutor was trying to tell me, and I had to ask for clarification. His voice was so soft that I assumed the connection must be bad, but Shemtov said he could hear me easily and asked me to speak more softly so as not to agitate the man on the other end. Thinking upon all of this later on, I realized there had hardly been any tension in the voice at the other end — he had been calm and collected.
I had never before been in a situation of this sort, and when I was asked to get on the phone, I had no idea what was waiting for me. There was a lot of trepidation in my mind — would I understand his dialect of Urdu, would I say the right things at the right time, would I perhaps upset him and precipitate some undesirable events.
At first I had a bit of difficulty with the speaker’s Urdu. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, but also by Muslims in India and I could not pinpoint where the speaker came from. As the conversation continued, however, I got a better feel for the dialect and style of Urdu, my confidence increased.
Although we didn’t know the speaker’s name in the beginning he later told us it was Imran; presumably, this was the same Imran Babar who was reported as having called a television station in New Delhi. Right at the very beginning, we asked Imran if everybody was all right. We asked him this several times and each time he said everybody was all right. At one point, we asked him if all the people there were conscious, because we had heard reports that some of them were unconscious. Imran told us that everybody was fine: Nobody was hurt and they had not touched anybody. “We haven’t even slapped them around,” he said.
The bigger mission for us, on the call, was to try and find out what Imran wanted. His one demand was to speak with someone from the Indian government.
“Put us in touch with the Indian government and we will let the hostages go,” he said.
Finding anyone to help us out was not easy. When we tried to call the Indian authorities we were bounced from one office to another. As this was happening, Imran made reference to the reports that some of the other attackers in Mumbai had been captured. He said he wanted his friend who had been captured brought to him. He added, once again, “Do this, and we will let your friends go.”
During a later conversation, we asked him how many terrorists there were. He expressed some annoyance at this question and said, “It seems like you’re not interested in saving your friends, that you’re asking all these irrelevant questions. Keep to business matters and think of how to do what we are asking you to do.”
Even during the few times that Imran expressed annoyance and uttered low-level threats, it didn’t sound as if he felt pressured in any way. The police had cut off electricity to the Nariman House and had surrounded the building on all sides, including from the air, where helicopters were keeping a watch, but Imran gave no indication of being rushed.
Throughout the night, we did not always have Imran on the phone, but I stayed on the phone constantly with Shemtov, waiting for a connection to be established. When I needed to, I would dash to the bathroom and quickly return. At the same time, we got steady reports from other Chabad rabbis who were talking with sources in India and law enforcement authorities in the United States and India.
At long last we did find an Indian police official ready to join our call, but when he did, we lost our connection. During the final call with Imran, at 5:30 on Thursday morning, we told Imran that we would try and find somebody in the Indian police to negotiate with him. Unfortunately, we did not succeed in finding anybody else in Bombay, nor were we ever able to contact Imran again.
During the night we had also tried to reach somebody in the State Department or the FBI to help in our ordeal. Ultimately an FBI team did show up, providing tips for dealing with a hostage, but I never had a chance to put their advice into practice.
I went home around 3 in the afternoon, having waited another seven and half hours in the hope of making further contact with Imran. I had spoken with a friend of mine in Mumbai, who had sheltered the nanny of the Holtzberg’s — the nanny who had escaped Nariman House with the Holtzberg’s son. She said that the Holtzbergs had been unconscious when she left, so I did not hold out great hope. It was only the next day that I heard the definitive reports that all the hostages had died.
When I did make it home, I had been awake for about 32 hours, and should have been exhausted for Thanksgiving dinner. But I found something unexpected — a spiritual energy. I had interacted with so many people in Chabad, that night, people who were completely focused on doing whatever was necessary to help the hostages, people with complete confidence that God would bring about a favorable result. I had originally responded to Chabad with the intention of providing them with assistance, but I actually left with the feeling that Chabad had given me something.
P.V. Viswanath is a Professor of Finance in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, New York. This article is adapted from a version that is also appearing in the Yiddish Forward.
Moshe’s Nanny Speaks Out
Macy’s to Celebrate Chanukah
YiYasher Koach
Thank you for what you did! Hashem doesn’t ignore our hishtadlus and your efforts were for a great Mitzvah – Pikuach Nefashos!
its a shame that the diplomatic community seems to havea serious dischord with the real security and military establishment meaning there are those with hugs and microphones and handshakes but when the dirt comes down they are innefective and not taken seriously
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Roche receives FDA approval for Hepatitis C viral load test on its fully automated real-time PCR platform
Improved laboratory efficiencies and standardization to personalize patient care
Roche Molecular Diagnostics today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the COBAS® AmpliPrep / COBAS® TaqMan® HCV Test for use in the United States. The test uses Roche’s proprietary real-time PCR technology to quantify the amount of Hepatitis C RNA in a patient’s blood. Physicians use Hepatitis C viral load testing results to establish a baseline level of hepatitis C infection and to serially monitor viral load levels and treatment effectiveness in patients on therapy.
