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Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar
Optimal DG placement for benefit maximization in distribution networks by using Dragonfly algorithm
M. C. V. Suresh1 &
Edward J. Belwin2
Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar volume 5, Article number: 4 (2018) Cite this article
Distributed generation (DG) is small generating plants which are connected to consumers in distribution systems to improve the voltage profile, voltage regulation, stability, reduction in power losses and economic benefits. The above benefits can be achieved by optimal placement of DGs. A novel nature-inspired algorithm called Dragonfly algorithm is used to determine the optimal DG units size in this paper. It has been developed based on the peculiar behavior of dragonflies in nature. This algorithm mainly focused on the dragonflies how they look for food or away from enemies. The proposed algorithm is tested on IEEE 15, 33 and 69 test systems. The results obtained by the proposed algorithm are compared with other evolutionary algorithms. When compared with other algorithms the Dragonfly algorithm gives best results. Best results are obtained from type III DG unit operating at 0.9 pf.
Interconnection of generating, transmitting and distribution systems usually called as electric power system. Usually distribution systems are radial in nature and power flow is unidirectional. Due to ever growing demand modern distribution networks are facing several problems. With the installation of different distributed power sources like distributed generations, capacitor banks etc, several techniques have been proposed in the literature for the placement of DGs. Most of the losses about 70% losses are occurring at distribution level which includes primary and secondary distribution system, while 30% losses occurred in transmission level. Therefore, distribution systems are main concern nowadays. The losses targeted at distribution level are about 7.5%.
By installing DG units at appropriate positions, the losses can be minimized. Photovoltaic (PV) energy, wind turbines, and other distributed generation plants are typically situated in remote areas, requiring the operation systems that are fully integrated into transmission and distribution network. The aim of the DG is to integrate all generation plants to reduce the loss, cost and greenhouse gas emission. The main reason for using DG units in power system is technical and economic benefits that have been presented as follows. Some of the major advantages are (Reddy et al. 2016, 2017c)
Reduced system losses
Voltage profile improvement
Frequency improvement
Reduced emissions of pollutants
Increased overall energy efficiency
Enhanced system reliability and security
Improved power quality
Relieved Transmission & Distribution congestion
Some of the major economic benefits
Deferred investments for upgrades of facilities
Reduced fuel costs due to increased overall efficiency
Reduced reserve requirements and the associated costs
Increased security for critical loads.
Different types of distributed generations and their definitions have been discussed in Ackermann et al. (2001). An analytical approach was proposed by Acharya et al. (2006) and Hung et al. (2010) with out taking voltage constraint. The uncertainties in operation including varying load, network configuration and voltage control devices have been considered in Su (2010). Sensitivity-based simultaneous optimal placement of capacitors and DG was proposed in Naik et al. (2013). In this paper analytical approach is used for sizing.
Abu-Mouti and El-Hawary (2010) proposed ABC to find the optimal allocation and sizing of distributed generation. Distributed generation uncertainties (Zangiabadi et al. 2011) have been taken in account for the placement of DG.
Alonso et al. (2012), Rahim et al. (2012), Doagou-Mojarrad et al. (2013) and Hosseini et al. (2013) proposed evolutionary algorithms for the placement of distributed generation. Nekooei et al. (2013) proposed Harmony Search algorithm with multi-objective placement of DGs.
A novel combined hybrid method GA/PSO is presented in Moradi and Abedini (2011) for DG placement. With unappropriated DG placement, can increase the system losses with lower voltage profile. The proper size of DG gives the positive benefits in the distribution systems. Voltage profile improvement, loss reduction, distribution capacity increase and reliability improvements are some of the benefits of system with DG placement (Rahim et al. 2013; Ameli et al. 2014).
Embedded Meta Evolutionary-Firefly Algorithm (EMEFA) was proposed in Rahim et al. (2013) for DG allocation. Here how losses are varied with population size are considered. Simultaneous placement of DGs and capacitors with reconfiguration was proposed by Esmaeilian and Fadaeinedjad (2015) and Golshannavaz (2014). Dynamic load conditions have been taken in Gampa and Das (2015). Big bang big crunch method was implemented for the placement of DG in Hegazy et al. (2014). Murty and Kumar (2014) uses mesh distribution system analysis for the placement of distributed generation with time varying load model. Probabilistic approach with DG penetration was discussed in Kolenc et al. (2015). The backtracking search optimization algorithm (BSOA) was used in DS planning with multi-type DGs in El-Fergany (2015), BSOA was proposed for DG placement with various load models.
Reddy et al. (2017a) and Reddy et al. (2017b) proposed whale optimization and Ant Lion optimization algorithm for sizing of DGs. In most of the studies economic analysis has not been taken.
A novel nature-inspired algorithm called Dragonfly algorithm is used to find the optimal DG size in this paper. The optimal size of DGs at different power factors are determined by DA algorithm to reduce the power losses in the distribution system as much as possible and enhancing the voltage profile of the system. The economic analysis of DG placement is also considered in this paper.
Problem formulation
Objective function
In distribution system more losses are there due to low voltage compared to transmission system. Copper losses predominant in distribution system, this can be calculated as follows
$$\begin{aligned} {P_{loss}} = \sum \limits _i^n {I_i^2{R_i}} \end{aligned}$$
where \(I_i\) is current, \(R_i\) is resistance and n is number of buses. Objective taken in this paper is real power loss minimization.
The constraints are
Voltage constraints
$$\begin{aligned} 0.95 \le V_{i} \le 1.05 \end{aligned}$$
Power balance constraints
$$\begin{aligned} {P} + \sum \limits _{k = 1}^{{N}} {{P_{DG}} = {P_d} + {P_{loss}}} \end{aligned}$$
Upper and lower limits of DG
$$\begin{aligned} 60 \le {P_{DG}} \le 3500 \end{aligned}$$
where the limits are in kW, kVAr and kVA for Type I, II and III DG, respectively.
Loss sensitivity factors method
Optimal locations for DG placement are identified based on the losses at the nodes and their sensitivity after compensation using the loss sensitivity factors method. Real and reactive power losses are calculated at all the buses and then the locations corresponding to the bus which has the highest loss is selected as the best location for DG placement. The buses with high losses give maximum loss reduction when DG are placed in the distribution system. Loss sensitivity is referred to as the change in losses corresponding to the compensation provided by placing the DGs. Loss sensitivity factors (LSF) determine the best locations for DG placement. These factors reduce the search space by finding the few best locations which saves the cost of the DGs in optimizing the losses in the system as a whole. Consider a line with impedance (R + jX) between buses i and j and a load in the distribution system as shown in Fig. 1.
A distribution line with connected load
Real power loss in the kth line considered in Fig. 1 is given by \([I_k^2]\times [R_k]\) and can also be expressed as follows
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} PL(j)=\frac{(P^2(j)+Q^2(j))\times R_k}{V(j)^2} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
Similarly reactive power loss in the kth line is given by \([I_k^2] \times [X_k]\) and can also be expressed as follows
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} QL(j)=\frac{(P^2(j)+Q^2(j))\times X_k}{V(j)^2} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
where \(I_k\) is the current flowing through \(k_{th}\) line; \(R_k\) and \(X_k\) are the resistance and reactance of the kth line; V[j] is the voltage at the bus j; P[j] = Net Active power supplied beyond the bus j; Q[j] = Net Reactive power supplied beyond the bus j.
After finding the real and reactive power losses for all the buses, the loss sensitivity factors can be calculated using the following equations.
$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial {PL}}{\partial {Q}}&= \frac{(2\times Q(j))\times R_k}{V(j)^2} \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial {QL}}{\partial {Q}}&= \frac{(2\times Q(j))\times X_k}{V(j)^2} \end{aligned}$$
Identification of optimal locations using loss sensitivity factors
The loss sensitivity factors for all the buses from load flows are calculated using Eq. (7) and the buses are stored in a vector according to their positions such that these factors are arranged in the decreasing order. Voltage magnitudes are normalized by assuming the minimum voltage value as 0.95 at these buses using the following equation
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} Vnorm[i]= \frac{\mid V(i)\mid }{0.95} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
where V[i] is the base voltage at the ith bus. The optimal locations for DG placement are determined based on the normalized voltage magnitudes and the loss sensitivity factors calculated as described above, the former decides the requirement of compensation and the latter gives the order of priority. The buses with \(Vnorm \le 1.01\) are selected as the best suitable locations for the placement of DGs in order to reduce the real power losses and improve the voltage profile simultaneously so that the power delivering capacity is enhanced. The value 1.01 is selected as the maximum value of the normalized voltage at the buses where compensation is required.
The algorithm to find the optimal locations for DG placement using LSF is explained in detail in the following steps
Read line and load data of the system and solve the feeder line flow for the system using the branch current load flow method.
Calculate the real and reactive power losses using Eqs. (5) and (6).
Find the loss sensitivity factors using Eq. (7).
Store the buses with loss sensitivity factors arranged in decreasing order in a vector according to their positions.
Normalize the magnitudes of the voltages for all the buses using Eq. (9).
Select the buses with normalized voltage magnitudes less than 1.01 as the best suitable locations for DG placement.
LSF method is applied to 15-bus, 33-bus and 69-bus IEEE systems and the locations are given in the tables below (Tables 1, 2, 3).
15-bus system
Table 1 Loss sensitivity factors for 15-bus system
From above table first best location for DG placement is 6.
From above table first best location for DG placement is 61.
The Dragonfly algorithm (DA)
The DA algorithm was proposed by Mirjalili (2015). It has been developed based on swarm intelligence and the peculiar behavior of dragonflies in nature. This algorithm mainly focused on the dragonflies how they look for food or away from enemies.
The static behavior of dragonflies, i.e, looking for food can be treated as exploitation phase and evade from enemies can be treated as exploration phase. The static swarm dragonflies consist of small group of dragonflies which are hunting the preys in small space. The direction and velocity of this dragonflies are small and abrupt changes will be there in the direction. Dynamic swarm with constant direction and more number of different dragonflies moves to another place over a long distance.
The mathematical model of DA algorithm can be modeled with the following five behaviors of dragonflies.
Separation In the static swarm no collision is there between any dragonflies. The mathematical model \(S_i\) of the \(i^{th}\) individual is given by
$$\begin{aligned} {S_i} = - \sum \limits _{k = 1}^N {X - {X_k}} \end{aligned}$$
Position of current dragonflies is represented by X
\(X_{k}\) represents position of \( k^{th} \)neighboring dragonflies
N is the total number of neighboring dragonflies
Alignment Individual dragonflies velocities will match with the other in same neighborhood. This can be modeled as
$$\begin{aligned} {A_i} = \frac{{\sum \nolimits _{k = 1}^N {{V_k}} }}{N} \end{aligned}$$
where \(V_k\) is the velocity of the \(k^{th}\) neighboring individuals
Cohesion All the dragonflies will move toward the centre of mass of the neighborhood. This can be modeled as
$$\begin{aligned} {C_i} = \frac{{\sum \nolimits _{k = 1}^N {{X_k}} }}{N} - X \end{aligned}$$
Food For survival all the dragonflies will move toward the food. The attraction for food can be modeled as
$$\begin{aligned} {F_i} = {X_F} - X \end{aligned}$$
where \({X_F}\) is the position of food location.
Enemy All the dragonflies will move away from an enemy. To move away from the enemy located at a position \({X_E}\) can be modeled as
$$\begin{aligned} {E_i} = {X_E} + X \end{aligned}$$
All the above five motions will influence the behavior of dragonflies in the swarm. The new position update of dragonflies can be obtained with the following step function \(\varDelta {X_{i+1}}\) which is modeled as
$$\begin{aligned} \varDelta {X_{i + 1}} = (s{S_i} + a{A_i} + c{C_i} + f{F_i} + e{E_i}) + w\varDelta {X_i} \end{aligned}$$
where separation, alignment, cohesion weights, food, enemy factors and inertia factor are represented by s, a, c, f, e and w, respectively
With the above step function the new position of \({X_{i + 1}}\) is given by
$$\begin{aligned} {X_{i + 1}} = {X_i} + \varDelta {X_{i + 1}} \end{aligned}$$
The best and worst solutions are taken from food source and enemy. If there is no neighboring solution, DA can be modeled through random walk. New position of dragonflies is updated with following equations.
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{array}{l} {{\mathrm{X}}_{{\mathrm{i + 1}}}}={{\mathrm{X}}_{\mathrm{i}}}+ \mathrm{Levy(x)} \times {{\mathrm{X}}_{\mathrm{i}}}\\ {\mathrm{Levy(x)}} = 0.01 \times \frac{{{{\mathrm{r}}_{{1}}}{{\times \sigma }}}}{{{{\left| {{{\mathrm{r}}_{{2}}}} \right| }^{\frac{{{1}}}{{{\beta }}}}}}}\\ \sigma = \left( \frac{\Gamma (1 + \beta ) \times \sin \left( \frac{\Pi \beta }{2}\right) }{\Gamma \left( \frac{1 + \beta }{2}\right) \times \beta \times 2^{\left( \frac{\beta - 1}{2}\right) }}\right) ^{\frac{1}{\beta }} \end{array} \end{aligned}$$
where random numbers \(r_1\),\(r_2\) \(\varepsilon \) [0,1] , i is current iteration, d is dimension and \(\beta \) is equal to 1.5.
$$\begin{aligned} \Gamma {\mathrm{(x)}} = ({\mathrm{x}} - 1)! \end{aligned}$$
Implementation of DA
The detailed algorithm is as follows.
Feeder line flow is solved by branch current load flow method.
Find the best DG locations using the index vector method.
Initialize the population/solutions and itmax = 100, Number of DG locations d=1,\(dg_{min}=60,dg_{max}=3500\).
Generate the population of DG sizes randomly using equation
\(population = (dg_{max} - dg_{min}) \times rand() + dg_{min}\)
where \(dg_{min}\) and \(dg_{max}\) are minimum and maximum limits of DG sizes.
Determine active power loss for generated population by performing load flow.
Select low loss DG as current best solution.
Update the position of the dragonflies using Eqs. 11–13.
Determine the losses for updated population by performing load flow.
Replace the current best solution with the updated values if obtained losses are less than the current best solution. Otherwise go back to step 7
Step 10 :
If maximum number of iterations is reached then print the results.
DA algorithm in the application of DG planning problem to obtain DG size and economic analysis is presented in this section. IEEE 15, 33 and 69 bus test systems are evaluated using MATLAB.
The mathematical model is given below for cost calculations.
Cost of energy losses (CL)
The annual cost of energy loss is given by (Murthy and Kumar 2013)
$$\begin{aligned} CL= (TRPL)*(Kp+Ke*Lsf*8760) \quad \$ \end{aligned}$$
where TRPL, total real power losses; Kp, annual demand cost of power loss ($/kW); Ke, annual cost of energy loss($/kW h); Lsf, loss factor
Loss factor is expressed in terms of load factor (Lf) as below
$$\begin{aligned} Lsf=k*Lf+ (1-k)*Lf^2 \end{aligned}$$
The values taken for the coefficients in the loss factor calculation are: k = 0.2, Lf = 0.47, Kp = 57.6923 $/kW, Ke = 0.00961538 $/kWh.
Cost component of DG for real and reactive power
$$\begin{aligned} C(Pdg)=a*Pdg^2+b*Pdg+c\quad \$/MWh \end{aligned}$$
Cost coefficients are taken as:
$$\begin{aligned} {\hbox {a}}=0, {\hbox {b}}=20, {\hbox {c}}=0.25 \end{aligned}$$
Cost of reactive power supplied by DG is calculated based on maximum complex power supplied by DG as
$$\begin{aligned}&C(Qdg) = \left[ {Cost(Sg\max ) - Cost\left(\sqrt{Sg{{\max }^2} - Q{g^2}} \right)} \right] *k \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned}&Sgmax=\frac{{Pg\max }}{{\cos \phi }} \end{aligned}$$
Pgmax = 1.1*pg, the power factor, has been taken 1 at unity power factor and 0.9(lag) at lagging power factor to carry out the analysis. \({\hbox {k}}=0.05-0.1\). In this paper, the value of factor k is taken as 0.1.
IEEE 15-bus system
The single-line diagram of IEEE 15-bus distribution system (Baran and Wu 1989) is shown in Fig. 2.
Single-line diagram of 15-bus system
Table 4 shows the real,reactive power losses and minimum voltages after the placement of different types of DGs. The optimal location for 15 bus test system is 6. The minimum voltage is more in case of type III DG operating at 0.9 pf. The losses are also lower with DG type III operating at 0.9 pf when compared to DG operating at upf in Table 4. This is due to both real and reactive powers are supplied by the DG at lagging pf. Reactive power is not supplied by type III DG when operating at Unity pf. Hence, losses are higher when compared to DG operating at 0.9 pf lagging.
Cost of energy losses, cost of PDG and cost of QDG are also shown in Table 4. From table the cost of energy losses is reduced from 4970.3 $ to 2685.3 $ when DG is operating at 0.9pf lag and it reduced to 3684.1 $ when operating at unity pf. Cost of energy losses are less when DG is operating at 0.9pf.
Table 4 Results for 15 bus system
Results for 33 bus
Without installation of DG, real and reactive power losses are 211 kW and 143 kVAr, respectively. With installation of DG at unity pf, real, reactive power losses are 111.0338 kW and 81.6859 kVAr, respectively. With DG at 0.9 pf lag, real, reactive power losses are 70.8652 kW and 56.7703 kVAr, respectively.
The losses obtained are lower when lagging power factor DG is used when compared to unity power factor DG. This is due to reactive power available in lagging power factor DG.
Cost of energy losses, cost of PDG and cost of QDG are also shown in Tables 5 and 6. From table the cost of energy losses is reduced from 16,982.57 $ to 5700.1 $ when DG is operating at 0.9pf lag and it reduced to 8930.65 $ when operating at unity pf. Cost of energy losses are less when DG is operating at 0.9pf.
Table 5 Results for 33 bus system with DG at upf
Table 6 Results for 33 bus system with DG at 0.9 pf
The IEEE 69-bus distribution system with 12.66-kV base voltage (Baran and Wu 1989) is shown in Fig. 4.
Without DG real, reactive power losses are 225 kW and 102.1091 kVAr, respectively. With the installation of DG at unity pf, the real and reactive power losses are 83.2261 kW and 40.5754 kVAr, respectively. With DG at 0.9 pf lag real, reactive power losses are 27.9636 kW and 16.4979 kVAr.
Cost of energy losses, cost of PDG and cost of QDG are also shown in Tables 5 and 6. From table the cost of energy losses is reduced from 18,101.7 $ to 2249.2 $ when DG is operating at 0.9pf lag and it reduced to 6694 $ when operating at unity pf. Cost of energy losses are less when DG is operating at 0.9pf.
The results obtained are given in Tables 7, 8. Better results are obtained while considering reactive power of DG when comparison with unity pf.
A novel nature-inspired algorithm called Dragonfly algorithm is used to determine the optimal DG units size in this paper.It has been developed based on the peculiar behavior of dragonflies how they look for food or away from enemies. Reduction in system real power losses with low cost are chosen as objectives in this paper. This proposed optimization technique has been applied on typical IEEE 15, 33 and 69 bus radial distribution systems with different two types of DGs and compared with other algorithms. Better results have been achieved with combination of loss sensitivity factor method and DA algorithm when compared with other algorithms. Best results are obtained from type III DG operating at 0.9 pf.
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MCVS: carried out the literature survey, participated in DG location section. MCVS and EJB: participated in study on different nature-inspired algorithm for DG sizing. MCVS: carried out the DG sizing algorithm design and mathematical modeling. MCVS and EJB: participated in the assessment of the study and performed the analysis. MCVS and EJB: participated in the sequence alignment and drafted the manuscript. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Suresh, M.C.V., Belwin, E.J. Optimal DG placement for benefit maximization in distribution networks by using Dragonfly algorithm. Renewables 5, 4 (2018) doi:10.1186/s40807-018-0050-7
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“Gospel, jazz, and blues each have their own definition, character, and expression, but they all tell a story particular to the black community,” said event producer Mychal Henry. “It is thrilling to see the music come to life and the diverse sounds of African culture expressed in one event. It is only because of the talented performers who represent the authenticity of the Black community that we are able to do so.”
An Evening of Gospel, Jazz, and Blues takes place on Saturday, February 2, 2019, from 6:30–9:00 PM, inside the Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn—Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90068. Doors open for a pre-show reception at 6:30 PM. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis and will begin at 6:00 PM. Admission and parking are FREE. Visit www.forestlawn.com for more information.
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My Irish Heart Can Be Found in THE QUIET MAN (1952)
July 13, 2014 by kelleepratt 23 Comments
If you know John Ford’s THE QUIET MAN (1952), then you know me better than you think. Some say this film is an Irish western… A love story… A romantic fantasy of Ireland. For me, all of these can be said as true, but more specifically it’s also a love story of the deep roots of Irish family and community. If you have never seen THE QUIET MAN (1952), then “nil tu foirfe, ach maithim duit” (roughly in Gaelic, ‘you’re not perfect, but I forgive you.’) My love for this film goes deep, so please forgive any spoilers and fiery passion that may lie ahead.
Like myself, director John Ford was American but fiercely proud of his Irish heritage. He patiently waited fifteen long years from the time he purchased the rights to this story from Maurice Walsh in 1936 to finally bringing his swan song to the big screen. He had the perfect cast in mind. But studio heads were not so confident and they didn’t want to risk financing Ford’s pet project that they predicted to be loss on the books. His pick for the male lead, John Wayne was under contract at Republic Pictures. Working with Merian C. Cooper, Ford was able to convince this studio to allow him to make THE QUIET MAN but only if he agreed to make a guaranteed money maker first. And that he did, with the successful RIO GRANDE (1950). As the third of Ford’s cavalry themed westerns starring Wayne, RIO GRANDE also marked the first feature pairing Maureen O’Hara (whom Ford worked with in his HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY) and John Wayne. Their chemistry blazed on the screen so Ford knew immediately he made the right choice for his leading roles.
Ford wanted to film in the area of Ireland near his ancestral roots of Galway. Most of the on-location shots were accomplished in the town of Cong, county Mayo and at the Ashford castle grounds nearby. The rest of the filming, mostly of interior shots, were completed back in the studios. But the cast and crew’s time spent while shooting on location in Ireland is where the love of family truly comes to light. John Ford employed his favorite cast of actors for this film but also utilized members of his cast’s and of his own families to fill out the entire roster of production- both in front of and behind the camera. Filming this production must have felt like an incredibly tight-knit family reunion. Here are some examples of this nepotistic cinema family tree:
John Ford’s clan:
John Ford- director, uncredited writer
Francis Ford- Dan Tobin (John’s older brother who was a well-known actor/director/writer himself)
John Ford hanging out with Maureen O’Hara
Maureen O’Hara’s clan:
Maureen O’Hara- Mary Kate Danaher-Thornton
James O’Hara- Father Paul (Maureen’s brother who was born James Fitzsimons, aka James Lilburn, and had a busy career with small parts in TV in 1950’s-70’s)
Charles B. Fitzsimons- Hugh Forbes (Maureen’s brother who was also a long-time producer and executive officer of Producers Guild of America)
John Wayne’s family:
John Wayne- Sean Thornton
Melinda Wayne- girl on wagon at the horse race (the Duke’s daughter)
Michael Wayne- teenager boy at horse race (the Duke’s oldest son, producer of many Wayne films)
Patrick Wayne- boy on wagon at horse race (the Duke’s second oldest son who had active acting career, Golden Globe Winner)
Toni Wayne- teenager girl at horse race (the Duke’s oldest daughter)
The Shield brothers:
Barry Fitzgerald- Michaleen Flynn (popular character actor, Oscar winner, born William Shields )
Arthur Shields- Reverend Cyril Playfair (almost 10 years younger brother to Barry Fitzgerald, prolific career in acting in film, TV and stage)
Victor McLaglen:
Victor McLaglen- Squire “Red” Wil Danaher [nominated for an Academy Award for this role, Oscar winner already for THE INFORMER (1936), another Ford favorite character actor]
all star cast, keeping it ‘all in the family’
And to fill in the gaps wherever members of the Wayne, Ford, O’Hara, etc. families were not already occupied, actors from Dublin’s famed Abbey theater troop and locals as extras were used, too.
The story itself surrounds Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish American from Pittsburg who has come home to Ireland to rightfully claim his ancestral home. He was born in this small Irish village of Innisfree and recalls fondly his dearly departed mother’s (who died when he was 12) poetically descriptive account of their Irish family cottage where Sean was born and where seven generations of the Thornton clan were born before him. Escorted via horse and carriage by Michaleen Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald) on his way to negotiate the purchase of his birthplace home and land, Sean catches a breathtaking technicolor vision of Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O’Hara in popping-off-the-screen colors of deep blues and reds like a dream), as she herds sheep in the field and they exchange penetrating glances.
The Thornton cottage
Mary Kate’s kind, neighborly gesture surprises Sean and results in a very steamy first kiss!
Sean is seeking peace and quiet and a cover to hide from his past yet finds challenges almost from the moment he steps off the train. The land he purchases from widow Sarah Tillane (Mildred Natwick) is flanked by the two biggest landowners of the county- “Red Will” Danaher (Victor McLaglen) and Widow Tillane. The two have a bit of a competitive dynamic so Widow Tillane sells Thornton the land just to spite cantankerous Danaher, which sparks an immediate hatred towards Thornton by Danaher. Otherwise, Thornton’s quietly peaceful and charismatic presence immediately wins all the locals over. Sean attempts to court Mary Kate with Michaleen’s assistance but her brother “Red Will” Danaher and the rigid code of Irish tradition proves to be a very stubborn obstacle.
Michaleen assists Sean in the traditional Irish courting of Mary Kate
Squire Danaher offers Sean Thornton a pint, in an unfriendly way
At a fantastic horse race by the beach the town people, headed by Michaleen and parish priest Father Lonergan (Ward Bond), conspire a plan to bring the love birds together by tricking Red Danaher- by infering that perhaps widow Tillane would be less icy to him if only Mary Kate were out of the house. The plan works and soon the two are married. But at the wedding ceremony, blundering Danaher announces his engagement to widow Tillane without even consulting her on the matter. As one would imagine, that does not go over well. Angered and embarrassed by the deceptive conspiracy, Danaher refuses his sister her rightful dowry. And as before, when Danaher strikes against Thornton in physical confrontation, Sean simply backs down.
the honeymoon night involved a sleeping bag on the floor
One of the locals that warmly welcomes Sean is Reverend Cyril Playfair (Arthur Shields), whose wife Elizabeth (Eileen Crowe) calls him “Snuffy,” eventually realizes how he recognizes him. As a sports fan, pastor Playfair discovers that the newest citizen of Innisfree is really Sean “Trooper” Thornton the former prize fighter who quit his boxing career when one of his knockouts rendered his opponent a fatal blow. This is the past he’s been running from, and it’s also why he’s avoided fighting back whenever Danaher pushes him.
Sean and Mary Kate show each other just how much their love and respect mean to each other
While folks were able to persuade Squire Danaher to release Mary Kate’s family furniture on the wedding night, he wouldn’t budge on the dowry. The shame of her new husband not fighting for her reputation and her rightful dowry, sends Mary Kate running off to the train station leaving a farewell note for Sean back at the cottage. Sean wakes up to Michaleen reading the note. Sean knows it’s time to bring closure to his past. By facing the demons of his past and fighting for the respect and love of his charmingly fiesty Mary Kate, we are treated to one of the best fights scenes in screen history that brings the entire town (even Squire Danaher and Widow Tillane and both Catholics and Protestants alike) all together.
Maureen O’Hara whispers a funny line into the Duke’s ear to get a reaction, one that she’s kept secret all these years
Growing up in an Irish Catholic family, THE QUIET MAN was more than just a classic film to me. We are quite proud of our heritage. I’m fortunate to have Irish roots on both sides of my family tree. My father’s side hails from the O’Sullivan’s, of County Kerry. On my mother’s side, our family name is O’Donnell of County Donegal. I loved listening to my grandmother (my mother’s mom) tell stories about her grandparents’ trip to America from a little Irish town of Cashlenaan in Donegal and what being Irish meant to her. She spoke of visiting her cousins in Ireland when she and her sister visited. My mother also told me many stories of when she visited as a child, even kissing the famed “Blarney stone.”
For some folks, celebrating Irish culture means drinking some beer or whiskey on March 17th. For me, being Irish is not about a beverage or a holiday, it’s something our family celebrates daily. As a child, the folklore stories of leprechauns, fairies and selkies were told in rich detail so they almost seemed possible. But one family tradition that stood out was watching THE QUIET MAN. I envisioned that somehow with that fiery red hair, ivory skin and high cheek bones that both my grandmother and Maureen O’Hara shared, plus that Irish, head-strong temperament that I see reflected in every female of my family, this family story was somehow my own. I felt an instant connection to this film that was deeply personal. I understood Ford’s dream.
the beautiful Maureen O’Hara
To me, Maureen O’Hara exemplified what a woman should be- strong, independent, outspoken, smart, beautiful, sassy, courageous, naturally athletic, tough as “one of the boys” yet ample in feminine curves… all with that magnetic smile and hearty laugh. She also is a great example of how many Irish women are unrecognized feminists because they often take pride in traditional roles while still demanding respect from their male counterparts. As the character Mary Kate, there’s a funny scene where she’s serving a table of men a generous supper. She scoops potatoes onto plates as she swiftly circles around to each and exchanges sharply quick verbal commands to keep them all in line.
fabulously female, Maureen O’Hara
Is this a feminist moment? You bet. Modern day or younger generation feminists may have a tougher time agreeing with me on this, but Maureen O’Hara- both as Mary Kate and off the screen- struck a beautiful balance in feminism. Here was a woman who held some very traditional roles as a woman (domestically, as a mother, in beauty…) but held her own with the men (she did all her own stunts- including being dragged and roughed up on equal par with the likes of 6.4 John Wayne and all this when she just had a baby prior to filming THE QUIET MAN), but she never put up with any malarkey. Sounds like a thoroughly Irish woman to me. That’s why she commanded the respect of tough critics like John Wayne and John Ford. And that’s why I think of my grandmother, my entire Irish family, and what being Irish means to me whenever I see THE QUIET MAN.
For ‘proof’ of my deep affection to this thoroughly Irish woman Maureen O’Hara, please check out my post reflecting my experience when I saw her at the 2013 John Wayne Birthday Celebration here, or perhaps you’ve seen me recently on TCM hanging out in the audience, right behind Maureen O’Hara and Bob Osborne from their interview at the 2014 TCM Film Festival. I’m the one smiling from ear to ear, with every freckle on my face positively BEAMING…
This post is also my contribution to the John Ford Blogathon hosted by krelllabs.blogspot.com & bemusedandnonplussed.wordpress.com Check out all the wonderful participating blog posts listed on either host sites.
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le0pard13 says:
Oh yes, this remains one of the greats for all that you say it is, Kellee. I know this is John Ford-slash-John Wayne vehicle, but you can’t take your eyes off of Maureen O’Hara once she appears. Just not possible.
Agreed! I’m clearly biased towards her but I’ll admit this film couldn’t be this wonderful without such a cast- each and every one of them. Thanks for reading my post!
Susan M says:
Wonderful article about a great movie!
Thanks Susan! So glad you liked my post!
Thanks, Susan! Hoped my family would especially appreciate the genealogy references. 🙂
Lovely article, Kellee! Our family were the Sullivan’s from County Cork.
That’s awesome, Christy! We have some cousins in County Cork, as I recall my grandmother mentioning that. Have you ever been to Ireland? I plan to go some day.
alexraphael says:
My dad’s favourite film. I love it too. Great post. Great morals in the story.
Your dad has excellent taste, Alex! Thanks for reading my post!
I love this article on the family in “The Quiet Man”.
Before he met me, my husband had never seen “The Quiet Man”. After 26 years it is as much a part of him as it is of “The Nolan Girls”. The first time my daughter watched the movie she was about 7 years old.
She: Are they crazy?
Me: No, dear. They’re Irish.
Peter Bogdanovich speaking about this movie said that it makes him very happy, but as soon as the music starts, he wants to cry. “The Quiet Man” impacts me in the same way. My heart soars, my throat laughs and my eyes water. ‘Tis grand.
Love the story about your daughter’s response~ hilarious. And Peter Bogdanovich’s reaction? That’s exactly how we Irish express ourselves- a mix of happy and melancholy sadness all blended together, eh? Grand indeed!
70srichard says:
Love this movie and I loved your article.
Thanks so much Richard! Happy you enjoyed my THE QUIET MAN post!
This was the first John Ford film I’ve seen and I remember it vividly. Everything was so beautiful in Ford’s Technicolor Irish tale! I may not agree with some points, like Mary-Kate being dragged, but I can’t deny both the film (and Maureen O’Hara’s always badass actitud) mean a lot to me, too.
Don’t forget to read my contribution to the blogathon! 🙂
http://criticaretro.blogspot.com/2014/07/o-cavalo-de-ferro-iron-horse-1924.html
Thanks Le! Badass attitude is the best!
This movie is Maureen O’Hara’s to steal and she does so delightfully. Don’t get me wrong – the whole cast is terrific, but I feel she really makes the movie what it is. So many other actresses would pale in comparison to John Wayne but, as you’ve pointed out, O’Hara is no shrinking violet. Fabulous post!
Couldn’t agree with you more! Maureen always stands out in every picture she ever did. Thanks for the nice commentary!
MonkeyMom says:
Another great blog, sorry I only just got around to reading. Such a wonderful movie and a wonderful part of our family history. And I love the Maureen O’Hara gifs!
CineMaven says:
🙂 Reading your piece Kellee especially in light of the fact Maureen O’Hara passed away today. She was wholly unique! Lovely write up! 😦 RIP dear Maureen.
June Faw says:
Maureen O’Hara was one of my favorites. I was shocked to see she had died I will truly miss her.
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A stand out track from the album is “Rich Man's Empty Pocket”. “The use of money and power to create systemic racism and classism only goes so far - money will never unify the rich”, Francese exclaims. Financial greed will always exist, but communities who remain together as resilient united groups refuse to allow the power of the rich to defeat them - “we continue to stand together and so ultimately our pockets are more full than theirs will ever be.” “Sunburnt Daydreams” moves to the topic of property, possession of property and essentially the displacement of natives and the upheaval of their homes. Specifically, Francese draws attention to the communities across Texas and the Southwest who have been forced to relocate. Daydreams are often fantasies and so, although there is hope for change, the treatment of these communities has remained the same for too long, and therefore is sunburnt and blackened. Originally penned by Richard Smallwood, “Total Praise” is a powerful tune that serves as an outlet for Francese, through which he contemplates the effect religion has had on various demographics. Minority groups have often reimagined colonial pursuits - one of which being Christianity. African-American churches have questioned the initial colonial control linked to Christianity. Ultimately, these churches have brought their communities together through a far more meaningful perspective - one of compassion and unity, as opposed to control and hierarchy.
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Yeni Aya Cevaben / Responding to the New Moon / Antworten auf den Neumond: Prologue
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Galerie Tanja Wagner is hosting the exhibition titled Yeni Aya Cevaben/ Responding to the New Moon/ Antworten auf den Neumonds: Prologue curated by Övül Durmuşoğlu.
Övül has recently moved to Berlin after having lived in Malmö, Vienna, New York and Stuttgart for her educational and project commitments. The reason for her coming to Berlin was initially to organize and install the Berlin step of Another Country- Eine andere Welt in ifa Berlin, a collaborative project of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart which she produced with a Rave Scholarship..
The exhibition Yeni Aya Cevaben/Responding to the New Moon/ Antworten auf den Neumonds: Prologue includes works by Hasan Aksaygın, Natalie Czech (in coll.with Ashkan Sepahvand and Mara Genschel), Nilbar Güreş, Runo Lagomarsino, Johannes Paul Raether, Anca Munteanu Rimnic and Pilvi Takala. During a short visit to the exhibition, performance, collaborative acts and a certain unlocking humor seemed to be some of the common threads running through the works. In order to help me relate to the curatorial framework and motivations, Övül has kindly sent her replies to a number of comments and questions.—Aslı Çetinkaya
Photo courtesy of Ahmet Öğüt
A.Ç.: English and Turkish titles both made me think of two works of literature which are also adapted for cinema: ‘New Moon (Twilight Saga)’ and ‘Ay Büyürken Uyuyamam/ I cannot Sleep while the Moon is Waxing’. The former is a well-known teenage drama of vampires and werewolves, while the latter is a collection of short stories by a Turkish writer, Necati Cumalı, which deal with sexual fantasies and deviations of rural people in Anatolia. Both works have elements of tension and apprehension linked to some lunar state.
Ö.D.: I’m glad you mentioned these references from contemporary culture. I consider Cumalı’s work also as a contemporary filmic reference like New Moon Twilight Saga in this sense because the tale Ay Buyurken Uyumam is recently scripted for a new melodrama directed by one of the veteran directors of Turkish cinema, Şerif Gören with well-known young actors and actresses public is familiar with because of their leading roles in Turkish soap operas. It is the story of a societal crisis triggered by partriarchal mechanisms of desire and control, a situation where the taken for granted patterns of collective consciousness do not work any more. I feel the moon reference touches the paganistic times of the land in this context. Both narratives are shaped by a certain touch of the folkloric. With regards to the New Moon saga, it is more a mutated format of the Gothic storytelling tradition where something spiritual always lurks behind and which represents a new generation’s sense of visual and conceptual imagination about another world.
A.Ç.: You draw a parallel between one particular phase of the moon and the uprisings, protests, collapses, which are challenging orders, institutions and investments all over the world. What does a new moon stand for or how is it interpreted? What effects are to be expected on people’s lives? Could you talk about the analogy you draw here?
Ö.D.: New moon is a phase of darkness, it stands for the new beginnings, challenging past formulations and questions in response to the new situations arising. Following the news, I myself am tired of the authorities insisting on forecasts for our moment through what they knew or experienced to retain their integrity. The collapses arriving in a domino effect show that we need to get rid of old formulations and develop new methods of survival and flexibility. Thus was the departure for my analogy. A time cycle closing with a demand for getting rid of rigid mental loops. That is also what Hannah Arendt suggests when she coins the phrase “the creativity of the unexpected,” she wants to draw our attention to the performative nature of the event. The works I brought together in the exhibition refer to that ‘dark side of the moon’ in their playful way.
Photo courtesy of Galerie Tanja Wagner
A.Ç.: As far as I know you are interested in teachings, methodologies or beliefs, which are often disregarded by scientific reasoning. Such as astrology or alternative healing or energy therapies like reiki. When I read the title of your show, somehow, I thought that it is befitting of your interest or trust of the power of the unexplainable? How do you think it relates to art and artistic production?
Ö.D.: Not only these “alternative” thinking models are mostly disregarded by serious enlightened reasoning, but also they have been turned into the cheesy tools of effectiveness to survive in the capitalist system. I’m very much aware of these complications when I use the phenomenon of the new moon. And I’m also interested in the fact that these models demand of us to re-think our physical limits, our bodies, our materiality and to re-shape it according to our own personal agenda in life. This is a strong proposal on how to re-connect with the world. On the other hand, it is a re-produced desire to expand in the wireless spaces of communication and interaction over the screens that fill our lives. The dream of limitlessness may be closest to this climax in that sense. What I’m interested in are the sensations and sensibilities in this environment of constant translations rather than a trust in the unexplainable. Indeed there is no more mystery in the workings of the art market. Yet I am curious of the variety of the artistic strategies responding to the situations in such an environment.
A.Ç.: You note that artists in the show ‘suggest or realize performative methodologies of material and process’. Could you speak about a couple of works and artists from this perspective?
Ö.D.: Responding to the New Moon’s perspective came from an inner demand to talk about the artists that I’m in constant dialogue with such as Nilbar Güreş, Dineo Bopape and Emre Hüner and with the artists I met in Berlin such as Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Natalie Czech and Nadira Husain in a different and personalized way. In the exhibition, the decision to show more than one work from an artist was a very conscious one to be able to create a different conversational ground on performance, material and process not only between the works but also between the works of the artist as well.
That’s why in this Prologue, for example Nilbar Güreş has a strong presence with her diptych Worship/Women’s Only (2010), Junction (2010) and the recent video Wolf and Lamb (2011). Nilbar’s work is about a constant conceptual interaction among her chosen materials, gestures and histories. If we focus on the way she works with the textile material, for example, it is clear that her fascination with the textile appears in a different form each time in the objects, drawing collages, photographs and videos. Texture, colour and narrative are interwoven in a performative way through her surreal scenarios de-territorializing the taken-for-granted-gender constructions. The textile material plays a major conceptual role in the collage Self Defloration (2006), in Worship/Women’s Only (2010) and Junction (2010) the textile embodies the playful gesture, almost a field of communication between two women. While Wolf and Lamb (2011) enchants us with its choice of colours and a repeating sound loop of boo’s and mee’s, a careful observer may realize a textile surface appearing as a cover of a secret lump or body in the scene that should remain hidden. Every detail in her settings perform a major role in the narrative construction of her scenarios
Another standpoint in the exhibition comes from Berlin based Natalie Czech. Natalie has developed a curiously poetic and engaging way for dealing with the complex relation between text and image. Her series Hidden Poems shows photographs whose material basis consists of magazines, newspapers, or illustrated books. She traces her favourites from twentieth century poems in the existing text material such as e.e. Cummings, Vladimir Khlebnikov, Robert Lax and Jack Kerouac. She further complicates her appropriation method by commissioning different writers to create texts inspired by certain poems and asking them to hide the poem inside the text they write in a particular visual format. For ‘Responding to the New Moon’ she produced a new piece in that line. She asked two writers Mara Genschell and Ashkan Sepahvand to write texts inspired by 1916 dated famous Apollinaire poem ‘Il Pleut’, the poem was hidden in the texts in its original visual format. We vinyled both texts on the large beautiful windows of the gallery. Our intention was to create a narrative experience for the audience when they are already looking at the exhibition from outside. “The exhibition feels different outside and inside,” a colleague and friend said, so I can say it is really working in this rainy season of Berlin. Inside the exhibition, she greets us with a hidden poem by Khlebnikov on a found magazine page with a full moon picture saying ‘It’s not the same old moon”. Purely coincidental, the work was already there when I invited her for the exhibition.
A.Ç.: You refer to “new materiality” in the exhibition text. How do you define and relate to the term?
Ö.D.: New materiality is first of all an open-ended, provocative conceptual question addressing current artistic approaches. It aims to test whether it is possible for artistic practices to create their own vocabulary in experience. The question is very much related with the tension I have been mentioning above. There is the limitless desire of immaterial expansion over communication and interaction but there are also the limits for the horizontal organization around facebook, twitter and blogger. It is almost becoming a brand now; however the urge to get together, live and share a public space for voicing out what we don’t like ‘the occupation’ shows if there is a change that may happen, it comes from a material presence in a physical here and now. Artists respond to this tension of translation I try to exemplify here with their performance, process, material based approaches. Following the Groysian reading of the equality and multiplicity of the material, we may easily suggest that our perception of the artistic material and process has transformed accordingly. Not to forget how clearly he states that how everyone is involved in performance today in the obligation of a self design.
A.Ç.: How did you happen to work with Galerie Tanja Wagner? Are there any other projects you started to work on or plan to do so?
Ö.D.: The exhibition has been the natural outcome of an ongoing conversation between Tanja Wagner and me. In Berlin, since there is not a kunsthalle structure where you can approach to develop new projects, the galleries are filling up an important space of exhibition and discussion for the scene. It is also a first time for me collaborating with a gallery. I have been working on the conception of ‘the new materiality’ so Yeni Aya Cevaben/ Responding to the New Moon/ Antworten auf den Neumond: Prologue developed easily into a starter exhibition. The project will follow in volumes, using not only exhibitions but also other formats for transforming itself. Another important thing is that with this project I want to create space to continue fruitful conversations with the artists involved. There are a few next steps coming soon, I prefer to disclose when they are fully ready.
Aslı Çetinkaya worked at Sabancı University Kasa Galeri as the gallery director from October 2004 to November 2010. Organized the selections and participation from Turkey at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean (BJCEM). Edited and coordinated the publication of ’10 years at Kasa’ for the10th anniversary of the gallery. Several articles, interviews and translations are published. Member of AICA Turkey since 2008. Currently works on a project within Tandem: Cultural Managers Exchange Program.