This new Roche test enables laboratories to deliver reliable healthcare information with ease and allows physicians to more efficiently monitor their patients and improve treatment outcomes. said Daniel O’Day, President and CEO of Roche Molecular Diagnostics. We are pleased to offer this new solution for laboratories and physicians to optimize their turnaround time, workflow and patient care with simultaneous processing of HIV and HCV patient samples.
The new test offers a broad dynamic range from high levels of virus in a patient’s blood to the “undetectable” low levels of viremia – the goal of therapy. To ensure accurate quantification, the test has been calibrated to World Health Organization (WHO) traceable standards and can detect down to 18 IU/mL with 100% certainty. In a 1,281 patient clinical trial, the COBAS® AmpliPrep / COBAS® TaqMan® HCV Test confirmed the importance of viral load testing to personalize Hepatitis C patient care by accurately predicting treatment response, from onset of therapy through end of treatment.
About the COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan® System
The COBAS® AmpliPrep / COBAS® TaqMan® HCV Viral Load Test is designed for use on the first fully automated, FDA approved, real-time PCR platform, providing sample-in/results-out capability. The platform is flexible and customizable to meet the space and workflow needs of any laboratory. In the United States, more than 130 laboratories already utilize this fully automated platform for HIV testing.
The COBAS® AmpliPrep / COBAS® TaqMan® HCV Test is the third Roche COBAS® TaqMan® real-time PCR test approved by the FDA in the last eighteen months. The COBAS® AmpliPrep / COBAS® TaqMan® System menu includes an FDA approved HIV viral load test, with continuous loading of samples in addition to parallel processing of HIV and HCV tests. In September 2008, Roche received FDA approval of the COBAS® TaqMan® HBV Test to monitor Hepatitis B viral load in patients on therapy.
About Hepatitis C
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the U.S. approximately 8,000-10,000 people die from hepatitis C-related liver disease.
An estimated 3.2 million persons in the United States have chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Most people do not know they are infected because they don’t look or feel sick. However, approximately 75%-85% of people who become infected with hepatitis C virus develop chronic infection.1
Hepatitis C infections can range in severity from a mild or “acute” illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, lifelong or “chronic” illness. For most people, acute infection leads to chronic infection. Chronic hepatitis C infection is a serious disease that can result in long-term health problems, including liver damage, liver failure, liver cancer, or even death. Hepatitis C is the leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer and the most common reason for liver transplantation in the United States.
Hepatitis C virus is passed from person to person when infected blood enters the body of someone who is not infected. Different ways people can be infected with the hepatitis C virus include sharing contaminated needles, high risk sex with an infected partner, and from an infected mother to her infant during pregnancy and childbirth.
About Roche and the Roche Diagnostics Division
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the world’s biggest biotech company and an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people’s health and quality of life. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation, and is a market leader in virology. It is also active in other major therapeutic areas such as autoimmune diseases, inflammatory and metabolic disorders and diseases of the central nervous system. In 2007 sales by the Pharmaceuticals Division totaled 36.8 billion Swiss francs, and the Diagnostics Division posted sales of 9.3 billion francs. Roche has R&D agreements and strategic alliances with numerous partners, including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai, and invested over 8 billion Swiss francs in R&D in 2007. Worldwide, the Group employs about 80,000 people. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.roche.com.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control. http://www.cdc.gov
Jessica E. Brillant
Molecular Diagnostics Communications
Melinda Baker
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1002 High
Photograph of the brick house at 1002 High Street built in the late 19th century. Owners have included William M. Holmes and John Manly. The house was demolished in 1977.
1011 Broad
Photograph of the house at 1011 Broad Street, built in 1895 for J. W. Billings, a local dentist. The house was later (1921?) moved to its present location on the north side of 16th Ave, east of the railroad tracks (1533 16th Ave.) At the time of the move it was stripped of its chimney and cupola. The house was moved by horse and block and tackle on 6th to Penrose, and then north on Penrose to 16th. Other buildings to occupy the original site on Broad Street were Van Wechel car dealership/garage, an St. Mary's Education Center.
The home at 1110 Main Street (6th and Main) was built in 1892 for Henry C. Spencer. The tower and chimneys were eventually removed and roof line altered from the original.
1124 Third Avenue
Photograph of the house at 1124 Third Ave. built in the late 19th century. An early owner was Louise Henley, wife of the county superintendent of schools. Later owned by Janet Carl and Greg Johnson.
Photograph of the J. H. McMurray home at 1125 Broad Street, built in 1895. In 1915, McMurray made changes to the structure, including replacing the front porch and cutting off the pediments. At the NE corner, the second floor open porch was enclosed and windows added. A smoking balcony was created for Mr. McMurray with wood that would not absorb smoke. The Grinnell Historical Museum acquired the property in 1965.
Photograph of the house at 1126 Broad Street owned by E. W. Clark, a doctor. It was originally built in the 1870s but damaged in the 1882 cyclone. The cupola was later restored.
Photograph of the frame building at 1127 Park Street. It was originally constructed in 1888. Owned by H. G. Little followed by Mrs. E. D. Rand. Originally had verandas on the south, north, and east. Served at various times as a hospital, a college club, and a college administration building.
Photograph of the house at 1133 Broad Street, built in 1895 for B. J. Carney, who owned a lumber business. A carriage house was built in the back of the property.
Photographs of the house at 1206 Broad Street, built in 1884 for L. E. Spencer, a banker, attorney and realtor, to replace the earlier structure that fell into its own cellar during the cyclone of 1882. The interior photographs are from the early 1900s when the house was owned by J. P. Lyman. During the latter part of the 20th century, the house was owned by John and Barbara Kleinschmidt. More information about individual photographs is available in the Grinnell College Libraries Department of Special Collections and Archives.
Photograph of the house at 1227 Broad Street built in 1882 for William Beaton, a piano tuner. His daughter became a national known pianist and the veranda visible in the photograph was hers. The house was taken down in 1934.
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Academy and Catholic Church, Charles City, Iowa
Three story brick and stone church building (1203 Clark Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) in the background with three story brick and stone school building in foreground. 1910 postmark.
Adams Street, East from Summit Hotel, Creston, Iowa
One of the first hotels in Creston, Iowa, the Summit Hotel, was built in 1880 by a stock company composed of Swan & Becker and Colonel Beckwith, among others, and was destroyed by fire in 1896. The hotel owners rebuilt on the same site later that year, but shortly before midnight on December 1916 another fire destroyed the building. The loss was estimated at $200,000 and defective electrical wiring was believed to have caused the fire. Creston centennial card, 1869-1969.
Adel State Bank, Adel, Iowa
Looking northwest at the corner of Ninth and Main Streets at the Adel State Bank, the Rexall Drug Store, and J.F. Tawney's Grocery Store. The building was built in 1908. It is located at 901 Main Street, Adel, Dallas County, Iowa, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 19.
Air view of Council Bluffs, Iowa
Looking northeast at an aerial view of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Bayliss Park is in the right-hand corner of the image. Verso: Council Bluffs, located in Southwestern Iowa, near the geographical center of the U.S.A. has a population of nearly 50,000. Its history goes back to 1804 when Lewis and Clark held council with the Indians on the high bluffs overlooking the Missouri River. 1964 postmark.
Akron Public School, Akron, Iowa
The two-story brick building was built in1882, at a cost of $10,000. Additions were made in 1907 at a cost of $6,000. 1912 postmark.
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(All Cars Stop at Talbott's) Broad St. N. From 4th Ave., Grinnell, Iowa
Transposed photo of trolley (right) onto Broad Street photo. 1912 postmark.
Administration Building, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Looking south from central campus. Chicago Hall was constructed in 1883, costing approximately $20,000 excluding grading and landscaping. Razed in 1958 to provide space for construction of Burling Library. 1948 postmark. Number 22133. Series 9.
Administration building and Blair Hall, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Looking northwest. Chicago Hall was constructed in 1883, costing approximately $20,000 excluding grading and landscaping. Razed in 1958 to provide space for construction of Burling Library. Blair Hall was constructed in 1882-1886, razed in 1961. Cost was $37,200 excl. grading and landscaping. 1958 postmark. Number 65673. Series G-5.
Alpha and Omega sundial, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Looking north with Noyce Science Center in the background. The Alpha and Omega Sundial, located outside Bowen Hall of Science, is named for Harriet Gale. She is the late wife of Professor Emeritus of Physics Grant Gale, who has been on the Grinnell College faculty since 1928. --photo verso
Alumni Hall (old chapel), [Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa]
Looking north. Title from photo verso. Alumni Hall (Music Building) was constructed in 1882, razed in 1958 to make room for construction of Burling Library. Cost approximately $19,100 excluding grading and landscaping.
Alumni Hall, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Looking southeast from Park Street. A.R.H. was dedicated on November 24, 1916, the three-story Tudor-style building with Gothic features was part of a campus-wide modernization effort prompted by rising enrollment. Number 751.
Looking northeast from Park Street. A.R.H. was dedicated on November 24, 1916, the three-story Tudor-style building with Gothic features was part of a campus-wide modernization effort prompted by rising enrollment. Number 293.
Alumni Hall, Grinnell College, [Grinnell, Iowa]
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Looking down Middle Street, from Free Street. U.S. Custom House in distance.