Övül Durmuşoğlu (born 1978) is a curator and writer who participated in the Critical Studies post graduate program at Malmö Art Academy, Malmö (2005–2006). In 2007 Durmuşoğlu was awarded the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi Young Curators Award for her Data Recovery project GAMeC, Bergamo, and in 2010 she received a Rave Scholarship to work on a collaborative project of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Recent curatorial projects include: The New Horizon, STROOM, The Hague, 2010; My Voice My Weapon of Choice, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul, 2010; Sweet Anticipation, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, 2010-11; Yeni Aya Cevaben/ Responding to the New Moon/ Antworten auf den Neumond: Prologue, Galerie Tanja Wagner Berlin, 2011-12. Her projects in the public space of Istanbul include: Radikal Art: Face to Face, 2007 and EXOCITI, 2006. Durmuşoğlu lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul.
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On Renzo Martens’s Episode III: Enjoy Poverty
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Teknolust (2002)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, ... See full summary »
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Agent Hopper
John O'Keefe
Professor Crick
Al Nazemian
Dr. Bea
S.U. Violet
Dr. Aye
Josh Kornbluth
Thomas Jay Ryan
Howard Swain
Diana Demar
John Pirruccello
Abigail Van Alyn
Sandy's Mom
Dick Bright
John Bradford King
(as Brad King)
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
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| Heavily symbolic and metaphorical but not much technology or lust
Don't be fooled by the provocative title and the R-rating, this film has only implied sex and only the briefest nudity. Rather, it is a thought-provoking but odd piece of work that delves into the meaning of relationships between men and women, the need to experience life's pain along with pleasures, and the different roles that we play to survive in society. The film is about a scientist who creates three computer generated/robotic duplicates of her own self. The duplicates exist in a virtual reality "safe" from the harm that the real world can levy on them. As the film progresses, we see through the interactions with the main character that they have become her alter egos. Trouble brews when they start to become self-aware and want more freedom. As I watched the film I was surprised by the apparent low budget it was made with but how it outshines most big-budget Hollywood blockbusters in its depth and scope. The acting is OK but amateurish, with occasional bad timing and wooden responses. The dialogue seems to get a little too long and pretentious at times and you have to be very attentive to catch the double entendres and metaphors in order to keep up with the script. Despite all this, it was a very good movie that proves that there is under-appreciated talent out there that Hollywood refuses to acknowledge. People that liked films like Slaughterhouse-5, Orlando, or the Handmaid's Tale would be advised to give this film a try.
Conceiving Ada
Possible Worlds
Friendship's Death
Stephanie Daley
Female Perversions
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
The Protagonists
Play Me Something
The car that Ruby drives is an electrical version of a Corbin Sparrow, of manufacturer Myers Motors.
While the credits run, Rosetta acts as a substitute for Ruby in the latter's internet portal and shares some thoughts and findings.
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
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San Francisco, California, USA
$9,475 24 August 2003
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Shae Francis, 35, was last seen in the Hervey Bay area last October.
Jason Cooper returns to Hervey Bay over Shae Francis death
by Sherele Moody
22nd Jul 2019 4:18 PM | Updated: 4:18 PM
THE man accused of killing Shae Francis will return to Hervey Bay in a few weeks.
Jason Cooper is scheduled to face the city's magistrates court on August 8.
Mr Cooper had a brief mention in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
He was charged with manslaughter in June, some eight months after his 35-year-old partner disappeared.
Ms Francis was last seen visiting her mother at the Hervey Bay Hospital at the beginning of October 2018.
Ms Francis was not reported missing until March.
Mr Cooper is also charged with interfering with a corpse and stealing.
Ms Francis's body has not been found. - News Regional
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Acting Senior Sergeant Amanda Warby, of Yeppoon Police, addresses media on Tuesday afternoon.
Men used inflatable raft in retrieval effort gone wrong
14th Jan 2020 3:48 PM | Updated: 4:19 PM
TWO island campers who woke early Tuesday morning to see their anchored vessel drifting away used an inflatable raft in a retrieval effort gone wrong.
On Tuesday afternoon a search continued to find a 60-year-old man lost at sea in the Keppel Island Group.
Addressing media at Yeppoon police headquarters on Tuesday afternoon, Acting Senior Sergeant Amanda Warby revealed more details about the incident which authorities were made aware of at 3.13am.
Two men, aged in their 60s, were on a fishing trip and staying on the beach at Conical Rock, north of North Keppel Island, when they woke in the early hours.
"Initial reports are that they were on the beach," Snr Sgt Warby said.
"They were woken up to notice that their vessel (7m vessel) was drifting.
"They've then got onto their inflatable raft, and rode out.
"Due to the conditions, they were being swept further away from their vessel, so they attempted to get into the water and swim to their vessel.
"One male has attempted to get onto the boat, and (made it) safely onto the boat.
"And the other (man) was in the water."
Snr Sgt Warby said the vessel had been anchored about 100m off Conical Rock.
She said at the time the men came to grief, conditions were believed to be "quite windy" which made their efforts to get back onto the boat "a struggle".
Snr Sgt Warby said the men managed to let off a distress flare which alerted authorities.
Four aircraft, Water Police and Coast Guard subsequently joined the search effort.
Snr Sgt Warby said the search would continue throughout Tuesday afternoon and a re-evaluation would be carried out at 6pm.
"We have obviously increased our ocean search and we'll re-evaluate that as time goes on.
"We're hopeful that he (missing man) will survive, and we'll continue searching at this stage," Snr Sgt Warby said early afternoon.
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An Anarchist Primer
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Fifteen years ago, we published the following text introducing anarchism to the general public as a total way of being, at once adventurous and accessible. We offered the paper free in any quantity, raising tens of thousands of dollars for printing and even offering to cover the postage to mail copies to anyone who could not afford them. In the first two weeks, we sent out 90,000 copies. It appeared just in time for the “People’s Strike” mobilization against the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC; the pastor at the Presbyterian church that hosted anticapitalist activists in DC preached her Sunday sermon from the primer as she spoke to her congregation about the demonstrations. Over the following decade, Fighting for Our Lives figured in countless escapades and outreach efforts; read this story for an example. In the end, we distributed 650,000 print copies.
Fighting for Our Lives has been out of print for several years, as we’ve focused on other projects such as To Change Everything. We’ve now prepared a zine version for our downloads library. From this vantage point, we can appreciate both the text and the project itself as ambitious and exuberant attempts to break with the logic of the existing order and to stake everything on establishing new relations. We’ve learned a lot in the years since then—but we haven’t backed down one millimeter.
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Overture: A True Story
We dropped out of school, got divorced, broke with our families and ourselves and everything we’d ever known.
We quit our jobs, violated our leases, threw our furniture out on the sidewalk, and hit the road.
We sat on the swings of children’s playgrounds until our toes were frostbitten, admiring the moonlight on the dewy grass, writing poetry on the wind.
We went to bed early and lay awake past dawn recounting all the awful things we’d done to others and they to us—and laughing, blessing and absolving each other and this crazy cosmos.
We stole into museums showing reruns of old Guy Debord films to write faster, my friend, the old world is behind you on the backs of the theater seats.
The scent of gasoline still fresh on our hands, we watched the new sun rise, and spoke in hushed voices about what we should do next, thrilling in the budding consciousness of our own limitless power.
We used stolen calling card numbers to talk our lovers through phone sex from telephone booths in the lobbies of police stations.
We slipped into the offices where our browbeaten friends shuffled papers for petty despots, to draft anti-imperialist manifestos on their computers and sleep under their desks. They were shocked the morning they finally walked in on us, half-naked, brushing our teeth at the water cooler.
We lived through harrowing, exhilarating moments when we did things we had always thought impossible, spitting in the face of all our apprehensions to kiss unapproachable beauties, drop banners from the tops of national monuments, drop out of colleges… and then gritted our teeth, expecting the world to end—but it didn’t!
We stood or knelt in emptying concert halls, on rooftops under lightning storms, on the dead grass of graveyards, and swore with tears in our eyes never to go back again.
We sat at desks in high school detention rooms, against the worn brick of Greyhound bus stations, on disposable synthetic sheets in the emergency treatment wards of unsympathetic hospitals, on the hard benches of penitentiary dining halls, and swore the same thing through clenched teeth, but with no less tenderness.
We communicated with each other through initials carved into boarding school desks, designs spray-painted through stencils onto alley walls, holes kicked in corporate windows televised on the five o’clock news, letters posted with counterfeit stamps or carried across oceans in friends’ packs, secret instructions coded into emails from anonymous accounts, clandestine meetings in coffee shops, love poetry carved into the planks of prison bunks.
We sheltered illegal immigrants, political refugees, fugitives from justice, and adolescent runaways in our modest homes and beds, as they too sheltered us.
We improvised recipes to bake each other cookies, cakes, breakfasts in bed, weekly free meals in the park, great feasts celebrating our courage and kinship so we might taste their sweetness on our very tongues.
We entrusted each other with our hearts and appetites, together composing symphonies of caresses and pleasure, making love a verb in a language of exaltation.
We wreaked havoc upon their gender norms and ethnic stereotypes and cultural expectations, showing with our bodies and our relationships and our desires just how arbitrary their supposed laws of nature were.
We wrote our own music and performed it for each other, so when we hummed to ourselves we could celebrate our companions’ creativity rather than repeat the radio’s dull drone.
In borrowed attic rooms, we tended ailing foreign lovers and struggled to write the lines that could ignite the fires dormant in the multitudes around us.
In the last moment before dawn, flashlights tight in our shaking hands, we dismantled the power boxes on the buildings where fascists were to host rallies the following day.
We fought those fascists tooth, nail, and knife in the streets, when no one else would even confront them in print.
We planted gardens in abandoned lots, hitchhiked across continents in record time, tossed pies in the faces of kings and bankers.
We played saxophones together in the darkness of echoing caves in West Virginia.
In Paris, armed with cobblestones and parasols, we held the gendarmes at bay for nights on end, until we could almost taste the new world coming through the tear gas.
We fought our way through their lines to the opera house and took it over, and held discussions there twenty-four hours a day as to what that new world should be.
In Chicago, we helped create an underground network to provide illegal abortions in safe conditions and a supportive atmosphere, when the religious fanatics would have preferred us to die in shame and tears down dark alleys.
In New York, we held hands and massaged each other’s shoulders as our enemies closed in to arrest us.
In Quebec, we tore up the highway and pounded out primordial rhythms on the traffic signs with the fragments, and the sound was vaster and more beautiful than any song ever performed in a concert hall.
In Santiago, we robbed banks to fund papers of transgressive poetry.
In Siberia, we plotted impossible escapes—and carried them out, circumnavigating the globe with forged papers and borrowed money to return to the arms of our friends.
In Montevideo, in the squatted township, we built huts from plywood and plastic sheeting, pirated electricity from nearby power lines, and conferred with our neighbors as to how we could contribute to our new community.
In San Diego, when they jailed us for speaking our minds, we invited our friends and filled their prisons until they had to change their policies.
In Oregon, we climbed trees and lived in them for months to protect the forests we had hiked and camped in as children.
In Mexico, when we met hopping freight trains, we traded stories about working with the Zapatistas in Chiapas, about floods witnessed from boxcars passing through Texas, about our grandparents who fought in the Mexican revolution.
We fought in that revolution, and the Spanish civil war, and the French resistance, and even the Russian revolution—though not for the Bolsheviks or the Tsar.
Sleepless and weather-beaten, we crossed the Ukraine on horseback to deliver news of the conflicts that offered us another chance to fight for our freedom.
Tense but untrembling, we smuggled posters, books, firearms, fugitives, ourselves across borders from Canada to Pakistan.
We lied with clean consciences to homicide detectives in Reno and military police in Santos.
We told the truth to each other, even truths no one had ever dared tell before.
When we couldn’t overthrow governments, we raised new generations who would taste the sweet adrenaline of barricades and wheatpaste, who would carry on our quixotic quest when we fell or fled before the ruthless onslaught of the servile and craven.
When we could overthrow governments, we did.
We stood behind the witness stand, one after another, decade after decade, century after century, and shouted so the deafest self-satisfied upright citizen at the back of the courtroom could hear it: “… and if I could do it all over again, I would!”
As the sun rose after winter parties in unheated squats, we gathered up great sacks of broken glass and washed stacks of dirty dishes in freezing water, while our critics, sequestered in penthouses with maid service, demanded to know who would take out the garbage in our so-called utopia.
When the good intentions of liberals and reformists broke down in bureaucracy, we collected food from the trash to feed the hungry, broke into condemned buildings and transformed them into palaces fit for pauper kings and bandit queens, held the sick and dying tight in our loving arms.
We fell in love in the wreckage, shouted out songs in the uproar, danced joyfully in the heaviest shackles they could forge; we smuggled our stories through the gauntlets of silence, starvation, and subjugation, to bring them back to life again and again as bombs and beating hearts; we built castles in the sky from the ruins of hell on earth.
One of us even assassinated the President of the United States.
Accepting no constraints from without, we countenanced none within ourselves, either, and found that the world opened before us like the petals of a rose.
I’m speaking, of course, of anarchists—and when people ask me about my politics, I tell them: the best reason to be a revolutionary is that it is simply a better way to live. Their laws guarantee us the right to remain silent, the right to a public trial by a jury of our peers (though my peers wouldn’t put me on trial—would yours?)—what about the right to live life like we won’t get another chance, to have reasons to stay up all night in urgent conversation, to look back on every day without regret or bitterness? Such rights we can only claim for ourselves—and shouldn’t these be our central concerns, not the minutiae of protocol and survival?
For those of us born into a captivity gilded by the blood and sweat of less fortunate captives, the challenge of leading a life worth living of stories worth telling is a lifelong project, and a formidable one; but all it takes, at any moment, to meet this challenge is to contest that captivity.
When we fight, we’re fighting for our lives.
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It’s true. If your idea of healthy human relations is a dinner with friends at which everyone enjoys everyone else’s company, responsibilities are divided up voluntarily and informally, and no one gives orders or sells anything, then you are an anarchist, plain and simple. The only question that remains is how you can arrange for more of your interactions to resemble that model.
Whenever you act without waiting for instructions or official permission, you are an anarchist. Any time you bypass a ridiculous regulation when no one’s looking, you are an anarchist. If you don’t trust the government, the school system, Hollywood, or the management to know better than you when it comes to things that affect your life, that’s anarchism, too. And you are especially an anarchist when you come up with your own ideas and initiatives and solutions.
As you can see, it’s anarchism that keeps things working and life interesting. If we waited for authorities and specialists and technicians to take care of everything, we would not only be in a world of trouble, but dreadfully bored—and boring—to boot. Today we live in that world of (dreadfully boring!) trouble precisely to the extent that we abdicate responsibility and control.
Anarchism is naturally present in every healthy human being. It isn’t necessarily about throwing bombs or wearing black masks, though you may have seen that on television. (Do you believe everything you see on television? That’s not anarchist!) The root of anarchism is the simple impulse to do it yourself: everything else follows from this.
Does Anarchy Work?
People with very little actual historical background often say of anarchy that it would never work—without realizing that not only has it worked for much of the history of the human race, but it is in fact working right now. For the time being, let’s set aside the Paris Commune, Republican Spain, Woodstock, open-source computer programming, and all the other famed instances of successful revolutionary anarchism. Anarchy is simply cooperative self-determination—it is a part of everyday life, not something that will only happen “after the revolution.” Anarchy works today for circles of friends everywhere—so how can we make more of our economic relations anarchist? Anarchy is in action when people cooperate on a camping trip or to arrange free meals for hungry people—so how can we apply those lessons to our interactions at school, at work, in our neighborhoods?
To consult chaos theory: anarchy is chaos, and chaos is order. Any naturally ordered system—a rainforest, a friendly neighborhood—is a harmony in which balance perpetuates itself through chaos and chance. Systematic disorder, on the other hand—the discipline of the high school classroom, the sterile rows of genetically modified corn defended from weeds and insects—can only be maintained by ever-escalating exertions of force. Some, thinking disorder is simply the absence of any system, confuse it with anarchy. But disorder is the most ruthless system of all: disorder and conflict, unresolved, quickly systematize themselves, stacking up hierarchies according to their own pitiless demands—selfishness, heartlessness, lust for domination. Disorder in its most developed form is capitalism: the war of each against all, rule or be ruled, sell or be sold, from the soil to the sky.
We live in a particularly violent and hierarchical time. The maniacs who think they benefit from this hierarchy tell us that the violence would be worse without it, not comprehending that hierarchy itself, whether it takes the form of inequalities in economic status or political power, is the consequence and expression of violence. Not to say that forcibly removing the authorities would immediately end the waves of violence created by the greater violence their existence implies; but until we are all free to learn how to get along with each other for our own sake, rather than under the guns directed by the ones who benefit from our strife, there will be no true peace between us.
This state of affairs is maintained by more than guns, more than the vertigo of hierarchy, of kill-or-be-killed reasoning: it is also maintained by the myth of success. Official history presents our past as the history of Great Men, and all other lives as mere effects of their causes; there are only a few subjects of history, they would make us believe—the rest of us are its objects. The implication is that there is only one truly free man in all society: the king (or president, executive, movie star…). Since this is the way it has always been and always will be, the account goes, we should all fight to become him, or at least accept our station beneath him gracefully, grateful for others beneath us to trample when we need reassurance of our own worth.
But even the president isn’t free to go for a walk in the neighborhood of his choosing. Why settle for a fragment of the world, or less? In the absence of force—in the egalitarian beds of true lovers, in the democracy of devoted friendships, in the topless federations of playmates enjoying good parties and neighbors chatting at sewing circles—we are all queens and kings. Whether or not anarchy can “work” outside such sanctuaries, it is becoming clearer and clearer that hierarchy doesn’t. Visit the model cities of the new world order—sit in a traffic jam of privately owned vehicles, among motorists sweating and swearing in isolated unison, an ocean filling with pollution to your right and a ghetto on your left where uniformed gangs clash with ununiformed ones—and behold the apex of human progress. If this is order, why not try chaos!
Anarchy, not Anarchism!
To say that anarchists subscribe to anarchism is like saying pianists subscribe to pianism. There is no Anarchism—but there is anarchy, or rather, there are anarchies.
For as long as power has existed, the spirit of anarchy has been with us too, named or nameless, uniting millions or steeling the resolve of a single one. The slaves and savages who fought the Romans for their freedom and lived in armed liberty, equality, and fraternity, the mothers who raised their daughters to love their bodies in defiance of the diet advertisements leering from all sides, the renegades who painted their faces and threw tea into Boston Harbor, and all the others who took matters into their own hands: they were anarchists, whether they called themselves Ranters, Taborites, Communards, Abolitionists, Yippies, Syndicalists, Quakers, Mothers of the Disappeared, Food Not Bombs, Libertarians, or even Republicans—just as we are all anarchists, to the extent that we do the same. There are as many anarchists today as there are students cutting class, parents cheating on their taxes, women teaching themselves bicycle repair, lovers desiring outside the lines. They don’t need to vote for an anarchist party or party line—that would disqualify them, at least for that moment—to be anarchists: anarchy is a mode of being, a manner of responding to conditions and relating to others, a class of human behavior… and not the “working” class!
Forget about the history of anarchism as an idea—forget the bearded guys. It’s one thing to develop a language for describing a thing—it’s another thing entirely to live it. This is not about theories or formulas, heroes or biographies—it’s about your life. Anarchy is what matters, everywhere it appears, not armchair anarchism, the specialists’ study of freedom! There are self-proclaimed anarchists who never experienced a day of anarchy in their lives—we should know how much to trust them on the subject!
So how will the anarchist utopia work? That’s a question we’ll never again be duped into disputing over, a red herring if there ever was one! This isn’t a utopian vision, or a program or ideal to serve; it’s simply a way of proceeding, of approaching relationships, of dealing with problems now—for surely we’ll never be entirely through dealing with problems! Being an anarchist doesn’t mean believing anarchy, let alone anarchism, can fix everything—it just means acknowledging it’s up to us to work things out, that no one and nothing else can do this for us: admitting that, like it or not, our lives are in our hands—and in each others’.
Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Anarchists might use democratic methods—but we don’t let democracy use us. For us, the first and last matter is always the needs and feelings of the individuals involved—any system to address them is provisional at best. We don’t try to force ourselves into the confines of any established procedures—we apply procedures to the extent that they serve human needs, and discard them past that point. Seriously, what should come first—our systems, or us?
We cooperate or coexist with others, including other life forms, whenever it’s possible. But we don’t prize consensus, let alone The Rule of Law, above our own values and dreams—when we can’t come to an agreement, we go our own ways rather than limiting each other. In extreme cases, when others refuse to acknowledge our needs or persist in doing unconscionable, harmful things, we intercede by whatever means are necessary—not on behalf of Justice or revenge, but simply to represent our own interests.
We see laws as nothing more than the shadows of our predecessors’ customs, lengthened by the years to seem wiser than our own judgment. They persist as undead creatures, imposing unnatural stipulations upon us that do not enable justice, but only interfere with it—while at the same time estranging us from it, framing it as something we cannot carry out without arcane formalities and judges’ wigs. These laws, having multiplied and calcified over time, are now so alien and inscrutable that a priest class of lawyers makes a living off the rest of us as astrologers of the stars our well-meaning ancestors set in precarious orbit. The man who insists that justice can only be maintained by the rule of law is the same one who appears on the witness stand at the war crime tribunal swearing he was only following orders. There’s no Justice—it’s just us.
The Economics of Anarchy
Anarchist economies are radically different from other economies. Anarchists not only conduct their transactions differently, but trade in an entirely different currency—a currency that is not convertible into the kind of assets for which capitalists compete and communists draft Five Year Plans. Capitalists, socialists, communists exchange products; anarchists interchange assistance, inspiration, loyalty. Capitalist, socialist, communist economies make human interactions into commodities: policing, medical care, education, even sexual relations become services that are bought and sold. Anarchist economies, focusing above all on the needs and desires of the individuals involved, transform products back into social relations: the communal experience of gardening or gathering berries or playing music, the excitement of looting a supermarket or occupying a building. The typical economic interaction in capitalist relations is the sale; in anarchist economics, it is the gift.
Anarchist economies depend on commons, which are the opposite of private property. Private capital disappears when utilized, as in the case of money spent by day laborers on food—or, when enough of it accrues, it serves to accrue more private capital at others’ expense, as in the case of the corporation that exploits those laborers. Commons, on the other hand, are available in abundance, and the more they are utilized, the more abundant they become: the community garden that produces more food the more people cooperate in it, the squatted building that is better renovated for community usage and better defended from the police the more people commit to it. In friendships, as in lovemaking, as in potluck dinners and dancing, the more one gives, the more everyone gets.
Today, most of us participate in both kinds of economies at once. Ostensibly private property is still shared, at least in limited contexts: a teenager brings his basketball for the neighborhood game, a rock band buys a communal van. Even a house belonging to a middle class family, although off-limits for most, still hosts visiting relatives, a PTA meeting, a sleep-over party. Instances like these are reminders of how much more pleasurable sharing can be than commerce. Anarchists nurture visions of a world suitable for a sharing that knows no borders.
But Who Will Take out the Garbage?
It was in Barcelona, some years after the civil war, when the memory of the syndicates still remained, unutterable, under the iron heel of the fascist regime.
City bus #68 was making its rounds one particularly sunny spring day, when the driver slammed on the brakes at an intersection. “Fuck this,” he swore in angry Catalan, and, opening the bus doors, stomped out into the sunshine.
The passengers watched in shock at first, and then began to protest anxiously. One of them stood up and started to honk the horn. After a few tentative beeps, he leaned on it with all his might, sounding it like a burglar alarm; but the fed up ex-bus driver continued, nonchalant, on his way down the street.
For a full minute, the riders sat in stupefied silence. A couple stood up and got off the bus themselves. Then, from the back of the bus, a woman with the appearance of a huge cannon ball and an air of unconquerable self-possession stepped forward. Without a word, she sat down in the driver’s seat, and put the engine in gear. The bus continued on its route, stopping at its customary stops, until the woman arrived at her own and got off. Another passenger took her place for a stretch, stopping at every bus stop, and then another, and another, and so #68 continued, until the end of the line.
It means figuring out how to work together to meet our individual needs, working with each other rather than “for” or against each other; and when this is impossible, it means preferring strife to submission and domination.
It means not valuing any system or ideology above the people it purports to serve, not valuing anything theoretical above the real things in this world. It means being faithful to real human beings (and animals, and ecosystems), fighting for ourselves and beside each other, not out of “responsibility,” not for “causes” or other intangible concepts. It means denying that there is any universal standard of truth, aesthetics, or morality, and contesting wherever it appears the doctrine that life is essentially one-dimensional.
It means not forcing your desires and experiences into a hierarchical order, but acknowledging and embracing all of them, accepting yourself. It means not trying to compel the self to abide by any external laws, not trying to restrict your emotions to the sensible or the practical or the “political,” not pushing your instincts and passions into boxes: for there is no cage large enough to accommodate the human soul in all its flights, all its heights and depths. It means seeking a way of life which gives free play to all your conflicting inclinations in the process of continuously challenging and transforming them.
It means not privileging any one moment of life over the others—not languishing in nostalgia for the good old days, or waiting for tomorrow (or, for that matter, for “the” Revolution!) for real life to begin, but seizing and creating it in every instant. Yes, of course it means treasuring memories and planning for the future—it also means remembering there is no time happiness, resistance, life ever happens but NOW, NOW, NOW!
It means refusing to put the responsibility for your life in anyone else’s hands, whether that be parents, lovers, employers, or society itself. It means taking the pursuit of meaning and joy in your life upon your own shoulders.
Above all! It means not accepting this or any manifesto or definition as it is, but making and remaking it for yourself.
Civic Hedonism
What’s good for others is good for us, since our relationships with them make up the world in which we live; but serving their needs at our own expense would cheat them of our potential as free and happy companions, which is perhaps the best gift we can offer. Our vision of healthy relationships rests on the notion that self versus other, selfish versus selfless, is a false dichotomy, like all dichotomies. Those who preach self-sacrifice for the greater good are still working from the competitive model of individual-versus-society, as are those who would aspire to an individualist independence; for us, individuals and communities alike are both convergences of threads in the great web of existence, inseparable from one another, corresponding to one another. The freedom and self-determination we cherish are only possible in the context of the culture we create together; yet in order to contribute to that creation, we must create ourselves individually.
That is: if you can save yourself, you could save the world—but you must save the world to save yourself.
A Fellowship of Friends and Lovers
As anarchists propose that friendship, or at least family ties, could be the model for all relationships, we prize above all those qualities which make good friendships possible: reliability, generosity, gentleness. Most of us have been indoctrinated into hierarchy and contention since we were born, and that makes it no small feat to interact in ways that liberate and enable more than cripple—still, it happens all the time! Each of us tries to give without demanding in return, to be a person with whom no one must feel ashamed. It’s been said that we are against marriage, but the opposite is true: yes, we emphasize that no one is the property of another, but even more so that everybody on this planet is already permanently intertwined—and we insist that everyone act accordingly.
All this is not to say we approach soldiers with flowers when they come for our children—nor do we offer corporations our children when they come for our flowers. Sometimes love can only speak through the barrel of a gun.
Self-Determination Begins at Home
Not to be forced by expectation, doctrine, or necessity to claim one fragment of yourself and disown others. Not to take sides within and against yourself, not to play judge and jury constantly at your own trial. Not to protect pristine ignorance with inaction, but to learn from mistakes and thus grow wise. Not to choose one path in life and follow it to the exclusion of all others, but to throw false unity and consistency to the wind—to give expression to every impulse and yearning in what you deem its proper time, and appreciate what is fertile in turmoil. To do this knowing you are a part of a community that cherishes you unconditionally—and to cherish others in their entirety, as they reflect parts of yourself.
To live without the petty squabbles of pecking order and power structure inside any more than around—that is the anarchist dream of selfhood.
Direct Action Gets the Goods
A community in which people direct their own activities and look out for each other does not need a prison or factory built in it to “create jobs.” A community of people who share their own channels of communication are not at the mercy of any corporate media version of “truth.” A community of people who make their own music and art and organize their own social events would never settle for the paralyzing spectacle of reality television, let alone computer dating services and pornography. A community of people who know each other’s histories and understand each other’s needs can work through conflicts without any need for interference from uniformed strangers with guns. The extent to which we can create these communities is the extent to which we can solve the problems we face today, and no legislation or charity will do this for us.
Institutions can only be as good as the people who make them work—and they usually aren’t, anyhow. Solutions “from above” have proved ineffective over and over: the red tape of medical programs, the inefficiency of social services, the lies of presidents. If you don’t trust the people, you can be sure you can’t trust the police.
All Gods, All Masters
Anarchism is aristocratic—anarchists just insist that the elite should consist of everyone, that the struggle of the “common man” can become the struggle of the uncommon women and men it produces.
We have no illusions that there are any shortcuts to anarchy. We don’t seek to lead “the” people, but to establish a nation of sovereigns; we don’t seek to be a vanguard of theorists, but to empower a readership of authors; we don’t seek to be the artists of a new avant garde, but to enable an audience of performers—we don’t so much seek to destroy power as to make it freely available in abundance: we want to be masters without slaves.
We recognize that power struggles and dynamics will always be a part of human life; many of us have a “tyrannical muse” we obey, albeit willingly, so we reserve even the right to command and serve when it pleases us. But, as they say, the only free human beings are the pauper and the king—the king being the less free of the two, since his kingdom still encumbers and limits him, while on her luckier days the hobo can feel that the whole of the cosmos exists for the sake of her pleasure and freedom—so we prefer not to trivialize ourselves by competing for such fool’s gold as ownership or authority. And—when struggle is unavoidable, we would still prefer to be at the mercy of the violence and stupidity of other individuals than the violence and stupidity of humanity as it is distilled and marshaled by the state.
We’re not egalitarians in the old sense: we’re not out to pull the rich and powerful down to “our level”—rather, we pity them for not being ambitious enough in their aspirations, and hope they will abdicate to join us in fighting to make it possible for everyone to ascend to greatness (that way, we won’t have to guillotine them). We’re not against the glory assigned to pop icons and movie stars, per se—we just deplore the way it is squandered on distant objects, when it rightfully belongs to the moments of our own heroic lives. We’re not against the homage and devotion that the monototheists’ God receives; we simply find it healthier to devote it to each other. We’re not against property, exactly, so much as we are the pettiness of bickering over it: for we understand that to rule the world, we must share it all—and not demolish or meddle with it, for that matter. The true pauper king walks the forests of his domain proudly, watching the interactions of the complex ecosystems in awe, knowing the only appropriate conduct for a monarch of such a wonderland is a policy of veneration and non-intervention (except to thwart the occasional logging corporation). We’re not waiting for “the” revolution to give us the rights we deserve; deeming ourselves the highest authorities we need recognize, we grant them to ourselves immediately and therefore make revolution constantly as a way to assert and protect them.
We will settle for nothing less than total world domination, for one and all.
…And Every God an Atheist
Anarchists not only deny the authority of God, Chief of Police of the Universe, but also maintain a healthy distrust of his successors: Nature, History, Science, Morality. We don’t account any being, system, or tradition the right to our unquestioning faith, since even when we esteem others’ knowledge or judgment better than our own we are still responsible for the choice to trust them. Accordingly, we don’t regard any contention or assumption as above dispute, and revel more in moving freely between paradigms than in debating which one is The Truth. We are especially suspicious of experts who would mediate between us and deities or spheres of knowledge, and prefer both to learn about the world and to contact the divine for ourselves.
Justice as Judgment we count of little worth: we want to be practical, to solve problems, not to treat human relations and conduct as another economic exchange with righteousness for currency. We apply the idea of personal responsibility only to the extent that it is useful in making our relationships work; otherwise, it is of little interest to us whether a person’s soul is damned or redeemed, whether conduct is moral or immoral, whether society or the individual is to blame for a wrong.
Let it not be said about us that we hold nothing holy! On the contrary, we hold everything holy. Denying hierarchy means venerating the singular, incomparable beauty of every creature, every feature of the cosmos, every moment. Only appraisal and condemnation are anathema to us.
Graffiti on a church in Lisbon, 2001: “Without truth, you are the looser.”
“The anarchist is a very fierce creature. It is first cousin to the gorilla. It kills presidents, princes, executives, likewise sabotages their summits and summer holidays. It has long, unkempt hair on its head and all over its face. Instead of fingernails it has long, sharp claws. The anarchist has many pockets in which it carries rocks, knives, guns, and bombs. It is a night animal. After dark, it gathers in groups, large and small, and plans raids, murders, plagues. Lots are drawn to select who must carry out the work.
“The anarchist does not like water. It never washes or changes its clothes. It is always thirsty and drinks only salt water. The home of the anarchist is in Europe, especially Italy. Some few have been exported to North America, where they are feared and hated by all decent folks and hunted wherever they show themselves.
“Papa does not like anarchists a bit. They give him bad dreams, he says. He has given orders to have them caught and put in cages, and he will not allow any more to come into this country if he can help it. If any sneak in, he will have them shot like rabid dogs, Mexicans, mountain lions, and such animals. I practice every day with my rifle so I can shoot these wild beasts when I grow up.”
-A White House nursery composition, 1904
Against Gross Generalizations
All of us have grown up divided and conquered along lines of gender and sexual preference, body type and ethnicity, class and race, bought off with privileges and beaten down with psychological warfare so we’ll do our parts to keep the pecking order in place. White supremacy, patriarchy, and heterosexism are the pillars of this civilization. We anarchists fight against these oppressive structures whether we find them in society or ourselves; but we aim for more than the liberation of human beings of all identities—we want the liberation of all human beings from identity.
There are no universals. Group identities are self-perpetuating fabrications that begin with circumstantial evidence and end by imposing a false uniformity. There are two genders, for example, like there are “only” twelve tones in every octave: it seems true when you look at a piano, but try opening your mouth and singing! Though “femininity” may appear ordained by nature to those who grew up in environments where all women shave their legs and armpits, it is just a generalization drawn from generations of standardized behavior, reinforced by each replication. But—as there is no “pure” femininity, no substance the generalization refers to besides what all the individual instances are perceived to have in common, and so each generation is not the “original” but a “copy”—the entire paradigm is at risk in every new generation, as it may be transformed…or abandoned.
At best, generalizations like class and gender can be used to undo themselves—to expose and confront the patterns of oppression that run through individual lives, to find common cause in fighting the invisibility of certain experiences and histories. We want to get beyond these and all categories and conflicts, but it’s only going to happen if we begin by addressing them. In men’s groups, human beings constructed as men can exchange skills for rewiring their programming; in women-only spaces, those constructed as women can explore similarly without the presence of men interfering. We defend the right of individuals to choose how they want to be identified—and no vision of unbounded life is any excuse to pretend the world is yet free anywhere from power imbalances. But ultimately it is revolution we’re after, not reform: we’re not petitioning for more rights for special interest groups, or more freedom of movement between established categories—we’re taking and making our right to make and remake ourselves in every moment, and wrecking the system of divisions in the process!
We are feminists who would abolish gender, labor organizers who would abolish work, artists fighting to destroy and transcend art. Our class war is a war against class, against classes and classification. When we say that we are against representation, we do not only mean representative “democracy”; we also mean that each of us is an irreducible individual, that none can speak for another. Neither politicians nor abstractions, neither delegates nor demographics can represent us!
Anarchists Make Revolutions, not War
Beware of struggle. Not a few radicals get involved in politics because they know everything about resisting and little about anything else. They turn every interaction into a conflict between the forces of good and evil, taking a stand and drawing the line until it really is them against the world. For would-be career agitators, this can be a great way to maintain that career—but it accomplishes little else beyond getting people agitated in the strictest sense of the word. Most will just stop paying attention entirely—who doesn’t already have enough antagonism and unpleasantness to deal with?
There are always wars waiting to be fought—against, against, against. Fighting these wars perpetuates the dualities that give rise to them. Anarchists anachronize wars, by transcending oppositions. That is revolution.
Don’t join an existing conflict on its terms and make yourself a pawn of its patterns: redefine the terms of the conflict—from “democracy versus terrorism” to “freedom versus power,” for example! Find ways to make premises subvert themselves, to draw people together in ways they thought impossible, to upset the entire paradigm of struggle.
Not a Position, but a Proposition
So if you want to provoke revolt, don’t draw a line between yourself and the rest of the world and threaten everyone across it. Don’t propagate a universal program, don’t campaign for recruits, for heaven’s sake don’t “educate the masses”! Forget about persuading people to your opinion—encourage them to develop the power to form their own. Everyone having their own ideas is more anarchist than everyone having The Anarchist Idea. Any central organization or recognized authority on revolt can only stifle self-determination by ordering it. Individuals acting freely, on the other hand, can inspire and reinforce liberty and resistance in each other: independence, like all good things, is available in abundance. It certainly doesn’t need to be—cannot be—doled out sparingly by a central committee to constituents waiting in breadlines!
When it comes to addressing others, don’t try to say “the” truth. Meddle with The Truth, undermine it, create a space in which new truths can form. Introduce questions, not answers—and remember, not all questions end in question marks. For the revolutionary, the essence of a statement lies in its effects, not in whether or not it is “objectively” true—this approach distinguishes her from philosophers and other idle bastards.
Historians tell of the mighty emperor Darius, who led his troops into the steppes with the intention of subduing the Scythians and adding their territory to his empire. The Scythians were a nomadic people, and when they learned that Darius’ forces were to descend upon them, they broke camp and began a slow retreat. They moved at such a speed that though Darius’ armies could always descry them on the horizon, they were never able to close in. For days they fled ahead of the invaders—then weeks, months, leaving all the food in their wake destroyed and all the water poisoned; they led the intruding armies in circles, into the lands of neighboring peoples who attacked them, through unbroken deserts where gaunt vultures licked bleached bones. The proud warriors, accustomed to flaunting their bravado in swift, dramatic clashes, were in despair. Darius sent a message with his fastest courier, who was barely able to deliver it to the laziest straggler of the Scythian flank: “As your ruler,” it read, “I order you to turn and fight!”
“If you are our ruler,” came the reply, scratched carelessly into a rock face they came upon the next day, “go weep.”
Days later, after they had given up all hope, the scouts made out a line of Scythian horsemen charging forward across the plain. They were waving their swords excitedly and letting out great whoops of enthusiasm. Caught unprepared but relieved at the prospect of doing battle at last, the warriors took up their arms—only to discern, in confusion, that the Scythians were not charging their lines, but somewhat to the side of them. Looking closer, they made out that the horsemen were pursuing a rabbit. Upon this humiliation, the soldiers threatened mutiny, and Darius was forced to turn back and leave Scythia in defeat. Thus the Scythians entered history as the most unconquerable of clans by refusing to do battle.
Anarchism Is a Paradox
…but it’s the kind of paradox we anarchists relish. Urging people to think for themselves, seizing power to abolish it, making war on war, these are all contradictions—but it’s good tactics to engage in obvious hypocrisy, if you want the rebels to depose you along with other authorities! Flying a black flag to express opposition to flags sounds senseless—but, living in the shadow of so many flags that flaglessness is interpreted as acquiescence, it may be sound senselessness. Better a black flag than a white one, anyway!
Create Momentum!
So—Create momentum! Don’t sit endlessly in meetings, meeting about when you should be meeting to discuss how to conduct your next meeting. If your masochistic comrades feel the unfathomable compulsion to spend weeks, months, years of yammering hammering out the wording of a platform to which they can all pledge themselves, and then further years in internal dissension and rupturing, let them, but don’t feel obliged to join in just to prove how committed to the Revolution you are. Don’t feel obliged to join in anything—this is your revolution!
Create momentum! Don’t demand change—realize it yourself with your actions. All you can accomplish is what you do yourself with your companions, and that’s a lot: this is how you keep your dignity in a mad world, how you write your own life story and thus let others know they aren’t powerless either. Acting on your desires puts you in touch with them—otherwise, you have to put the same energy into disavowing them. Skip down the street if you’re happy, burn down a building if it outrages you. Love blossoms on a battlefield—it’s easier to release yourself to it when you’re ready to back it up! When you live out your own most secret wishes, you’ll find you express those of others, too. Find yourself projects that engage you, that put you in situations in which you are wholly present in the moment. And don’t be afraid of being unrealistic—it is precisely the unreal that needs realizing. You can’t create unless you can dream.
Create momentum! Anarchists don’t give instructions—we give license. Help others give themselves permission to live, by setting precedents—and offer support, share skills, create opportunities for the civilians around you to express their own radical desires in action. You’ll be surprised who will fight the pigs in the streets, when the chance arises!
Don’t sighingly sign petitions, pose for the cameras, await some window of opportunity. Do participate in town parades and street festivals, break into abandoned buildings to throw great banners down the sides, start conversations with strangers, challenge everything you thought you knew about yourself in bed, maintain a constant feeling in the air that something is happening. Live as if the future depends on your every deed, and it will. Don’t wait for yourself to show up—you already have. Grant yourself license to live and tear those shackles to ribbons: Create momentum!
Beautiful Anarchists Desire You
These days it can be difficult, even terrifying, to be an anarchist. You may well be one of those people who hides her anarchism, at least in certain situations, lest others (equally scared, and probably by the same things) accuse you of being too idealistic or “irresponsible”—as if politely burying the planet in garbage isn’t!
You shouldn’t be so timid—you are not alone. There are millions of us waiting for you to make yourself known, ready to love you and laugh with you and fight at your side for a better world. Follow your heart to the places we will meet. Please don’t be too late.
OK, I’m interested. What do I do next?
Not to be brusque, but haven’t you been paying attention? We’re not trying to get you to convert to a religion or vote for a party here—on the contrary. The best and the hardest part of this is that it’s entirely in your hands.
Rousing Conclusion
In some moments, in this insane world, anarchy appears in fragments, whispering of hidden lives that beckon from within this one: those hours you spend with your best friends after work, the remains of a poster pasted on an alley wall, that instant masturbating or making love when you are neither male nor female, fat nor skinny, rich nor poor. In other moments, that insanity is the exception, the fragment, and anarchy is simply the world we live. One hundred thousand of us can found a new civilization, one hundred can transform a city, two can write the bedtime stories our children have been waiting to hear—and sow the seeds for millions to come.
When one of us defies the protection racket of public opinion and “necessity” and drops everything to live as she has dreamed, the whole world receives the gift of that freedom. When we fill the streets to dance and blow fire, we can remember with our bodies that we deserve such dances and such space for them. When the ski resorts burn and department store windows shatter, for a moment “private property” is neither private nor property—and we create new relations between ourselves and a cosmos that is suddenly ours, and new, once more. If we risk our lives, it is because we know only by doing so can we make them our own.
See you on the front page of the last newspaper those motherfuckers ever print—
Noam Deguerre, CrimethInc. Writers’ Bloc
Appendix: A Genealogy of Force
In the beginning, harmony: communities of human beings live as one, gathering and eating and playing and sleeping and singing and making love and telling stories together. And, occasionally, discord: an argument breaks out, strong words are exchanged, a blow is struck.
When this happens, the community meets and arrives at a resolution. Communities that cannot do this break up, and the members starve or freeze or are hunted down by wild beasts, or join another community that can resolve conflicts. Conflicts between communities are resolved in a similar manner. For thousands upon thousands of years, this way of life works and endures.
But one day, some cultural or technological innovation enables one group to accumulate power in such a way that they do not have to concern themselves with resolving conflicts—they can offload the negative consequences on others. Now discussion, placation, even combat do not serve to conclude hostilities; the combatants do not find their way back to peace as the others did before, but seek only to obtain more power. Intent on controlling and dominating others, even at the cost of their own happiness or safety, they become machines of war.
Their relationship with the environment shifts: the earth must be disciplined, now, to provide them reserves of food to last through their struggle. Their relationships with each other change: they evaluate others as potential comrades-in-arms or enemies, appraising might above all other qualities.
The neighboring communities do not escape unscathed. Soon they are embroiled in this struggle, as well, and must contend with an enemy such as they have never encountered. Many of these communities perish outright; others, determined survive at any cost, find that they too must become war machines. They too subjugate the earth and its animals, enslave their vanquished foes, even their own people, anything to endure in the face of this terror. They become the terror, they outdo it, and this is their undoing.
Spreading like a cancer, from community to community, strange changes sweep the face of the earth. Little communities merge to become big communities, and ultimately nations; temporary military leaders become hereditary monarchs; the vision of once peace-loving peoples becomes clouded with carnage.