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Ruins of the great fire in Portland, Me., July 4, 1866
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Welcome to France! Road Scholar’s Campus of the Year in 2019
"The French air cleans up the brain and does good – a world of good."
Take in a breath of fresh air from the lavender-scented fields of Provence to the salty beaches of Poitou-Charentes as you explore the landscapes that have beckoned creative minds for centuries. Coco Chanel, Vincent van Gogh, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse and Jules Verne are just a few that once called France home, all drawn to the rolling valleys and colorful cities for inspiration and learning.
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California begins massive voter roll clean up, Notifies up to 1.5 million inactive voters, Judicial Watch 2017 lawsuit to force cleanup of Los Angeles County voter rolls
“High importance. I met with Jim and Mike in Denver. They are both old friends of the Clintons and have lots of experience. Mike hosted our Boulder Road Show event. They are reliving the 08 caucuses where they believe the Obama forces flooded the caucuses with ineligible voters. They want to organize lawyers for caucus protection, election protection and to raise hard $.”…Podesta Wikileaks email leak
“What is your threshold for acceptable voter fraud since 1 vote can win most elections?”…Citizen Wells
“We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.”…George Orwell, “1984″
From Judicial Watch June 19, 2019.
“California Begins Massive Voter Roll Clean-Up – Notifies Up to 1.5 Million ‘Inactive’ Voters as Part of Judicial Watch Lawsuit Settlement
Judicial Watch announced today that it has been informed that Los Angeles County has sent notices to as many as 1.5 million inactive voters on its voter rolls. This mailing is a step toward removing the names of voters who have moved, died, or are otherwise ineligible to vote. The massive mailing is the result of a settlement agreement with Judicial Watch requiring the County to remove as many as 1.5 million inactive registrations. In addition, the California secretary of state has alerted other California counties to clean up their voter registration lists to comply with the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), as the secretary promised to do in that same settlement agreement.
All of this is the result of a federal lawsuit Judicial Watch filed in 2017 to force the cleanup of Los Angeles County’s voter rolls (Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)). Judicial Watch sued on its own behalf and on behalf of Wolfgang Kupka, Rhue Guyant, Jerry Griffin, and Delores M. Mars, who are lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles County. Judicial Watch was joined in this lawsuit by Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a public interest group that has long been involved in monitoring California’s voter rolls.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, voters who do not respond to the notices sent by the County and who do not vote in the next two federal elections must be removed from the voting rolls. Secretary Padilla also agreed to update the state’s online NVRA manual in order to make clear that ineligible names must be removed and to notify each California county that they are obliged to do this. On April 11, Secretary Padilla notified Judicial Watch that this part of the settlement agreement had been implemented.
The agreement also required the office of the secretary of state to send a written advisory to all county clerks/registrars of voters in California stating that current federal law requires the cancellation of a registrant who has failed to respond to an official notice and who then fails to vote, offers to vote, correct the registrar’s record, “or otherwise have their eligibility to vote confirmed for a period of time including the next two general federal elections.”
The updated California National Voter Registration Act Manual, March 2019, conforms to this standard. In April and May 2019, the California secretary of state provided a training presentation to all 58 counties in California regarding the proper list maintenance procedures under the NVRA.
As Judicial Watch previously noted, Los Angeles County has over 10 million residents, more than the populations of 41 of the 50 United States. California is America’s largest state, with almost 40 million residents. The County had allowed more than 20% of its registered voters to become inactive without removing them from the voter list.”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-begins-massive-voter-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-as-part-of-judicial-watch-lawsuit-settlement/
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57 responses to “California begins massive voter roll clean up, Notifies up to 1.5 million inactive voters, Judicial Watch 2017 lawsuit to force cleanup of Los Angeles County voter rolls”
citizenwells | June 20, 2019 at 7:32 am |
“Trump: Let me just tell you. And it doesn’t have to do with the vote, although that’s the end result. It has to do with the registration. And when you look at the registration and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two states that voted in two states, when you see other things, when you see illegals, people that are not citizens, and they’re on the registration rolls. Look, Bill, we can be babies, but you take a look at the registration, you have illegals, you have dead people, you have this. It’s really a bad situation. It’s really bad.”
Trump Bill O’Reilly Super Bowl interview Sunday, February 5, 2017.
oldsailor87 | June 20, 2019 at 12:27 pm |
CW……….
………it has been known for a LONG TIME that in California alone there was over a million more than questionable votes. There was thousands of DEAD PEOPLE VOTING. This is done by people who are doing this expressly for the purpose of inflating the vote illegally.
AND NOW…………
………….US drone shot out of the air while operating in irrefutably INTERNATIONAL air space. Trump will now be responding to the attack. It is believed that the stinking a$$ed goatherders are behind the attack.
oldsailor87 | June 20, 2019 at 1:20 pm |
………..it is probable that the point of origin of the Sam missile is known to the last foot. The military should now put the missile launcher and it’s associated people, and auxiliary equipment into permanent OBLIVION. As soon as the goatherders turn on their radar they expose themselves to retaliatory attacks. Some of our airborne missiles are designed to follow the enemy radar signal to the source, and permanently erase that particular unit.
AND THE PSYCHOSIS…………
……….of Mzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. AOC defies logic. Her IDIOTIC references definitely impair the DNC, and Congress to some extent. She is a narcissistic sort of person , and must always see herself as the center of attention. As such she is incapable of reasonable situational judgement, and should NOT be holding PUBLIC OFFICE.
…………..it appears that Chief Petty Officer Gallagher has just been exonerated of having murdered the stinking a$$ed goat humper. A medic has testified that he was the person who is responsible for the death of the ISIS POS.
…….recently a Catholic school in Indiana was ordered by the upper echelon to fire a homosexual teacher. The school said NO. So it appears that now our educators are tolerating FILTHY, STINKING, HOMOSEXUALS, POISONING THE MINDS OF INNOCENT CHILDREN WITH THEIR SICK, PERVERTED AGENDA. One day those who promote the ANTI Christian way of life will stand before his/her creator, and WILL FEEL THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR, and spend eternity burning in hell. This is yet another indicator of where our so called SOCIETY is heading.
……….where else have we watched a sick, twisted homosexual standing in public with flies orbiting, and landing upon that person’s body. Flies are by their nature drawn to the odors of FILTH.
hapnHal | June 20, 2019 at 9:38 pm |
oldsailor85++
………Lets stop those drive by shootings??
Latest news from Fresno, a California Sanctuary City.
Fresno City leaders offer money to gang members in effort to reduce drive-by shootings
During Tuesday’s Fresno City Council meeting, council member Miguel Arias asked for the further exploration of a program to curb gang violence.
Advance Peace helps gang members abandon the gang lifestyle by offering stipends and other incentives.
The bottom line — pay them money.
“The way the program works is a community organization and community leaders identified these individuals, sign them up for mentorship programs for job programs, monitor them make sure they stay out of trouble,” says Miguel Arias, Fresno City Council member for District 3.
There are similar programs in Stockton, which is 100 percent private funding and in Sacramento, which is both city and private dollars.
But the question is, who should pay for it in the City of Fresno?
Councilmember Miguel Arias believes the City should help fund it.
“If they {Advance Peace} can reduce losing one child to a drive-by in the community, it’s worth the investment,” says Arias.
He says the program will target the gang members known for drive-by shootings.
I think………..
this program should only apply to those gang members that have non-registered guns. What do you think?
oldsailor87 | June 21, 2019 at 2:07 am |
hapnHal……..
………….you buy security from a criminal only until he decides he wants MORE, THEN MORE, THEN MORE…….Criminals live a fantasy life style, wherein they think they can murder, rape, and rob people, and they will get away with it. Paying them is really EXTORTED MONEY. A city leader who pays criminals is himself/herself a criminal.
“A Polish lawmaker and committee chairman on trans-Atlantic trade has invited Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit former concentration camps in his country in an effort to educate the freshman legislator.”
“Dominik Tarczyński, a member of the Polish Sejm (parliament), wrote to Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday.
In his communication, Tarczyński writes:
“I write to you out of distress in having learned of your recent statements regarding concentration camps…
… This is why when someone cheapens the history, or uses it for political point-scoring, we become agitated and upset.””
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-20/polish-mp-invites-aoc-educational-visit-real-concentration-camps
“Tom Fitton: CA Cleaning its Dirty Voters Rolls a ‘BIG, Positive Step’ for Election Integrity”
“”President Obama made a desperate and terrible deal with Iran – Gave them 150 Billion Dollars plus I.8 Billion Dollars in CASH! Iran was in big trouble and he bailed them out. Gave them a free path to Nuclear Weapons, and SOON. Instead of saying thank you, Iran yelled ‘Death to America’.
I terminated deal, which was not even ratified by Congress, and imposed strong sanctions. They are a much weakened nation today than at the beginning of my Presidency, when they were causing major problems throughout the Middle East. Now they are Bust!
On Monday they shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General.
10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.
I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!””