And it is not only in military matters that these communities change. Territory is claimed and marked, and becomes the source of new conflicts. Patriarchy appears: the undeclared war between the sexes, the gendered roles of warrior and servant, institutionalized and enforced by each generation on the next. Market economics arises: peoples who no longer trust each other insist on trade where gifts once sufficed—and scramble to outwit each other, to profit at others’ expense even in peacetime. Organized religion is invented: now men not only vie for land, food, property, and power, but also to govern each other’s minds and hearts.
All of these innovations are catastrophic for human beings. They try to offset the effects with new innovations, and the new innovations prove to be greater catastrophes. Governments, convened to protect peoples, extract taxes from them and thrive idly off their sweat and toil; police fill the streets to prevent crime, and perpetrate worse crimes with impunity. Defending themselves from the monstrosities of civilization, these peoples breed more awful monsters.
Minor nations, hell-bent on withstanding the assaults of greater ones, arm themselves to the teeth—and go on fighting and conquering in exaggerated response to the original threat until they become great empires. So the Roman Empire finds its origins in the resistance of rural farmers to Etruscan encroachments; so the rest of Europe becomes a snakepit of competing empires, as a consequence of hundreds of years spent fighting Rome. Later historians will look at the bloody wars waged on the edges of every civilization as evidence that the “heart of darkness” beyond this frontier is a bloody barbarism; but perhaps it is the peace-loving barbarians who are defending themselves from the bloodthirsty. The true heart of darkness lies at the center of these empires, in the eye of the hurricane, where violence is so deeply ingrained in human life that it is no longer visible to the naked eye: slaves go about in the streets as if of their own volition, powerless even to rebel; gladiators slaughter each other in the circuses and it is called entertainment.
The next military campaigns are a symptom of social viciousness, not just a cause. Now the invisible violence of economics ordains the visible violence of armies: soldiers cut paths into the last wilderlands of barbarism so further resources can be seized by merchants, and the freshly destitute barbarians become a new consumer base. Whole continents are despoiled and the inhabitants enslaved—and then the looters cite their destitution as proof of their racial inferiority! Missionaries are in the front lines of the assault, enforcing the reign of the jealous One and Only God as surely as the soldiers enforce the reign of brutality. Terror for territory, blood for money, money for blood, He ordains it all—as it ordains Him.
The successors of the missionaries pray directly to the market. These new priests are even more successful than the soldiers in imposing the rule of power: a day comes when shackles are no longer needed to keep the population servile, when idolatry alone is enough to keep people fighting amongst themselves. Now no one can remember any other life, and son fights brother fights father fights neighbor, as the specters of fear and avarice look over their empire from above. Kings, generals, presidents rise and fall, but the system, hierarchy, remains: competition itself holds the crown, picking and discarding its champions without pity.
Everyone in these relationships of violence still wants, desperately, to escape, but again and again they bear the seeds of this violence with them, destroying every refuge as they enter—as the refugees who flee to the “New World” do, and the Communists who overthrow the Tsar. Even those who do escape, like the artists whose communes gentrify neighborhoods, whose provocative innovations set precedents for the next generation’s fashion photography, only pave the way for the steamrollers that follow in their footsteps.
Violence reaches an all-time high. Schoolchildren, mailmen, formerly the very picture of sociability, begin to gun down their companions in cold blood. Ministers molest altar boys, fathers batter their daughters, teenagers rape their dates. Prisons overflow. Millions perish in holocausts, and the maimed survivors initiate subsequent holocausts. Nuclear missiles point at everyone until the imminence of the final holocaust can only be discussed in platitudes. Now we are all on death row, all political prisoners. Even in the loftiest citadels of the United States, protected by the most sophisticated and well-equipped military in the history of the solar system, white-collar workers with full benefits and health insurance are no longer safe—airplanes crash, skyscrapers fall. Terror threatens us all.
Tonight a Palestinian youth struggles to work out the equation: have his enemies filled his world with enough misery that he feels more hatred for them than he does love for life? He thinks of his crippled father, of his bulldozed house, of his departed friends—who computed this same equation daily, always coming to one conclusion, until the day they came to another.
Where, through all this, is love? It is still here, in the forms it has always taken: families eating together, friends embracing, gifts given simply for the pleasure of giving. We still forgive, converse, fall deeply in love; it even happens occasionally that new communities federate to confront a common antagonist—not out of malice, but for the sake of peace, hoping to resolve conflicts as they were resolved in the days before warfare and commerce. These moments, even when they occur between only a few individuals, are as powerful and precious as they ever were. And they are still infectious, as infectious as violence and hatred, if only they can find unarmored hearts in which to catch hold.
The world now waits for a war on war, a love armed, a friendship which can defend itself. Anarchy is a word we use to describe those moments when force cannot subdue us, and life flourishes as we know it should; anarchism is the science of creating and defending such moments. It is a weapon that aspires to uselessness—the only kind of weapon we will wield, hoping against hope that this time, through some new alchemy, our weapons will not turn on us.
We know that after “the” revolution, after every revolution, the struggle between love and hatred, between coercion and cooperation, will continue; but, then, as now, as always, the important question is—which side are you on?
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Alabama postpones 50th anniversary tour over singer’s health
LOS ANGELES — Southern rock band Alabama says it is postponing the remainder of its 50th anniversary tour as lead singer Randy Owen battles health complications.
FILE – This April 6, 2017 file photo shows Jeff Cook, from left, Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, from the southern rock band Alabama, performing at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. The band says it is postponing the remainder of its 50th anniversary tour as lead singer Owen battles health complications. The band announced Wednesday, Aug. 21, that the 69-year-old singer is suffering from migraines and vertigo, and doctors say he needs more time to recover. (Photo by Al Wagner/Invision/AP, File)
The band announced Wednesday that the 69-year-old Owen is suffering from migraines and vertigo, and doctors say he needs more time to recover. The news comes after a string of already-canceled shows due to the singer’s health.
Bass player and vocalist Teddy Gentry wrote in a statement that though he and the rest of the band are disappointed, Owen’s recovery is the priority.
The 50-city tour was scheduled through Nov. 23, where it would have ended in Salisbury, Maryland.
Rescheduled dates will be released in the coming weeks.
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Mysterious discovery under the water in China will awaken your inner Indiana Jones
Image: CCTV/screengrab
By Gianluca Mezzofiore 2017-01-17 11:20:52 UTC
When the water levels were lowered in an eastern China reservoir due to a renovation project, no one was expecting to find a 600-year-old Buddha statue.
SEE ALSO: Study makes new claims about world's oldest human civilization
A local villager in Jiangxi province first spotted the half-submerged head of the Buddha sitting against a cliff and gazing over the water.
A hydropower gate renovation project in the Hongmen Reservoir, Nangcheng County, was responsible for the 10-metre drop in the water levels.
Mysterious Buddha statue emerges from E China reservoir. Underwater detection reveals centuries-old story https://t.co/iQJV8yRRgg pic.twitter.com/q3nBEU9LVd
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) January 15, 2017
Surprise! Ancient Buddha statue emerges as water level lowers in E China reservoir. Temple may have existed therehttps://t.co/4dH7ALKgu3 pic.twitter.com/ba8WHcOYZo
Xu Changging, head of the provincial research institute of archeology, said the sunken statue, which is 12.5 ft (3.8 m) tall, could date back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Researchers also uncovered rectangular holes carved on the cliff which could point to an wider, uncharted archeological discovery. A base of a hall was found under the water, suggesting that a temple could have existed there.
Sonar equipment and underwater photographs will be used to get basic data for further research.
Head of Buddha statue, at least 350 yrs old, emerges in E China reservoir. What else are still submerged? #XinhuaTV pic.twitter.com/FmEBwYY1F7
The reservoir is located on the ruins of the ancient Xiaoshi Township.
Xu told the CNN that the statue was so well-preserved because it was submerged in water.
The reservoir, also known as Zuixian Lake, was built in 1958 and has a water storage volume of 1.2 billion cubic metres.
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How to make the perfect Memoji in iOS 12
Memoji are still somewhat limited, but there are ways to make yours stand out from the crowd.
Image: Getty Images/justin sullivan
By Karissa Bell 2018-06-25 23:23:32 UTC
Apple just released the first public beta for iOS 12, which means Memoji are finally ready for their public debut.
Similar to last year's 3D emoji-inspired Animoji, Memoji are Apple's take on the cartoon avatar. Like Snapchat's Bitmoji, the feature lets you create cartoon versions of your likeness to share in the Messages app.
SEE ALSO: Make me cute: Why we're obsessed with adorable cartoon avatars
Unfortunately, Memoji won't be available to everyone with iOS 12. Like Animoji, the feature is exclusive to the iPhone X. But, if you do have Apple's most expensive iPhone, you're in luck. Provided you've also opted in to the iOS 12 public beta, you can get started with your own Memoji right away.
Here's what you need to make your own Memoji.
In iOS 12, Memoji live in the same menu in the Messages app where you can find the emoji-inspired Animoji. Tap the App Store icon to bring up the app tray in Messages, then choose the Animoji icon. From there, just swipe over to the left and select "New Memoji" to get started customizing your own avatar.
Step 2: Start customizing
Apple doesn't have gender-specific Memoji. Instead, you choose your avatar's look by customizing each feature individually. Unlike Bitmoji, Memoji only show a character's head, so most characteristics are limited to facial features, like eye color, head shape, and hairstyle.
Most features don't go into a lot of detail, though you can add a few distinguishing characteristics, like freckles, eyebrow shape, and facial hair style.
Step 3: Make your Memoji Stand out
Unfortunately, Apple's personalization options are much more limited than competitors, like Bitmoji. While Bitmoji offers an extreme amount of detail in its avatars, many of Apple's Memoji variations only come in a few options, which means Memoji come out looking much more generic than their counterparts.
There are very few ways to accesorize your Memoji, for example. You can choose between a handful of different styles of glasses (pro-tip: try changing the color of the lenses), or choose different types of headwear, which range from cowboy hats to headscarfs.
One way you could make your avatars stand out from the pack, though, is to play with color. In any feature that offers color varieties, you can choose tweak the exact shade with a slider. This could be especially useful for hair and skin tone, where you want to achieve a very specific look. But it's also a good way to have some fun experimenting with different styles.
Color is also a good way to age your avatar a bit. If you're not satisfied with the number of facial lines you can add more to show age. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the hairstyles section, you'll see the ability to add highlights. Opting for gray or white "highlights" will help give your hair that salt-and-pepper look.
Step 4: Save and share
Once you're satisfied with your Memoji, saving is the last step before you can start sharing it out. Saved Memojis will appear next to the regular Animoji. Keep in mind, you can go in and tweak your avatars after they're saved.
Though you need an iPhone X in order to create a Memoji, anyone can view your creations. Just tap the record button to make your Memoji use your voice. The characters also respond to facial movements like raising your eyebrows and even have tongue-detecting abilities.
Saved Memoji will also appear in FaceTime, in case you want to conduct a call with your Memoji face instead of your actual face.
WATCH: Everything you need to know about Apple's iOS 12
Topics: animoji, apps-and-software, iOS 12, iPhone X, memoji, Tech
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Ep78: Post-Harvey real estate investing: A Chronicle investigation explained 0
Real estate investors rushed to buy flooded houses after Hurricane Harvey, buying many for dimes on the dollar and turning neighborhoods into rental enclaves. A few months ago, Chronicle investigative reporters David Hunn and Matt Dempsey set out to find out how many investors were out there, who they were and where they were buying. Their investigation was published last week. They join Nancy to explain how they did it and what they found.
Ep77: Designing a more walkable Houston 0
Scenic Houston President Anne Culver talks with Nancy and Allyn about how Houston can become a more pedestrian-friendly city. They also talk Walk Scores, billboards and the best neighborhoods to stroll.
Ep76: Sears building to go from intimates to innovation 0
Rice University is spending $100 million to transform Midtown’s 1930s Sears department store into a high-tech home for startups. But as with any urban redevelopment, there's likely to be tension between the newcomers and the existing stakeholders who might not want to see the area change. Paul Takahashi reported on Rice’s plans for the Mitown area after interviewing the university's President David Leebron and taking an extensive tour of the old Sears, one of Houston's first buildings with air conditioning and escalators. He spoke to Nancy and Allyn about the project and what city and university leaders think it could become.
Ep75: Why building affordable housing can be so unaffordable 0
In her attempts to bring a communal-style pocket neighborhood to Acres Homes, Heidi Eagleton discovered another way she could build in the underserved area: affordable housing. But her homes don't fit the typical image of affordable. They have exposed beams, screened-in porches and fenced yards. They are designed to meet energy efficiency standards. Eagleton joins Nancy and Allyn to discuss her new homes and the challenges building affordable housing in Houston.
Ep74: 'Bean' there, done that 0
Whenever Houston finds itself in competition with another city, it’s usually about the food, the fashion or the attitudes of the people – and it’s usually Dallas that we’re defending ourselves against. Houston recently found itself fending off another big-city rival, but for a very different reason: a giant silver bean.
Nancy is joined by the Chronicle’s Allyn West and Lisa Gray, who go into it with a Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote a scathing piece on Houston and our newly installed Anish Kapoor “bean” sculpture. Plus, Looped In’s former co-host Erin Mulvaney brings her own hot take to the discussion.
Ep73: Immigrants’ impact on rebuilding Houston 0
Perhaps unlike any other time in history, immigrant labor is playing a critical role in getting Houston back on track, a theme highlighted in a new documentary called "Immigration's crossroad, rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey." Director Gregory Kallenberg and producer (and former Chronicle columnist) Loren Steffy discuss the film, which is part of a series of short documentaries that attempt to bridge the two sides of the immigration debate by framing the issues in a historical context and through personal stories.
Ep72: Buffalo Bayou Reborn (w/Anne Olson) 0
Hurricane Harvey destroyed the lower portions of Buffalo Bayou Park, devastating the beloved dog park and causing the loss of some 400 trees. After hauling off 30,000 cubic yards of sediment -- at a cost of more than $1 million -- the Buffalo Bayou Partnership continues its costly efforts to repair what's become Houston's central park. President Anne Olson joins the Chronicle's Nancy Sarnoff and Allyn West to discuss the park's future and the long-term plan for the bayou's eastern stretch.
Ep71: Gosh Dome It! 0
Ryan Walsh, one of the county officials guiding the redevelopment of the Astrodome, and local preservationist James Glassman join Nancy and Harris County reporter Mihir Zaveri to discuss the plans, the funding and the ethos of the project, which aims to transform the Houston’s most legendary landmark into what officials hope will be a coveted event space.
Ep70: If these walls could talk: the final days of Montrose's antique French ballroom 0
Nancy and Allyn talk to Chronicle writer Molly Glentzer about her story on dismantling the 18th century ballroom at La Colombe d’Or, the boutique hotel on Montrose Boulevard, to make way for a luxury residential tower.
Ep69: Documenting racial tensions in Riverside 0
Houston native and L.A.-based filmmaker Jon Schwartz talks about his 1987 documentary This is our home, it is not for sale. The film explores integration, real estate blockbusting and white flight in Riverside, a historic Houston neighborhood along Brays Bayou.
Ep68: The silver lining to Amazon’s snub 0
In its failed bid for Amazon’s second headquarters, Houston offered up three urban sites with tremendous potential: a vacant downtown skyscraper, a sprawling property along Buffalo Bayou and an aging department store in the center of urban life. Nancy and Allyn talk with Chronicle reporter Katherine Blunt about her recent story on the snub, the sites and the silver lining.
Ep67: Buying and selling flooded homes 0
Nancy gets a look behind the curtain on an industry that’s playing a key role in Houston’s post-Hurricane Harvey real estate market: investing in flooded homes. She and her Chronicle colleague David Hunn talk to Brian Spitz, a local investor who’s bought hundreds of inundated properties, about the local investment ecosystem and how it influences the market.
Ep66: The Loopies: Our inaugural awards for Houston real estate and things 0
For the first episode of 2018, Nancy and Allyn asked their social media followers to cast their votes for some of 2017's most outstanding real estate deals and developments in the inaugural Loopie Awards. They, along with the help of some of their Chronicle colleagues who have been covering many of the projects, discuss the winners of "the Loopies."
Ep65: H-E-B bets on Meyerland (w/Scott McClelland) 0
Scott McClelland, the newly minted president of H-E-B, will open nine stores in and around Houston in 2018 and will begin building what could be H-E-B’s most anticipated store yet: Meyerland. McClelland joins Nancy to talk Meyerland, kosher tortillas and how H-E-B competes in such a crowded grocery market.
Ep64: Building the perfect prefab 0
Houston architect Brett Zamore earned high praise more than a decade ago for his modern reinvention of the shotgun house. His next move was designing and building kit houses in the urban core. Zamore joins Nancy and Allyn to discuss his latest design: the “zFab,” a tiny pre-fabricated dwelling he sees as a counterpoint to the city’s hulking townhomes and out-of-scale McMansions.
Ep63: What NOAA knows now about Texas storms 0
New storm data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, or NOAA, could lead to sweeping changes in the way real estate is developed in the Houston area.
The research shows the amount of rain typical of a 100-year storm has risen by as much as 5 inches. That means the Houstonians could expect up to 18 inches of rain in a single day compared with the previous estimate of 12 to 14 inches.
Harris County government reporter Mihir Zaveri joins Nancy Sarnoff to explain how developers, home owners and businesses could be affected by the new data, which is used to determine floodplain regulations, map flood zones and design food control projects.
The data, which is preliminary and subject to change, is expected to be finalized and published in May. It will be the first statewide update to NOAA's rainfall estimates in 50 years.
Ep62: Future proofing 0
A world where a self-driving car is a common mode of transportation is not that far away. Such a scenario has implications for real estate development. Take office buildings, which in Houston are required to have 2 1/2 parking spaces for every 1,000 square feet of space. Will today's newest buildings be obsolete by 2040 when fewer people drive to work – or at least park there? Hal Sharp, a principal with the Houston office of Gensler, joins Nancy and Allyn to talk about how buildings can be developed to accommodate cars today and people in those spaces a couple decades from now.
Ep61: What downtown could look like in 20 years (w/ Bob Eury) 0
Two decades from now, downtown Houston could be a be a thriving neighborhood where the streets teem with life seven days a week. In this future world, start-ups in modern offices would create the latest technological advances in the fields of energy and health care. Streets would be filled with driverless cars and a 5-mile pedestrian and bike loop would connect downtown with surrounding neighborhoods. Central Houston’s Bob Eury recently presented this ambitious proposal to a group of downtown stakeholders. He joins Nancy and Allyn to talk in more detail about the plan and why it could work.
Ep60: Living large in a micro condo 0
A pair of developers from Montreal join Nancy and Allyn to talk urban housing trends from around the world and their newest Houston project: an upscale development in Midtown with 14 pint-sized condominiums.
Ep59: Amber's journey (Harvey series, part VIII) 0
Before the storm hit, Amber and Lenny Ambrose packed up their two young kids and small dog and drove to Amber's parent's house in Nederland, outside of Beaumont. The Ambrose's house in Candlelight Forest flooded during the Tax Day storm in 2016, and they didn't want a repeat of what happened then when they woke up the morning after the storm to soggy floors and confused kiddos. They made some important preparations and left town. Their flood insurance policy renewed Aug. 27, the night Harvey flooded their house. It was a good thing they didn't let their policy lapse, even though they could have. They were told in 2015 they were no longer required to carry it. Amber tells their story in the final episode of this Harvey series.
Ep58: Swamped and the city revisited 0
From episode 23, Nancy and Erin talk to Chronicle journalists Mike Morris (City Hall) and Mihir Zaveri (Harris County) about their reporting on floods and development after two major flooding events two years in a row.
Ep56: Brandon’s journey (Harvey series, Part V) 0
Brandon Polson recounts his journey from helping his neighbors escape their flood-ravaged apartment complex to spending an evening with one of the biggest celebrities on the planet.
Ep55: Riding out the hurricane in a new house (Harvey series, Part IV) 0
As Harvey's flood waters continued to rise in Braes Heights, Scott Davis, his wife and their two young daughters fled to a neighbor's place – a brand new house built five feet above grade. As Davis sees it, the safest place to ride out the hurricane was in a new house. As a home building consultant, he also addresses past Houston floods, how the market responded and how development may change in the future.
Ep54: What's zoning got to do with it? (Harvey series, Part III) 0
Before Hurricane Harvey's flood waters could even recede, the national media was reporting on Houston's lack of zoning and how it played a role in the floods.
Local law professor, land use expert and repeat Looped In guest Matt Festa explains how that's a distorted argument and cites a report he recently co-authored on land use in Houston, the "Unzoned City."
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Jason Bay volunteers to play center field for Mets
By Matthew PouliotMar 21, 2012, 5:56 PM EDT
With Andres Torres (calf) joining Scott Hairston (oblique) on the sidelines, Jason Bay volunteered to take over in center field for the Mets.
Torres is still hopeful of being ready for Opening Day, but Hairston is probably DL bound. The Mets’ third-best option in center field, prospect Kirk Nieuwenhuis, is also nursing an oblique strain.
That leaves the Mets with Jason Bay, fellow corner outfielder Mike Baxter, pitcher-turner-right fielder Adam Loewen and second baseman Jordany Valdespin as their center field options at the moment.
And none of those are ideal. Bay, who lost a step or two due to knee woes, last played center with the Pirates in 2005. Baxter played 43 games there in the minors, but two-thirds of those were in A ball in 2006-07. Loewen played 16 games in center in Triple-A last year and made errors on three of his 40 chances (good for a .925 fielding percentage). Valdespin has made one outfield appearance his entire pro career, that coming in the Dominican Summer League in 2007.
For what it’s worth, Baxter got the start in center in Wednesday’s exhibition game. Don’t be surprised if the Mets pick up another outfielder on waivers at some point within the next couple of weeks.
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Hawk In by Quantum Trio
Album Title: Red Fog
By: Quantum Trio
Emme Record Label
If Michael Brecker and Joshua Redman had a conversation about the fundamental nuances of acid-set cheese - thoughtful and intelligent, with an element of quirk as well as quark.
Hawk In is a tribute to professor Stephen Hawking, the physicist, who passed away last year after a very long fight with the ALS desease. He was one of the most brilliant and inspiring minds of both 20th and 21st century. The album Red Fog (Emme Record Label, 2019) is the third studio album of the Polish-Chilean trio. It has been recorded in isolation in the picturesque surroundings of Rome. It is a synthesis of the group's current eclectic style. The group has merged its current recognition marks into modern and heavy jazz sound. The theme of the album is the symbolism of human nature, what is subconscious, hidden and primordial, inherent in each of us.
Interference; Hawk In; Streams; Liquid Fire; Passing Time; Red Fog; IBBI.
Michał Jan Ciesielski: tenor & alto saxophones; Kamil Zawiślak: grand piano; Luis Mora Matus: drums.
Red Fog by Geno Thackara
About Quantum Trio
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“I think it’s a great collection of people and speakers. It’s been very engaging. I think the format and the size is perfect because you get to talk to a lot of people and learn from everyone. But at the same time it’s big enough that it’s a diverse presence. You really get a good cross section of what’s happening in our markets.”
Huda Al Lawati
CIO, Gateway Partners, UAE
“It was a very nice event. We did a lot of socializing here, and there were lots of topics in common. We all got to meet a lot of colleagues and family offices here in the Gulf.”
Majed M Al Tahan
Founder & CEO, AYM, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
“I’m in love with this summit. It’s a very nice collection of practitioners, investors and family offices. It’s an amazing networking and learning experience.”
Hawazen Nazieh Nassief
Environmental, Social, and Governance Director, NESR, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
“The content of this event has been phenomenal. All the topics we have discussed and hearing from the panelists and the discussions that have been happened… is very exciting. It’s interesting to see how new ideas and new innovations are coming with the family offices.”
Ahmad AR. BinDawood
CEO, Danube & BinDawood, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
“Wonderful! The summit has been very well-attended. People are very open-minded and thinking about new ideas.”
Benson Tam
Chairman & Founding Partner, Venturous Group, China
“A unique gathering of like-minded professionals and families in an incredible venue, conducive to the creation of long lasting partnerships, the informal exchange of best practices and the discover of new realities and innovative ways to do business. A must for all the family offices of the Region and not, an unmissable experience.”
Dr. Celeste Lo Turco
Future Group Holding, UAE
“Perhaps the most notable aspects of the conference are the quality of the attendees, the harmony in the group, and the single degree of separation between everyone. I have met great people who share my background and experience in their own ways, and from around the world. I learned many new lessons from the experiences in family business governance, mental health, education, and energy. ”
Khaled Al Sharbatly
Desert Technologies, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
“This annual convention of the region's family businesses and private wealth management advisory firms resulted in an interesting and lively discussion on the Saudi economy, and other topics of relevance for investors in the Middle East.”
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Yuri Neyman
Every once in a while a movie comes along that captures a cultural moment. And, sometimes, that same movie can also offer insights into subcultures long forgotten. And, with a backward glance, the moving images and sounds seem to act as a unified predictor. A film like this becomes a touchstone to our past. A link from our current to a past that often feels foreign and alien. This is one such movie…
“This is as far as the elevator goes.”
Slava Tsukerman, 1982
It was in August of 1982 that Slava Tsukerman’s notorious cult film, Liquid Sky, debuted at Montreal World Film Festival. Heads were turned, jaws dropped and the festival awarded the Special Jury Prize to the director. The film went on to receive several other key Art Film Festival awards. Sadly the movie received a minimal theatrical release. In the US it did manage to strike a chord and secure a following via its VHS release. Liquid Sky has become an essential Cult Film. The fact that it continues to be challenging to track down and watch have only added to its allure within the Cult Film Cannon.
This is not your average low-budget movie. The filmmaker, his wife and his cinematographer were fresh from The Soviet Union. They had managed to find a way to New York City to make a movie. It wasn’t long before they were collaborating with a performance artist who seemed to be on the fast track to stardom within the underworld of the Post-Punk/New Wave club scene. This history of the film’s 28 day production story can be found across the span of The Internet. The key here is understanding that this Russian filmmaker captured a moment both fantastic and scary. He may not have had a big budget, but he most certainly had a big cinematic vision filled with ideas and aspirations.
Cinematography | Yuri Neyman
There are a couple of crucial elements which blast the viewer within the first three minutes of Liquid Sky:
A human face framed within a sphere of neon light that reveals itself to be a mask of sorts.
The music sounds vintage early ’80’s, but is just slightly off-key and deeply odd — even a bit altogether off.
The Twin Towers / Empire State Building skyline (the lower midtown perspective?) is not only familiar — it is iconic. And yet, there is a myst of fog that seems sort of wrong.
A flying saucer hovers toward the screen.
Unhappy people in a darkly grim club jerk and dance about. The beats indicate fun, the melody warns danger and the people look more focused than happy.
Welcome to Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky. This cult film is respected for a number of reasons, but perhaps the most important and immediate is the use of electronic music. The often discordantly familiar mixed with unique samplings of dialogue and other bits of music make it completely unique. We are hearing one of the earliest uses of the first true digital sampler keyboards and it is scoring the entire movie. These are the sounds of the Fairlight CMI Series 1 that pulsate out from the screen. The music manages to be at once primitive and complex. It is sinister, but with the slightest twinge of pop happy beats.This very well might be the first example of ElectroClash. The Fairlight CMI Series 1 was not actually new, but not many musicians owned them and even fewer knew how to play/use the digital sampling keyboard.
Stephen Paine demonstrated and sold The Fairlight CMI Series One to both Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel on the same day.
EMI, London, 1978
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush were among the first few musicians to actually purchase and pursue the use of the instrument. The Fairlight CMI gave life to Peter Gabriel’s 1980 album and his 1982 Deutsches Album. It played an even stronger role in giving Kate Bush’s sonic visions live for both Never for Ever and The Dreaming albums. And in fact it is easy to state that the sounds and looks of Liquid Sky have served as influence for a number of creative artists.
When actress, Paula E. Sheppard, takes the club’s darkly lit stage — she is straddling a cumbersome sort of electronic box. It might appear that her mic is broadcasting the inner workings of her chest, but her heartbeat has been sampled. It pulsates from her electronic box. As she lifts that microphone up towards her vexingly beautiful and malicious face she begins an odd bit of what I would call “Slam Poetry.” She seems to threaten her club audience with her words. While the verses to “Me and My Rhythm Box” might be pretentious — they are also oddly effective. In another actor and filmmakers’ hands this scene could have been painfully bad. But here, within the confines of Liquid Sky — this drone and wail of a song plays energetically and deeply weird. This is electronic music with a purpose. The cheesy happiness of 1980’s MTV is not present. Nor will you notice any of the ironic No-Wave disco-threat of Blondie. Slava Tsukerman and his synth composers — Brenda I. Hutchinson and Clive Smith — are in total and complete step with their filmmaker’s vision. Liquid Sky ‘s musical score is totally unique, worrying and unforgettable.
“Me and my rhythm box.
Are you jealous, folks?
My rhythm box is sweet.
Never forgets a beat…”
Paula E. Sheppard rocks the mic at The Pyramid Club, East Village NYC, c. 1981
I suppose some might disagree, but it isn’t a far leap to realize that what we are seeing and hearing would go on to influence artists lucky enough to secure a copy of Media Home Entertainment‘s highly prized VHS tape. You should not jump to judge my assertion until you have seen this movie and compared it to early sounds/looks of artists like Fischerspoon, Miss Kittin & The Hacker as well as pop-sensation Lady Gaga.
Liquid Sky Influencing Electroclash
“Hi Huh-I Hyper
Hyper-media-ocrity
Emerge from nothing
You don’t need to tear away! Feels good
Looks good Sounds good Looks good Feels good too…”
Fischerspooner, Emerge, 2001
Paula E. Sheppard’s Adrian is performing not on a set, but in a very real Post-Punk/New Wave NYC Underground club. The Pyramid was where Tsukerman filmed all of the movie’s club scenes. This club is legendary and has served as home to a number of NYC subcultures for decades. The lower East Village hole-in-the-wall could tell us an unlimited number of stories. At one time a home to NYC PUNKS then to their Post-PUNK / New Wave offspring and on toward to both the American Hardcore and GLBTI NYC communities.
By 2006 Pyramid Club presents PUNK by way of nostalgia… No wave here.
The Radicts and The Bruisers
Pyramid Club advert, 2006
Adrian’s musical performance and jaded delivery hold up to the likes of Miss Kittin and The Hacker. While she may not have the ability to fully utilize her rhythm box as well as Miss Kittin or Fischerspooner — both owe this film a nod for their sounds that would lead us into the ElectroClash sound of the early ’00’s. And it makes sense. Adrian is attempting to thrive within the dystopia of post-70’s NYC. This is Ed Koch’s nightmare of a city. As grim as it was — it did provide some surprisingly cheap housing options and opportunities.
Liquid Sky inspires…
“Every night with my star friends. We eat caviar and drink champagne. Sniffing in the VIP area we talk about Frank Sinatra.
Do you know Frank Sinatra? He’s dead…”
Miss Kittin & Hacker
The First Album, 2001
It was not off the Manhattan grid, but it was not an area that most would have cared to have roamed after sunset. The club offered risk of danger and lent an edge to an evening of clubbing before the fall of the Berlin Wall and during the cruel leadership of Ronald Reagan. As Debbie Harry sang on her 1989 album:
“Darkness falls like a black leather jacket and melts into the sidewalk like a sleeping drunk. In the streets, the wind throws yesterday’s headlines around.
Another night comes and goes. So, for awhile back then there was someplace to go.
Somewhere more home than a house. A family of choice, not an accident, but sometimes as soon as something gets started it’s over.
Now the days are much shorter and the people from the good part of town all come around, but the something is missing even though there’s more there now.
I shrug off my attempts to explain how a torn T-shirt made it all danger again…” Debbie Harry, End of the Run, 1989
The Ultimate Queen of NYC PUNK / Post-PUNK / New Wave
Photograph | Arthur Elgort, 1989
Now Ms. Harry would have been referring to CBGB‘s or MUDD Club, but it is important to note that Pyramid Club might not have been on the radar of the darlings of the NYC PUNK / POST-PUNK or New Wave of 1981 — but in perhaps an even more important way — Pyramid Club was home to the many clubbers who couldn’t quite make it to the big rooms of those more anti-popular clubs. And it was within Pyramid‘s walls that some very real shit went down.
No. This is not Lady Gaga, but the looks / sounds may have inspired her.
It is likely that Blondie’s lead singer walked through Pyramid doors at some point. Most certainly it is likely that Madonna ventured there. Liquid Sky features Otto von Wernherr in the role of the German astrophysicist who is the only person aware of an alien presence that has invaded the home of the film’s two main characters. Wernherr was a musician / actor / artist and fixture of the late 70’s / early 80’s NYC Downtown Scene and an early Madonna collaborator. That collaboration was already happening as Liquid Sky was filmed.
The more famous attempt to capture the NYC underground Post-Punk/New Wave movement is actually less revealing than what is found in Liquid Sky…
Debbie Harry & Jean-Michel Basquiat
Downtown 81 / New York Beat Movie
Edo Bertoglio, 1981/2000
Cinematography | John McNulty
If Liquid Sky‘s Adrian character is the symbol of artist, then the character of Margaret is more closely tied to the artist who yearns for success and validation that is almost impossible to secure. We know immediately that Anne Carlisle’s Margaret is a model. She is also Adrian‘s promiscuous lover and flatmate. As Adrian performs with her rhythm box, Margaret is backstage prepping for a fashion show. A show that will be taking place in the club. The other models seem only to be in background of Margaret‘s beauty. The only model who challenges her is an effeminate gay man, Jimmy.
“Are you going to come to my roof tomorrow night?”
Anne Carlisle x 2
At first glance he seems to be Margaret‘s doppelgänger. The then up and coming performance artist, Anne Carlisle, is playing both Margaret and Jimmy. To Slava Tsukerman’s credit, the dual roles are only obvious when the film wants it to be. Tightly and cleverly edited, Margaret and Jimmy are two very different characters. Margaret and Jimmys’ fashion show takes place within minutes of the film’s beginning.
Striking a pose…
This fashion sequence serves as not only a set-up for the film’s oddly complex world, it also pulls us into the era in which the film was made. While these models look like what we might associate with the very early 1980’s — it is important to note that these “looks” were ahead of the cultural curve in 1981. When I first saw this movie in 1983, these models/actors looked absolutely other-worldly. Their painted faces, geometric clothing and posing were all new to my eyes. While they might have shared some similarity with Adam Ant, Missing Persons, Bow Wow Wow, Boy George and Flock of Seagulls — the people on the screen offer no semblance of charity or fun. This clique is hard-edged and seemed almost intent on menace.
“Something strange is going on here.”
These hipsters want your attention, but they are not willing to beg for it. Just the opposite, these models and their respective looks are daring us not to give them our attention. The colors may be bright neon and they might be covered with make-up, but these danger boys and girls are out for blood. This is not just a fashion show — it is almost a declaration of war.
Dare you not to look and love me…
Benjamin Liu
Also within minutes of the film’s start we figure out that there is a lot more going down than performance, fashion and clubbing. Adrian is an established heroin dealer. That human face mask hangs in she and Margaret‘s penthouse apartment. This work of art offers dual meaning. It is the same face shared by both Margaret and Jimmy. It is also not a mask — it is the holding/hiding place for Adrian‘s supply of heroin. A supply that she sells to everyone from uptown artsy folks but to everyone within her orbit. Margaret might be the only person in Adrian‘s world who has no interest in the power of her powdered sky just waiting to be heated into milk for injection.
So here we have a film that is about clubbing, strutting and drugs. Where does the Sci-Fi element come in?
“Are you sure this has something to do with UFO’s?”
No one can ever accuse Slava Tsukerman of constructing a slow-moving film. We witness the arrival of invaders from space within minutes of the movie’s beginning. Liquid Sky‘s construction is tight and unusual. Things happen simultaneously. They also happen with minimal explanation or character development. In most cases this approach would stunt a film, but it is one of Liquid Sky‘s magical elements. I should note that I first saw this film when I was 16 years of age. This might seem a great trip movie, but it is not. As trippy as the film is it is not conducive to positive altered state viewing. The paranoia, cruelty and perversities work against the fun aspect of a stoned age viewing. It is most likely due to my state at the time I first saw Liquid Sky that I did not understand the invasion from space plot twister.
“In the beginning Aliens were spotted in places with large amounts of heroin. Later Aliens appeared in specific subcultures — punk circles. Still around heroin, but in these circles even more. Strange deaths have occurred…”
We see the alien flying saucer arrive at nearly the same time we meet Adrian, Margaret and Jimmy. We also are given the alien’s perspective as it approaches the rooftop of Adrian and Margarets’ penthouse apartment. Most cleverly we are also given a view of the alien itself. The alien and its space ship interior. Both perspectives are truly psychedelic. But how does the introduction of alien invasion, surveillance, fashion, music, drug use/abuse and sexuality anchor Liquid Sky to the subcultures within which the film is placed?
“Where are the drugs?”
Paula E. Sheppard
Most likely it was never Tsukerman’s intention to create a film that we can now view as a sort of chronicle of the NYC Post-Punk/New Wave subculture. And it is most certainly sure that he never intended the movie to serve as a signal predicting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic. Wether intentional or not, there should be no denying the film’s ability to do both things. Liquid Sky is a low-budget film with big budget aspirations. It is essentially a science fiction horror movie, but its genre goals are almost buried beneath a polarizing depiction of the New York City Underground Club scene of 1981. It is a depiction that stings and slips under the viewer’s skin.
“Jimmy is the new Miss. America! he has all the mannerisms of a sex symbol.”
At first, in 1981, it seemed that a disease was being caught / spread by members of the gay community. It was quickly becoming an outbreak. Initially the sicknesses was coined as The 4H Disease as the syndromes seemed to be inflicting homosexual men, heroin users, hemophiliacs and Haitians. Despite some obvious signs, that initial name did not catch on as well as GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) It wasn’t long before the CDS realized this was not an illness restricted to any one segment of the population. Certainly those living in cities like New York were realizing this long before the tragic epidemic was assigned the name AIDS in July of 1982. But in 1981 the young people populating the New York City Underground had not yet fully grasped the meaning of what was beginning to strike their respective communities. Paranoia and fear were already running rampant for a number of socio-political reasons. Liquid Sky captures an artistic world caught in the magic and the horror of the era.
“Homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual. Whether or not I like someone doesn’t depend on the kind of genitalia they have. As long as I find someone attractive. Don’t you think?
The world of Liquid Sky takes place in the rag-tag world of the Artist as Outsider. More specifically, the world of Tsukerman’s film is concerned with outsiders and misfits. As in reality, the world of the arts is populated with youth, creativity and sexual experimentation. Sexuality is either fluid or leaning toward homosexuality. The Post-PUNK/New Wave NYC subculture is tightly connected to the pulse of the NYC Gay subculture. And both are freely connected to sex, drugs, music and art. Liquid Sky has a morality, but it is based in humanism rather than in the political.
Early on we watch Margaret attempt to seduce her male counterpart, Jimmy. It is here we are granted a cruel view of misogyny. It isn’t that Jimmy is just turned off by the idea of fucking a woman — he makes it fairly clear that he detests women across the board. He treats Margaret as if she were nothing more than a link to drugs. Margaret has a tough shell, but something about Jimmy‘s cruelty eggs her on toward him. This seems to be a girl who is not used to being turned down. Despite his cruelty she is unwilling to write the mean queen off.
The only character who seems concerned with any other’s sexual preference is Adrian‘s uptown client. A failing artist who seems to have once clung to the idea that heroin will spark his artistic vision is now just uncomfortably numb. He finds Margaret’s androgynous beauty alluring, but he is far too concerned regarding her sexual preference. To Margaret and Adrian this junkie is normal and dull.
“What kind of drugs will you have?”
Adrian clearly identifies as lesbian and seems to be disgusted by Margaret‘s promiscuity. And like Margaret she too has dreams of fame and success. Both women are damaged, but while Margaret has soaked up her sadness — Adrian funnels an insane level of sadness and rage into her work. Theirs is a dysfunctional relationship beyond reason, but they seem to cling to each other. Sex is merely fun and a tool. All of these characters trade in sex and shared works. Adrian is repulsed by the idea of her client wanting to have sex with Margaret but is totally cool with sharing her spoon, syringe and rubber band. Margaret attempts to procure cocaine by snuggling up to straight dude at the club. In the end she is brutally raped. She seems to accept this act of cruelty as a dark part of her life with which she must deal. She also seems totally committed to being mistreated by her girlfriend.
“I am a stranger in this country. How can I see what they do on private property?”
Both Anne Carlisle and Paula E. Sheppard are highly effective in their respective roles. We may not know these two characters but they feel genuine. The same is true for much of the cast. Otto Von Wernherr would never win an award for acting, but he is believable as the befuddled West German scientist trying to understand what these space aliens are doing in this circle of artists. At first he suspects the aliens are only interested in the heroin which shoots so freely among these characters, but soon it is revealed that these invaders are even more interested in the chemical reaction that orgasm creates within the brains of these humans. The interesting trick of the film is that while the film is never formerly concerned with character development, it fully utilizes the skills and charisma of the actors.
“For me it’s easy. Hell to Hell. I’m not dancing in marijuana jungles. I live in concrete mazes. Stone and glass hard like my heart. Sharp and clean. No romantic illusions for changing the world. I don’t lie to myself that love can cure because I know I’m alone. And you fought that every day. You lied. You lied. You go to hell. Suits you well.”
The nihilism of the slam poet runs deep.
Sex has become an empty act. It no longer means anything to Margaret. So when the people who force their way with her sexually begin to die at the instant of orgasm she has little to no concern for the deaths. She is more curious than concerned. When an older artist brushes aside her need for conversation, she barely puts forward an argument as he rapes her. Thing take on a perverse edge when Adrian walks in do discover the nude male body. She slips into a sort of trance and begins a grim sort of rap to the beat of her fist on her thigh. When she reveals her deepest sexual fantasy is to have sex with a dead man, Margaret is repulsed. However it takes a good deal of necrophiliatic attempt before she tries to stop Adrian.
All the more upsetting when we realize that Margaret mistakes the aliens murdering her sexual partners to be a sign of power. For the first time in her life she thinks she is found her awakening. Her sex is no longer something to be traded or abused. Alien intervention has allowed her sex to become a threat. A threat she is more than happy to put to work.
“How many of you want to see me fuck Margaret and not die?”
Paula E. Sheppard & Anne Carlisle push past the R-rating of the day…
The characters of Liquid Sky are sick, twisted and sad. And yet we feel compelled to watch. This is not the sort of interest one experiences while watching a John Waters movie. Despite a few goofs and a low-budget, Liquid Sky is an interesting film. Once the movie begins, the viewer is going to be in for the long haul. The alien aspect of the film is largely secondary. We are concerned with the people. Margaret‘s misguided interpretation of the strange events that have started to happen all around her lead her down a very dark alley of self-examination.
And it doesn’t take deep thinking to discover that Slava Tsukerman’s film serves most effectively as horrific predictor of the AIDS epidemic.
“I was taught that to be an actress one should be fashionable. And to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself. And they call me beautiful. And I kill with my cult. Isn’t it fashionable?”
Liquid Sky is not a movie for the squeamish, but neither is it actually an example of “shock cinema.” Much of what we think we see is never really shown. And what is shown is potent. This is a horror film, but it is less a horror film about alien invasion than it is a horror film about human nature. Before everything goes inside out and upside down, Margaret is offered the chance to be interviewed for a cool underground fashion magazine. The reporter who would appear to be totally linked in with the whole gang takes a cruel turn when she interviews the would-be model. The aggressive reporter informs Margaret that her style of dress, make-up and living are tacky. Even though she is able to put the reporter in her place, her privilege is not granted or acknowledged. Margaret dares to be different, but ultimately she only finds power in what she thinks is her ability to kill.
“You wanted to know whom and what I am? I’m a killer.”
Liquid Sky finds a surprising, clever and fitting conclusion. But the film’s resolution is not so easy that it makes the viewer comfortable. As low-fi as it sometimes is, Liquid Sky disturbs. It also entertains, informs and inspires. Going on 35 years, it continues to enlarge its following. Over the last couple of years there have been screenings held at BAM, MOMA and other venues. Slava Tsukerman and Anne Carlisle have always made themselves available to discuss the film, their work and their hope to find funding to restore and preserve Liquid Sky‘s original negative print.
It is decaying. Literally.
“This subculture is not like ‘The Mods’ or ‘The Rockers.’ The punks don’t need help from the outside to kill themselves…”
The VHS tape still fetches a good price on the market. Several DVD’s are floating around, but the quality is not good. Unlike most film art, Liquid Sky has actually managed to become more controversial with time. It also has the rare distinction of having aged like fine wine. This movie is more interesting every time I see it.
Despite the film’s strong following and the fact that it continues to inspire new generations of audience, there have been no takers to restore, preserve and redistribute. When the 1970’s slasher film, Alice Sweet Alice, began receiving some delayed glory there was hope that it might help Liquid Sky find a new life. After all Alice herself is one of the key stars of this movie and Paula E. Sheppard has a cult following of her own.
A strange little girl. Before she slammed with her rhythm box she was “Alice.” …And she was scarier than the mask.
Alfred Sole, 1978
Cinematography | Chuck Hall
However she has always run from attention and rumor is that she found the experience of Liquid Sky negative. And sadly, Alfred Sole’s under rated horror film is still more famous for featuring a young Brooke Shields than it is for being an interesting and unusual genre film.
Liquid Sky continues to flow…
“I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong. To crash the critics saying, “is it right or is it wrong?”
If only fame had an IV, baby could I bear
Being away from you, I found the vein, put it in here…”
Applause, 2013
Even still, there is always hope. Tsukerman and Carlisle have even scripted a sequel that is ready to roll. No matter what the future holds for Liquid Sky, it is a movie that deserves attention. Seek it out if you dare.
Matty Stanfield, 1.31.2016
“Killing all the teachers…”
Rebellion, Fashion, A Warning, Electroclash and a bit of history all in one VHS tape…
from 2015 Slant Magazine piece by MARC SPITZ
“A glowing spaceship appears over the New York City skyline as dissonant New Wave music fills the multiple ears with their dangling rings. Junkies, models, poseurs and performance artists feed off each other in a battle to be the most fierce, all the while unaware that tiny aliens are harnessing their ecstasy. Most visitors to New York go to Serendipity for a frozen hot chocolate — these buggers are literally fueling their space ship with the power of the human orgasm, which turns the screen electric blue and red and green and purple.
“Liquid Sky” is set in New York City in the few years between disco and AIDS when young denizens indulged in exhibitionistic sex and hard drugs and took their fashion cues from the gleefully androgynous English New Romantic movement (big hair, frills, ruffles, theatrical make up). They danced like rusty robots in neon lit nightclubs. Within this odd demimonde Margaret (Anne Carlisle) lives and works as a successful model. She has the perfect life, with one exception: she kills everyone she has sex with, whether that sex is loving, non-consensual or even with her male doppelganger “Jimmy” (also played by Anne Carlisle, then a face at the Mudd Club, a key hangout of the period). Margaret is high maintenance (“You know this bitch takes two hours to go get ready to go anywhere,” says girlfriend Adrian, who nearly steals the film with her performance of “Me and My Rhythm Box”).
Shot in Ed Koch’s crumbling New York on a tiny budget, “Liquid Sky”’s now highly-influential look, which has informed the costumes of everyone from Karen O to Lady Gaga and Sia, came largely from Carlisle’s closet or thrift shop shopping bags. Carlisle, director Slava Tsukerman and co-producer Nina Kerova created a new kind of glamor queen who, Bowie-like, quite easily stokes the desire of the men and women — before leaving a crystal spike in the back of their brain. “I kill people that fuck me,” the character confesses. Is it worth it? Almost. Is it almost ghoulishly predictive? Absolutely. This was 1982.
“They already had AIDS, but it wasn’t that publicized,” says Tsukerman, who swears the film was conceived as science fiction. Tsukerman, who traveled from Moscow to Hollywood and then found himself in Carlisle’s fast-fashion world, where it seemed that everyone was a dancer, painter, band member, filmmaker or actor, adds, “The information about AIDS came after Liquid Sky.”
Carlisle was equally aghast when her real life friends began dying of this new sexually transmitted disease. “It was so amazing, because the film is really about dying from sex and then everyone started dropping. It was really, really eerie. That happens sometimes in creative life. You do something and it’s an accident that it actually comes true. It’s mystical.”
The two were already well established in the world of downtown film before “Liquid Sky” was co-conceived. Tsukerman had a film called “Sweeet Sixteen” which was nearly financed. “It was about a girl who was killed in a car accident in 1935 and her father, a crazy scientist, saves her head and makes a mechanical body,” he says. Andy Warhol was supposedly committed make an appearance. Carlisle had a film called “The Fish” which she was showing around the clubs. When the pair met, it was clear that Tsukerman found his muse — but he had reservations, once “Liquid Sky” began pre-production, that Carlisle, primarily a painter, model and self described “nihilist” who attended the School of Visual Arts, could handle the role of both Margaret and Jimmy, even though, as she recalls, “I had a boy’s haircut and a mini skirt. No one else was doing that.” Carlisle convinced him one day. “We were scouting locations and I dressed as a man and I picked up a girl in front of him and that was my audition,” she says. “She thought I was a boy. I admitted I was a girl and she said she was still into it.”
“Liquid Sky” has a pre-apocalyptic feel of the Cold War sci-fi with the slickness of much more expensive films like its contemporary “Blade Runner,” but the budget (about a half-million) nearly sparked a mutiny. “The crew was paid very little and they did revolt at one point over the food,” Carlisle says. “They were worked day and night. We worked terrible hours. That the film got made at all was a miracle. It was really — at one point, I was arguing with them, we’re making art here and you’re worried about food. And he said you’re making art here. We want pizza!”
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Insight on Menlo’s Community Engagement Program
Knight Vision created the community engagement opportunity board to provide current opportunities of multiple credits. Staff Photo: Emily Han and Alexandra Viret
Emily Han and Alexandra Viret
The community engagement program has experienced several changes this year, according to new Director of Community Engagement Chris Young and Knight Vision co-president senior Tzy Ying Yee. Among these changes are a wider range of engagement opportunities, greater student involvement in the Knight Vision club and adjustments in the service requirement system.
According to Young, he has expanded the definition of community engagement to include more community-related events. “I’ve added the options to go to certain types of events that might not be service, but would be something that is likely out of somebody’s comfort zone,” Young said. He added that these events would hopefully inspire empathy around and new awareness around certain issues.
Young is also the faculty advisor for Knight Vision, Menlo’s community service club. Young’s predecessor, Jessie Brugos, gave members more direction on how to lead the club. Students now have increased authority surrounding decisions about fundraising and service initiatives. “The students have a little bit more responsibility in deciding what the school is going to do and what fundraisers we’re going to take on,” Tzy Ying Yee said.
Yee also pointed out that Young is adding more opportunities to encourage students to view community engagement as a way to connect with people from around the world, rather than working with only their local community. “We’ve kind of looked at a more global idea of community engagement, rather than [just the] local [community],” she said. “[We’re] trying to broaden what we consider to be community.”
Young arrived at Menlo a year after the school administration changed the service requirement to be based on credits rather than on hours. In part due to complaints that the new system assigns credits inconsistently to activities, Young hopes to restructure the system in the future.
However, Young believes that in some ways the credits system is better than counting hours. “If we really want to encourage something that might be really unique or special, or if we need to make sure we have enough people for [an event], we could put more or less value on it in terms of credits,” he said.
Young is also considering implementing a requirement for students to accumulate their 10 credits through at least two distinct events instead of through a single long-term experience. “For the sake of trying something new, and for variety, [students would need] at least two different types of activities,” Young said.
While he believes it would be difficult to eliminate the crediting system altogether, Young supports the idea that students should not simply chase credits. “Ideally, we’d get to a point […] where [community engagement is] not an additional requirement, but it happens through academic courses,” he said, adding that a major project like this one would take five to 10 years to accomplish.
Additionally, Young and the faculty on the M-Term committee have decided to add a community engagement requirement to senior projects; this criteria will replace senior Personalized Action-Community Time (PACT) projects, which involve long-term research and volunteering for a cause of their choice. This change has been one of his main goals since the beginning of the year.
Young is also planning to hold an annual conference at Menlo, inviting student leaders from surrounding schools to discuss how to take action against local issues. He hopes the conference can serve as a way to ultimately start a bigger organization called One Bay, which will involve student leaders from the Bay Area working to mend some of the region’s biggest issues.
“The idea is to not just have a day where [issues in our area] get talked about and where people get inspired, but to actually have the conference as a kick-off of a campaign of young people who are serious about wanting to make an impact surrounding issues that matter to them,” Young said. He will invite guest speakers and hold workshops so that attendees can begin to organize ideas. The first conference date is set for Oct. 23, 2019.
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Quality Service Pledge
Does Metrolink operate the Metro Red, Blue, Green and Gold Lines?
Metrolink is often times mistaken for Metro, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Metrolink is a separate agency that operates service on seven regional lines: Ventura County, Antelope Valley, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange County, Inland Empire-Orange County, and 91 Perris Valley. Metro operates buses, subway (Red and Purple Lines), and light rail (Blue Line to Long Beach, Green and Gold Lines). For more information on Metro, please visit www.metro.net.
Can Metrolink add one more car to the train on which I commute?
Metrolink monitors ridership trends closely through ticket/pass purchase data. These data are used to calculate load factors for each train—passenger cars are allocated based on load factors.
Some riders have the perception that the train(s) they ride on have an exclusive set of equipment. However, each train set operates as several different trains throughout the day, and some operate on more than one line—although a train set may have vacant seats on one leg of a trip, on other legs it might be at or close to capacity. This procedure maximizes fleet use and reduces operational costs.
Does Metrolink have a Contingency Plan in case of a delay?
We acknowledge our responsibility to get passengers to their destination station if there is a significant delay. We provide back-up services in the case of extensive delays; we deploy other trains and/or buses for our passengers. However, since we do not own or operate a bus fleet, we contact local bus companies to assist us. We will continue to provide alternate transportation in these instances.
How do I find out about delays?
Metrolink train status updates are currently available via Twitter from 4:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., on weekends. Updates include trains status changes that affect the published schedules by 10 minutes or more.
For Metrolink general and all train information, follow @Metrolink
For Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line, follow @MetrolinkAV
For Metrolink's Inland Empire-Orange County Line, follow @MetrolinkIEOC
For Metrolink's Orange County Line, follow @MetrolinkOC
For Metrolink's Riverside Line, follow @MetrolinkRIV
For Metrolink's San Bernardino Line, follow @MetrolinkSB
For Metrolink's Ventura County Line, follow @MetrolinkVC
For Metrolink's 91/PV Line, follow @Metrolink91
For more information and FAQs regarding Metrolink updates via Twitter visit the Metrolink Twitter Information page.
Currently, our Customer Information Line (800) 371-5465 has up-to-the-minute recorded train delay messages and planned service updates.
Does Metrolink have a Lost and Found for items left on the train?
Metrolink is not responsible for lost or stolen personal belongings on the trains or on the platforms. However, if an item is turned-in to us, it is secured at the Metrolink Information Booth in L.A. Union Station.
If an item found on a train with a destination other than Los Angeles, found items are secured in lock boxes at end point stations and transported weekly to the Union Station Lost and Found where they are logged in.
To inquire about a lost item, call Metrolink Customer Service at (800) 371-LINK (5465), Monday - Friday 8:00am – 12:00pm Noon and 1:00pm – 3:00pm, and Saturday - Sunday 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
To pick up a Lost and Found item, go to our Information Window at Union Station. The Lost and Found is open from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Outside of these hours, call our 800 number to request an appointment to pick up. A photo ID is required. Unclaimed items are donated to charity after 30 days.
Are there services for persons with disabilities?
Metrolink trains and facilities are fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Each train car is equipped with an accessible restroom and water fountain. Personal Care Attendants are fare-exempt when riding with the person who needs their assistance. Service animals are welcome. Click here for more information on riding Metrolink with a service animal.
With proof of eligibility, riders with a disability are entitled to reduced fares. For more information, telephone (800) 371-5465 (LINK), for hearing or speech impaired, (800) 698-4TDD (4833).
What is Special Assistance Request Program?
The Special Assistance Request Program is provided by the Passengers Services Department and offers commuters instruction about how to ride the train and make connections, to use the Automated Ticket Vending Machines and ticket validators. To learn more about this program or to request assistance, please call (800) 371-5465 (LINK) or (800) 698-4TDD (4833) for people with speech or hearing disabilities.
For assistance at an outlying station, with 48 hours advance notice, a Metrolink Field Service Representative can be scheduled.
For assistance at Los Angeles Union Station, 48 hour advance notice may not be required.
Please note that Special Assistance is based on availability of staff and is not for baggage handling or ongoing help once training has been provided.
What’s the difference between Metrolink and Amtrak?
Metrolink is the rail system that operates commuter trains in the six southern California counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, Orange, Los Angeles and North San Diego to Oceanside. Amtrak is the National Passenger Railroad that operates passenger trains across the United States.
In September 2002, Metrolink and Amtrak introduced Rail 2 Rail® Program. As part of Rail 2 Rail®, Metrolink monthly pass holders may travel on most Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train or buses within the trip limits of their pass, at no additional charge. Travel does NOT include Coast Starlight trains. Click here for additional information on Rail 2 Rail®.
Metrolink does not sell Amtrak tickets.
Where are Metrolink and Amtrak Station Stops?
Metrolink and Amtrak trains stop at various destinations along the Orange County and Ventura County Lines. For more information about shared stations and train times, click on the following link:
Are bicycles permitted on trains?
Bicycles are allowed on Metrolink trains. There is room for three bicycles in all train cars and they must be secured in the Velcro straps, which are located on the first level at the end opposite the restroom. In addition, Metrolink Bike Cars are designed to hold 9 bikes on the lower level and are visible by a yellow decal on the side of the train.
At the conductor’s discretion, if space is not available, the conductor may require a bicyclist to relocate the bike to a different car or wait for a later train. Please remember that Metrolink is a first come, first-served system. Conductors may request, but cannot force already seated passengers to relocate to other vacant seats.
Bikes must be clean and free of projections that could cause damage to other riders or the train.
Gas-powered and 3-wheeled bikes are not allowed.
Do Metrolink trains have Wi-Fi on board?
Not at this time.
How do I report hazardous conditions on or around the tracks?
Please call 800-371-5465 to report illegal dumping, trash debris, existing graffiti, fallen trees, fence issues or overgrown weeds or click here to report online.
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The Future of our Oceans
Ours is a water planet. Technology is shaping our uses, both as foe and ally. It has made humans the dominant predator and provides us food, gives us half the oxygen we breathe and created many maritime jobs. But technology has also raised CO2 levels, caused acidic oceans, threatened ocean biodiversity and created grand climate challenges.
Marine biologists like Doug McCauley at UC Santa Barbara are also using technology to promote ocean health and provide a balance. In this talk, McCauley describes examples of technology used to help the oceans and marine biodiversity. He shows systems that track whale activity and communicate it to ships so they know where to slow down to avoid collisions. He describes technology to monitor marine protected areas, image recognition techniques to study the endangered giant sea bass and electronic tags to follow sharks.
McCauley began his career as a fisherman in the Port of Los Angeles. Eventually he migrated to marine science and UC Santa Barbara. McCauley has degrees in political science and biology from the UC Berkeley. His PhD research was done at Stanford University where he studied the ecology of sharks, giant parrotfish, and coral reef ecosystems. McCauley’s science is motivated by the belief that we must better understand how complex ocean ecosystems work if we want to better protect them from threats like overfishing, climate change, and pollution.
Watch — Technology: Friend or Foe for the Future of our Oceans
Author UCSD-TVPosted on October 15, 2019 Categories Conservation, Ecology, Environment, GRIT Talks, Marine Bioscience, Marine Science, Oceanography, Science, UC Santa BarbaraTags biodiversity, marine biology, oceans, technology
Tool Use, Technology and the Evolution of the Human Mind
We “behaviorally modern humans” likely emerged more than 100,000 years ago in Africa, spread across that continent and eventually all over the planet, effectively replacing all closely related potentially competitive species. Among many possible explanations, was the co-evolution of the human mind with tool use and technology – ranging all the way from simple stone tools millions of years ago, to computers today.
Speakers in this series addresses this important process at all levels, from molecules to brain imaging, beginning with the potential link between early stone tool use and the parallel expansion of the human brain, to the control of fire and the invention of projectile weapons, all the way through reading and writing to current day technologies such as computers and 3D reality–perhaps with a look to the potential future of the human mind.
Browse more programs in CARTA: Impact of Tool Use and Technology on the Evolution of the Human Mind
Author UCSD-TVPosted on December 13, 2018 Categories CARTA, Evolution, Science, UC San DiegoTags CARTA, evolution, stone tools, technology
How the Defense and Aerospace Industries Shape San Diego’s Innovation Economy
Over the last 30 years, San Diego’s economy has emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America.
The term “innovation economy” is often used as an umbrella to capture businesses focused on everything from biotech and environmental applications to defense and wireless communications. They’re also interchangeably referred to as tech companies.
Key to San Diego’s innovation economy and identity are the aerospace and communications sectors, creating markets from drones to next-generation wireless communications. Explore the visionary technology igniting these industries and the implications this growth has to further propel San Diego as a leading global city. This program features nationally celebrated journalist James Fallows of The Atlantic magazine and executives from global technology leaders ViaSat, Solar Turbines and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS).
Watch Innovation Crossroads: From Drones to Cell Phones: How the Defense and Aerospace Industries Shape San Diego’s Innovation Economy.
Author UCSD-TVPosted on March 17, 2016 March 17, 2016 Categories Business and TechnologyTags employment, San Diego, technology
The Job Landscape Today and Tomorrow: The San Diego View
Most employers agree that the workforce of tomorrow will need a deep knowledge of computer science, IT, big data, math, and other STEM-related abilities, not just for science and tech jobs, but for all occupations.
Such skills are essential for San Diego’s booming biotech and life sciences industry (ranked third largest in the country), as well as other large employers in IT, manufacturing and health care.
Join San Diego Union Tribune’s Jonathan Horn as he moderates a panel of industry experts discussing what skills they need most – and learn about their strategies to actively equip students with necessary skills through tech fairs and afterschool enrichment programs.
Watch The Job Landscape Today and Tomorrow: The San Diego View.
Browse more programs from The Career Channel.
Author UCSD-TVPosted on August 6, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags employment, jobs, STEM, technology
The Atlantic Meets the Pacific
Want to hear from the doctors at the forefront of Obama’s BRAIN initiative? Or, learn about the cutting edge of drone science intended for personal civilian use? Or, get a guided tour inside the Scripps Research Institute and the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine?
Well, you can do all those things at this year’s The Atlantic Meets the Pacific. This third annual conference, presented by The Atlantic Magazine and UC San Diego, gathers top thought leaders in technology and health to discuss their ground breaking research in panels and interviews.
This year’s speakers will include top UCSD scientists such as Eric Topol, Todd Coleman, Scott M. Lippman, Jacopo Annese, Ralph J. Greenspan; business and technology leaders like Roni Zeiger and Chris Anderson; and prize winning journalists and authors such as Laurie Garrett, Deepak Chopra, Clifton Leaf, and many many more!
The Atlantic Meets the Pacific will take place here at UCSD on October 2 through 4. If you can’t attend, don’t worry! UCSD-TV will be there will to catch all exciting speakers.
Can’t wait for the conference? Check out UCSD-TV’s coverage of last year’s The Atlantic Meets Pacific!
Watch a video from last year’s The Atlantic Meets the Pacific of Dr. Eric Topol explaining his new medical device that could revolutionize healthcare in a very personal way. What will he talk about this year?
See other videos from UCSD-TV’s coverage of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific!
Author UCSD-TVPosted on October 2, 2013 Categories Business and Technology, Health and Medicine, Science, The Career Channel, UC San DiegoTags atlantic meets pacific, Deepak Chopra, drones, Eric Topol, health, Jacopo Annese, Laurie Garrett, medicine, Ralph J. Greenspan, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, Science, Scott M. Lippman, Scripps Research Institute, tamtp, technology, The Atlantic Meets the Pacific, Todd Coleman, UC San Diego, ucsd, UCSD-TV, ucsdtv
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Court legal adviser
Alternative titles for this job include Court clerk, assistant to justices' clerk
Court legal advisers are trained lawyers who advise magistrates and district judges about the law.
How to become a court legal adviser
You may be able to start as a trainee legal adviser if you've passed the academic training stages to qualify as a solicitor or barrister. You can find out more about this from The Law Society.
As a trainee, you would complete the Judicial College Legal Adviser Induction Training Programme. This can take around 2 years.
You can apply directly for jobs if you've got some of the relevant experience and knowledge needed for this role.
You'll usually need to be a fully qualified solicitor, and have experience as a magistrate. Employers may also look for customer service and administration skills.
The Bar Council and The Law Society have more information about legal careers and training.
legal knowledge including court procedures and government regulations
the ability to read English
In this role you could be:
managing court schedules to make the best use of time and resources
preparing for court sessions and making sure evidence is ready
advising magistrates on the law and procedures
making sure defendants understand how the court works
reading charges to the court
identifying and researching legal issues during hearings
helping with the decision-making process using a formal method
training administrative staff and magistrates
You could work in a court or in an office.
The legal adviser career structure has 5 levels, known as tiers. On any tier, you could become a mentor. To move up, you'll need to prove your ability in your current role.
With 5 years' experience, you could become a deputy district judge or district judge (magistrates' courts). With more experience, you could become a justices' clerk (running several courts).
You could also apply for legal and non-legal secondments within the wider departments of Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the Ministry of Justice and other government agencies.
Another option is to move into private practice as a solicitor or barrister, or join the Crown Prosecution Service as a crown prosecutor or crown advocate.
Solicitor Apprentice (Bristol City Council and WBD)
Location: Bristol BS1 5TR
Legal Apprenticeship
Location: BS2 0HQ
CILEx Level 6 Land Law
Provider: Chichester College Group
Location: Chichester
Conveyancing CILEx Unit 10 level 3
Provider: LEICESTER COLLEGE
Location: Leicester
Crown prosecutor
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Decisions 18 – 24 can be called in up to and including 5pm on Wednesday 9 November 2016.
Enquiries to James Geach, 020 8547 5062, james.geach@kingston.gov.uk, Democratic Support, Guildhall, KT1 1EU.
Growth Committee
Councillor David Cunningham (Chair)
Councillor Andrea Craig (Vice Chair)
Councillor Bill Brisbane
* Councillor Kevin Davis
Councillor Sheila Griffin
Councillor Raju Pandya
Councillor Priyen Patel
Councillor Cathy Roberts
Councillor Malcolm Self
Councillor Ken Smith
* Councillor Thay Thayalan
* Councillor Jon Tolley
Councillor Gaj Wallooppillai
*Absent
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14. Questions and public participation
No questions were submitted.
A petition was submitted by Mrs Pedley calling on the Council to:
1 Reject planning application 16/14730 for the installation of a 12.5 meter high mobile phone mast on the following planning grounds;
a) Siting in relation to the protection of tress and the grass verge.
b) Siting in relation to highway safety
c) Appearance in relation to character and setting.
d) Appearance in relation to amenity.
2 Establish a strategic plan for the Royal Borough on mobile phone masts so that mobile phone companies don’t continue to ride roughshod over residents and ignore the Code of Best Practive on Mobile Development in England (2013).
The Chair thanked Mrs Pedley for submitting the petition. The Council are conscious of the issue and are already looking at how local planning policy can be strengthened in this regard. The Council does not have the expertise in house to develop new policy in this area and as such an independent consultant has been engaged to assist with this policy review. The Chair asked for the Committee and Mrs Pedley, as Lead Petitioner, to be kept informed of the progress of this work.
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15. Apologies for absence and attendance of substitute Members
Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Kevin Davis, Thay Thayalan and Jon Tolley. Councillors Maria Netley, Liz Green and John Ayles attended as substitutes.
16. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 9 June 2016 were confirmed as a correct record.
17. Declarations of interest
No interests were declared.
18. Kingston Indoor Sports & Leisure Facilities Strategy
The Committee considered the adoption of the Kingston Indoor Sports and Leisure Facilities Strategy (2016-2028) which was attached to the report as Annex 1. Kingston has a need to consider its facilities given its ageing stock of leisure facilities. The Strategy was written for the Council by specialist sport and leisure consultancy Knight, Kavanagh & Page (KKP).
Both the Assessment Report and the Strategy have been prepared in accordance with guidance from Sport England contained in the document ‘Assessing Needs and Opportunities Guide for Indoor and Outdoor Sports Facilities (ANOG). This recommended approach will help the local authority and other potential users to understand current and future facility needs within the borough and the adequacy of existing provision to meet these needs. This approach will take account of the range of providers; the importance of education, private and voluntary sector provision and, with a duty to co-operate, cross boundary supply and demand issues.
The strategy itself is not based upon detailed technical assessments of the buildings nor does it address other wider issues such as parking needs or travel plans. This detail will be addressed elsewhere by the project team as this strategy is taken forward. The Strategy provides a clear direction to all the Council’s partners so that together we can plan and develop the more modern, efficient and sustainable range of community based sport and leisure facilities that Kingston requires.
The Committee welcomed the report and the recommended strategy. It was the Committee’s view that the strategy should be adopted subject to the addition of a requirement that all new indoor sports facilities are either Council owned or Council controlled. The Committee also noted that the Cocks Crescent Development Brief will include a requirement for a new swimming pool.
Resolved that:
1. the Kingston Indoor Sports and Leisure Facilities Strategy (2016-2028) (attached to the report as Annex 1) is adopted.
2. the requirement that new facilities should be either Council owned or Council Controlled is added to the strategy.
3. the Committee note that the Cocks Crescent Development Brief will include a requirement for a new swimming pool.
Voting: Unanimous.
19. Direction of Travel
The Committee considered the adoption of the Direction of Travel (as set out in Annex 1 of the report). The Direction of Travel will play a key role in the production of the Local Plan subject to its adoption by the Mayor for London. Once adopted by the Greater London Authority (GLA), it will provide supplementary planning advice to the London Plan policies by supporting the selective redevelopment of areas within the borough in order to provide new homes, jobs and investment.
The Direction of Travel Consultation Draft was published and circulated for consultation from 24 June 2016 to 29 August 2016. The Council engaged in a comprehensive engagement process during this period, reflecting the requirements of the Council’s revised Statement of Community Involvement. Minor amendments have been made to the document in response to the public consultation and these amendments were reported to the Committee in Annex 4 of the report. A Consultation Statement, setting out the Council’s full approach to the consultation and an analysis of the responses received was attached as Annex 2.
During their consideration of the report the Committee sought clarification on the role and status of the Direction of Travel in the context of Development Control functions and in particular the determination of planning applications. Officers informed the Committee that once adopted by the GLA the Direction of Travel will provide supplementary planning advice to the current London Plan Policies but that its significance will be minimal in comparison to statutory documents. This is not the document’s role, the Direction of Travel is a high level strategic document.
Members also questioned the figures given for growth estimates in the draft Direction of Travel and asked why these figures varied from those figures cited in the final version. The Committee were informed that these figures are routinely provided to the Council by the GLA and that the figures in the final version are reflective of the data most recently received.
Some Members expressed concern about some of the proposed infrastructure improvements cited within the Direction of Travel and questioned whether developments such as the proposed Tolworth A3 junction improvements or the introduction of Crossrail 2 will ever be funded and implemented. It was however the view of the majority of the Committee that the Council could not ignore these proposed large-scale infrastructure improvements and that it is prudent for the Council to consider the potential impact of these schemes as part of its long term planning processes. The Committee endorses and encourages infrastructure improvements within the borough.
A number of local residents spoke on this item from the public gallery. A member of the public questioned the development of the Direction of Travel and asked for a timeline of its progress through the Council’s governance processes. The Committee were given an update on the work stream’s progression through the Council’s committee system and given a brief summary of the following reports:
· ‘The Need for a New Borough-wide Local Plan and new Local Development Scheme’ as considered by the Infrastructure, Projects and Contracts Committee on 25 June 2015.
· ‘Revisions to the Local Development Scheme’ considered by the Committee at its meeting on 16 March 2016.
Following a question from the public gallery the Committee briefly discussed Opportunity Areas (OAs), their differing makeups and the processes that OAs go through as they are developed prior to their adoption by the GLA. The Committee noted that they will receive a report on OAs at the relevant stage in the development of the next London Plan. The Committee also noted that a number of issues identified by residents as part of the Direction of Travel consultation will be reflected in the Issues and Options consultation which is being undertaken as part of the development of the New London plan and that these issues will be discussed by the Committee at a future meeting.
1. the Committee notes the consultation responses received and the consequential modifications made to the Direction of Travel.
2. prior to adoption, the Head of Planning and Transport and Regeneration, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, is given delegated authority to make factual amendments to the Direction of Travel.
3. The Direction of Travel for the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is adopted, as set out in Annex 1 of the report, subject to its adoption by the Mayor for London.
Those for: Councillors David Cunningham, Andrea Craig, Ken Smith, Priyen Patel, Gaj Wallooppillai, Cathy Roberts, Raju Pandya and Maria Netley.
Those against: Councillors Sheila Griffin, Malcolm Self, Liz Green and John Ayles.
Abstained: Councillor Bill Brisbane.
20. North Kingston Development Brief
The Committee considered the adoption of the North Kingston Development Brief which sets out a planning framework to guide redevelopment in North Kingston. The document will become a material consideration as part of decision making in Development Management. Once adopted the brief will supersede the previously adopted North Kingston Development Brief (Stage One: Land Use and Spatial Parameters).
The draft North Kingston Development Brief was published for consultation on Friday 8 July 2016 for a period of 8 weeks. Minor amendments have been made to the brief in response to the consultation. A consultation statement that fully analysed the responses received was attached as Annex 2 of the report and a version of the brief demonstrating these amendments was attached as Annex 5.
The majority of the Committee welcomed the brief and the clear guidance that it will give to both residents and developers. It was noted that by adopting the brief the Committee would be accepting, in principle, the stopping up of Kingsgate Road between Sopwith Way and Richmond Road in line with the Highways Act and subject to consultation and appropriate committee approval.
Whilst considering the draft development brief Members felt that it was difficult to make out from the maps provided the status of permitted planning applications within the brief area and asked for this information to be clearly presented in the final version of the ‘Planning Context’ section.
1. the Committee notes the consultation responses received and the consequential modifications made to the North Kingston Development Brief.
2. prior to adoption, the Head of Planning and Regeneration, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, is given delegated authority to make factual amendments to the North Kingston Development Brief.
3. the North Kingston Development Brief, as set out in Annex 1 of the report, is adopted.
Those for: Councillors David Cunningham, Andrea Craig, Kenneth Smith, Priyen Patel, Gaj Wallooppillai, Cathy Roberts, Raju Pandya and Maria Netley.
Those against: Councillors Liz Green and John Ayles.
Abstained: Councillors Sushila Griffin, Malcolm Self and Bill Brisbane.
21. Creative Kingston Group - CIC Proposal
The Committee considered the establishment of Creative Kingston as a cultural Community Interest Company (CIC) with a view to enabling its ambition to develop Kingston’s profile as a creative place to do business.
Creative Kingston comprises stakeholders from Kingston University, Kingston College, Rose Theatre, Community Brain, BalletBoyz, Creative Youth and Kingstonfirst. Its aim is to harness collective capabilities and to drive innovation and regeneration in order to ensure the borough develops an infrastructure that supports its creative industries. Creative Kingston’s mission is to support and advocate for a strong creative economy through talent development, business incubation and a programme of creative and cultural activities that enhance Kingston’s reputation as a centre of innovation and heritage.
The CIC will focus on place shaping, feeding into the Local Plan as a critical friend, ensuring current and future cultural assets support growth and are developed in such a way as to retain and attract creative talent. At this point in Creative Kingston’s development it is envisaged that the CIC will seek to strengthen and widen the borough’s cultural programme rather than deliver services already commissioned by the Council and its partners.
Subject to Creative Kingston developing a sustainability plan, a bid will be submitted later in 2016 to Arts Council England to support a two year programme of cultural activity that will support the borough’s development and regeneration programme.
1. the establishment of the Community Interest Group is approved and the scope of its objectives, as set out in paragraph 7 of the report, are affirmed.
2. the Head of Culture, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Growth and Identity and the Opposition Spokesperson for Growth and Identity, is authorised to further develop proposals for this initiative.
Those for: Councillors David Cunningham, Andrea Craig, Ken Smith, Priyen Patel, Gaj Wallooppillai, Maria Netley, Sheila Griffin, Malcolm Self, Bill Brisbane, Liz Green and John Ayles.
Abstained: Councillors Cathy Roberts and Raju Pandya.
22. Proposals for Right to Buy Receipts - Reference from the Adults and Children's Committee
Appendix E
The Committee considered delegating authority to the Head of Housing to acquire properties on the open market for inclusion in the HRA Stock, as recommended by the Adults and Children’s Committee and Housing Sub-Committee.
The Housing Sub-Committee received a report at its meeting on 13 September 2016 on the requirement to repay to the Government Right to Buy (RTB) receipts unless appropriate acquisitions are completed and that the first payment will equate to £0.4 to be repaid to the Government by 31 March 2017. The proposal set out in that report is for the Council to use those Right to Buy Receipts which might otherwise have to be repaid to the Government to purchase £1.2m of additional homes from the open market. The Sub-Committee noted the need for such homes as there are currently 9226 households on the RBK housing register.
As there is an urgency in progressing this project, the Adults and Children’s Committee recommended that the Growth Committee delegate authority for the required property acquisition. The Treasury Committee has subsequently agreed (on 6 October) an addition to the HRA Capital Programme of £1.2m for the purpose of acquiring properties on the open market for inclusion in HRA stock.
In their consideration of the report it was the Committee’s view that any dwellings purchased under this delegated authority outside of the borough should be within its close vicinity.
1. the Head of Housing, in consultation with the Head of Property and the Portfolio Holder for Adults Social Care and Health, is authorised to purchase dwellings that are considered to be suitable for use as affordable housing both in the borough and within the close vicinity of the borough.
2. the South London Legal Partnership (SLLP) are authorised to negotiate and complete such documents as are deemed necessary to conclude the transactions negotiated by the Head of Housing.
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23. HRA Sites Affordable Housing Development Feasibility Study - Reference from the Housing Sub-Committee
Appendix F
The Committee considered entering into discussions with Registered Providers and private developers in order to dispose of the sites identified by the HRA Sites Affordable Housing Development Feasibility Study, as recommended by the Housing Sub-Committee.
With housing development land being finite in supply, increasingly innovative solutions are being sought in order to create new affordable housing development projects. The Affordable Housing Strategy for 2015-2017 has identified new opportunities to create affordable housing sites, typically by exploring prospects for infill development or for redeveloping existing buildings and land more intensively. The strategy was agreed by the Residents, Health and Care Services Committee (RH&CS) in September 2014.
The report identified HRA sites with potential for redevelopment where affordable homes can be created and recommended that each site is assessed in more detail with the most appropriate method of development taken forward. The report included a proposal to dispose of a number of garage blocks no longer considered to be fit for purpose and the receipt of these sales contributing towards capital funding to develop the sites.
The Committee received late material at the meeting that amended the recommendation in the original report and the following two sites were subsequently withdrawn from the scope of the report:
· Garages 58-64 Marshall House off Rodney Road
· Garages 16-11 Downfield House.
Resolved that the Committee endorses the recommendations of the Housing Sub-Committee and that:
1. the 5 sites in scope (as amended by the Late Material) which were appraised in the feasibility and viability study are disposed of to Registered Providers or private developers using a mix of approaches, as set out in Option 1 (paragraph 14) in the report and Option 2 (paragraph 15) in the report in order to enable the Council to develop homes on the sites.
2. all disposals of sites to a Registered Provider should be:
a) for housing, with affordable housing use in perpetuity where affordable housing is provided and the Head of Property, in consultation with the Head of Housing are authorised to agree the terms of the disposal; and
b) through a competitive tendering process.
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24. Investigating a leasing model for housing property development (for vacant high value local authority housing) - Reference from the Housing Sub-Committee
Appendix G
The Committee considered investigating the viability of a leasing model for housing property development arising from the requirements of the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
At its meeting on 13 September 2016 the Housing Sub-Committee received a report on the likely impact of the requirements of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 in relation to disposal of high value void properties and considered possible approaches to enable the Council to meet the requirements of this legislation. The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Part 4, Chapter 2) sets out that local authorities will be required to make a payment to central Government equal to the value of all high value properties likely to become vacant over the following year.
Although the specifics of the scheme are not yet known, the report estimated the financial impact on the Council at between £10.6M and £14.8M in the first year. As well as selling properties according to a calculated approach, the Council may consider other measures such as development land sales, property development and sale, and the sale and leasing back of properties.
Given that decisions on individual disposals will need to be taken within timescales which do not fit with the schedule of the five Housing Sub-Committee meetings per year, the Housing Sub-Committee agreed a process of delegating decisions on individual disposals to the Head of Housing in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Adults Social Care and Health and the Portfolio Holder for Regeneration in accordance with criteria set out in paragraphs 8-15 of the report.
It was the Committee’s view that a report, that has investigated the viability of a leasing model, should be submitted to a future meeting for consideration. However, given the length of the projected timetable for implementation, the Committee did not feel it necessary to delegate authority to allow Officers to agree individual disposals at this time. This will allow the Council to develop appropriate measures once the specifics of the scheme are known.
Resolved that a report is submitted to a future meeting of the Growth Committee that investigates the viability of a leasing model as a way of responding to the housing property development requirements of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 in relation to high value voids.
25. Disposal of Long Lease of St Mary's Centre, Chessington
This item was deferred and it will be considered at the Committee’s next meeting on Wednesday 23 November.
26. Urgent items authorised by the Chair
There were no urgent items.
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Does climate affect culture?
Last update: January 19, 2020 1 Answer
Climate change could affect our society through impacts on a number of different social, cultural, and natural resources.
For example, climate change could affect human health, infrastructure, and transportation systems, as well as energy, food, and water supplies.
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Does climate affect the landscape and culture?
yes, the different types of climate effect the growth and look of things. The weather and climate decide how things grow and live. If the climate is bad things wont grow and landscape wouldn't appear. == ==
How do Himalayas affect culture and climate?
Mountains block the wind some, so that affects the climate. Culture was affected because trade was more difficult. Oh, and mountains provide water to people living at their bases.
How does climate affect us?
Climate change also increases the appearance of more violent weather phenomena, drought, fires, the death of animal and plant species, flooding from rivers and lakes, the creation of climate refugees and destruction of the food chain and economic resources, especially in developing countries.
How does climate affect the environment?
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What is a cultural climate?
1 of or relating to artistic or social pursuits or events considered to be valuable or enlightened.2 of or relating to a culture or civilization.3 (of certain varieties of plant) obtained by specialized breeding.
What is Organisational culture and climate?
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A cultural climate is the product of?
Certain Ideas Objects Traditions (i.e. all of the above) ~Apex~
How does the Himalayas affect the climate of India?
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What is organizational climate and culture?
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How does Halloween affect hispanic culture?
i am not sure but i think because they said its the devils birthday and hispanic believe in god and the devil well yeah i think
How does Halloween affect American culture?
In many ways. It gets children outside to go trick or treat, it has us buy candy and hand it out to children they do not know. It's just a holiday where we can make kids happy!
How does globalization affect cultural identity?
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How does culture affect people's lives?
Does Culture Affect our Personality? Loosely defined, culture refers to the shared values, beliefs and norms of a specific group of people.Culture, therefore, influences the manner we learn, live and behave.Because of this, many theorists believe that culture is an important shaper of our persona...
What is the difference between climate and culture?
What is the Difference between Culture and Climate? Climate describes the shared perceptions of the people in a group or organization, while culture includes how people feel about the organization and the beliefs, values, and assumptions that provide the identity and set the standards of behavio...
How do the Himalayas affect the climate of India?
How has globalization affected American culture?
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How do the Himalayas affect India especially in terms of climate and landforms?
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Does America have culture?
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What does rich culture mean?
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Does Antarctica have a culture?
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Does England have any culture?
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What is Manitoba's climate?
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What culture does Russia have?
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What exactly is climate change?
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How does culture contribute to development?
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What kind of culture does Turkey have?
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What does food mean to culture?
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How does Hawaii celebrate their culture?
Hula dancing, leis and surfing/swimming
What does culture mean in sports?
A culture is the expression of a team's values, attitudes, and beliefs about sports and competition.It determines whether, for example, the team's focus is on fun, mastery, or winning or whether it promotes individual accomplishment or team success.
Where does the Maori culture come from?
It originated from, and is still part of, Eastern Polynesian culture.Māori culture also forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture and, due to a large diaspora and the incorporation of Māori motifs into popular culture, is found throughout the world.
Where does Mexican culture come from?
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What culture does football come from?
Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China.Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,” into the ga...
How does culture influence people's lives?
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How does pollution affect tourism?
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How does transportation affect tourism?
An increase in traffic due to world tourism growth puts pressure on transportation facilities, and this can have adverse effects.Air Transportation One of the most important transportation modes in tourism is air travel.Air travel has made significant changes in people's minds concerning time and...
Does population density affect crime?
In the Pacific area, no significant association was found between city population density and property crime rates, while violent crime rate and density showed a significant correlation.Thus, while population density may affect crime rates, there may be other factors which exert a stronger influe...
Does wearing underwear affect size?
Experts Disagree Over Tight Underwear's Effect On Male Fertility.A study published Wednesday suggests men who wear briefs — tight-fitting underwear — have sperm counts that are, on average, 17 percent lower than men who wear boxers.As it turns out, a man's love spuds just can't take the heat.
How does greed affect us?
Greed is an excessive love or desire for money or any possession.The greedy person is too attached to his things and his money, or he desires more money and more things in an excessive way.Greed has unpleasant effects on our inner emotional lives.
What is climate in the workplace?
The office climate is different from the culture.The climate is the perception of the work environment by an employee.A manager's behavior toward his or her employees greatly influences the workplace climate—and can make or break a team's morale and productivity.
How does modernization affect society?
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What cultures influenced American culture?
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How does lighting affect retail sales?
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What does the skull represent in Mexican culture?
Sugar skulls represented a departed soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on the home ofrenda or gravestone to honor the return of a particular spirit.Sugar skull art reflects the folk art style of big happy smiles, colorful icing and sparkly tin and glittery adornments.
What does a hawk symbolize in Native American culture?
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What two cultures does day of the dead come from?
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How does globalization affect the world?
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How does changing weather affect us?
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How does nylon affect the environment?
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How does the Internet affect businesses?
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How does technology affect us today?
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How does death rate affect population?
If the people die at a slower rate then the population will increase.If the birth rate goes down and the death rate goes up the population in decrease.If the death rate goes up and the birth rate goes up the population will remain the same.The rate of increase or decrease is the key.
How does internet affect the traditional business?
It has COMPLETELY altered the way we do business today. Insted of having to go everywhere to buy items, all you have to do is click a couple buttons. It us used to keep inventory, and advertise. 78% of all businesses are dependant on the users of the internet to buy there products.
Does tourism affect the Great Barrier Reef?
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How does tourism affect coral reefs?
When tourists accidently touch, pollute or break off parts of the reef, corals experience stress.Another significant problem facing coral reefs is sedimentation.When dirt and debris are deposited into the ocean, they pollute marine ecosystems and block the sunlight algae need for photosynthesis.
How does gravity affect our daily lives?
Obviously, gravity is very important on Earth.The Sun's gravitational pull keeps our planet orbiting the Sun.The motion of the Moon is affected by the gravity of the Sun AND the Earth.The Moon's gravity pulls on the Earth and makes the tides rise and fall every day.
Does full moon affect children's sleep?
Another study found that children may sleep less when there is a full moon.Researchers found that children's sleep time was about 5 minutes shorter on nights with a full moon, compared with nights with a new moon, Live Science reported.
How does Candy affect the body?
An abundance of added sugar may cause your liver to become resistant to insulin, an important hormone that helps turn sugar in your bloodstream into energy.This means your body isn't able to control your blood sugar levels as well, which can lead to type 2 diabetes.
What two cultures does Day of the Dead combine?
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What two cultures does the Day of the Dead combine?
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What does the lion represent in Chinese culture?