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-21/trump-backs-down-military-strike-iran-last-minute
Comforting to have a real Commander in Chief
………it was a great idea on the part of the Polish individual. Mzzzzzzzzzzzzz Cortez needs to go there ,LOOK, AND LISTEN. If she is human she will have a new REALITY taught to her.
oldsailor87 | June 21, 2019 at 10:50 am |
but IMPORTANT to everyone. This is sort of question, combined with an answer. First the question; What is LOVE? Now I will provide MY ANSWER; Love is God given entity, and implanted by the CREATOR in all living things. Each feels it in different ways, a few are incapable of feeling it. It is the most gripping event you will ever experience in your life. If it is TRUE love then you will never turn away from it……You will feel it in your HEART,and it will occupy your mind, and it will fill your soul with a feeling that only the creator can instill. Once you have experienced TRUE LOVE you will be a changed person for the rest of your life, and thereafter. You will know true beauty. Sadly humanity experiences from time to time TWISTED LOVE. This is homosexual love. It is against all Christian values, and everything we hold dear to us. It is a MENTAL INVASION, of our hearts, souls, and minds. It is an illness which has it’s roots in abject filth. Practitioners hearts, minds, and souls have been stolen by the abject filth. The only way it can be eliminated from the souls of those who are infected is by turning to Jesus for help. I was raised in the belief in God at a simple , small Missionary Church. It was non denominational, but taught the Bible straight from the Bible. Throughout my life I have watched our alleged society come to a point where many folks think that homosexuality is OK, just a little different. People have become helpless to think rationally. Any rational person knows that the male of our species was given the ability to implant his genetics into a female of our species. This is the CREATOR’S design for the continuity of all living things. Continuity does not occur by male implanting his genetics into another male. In reality this notion is an aberration of the mind…….NOTHING ELSE !!!! It promotes many physical illnesses as well. Practitioners of homosexuality live a sordid, miserable, and otherwise filthy life. This is NOT TRUE LOVE. Many of these people emit a foul odor comparable to that of death which seeps, through their pores from within their bodies. Perhaps this is why flies land upon the face of Barry Soetoro. One day he too will stand before his creator, and his judgement will ensue. Hopefully humanity will return to the Christian values of our past………I personally believe that it is our ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION.
fhl | June 21, 2019 at 12:02 pm |
Good article on the Crowdstrike con:
https://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=https://amgreatness.com/2019/06/19/russian-hack-or-crowdstrike-ruse/&ts=1561132241&sig=ACgcqhpx8lsA4ses7os2Yo3m3g2KiYQguA
AND NOW……….
……………the TINY LITTLE Democrat CHILD PSYCHOPATH IN TEXAS. who raves, and rants now says he will if elected work to imprison President Trump. I have a news flash for the SNOTNOSED CHILD POS……….HE WILL NOT EVEN MAKE IT THROUGH THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. ADIOS BETOS !!!
AND TODAY…….
………we have over twenty CHILDISH PLAYGROUND PRETENDERS, who want to hold the top office of the land. Not ONE of these PRETENDERS is MATURE ENOUGH PHYSICALLY, OR MENTALLY TO HOLD EVEN A COMMUNITY DOG CATCHER POSITION. The few who are at the proper age level haven’t yet demonstrated they are mature enough mentally to hold the office of POTUS. Even the past VP clearly demonstrates his childish, twisted, and generally uninformed viewpoints. This tells me that even he is NOT QUALIFIED to hold the POTUS position. All he has ever been is a YES man. Then we have a female candidate who fancies herself as a NATIVE AMERICAN. Then we have a snotnosed black person who is after REPARATIONS FOR SLAVES. Thousands of Mr. Booker’s peers vehemently disagree with him. Paying reparations would be the same thing as demeaning them. In addition slavery occurred long before any of todays foaming at the mouth radicals were on earth. In addition it is doubtful that most of them even know who their own father is let alone a person in 1865.
QUESTION;
………….WHEN DID THE US NAVY START PAINTING THE DRONES IN CAMOUFLAGE SCHEME? WE ALL KNOW SUCH A PAINT SCHEME WOULD BE A WASTE OF TIME AND MATERIAL SINCE THE AIRCRAFT IS NOT AROUND EARTH SURFACE COLORATION WHEN IT IS AT 40,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE. SOME OF THE SCRAP METAL BEING SHOWN BY THE GOATHUMPERS IS CLEARLY PAINTED IN CAMOUFLAGE COLORATION. TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE NO SUCH PAINT SCHEMES ARE USED ON DRONES EITHER ON INTERNAL PARTS OR EXTERNALLY ANYWHERE ON THE SKIN OF THE DRONE. THE SCRAP METAL IS PROBABLY NOT FROM THE DOWNED DRONE AT ALL. OF COURSE THE GOAT HUMPERS THINK EVERYBODY IS STUPID. THE ONLY THING THE GOAT HUMPERS KNOW HOW TO DO …….IS HUMP THEIR NANNY GOATS.!!!! THAT IS PROBABLY THE REASON WHY THE GOAT HERDERS SMELL SO BAD.
fhl | June 22, 2019 at 5:22 am |
Any of you folks ever heard of -Operation Northwoods-?
“Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by John F. Kennedy.[3][4][5]”
and check out this killer line:
This plan to kill Americans in terrorist acts and blame it on the Cubans was authorized and approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff of our gov’t. The only reason it didn’t happen is because Kennedy vetoed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
I edited the last post incorrectly. The killer line that i meant to post instead of repeating the first paragraph was this:
“The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the U.S. government’s anti-communist Cuban Project, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President John F. Kennedy.”
fhl……….