In Chinese Culture, the lion symbolizes strength, stability and superiority, while the dragon represents power, boldness and excellence.Dances for both the auspicious creatures are performed during festive occasions as a means to chase away evil spirits and welcome in prosperous times.
New Jersey Culture?
they like to mainly eat small fish or shark blubber. Most New Jersians worship the sun whale god. This god they beileve this god is the most powerful of them all. they pray to it 900 times a day. legends say that the sun whale god comes at exactally 12:00 on Christmas eve. many say that if you tr...
What are cultural traditions?
Cultural traditions include events, rituals and customs that a society shares.
What is Africa's culture?
It is a product of the diverse populations that today inhabit the continent of Africa and the African Diaspora.African culture is expressed in its arts and crafts, folklore and religion, clothing, cuisine, music and languages.Africa has influenced and been influenced by other continents.
Is football a culture?
Association football culture refers to the cultural aspects surrounding the game of association football.As the sport is global, the culture of the game is diverse, with varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness in each country.Many countries have daily football newspapers, as well as footba...
What is Maldivian culture?
Historically, the Maldives was an important crossroad in the Indian Ocean, hence Maldivian culture is a melting pot of various influences gathered from visitors who set foot there over the centuries.Maldivians have assimilated these influences over the years and created their own cultural identit...
What is Botswana's culture?
Culture of Botswana.Besides referring to the language of the dominant people groups in Botswana, Setswana is the adjective used to describe the rich cultural traditions of the Batswana - whether construed as members of the Setswana ethnic groups or of all citizens of Botswana.
What cultural activities mean?
Definition.Activities which embody or convey cultural expressions, irrespective of the commercial value they may have.Cultural activities may be an end in themselves or they may contribute to the production of cultural goods and services.
What is Rajasthani culture?
The people of Rajasthan are known for their culture which is nearly 5000 years old and which is a blend of tradition and history with the present contemporary lifestyle.There are lot of customs and traditions followed by the diverse population of the state and it adds to the embellishment of the ...
What is Lebanon's culture?
The culture of Lebanon and the Lebanese people emerged from various civilizations over thousands of years.The spoken Lebanese is the language used in public which is a hybrid of the languages of the above-mentioned cultures, Food, music, and literature are deep-rooted “in wider Mediterranean and ...
What is Mangyan culture?
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What defines American culture?
American culture encompasses the customs and traditions of the United States.The United States is sometimes described as a "melting pot" in which different cultures have contributed their own distinct "flavors" to American culture.
What is black culture?
African-American culture, also known as Black American culture, refers to the contributions of African Americans to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture.
How does senatorial courtesy affect the appointment of federal judges?
Lower courts are required to follow it.It's important because it means that the Federal judge can't make decisions based on whims, but based on established principles.The senatorial courtesy impacts the appointment process of federal judges because they are nominated by the President and approved...
How does air resistance affect the acceleration of falling objects?
When air resistance acts, acceleration during a fall will be less than g because air resistance affects the motion of the falling objects by slowing it down.Air resistance depends on two important factors - the speed of the object and its surface area.Increasing the surface area of an object decr...
How does gender affect development of a child?
Gender roles are influenced by the media, family, environment, and society.A child's understanding of gender roles impacts how they socialize with their peers and form relationships.Many children have a firm sense of their gender identity, while some children can experience gender identity confus...
What culture celebrated Halloween?
Lots of cultures celebrate Halloween today.
What is Acadian culture?
The Acadians (French: Acadiens, IPA: [akadjɛ̃]) are the descendants of French colonists who settled in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries, some of whom are also descended from the Indigenous peoples of the region.As a result, the Acadians and Québécois developed two distinct histories and ...
What is Tuareg culture?
The Tuareg people (/ˈtwɑːrɛɡ/; also spelt Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Kel Tamasheq, Kel Tagelmust) are a large Berber ethnic confederation.They principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
What is Hungary's culture?
Culture.The rich culture of Hungary is strong in folk traditions and has its own distinctive style, influenced by the various ethnic groups including the Roma people.Music of all kinds, from classical to folk, is an important part of everyday life, as is the country's rich literary heritage.
What are Hispanic cultures?
Hispanic Culture.It is used to denote the culture and people from Spanish-speaking, Latin American countries.These countries were formerly ruled by the Kingdom of Spain.Thus, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries are referred to as Hispanic America.
What culture is Ramadan?
Ramadan is the most sacred month of the year in Islamic culture.Muslims observe the month of Ramadan, to mark that Allah, or God, gave the first chapters of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad in 610, according to the Times of India.During Ramadan, Muslims fast, abstain from pleasures and pray to b...
What is Mexico's culture?
The overwhelming majority of Mexicans today speak Spanish.According to the CIA, Spanish is spoken by 92.7 percent of the Mexican population.About 6 percent of the population speaks Spanish as well as indigenous languages, such as Mayan, Nahuatl and other regional languages.
What culture is Sudan?
Sudan is an African country with a rich culture and many traditions.Sudan has a patriarchal society and marriages are often arranged.The majority of Sudanese people are Muslim; however, many indigenous tribes practice a form of animism.
What is Alaska's culture?
Alaska Natives, who make up 15 percent of the state's population, maintain many traditions, such as whaling, subsistence hunting and fishing, and old ways of making crafts and art.
What is Aztec culture?
The Aztecs (/ˈæztɛks/) were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.Aztec culture was organized into city-states (altepetl), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires.
What is Thai culture?
Thai culture is deeply influenced by religion.With around 95% of the country being Theraveda Buddhist, the belief system and values of Buddhism play a huge role in day-to-day life.Throughout the country, the most important values that Thai people hold to are respect, self-control, and a non-confr...
What influenced Japanese culture?
Japanese culture is ancient, diverse, divine, and influences various facets of modern Japan even today.From diet to festivals, sports to fashion, the culture is ever present both in the country and afar.Some of the most prominent aspects of Japanese culture are discussed below.
What are cultural activities?
Cultural activities are traditions, holidays, and customs.
What culture is Syria?
As is evidenced by the country's history, the Syria we know today is an eclectic mix of different cultures that have influenced Syrian culture throughout the centuries.Whether Turkish, Mediterranean, Arab or French, various influences can be clearly seen in such cultural markers as cuisine, music...
What culture is Macedonia?
The rich culture of Macedonia is evidenced in its well-preserved customs, epic poetry, legends, colorful costumes, wonderful folklore and memorable music, which are considered the best in the Balkans.The culture of the Macedonian people is characterized in both traditionalist and modernist attrib...
What is your culture?
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News & Stories > Morgridge Institute launches new interdisciplinary fellows program
Morgridge Institute launches new interdisciplinary fellows program
by Brian Mattmiller | April 22, 2014
A new postdoctoral fellowship program approved this spring for the Morgridge Institute for Research aims to spark unique collaborative research opportunities with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while preparing biomedical PhDs for a changing career landscape.
The Morgridge Fellows program will recruit candidates who will be mentored by both a Morgridge Institute principal investigator and a UW-Madison faculty member. The fellowships are intended to foster increased collaboration in the Morgridge focus areas, including regenerative biology, virology, medical engineering and computation in biology.
“The Morgridge Board of Trustees envisioned this program as a way to nucleate research efforts with UW-Madison and build critical expertise in these strategic areas,” says Brad Schwartz, CEO of the Morgridge Institute. “This will especially benefit UW-Madison scientists who are recruiting postdocs or looking to support current talent in these emerging research areas.”
Beginning in summer 2015, the program will support five two-year fellowships each year. Applications for the first year will be accepted in two phases: in early fall of 2014 for a July 2015 start date; and in early spring 2015 for a September 2015 start. Morgridge Education Liaison Debora Treu says she encourages feedback and questions early from faculty mentors about new fellowships that may fit the “sweet spot” between campus research and Morgridge themes.
In addition to increasing disciplinary knowledge, the Morgridge fellowships will emphasize strong communication skills, leadership and management skills, and exploration of tenure-track alternatives such as industry and law. Fellowships will also take advantage of Morgridge’s extensive outreach programs and provide opportunities for fellows to communicate their work to the public.
“We hope to increase the talent pool of people interested in collaborative biomedical research, and also provide some career development opportunities that go beyond academic careers,” says Treu. “We also want researchers who have a passion for public outreach and education.”
While career opportunities for biomedical PhDs remain strong, they are shifting from traditional paths. A recent National Institutes of Health report found that the number of PhDs moving into tenure-track faculty positions has declined from 34 percent in 1993 to 26 percent in 2012. Roughly one in three biomedical PhDs work in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, but PhD programs may not be aligned with the skill-sets for these careers.
The program will sponsor an annual symposium where Morgridge Fellows present their research in conjunction with mentors. The symposium will include a poster session and invite participants from other campus biomedical training programs.
The formal request for applications will be posted this summer along with scheduled information sessions. For more information, please contact Treu at 608-316-4304, dtreu@morgridge.org.
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Posted by: tootingtrumpet | July 7, 2013
The Final Over of the Week in County Cricket 7 July 2013
Not the only one who has seen better days currently playing to packed crowds in a field.
Ball One – The County Championship remains the cornerstone of the domestic cricket season
From early April to late September, only three weeks have no County Championship cricket at all, and this is the first of them. The cricket calendar is always a matter of intense debate, but, with the premier competition being followed indirectly via media more than directly via spectating, sustaining a coherent narrative over the whole season is important. That’s one reason amongst many why an 18 counties, two division, all play all home and away structure works in England. The rest of the domestic cricket calendar should fit around that.
Ball Two – Twenty20, when everything falls into place, can still draw a crowd
If following four day cricket is all about not being there, consuming (can I say that?) Twenty20 cricket is all about being there. With the sun out in London, big crowds turned up at Lord’s and The Oval for the spectacle, the sixes and the sunshine. If London is often a rule unto itself, Headingley’s first capacity crowd for a domestic match since 2004 pitched up for a Friday Roses clash. Get the right games on the right dates at the right price (and get a bit of luck with the weather) and Twenty20 can still pack ’em in – and leave ’em smiling.
Ball Three – The absence of franchises can work in English Twenty20
Star players help sell the short format game too, but with county roots stronger than franchise roots, there’s plenty of latent affection amongst locals for their clubs, so the big names are less important in England than elsewhere. What matters most here – once the sun is out or the evening balmy – is a tight finish, and there were plenty of those this week. The 15.000 faithful in Leeds got the closest result of all – a tie – as the old rivals finished 152-152. Nobody left that match complaining that Yorkshire were without their England stars (nor even an overseas player) or that Lancashire’s biggest name is Simon Katich, nearly 38 now. All three results were about equal odds as Ryan Sidebottom bowled the last ball of the match to Steven Croft – two runs divided the spoils. And sent both sets of fans home happily grumpy – just the way they like it.
Ball Four – Derbyshire finding solace in Twenty20
With its three distinct competitions, the English season offers scope for multiple narratives and a county is never too far away from redemption, even some three months after starting out. Derbyshire look doomed to relegation in the County Championship, but, led by the wisest of old heads in Shiv Chanderpaul, they overhauled Lancashire’s 151 and sit handily placed just behind Nottinghamshire in a tough looking Twenty20 North Division. Finals Day is always a great occasion and can rescue a moribund season, and that’s what will sustain Derbyshire’s hunger for the game. Not so long ago, such “Get Out Of Jail Free” cards used to be cited as contributors to England’s “soft” cricket, but you don’t hear that so much these days. History, as usual, is written by the winners.
Ball Five – Forgotten man at 25?
Craig Kieswetter has played 71 matches for England in the last three years (how they mount up) but injury and the emergence of Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow as biffing wicketkeeper-batsmen has pushed him down the pecking order. He still hits a long ball and showed his value at the top of the order by anchoring Somerset’s chase of Gloucestershire’s 190 with 89 not out off 55 balls. Ironically, Buttler, who has usurped him as keeper at Taunton too, also caught the eye in the same innings, making 29 from 13 balls, providing middle overs momentum at exactly the right moment. For such a short game, Twenty20 has developed remarkably specialist roles. Do England need a wicketkeeper to go in and aim to bat through at a strike rate of about 150 or do they need a man for the middle orders who aims to make 30 off 15 balls against defensive fields? Kieswetter or Buttler? (Or, like Somerset, both?)
Ball Six – If the Rolling Stones can do it…
Of course, The Ashes dominates cricket until the end of August, but there are plenty who have locked horns in the battle for the urn who are spending summer 2013 playing mainly county cricket. This is the roll call of ex-Ashes men currently on the circuit: Paul Collingwood (Durham); Graham Onions (Durham); Steve Harmison (Durham 2nd XI); James Foster (Essex); Ravi Bopara (Essex); Saj Mahmood (Essex); Shaun Tait (Essex); Simon Jones (Glamorgan); Marcus North (Glamorgan); Geraint Jones (Kent); Rob Key (Kent); Simon Katich (Australia); Matthew Hoggard (Leicestershire); Chris Read (Nottinghamshire); Marcus Trescothick (Somerset); Ricky Ponting (Surrey); Chris Tremlett (Surrey); Monty Panesar (Sussex). It would be cruel to suggest that an XI selected from that list could beat the current Australian team, so I shan’t.
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ABB takes power grids into the digital future at CIGRE 2018 in Paris
Press release | Zurich, Switzerland | 2018-08-27
ABB AbilityTM based technologies provide innovative solutions across the power value chain
ABB will take digitalization to the next level this year at CIGRE 2018 in Paris from August 27-31, presenting its latest power grids technologies and ABB Ability-based innovations. ABB’s showcase at the event includes connected and interactive displays, exhibits and live augmented and virtual reality based demonstrations. The booth itself will be powered by an ABB AbilityTM wireless solution, demonstrating the company’s wide-ranging capability in wireless communication networks. The biennial event in Paris is a leading global platform for power experts, representatives and decision-makers to discuss the latest technology developments in the sector.
The centerpiece of ABB’s exhibition stand is a simulated demonstration of a Digital Substation, deploying key ABB AbilityTM based technologies. Digital substations are a key element of next-generation grids and touch-screen displays will provide a behind-the-scenes look at recent innovations, including digital communications through fiber-optic cables replacing copper, which can maximize efficiency, reliability and safety, while reducing cost, risk and environmental impact.
Another highlight is an innovative demonstration of the game-changing ABB AbilityTM Power Transformer, the world’s first integrated solution for digitally enabled power transformers, enabling remote monitoring and data analytics of its vital parameters in real time. This enhances reliability and enables higher utilization of grid assets and power networks. Also on show is the ABB AbilityTM TXpert,TM digital distribution transformer, and the innovative service solution ABB AbilityTM TXplore, a submersible inspection robot. Visitors will see live demonstrations of how the wireless robot can be maneuvered through a liquid-filled power transformer to perform non-invasive, fast, safe and cost-effective internal inspections.
The ABB Ability™ Ellipse® Connected Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM) solution on display unifies the functionality for enterprise asset management, workforce management, and asset performance management. The comprehensive solution suite enables electric power utilities to optimize asset utilization, drive down maintenance costs and reduce equipment failures and system outages.
ABB is also showing innovations in its pioneering and world leading High-voltage Direct Current (HVDC) and Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) transmission technologies. A key enabler of an interconnected energy future, HVDC is ideally suited to integrating distant renewable energy sources into the power grid.
ABB is celebrating the 50th anniversary of another of its pioneering technologies, the gas-insulated switchgear(GIS). GIS has been a key enabler for urbanization, allowing substations to be built in a fraction of the space required for air-insulated substations. Digitally enabled switchgear and GIS that uses eco-efficient alternatives to the standard sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas, which reduces global warming potential by almost 100 percent will be on display alongside SafeRing AirPlusTM, the world’s first eco-efficient medium voltage gas-insulated switchgear for secondary distribution.
ABB is also displaying its latest grid-edge technology solutions with a focus on microgrids and battery energy storage systems (BESS) that can provide stable, sustainable power - anytime, anywhere.
“ABB’s focus on Next Level digitalization at CIGRE Paris this year is highlighted by the range of ABB Ability solutions on display and reinforces our position as a partner of choice for a stronger, smarter and greener grid,” said Claudio Facchin, President of the Power Grids division. ”ABB has a proud legacy of innovation, having pioneered several breakthrough technologies and remains committed to build on this heritage”
Visit us at the ABB booth no. 146, 1st floor, August 27-31, 2018.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automation and robotics and motion, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from any power plant to any plug and automating industries from natural resources to finished products. As title partner in ABB Formula E, the fully electric international FIA motorsport class, ABB is pushing the boundaries of e-mobility to contribute to a sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. www.abb.com
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Here’s Who Is Speaking at Creative Time’s First Summit in DC
Ian MacKaye, Carrie Mae Weems, and Hans Ulrich Obrist will be there.
Henri Neuendorf, September 21, 2016
Creative Time will host its annual summit in Washington DC in October. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Taking place only weeks before the presidential election, the latest Creative Time Summit seeks to address how to transform civil society.
For the first time, Creative Time is inviting over 50 speakers to meet under the title “Occupy the Future” in Washington, DC, from October 14–16, 2016.
“The question of democracy is up for debate, and elections around the world are reflecting a certain disillusionment with the electoral process and its candidates,” Creative Time artistic director Nato Thompson said in a statement.
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By Henri Neuendorf , Feb 12, 2016
Billed as “the world’s largest international conference on art and social change,” the participants read like a who’s who from art and culture.
Speakers include a variety of figures from art, media, music, and politics. The event is headlined by Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, Serpentine Galleries co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist, Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye, Guardian and Harper’s columnist Thomas Frank, artist Vaginal Davis, actor and designer Waris Ahluwalia, and artist Carrie Mae Weems. Janani Balasubramanian of DarkMatter will also be speaking.
Carrie Mae Weems, speaking at SVA in 2016: Image: Courtesy of School of Visual Arts.
The Creative Time Summit DC also features two special commissions by photographer Sheila Pree Bright and by DC’s Floating Lab Collective. For her photo series, Bright followed the Black Lives Matter movement and captured images of protests in Baton Rouge, Atlanta, and Philadelphia.
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The Floating Lab Collective was commissioned to create the set design for the event. Recalling the Sistine Chapel, the set portrays the key figures and visual metaphors of social progress in Michelangelo’s legendary Renaissance painting.
The full list of speakers and participants includes: Alicia Garza, Anna Hutsol (FEMEN), Andrea Bowers, Carrie Mae Weems, Casa Taft 169 & La Maraña, Crew Peligrosos, E. Ethelbert Miller, Elissa Blount-Moorhead & Arthur Jafa (TNEG), Eva Barois De Caevel, Haneen Zoabi, Gelitin, Gluklya & Anna Bitkina, Hank Willis Thomas & Eric Gottesman, Hans Ulrich Obrist with Eileen Myles, Ian MacKaye, Janani Balasubramanian (Dark Matter), Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Khalid Albaih, Liberate Tate, Jonas Staal, Journal Rappé, Jun Yang, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, May Boeve, Melissa Mays, Newton Harrison, Nut Brother, Patricia Ariza, Pedro Reyes, Peter Svarzsbein, Radio SouriaLi, RAQs Media Collective, Ryan Hammond, Sheila Pree Bright, Sheldon Scott, Step Afrika, Terike Haapoja, Thomas Frank, Vaginal Davis, Voices of a People’s History of the United States, and Waris Ahluwahlia.
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Editors’ Picks: 8 Art Events to See in New York This Week
From performances to open bars, see what's coming up.
Artnet News, September 5, 2016
Ian Davenport, Cadmium Yellow. Courtesy of Paul Kasmin.
Each week, artnet News’ editors search New York City for the most exciting, and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. See them below.
Wednesday, September 7
Allana Clarke, Notes on Belonging. Courtesy of the artist.
1. Allana Clarke, Notes on Belonging to Boundaries at FiveMyles Gallery
“I’ll survive everything you do to me,” a woman says to the threats whispered in her ear, in Clarke’s creepy promotional trailer for her upcoming four-act participatory performance in Crown Heights. The artist writes, “It is a declaration to live unbound by social constructions, self-doubt, and fear.”
Location: 558 St Johns Place, Brooklyn
Price: Free, but RSVP here.
Time: 7:30–9:30 p.m.
—Kathleen Massara
Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Minotauromachy: Pablo in the Labyrinth (2004).
2. Screening: “The Artist’s Trace” at MoMA
If you’re not yet familiar with the flourishing of animation in modern Spain, get caught up with this evening screening, part of the Museum of Modern Art’s “From Doodles to Pixels: Over a Hundred Years of Spanish Animation” (September 7–15). This 80-minute program includes Juan Pablo Etcheverry’s Picasso-inspired claymation Minotauromachy: Pablo in the Labyrinth (2004) and more than a dozen other shorts. Introduced by curator Carolina López and animator Alberto Vázquez, whose work is included.
Location: MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street
Price: $12, or $10 for seniors/$8 for students
—Brian Boucher
3. “Ian Davenport: Doubletake” at Paul Kasmin Gallery
The British artist is debuting a new series of paintings inspired by “the chromatic essence of historical masterpieces,” as the press release notes. Expect glitchy color combinations, which create drippy psychedelic moments pooling at the bottom of the canvases.
Location: 293 Tenth Avenue
Time: Opening reception: September 8, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Rashid Johnson, Within Our Gates, 2016 © The artist, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
4. “Rashid Johnson: Fly Away” at Hauser & Wirth
An exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Rashid Johnson, augmented by a monumental installation, takes on the multiple challenges of artistic invention, racial anxiety, the burden of representation, and the scaled-up problems of exhibiting in a forbiddingly massive space. Taking its name from the world’s most recorded gospel song, “I’ll Fly Away” ponders themes of history, yearning and escape while continuing the artist’s first-person exploration of runaway artistic success.
Location: 511 West 18th Street
Price: Free.
Time: Opening Reception: September 8 2016, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
—Christian Viveros-Fauné
Lorna Simpson, Soundlessness (2016). Courtesy of the artist via Salon 94.
5. Lorna Simpson at Salon 94
For the first time in the artist’s career, Simpson will present a series of paintings that, invariably, retain much of the dissectional elements in works past. Those who are better familiar with her work as a photographer will also delight in a suite of images that are scheduled to accompany the show.
Location: 243 Bowery
Time: 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
—Rain Embuscado
Meleko Mokgosi, Comrades II (2016). Courtesy of the artist via Jack Shainman Gallery.
6. Meleko Mokgosi, “Democratic Intuition, Lerato” and “Democratic Intuition, Comrades II” at Jack Shainman
Artist Meleko Mokgosi marks his New York City debut with two simultaneous shows at both of Jack Shainman’s galleries in Chelsea. Unified by a shared exhibition title, “Democratic Intuition,” Mokgosi’s work “touch[es] on the often-contradictory notions inherent in the concept and practice of democracy,” as the gallery describes in a statement.
Location: 513 W 20th Street and 524 West 24th street
Doreen Garner. Courtesy of Essex Flowers.
7. Doreen Garner, “Removing the Veil: Vanity as Material for Incision” at Essex Flowers
Curated by Kendra Jayne Patrick, the multidisciplinary artist’s first solo exhibition in New York features new works, which are glittery and gruesome. “She’s cleaved, refashioned, and re-fastened female body parts,” the press release notes, “exploiting them to the limits of their material aesthetic potential.”
Location: 19 Monroe Street
Time: Friday, September 9th from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
An example of the project presented by Black Chalk, whose collaborators are Nontsikelelo Mutiti and Tinashe Mushakavanhu. Courtesy the artists.
8. PopRally Presents: TEN at the Museum of Modern Art
MoMA’s PopRally series is celebrating its first decade with an “interactive party”—and an open bar. Artists include Jacolby Satterwhite, Black Chalk (Nontsikelelo Mutiti and Tinashe Mushakavanhu), Brendan Fernandes, Am Schmidt, and more.
Location: 11 West 53rd Street
Price: $40 online and at the door
Time: 8:00–11:00 p.m.
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CUs Tap Into Their Communities
‘Your story is your greatest strength.’
From road trips to multicultural centers, community credit unions show they’re more relevant today than ever before.
Speakers at CUNA’s Community Credit Union & Growth Conference in San Francisco share how they tap into the communities they serve.
Road trip leads to inspiration
Mark DeBellis took a credit union road trip that lasted 151 days and 16,000 miles. He made 200 contacts with credit unions and leagues, and visited 13 campgrounds, 15 recreational vehicle parks, and 25 Wal-Mart parking lots.
Mark DeBellis
At the end, "I was tired, but inspired," says DeBellis, president of PSB Integrated Marketing, who shared these road-trip insights at CUNA’s Community Credit Union & Growth Conference:
Credit unions are more relevant today than at any other time;
Being the “little guy” in the fight builds character, tenacity, and creativity;
Consistency and authenticity are credit union hallmarks;
Don’t confuse size with significance—your opportunities to do great things for members doesn’t depend on the size of your credit union; and
Your story is your greatest strength.
‘The future isn’t what it used to be’
The future isn’t what it used to be, says CUNA Senior Economist Steve Rick. So prepare for the new normal: an operating environment marked by continued low interest rates, subdued economic growth, a new era of thrift, high unemployment, and smaller securitization markets.
A bright spot in the economy: strong spending by businesses on equipment and software, signs that companies are investing in efficiencies. But productivity is beginning to slow, he says. To meet increased demand, businesses must increase hiring.
Center educates modest-means members
Jim Blake
A fundamental cause of the financial crisis was consumers' lack of financial education, says Jim Blake, CEO of HarborOne Credit Union, Brockton, Mass. To meet the educational needs of many area low- to middle-income residents, HarborOne opened a multicultural banking center.
Blake says these residents, largely minorities and immigrants, were being victimized by members of their own communities. The challenge for the center was to build trust, remove cultural barriers, and ensure the branch was profitable in one year.
The credit union partnered with area agencies and nonprofits to “triage” consumers when they walked in the door: Did they need housing services, savings advice, small-business development, or health care? Its core belief, he says, is that people will do business with entities they trust.
Blake's advice for credit unions: Think strategically about who in the community could have a stake in an effort like this. How can your credit union help them succeed?
Life-saving lessons
The Latino Community Credit Union, Durham, N.C., opened its doors about 10 years ago thanks to a grassroots movement to curb violence against Latinos, said Erika Bell, the credit union’s vice president for strategy and services.
Erika Bell
“Community leaders came together to save lives and maintain safety,” she says.
Lessons the Latino Community learned:
Hire staff that represents your community;
Offer the right products;
Develop identification policies and procedures; and
Personalize your services.
The credit union offers a full package of products including auto loans to members without credit histories (up to $12,000) and mortgages without personal mortgage insurance or points for members with no credit history.
With low delinquencies and charge-offs, “we want to move low-income members into the middle class,” she says. “We want them to gain assets.”
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Go North East Fleet Go North East's 3943
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Bodywork: Wright Eclipse Gemini
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Livery: Red Arrows
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May 2019 Go North East
Intended to be repainted this summer out of "Red Arrows" livery and into Go North East's fleet livery; this vehicle has had its free Wi-Fi equipment removed, in order to allow it to be transferred to another vehicle.
November 2017 Go North East Photograph by Daniel Graham
Following temporary transfer to Chester-le-Street Depot, this vehicle has now returned to service at Washington.
October 2017 Go North East Photograph by Guy Park-Royal
This vehicle has transferred from Washington Depot to Chester-le-Street, on temporary loan, to alleviate vehicle shortages.
March 2017 Go North East
In order to provide an improved customer experience when a "Red Arrows" branded Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 is unavailable for service, this vehicle has been fitted with free customer Wi-Fi.
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Following temporary loan to Chester-le-Street Depot, this vehicle has returned to service at Washington.
November 2016 Go North East Photograph by Dynamo: 5307, 5332
This vehicle has transferred from Washington Depot to Chester-le-Street, on temporary loan, due to Optare MetroDecker demonstrator 9099 (YJ16 DFG) being off service.
October 2016 Go North East Photograph by North East Malarkey
This vehicle has received the revised "Red Arrows" branding.
December 2015 Go North East Photograph by Daniel Graham
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September 2014 Go North East Photograph by Daniel Graham
A number of the older double-deck vehicles in the fleet have gained cherished registration plates, including this vehicle. This vehicle has been re-registered FCU 190, having previously been registered as NK05 GZR.
August 2012 Go North East Photograph by Carlisle Bus Group
Following repaint, this vehicle has transferred from Gateshead Depot to Washington. The vehicle will act as a spare for the "Red Arrows" X1 service.
August 2012 Go North East
Ahead of the entry into service of brand new Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B9TLs on "Tyne Tees Xpress" services X9/X10, this vehicle has been repainted into a red base livery and has received "Red Arrows" branding.
October 2010 Go North East Photograph by Northern Bus Photos
This vehicle has gained "Tyne Tees Express" branding.
February 2010 Go North East Photograph by Carlisle Bus Group
As part of a re-branding scheme for the X10 service, this vehicle has been repainted into a plain burgundy base livery.
June 2005 Go North East Photograph by emdjt42
This vehicle has entered service at Gateshead Depot.
June 2005 Go North East
Prior to entry into service, this vehicle has received branding for the hourly X10 service (Newcastle - Middlesbrough).
This vehicle, which carries a maroon, gold and blue base livery, has arrived into the Go North East fleet, and is currently being prepared for service. It features high-backed Esteban Civic V3 seating, in a special moquette depicting various landmarks around the North East.
January 2015 Go North East
Due to the service changes operational from Sunday 25th January 2015; a number of vehicles have been freed up, allowing for a number of transfers around the region. This includes the transfer of this vehicle from Deptford Depot to Riverside, where it will now act as a corporate liveried reserve vehicle for "Tyne Tees Xpress" services X9/X10, forming part of the PVR of the "TEN"... see more
Following transfer to Washington Depot to operate "South Tyne" services 88/88A, this vehicle has been repainted into a plain lilac base livery.
This vehicle, which carries a two-tone green and yellow base livery, has arrived into the Go North East fleet. It is currently being prepared for service at Saltmeadows Road Depot. Representing an investment of approximately £4.3 million, this batch of vehicles have been ordered to upgrade "Angel" service 21, which is currently allocated Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B5LHs,... see more
From 28th January 2018, Go North East are making changes to a number of services to improve reliability and to allow new travel opportunities. As part of these service changes; the section of the route on service 9 between Jarrow and North Shields will be replaced by service 5, and, from Jarrow, service 9 will now run to Lukes Lane Estate, via Argyle Street, Lyon Street, Hebburn Town Centre,... see more
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January 19, 2015 Barts Health Trust, NHA Party, PFI, Waltham Forest Save Our NHS, Whipps Cross austerity, cuts, NHS, PFI, privatisation Leave a comment
NHA East London supports sacked Whipps Cross whistleblower Charlotte Monro during Employment Tribunal
by nhawalthamforest
NHA East London is joining residents’ campaign group Waltham Forest Save Our NHS to support Charlotte Monro in her bid for reinstatement to her post at Whipps Cross hospital. Charlotte Monro was an Occupational Therapist working in the NHS for 35 years prior to her dismissal by Barts Health NHS Trust in 2013.
When Whipps Cross University Hospital – the only general hospital in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, serving a quarter of a million people – was threatened with closure in 2007, Charlotte Monro took a leading role in a successful campaign to save the hospital for which she was given an award by the Trust Board at the time.
The Reinstate Charlotte Campaign aims to clear Charlotte Monro’s name and calls for an end to bullying at Barts Health Trust. NHS budgets and services are being cut across the country. In this climate the importance of staff and staff representatives being free to speak out to maintain good quality patient care has been clearly demonstrated by events at Mid-Staffs Hospital.
There will be a support gathering on Tuesday 20th January from 09.30 to 10.00 outside Anchorage House, Clove Crescent, London E14 2BE.
To show your support please sign the petition calling on Barts Health Trust to reinstate Charlotte Monro and put an end to the bullying culture revealed in the CQC report on Whipps Cross in 2013.
Barts Health NHS Trust (BHT) is England’s largest NHS trust serving much of East London. Whipps Cross is one of six hospitals operated by BHT. The new buildings at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel were funded by the biggest private finance initiative (PFI) deal in the NHS. The National Health Action Party persistently calls for all PFI deals to be annulled or renegotiated. Barts has the highest PFI debt in the country. PFI debt repayments are widely held to destabilise finances within the NHS and other public services. Barts Health Trust continues to struggle to recruit and retain staff following the mass down-banding and poor CQC report about Barts Health in November 2013.
Here is the press release from the Reinstate Charlotte Campaign in full:
“Campaigners and trade unionists will gather outside an Employment Tribunal on January 20th to call for the reinstatement of Charlotte Monro, an Occupational Therapist and union leader sacked from her post at Whipps Cross hospital, where she worked for 26 years.
Charlotte’s union Unison is bringing the case to tribunal claiming that Charlotte was wrongfully dismissed by Barts Health Trust in July 2013 after informing Waltham Forest council of staff concerns about the effects on patients of closing beds at Whipps Cross hospital’s stroke unit.
Barts has been facing spending cuts in order to service huge repayments on the private finance initiative (PFI) deal that funded the rebuilding of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
Charlotte was acting in the best interests of her patients and staff, but Barts accused her of “bringing the trust into disrepute”. They also dismissed her for discussing with staff job threats she had been informed of as their union representative. Late in the process, The Trust added an allegation over non-disclosure, 26 years before, of protest-related convictions in the ’60s and ’70s. We are clear that Charlotte was dismissed for her union activities and for speaking out. A Barts spokeswoman’s claim that for patient safety they “had no alternative but to take action against Ms. Monro” is absurd and deeply unjust. Far from a threat to patients she has contributed much to improving safety, providing excellent care over a long, successful career.
Charlotte’s professional body considered an allegation over her past convictions, and concluded that there is no case to answer, recognising that the convictions date back a long time and have a specific historical context. In light of Charlotte’s long and distinguished career, whilst her convictions should have been declared earlier, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) fully upheld her right to continue to practice as an Occupational Therapist.
Unison and local campaigners hope the tribunal, to be held in Docklands from 19-23 January, will find that she was wrongfully dismissed.
Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis said that Charlotte was a “long serving and respected health worker” and that “No employer should be allowed to act in this way”.
Reinstate Charlotte campaigner Norma Dudley said: “All that Charlotte did was represent her union members and draw the attention of the local council and the community to the consequences of proposed cuts and service changes at Whipps Cross. Barts Health Trust actions have created a climate of fear seen to be aimed at keeping NHS workers quiet about cuts to services and union members cowed into submission over pay and conditions. The call to reinstate charlotte is part of a determined drive by staff, unions and the local campaigns to change this culture that is incompatible with care. At a time of national crisis in the NHS it is more vital than ever that NHS staff are able to speak out against the damaging effects of cuts on the health of the patients in their care”.
A petition calling to reinstate Charlotte and end the bullying climate at Barts is attracting widespread support. A culture of bullying where staff feared consequences if they spoke out was revealed in a CQC inspection of Whipps Cross Hospital in November 2013. Barts is struggling to cope with the effects of the coalition’s extensive NHS reforms and the severe cuts to social care services that have now led to the A&E crisis across England. Earlier this month, Whipps Cross was turning ambulances away from A&E due to lack of beds at the hospital where outpatient operations had to be cancelled to free up space.”
November 27, 2014 Uncategorized Chingford, General Election, Kathryn Anderson, NHA, NHS, Woodford Green Leave a comment
Can you help Kathryn Anderson’s campaign to protect and improve our NHS?
The Waltham Forest and North London NHA groups invite you to meet Kathryn Anderson and join her parliamentary campaign in Chingford and Woodford Green for the 2015 General Election.
Kathryn writes:
I’m Kathryn Anderson and I’m writing to introduce myself and to ask you to assist my campaign team for next year’s General Election. You may have already seen that I’m the prospective parliamentary candidate for the NHA in the constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green where Iain Duncan Smith is the current MP.
We are holding a meeting on Monday 8th December at 7pm. The venue is the Duke of Wellington Pub, 119 Balls Pond Road, N1 4BL. The meeting room is accessible.
The aim of the meeting will be to organise on-the-ground assistance with street stalls, leafleting, etc. If you’re not in a position to be out and about perhaps you could help with our social media campaign. I’m sure we can find lots to do whether you can offer a regular commitment in the run up to the election or just an odd hour every now and then.
I’m inviting members and supporters from a wider area than just the constituency. As you know the party isn’t in a position to stand many candidates and we welcome local campaigners who are willing to lend a hand, or who just want to stay connected.
If you’d like to know more please get in contact via NHAPartyWF@gmail.com or contact me directly via nhakathryn@outlook.com
I look forward to meeting you on the 8th.
You can read more about Kathryn here.
The venue can easily be reached from the constituency, is a short bus ride or walk from the Victoria Line at Highbury & Islington or from the overground stations in Dalston, London Fields or Hackney Downs. For further directions to the Duke of Wellington please follow this link.
For details on the NHAP website, please see the link here.
September 5, 2014 Barts Health Trust, PFI, Privatisation, Whipps Cross austerity, justice, NHS, PFI, politics, privatisation, whistleblower 1 Comment
Reinstate Charlotte Monro
The following was sent by the Reinstate Charlotte Monro campaign. The National Health Action Party East London group is happy to offer our support of the campaign and of Charlotte and her family. We call on Barts Health Trust to reinstate Charlotte Monro. Please sign the petition here.
The dismissal of long standing union rep and health worker Charlotte Monro has repercussions not only for health workers but for all workers, particularly those in the public sector. As her tribunal approaches we are publishing these bulletins in order to promote discussion around some of the issues this case highlights.
Bulletin 1
Cuts to budgets and services
Barts health Trust a paradigm for the NHS problems
The NHS is facing a crisis of unparalleled proportions, which the public are now beginning to wake to. But health workers and union reps who speak out are increasingly finding themselves under threat.
Over the last few months growing waits for operations and treatment, long established targets as A&E waiting times impossible to meet, overworked staff unable to deliver the quality of care needed have been reported in the press. A report from Cancer Research UK reveals the strain on cancer services from funding reduction as need grows, stating recent improvements are “in danger of unravelling”.
On Saturday thousands in London greeted the Jarrow peoples march by the Darlow Mothers defending the NHS against cuts and privatisation of the NHS.
Nearly half the acute hospital trusts in England are in financial difficulties. The total deficit forecast of £750 million is nearly double that of last year. This is now recognised as a systemic issue not confined to a few ‘failing’ trusts. (1)
London acute sector faces a deficit of £100 million but this is driven by deficits in just six of the twenty acute providers. Of those six, Barts Health has the largest deficit of £44.8m forecast. This trust provides health care across East London and West Essex to some of the most deprived areas of the capital – indeed some of the most deprived in the country. The population in the three main boroughs served by this trust is set to grow by 32% over next 20 years – 270,000 additional people equivalent to a whole new London borough.
Yet instead of increasing funding to meet need the government is reducing funding by £400m in the health budgets for the area, stated in the ‘Case for Change’ issued by Barts Health Trust with the NE London Commissioning Support Unit (2). This is clearly in direct conflict with meeting need.
We have already seen the consequences of a ruthless drive to meet spending cuts of £76 million last year (now £108 million this year) where experienced staff have left in droves as demoralisation and demotivation followed a mass down banding and staff reduction programme forced through by the Trust Board. Building health services is a long term process driven by the vision and commitment of health staff. To destabilise the workforce inevitably has an adverse effect on services to patients, rendering them more vulnerable to reduction or closure.
Staff and unions warned of the impact of the proposals, and more than 500 written submissions, representative speaking at the board, and staff demonstrating in their hundreds. Along with the drive to implement these reductions in staff pay and conditions came an increasing climate of intimidation. This was revealed in a Care Quality commission inspection at the time in November 2013. Management determination to remove barriers to change by silencing critical voices is demonstrated in the case of Charlotte Monro, a senior clinical staff member and trade union representative of many years’ service, very well placed to comment on the changes proposed and on the likely effects.
Ahead of the launch of the change proposals she was barred from the Trust meetings with Union reps and placed under disciplinary investigation for her trade union activities and then dismissed. This sent a clear message to staff on the likely consequences of speaking out. (The dismissal is being challenged by Charlotte and her union through an employment tribunal to be held on 23rd September 2014.)
The campaign for her reinstatement is gaining widespread support because the issues are increasingly seen as having national resonance with concerns that this is a growing national trend. In a climate where NHS budgets and services are being cut and contracted out to the private sector, the importance of staff and staff representatives being free to speak out to maintain good quality patient care has been clearly demonstrated by recent experience.
In the context of impossible funding cuts how can any consultation be meaningful unless it includes challenging the fundamental assumptions which drive the proposals for change.
Please look out for further bulletins from the Reinstate Charlotte Monro campaign.
1 – HSJ online and printed version 22/8/14
2 – Transforming Services Chinging Lives Interim Case for Change
This clip outlines some of the financial impetuses behind NHS privatisation and cuts.
August 25, 2014 Barts Health Trust, NHA Party, Privatisation, Waltham Forest Save Our NHS, Whipps Cross Barts, bullying, NHS Leave a comment
Whipps Cross Hospital: end bullying, reinstate Charlotte Monro
A petition has been launched calling on Barts Health NHS Trust (BHT) to put an end to bullying at Whipps Cross Hospital and reinstate Charlotte Monro, an Occupational Therapist with 26 years of service at Whipps Cross who was sacked after attempting to highlight the risks to patients of cuts at BHT during an open meeting.
Local people have been concerned for the future of Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone since it became part of Barts Health NHS Trust in 2012. Services at Whipps Cross are thought to be especially at risk as BHT proceeds with its financial rescue plan. Amid a culture of bullying at the hospital hundreds of staff have had their jobs downgraded and services are being cut. BHT is having to make the biggest savings in the NHS, with £30m saved in 2013. Savings are demanded by government policy and the repayments on the huge PFI debt sustained by BHT in the rebuilding of The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
According to Barts Health Trust’s own website, Whipps Cross is a centre of excellence for many services, including cardiology, cancer care and acute stroke care. Yet Charlotte Monro has been sacked after defending these very services.
Please sign the petition calling for Charlotte Monro to be reinstated to the job that she loves so passionately:
“A culture of bullying and a climate where staff feared consequences if they spoke out was revealed in a CQC inspection of Barts Health NHS Trust, the largest in the country. It is Barts Health that dismissed Charlotte.
We ask you to sign the petition and pass it on as widely as possible. We have to roll back this culture of diktat within the NHS – a culture that is not compatable with care.
In a climate where NHS budgets and services are being cut and contracted out to the private sector, the importance of staff and staff representatives being free to speak out to maintain good quality patient care has been clearly demonstrated by events at Mid Staffs hospital.
Charlotte was sacked over speaking to elected councillors at scrutiny committee about cuts to patient services… and for liaising with staff affected by proposed changes and job losses… as a trade union rep. Part way into the disciplinary process, her employers then included a new allegation: that she had failed to declare protest-related convictions from the 1960s and 70s when starting her job 26 years ago…”
Please sign the petition.
August 24, 2014 NHA Party, Privatisation, TTIP, Waltham Forest Save Our NHS BMI, health, NHS, privatisation, Serco, TTIP, Virgin 2 Comments
How Come We Didn’t Know? Privatisation: the corporate takeover of our NHS
How Come We Didn’t Know? This is an exhibition by photographer Marion Macalpine that aims to spread awareness of the privatisation of the NHS as widely as possible. The exhibition was launched in Stoke Newington in early May at a NHS hustings organised by Hackney KONP (Keep Our NHS Public) for the local elections.
The exhibition features around 20 photographs of private health company buildings, each with an information panel highlighting the relevant corporation’s involvement in the privatisation of our NHS. Through her exhibition Marion Macalpine explores the many facets of NHS privatisation, such as PFI (private finance initiative), private companies masquerading as NHS under the NHS logo; the cherry-picking of ‘low risk’, profitable patients which, in turn increases costs to whatever may be left of the publicly-run NHS; fraud or tax avoidance; and, private corporations behind-the-scenes involvement in trade treaties such as TTIP, the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
An East London story: Harmoni – out of hours GP service
Not a happy tale. Eventually an enterprise led by local GPs took on responsibility for running the OOH service after Harmoni’s failures. The social enterprise had previously tried several times to win the contract. Unfortunately, some GP practices in Hackney are now under threat themselves due to changes, i.e. cuts, to GP funding. Some of the GPs who stepped into the breach left in Harmoni’s wake are now at risk of losing their day jobs.