………..sounds like a cheap spy novel.!!! ………BUT……is something that the Democrats are well experienced at. DO IT THEN BLAME IT ON SOMEONE ELSE..
AND NOW……..
……..Bernie (WILLY WONKA) tells black folks at democratic convention in Columbia SC that if they vote for him, and elect him EVERYTHING WILL BE FREE. Healthcare, food, a place to live, a vehicle, and a monthly income. Of course he didn’t tell them who is going to pay for it all. It will be they themselves. Their taxes will triple..…..that is for those who still have a job.!!!!
AND STRANGELY……..
…………TODAY I SAW A PICTURE OF WILLY WONKA (BERNIE) SEATED ON AN AIRLINER. SEATED IN THE NEXT SEAT BEHIND HIM WAS POCAHANTAS…….STILL SHAKING HER HEAD.!!!!
…………MAYBE THE REASON WHY POCAHANTAS CONTINUOUSLY SHAKES HER HEAD IS THAT SHE MORE THAN LIKELY ATE SOME OF HER POW WOW CHOW………..AND NOW SHE IS SHAKING HER HEAD WITH A BUBBLING GUT.
AND THIS MORNING……….
………”.LITTLE” JOE WITH HIS BEADY LITTLE EYES, WAVING HIS HANDS IN THE AIR, AND SHOUTING ” I DIDN’T DO IT”………PERIOD, PERIOD, PERIOD. HEY JOE “YOU USED TWO TOO MANY PERIODS” Lil Joe obviously got his tongue wrapped around his eye tooth again, and couldn’t see where the sentence ended..
Yes, there is a real voter problem in California
It’s ballot harvesting, and this law needs to be removed.
Democrats in California quietly passed a law allowing ballot harvesting in 2016, which allows party workers to go door-to-door and offering to deliver mail-in ballots on behalf of the voter. California lost 7 out of 14 Republican House seats in this election cycle. Ballot harvesting is illegal in most states. In Texas, New York and Pennsylvania they arrest people for ballot harvesting. Conservative Orange County turned all blue after and unprecedented 250,000 Election Day vote-by-mail dropoff ballots were produced. Candidates who won on Election Day later lost their races to Democrats. The Democrats don’t even hide their blatant voter fraud anymore – they just pass laws to make election fixing legal and the Republican party just sits back and allows it.
citizenwells | June 22, 2019 at 8:22 pm |
Thanks hapnHal.
Guess what year this article was published:
“The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic Zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed that the Gulf Stream was very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the Eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring have never ventured so far north in the old seal hunting ground. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
article by the Associated Press was published in the Washington Post and many other newspapers across the country on November 22, 1922, almost 100 years ago:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/does_this_settled_science_look_familiar.html
…………the rabid, foaming at the mouth liberals are subpoenaing Kellyanne Conway. Still spouting their raging RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA insanity Looks like the DO NOTHING morons are going to keep it going right up to 2020. That is good news…….it almost guarantees Trump’s re election.
………….George Lopez has ONCE AGAIN demonstrated what his PERVERTED, SICK, TWISTED, TINY MIND dwells upon. He has gone over the edge in his lunatic montage of the President’s family. He calls Trumps children ANCHOR BABIES. TIME FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO RE ORIENT MR. LOPEZ WITH A LITTLE VACATION AT THE LOCAL SLAMMER………..SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASS !!!!!!
fhl | June 24, 2019 at 4:17 pm |
hapnHal | June 24, 2019 at 10:44 pm |
Well did Bernie go far enough??
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before the first Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Bernie Sanders and House progressives are unveiling legislation cancelling all student debt, going further than a signature proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren as the two jockey for support from the party’s liberal base.
Ops,
Bernie you forgot to add debt REPARATIONS for former students. Come on Bernie get with it!
hapnHal…….
all of which qualifies poor little Willy Wonka (Bernie) for a strait jacket , and a GERI CHAIR at the local funny farm.
…….HERE is one for you……it is really a mime that didn’t happen !!
I read this early this morning. It seems there is a pair of gorillas at the Chicago Brookfield zoo. They are in separate cages situated across the walkway from each other. One is a female, and the other is a male silvertip. He was accustomed to being fed first in the AM. Today there was a new person feeding the gorillas and that person inadvertently fed the female first. Seeing this the male went ape sh-t and started shaking the hell out of his cage, then stood in the middle of his cage beating his chest with his fists, and going hoo, hoo, hoo. Then the camera operator panned the camera onto the nameplate of the male gorilla. His name is Cory.!!!!!
Happy birthday George Orwell.
Thank you for warning us.