Keeping close to issues having a direct impact on East London…
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI): The Royal London, Whitechapel; Barts Health Trust. The £1.1billion PFI used to build the Royal London is costing East London taxpayers £115million per year and will eventually cost us over £7billion. That’s an amazingly good return on investment for the private partner! It also creates issues at our local East London hospitals with staff retention, keeping wards open and patient care.
Corporates masquerading as NHS: Virgin Care
Why does it matter that Virgin uses the NHS logo rather than its own corporate signage at the Jarvis Screening Centre? To answer a question with questions: do you like being misled? Why would they choose not to use their own logo which they seek to promote so energetically elsewhere?
As NHA Party Co-Leader Dr Clive Peedell explains: “These firms are funded by the NHS so they are allowed to use the NHS logo. You can even go to the NHS branding website and see where it tells private companies how to use it as it has a 95 per cent satisfaction and approval rating. The public are duped into believing they are getting NHS care while these companies are siphoning off profits.”
Corporates can maximise profits by accepting only routine cases: Care UK; BMI Health Care
“Hospitals are paid a standard rate for specific treatments, regardless of any complications. But private hospitals can cherry-pick their patients and refer those with more complex needs back to the NHS for treatment and still get paid for authorising their referrals.
This privately-run centre has these criteria for accepting NHS patients:
– does not require complex surgery or prolonged inpatient rehabilitation
– does not have a chronic disease that would require intermediate post-operative care
– has a Body Mass Index of 40 or less
– does not have sickle cell anaemia, complex clotting disorders or significant renal failure”
In other words if you’re obese or really ill they can’t turn a profit and don’t want you. This approach sucks funding away from publicly-operated NHS services. Anyone with complex needs will be left to the publicly-operated NHS yet the hospitals receive the same tariff irrespective of care requirements.
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Spire seem quite delighted by the opportunity the UK private health market offers to them. Money from the public purse when siphoned through Luxembourg can be used to annul their UK tax bill.
Corporates can dump unprofitable contracts: Ramsay Health (and Serco)
Dumping contracts can not only poison the finances of the health trust concerned but can have a knock-on effect that threatens neighbouring health trusts.
Having also dumped several contracts, Serco (accused of corruption, see below) recently announced its plans to withdraw from the UK clinical health services market due to lack of profitability.
Some corporates deliver dangerous care: BMI Health Care
Some corporates accused of corruption: Serco
US health giant, The Hospital Corporation of America was forced to pay over $1.7billion in settlements after US allegations of fraud. HCA is reportedly planning to expand into the NHS.
UPDATE 27th August 2014: : Serco is embroiled in a fresh misuse of public funds scandal after a company it set up overcharged NHS hospitals millions of pounds.
All in it together – how politicians, lobbyists and global corporations cooperate and how this may lead to the permanent loss of our publicly-funded, publicly-operated NHS…
Big Pharma lobby group – links with the NHS: Specialist Healthcare Alliance and JMC Partners. Public money paid to Big Pharma to consult on how to spend public money!
The Voluntary Sector used as a Trojan horse: ACEVO
Global consultancies and the NHS: KPMG, public money funding privatisation of the NHS
NHS opened up to EU competition law: Department of Business and Innovation
International trade agreements cement permanent NHS privatisation: TTIP, J.P. Morgan and the City of London Corporation
What can YOU do about this?
You can join local people in your area campaigning against the TTIP on Saturday 30th August. Details here.
To discuss using the exhibition for your NHS campaign please leave a message for us pass on to Marion Macalpine, or contact konph@hackneykeepournhspublic.org
April 30, 2014 Euro election, NHA Party democracy, European election, NHA, NHS, politics, TTIP Leave a comment
NHAP representative’s write-up of The People’s Parliament – Save Our NHS
Following the successful launch of the NHAP European election campaign I decided to attend a session of The People’s Parliament last night in the House of Commons. It was the first time I had ever set foot inside the Houses of Parliament. I was unsure what to expect.
The only snag came during the screening upon entering the complex. While I encourage you to carry your #stickupfortheNHS stickers with you at all times, if you try to take them into parliament your stickers will be confiscated, despite my assurances that I’m not going to plaster stickers everywhere. I’m not a child. Tempting mind! Thankfully a receipt was issued and stickers were returned.
You can read more about the panellists who spoke at the meeting here. The panel included Dr Jacky Davis of Keep Our NHS Public. Dr Davis gave the National Health Action Party credit for pressuring Labour into taking a stance (of sorts) to exempt the NHS from TTIP. More on Labour and TTIP here.
Opposing TTIP was a key theme of the discussion. Read this article to learn why we at NHAP think it is so vital to exempt the NHS from the treaty. This is not an anti-trade stance, this is not an anti-American stance. This is an anti-entombing-the-NHS-in-privatisation-forever stance. I pointed out that people need to be more vocal about the fact that the ‘public consultation’ is a sham. I’m going to try to grapple with this some more. I believe that the online questionnaire (full version here) is designed to be inaccessible.
Here’s the intro:
Given the length of this consultation we strongly recommend that you print out the consultation notice and the consultation document and prepare your answers off-line before completing the questionnaire.
It is not technically possible to save your answers in the questionnaire and come back to it later. Your session on-line will remain open for 90 minutes for you to fill out your answers.
I can only assume that it is deliberately complicated in order to put us off. I feel highly motivated to oppose the ISDS element of TTIP in particular. I simply do not have half a day to devote to completing this questionnaire. The issues are in fact not impenetrable so why is the alleged consultation so unwieldy? As I stated during the meeting, this consultation is only taking place at all very late in the whole process because people from many EU countries are opposing TTIP. This questionnaire is designed not for consultation but to give the authorities something to which they can refer back and tell us that we had the opportunity to have input and we elected not to make good use of that opportunity. In short, this stinks!
The People’s Parliament was set up by Labour MP John McDonnell to stimulate debate in the build up to the 2015 general election. It would be good to have a broader cross-section of views represented within the People’s Parliament. I wonder whether the other main parties can be tempted to join? It would be good not to have need for a People’s Parliament. Isn’t parliament meant to be the people’s parliament anyway? We can dream. The anti-Labour feeling in the room must have made the Chair, East London MP John Cryer feel uncomfortable.
There was a great discussion about what must be done to put the Labour leadership under pressure to have faith in the public’s faith in the NHS and their strong desire to keep it. There was a gentle reminder that some pressure should be applied to the Lib Dems too. Many of their supporters are strongly pro-NHS. The NHS could be an election-winner. The plain fact is that the majority of Conservative voters want the NHS to remain public. The merits of appealing to the party to repeal the Health and Social Care Act are beyond me but I’m interested to hear whether anyone thinks it an idea worth pursuing.
I received a round of applause when I introduced myself as an MEP candidate for the National Health Action Party which was unexpected. I took this as a welcome sign for the party’s prospects. We just need to get our message out more broadly so lend us your voices please!
As I have said, there was a lot of talk around ‘what to do about Labour?’. One of the other panellists Jill Mountford, from Save Lewisham Hospital said people need not to vote for “all of these smaller, fringe parties” and get Labour into government in 2015 while pressuring Labour into recovering its passion for the NHS. The National Health Action Party view is in accord with this train of thought which is why we intend to focus our General Election 2015 efforts on contesting around 30 constituencies that are currently held by Conservative or Liberal Democrat MPs. Thankfully Jacky Davis made this point. We had been told nobody was going to get a second chance to speak so that was me gagged.
It was clear from the mood in the room that enough people think Labour have split their core vote themselves. Unfortunately for everyone who loves the NHS, which is pretty much everyone in the UK, we will need a Labour majority government in order to restore the NHS and make it the brilliant service we need for the 21st Century.
Andrew Sharp
Prospective MEP for London
Disclaimer: I feel it only fair that I point out that I am not generally a Labour supporter. I have voted for them once or twice. I’ve also voted Conservative and (far more often) for the Lib Dems. Have voted Green too. Have never, would never vote UKIP.
April 27, 2014 Euro election, NHA Party cancer, compassion, democracy, European election, NHS, politics Leave a comment
Stick Up for the NHS – a relative’s perspective on the NHS and politics
The National Health Action Party held its launch event for London’s European election at the Roxy in Borough. What follows is the transcript of East London resident Andrew Sharp’s (second from right) speech for this Stick Up for the NHS rally.
UPDATE: a recording of Andrew’s speech is now available here.
“My brother Matthew died of cancer aged six. I was four. Matt’s death had a huge impact on my life, on my sister’s life. It’s only since having kids myself that I can appreciate the horrors my parents endured. Our story though sad is not unique. We all hold love and loss in common. They are part of life for all humanity. In England we hold the NHS in common too. It supports us in our times of deepest need.
What would have happened to my family without the NHS? Steve Smith, creator of the Big Up the NHS blog made me question this during the #withouttheNHS twitter storm in March. I contributed two tweets that sum up why I must now stick up for the NHS.
The first was about Matt and my family. It reads:
#withouttheNHS my parents would have had to bankrupt their young family when my older brother was ill with cancer”
For two years the NHS cared for Matt, just as it cares for us all. No payment required beyond the taxes we already pay. If forced to pay my parents surely would have bankrupted themselves trying to save Matt’s life. And then failed. Don’t be fooled by my accent. We weren’t rich. I’m the milkman’s son, and not in some jokey metaphorical way. Any parent would willingly bankrupt themselves wouldn’t they, if they thought they could save their child’s life? And if that attempt failed? They’d lose their child, their home and their other children’s prospects in one fell swoop. Without the NHS this could happen to any of us. That can’t be right can it? Not when we already have a better way; a National Health Service way.
Some people think the NHS will always be there but it’s looking precarious right now. Some would say ‘get health insurance’. Well, cancer care is an expensive business and have you ever known an insurance company dodge paying out in full on an expensive claim? For your car? A burglary? It’s happened to me. It happens all the time. It happens to millions of people in America where healthcare is startlingly expensive.
Did you know that healthcare costs are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, causing 62% of bankruptcies? People go bankrupt just trying to stay healthy or to keep a loved one alive. Of these people over 75% do have health insurance, but it doesn’t pay out leaving them destitute. And what of those who lack the means to pay? Should we let them suffer? Just let them die?
We don’t need to worry about any of this do we? We have the NHS. Our politicians have promised that our healthcare will remain free at the point of need. So whilst they marketise and privatise our NHS we’re being promised private healthcare for free, right? Don’t believe that, not for one moment. Free at the point of need is just what they say now, a stop gap. Charging will follow.
Politicians and their promises lead me to my second tweet of the twitter storm which reads:
#withouttheNHS I would have less pride in this country. The NHS speaks to our democracy, compassion and civility. Let’s keep it!
We all rely on the NHS at some time in our lives. The NHS is a power for good, a democratic institution that looks after every man, woman and child irrespective of social status or financial means. It’s a marker of great civilisation.
We see how politicians subvert democracy to pursue their own agendas for the NHS. Do we see compassion and civility? Do we see them in the coalition government’s approach to sick and disabled people and the work capability assessments? Where is the compassion towards those forced from their homes and into destitution via the implementation of the ‘bedroom tax’? Where is the civility to people who face the humiliation of having to rely on food banks to feed their families? A growing number of people suffer from malnutrition across the UK. Government policy is doing real harm to people’s health and placing further strain on an already beleaguered NHS.
I don’t see much compassion or civility in our politics, yet I do know that our nation is full of compassionate, civilised people. I only recently started campaigning and already I have seen so much passion for the common good, so much will to sustain the NHS that sustains us all. This fills me with hope and propels me forward in my certainty that I too must stick up for our NHS. I know that when I need it, the NHS is there for me, just as it was for my brother. Just as it is there for all of our loved ones. I want the NHS to be there for my kids, and for their kids too. Please join me in this fight. Vote for the National Health Action Party on 22nd May and together let’s stick up for the NHS.
Andrew will be campaigning at St Thomas’s Hospital on Thursday 1st May from 17:00 to 18:30. Andrew’s brother Matthew was cared for and sadly passed away at St Thomas’s in 1977. Please join him. It’s also his birthday on Thursday – no gifts required but a donation to The National Health Action Party would be appreciated. You can donate here.
April 18, 2014 Euro election, NHA Party EU, Europe, London, nhap, NHS, politics Leave a comment
East Londoners: your NHS needs you!
National Health Action Party MEP candidate and East Londoner Andrew Sharp is calling on his fellow East Londoners to join the fight for the NHS.
In a letter to NHAP supporters this week, Andrew Sharp said, “we really need your help. NHAP is still a new party and we urgently need to get the word out that we are here to protect and improve our NHS. We want people to vote for us and the NHS in May. We are gaining support quickly but with the elections less than 6 weeks away time is not on our side.
How can you help? We need you to get personally involved:
Join the Waltham Forest local group
If we have enough people from different areas we can expand it to become the East London group. Please email me at NHAPartyWF@gmail.com.
Campaigning!
We need more people out on the streets, leafleting and talking to people about what we are trying to achieve. When I’m out campaigning I find people are eager to support us, relieved that “finally somebody is doing something sensible about the NHS” and want to find out more.
The Waltham Forest group is not big enough to do this on its own. Many of us work full time so we target our campaigning for maximum impact in a short space of time. This may be an hour on the way to work or on the way home, or a little longer at weekends – although there’s no pressure to stay for the duration. If you can help at just one of these sessions every week you’ll be making a difference.
There are various other ways you can help NHA to save the NHS.
Follow us on Twitter @NHA_WF and spread the word. We’ll get an East London Facebook page up and running soon.
Stick Up for the NHS!
Put up the election poster in your windows. Get busy with those ‘Stick Up for the NHS’ stickers – let’s decorate East London!
If all this has got you in the mood and you are asking, “when do I start?” then be outside the Royal London Hospital at 5pm on Friday 25th April and/or outside Whitechapel tube at 1pm on Saturday 26th April. If you are happy to do so then please let us know your mobile number so we can confirm with you that you’ll be there.”
The European election will be held on 22nd May. You can learn more about the National Health Action Party and our election campaign here.
April 16, 2014 Euro election, Illustrators, Kids books, NHA Party easter, NHS, superhero Leave a comment
Thank you to our NHS Superhero illustrators! #getcreativefortheNHS
Andrew Sharp, National Health Action Party MEP candidate and children’s book publisher writes:
This Easter weekend Steven Carne (@OhStevenCarne) is asking Twitter to #getcreativefortheNHS in support of NHS staff and campaigners. For Good Friday he asked what an NHS superhero would look like. Inspired by this I threw down the gauntlet to my friends and colleagues.
A band of plucky illustrators picked that gauntlet up and how they ran with it! First up, the Book Sniffer whose blog is a must for parents of young children and anyone interested in books for pre-schoolers. Thank you, you loveable pug, you!
Next up, thank you to Sarah Yewman. Sally Stethoscope looks like she’s ready to swing into action to stick up for the NHS!
A special mention for six year old Lucy whose Super Nurse Nancy is zooming to the rescue of a hospital near you RIGHT NOW! I hope the Easter Bunny brings you lots of lovely treats Lucy.
Thanks too to Guy Parker Rees. If pigs could fly we wouldn’t need such a robust defence of our NHS eh?
I was sat in a cafe when this huggable chap caught me unawares. Thanks to David Melling for sending Hugless Douglas into the fray. We Love You Hugless Douglas! That’s a book don’t you know…
Back at home I was busy writing my speech for the NHAP Stick Up for the NHS rally (details here) when illustrator Mark Chambers tweeted Super Stinky to me. As I said at the time Mark, you’re a star and a gent. Thank you for sending Stinky my way, he already has a lot of fans within the NHAP!
The speech-writing was bringing back lots of memories, not all of them good and I was starting to get a bit bogged down in it. When I went to check Twitter I found not one but two new heroes who really lifted my spirits. The first from Clara Vulliamy, a puppy ready to swing into action to save the NHS. Just call! As Clara will tell you, our NHS is NOT for sale. Thank you Clara!
The second hero sent by Emma Dodd from her family holiday was the first and (so far?) only human. Thank you Emma! Enjoy the rest of your break.
Now I think he bears an uncanny resemblance to our Co-Leader Clive Peedell (pictured below). I have to ask Emma, was that intentional?
Speaking of bears (Ed?), you might like to check out Emma’s latest book The Entertainer which has become an instant hit with my youngest child.
Finally, a massive thank you to Steven Carne. Thank you for your own campaigning for the NHS. Thank you for bringing the creative community out in support of our often-beleaguered NHS staff. Thank you for enlisting support for NHS campaigners. It can be hard work bringing the challenges faced by the NHS to the public’s attention. It is frustrating that the news media seem interested only in sensationalising its failures with barely any mention of the underlying problems. Projects like #getcreativefortheNHS can really help to lift our spirits and keep us going. It’s a comfort to know that there are caring and creative people out there who have the backs of the people striving to preserve the NHS for future generations.
Londoners, please vote for the National Health Action Party in the European elections on 22nd May. Help us to stick up for the NHS!
Happy Easter everyone!
To get involved in #getcreativefortheNHS, click here.
You can follow Andrew Sharp on Twitter here.
For more information about the National Health Action Party click here.
April 16, 2014 Uncategorized Barts, NHS Leave a comment
Protest and public meeting. Whitechapel. This evening 16th April 2014.
There’s going to be a protest outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel from 17.00 today. Local residents will be joining NHS campaigners to protest the proposed cuts by Barts Health Trust to its Bilingual Health Advocacy and Interpreting Service. Jobs are at risk within the service.
Anna Livingstone for Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public says, “we have all worked together for good NHS health outcomes, independent of ethnic, language, religious, disability or other issues.” Let’s make sure that community health, welfare and cohesion continue to be supported by a robust advocacy service.
Campaigners for KONP will be delivering a petition to Barts prior to the public meeting at 18.00. The meeting will take place at the Jagonari Centre, 183-185 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1DN.
Please join us from 17.00 and sign the petition, via this link:
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/tracey-carter-stop-the-proposed-job-cuts-in-the-bilingual-health-advocacy-and-interpreting-service
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Norval Morrisseau's way of expressing the apprecia...
Honouring Moses (Potan) Nanakonagos
Anishinaabe Spirit Bear Song
NORVAL MORRISSEAU UNLIMITED
Multiculturalism Day 2011
"Time Magazine" about Norval Morrisseau
Norval Morrisseau's Family
Is NMHS' silence golden?
Genuine Morrisseau's Art Sold at Sotheby's
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Norval Morrisseau Erotica (Part XII)
Anishinaabe Turtle song
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18th Biennale of Sydney 2012
Are We All One?
The Morrisseau Time Machine (Part II)
Norval Morrisseau Erotica (Part XI)
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Norval Morrisseau's way of expressing the appreciation
"A Separate Reality", 10'x21', © 1984 Norval Morrisseau
"This picture is a pastime. I've been at it now for maybe six or seven months. Maybe I'll be at it for another four months or three months. When its finished the way I want to see it I want to present it to the people of Canada. To all the children of Canada. Indian and Native, Chinese, coloured or whatever they are. They're all great souls. These are the people we want to give it to. To appreciate it. Here... hang it up. This is my appreciation for this medal that you have given me.
First you drive me down to the pits of the bottom of hell by your Missionaries and then later on you lift me up with medals... and no matter what I was behind... that's gone. That was the experience that I went through. If I never went through this bottom thing or the upper thing I would never be this great artist. I wouldn't be here to show... Here, here's my appreciation for trying to understand who I am."
Norval Morrisseau, 1981
- Norval Morrisseau, a member of the Order of Canada &
- Canadian History Through the Art of Norval Morrisseau (Part I).
/Ref.: Canadian Residential School System/
* The acrylic painting on canvas in this post: "A Separate Reality", painted from 1979 to 1984, © 1984 Norval Morrisseau /Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Canada/
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~ Reference for Morrisseau's collectors and investigators
Moses (Potan) Nanakonagos
/Norval Morrisseau's maternal grandfather/
"It is only his name I want to mention (when asked by Selwyn Dewdney* to fill a genealogy form), so that in one way or the other his good heart, his good teachings shall be repayed. Of my actual father I saw little... I knew he was not my father but I began to love and respect him more and more as I advanced in years, as this was all a part of me and I must carry on his wisdom."-
* Selwyn Dewdney - Art aducator and noted expert on Ojibway art and anthropology. Edited Norval Morrisseau's book "Legends of My People, The Great Ojibway" /Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1965/
A still image of Moses (Potan) Nanakonagos © CBC
-~ Anishibaabek Ogichiidaa Sundance Spirit Bear song by Desi Dillion
by backwordsMedicine
Introductory artworks presented in this 'You Tube' video:
"Life Cycles", Lithograph, Edition: 100; © 1976 Jackson Beardy &
"Medicine Bear", acrylic on canvas, © 1970's Norval Morrisseau.
- Great Anishinaabe/Woodland Artists (Part IV) /Ref. Jackson Beardy/
The exhibition that ended institutionalized discrimination against First Nations art at the National Gallery of Canada
"Androgyny" (left) & "Man Changing into Thunderbird" (right),
© Photography by Stephen Goetz /Click on image to Enlarge/
"NORVAL MORRISSEAU - SHAMAN ARTIST"
- ~ the first solo exhibition featuring a First Nations artist in 126-year history of the National Gallery of Canada. Exhibition held in Ottawa, Ontario from February 3rd to April 30th, 2006.
Despite being widely recognized as the father of contemporary aboriginal art and despite the pleas of some influential people, Norval Morrisseau did not become part of the National Gallery of Canada's collection until 2000 (click HERE & HERE to view the first two Norval Morrisseau acquisition by the National Gallery of Canada).
As early as 1972, Selwyn Dewdney, an influential anthropologist and art enthusiast who befriended Morrisseau in northern Ontario early in his career, pressed the National Gallery of Canada to buy some of the artist's work. The gallery refused. "I made a pitch at the National Gallery for inclusion of your work in the permanent collection but encountered deaf ears, Dewdney wrote Morrisseau. "It appears that if you're of Amerindian origin the proper place for your art is a museum!"
- Recommended readings (Part V)
/'NORVAL MORRISSEAU: SHAMAN ARTIST' by GREG A. HILL/.
* The paintings in this post: "Androgyny", 12'x20', © 1983 Norval Morrisseau (left) & "Man Changing into Thunderbird" (6 panels), 60"x50" ea., © 1977 Norval Morrisseau (right)
Catalogue Raisonné For The Limited Editions
/The Scientific Blog Project/-
"Loon and Fish"
Serigraph, 16"x22", Edition of 56, © 1976 Norval Morrisseau
Printer: Triple K Cooperative, Inc.
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About the project & Mission
For all the original paintings and drawings, the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society (NMHS) has accepted the task (in 2005) to work on a catalogue raisonné, documenting every known work created by the artist. The large amount of - unrecorded - Norval Morrisseau’s originals will understandably lead to years of research and investigation by the NMHS.
Documenting the original signed limited edition silkscreens/serigraphs and lithographs are not part of their mission. Therefore this project will deal with all original signed limited editions, with the mission statement as written below.
If you own a Norval Morrisseau painting and would like to document it, contact the NMHS, contact the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society at norvalmorrisseauheritage@gmail.com.
If you own a piece of a Norval Morrisseau limited edition, you can contribute in this blog research project.
This project has the mission to document all original signed limited editions of Norval Morrisseau. Norval Morrisseau Unlimited uses an on-line blog for the following reasons:
- to stimulate owners of a piece, to contribute with factual information;
- to support the art market as soon as possible, not out waiting the finalization of the project.
Contribute to the research! -
If you have a limited edition of Norval Morrisseau, you can help to add factual information, which are still missing in the on-line Catalogue Raisonné. Search for the edition, in which you own a piece, in the “list (so far)”, look at the information and:
- confirm (or unconfirm) the written information (the more confirmations, the more reliable the information);
- send the unknown information.
Contribute by sending your information to morrisseau.unlimited@gmail.com or by adding a comment (with the information) to a posting, by clicking on the posting title of your edition. It does not matter if a posting is old, you can always respond. See the on-line blog as a database, in which information will continuous be added.
All information mentioned are factual registered by one ore more sources. For the codification of the sources and the reliability, see ‘codification’.
The limited editions will be numbered. For the codification of the numbering, see ‘codification‘.
For the first year, after the launch of this project, regular there will be new posting of a known limited edition.
Blog master’s personal note
I am really fond of limited editions and I love the art of Norval Morrisseau. The combination is magical, to me. I discovered his art in the beginning of 2000 and it was the start of a special journey.
During these last 9 years I followed his art and collected almost scientifically al kind of information. This was not as easy as I expected for a well known and respected Canadian artist. However all my collected information of limited editions is the basis of this project “Catalogue Raisonné for the Limited Editions’.
I hope all owners will contribute to finalise this non-commercial project and that everyone will enjoy this site during the project.
Frank Kortstee, 05/24/2009
* Blog Master's comment: I would like to invite and encourage all of the readers of THE NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG to assist Mr. Frank Kortstee in this important and honourable project! Chi Miigwetch, Spirit Walker.
"We Are All One" Illustration by Spirit Walker
"My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people." - Norval Morrisseau
Canadian Multiculturalism Day was established in 2002 and first celebrated on 27th June 2003. It is a day of awareness and recognition and not a national holiday.
It is one of four "Celebrate Canada" days which commence with National Aboriginal Day on 21st June, to be followed by St. Jean-Baptiste Day (24th June) and culminating with Canada Day on 1st July.
The day was created to recognise the economic, social and cultural benefits of multiculturalism, and to assist in the integration of immigrant people into the wider community, emphasising democracy, equality and mutual respect in all areas of life.
The Canadian government provides funds to individuals, charitable organisations, community groups, schools, colleges and universities, and businesses (on a non-commercial basis) to establish and run multicultural activities.
Multiculturalism has not always been evident in Canada. The indigenous population have long held grievances (many now addressed), and there have been tensions between the French-descended communities (in Quebec) and the British descendent population for many years.
In 1923 the Chinese Immigration Act (repealed in 1947) excluded most Chinese from entering Canada as immigrants, and became known as the "Humiliation Act" or the "Exclusion Act" as a result. The Chinese community within Canada was recognised as having made a significant contribution to Canada during World War II – a major factor in triggering the repeal of the legislation.
Since the 1950s, in particular, immigration from nations around the world and awareness of multiculturalism have increased hand-in-hand, to the extent that the Canadian economy now relies upon many immigrants and their descendents if it is to continue to prosper.
~ Reference for Morrisseau's collectors and investigators-
Norval Morrisseau in front of "Self-Portrait, Devoured by His Own Passions"
~ Photography by Tom Moore-
Fierce Clarity and Sophistication
Time Magazine /Canadian Edition/
~ Published August 25th, 1975
When he arrived in Toronto for his first one-man show 13 years ago, Ojibway Artist Norval Morrisseau met with publoic sussess and private anguish. Gallery goers who packed into the tiny Pollock Gallery snapped up all 43 of his works in 24 hours, but recalls Morrisseau, "they thought I was a bush Indian, a sauvage. " Tormented by a host of personal doubts and a serious problem with liquor ("my idea of a social drink is 40 ounces"), Morrisseau nearly floundered in the years that followed. Last week, as he opened his fifth, and best, show at the Pollock, there was evidence that he has developed new inner strengths both as a painter and as a man.
Works by Morrisseau are now in 32 public collections in Canada, and the 29 paintings on view in Toronto are expected to sell $46,000, or ten times the yield of his first show. The National Film Board has completed a documentary, The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau. More than than 40 young Indian artists, inspired by Morrisseau's work, have followed his path away from traditional Indian artifact decoration to formal painting.
As an artist, storyteller and mystic, Morrisseau has spent his life struggling to combine the Ojibway legends that he learned from his grandfather with the stern Catholicism impressed on him by his grandmother. The result is an art of fierce clarity and increasing sophistication. Fearful of a taboo against revealing ancient legends outside the tribe, he did his first drawings on the sand of beaches near his hometown of Beardmore in northwestern Ontario so the water could wash them away. Then, in a dream, he was assured that he would be protected by the Thunderbird, an Ojibway demigod. He moved to more solid materials, using housepaint on brown building paper, and birch bark. "He even brought in some work done on hides," recalls Jack Pollock. "Migod, they stank." Now Morrisseau uses the accoutrements of the conventional painter - best quality artists' board, stretched canvas and acrylic paints - as he discovers and explores different ways in which he is able to set out his personal visions.
"Artist and His Four Wives", 43"x131", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau
~ this art piece was painted in 30 minutes after artist's visionary experience ~
/Click on image to Enlarge/
The content of Morrisseau's current works is often more personally revealing than he cares to discuss. The major piece (priced at $6,000) is the Artist and His Four Wives, based on a vision ("clear as a TV picture") that came to Morrisseau as he agonized over a breakup with his wife, Harriet, mother of his seven children. Rejecting the self-image of a wandering husband, he projected himself as a 16th century brave, surrounded by others willing to fill void in his personal life.
"Self-Portrait, Devoured by His Own Passions", 68"x57",
In Self-Portrait, Devoured by His Own Passions, painted in Vancouver last summer, he deals with moralistic Christian guilt over yielding to the pleasures of the world, including masturbation, depicted as an arm that becomes a snake attacking his heart. Spirit Enclosed by a Serpent shows a transparent soul, surrounded by vibrant reds, the color of passion, and green snakes, again attacking.
Silver Cross. Many of Morrisseau's works have the qualities of stained glass. Black wavy lines of power provide the outlines which are filled in with vivid colors. From his earlier, simpler style, based on specific legends or situations, Morrisseau has moved to more flowing and self-confident works. Dressed in a fringed leather jacket, sewn by a current girl friend, and wearing a heavy silver cross purchased from a church goods supply house, he no longer resembles the shy youth with brush cut and windbreaker who came out of the woods in the early '60s.
"Nature's Balance", 73"x48", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau
"I now believe in peaceful coexistence with myself," as he stood in front of his Nature's Balance, a vibrant interplay of birds, fishes and snakes. "If I had the money and was buying Indian art, this is what I would have on my wall."
• Click HERE & HERE to view pages 10 & 11 of Time Magazine's printed version of the article "Fierce Clarity and Sophistication" /August 25th, 1975/--
>>> Reference posts:
- Significant Magazine/Newspaper articles (Part I),
- Jack Pollock about Norval Morrisseau, - Recommended readings (Part I),
- Paintings from the Norval Morrisseau's first public exhibition at The Pollock Gallery (Part I), - ~Painting once exibited in the Pollock Gallery .... offered for sale in the outskirts of the GTA~, - The Great Copper Thunderbird's belonging... (Part I), - Blog Master's Pick of the Day (Part II), - Morrisseaus sold for record prices @ Sotheby's & Joyner’s Auction Houses in Toronto, ON, - Artist and His Four Wives", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau &
- "Nature's Balance", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau.
~ The paintings in this post: "Artist and His Four Wives", acrylic on canvas, 43"x131", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau (page 117); "Self-Portrait, Devoured by His Own Passions, acrylic on canvas, 68"x57", © 1974 Norval Morrisseau (page 113) & "Nature's Balance", acrylic on kraft paper, 73"x48", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau (page 114). All paintings appeared in "The Art of Norval Morrisseau" /Sinclair, Lister, Jack Pollock, and Norval Morrisseau/ -Toronto, Ontario: Methuen, 1979; ISBN: 0-458-93820-3/
Norval Morrisseau with Harriet, Victoria and Pierre
© 1964 Globe and Mail, Toronto
/Click on image to Enlarge/-
In 1957 Norval Morrisseau married Harriet Kakegamic (sister of Henry, Joshim and Goyce Kakegamic) who was from Sandy Lake Reserve northeast of Red Lake. They met in Fort William (now Thunder Bay) at the tuberculosis sanatorium while Morrisseau was receiving treatment. They arrived in Cochenour, Ontario in 1959 to work in the Cochenour-Willans gold mine.-Harriet inspired him in his work and taught him Cree syllabics, form of writing developed by Methodist missionary James Evans in the 1840s, reflected in Morrisseau's own signature of his works (Copper Thunderbird).
Their children were born from 1957-1975 as the family moved between Beardmore, Cochenour, Sandy Lake, McKenzie Island and Red Lake. Morrisseau reportedly enjoyed children and one large portrait of his daughter, Victoria, with his first grandson ("Victoria and Family"), conveys pride and love.
Norval Morrisseau & Harriet Morrisseau (Kakegamic) have 7 children by direct bloodline (David, Michael, Peter, Eugene, Christian, Victoria and Lisa), 18 Grandchildren and 13 Great Grandchildren.
Note: Norval Morrisseau was buried next to his wife Harriet at cemetery in Keewaywin First Nation, Ontario, Canada. -
Source (image): 'The Strange Success - and Failure of Norval Morriseau'; Canadian Art 21 no 6 (Nov-Dec 1964)
- Norval Morrisseau's Family (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau's Family (Part II),
- From the Morrisseau Family Album (Part I),
- From the Morrisseau Family Album (Part II),
- In memory of Harriet Morrisseau (Kakegamic),
- Norval Morrisseau's Final Resting Place,
- 'Norval and Harriet with Bear Clan', © 1980 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'My Family', © 1976 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'My Children', © 1980 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'Victoria and Family', © 1978 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'My Daughter Lisa', © 1984 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'Otter with Michael', © 1985 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'My Grandson and the Birds', © 1979 Norval Morrisseau,
- 'Holding David', © 1970s Norval Morrisseau,
- Norval Morrisseau's children sue over will (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau's children sue over will (Part II),
- Morrisseau Family Foundation,
- About the Morrisseau Family Foundation,
- The Last Homecoming of Norval Morrisseau (Part I),
- The Last Homecoming of Norval Morrisseau (Part II),
- Extra! Extra! Copyright for the Artistic Legacy of Norval Morrisseau has been registered! &
- Certificate of Registration of Copyright for 'The Artistic Legacy of Norval Morrisseau'.
* Photography: © 1964 Globe and Mail, Toronto /Norval Morrisseau with his wife Harriet, daughter Victoria & son Pierre - Toronto, March 1964/
Posted by Spirit Walker at 6/25/2011 1 comment:
"Water Spirits", acrylic on canvas, 54" x 46", © 1979 Norval Morrisseau
* click HERE for a "You Tube" video of the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced as a Norval Morrisseau collector and admirer of his art.
- >>> On 22-NOV-2007 Ritchie R. Sinclair a.k.a. Stardreamer, who claims to be a "Chosen Protégé of Norval Morrisseau", was the only one posting the complimentary comment for an article Another painting that was for sale...: Note that the painting in question was the one that he would later, at WWW.MORRISSEAU.COM (now accessible by clicking HERE), label as an "Inferior Counterfeit Morrisseau" (click HERE and/or HERE).
IMPORTANT NOTES: This painting for which Ritchie R. Sinclair a.k.a. Stardreamer gave compliment "And a beautiful Morrisseau it is - so embued with Vision!" was defaced on January 27, 2010 by Bryant Ross who is director of Coghlan Art Studio & Gallery in Aldergrove, BC (click HERE). This act of vandalism was reported by Ms. Katie Mercer ( "The Province" reporter) in her "Portrait of a scandal" article which content was in full support by Kinsman Robinson Galleries as posted on their twitter at http://twitter.com/KinsmanRobinson (click HERE to view a twit which surfaced on the day of Ms. Katie Mercer's print/online article or click HERE for this twit's screen capture).
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Bryant Ross stated that "Paintings in his online gallery were guaranteed to be original and authentic and were obtained from the artist or authenticated by him." (click HERE for screen capture of the original web page as it appeared in May 2005 showing the above presented painting or click HERE for more factual information leading to the public destruction of this genuine Norval Morrisseau painting by Bryant Ross of Coghlan Art Studio & Gallery and/or click HERE for a related information involving artworks which were painted under Norval Morrisseau's drection by Mr. Karl J. Burrows).
* This online article "Portrait of a scandal" has been deleted by "The Province" editors and as of August 2010 it is not available for viewing anymore (click HERE for a screen capture of this online article). Printed version of this article, in which an important statement from the 'National Art Gallery of Canada' was taken out of context to support Katie Mercer's newspaper article, will be presented on the NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG very soon. -
** The above shown genuine Norval Morrisseau painting 'Water Spirits' together with 'Upper and Lower Worlds' were also presented in our posted article The truth behind 'Open Letter to the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society', describing a letter which has never been answered by the NHMS.
~ Committee members of the NMHS are as follows: -
* Viviane Gray - Indian and Inuit Art Centre, Dept. of Indian Affairs & Northern Development (not a member anymore);
* Lee Ann Martin - Curator of Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Art, Museum of Civilization (not a member anymore);
* Elizabeth McLuhan - Dept. of History, University of Winnipeg;
* Dr. Ruth Philips - Professor of Art History;
* Greg Hill - Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada;
* Richard H. Baker - Barrister and Solicitor.
> NMHS could be contacted at norvalmorrisseauheritage@gmail.com or you may click above on each NMHS members' names to e-mail them about your questions, concernes & satisfaction or dissatisfaction of their achievements to date.
BLOG MASTER'S COMMENT: I am dissapointed that Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society (est. 2005) is not honouring their mission statement:
"The Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society was established at the request of Norval Morrisseau to research, document and preserve his artistic achievement and protect the integrity of his art. It seeks to achieve this mission by establishing and maintaining a registry of his works, publishing and updating a catalogue raisonne of his artistic output and providing the necessary expertise to authenticate his art." -
Mission Statement -
Why are they silent? Is their silence approval for what has been happening in the Norval Morrisseau Art Market? If they truly care in "protecting the integrity of Norval Morrisseau's art" they would need to speak up. Their silence is hurting the legacy of the man they are supposed to protect and the longer they wait to publish a public statement regarding this matter presented herein, the longer the legacy of Norval Morrisseau will suffer. - ---
Ugo Matulić a.k.a. Spirit Walker
/spiritwalker2008@gmail.com/
- Open Letter to the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society,
- The truth behind 'Open Letter to the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society',
- The story which preceded the 'Open Letter to the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society'..., - Blasphemy (Part II), - Open Letter to the NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG by Mr. Karl J. Burrows (Part I), - Open Letter to the NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG by Mr. Karl J. Burrows (Part II) & - Deceptions of Bryant Ross* (Part I).
"IMPORTANT CANADIAN ART" by Sotheby's
"Shaman Changes Into Thunderbird", 46"x28",
© 1962 Norval Morrisseau ~ FRONT + VERSO
This, genuine Norval Morrisseau acrylic painting on canvas was sold on May 26th, 2011 at 'Sotheby's Art Auction House', Toronto, Ontario CANADA; See Lot #128.
Estimate: $7,000 - $10,000
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: $11,400 CAD -
Provenance: Private Collection, Quebec.
"Untitled", 52"x44", © 1973 Norval Morrisseau
~ FRONT + VERSO
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: $14,400 CAD
"Ancestral Bear", 40"x48", © 1980s Norval Morrisseau
This, genuine Norval Morrisseau acrylic painting on canvas was sold on May 26th, 2011 at 'Sotheby's Art Auction House', Toronto, Ontario CANADA; See Lot #112.-
Provenance: Private Collection, British Columbia.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING PROVENANCE:
~ for "Shaman Changes Into Thunderbird", 1962 & "Untitled", 1973
>>> As per communication with Ms. Marie-Jo Paquet [1], who is an employee of the 'Sotheby's Art Auction House', it was determined that previous owner for the paintings 1 & 2 resided in Thunder Bay, Ontario and would have acquired the paintings directly from the artist.
[1] Marie-Jo Paquet
mariejo.paquet@sothebys.com
NOTE: I am thanking a collector for the submission of the above presented additional information and for the images of the canvas versos sumbitted to him/her by Ms. Marie-Jo Paquet of 'Sotheby's Art Auction House' with respects to the collector and his or her decision to remain anonymous.
* For an example of a genuine Norval Morrisseau's artwork auctioned on behalf of the Sotheby's & sold on November 23rd, 2010 at Royal Ontario Museum click HERE and/or HERE.
- Understanding Art of Norval Morrisseau (Part I),
- Genuine Norval Morrisseau Genuine Collage,
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Comparison (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Comparison (Part II),
- Norval Morrisseau Conspiracy Unveiled (Part IV),
- Norval Morrisseau Conspiracy Unveiled (Part XII),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part IV),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part II),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part III),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part IV),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part V),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part VI),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part VII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part VIII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part IX),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part X),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XI),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XIII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XIV),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XV),
- "Morrisseau Signature Identification Article 101" (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part I); "LEVIS Online Auctions", Calgary, Alberta.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part II); WALKER'S Auction, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part III); Randy Potters Estate Auctions, Port Hope, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part IV); RITCHIES Auctioneers, Toronto, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part V); HODGINS Art Auctions Ltd., Calgary, Alberta.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part VI); Heffel's Auction House, Toronto, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part VII); SEAHAWK Auctions, Maple Ridge, BC.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part VIII); LUNDS Auctions, Victoria, BC.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part IX); EMPIRE AUCTIONS, Toronto, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part X); "LEVIS Online Auctions", Calgary, Alberta.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part XI); HODGINS Art Auctions Ltd., Calgary, Alberta.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part XII); WALKER'S Auction, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part XIII); WADDINGTON'S Auction House, Toronto, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part XIV) Sotheby's Art Auction House, Toronto, Ontario.
- Norval Morrisseau Authentic Paintings at Auction Houses Across North America (Part XV); Sotheby's Art Auction House, Toronto, Ontario.-
- Tonight, Norval Morrisseau's art auctioned at Sotheby's Art Auction House, Toronto, Ontario, - Genuine Norval Morrisseau's artworks continue to be successfully auctioned at Sotheby's, Toronto, Ontario.
* The acrylic paintings on canvas in this post: "Shaman Changes Into Thunderbird", 46"x28", © 1962 Norval Morrisseau; See Lot #128; "Untitled", "52"x44", © 1973 Norval Morrisseau; See Lot #163; "Ancestral Bear", 40"x48", © c. 1980s Norval Morrisseau; See Lot #112 - all sold at Sotheby's Art Auction House' in Toronto, Ontario CANADA
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Masayoshi Yamaguchi, Ph.D., IOM, FAOE, DDG, DG, is President, Regucalcin Biomedical Institute, Shizuoka, Japan (2016 -); Adjunct Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA (2013 - 2016); Visiting Professor, Department of Medicine, Baylor Medical College, Houston, USA (2012-2013); Visiting Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine (2007-2011); Professor, Graudaute School of Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan (1992-2007). Dr. Yamaguchi is engaged in the fields of endocrinology and cell signaling since 1971, and these researches are developed in the aspects of biochemistry, molecular biology, endocrinology, metabolism, nutrition, pharmacology and toxicology. Currently, Dr. Yamaguchi has an interesting for cell signaling mechanism, osteoporosis treatment, and cancer biomedical sciences. Dr. Yamaguchi discovered two novel proteins (genes), which were named a regucalcin, a cell signaling suppressor (1978), and RGPR-p117, a regucalcin gene promoter-related transcription factor (2001). Since 1974, Dr. Yamaguchi published over 550 English articles in professional journals with peer-review, and registered 23 national and international patents. Dr. Yamaguchi serviced as Editorial Board Members in 90 Journals thus far. Dr. Yamaguchi was listed in various biographies; Who’s Who in the World (2005-, Marquis Who’s Who, USA), Who’s Who in Sciences and Engineering (2004-, Marquis Who’s Who, USA), and International Biographical Dictionary (2006-, IBC, England).
Masayoshi Yamaguchi
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA
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Cabine in Toronto Offers Personalized Designer Styling by Appointment
On the first floor of a brownstone in Yorkville, behind an unmarked, hot pink door, you can find one of Toronto’s most exclusive shopping experiences.
Pitti Immagine Uomo 97
Sartorial obsession.
The stylish and sophisticated–and even the outlandish–have convened in Florence for Pitti Immagine Uomo.
Maya Fuhr’s Tec Style Meditates on the Lifespan and Environmental Impact of Clothing
Art-cycle.
Tec Style expands on Maya Fuhr’s first exhibition, Malleable Privilege, which examined the ways in which fashion can do more harm than good. But while Malleable Privilege was, in Fuhr’s words, “more abstract and open to interpretation,” Tec Style bluntly addresses our rapid textile consumption.
Serge Ibaka Is the New Face of Canadian Outerwear Brand Nobis
Winter, but make it fashion.