………..another psychotic female has come forward to claim that Trump raped her many years ago. She sounds and, even to a large extent looks like Mzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Ford. Apparently she doesn’t know there is such a thing as a well defined STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. Hopefully this one can REMEMBER WHERE, and WHEN it occurred.
………in reality the new rape charge is ANOTHER PRODUCT of the SICK, TWISTED MINDS of the LUNATIC DEMOCRATS. She is a bought and paid for POS. who will do ANYTHING for a buck. She says she was born , and raised in Indiana. I have my doubts, but you only need to check the census records to learn the truth. However she says that she is not going to pursue charges against the POTUS. THEN WHY WASTE ALL THE BREATH TALKING ABOUT IT. SHE IS EITHER A PSYCHOTIC, OR A PAID UP LIAR.
OR……..
………….BOTH !!!!!
citizenwells | June 26, 2019 at 12:45 pm |
“Team USA’s Megan Rapinoe: “I’m Not Going To The F*cking White House” If USA Wins World Cup”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-26/team-usas-megan-rapinoe-im-not-going-fcking-white-house-if-usa-wins-world-cup-0
Weirdo!!!
AND TONIGHT……….
…………….the 3 ring circus going on in Florida tells a really sad story about the people on the stage. The words of all of the candidates defies all rational logic. Rational logic is what it is, and I haven’t heard a rational word from anyone tonight. I was surprised to see the female gorilla from Chicago zoo at Miami. She looked as though she might have been in one hell of a knife fight. Scars all over her head.
………….for the first time tonight I was able to get a good look at the face of DeBlasio. BOY OH BOY, he came across as a mixture of PENCIL NECK, and Marty Feldman. RIP Marty……no insults directed at you !!!
I have always wondered if RACHEL is really BASIL. IT COMES ACROSS A LOT LIKE ELLEN DEGENIRIT.
Pocahontas still shaking her head.!!!!!
Corey was going HOO, HOO, HOO. but he didn’t beat his chest with his fists.
…………..the twisted lunatic left have produced a three ring CONVERGENCE of LUNATICS in MIAMI Florida. I am surprised that they aren’t charging an admission fee to watch, and hear the nitwits foam at the mouth.
……..citizen grand jury has indicted Mueller in a host of charges which includes witness tampering. Larry Klayman at Judicial Watch has the information. This is NOT a grand jury of a government agency…..rather it is a grand jury of free citizens. Under the Constitution we the people have this right, and this grand jury has the same level of legal veracity as does those of a federal agency.
………..SCOTUS has ruled AGAINST the addition of the citizenship question to the federal census. There you are folks……….the SCOTUS is NOW politically CORRUPTED……..
………it is now clear that the SCOTUS will NEVER ADJUDICATE anything relating to the USURPATION of the office of POTUS by Barry Soetoro. Barry Soetoro is not NOW, and NEVER was a US CITIZEN. He himself verbally stated ” I am the first US President to have COME FROM KENYA”. In simple English this certifies that he was illegally elected. It screams for prosecution.
…….and
Rather than watching the clown debate, I watched SPONGE BOB with my grandson. Must say SPONGE BOB was quite enjoyable!
…AND, AND
It’s got to be Trump’s fault?
PA report says Israel and Hamas reached an agreement to end firing of incendiary balloons in exchange for increase in fishing area.
The Palestinian Arab news agency Sawareported on Thursday night that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement on a truce brokered by Egypt and the United Nations.
According to the report, as part of the understandings, Hamas will stop firing incendiary balloons at the communities in the Gaza envelope and curb the weekly demonstrations along the border fence.
……….OOHHHH YYEEEAAHHHHH ?
………….while Rapinoe is without a doubt a great player…….it sounds as though she is also a RAGING LIBERAL. With respect to the game it appears that aggressive behavior is a benefit.
……..it is more than clear that the LUNATIC CONVENTION in Miami has turned out to be even a BIGGER CIRCUS than expected. The DEMOCRATS are SEALING their defeat in 2020. Their collective RABID, FOAMING AT THE MOUTH RHETORIC has transformed them into a dangerous, idiotic mass of SOCIALISTIC LEANING MORONS.
…………the squirming mass of crazed fly larvae in MIAMI, have taken their thousands of MADDOW MOUTHS, to TOTAL INSANITY……..OPEN BORDERS, AND FREE EVERYTHING. QUESTION; if everybody in America gets everything for free eventually nobody will be employed, all business will cease to exist, and guess what…….THE LIBERALS WILL NO LONGER HAVE A BENEFACTOR. TO PAY FOR THEIR HALFWITTED BS.
……..at the Miami LUNATIC CONVENTION many of the TWISTED MORONS demanded that IMPEACHMENT of President Trump MUST BEGIN IMMEDIATELY. Obviously the IRRATIONAL HYSTERIA has MAXIMIZED ITSELF EN MASSE at Miami.
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