With his distinctly sharp sense of style—even with a broken ankle—Ibaka has been turning all sorts of heads, including Canadian outerwear brand Nobis, who has just named the player as their global ambassador.
Toronto’s 100% Silk Marries Fashion with Art, Travel, and Storytelling
Keeping it 100.
Lee Dekel’s multi-brand boutique 100% Silk may be geographically only a few kilometres away from those of the biggest names in global fashion, but philosophically it might as well be on a different planet.
Men’s Watches for Durability
and a Darker Style
Black magic.
A selection of the finest men’s watches, made in black for timely style.
Meet TSATSAS: Handbags That Make a Statement on Style
Experiments in form and function.
TSATSAS embodies minimalism, featuring clean lines that capture the elegance and sophistication of well-kept leather across the brand’s 33 variations of shape and style.
Lacoste’s First Collaboration with Tyler, the Creator
Somewhere between streetwear and high fashion.
Hip-hop–endorsed street fashion meets classic French tennis-court style in Lacoste’s first collaboration with Golf le Fleur, a subset of Tyler, the Creator’s clothing line Golf Wang.
Partoem Leather Goods
Seamless, no-glue, Montreal-made accessories.
The aesthetic is certainly minimal, but more than that: at the very core is a method of creation that does not use a single stitch or drop of glue.
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Farm capital: Look elsewhere
Proposed Reserve Bank changes to banking rules highlighted the need for farmers to look for alternative sources of capital other than bank debt during a banker’s panel discussion at the recent NZIPIM conference. Anne Lee reports.
Based on a panel discussion at this year’s New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management conference, a push-back on any touted increases in mortgage lending rates as a result of the changes could also be expected given the level of profit the major commercial banks make each year.
Reserve Bank head of prudential supervision Toby Fiennes said the bank is proposing several changes to help the banking sector withstand a one-in-200- year financial shock.
Those changes include an increase in the amount of capital banks are required to hold from 8.5% to 15-16%.
Banks would have up to five years to boost their capital holdings under the proposal and Fiennes said the Reserve Bank is still open to discussions over that timeline for transition.
Given the changes are to create long-term stability, Fiennes said an unforeseen shock within the transition period could see the bank extend the transition period.
He explained that in practice the increase would not see a doubling of capital held and to claim so was misleading.
That’s because banks are already generally holding 10-14% to avoid any penalties if they slip below the current 8.5% rule.
“We’ll be asking them to stay above 16% but they’re not going to be penalised if they dip down below (as they are currently) so they won’t need to keep such a high buffer,” he said.
NZ’s trading banks have indicated the proposal would add 50-120 basis points (0.5-1.2%) to interest rates but Fiennes said the Reserve Bank’s estimates were for a 20-40 basis points increase on average across bank lending.
“The main issue is how much of that increasing cost is actually passed on and whether banks will take a slightly lower return on their capital,” he said.
Competition to provide lending, farmers’ access to other forms of capital and the length of the transition period could also influence the effects of Reserve Bank changes.
NZ banks earn a return on equity (ROE) of about 17%, second only to Canada at 20%, while Australia sits around 14-15% and other countries have ROE’s in the teens or below 10%, Fiennes said.
The panel also included ANZ’s Troy Sutherland, KPMG’s Brent Love and BusinessNZ’s Kirk Hope.
‘The main issue is how much of that increasing cost is actually passed on and whether banks will take a slightly lower return on their capital.’
While some on the panel were sceptical about farmers’ ability to demand banks “take a haircut” on profitability Sutherland said most farmers were quite happy to have a chip at banks on how much they made.
He said everyone would have their part to play in having the one-in-200-year insurance and he expected customers would see banks respond in “sensible ways.”
Fiennes said that while rural sector resilience had improved over the last five years the level of indebtedness was still high.
That indebtedness though is not carried evenly.
About 35% of dairy farm debt is held by those that have debt of more than $35/kg milksolids (MS) and on average they need a payout of more than $6.20/kg MS to break even.
The panel was unanimous in agreeing that for the primary sector to continue to grow and transition into an economy that delivers high-value, premium goods it needs access to capital.
“We need an environment where we have access to good quality, affordable capital,” Hope said.
The transition to new capital standards equated to about 70% of banks’ profits over the transition period and given other sources of debt capital are also regulated it’s likely that for both agricultural lending and business lending the price will go up, Hope said.
Land values are at risk given overseas investment has become more difficult.
Farmer purchasers had helped keep the market liquid but now, with stresses on farm businesses, even those in a sound financial position weren’t as active in the land market, Love said.
“They’re more likely to be turning to their own businesses and looking to strengthen them, to hold more equity so they have the potential to withstand shocks – whether they’re capital, environmental or product driven,” he said.
Over the past 20 years, debt had been allowed to grow and in defence of that Love questioned whether the economy would have been able to grow and be as strong as it has been without it.
While access to capital is still necessary, having farming businesses on a profitable footing is imperative so returns are there to service and pay down debt.
Love said he has Mum-and-Dad farm business clients with a return on capital of 4-6% with some at even higher levels of 8-10%.
“If you look at that with a backdrop of an international market where investors are struggling to find 2-7% returns, New Zealand agriculture starts to get interesting again,” he said.
Industry needs to engage with the Reserve Bank over coming weeks, before it announces its decision in December, to ensure the transition period in particular, and the new standards overall will be something the sector can live with, he said.
“If we have enough time we may be able to engage with other forms of investment to strengthen up balance sheets and enable businesses to grow.
“We just need to find another path,” Love said.
Not everyone has the same access to bank capital and those that can least afford changes to lending criteria will have to think about alternatives to bank capital, Sutherland said.
That may mean a rethink on ownership models.
Those who are highly leveraged need to get themselves into a less vulnerable position by paying down debt while interest rates are low and returns good and to keep doing that through the transition period the Reserve Bank is proposing.
“The closer you are to financial distress, the longer you stay there, the less likely it is everything is going to go ok for you.
“So then you say – what can I do in the next one or two years that I perhaps haven’t considered before – is my business actually investible, what’s stopping someone else putting money into it?” Sutherland said.
Businesses will have to show they are “investible” and if they can do that they will have more choice about where capital comes from.
“We absolutely need capital into the (farming) sector but it just can’t all be debt capital,” he said.
Rural professionals would play a major role in helping clients report and review their own businesses, how they measure success and profitability, how they plan for investment.
“It’s not just what’s your farm budget but what’s your rationale and goal setting process? How do you explore what you and your family are looking for?” Sutherland said.
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Linear to circular – stopping the wasteEditor’s Note: Deflect and defend
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Spitzer's Example
“He’s setting a great example,” said state Senator Martin Connor of Eliot Spitzer’s self-imposed campaign contributions limits and attendance at fund-raisers.
And by great example, he means for other people.
“This doesn’t apply to me. No, we’d have to change the law. None of this applies to legislators,” Connor said.
“Realistically, this executive order doesn’t even apply to the state comptroller or attorney general.”
When asked, incoming AG Andrew Cuomo’s people sent the following statement:
“It is essential that we restore the public trust in our government with comprehensive campaign finance, ethics, redistricting, and legislative reform and I look forward to partnering with Governor-elect Spitzer and Lt. Gov.-Elect Paterson to get these and other aggressive reforms enacted into law so that all statewide candidates and office holders are held to account.”
To clarify, Cuomo’s spokeswoman Wendy Katz said yes, Cuomo will adhere to Spitzer’s campaign contribution limits.
A message left at comptroller Alan Hevesi’s office was not immediately returned.
Connor, who was in a tight primary race this year, said he’d happy to have a $10,000 campaign contribution limit since, that would be a raise from what state Senators and Assembly members can currently accept.
Filed Under: Home, Politics, Politics Daily, Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer, Martin Connor, Wendy Katz
SEE ALSO: Dems to Corzine: Stay home, cut taxes
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Still in the Majority
By Observer Staff • 02/07/07 10:51am
Joe Bruno’s upbeat message this morning after losing a seat in Nassau:
“We still have the Majority in the Senate and our conference
will go forward, strong, united and committed to ensuring accountability,
providing checks and balances and delivering results for our constituents.”
His full statement is after the jump.
STATEMENT BY SENATE MAJORITY LEADER JOSEPH L. BRUNO
I want to congratulate Craig Johnson and Maureen O’Connell on a hard
fought campaign. Maureen was an outstanding candidate who ran a tireless
campaign, and she will continue to serve the people of Nassau County as
There was tremendous interest in this race, as evidenced by the high
turnout for a special election. The issues that were raised during the
campaign: education, health care and especially the critical need for
property tax relief, are issues that we will continue to fight for.
We appreciate the support we received throughout the campaign from
those interested in ensuring accountability and balance in State
government. We still have the Majority in the Senate and our conference
Our role is as vital today as it was in November when voters returned us to
the Majority.
The campaign is over and we have 21 months until election day 2008.
It’s time to govern and to work together to address the many pressing
issues that face the people of this state.
Filed Under: Home, Politics, Politics Daily, Joe Bruno, Joseph Bruno, Nassau, Maureen Oconnell
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San Sebastián - Swimming with the Basques
The Basques, pintxos and a swim adventure
Anchor swim in San Sebastián.
San Sebastián oceanswimsafari
Tuesday, August 25-Monday, August 31, 2020
In 2019, we added another exotic Basque experience to our San Sebastián oceanswimsafari -- a visit to the French Basque country, just over the border. It was a terrific success, and in 2020 we're back for another go at some of the best food, some of the richest culture in the world. San Sebastián is the heart of Spain's Basque country (Euskadi), where the locals know the town as Donostia. San Sebastián is also one of the most famous surf spots in western Europe. Over the border, in France, the Basques are just as proud, their culture just as rich, but it doesn't get as much attention as their Iberian siblings.
Our oceanswimsafari will be over six nights, meeting on Tuesday, August 21, and running through Monday, August 31. The centrepiece will be the locals' flagship swim, a 3km journey around Isla Santa Clara in the bay of La Concha. There's a carnival atmosphere about it as it takes place on one of the world's most famous city beaches.
Lunch, in the French Basque country.
San Sebastián (Donostia to the Basques) is a beautiful old city, one of the two main cities of Euskadi (the other being Bilbao, just along the coast). Euskadi stretches through northern Spain, the western Pyrenees and into south-western France. The local tongue long has confused linguists because it bears little relationship to the Latin-based tongues of the nations surrounding it. Locals speak both Euskerra and Castillian Spanish (or Euskerra and French), but there's plenty of English spoken, too, so there will are few problems in understanding.
The Basques have their own, very strong cultural identity. San Sebastián (Donostia) was severely damaged during the civil war between 1936 and 1939, and was rebuilt afterwards. Its old town remains a hauntingly beautiful, vibrant and cosmopolitan centre (at the eastern end of the beach in the photograph above). The post-civil war reconstruction led to the development of the unique San Sebastián cuisine of pintxos, as the bars offered bite-sized treats to attract construction workers on their breaks.
In San Sebastián, we'll be staying in apartments near the beach. This gives us the ability to organise our own meals if we wish. This makes a stay in a city such as this cheaper than if we were eating out all the time. We can just pop down to the bakery in the morning for the bread; cook for ourselves when we wish... We've found apartment stays much more cost-effective and pleasant than hotels, particularly when staying in one town for as long as we will be here.
End of day, la Concha.
What we'll do...
Our oceanswimsafari takes in the best, and sometimes least expected of the Basque culture, as well as the centrepiece swim. We'll stay near the heart of town, near the beach, which means plenty of informal swims as well as the formal event on the weekend of August 29-30.
You'll immerse yourself in the character and the colour of San Sebastián's Old Town.
We'll be handy to all the best the region has to offer. We'll do two walking tours of San Sebastián, one of them of the old town, the other of San Sebastián's great cuisine, pintxos, the bar food of the old town.
Good pintxos is simple, but clever.
Our guide, Keith, is a native English speaker who has married into a Basque family. He'll show you his city in a fun way and will impress you with his extensive local knowledge. We'll learn about -- and sample -- txakolí, the Basques' favourite bar wine. We'll finish off swim day with dinner at the San Sebastián Cooking School Supper Club, an exclusive experience where we sit around a Captain's Table while our chefs prepare our food before us. The Basques have a particular style of cooking. This is a very special experience that won't quickly fade from memory.
We'll also head into France for a day to sample the French Basque country, in what has been billed as the heart of the Basque culture, Itxassou, a tiny hamlet nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It's a world away, but only an hour's drive from San Sebastián. We'll drop in to Espellete, which bills itself as the Capital of Peppers (and a stage finishing town in the 2018 Tour de France). We'll have lunch at an elegant old French hotel in Itxassou, under the pergola outside (weather and space permitting).
We'll also visit Le Perla, on the beachfront of La Concha, and one of the great European spas, for a wind down after the weekend's race.
Our oceanswimsafari includes...
Six nights accommodation (self-contained apartment near the beach)
Entry to Isla Santa Clara swim
Daily morning swims (when possible)
Day excursion to French Basque country (lunch at own cost)
Programmed transfers
San Sebastián City History Tour
San Sebastián Pintxos/Tapas Tour
Dinner, MIMO (San Sebastián Cooking School Supper Club)
Visit La Perla, one of the world's great spas
oceanswimsafaris dry bag, silicone swim cap
Cost - From $A3,600 pp Twin/Double share or $A4,960 Single (actual cost depends on apartment chosen and numbers of guests sharing apartment)
NB: While apartments are fully equipped, they may not always have the precise implement you seek. As is common in Europe, apartments are well ventilated making good use of light and air, but generally they are not air conditioned.
Note also that we keep our packages under review in light of exchange rate movements and changes in charges from suppliers.
ocean swimmers at play: This can end only one way.
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Early morning swim, la Concha.
Our chefs at the San Sebastián Cooking School, Miguel (front) and Augus, explain some of the intricacies of Basque cooking.
It's been a big day on the beach. Time to stand easy.
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OCR01098 - Doom "demonik electronik"
By djpretzel, January 9, 2004 in ReMix Comments/Reviews
Garrettheoverthinker
Snacks'N Jaxson (+1)
This is perhapes one of my favorite mixes on my comp and on my mp3 player. this one is a keeper.
3rdeye
I arrived at this site yesterday by word of John Romero. I listened to this remix and I knew I was gonna hang out for a while.
I really liked this remix, I think it's a little slow for fragfests and like someone else said it's a little too clean. Nevertheless the groove is very hypnotic and the basslines has got to be one of the juiciest basslines I've heard (right next to "Synapse" ).
Congratulations again for a work well done.
Project R2K
Octorok (+25)
The Eight Infernal Names! ALL RIGHT! Now I can open that portal to Hell!
But seriously. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but ever since The Dark Side of Phobos launched, I've been checking out the other DOOM remixes on the site. So far I've only listened to N-JekteD's Purgatory and this. And I am far from dissapointed. This is awesome stuff. I will agree with the collective. The "incantation", as I like to call it, is reminiscent of something out of German goth metal. Which fits in perfectly with the musical style as well as compliments the piece's hellish inspirer. It creates an ideal atmosphere. Great job.
OmegaMan
Glass Joe (+10)
You know, it's a well known fact that we Omega men stick pretty close. And though I generally find TO's comments spiking the nail in the face, I have to roll with NeOmega on this one.
Rammstein remixed by NIN into a swirly dark chocolate.
Well composed and executed, as usual...so I'll save the praise...you know it's great.
I think the track knows it's purpose, but there were a few things that I think (in my humble un-remixing opinion) that could have upped the stakes on this one.
Namely, dropping the cute tickles and maybe adding some haunting choruses (deep demonic basses or shrill siren-esque sopranos)...that, or some face-busting orchestral strings...that, or actually finding a way to infuse the listed demons into the track...
...now wouldn't that be keen...
Jimstander Drago
King Hippo (+15)
I've been going to this site for a long time and this has always been my favorite remix, and now that I've finally gotten around to stop being lazy I knew that this would have to be the first remix I commented on because it's that good. This remix has inspired me to listen to Rammstien because someone commented on it and mentioned that it sounded like Rammstien so i fugure there was a whole band that did music like this remix that I loved so much. It's even inspired me to write an epic novel of tolkienesque proportions. I believe that if OCR ever makes some kind of hall of awsomeitude this should be the very first remix to grace it's golden pixels.
Darkmetamorphasis
I've glanced once in awhile at this Remix, but never got down to actually listening to it. But when I did, man what a great Remix it is! It fits in perfectly with Doom's mood and just well..its a really good version of that theme!!
Well this one is goin to go to the vg playlist *saves* This is a really cool mix love it.
Well I am a huge fan of industrial music, (like enough to name off a bunch of obscure bands no-one has heard of as my favorites.... Hocico, Wumpscut, Kevorkian Death Cycle...) so um, I know what Rammstein sounds like, I always wanted to get back and say, "yuh-huh, it does too sound like Rammstein, anyone who has heard alot of Rammstein knows it does!!!"
Thanks for backing me up.
Anyways... yeah, everytime I hear it, I still think Rammstein, and I still think it plays really well, and still sounds great, and everytime I hear it I get an itch to get back to these forums and post "yuh huh!!"... now that itch has been scratched...
Nicholestien
Alex Kidd (+200)
Did you put that extremely harsh and annoying screeching sound at the start of demonik electronik just to get on peoples nerves? now i'm not talking **** or anything but I like that song I alot but I'm afraid to double click it because of that sound. I have to fast foward it everytime. >_<
maelkashishi
sounds like an old nine inch nails sound study with added spoken demon evocations. Do not expect something that in any way resembles Rammstein, as has been stated before. The whole thing is bland, at times feels detached through pointlessness. Still, a good example of that the judges do not mess with taste, because otherwise this could not have passed: technically there is nothing wrong with it, but I also see no reason besides nostalgia why one would want to hear this.
Liontamer
Community Manager, Judge, Sonic Augmentation Director
Still, a good example of that the judges do not mess with taste, because otherwise this could not have passed: technically there is nothing wrong with it, but I also see no reason besides nostalgia why one would want to hear this.
There's no way this would have been passed just because it's "competent." Just because you personally didn't enjoy it, don't extrapolate that to how djpretzel or the staff viewed the mix. You'd be absolutely wrong.
A lot of synths sound like acids going through chemical reactions: fizzy, bubbly, and carbonated, releasing gaseous by-products in the interim. It's like I'm witnessing a chemistry experiment in hell/on Mars, where Marine flesh gets devoured by the poisonous waters not unlike sugar getting raped by sulfuric acid. Other effects are equally curious, like the tone-and-volume-guided gatings starting at 0:31 or the hyper RPMs during the 8-bit break. And for some reason - I don't know why - some of the muted synths make me picture black wings or a black cape flapping ominously, particularly during the demonic roll calls and after the brief silence halfway through.
It's definitely sly, intimidating, and darkly transmogrifying like an incubus.
OceansAndrew
Unsung Heroes Director
Super oldschool Nine Inch Nails feel to this, which i'm certain has been mentioned about 9001 times already in this very review thread. Very cool sounds, and i'd totally fight some demons named kumbaya and rastaman.
Very good track that has held up very well.
neminem
It does indeed sound very much like NIN. I mention this because this song just came up on shuffle on my mp3 player today, and now it's on my "I should make a mashup out of this song" list. Watch this space!
(Also, yes, it is in fact quite a great remix. But you already knew that.)
Knuckles316
I don't suppose there's a version of this somewhere without the lyrics? I like it the way it sounds now, but I think I'd like it better without the lyrics. Either way though, it's still damned good!
Flexstyle
Super Cartography Bros. Director
Aww man, I wish those lyrics weren't there--or rather, I almost wish that I just hadn't found out about them (as of today). This has always been one of my very favorite OCR classic tracks--super catchy arrangement, chewy drums, nice phat synths. Don't reeeeeally wanna be blastin' a demonic roll call, though.
analoq
Terry Bogard (+1300)
Vocal hate? A victim is me!
Kidding of course, I don't mind in the slightest. In fact I would be happy to provide you guys with an instrumental mix of this, however after 10 years, and I can hardly believe it's been that long, the project files have no doubt collected a prohibitive amount of cobweb; I wouldn't have the hours necessary to sort it out and bounce anything.
Thanks for the kind words, though.
The thing that would be of far more interest to me if you still have the original is a FLAC (or equivalent) copy of this. That would be completely fantastic. Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease? Absolutely love the track (although most D/A converters make the opening a bit harsh)!
Phantasmic.
one of those tunes never forgotten. this was formative years for me. this was released just about the time i started making music for real.
about the incantations, the last two still sound as 'kumbaya', 'rastamon' to me. i think that's just awesome.
i love how this shifts a couple notes and thus transforms it all into pop. it's all in the original, it just took a couple notes.
talking theory, the minor/major seventh embellishment in the melody is incredible. it's the same in the original, but only in this tune it becomes something special. i haven't heard it elsewhere.
whole thing is what remixing is about
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Paul Klee"wehrte sich und stach" ("Resisted and pricked"), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeBesessen (Possessed), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
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Paul KleeEreignis im Park (Event in the park), 1938 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleees will nicht hinein (Just can't get it), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleees wurmt ihn (It Annoys Him), 1938 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleefällt ins Gewicht (Weighty), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeFlucht nach Pommerland (Escape to Pomerania), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
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Paul KleeIngeborg, 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeKämpft mit sich selber (Struggles with himself), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeKomische Maske "Löwin" (Comic mask "lioness"), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeMaske "nach dem Verlust" (Mask: After the Loss), 1938 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeMaske LAPUL (Mask: Lapul), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleemir deuchte, ich schwebte als Wolke (I thought I was floating like a cloud), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeMutter und Kind (Mother and child), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleeneu gerichtet (Newly adjusted), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeNordischer Künstler (Nordic artist), 1939Coloured paste and pencil on paper on cardboard
20 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeOhne Titel [Gitter und Schlangenlinien um "T"] (Untitled [Grids and Wavy Lines Around "T"), c. 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleereconstruierte Scherben (Reconstructed shards), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleereifende Trennung (Maturing separation), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeSchleusen (Locks), 1938 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleesieht zurück (Looks back), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeSymbiose? (Symbiosis?), 1940 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeTerzett mit Don Giovanino (Trio with Don Giovanino), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeTiere unter mir! (Animals beneath me!), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeUngeheuer in Bereitschaft (Monsters in readiness), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeVorfahr bei Kräften (Ancestor in full vigor), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleeweiblich-straff (Female-firm), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeZelt und Wimpel in der Landschaft (Tent and pennant in the landscape), 1939 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeZwei Dürstende (Two thirsty people), 1940 David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleedie Schlange kommt (The snake comes), 1939Coloured paste on paper on cardboard
51.4 x 40.3 x 3.8 cm David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleefällt ins Gewicht (Weighty), 1939Pencil on paper on cardboard
Paul KleeRegen=und Sturmangriff (Rain and storm attack), 1939Tempera and pencil on paper on cardboard
Paul KleeNiedrig (Lowly), 1939Grease crayon on paper on cardboard
54 x 73.3 x 3.8 cm (incl frame) David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul Kleewilder Mann (Wild man), 1939Coloured paste, crayon, and watercolour on paper on cardboard
51.4 x 40.3 x 3.8 cm (incl frame) David Zwirner Enquire about this work
Paul KleeKämpft mit sich selber (Struggles with himself), 1939Watercolour, grease crayon, and pencil on paper on cardboard
David Zwirner is pleased to present Paul Klee 1939, on view at 537 West 20th Street, New York. This is the gallery's inaugural exhibition of Paul Klee's (1879-1940) work since announcing its exclusive collaboration with the Klee Family. The exhibition focuses on Klee's art from 1939, the year before he passed away, which marked one of the artist's most prolific periods.
Toward the end of 1933, in response to the suppression of avant-garde art practices by the newly empowered Nazi party, Klee left Germany, where he had primarily lived since 1906, and returned to his native city of Bern, Switzerland, residing there for the remainder of his life. From 1935 until his death in 1940, Klee continually struggled with illness, which at times impacted his ability to make art. Yet, in 1939, against the backdrop of immense sociopolitical turmoil and the outbreak of war, Klee worked with a vigour and inventiveness that rivalled even the most productive periods of his youth. As Matthias Bärmann notes, 'Klee seems to have derived a paradoxical vitality from the conscious, profound process of coming to terms with disease and the approach of death, a vitality that significantly transformed his art,' adding that: 'Out of the physical and emotional suffering of his exile he took his art through a final metamorphosis, achieved one last pinnacle. Like only Matisse and Picasso among modern artists, Klee created a late work of singular rank.'1
Klee found a growing audience in the United States for his work during this time. His art was featured in several prominent gallery exhibitions in the late 1930s, including the first exhibitions in the United States of his late-period work, organised by the renowned gallerist Karl Nierendorf, Klee's general representative in the US. His work was also featured in major shows at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, including Bauhaus 1919-1928 (1938) and Art in Our Time, the inaugural exhibition held in the museum's iconic Bauhaus-inspired building on West 53rd Street, which opened on May 10, 1939. Klee also counted among the advanced modern artists cited in Clement Greenberg's famed 1939 essay 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch,' a text that outlined a theory of modern art that was pitted against totalitarian aesthetics.
The works on view in 1939 illustrate how Klee responded to his personal difficulties and the broader social realities of the time through imagery that is at turns political, solemn, playful, humorous, and poetic. Like a diary, the drawings are often meditative reflections on the pains and pleasures of life. In several works, knotted masses of graphic lines appear to articulate the strain and difficulties that Klee experienced later in life. In others, cloud-like figures or forms project a sense of calm and dreamlike ease. The artist's mastery of line is matched by his sensitive treatment of colour. At times, colour appears as a free-floating force that infuses the surface of his paper supports. In other instances, Klee uses colour to emphasise contour lines or create bold contrasts within mask-like faces. The featured works all testify to Klee's restless drive to experiment with his forms and materials, which include adhesive, grease, oil, chalk, and watercolour, among others, resulting in surfaces that are not only visually striking, but also highly tactile and original. Though Klee worked almost exclusively on paper during this period, a rare painting on canvas from 1939 will also be on view that features a distinct composition of bold reds and oranges mixed with stark black lines and gridding, a key form in Klee's art that he explored throughout his career.
The exhibition speaks to the novelty and ingenuity of Klee's late works, which informed the art of the generation of artists that emerged after World War II, and continues to hold relevance and allure for artists and viewers alike today. Coinciding with the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the show will be on view concurrently with the gallery's presentation of works by Anni Albers, who was one of Klee's students at the Bauhaus and often praised and credited Klee as being a significant influence on her art.
Paul Klee was born as a German citizen in Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland, in 1879. In 1921, he was appointed to the faculty of the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius, the founder and first director of the school, where he taught and worked as a 'form master' from 1921 to 1925, while the school was in Weimar, and as a professor from 1926 to 1931, when the school was located in Dessau.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the first director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, had become familiar with Klee's art in the 1920s and presented an exhibition of his work in March of 1930, the institution's first solo show of a living European artist. In 1935, Klee's work was the subject of major retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Bern and the Kunsthalle Basel. In 1940, shortly before he passed away, Klee had a solo exhibition of new work at the Kunsthaus Zürich. In 1941, a traveling memorial exhibition was organised by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and toured additional venues across the United States, including the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Klee's work has been the subject of major retrospectives and traveling solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide. Most recently, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, held Paul Klee: Irony at Work in 2016; Fondation Beyeler, Basel, hosted a major retrospective from 2017 to 2018; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, featured Paul Klee: Construction of Mystery in 2018; and Museo delle culture (MUDEC), Milan, presented Paul Klee: Alle origini dell'arte (Paul Klee: At the origins of art) from 2018 to 2019. Paul Klee: Equilíbrio Instável, which debuted at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, is being presented at Centro Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, through August 12, 2019, and is on view at Centro Cultural do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, from August 27 through November 18, 2019.
In 1947, after the death of Paul Klee's widow, four prominent collectors in Bern established the Paul Klee Foundation, which was housed in the Kunstmuseum Bern until 2004. On the occasion of a large donation of works from the Klee Family, the foundation was absorbed into a new museum dedicated to the artist. In 2005, the Zentrum Paul Klee opened as an independent institution and research center with a building designed by Renzo Piano. Klee's work is in the permanent collections of countless major museums around the world.
Press release courtesy David Zwirner.
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The Museum of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa
The Museum of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa is the youngest of its kind in Poland. It collects a number of monuments of religious art, which come from different ages, including around 100 paintings and 120 sculptures and vessels and vestments. Many of the objects exhibited here belong to the collection of monuments, which was started by Teodor Kubina, the first bishop of the Częstochowa diocese in 1925. Therefore, the museum now bears his name.
The Church of St Barbara and St Andrew in Częstochowa
The church of Saints Barbara and Andrew the Apostle is located in the vicinity of the monastery of Jasna Góra, with which its history is closely associated. According to tradition, in the fifteenth century, the picture of the Black Madonna was stolen, and the damaged picture was abandoned south of the walls of the monastery. It was at this site that a small church was erected in the seventeenth century. Its distinguishing feature is the cylindrical tower. The church is also known as the Sanctuary of the Hurt Icon of the Lady of Częstochowa.
The Museum of the 600th Anniversary of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa
The Museum of the 600th Anniversary of Jasna Góra is one of the several exhibitions at the monastery of Częstochowa. The museum, located near the chapel of the Miraculous Image, in the premises of the former printing office, which operated here from the seventeenth century to the time of its closure by the Russian occupants in 1864. The exhibition, consisting of various departments, was opened in 1982. The idea of creating the museum was associated with the jubilee celebration of the foundation of the monastery.
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa
The Shrine of Our Lady of Jasna Góra is the most popular Polish Marian shrine and one of the most important in the world. In the monastery complex of the Pauline Fathers monastery, people venerate a Byzantine icon with the miraculous image of the Virgin and Child, which was brought to Częstochowa in the fifteenth century. The present buildings of the monastery are mainly from the seventeenth century and represent the Baroque style.
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EDMONTON – What will be Canada’s largest facility of its kind will recover nutrients from Edmonton’s waste water and turn it into eco-friendly, slow-release fertilizer.
Partners Edmonton-based Epcor Water Services and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, of Vancouver, announced Tuesday they are building a plant to recover phosphorous from the waste water stream produced by the Clover Bar biosolids settling lagoons at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre.
The plant will be built by Ostara and PCL Construction Management at Clover Bar, where Epcor discharges the bio-solids produced at its Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Sewage from the city flows into the Gold Bar plant. After a first round of treatment at Gold Bar, it is piped to Clover Bar where ponds are used to settle heavier materials. The remaining water is then piped back to Gold Bar where it’s further treated.
When fully operational in 2015, the nutrient-recovery plant at Clover Bar is expected to produce at least 2,032 tonnes of Crystal Green-branded fertilizer annually. It’s used in the specialty agriculture, turf and ornamental markets.
“Implementing Ostara’s nutrient recovery technology will help us reduce the amount of phosphorous that we are discharging to the North Saskatchewan River at the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant,” said project manager Gavin Post, in a news release.
Excess nutrient discharge contributes to the growth of algae and other plants, which reduce oxygen and sunlight and harms other aquatic life.
It will also reduce the need to use chemicals to fight the buildup of struvite, a hard mineral deposit caused by excess nutrients that chokes water-treatment equipment.
The companies say the facility will recover up to 85 per cent of phosphorous — about 245 tonnes of phosphorous a year — and 25 per cent of nitrogen from the Clover Bar biosolids lagoons.
“It provides a proven and affordable means of helping cities become better stewards of their environment through sound management practices,” said Ostara president and CEO Phillip Abrary.
Read full article at www.edmontonjournal.com
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Building for peace in the aftermath of war
Violence & nonviolence
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Welcome to Hell (News)
Nonviolent revolution in Serbia? (News)
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Castor - a real opportunity? (News)
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War Resisters League 2001 Peace Calendar, 'Earthshaking Women: 20th Century Rebels and Peacemakers' (Review)
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Feature by Robert Sautter
Small-scale peace teams have played an important role in supporting local groups and facilitating dialogue between divided communities. Robert Sautter reports on the work of the Balkan Peace Team in Kosov@.
I can speak both Serbian and Albanian, but which one I use sets me on one side against the other. There is no place for me here, I do not belong. As she finished speaking these words, Mersiha, a young Slavic Muslim from Prishtina, looked at me intently and demanded to know what the Balkan Peace Team was doing to address the tenuous situation in which she and individuals from other minority communities throughout Kosova are existing.
Kosova may have faded from the headlines, but Mersihas experience is a reminder that the conflict here is both unresolved and filled with complexity. While the original conflict may have been between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, today's post-war tensions exist between the majority Albanian population and the minority populations of Serbs, Turks, Roma, and Slavic Muslims. Responding responsibly to the complicated reality that characterises Kosova today, is a challenge that the Balkan Peace Team is taking very seriously. It includes responding to questions such as Mersihas and the many others whose lives have been altered beyond recognition since the events of 1999.
The process of recovering from the wars in Kosova is underway, with local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as inter-governmental organisations, working to reconstruct the region. The process of social reconstruction part of which is the building of inter-ethnic community confidence is one that the Balkan Peace Team believes must occur in conjunction with physical reconstruction.
Developing trust
One method through which community confidence can begin to be established is through small-scale cross-community interaction especially among young people. Therefore, one of the projects that the team is developing is the establishment of a youth centre in the remote community of Dragasha town comprised of two ethnic communities: Albanians and Slavic Muslims known as Goranci.
By founding a centre where youth from both communities can have access to locally identified needed services, such as computer training and English language lessons, BPT hopes that the young people can begin, at their own pace, to interact and that relationships of trust can begin to be developed.
With a vision of fostering a culture of peace and tolerance between the two communities of Dragash, the youth centre will be a safe space in which all young people can build skills, explore creative self-expression and most important, create support networks among themselves. The activities of the centre will be designed by listening to their views and incorporating their ideas. This will foster a sense of community ownership while encouraging the youth from both groups to co-operate with one another.
Facilitating peace-building is a process requiring a long-term commitment and a respect for the time that traumatised people need for healing. This is especially apparent in the war-torn society of Kosova, where the memories of repression are still vivid, the wounds of recent atrocities still festering, and inter-ethnic violence still rampant.
The BPT team in Kosova hopes to continue to listen to and work with all communities in the region. In this way, they seek to contribute meaningfully and responsibly to the construction of peace and tolerance so that no one will be made to feel that their home is no longer a place where they belong.
Balkan Peace Team, Ringstr 9a, 32427 Minden, Germany (+49 571 20776; fax 23019; bptio@BalkanPeaceTeam.org; http://www.BalkanPeace.Team.org).
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A Moment with Edward de Vere
Posted: July 17, 2011 in Fiction
Tags: Edward de Vere, William Shakespeare
Often when he rode through the town he could feel their eyes on him and the envy, the jealousy, and the overwhelming desire that they cast made him want to scream. These townspeople – some poor men held to the land they worked, some better men who were free to find the best work, some merchants who lived well in houses almost as large as his own – they all, to the man, looked upon him the same way when he passed. They saw the finery of his dress and they saw the value of his well-bred steed and expensive saddle and bridle. But before all else they saw his title, for nothing else in this land mattered so much as a title. He wasn’t and could never be just a man to them. He would forever be Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl Of Oxford, a member of the nobility whose station by birth made him superior to the common man.
And sometimes this made Edward weep.
For when he looked back at them he was never so similarly blinded by their caste. When Edward gazed upon the cobbler while riding by the shop each morning he saw in his mind’s eye the complete story of a man’s life, with its many chapters and its beginnings and endings. How many daughters did this cobbler have, learning the ladies’ arts at home from their mother? How many sons lived above the shop and which of them would follow in his footsteps, joining the cobblers’ guild and making fine boots and shoes? How many loves had come and gone in the old man’s life before he settled on the woman who was now his wife, and was she a loving partner or a shrew? What dreams did he still entertain, even though in his age every word of his life was surely written in stone?
But Edward could never ask the man these things. Conversation was rarely given freely between the common people and the nobility. The cobbler might answer the most basic questions a gentleman asked, but his innermost thoughts were separated from Edward forever by the disaster of the latter’s noble birth. Asking such questions of Edward’s own class would of course be redundant. No secrets were kept in the castle halls. Every secret was deliberately cried from the towers to feed the egos of the thick, preening, lifeless and wellborn.
There, the people at the market each about their own business; the gay men, the wit entertaining his young friends, the buyer debilitated by indecision as the greedy eyes of the merchant wait for him to make a choice. It was people such as this who populated the Earth, not the odd and self-absorbed vessels of the noble houses who believed themselves blessed with a spark of the divine and who breathed the rarefied air of peerage.
Aye, there was the rub. Edward’s family would have found his fascination with the lives of the vulgar ken shocking, and this made Edward keep these thoughts to himself, which only increased his feeling of detachment. “Caught between two worlds,” he sometimes thought of himself, “I all alone beweep my outcast state and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries.”
Self-pity did not become him, however, and so he retreated to his books and diaries, places where the stories of men, albeit legendary, historical and mythical, lay ripe for consumption. Perhaps Hercules did not live the life of a simple cobbler, but at least he was human by half.
There was just one way he could communicate with them, be one with them, and show that he understood them. “The play,” he reminded himself. “The play’s the thing.”
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Omoyele Sowore
BREAKING : Justice Minister, Malami, Orders DSS : Release Dasuki, Sowore Now
Persecond News - December 24, 2019 0
Like a thunderbolt, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), has directed the Department of State Service (DSS) to release both the immediate past National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, and #RevolutionNow’ protest...
Just In: Sowore: Trial Judge Disqualifies Himself From Rights Enforcement Suit
A Federal High Court judge in Abuja, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, on Monday disqualified himself from hearing the fundamental rights enforcement suit by the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore. The suit among others wants an order of the court releasing him...
Nigeria’s Justice Minister to DSS: Hands off, handover Sowore’s case
...directs immediate transfer of case file to his office Amid smearing embarrassment and condemnation on the rearrest and trial of Omoyele Sowore by the Department of State Services (DSS), the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, has...
Sowore: Presidency endorses his re-arrest by DSS
Persecond News - December 8, 2019 0
…insists he wants to overthrow government Few hours after the Convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, was re-arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) in court on Friday, the Presidency on Sunday rationalized the action of the security operatives. The DSS...
Sowore’s re-arrest: U.S. State Department reacts
…respect rule of law, judicial independence, U.S. tells FG …why we re-arrested Sowore -- DSS A groundswell of condemnation has continued to trail Nigeria’s Department State Services (DSS) action re-arresting Omoyele Sowore in the courtroom after he was released less than...
DSS invasion of court: It’s time you intervene, SERAP tells U.S. President Trump
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has reacted to the rearrest and physical assault of the Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, by Nigeria’s secret police and called on the United States President, Mr Donald Trump, to intervene. The...
Sowore: U.S. to Buhari: America is watching, the world is watching
... it’s unacceptable, U.S relations with Nigeria may be reassessed in light of these events ``The United States is watching and the world is watching," an American Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, has said. He...
Saharareporters publisher Omoyele Sowore released from detention
PER SECOND NEWS - December 5, 2019 0
Sahara reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore was released from detention late Thursday afternoon after spending more than 100 days in DSS custody. Omoyele, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February election, was arrested in August and taken...
Sowore: Soyinka calls FG’s disobedience of court orders thuggish, disdainful
For the umpteenth time, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he is incensed by the Federal Government’s continued disobedience of court orders and judgments. Alluding to the refusal of the Federal Government to release the detained Publisher Sahara Reporters and ex-presidential candidate,...
Court slams DSS with N100, 000, orders release of Sowore within 24 hours
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, slammed the Department of State Services (DSS), with the sum of N100, 000 over its delay to serve the defence counsel with the additional proof of evidence in the ongoing trial of...
Lagos pipeline fire : Death toll rises to 5 die as 39 vehicles consumed
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Myths of the Veritas: Book 2 – The ROI
Posted by petersironwood in Uncategorized
{Translator’s Note}: The origins of the ROI tribe are not completely determined but the “story” or “myth” or “history” that I prefer is the premise used in this story. Their language is precise in some ways, but deeply embedded at the syntactic and semantic levels were very rigid framings about many things in life. In some areas that we would consider important, they had scarcely any vocabulary at all! For example, they seemed to view love as something of a disaster rather than as something wonderful. Often it was described as a kind of disease! This is a “disease” that allows us to survive as a species! But for them, things that proved less rigid and less predictable and less quantifiable seem to have been quite confusing and uncomfortable. Difficulties abounded in my attempts to portray what was actually happening until the Narrator told me that it was fine; he would fix it later because he had an omniscient view.
What follows served as both a creation myth and a daily devotional prayer among the ROI.
“Long ago, there were many tribes. But our tribe, the ROI, proved best of all. This is what we know:
“Each tribe had developed a different way of looking at life. Some argued that this was a natural consequence of having spent a long time in a different environment. But we know the truth; we chose our way because it is the best way. It is the way of putting numbers to everything and making very strict rules.
“Other tribes had different ideas so we devised a contest to see which tribe was correct. We would see who could propel their bodies fastest from the north edge of the common plain of Many Herds to the south end of the plain. All the tribes would go and prepare in whatever way they felt best and we would reconvene in one year to see who would win.
“Needless to say, all the other tribes interpreted our words to mean that we would have individuals from each tribe race for the prize — a fine parcel of land that stretched to the banks of the Stream of Many Trout. The various tribes went off and had various ways of choosing their fastest runners and having them train and train. Of course, we already had a superior solution: horses. After many years we discovered how to capture horses and then train them with the use of whips.
“When the day of the Great Contest came, the rest of the tribes were quite shocked to see someone astride a horse. Some seemed to think the horse would kill the human-astride or that the human-astride might break the back of the horse and kill it. Some felt it highly unlikely that the human-astride or rider would stay astride. {Translator’s Note: Analyses reveal that there was a shortening of the name as “riding” became more widespread.} Naturally, when the race was run, the ROI won! And, also naturally, the other tribes objected. But these objections eventually became mere glowing coals.
“Most tribes wanted to know how to capture and train horses. Naturally, we declined to show them! And, that wanting to have as their own that which was rightfully ours is why their complaints rekindled the fires of war. And, so the tribes worked together to drive us from our rightful home and we became wanderers. And so, we have been seeking another land. We will make this happen and destroy whoever now claims such a land.”
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Suicide-prevention bill would allow youths 12 and up to seek their own care
Payment systems could present challenges
Monday, March 11, 2019 5:03 AM
A bill that would allow children as young as 12 to seek mental health care without parental consent passed out of a House Public Health Care & Human Services committee last week.
Children as young as 12 may be allowed to seek mental health care without their parents’ consent if a bill pending this year in the Colorado state Legislature is approved.
The proposed law, HB 19 1120, is intended to expand access to mental health care as younger children in the state have started to die by suicide. Currently, children 15 and older can seek mental health care without parental consent.
“This is one piece of a puzzle to help make a difference in the youth suicide in Colorado,” said Heather McLaughlin, executive director of the Colorado chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
The bill is one of several measures pending in the Legislature to help address youth suicide.
In 2017, 187 Coloradans under 25 died by suicide, including four young residents of La Plata County.
Children, teens and young adults are also struggling with suicidal thoughts. Durango Police Department 911 data showed 46 calls involved suicidal people under 25 in 2017. The youngest suicidal person to contact police was 9 years old.
Durangoan Kate Niles said she supports the bill because she expects it will allow school counselors or social service workers to help students who have guardians who are not providing youth with needed mental health care. Some students may be living in abusive homes or situations fraught with emotional manipulation that make it impossible to seek care, said Niles, a member of the legislative committee for the National Association of Social Workers.
However, paying for care and finding an available mental health care provider could be challenging for teens seeking care, she said.
Teens on Medicaid would not need to alert parents to their care, she said. However, if students are covered by their parents’ private insurance, parents would likely find out about the care through billing, she said.
In La Plata County, youth 15 years and older can seek care without parental consent at Axis Health System’s community-based health clinics in Southwest Colorado, said Stephanie Allred, senior clinic director with the health system. However, students must have parental consent to seek care at school-based clinics with Durango School District 9-R run by Axis, she said.
If teens come to the clinics seeking care, the staff would closely work with them to figure out the best way to involve a parent or guardian, she said. Allred supports allowing youth to seek help on their own, she said.
“Allowing youth to have more control and decision-making in this process could be very empowering and lead to more youth asking for help,” she said.
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Study: Profs Less Likely to Hire NRA Members, Republicans
By Toni Airaksinen 2018-08-09T17:39:21
A study by a University of North Texas professor has discovered that members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) are the most likely to be discriminated against if they apply for a job in academia.
Findings of the study were published in the new book "Compromising Scholarship: Political Bias in Higher Education" by George Yancey, who teaches undergraduate sociology classes on race relations and religious tolerance at the University of North Texas.
The goal of his research, Yancey tells PJ Media, was to investigate possible hiring discrimination. Because finding clear incidents of this is difficult, Yancey indirectly assessed this — by asking professors their thoughts on certain political groups.
"Assume that your faculty is hiring a new professor," began his survey, taken by 435 sociology professors in the United States. "If you were able to learn of [their political group memberships], would that make you more or less likely to support their hire?"
Political groups listed in the survey included Communist, Libertarian, Green Party, Republican, NRA, ACLU, and Democrat. To confuse professors about the true aim of the survey, Yancey also included groups such as vegetarians and single parents.
Of all political affiliations, NRA membership was ranked as the most likely to hurt an aspiring professor’s chance of getting hired, with 41.2 percent conceding that it would “damage” an applicant’s chance of getting hired.
NRA members fared even worse than Republicans. Only 28.7 percent of professors indicated that Republican Party membership would damage a candidate's chance of being hired, according to Yancey’s research.
Yancy suspects that NRA members are more marginalized in academics because "NRA membership denotes a more conservative brand of Republicanism," he tells PJ Media.
"Someone may be a moderate Republican which can be seen as acceptable but I suspect that academics envision individuals in the NRA as being on the far right."
Meat hunters, evangelicals, and fundamentalists also are less likely to be hired, Yancey found.
"My work here… has moved me to thinking that anti-discrimination programs should focus on our national propensity to discrimination rather than focus on non-discrimination of protected classes. We all tend to have groups we have prejudice towards."
For professors hoping to get hired, Yancey has some advice.
Aspiring professors "who are members of the Democratic Party and the ACLU should trumpet those facts during their interviews. Those who are conservative religious and politically should hide," he explained.
While Yancy glosses over this in his book, it isn’t just political conservatives who are viewed negatively. Roughly 20 percent of professors said they view members of the Libertarian Party negatively, while virtually none view it as beneficial.
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"The information in this research indicates that revealing one’s political and religious conservatism will, on average, negatively influence about half of the academic search committee," he concludes.
“Compromising Scholarship: Political and Religious Bias in Higher Education” was published by Baylor University Press. More of Professor Yancey’s research, including his books and upcoming events, can be found here.
Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @Toni_Airaksinen.
Democrats Outnumber Republicans 70 to 1 in College Religion Departments, 10 to 1 Overall
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A SECOND IS A HICCUP and NON-FICTION THROW-DOWN
One good throw-down deserves another! Here are rocking non-fiction recommendations, one for every finger on both hands. So often we think of kids who get lost in fictional stories as the real readers, but remember, non-fiction is real reading, too! By affirming our children's quest for information, history and how-to, we are supporting critical thinkers and bringing boys and reluctant readers into the fold.
A SECOND IS A HICCUP: A CHILD'S BOOK OF TIME by Hazel Hutchins, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton (Scholastic)
"How long is an hour?/Sixty minutes singing by./ If you build a sandy tower/ Run right through a sprinkly shower/ Climb a tree and smell a flower/ Pretend you have a secret power/That should nicely fill an hour." How about a day? A month? A year? The abstract concept of time is given a poetic and tangible treatment in this lyrical book. Gentle, washy watercolors depict young children busy within a warm circle of family and friends. In perfect time with the preschool world view a la Ruth Krauss (A HOLE IS TO DIG), this title is both useful and sweet. (4 and up)
THE SNOW BABY: THE ARCTIC CHILDHOOD OF ROBERT E. PEARY'S DARING DAUGHTER by Katherine Kirkpatrick (Holiday House) Yes, this is a wintery pick, but consider it Christmas in July or your read-aloud answer to central air conditioning! I read this book on an airplane, and literally had people craning over the aisle to see the beautiful and unusual photographs of the great junior adventurer, Marie Ahnighito Peary, whose daddy Lt. Admiral Robert Peary was hell-bent on winning the race to the North Pole. An intimate and very complete look at a family on a mission, the book captures the adventure of racing down cliffs, dodging avalanches, relocating a meteorite, witnessing a walrus slaughter and being trapped amidst icebergs and midnight blizzards, as well as the dualities of Marie's frustratingly genteel life in the states and the free spirited one spent amidst her Inuit friends. Children who love non-fiction history or survival stories in the vein of Gary Paulsen will whoop with joy and disappear with the book as fast as a dog-sled will carry them, however, my one compunction is that there was nothing distinctively for children in the writing style; the straighforward essay-like text peppered with facts, long names and geography may leave some children with less prior knowledge in the dust (or the snow, as the case may be), only suggesting all the more that this is a book to be shared. The photos are plentiful, evocative and gorgeous and go far to take the reader away to the snowy landscape, with Marie at the helm (see page 31, she looks so marvelous with those buttons up and down her hood). The details of the lives are moving, from Peary's African-American companion Matthew Henson becoming an uncelebrated clerk after accompanying Peary on his celebrated adventure; the devoted wife Josephine Peary who suffered the loss of a child and followed her husband literally to the end of the earth, only to discover he was messing around with some chick named Allakasingwah; and the controversy against Peary's claim that he ever was first at all. At the core of this story with its very adult conflicts is the optimistic and confident child who finds friends all around the world, and will find a friend in readers today, a century later. Overall, this is a compelling, well-researched book that reads like a treasured photo album with a narrator to tell you the stories behind the people. Make the discovery! (8 and up)
DRUMBEAT IN OUR FEET by Patricia A. Keeler and Julio T. Leitao, illustrated by Patricia Keeler (Lee & Low) After seeing the Batoto Yetu performance of young dancers in New York City, the author was inspired to write this truly informative and exuberant tribute to the art form of African Dance. Double-page spreads seep from sepia-toned scenes from Africa into energetic full-color watercolors of a class in Harlem in preparation for a big show. We see the powerful dance that accompanies a boy's coming of age, the Mukanda; the image-dances that imitate lumbering elephants and high-flying birds; we learn the meaning behind the face-paint of the Yoruba and Shona; we vicariously hear drums that speak, animal skin voices that carry for miles, and communicate with each other through call and response; we honor ancestors and spirits through dance, masks, libation and celebration. The author maintains an amazingly seamless flow between the factual information and the movement toward the big performance. Notes after the text include vibrant full-color photos, as well as a clear map, pronunciation guide, and a listing of the author's sources. This high-interest, high-octane book has a tremendous immediacy and children will definitely come away from it knowing things they didn't know before. It is a brilliant contribution to multicultural literature as well as literature about the arts, and will bring out the dancer/drummer/painter in every reader. If children enjoy this book, they will also enjoy jumping in to CAPOEIRA! GAME! DANCE! MARTIAL ART! by legendary children's author and photojournalist George Ancona (also published by Lee & Low), where readers can learn the basic steps and background of the expressive Brazilian movement that synthesizes many art forms. (both 6 and up)
PALEO SHARKS: SURVIVAL OF THE STRANGEST by Timothy J. Bradley (Chronicle) Dinosaurs. Sharks. Dinosaurs. Sharks. Ask a boy what they want to read about, and at one point another, they will say dinosaurs or sharks. So how about a book that combines dinosaurs and sharks...that's right, that's what I said! Hard-core dinosaur-shark fans can delve into this full deck of super-toothy prehistoric undersea delights, illustrated with handsome, moody, decidedly graphic-novel-esque artwork, informative sidelines and enough new five-syllable names to keep paleontologists busy for a while (don't worry, pronunciation follows each word). Buzz-saw mouths! Tongues with teeth on them! Whale-eating sharks! This ain't no fooling around. What Jaws would check out if he had a library card. (7 and up)
TELL ME A PICTURE by Quentin Blake (Millbrook) Summer means visits to museums, and we have the renowned illustrator of Roald Dahl's works and Children's Laureate as a dream guide though the marble halls. Blake is dedicated to making art accessible to all, and this book is particularly effective in that regard, as we follow some cartoonish characters on an alphabetic exploration of the National Gallery. The artist is introduced, we see the painting, and then are tuned into questions and reactions of our cartoon counterparts. It gives some heavy fine art a light touch by allowing the person looking to respond without intrusive commentary, and the really brilliant stroke in this book is that it includes children's book illustration alongside the work of Old Masters. We move from Goya and Edward Hopper to Roberto Innocenti and Lizabeth Zwerger. In this way, the value of art for children is deeply affirmed, and such juxtapositions also ask children to look for and value art everywhere. The message is: Look! Look! Look! This is the most sensitive and developmentally appropriate art book for children that I know, and though this is not the newest book (it's in paperback!) I am dreadfully concerned that it's not in everyone's collection. Own some great art today by adding it to yours. (5 and up)
DOGS AND CATS by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin) By far, the most requested topic at my school library is "pets," and this fact-filled compendium by a Caldecott-winning illustrator delivers. The book can be clevery flipped, dogs on one side and cats on the other, like getting two books in one, converging in the middle to answer about felines and canines: "friends or enemies?" The whole book takes an inquiry based approach, answering questions like "where did the first dog come from?" "How is a dog breed created?' "Why do cats scratch the furniture?" Did you know cats don't have a collarbone, and can't taste sweets? Can you name the first dog in space? This book is fat with fun facts in language that is never dumbed down, fetchingly illustrated in Jenkin's signature torn-paper style. Sure to be a pet reading pick. (6 and up)
DADBLAMED UNION ARMY COW by Susan Fletcher, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root (Candlewick) "That dadblamed cow! When I went off to the railway station to ride with my regiment, I told her, 'Git home now, you dadblamed cow.' But she snuck on board when nobody was looking. 'Whose dadblamed cow is this?' Captain asked. Dadblamed cow said, 'Moo.' That dadblamed cow! She followed me to the war. Marched step by step all the way South. Clop two three four, Clop two three four. Dadblamed, footsore cow!" The loyal bovine follows her swearing soldier all the way into battle, where her devotion and her udders go far to save lives. Based on a true story of a cow that marched with the Union Army during the Civil War (author's note included), this colloquial, spirited tale that the youngest history enthusiasts and military families can enjoy captures the voice and frustration of its narrator, and is accompanied by folksy, sketchy landscapes of the war and its weary combatants. A book with a lot of heart, and milk with which to wash it down. (5 and up)
THE GOLDEN RULE by Ilene Cooper, illustrated by Gabi Swiatowska (Abrams) A thoughtful conversation between a boy and his grandfather is inspired by the words, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." How does one start to practice such a rule? Can the little boy stretch his imagination and put himself in somebody else's shoes? By telling the truth, helping others in need and listening to others he finds the way to gild himself with what is truly golden. This book asks big questions such as what would happen if the whole world practiced what they preach, and ends with a high note of personal responsibility. The context of a boy speaking to a loved one keeps the story from being too preachy, and thoughtful artwork incorporates iconic imagery from all over the world. If you want to split library classification hairs, this does not officially qualify as a non-fiction book, but it's greatest strength is its aspects of philosophy and religion, and a look at the way The Golden Rule is worded from six different faiths. This is a powerful and necessary springboard into conversations with our own children, and would also be a welcome gift for any teacher or religious leader. (5 and up)
JANE ADDAMS: CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin (Clarion)
"Then Jane Addams came into the room! It was the first time that I looked into those kind, understanding eyes. There was a gleam of welcome in them that made me feel I was wanted. She told us that she was glad we had come. Her voice was warm and I knew she meant what she said. We were all poor. Some of us were underfed. Some of us had holes in our shoes. But we were not afraid of each other. What greater service can a human being give than to banish fear from the heart of a child?"
My high school history teacher Ms. Weissenberg once assigned what was for me a watershed book, ALTGELD'S AMERICA by Ginger Ray (now out of print), bringing the turn of the past century to life and infusing in me a lifelong interest in and inspiration through the contributions of Jane Addams and her Hull House. I was frustrated in later years by slim pickings of literature about her life. Imagine my delight in finding a children's book that does both Addams and that time period some justice! Lots of primary sources, lovely photographs and writing that doesn't balk at the tough stuff but words it in a way young people can understand brings history to life. This solid biography will also bring children to the point that they will appreciate this iconic figure from the past as a hero in the present, and is an especially poignant requisite reading choice as a woman contender enters the arena of presidential candidacy. Addams' far-reaching efforts such as co-founding the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, presiding over the Women's Peace Party and and her outspoken role as a suffragette are legendary, but my favorite of her achievements was the establishment of Hull House settlement, a place where all of Chicago's tired, poor, hungry, huddled masses could come to learn languages, take classes in child care, cooking, drawing, singing, piano, athletics, chemistry, math, gymnastics, and participate in storytelling sessions, youth clubs, and reading groups. She also delivered a baby or two. All of her affiliations and actions earned her both the monikers "Miss Kind Heart" and "Most Dangerous Woman in America," but one thing for sure, Jane Addams was a "doer." The Fradins always write about doers. You can be a doer this summer by reading aloud their biographies to your children, so they can have great mentors and grow up to be doers, too. (10 and up)
Flag still unfurled from the glorious Fourth? Keep that sparkler of interest glowing with Patriotic Picks from PlanetEsme, a list of All-American children's books.
Posted by Esme Raji Codell at 11:05 AM
I love the Drumbeat in our Feet title! After seeing your recommendation here I went searching for it at my library. What a gem! It is beautifully put together and wonderfully informative!
Thanks for the nonfiction recommendations. I'm always looking for more nonfiction titles to blog about. By the way, I loved Dadblamed Union Cow!
AMY T said...
I also got a library copy of Drumbeat in Our Feet after reading you rec., and my 3 Sudanese daughters adored the entire book. Thanks!
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Owen Barfield blog
A blog to discuss the implications of Owen Barfield's ideas. Bruce G Charlton was winner of the Owen Barfield Award for Excellence 2018.
The Luciferic Ahrimanic double-whammy that has (partly or wholly) destroyed all institutions (including churches)
One of Rudolf Steiner's most valuable insights was that evil has an older Luciferic and a more modern Ahrimanic form.
Luciferic evil is instinctive, short termist, selfish and psychopathic - for example the lust which desires other people merely for sexual exploitation, or the sadism that desires torture, or the power that desires to humiliate and crush. This is the evil of Caligula or Nero, of Ghengis Khan, of the post-war African dictators such as Charles Taylor.
The Ahrimanic evil is more modern; it is the despair-inducing, soul-destroying, utterly-demotivating Iron Cage of totalitarian bureaucracy - where all is a single system and all Men are merely cogs to serve it. This is the evil of late Soviet communism, of The Borg, of the overpromoted-middle-manager, Head Girl Type (e.g. the-3-Ms - Merkel, May, Macron) that increasingly runs large organisations, corporations and Western nations.
These evils synergise - especially when Luciferic liberation - such as the middle sixties style sexual revolution feeds the vast arrays of spies, informers, officials, inquisitors and controllers that is the realm of modern sexuality - enforcing their inverted value system with bribes, threats and coercion.
The modern era emerged from what Steiner termed the era of the 'Intellectual Soul' - and example of which is the medieval world of Western Europe, with its institutions of religion, law, education and the like. These institutions were simple bureaucracies but with a 'light touch, and considerable space for individualism, eccentricity and indeed selfish psychopathy...
But when Christianity receded then was excluded, these institutions became compromises which pleased neither the Luciferic libertarians, nor the totalitarian Ahrimanic powers.
Think of the education system of the the first half of the twentieth century. It was regulated and hierarchical, it had rules and certificates and exclusion - but the period of education was relatively short, and there was space for considerable personal judgement and large variation in philosophy and practice between institutions.
Schools and colleges were regarded as suffocatingly oppressive and controlling by the little Lucifers of the sixties counter-culture. This began the destruction.
And then the Ahrimanic systemisers found more and more evidence of their bureaucratic incompleteness. Human judgement meant the possibility of individual corruption, variations meant that some institutions must be deficient or wrong. The pressure was irresistible to bring all institutions under a single 'true' ideology and to close off all loopholes, fill all the gaps in the systems...
Same applies to churches. They became a compromise that satisfied nobody. On the one hand they were institutions of patriarchal dictatorship; on the other hand they were economically and economically 'unaccountable' - what was going on in them? Nobody knew. Who controlled what they did, lost of mostly unidentified people, What were the details of their operations? Unrecorded...
The response was a massive programme of incremental monitoring and control of every aspect of decision-making - and the integration of this with the national (eventually multi-national) System.
There is no functional coherence to this pincer movement of institutional destruction - the only coherence is destruction. There is not coherence or direction to the end result of this crude mixture of psychopathic irresponsibility and totalitarian control - except the evil ethic of value-inversion.
But the end result is that nobody supports the actual compromise of any existing institution - always they want more Luciferic license, and/or more Ahrimanic 'accountability'.
Hence, all institutions, of every kind, have-been or are-being destroyed... With no end in sight, and no end possible even in principle - since in our secular, hedonic-despairing, God-eliminated society there is no higher value that might be able to transcend the destructive paradox.
Posted by Bruce Charlton at 14:45
The metaphysical evil of modern environmentalism
Modern environmentalism is anti-human, its underlying assumption is that if it wasn't for the activities of man - then there would be no environmental problem.
This applies pretty much across the board, and goes back even to the early (1970s) environmentalism (or 'ecology' as it was called then) - when the emphasis was medievalism/ de-industrialisation, anti-consumption, self-sufficiency, voluntary simplicity. In general, Man was intrinsically a problem and therefore ought to tread-lightly (as possible, with as few feet as possible) on the earth.
More recently, with the Global-Warming-climate-change-emergency-revolution mob; this has become a kind of self-hatred combined with that generalised loathing of people that surfaces among even the most mainstream of environmentalists - such as Sir David Attenborough.
I mean that barely suppressed desire to clean the planet of all people - starting-with, but ultimately not-confined-to, climate-change deniers...
This assumption of Men versus The Environment is even accepted by the opponents of mainstream Green activists - but they simply take the opposite stance that Man is more important than the environment.
But the lesson of the philosophical understandings of Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield is that Man co-creates the environment. The environment has no independent existence separate from Men's conceptualising of it. As Steiner summarised in Philosophy of Freedom, we know nothing of percepts without concepts, there is no objectivity without common concepts.
As Barfield said, in the Saving the Appearances (1957) - that which is unrepresented in unknown. The most we could know or say without Man is that there is something-else, but what that something might be?... Well, it would not be 'the environment' as we know it.
Without Man thinking, there would be no environment. If Men were destroyed, the environment would also be destroyed.
Therefore, mainstream environmentalism is incoherent - and always has been. Its motivational chronic anti-Man animus is revealed for the evil it is.
Limitations of Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom
Rudolf Steiner's The Philosophy of Freedom (PoF; 1894) played a very important role in my personal development - indeed, it was perhaps vital. Nonetheless it is ultimately wrong and can cause serious problems if not (after understanding it) one fails to discard or transcend it. .
This is because PoF explains itself in terms of an abstract, simplified, and grossly incomplete model of human thinking. It is A Model (Percept + Concept = united by Thinking).
And any model is false - because simplified compared with complex reality; and false because abstract when reality is 'animistic' (about Beings and their Relationships).
The PoF is, in fact, Ahrimanic in structure: it divides the world into categories of percepts and concepts, and suggests that these are united in thinking. Yet the world is not really divided into percepts; not is thinking objectively divisible into concepts.
Therefore if we begin in Ahrimanic materialist alienation; if we then understand PoF which tells us how it works, and how to escape it...
But if we stop at that point; assume the validity of PoF and try to live by the model of PoF - then we will be stuck in just another kind of abstract materialism: we will loop back into the demonic traps of Ahriman.
We will just create yet-another bureaucratic religion - as happened with Rudolf Steiner's Anothroposophy: which consists merely in learning stuff (studying the scriptures of The Doctor) and doing Anthroposophic stuff (education, medicine, agriculture etc) according to the usual Ahrimanic vocabulary/ lexicon, blueprints, flow charts, recipes, rules and regulations...); as defined by the usual Ahrimanic hierarchy or authority and temple structure with sacred places and rituals...
The Philosophy of Freedom does not, therefore, in itself give us freedom, not even a little bit - unless it is seen as a first step; as a ladder that is ascended then discarded. We need an alternative to Ahriman, not merely a different kind of Ahriman; nor a reaction back to seek an impossible to Luciferic unconscious instinct - or Original Participation...
We need, in other words, to move forward to what Steiner called the Intuitive Soul and Barfield called Final Participation - and this entails something qualitatively different-from the analysis, theories and methods of Steiner's Anthroposophy, and different too from the philosophical abstractions of Barfield.
They are perhaps essential - at least for some people such as myself, but they are a starting-point merely.
Moving forward to the new synthesis
When beauty, truth and virtue become separated, they pretty soon die.
Indeed (as I have implied before, in my books on the corruption of science, and the decline of genius) - when there is a move from the unity of the traditional Christian religiousness (with residues of Original Participation) to a concentration of life-energies upon just-beauty (artistic romanticism), just-truth (science and the Wissenschaftlich factual-systematic academic subjects) or just-virtue (some types of Protestant) - then there is at first an enhanced achievement in that specialised field.
The exceptional productivity of first generation atheists (i.e. childhood traditional Christians, who become atheist and then channel their religious energies into 'their subject') provides a misleading, ultimately false, impression of a wonderful future of enhanced attainment from rejecting religion and specialising in some narrower aspect of Culture.
Thus, first-generation atheists who become commited artists, scientists and ethicists (such as 'fundamentalist' Protestants, or the existentialists) may achieve genius-level work, when they have been brought-up as traditionalists, and assimilated and retained a unified thought structure from that.
But with the next generation, brought-up as atheists, and without any coherent unity of world-view, the specialised art, science and religion withers and begins to die - because separate organs cannot live independently of the whole organism.
Art for arts sake, science-as-religion, purely ethical philosophy (or Christianity indifferent to beauty and truth) are all non-viable; and will sustain in-name-only, only by assimilating to mainstream secularity - bureaucracy and the mass media...
OK, but what then? Above all others, Owen Barfield pointed the way forward; perhaps because he was born in 1897; yet (ahead of his time, in this respect) he was brought-up in a thoroughly secular fashion - as an atheist, in an atheistic leftist radical household. Therefore Barfield could not revert to a childhood Original Participation religiousness; but in seeking to overcome the fragmentation and death of Life, he could only move forward.
Barfield was able to move forward, because he had extreme appreciation and ability in all three of the main specialised capacities (art, science, ethics). He had an intense appreciation of poetry and music and great ability as a writer; a brilliantly philosophical rigour; and an two-sided sensitivity to contemporary ethical collapse (he saw both the profound faults of the past, and the utter inadequacy of contemporary 'solutions').
Then, Barfield had the intellectual honesty to recognise that the prevalent situation was unacceptable and non-viable - it was, in a word, evil. The only possible answer to this gathering, unavoidable crisis and denied-decline into damnation, was that the separation of life into 'watertight compartments' must be overcome. A new synthesis was required.
Barfield had also the rare insight that going-back was simply not an option. Barfield argued that a reversion to earlier forms was undesirable, because it was precisely analogous to an adult trying to become a child; and for the same reason it was anyway impossible.
Since an atavistic reversion to past unity was not going to happen, and the present disunity was evil and unsustainable; we simply must move forward to a new kind of unity.
Barfield saw that the broken threads of Culture must be rewoven, if we personally and socially were to avoid an incremental descent into hell-on-earth; but rewoven in a new and unprecedented way. Specifically, re-woven in full consciousness and with full choice.
Past unity was essentially traditional, hence unconscious and unexamined; the future unity could only be freely chosen, and as such conscious.
Future unity - which he called Final Participation - was not something that would happen-to us, but something we must each make-happen. So, if we did not make that choice and effort, it will not happen. We must know what we are doing, and then do it.
Moving on to a new unity and synthesis of Good is - unavoidably - up to each of us, personally: starting now.
References: Owen Barfield's main books on this theme are are probably Romanticism Comes of Age, Saving the Appearances, World's Apart, and Unancestral Voice. All are equally good, although all take sustained effort to understand - each has a different character.
Symbolism has broken down in Christianity; and the church is symbolism
I believe that symbolism has all-but broken down as a way of attaining the transcendental, especially the divine. I would see symbolism as including creeds, rituals, icons, scripture and all holy writings, spoken language (forms of words, in ceremony,blessing, prayer etc.), priesthood: the church itself (all churches that are regarded as having an essential role or authority in some aspect of Christianity).
Indeed, as soon as symbolism was understood, it was already breaking-down - because when symbolism really works (as it did up towards the end of the Middle Ages) it is regarded as reality, not symbolism.
The symbol is not seen 'literally' (that is a modern distortion) - rather the literal symbol and the transcendental reality are seen as inseparably one.
But when I was first a Christian, I sought the fullest kind of symbolic Christianity. And I was shocked and dismayed that there was no single church or denomination which took symbolism seriously and thoroughly - none at at all; not a single one.
Some were strict about ritual, but not about language; some about scripture but not about words of prayer or particular 'translations' of scripture; some about vestments but not about ceremony - none at all try to provide a thoroughly consistent symbolism.
As I say, at first I was dismayed and felt lost. Then I recognised that this was an implicit (albeit not self-aware) manifestation of the actual, objective, loss of the power and necessity of symbolism.
I now regard this as a consequence of the developmental-evolution of consciousness in Western Man, and part of the increase in self-consciousness and separation from The World; our sense of losing the spontaneous, unconscious sense of being 'in' the world, including 'in' the divine world.
(The complete loss of Original Participation and the advent of the Consciousness Soul.)
In a world without symbolism; the only possible replacement would seem to be the primacy of intuition and the necessity and possibility of direct and unmediated knowing - developing to the new situation of Final Participation: loving participation in the divine creation.
So, my argument is that the fact that no existing Western church will take symbolism seriously is evidence that symbolism has become impossible, ineffectual - and we are faced with either being stuck in our present alienation, or else (as I advocate in Romantic Christianity) moving forward to a different form of consciousness: intuitive direct knowing, Final Participation.
Keri Ford on the links between Steiner and Barfield
Keri Ford has done a really excellent 23 minute analysis of the relationship between Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield. For me, this matter is of first rank important in my own life and thought, and describes the unavoidable current crux of our civilisation; so I am delighted to have such a concentrated consideration of made available in this format.
One interesting and original aspect is that Keri draws upon Barfield's unpublished, semi-autobiographical novel English People - written from 1927-9 (which is available free online) - to demonstrate the point of contact between these two thinkers, and the way in which Steiner worked-upon Barfield in a manner analogous to Barfield's intense appreciation of lyrical poetry.
Near the beginning of the video, Keri also tackles the 'elephant in the room' about Steiner, that ultra-detailed and systematic bizarreness of 'objective description' of past, present and future which confronts anyone who tries to read Steiner.
Keri frames it very helpfully in terms of Steiner describing history as he observes it 'from the inside'; and that what we need to do is first acknowledge the validity of this project, and only then address Steiner's attempt - not by wholesale rejection - but by trying to do better.
RUP in another guise: The problem of residual abstraction (maths, geometry, physics) in philosophical/ theological thinking
This is a really, really Big problem! What is more, it affects the very best and most important thinkers and writers in my pantheon of influences for Romantic Christianity - Steiner, Barfield, Arkle...
The problem is that the understandings and explanations of such people are/ remain rooted in abstract phenomena - despite that these are intending to advocate a personal, 'animistic', 'anthropomorphic' metaphysics.
Their basic idea is that reality is a matter of Beings in Relationships... That the ultimate entities are Beings (alive, conscious, purposive) and that what holds things together and provides structure is the relationships of these Beings.
Yet ni advocating a metaphysics of Being and Relations; these authors fall back, again and again, into abstraction; into the use of examples drawn from physics, geometry and mathematics.
eg. Steiner in Philosophy of Freedom develops his argument wholly abstractly, in terms of categories of percept and concept, and his example is the geometrical figure of the triangle.
Barfield uses physics as his primary mode of explanation; the rainbow is his most famous example; and he calls his new way of thinking 'polarity' which he describes relationships between beings in abstract-mathematical-physics ways - using magnetism and electricity as explanations.
Arkle's main book, A Geography of Consciousness, uses geometrical and physics graphs, tables and diagrams to explain his 'system' - despite that he explicitly asserts everything is alive and conscious.
This could be regarded as a prime example of Residual Unresolved Positivism (RUP) as described by Barfield - and the fact that Barfield himself was prone to it (as was his Master, Steiner) shows how difficult it is to shake-off. This difficulty is most apparent in Barfield's most deep and rigorous book - How Coleridge Thought - when the clash of perspectives is the source of greatest difficulty in understanding the argument. Barfield seems unaware of how his abstractly-structured schemes are so fundamentally at-odds-with what he is trying to prove using these schemes. The key term 'polarity' is mathematical and derived from magnetism (later electricty) - and as difficult to understand intuitively as most such ideas are.
The problem is so old that it can seem inevitable - it goes back to the ancient Greeks, who nearly always used (the ancient equivalent of...) physics as the basis of their metaphysics - with principles such as fire or water underlying 'everything'.
Another example is that 'form' is taken as primary (as with Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas) - and 'form' is conceptualised in geometric terms and often using geometrical examples. (A modern instance is Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields.)
Whereas the primary reality is actually A Being, not A Triangle; is a Being's motivation, not a force or principle.
This abstraction then leads on to the problem (the error) of regarding Time as... optional. The delusion that Time can be set aside, redefined etc. When a world is seen as abstract as its reality and bottom line - then Time loses its function; indeed Time becomes a nuisance!
Yet, if the world is of Beings, beings exists In Time, and only In Time. In cross-section, there are no Beings - because in a 'zero' timescale there is no Life, no Consciousness - if Life and Consciousness are primary, then there is and always must be Time...
Thus one error leads on to another,
But what this does show is the need for further work for Romantic Christianity; because Steiner, Barfield, Arkle are all in error by using maths/ geometry and physics as their models and explanations.
There us work to be done to restate their arguments in terms that are coherent with the conclusions of their arguments.
The good news is that - when thus restated - the metaphysics and theology of Romantic Christianity becomes something intuitively understandable by a child; rather than requiring advanced training in the natural sciences.
Keri Ford reviews a new book on Owen Barfield
On the one hand, it is good that people are paying attention to Owen Barfield; on the other hand, when Barfield is enlisted to support a mainstream Leftist agenda, something has gone terribly wrong... Keri Ford provides some details.
Understanding the consciousness of Fiver - the shamanic rabbit of Watership Down
[Fiver:] Well, there’s another place - another country - isn’t there. We go there when we sleep: at other times to; and when we die.
El-ahrairah [the rabbits' god] comes and goes between the two as he wants, I suppose, but I never could quite make that out, from the tales.
Some rabbits will tell you it’s all easy there, compared with the waking dangers that they under- stand. But I think that only shows they don’t know much about it. It’s a wild place, and very unsafe.
And where are we really - there or here?
[Hazel:] Our bodies stay here - that’s good enough for me.
I am re-reading Richard Adams's novel of genius, Watership Down, for something like the fifth time in the past decade; and it strikes me as even-better with each re-reading.
One of my favourite characters has always been the seer or 'shaman' rabbit, Fiver; whose trance states and clairvoyant visions guide the chief rabbit Hazel in the big decisions that need to be made.
(The fact that Fiver is meant to be a shaman is confirmed by the heading of chapter 26 which is a relevant quote from Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Adams was significantly influenced by Campbell's work on anthropology and mythology, and the two men later became acquaintances - Adams speaking at a celebration of Campbell's 80th birthday that is recorded in The Hero's Journey book and video.)
In the above passage Fiver describes the source of his visions; which is the 'underworld' or what Ancient Egyptians termed the 'dwat' - and which was redescribed in would-be scientific terms by Jung as the Collective Unconscious. The world of gods, the spirit aspect of sleeping mortals, spirits of the dead, and perhaps other beings such as angels and demons.
Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield had many interesting things to say about the changing, developing relationship between our conscious and waking minds in our mortal, incarnated (embodied) lives; and this underworld.
The first stage is when men (or rabbits, perhaps) were pure spirits, not incarnated. In this state there is no distinction between the waking Overworld and the Underworld.
The second stage is after incarnation, when there is a distinction between the Overworld inhabited by bodies, and the Underworld which can only be visited by the spirit part of Men (and rabbits) - while 'Our bodies stay here' - i.e. in the Overworld - as Hazel says above. The body
At this second stage there are 'specialists' in crossing to the Underworld, those who modern people term generically shamans - like Fiver. To do this, the spirit must be separated from the body, in a trance, sleep or some other 'altered state of consciousness'. But this crossing generally needs to be done by an act of choice, and perhaps by means of a learned skill; and is a hazardous business.
There is a personal price to pay for most shamans - in terms of such as illness, disability. alienation, social hostility and so forth. Fiver, for example, was a 'runt', smaller and weaker than average male rabbits and of a more nervous disposition.
The first stage seems to be normal when Men lived before agriculture and settled dwellings; as nomadic gatherers and hunters. When men had access to stores of food, they settled and developed specialised occupational hierarchies.
Direct contract with the gods incrementally faded, and a 'professional' priesthood (in charge of myth, ritual, sacred objects, scriptures etc.) displaced shamans.
As the second stage continued in Man's history of consciousness, it became harder and harder to cross this boundary, until (in the past few hundred years) more and more people become unable to cross the boundary, and attain the experiences of the Underworld which are the basis of knowledge of the gods, the dead and other such matters.
Religion became less spirit-experiential until it became almost wholly material-procedural.
Thus we reach third stage, which is materialism - the assertion that there is no spirit, not Underworld, no gods, and no dead.The fact that extreme changes in consciousness are required to have even a chance of shamanic experiences; means that the content of such experiences are hard to recall accurately; and allows experiences of gods, the dead, clairvoyance etc. to be relegated to the realms of pathology - delusion, hallucination, delirium and the like.
The fourth stage if what Barfield terms Final Participation - it is when experience and knowledge of the Underworld comes directly into the Overworld - during normal, waking consciousness. So, knowledge of the gods, the dead, angels and demons, and so forth are woven-into the stream of conscious, awake-thinking.
An analogy with the shamanic era is that this integration of the Over- and Underworld is an act of choice. The Underworld must be believed, regarded as significant, attended to and taken seriously - all of which stands in stark opposition to the materialism of the third stage era.
When the fourth stage happens during mortal life it is a temporary foretaste and learning experience of post-mortal resurrected, Heavenly life; when this becomes the usual nature of consciousness. But our mortal experience of the fourth stage is probably mainly intended to give us a Heavenly understanding of our mortal situation - so that we can learn the significance of our own lives, and the main phenomena in the world around us.
The race-illusion of John Cowper Powys - the quest for Original Participation
Dressed for a pageant in 1939, Petrushka/ Paracelsus... a proto-druid
"We Aboriginal Welsh People are the proudest people in the world"
JC Powys (1872-1963) - opening sentence of Obstinate Cymric (a collection of essays published in 1947)
The last twenty-eight years of his life, John Cowper - a good deal of a defiant invalid, resorting nervously to his eternal cigarette and often subsisting on such detestable fare as milk and raw duck eggs [to ease his duodenal ulcer] - lived in almost uninterrupted retirement in Wales.
He strove with what stubbornness there was in his fluid make-up to persuade himself he was Welsh! Since the second year of the century he had fallen deeper and deeper under the spell of a race-illusion more harmless than Hitler's but quite as irrational.
However, characteristically, Powys delighted in identifying himself with a conquered race.
In reality his ancestry for many generations had been predominantly English; and the traces for the Celt in his character and disposition are extremely slight. And his long seclusion among the mountains and his intensive study of Cymric cultures resulted in little or no change in his real outlook.
Edited from John Cowper Powys: Old Earth Man, a critical biography by HP Collins, 1966, page 170.
This kind of race-illusion is a sub-species of the life-illusions, or secret fantasy identities, that many - or most people apparently harbour and live-by. The difference (as usual with JCP) is the uninhibited, self-conscious way that Powys wrote about such matters, and his cheerful assertions that that they were indeed illusions - or self-delusions.
My understanding is that these are ways in which people try to cope with that alienation which is intrinsic to the materialism of the modern age. They (we, most likely) elaborate a parallel world, generally of a more child-like, primitive, spontaneous, immersive, unselfconscious, natural or rural kind - some inner attempted version of what Barfield terms Original Participation.
Indeed, Powys pursued this quest for Original Participation with greater and more sustained intensity than any other writer I know of. he was indeed one of the most thorough-going Romantics in history. So his many and varied books (the autobiography, the major novels, essays, philosophy, diaries and letters) give an unsurpassed, and extraordinarily detailed, account of his successes... and the limitations of his success.
Before I was a Christian, I tried (more than once) to grasp and implement Powys's ideas in my own life. But I could not make them work; and Powys himself did not really make them work (as can be seen in his diaries).
This was an important lesson: for me really to be a Romantic, I must be Christian. But/And also - to be a Christian, I must be a Romantic - in a way that includes much of the spirit that drew me to the philosophy of JCP.
The crucial difference is that living-by-illusion, is transformed-into living-towards-reality.
Field of Dreams (1989) and literalising the yearnings for Original Participation
Field of Dreams is a movie I like - I rewatched it recently to check. At the time I first saw it, which was perhaps 1991, it coincided with an awakening of yearning for what I would now regard as Original Participation. In other words, I sought meaning and purpose in life in something like a return to the consciousness of early childhood of early tribal Man.
(Spoiler alert.)
Original Participation is participating in the creative love of the universe by a passive immersion in it; in the way that we all did in early childhood. And this is what the Field of Dreams 'dream' is about - it is about recovering and reliving that child's-perspective; by watching baseball games featuring long-dead players, in an idyllic situation which literalises a common set of yearnings and fantasies.
That is what I wish to emphasis. Much 'fantasy' is popular because it suggests that 'if only' we could literalise our fantasies, then we would be perfectly happy forever. Of course, they are seldom foolish enough to state explicitly the idea that any kind of external objective situation would really make us perfectly happy forever; but that is what innumerable works of art (novels, plays, movies, tv series) show us.
In Field of Dreams we are shown a man who follows his deepest inner promptings (in the form of an hallucinatory voice), and is rewarded by what looks to be a wholly satisfying life (with his wife and daughter; and an expanding circle of aficionados, who pay him for the privilege and continue to make it possible...) of watching old-time baseball and tending to the ball park where it happens.
This is the theme of so many fantasies; if only fairies, Middle Earth, Hogwarts or whatever were literally true and I could live there - then I would have a wholly-satisfying-life.
Yet, the stark reality is that if we had everything we wanted, exactly as we want it - if our fantasy situation was literalised - it would pretty soon cease to be wholly-satisfying. We would get used-to-it; and probably we would get fed-up of it.
Watching the Chicago 'Black Sox' ghosts play every day, a couple of times a day, while feasting on hot dogs would certainly be great At First... but it is very far from enough!
For post-adolescents the fact is that a literalisation of Original Participation would not suffice, and we only suppose it would suffice because we know it cannot happen. We can daydream that the Field of Dreams would 'make us' perfectly happy forever, because we know it wont happen - this the illusion is maintained, and may harden into delusion.
This is the way in which we - modern Men - are maintained in a state of spiritual paralysis. A bureaucratic, materialistic, totalitarian ('Ahrimanic') machine - such as Hollywood, big business and the mass media - produce multiple ('Luciferic') dreams of passive, immersive Original Participation; which we yearn for but which we know cannot happen... We simply try to spend as much time as possible living 'in' these dreams; in the (shrinking) gaps between serving the machine.
The sixties showed, and the lesson has been confirmed multiple times since; that we are not going to be able to return to Original Participation, that we don't truly want to; and most importantly that even if we did, it would not suffice.
We simply must find a third path into the future - that which Barfield terms Final Participation. This is the state we can confidently hope for in Heaven; but also a state which we can inhabit and cherish for periods of time, and rather imperfectly, here on earth - as part of that learning from experience which is our task.
because, on closer examination; even the daydreams of Original Participation have elements of Final Participation about them; they are often highly conscious, active rather than passive, exist in the realm of thinking rather than inarticulate Being, and are developing situations into which we bring creativity from our-selves.
If we recognise that our goal should not be a state blissful passive immersion; but a process of joyful active creation - and we are most of the way to where we ought to be.
Projecting an earthly mortal society of Final Participation
If I am correct that the development of human consciousness will compel the collapse of civilisation, then it should be possible to say something about the kind of society that would eventually follow. In other words, I will project the nature of a society - here on earth, and with mortal Men - of Final Participation.
The present stage has been called the Consciousness Soul; and it is intensely individualistic compared with the societies of the past. In particular, our evaluations will be, need to be, and ought to be coming from our true selves; by intuition, primary thinking, direct knowing.
In the past, Group Selection of Men was a reality - we lived and died by virtue of our membership of groups; and this groupishness was an objective psychological reality. We could not help but regard ourselves as primarily members of a group - more exactly of nested groups: family, clan, nation etc.
Groups that evoked the most powerful and courageous motivations would tend to prevail over the long term.
But in the modern era (beginning over the past few hundred years, and especially since about 1800) a new felt and experienced detachment developed (the evolution, from within, according to divine plan; of the Consciousness Soul).
Bottom-up, group-selected groups crumbled, because the mechanism that enabled group selection was removed. Modern groupishness is therefore top-down, necessarily coercive and imposed; it is totalitarian.
Therefore the war for the Consciousness Soul is between totalitarianism imposed-on the CS; and the stage that follows the CS - which is Final Participation. However, totalitarianism is self-destroying; so it will not last. We are concerned with what will come after.
This means that the future of society will be based upon the cohesion of love: which means real, actual, effective, en-couraging love - of specific persons: family primarily, secondarily real and committed friends (currently so rare as to be almost extinct).
The society that emerges from such a bottom-up situation will presumably be the same in its structure as the societies that came before agriculture and civilisation. Low technology, probably illiterate, without strategic planning, no government, little differentiation of function except for that deriving from individuality, sex and age... Short lifespan, low density population, an immediate return economy of hunting, gathering and making for imminent use. In sum, a society much as (is believed to have) existed in the paleolithic era.
What would be different is that while past societies were based upon the spontaneous, unconscious, groupishness of Original Participation; a state of 'immersive Being' --- the society of Final Participation would be one based on the experienced conviction that reality is to be found in the universality and objectivity of conscious thinking.
If the ancient paleolithic Original Participation society was based on instinct; the future society of Final Participation would be based on intuition.
There seem to be problems with this vision of the future. There is an economic problem, since efficient extraction of food and resources seems to be precluded. Hence the necessarily low density of sustainable population. Problems would be solved on a case by case basis, in accordance with individual circumstances - location, season, personnel etc.
But in FP, there would be no system or formula - answers would Not be the same every time, nor the same for all people. People would Just Know what specifically to do here and now and for the best; whereas in OP people Just Did what needed to be done; without knowing why. All decisions would be made on this intuitive basis.
To move to this society can be resisted. It is a basic social situation that may (by the collapse of all possible alternatives) be imposed on an unwilling population who deny intuition and who damn themselves.
Or such a society may arise quite naturally from Romantic Christians doing the right things, making the right evaluations on the right basis; and rejecting the side of evil.
How can Man become divine, while remaining himself?
If Murphy's favourite hammer has had both its head and its haft replaced several times over its long lifetime - is this still Murphy's favourite hammer? Or is it really a completely different hammer?
I think the 'dilemma', here, is between what we feel, as an unexamined intuition ('it's the same hammer'); and the difficulty of framing an abstract philosophical justification for why it is indeed still the same hammer - despite that everything about it has been replaced.
Properly considered, this is a very deep question indeed; and unless we have a 'theory' that explains why it is still the same hammer, then our metaphysics Must Be wrong.
Because what applies to the hammer applies to persons: applies to specific men and women Christianly-considered. We know that nothing makes sense about anything unless we are the same person through time; yet we also know that potentially everything about us may change, probably should change, as we undergo theosis - as we progress towards deity.
Probably, nearly all of our microscopic body is replaced through life; and even the cells that do last 'a lifetime' (neurons, myocytes) were not there at conception. The entire body is presumably replaced at the chemical level. And the mind of a zygote, morula, embryo, neonate, child, adult, senescent person... well this may have transformed wholly and more than once; leaving aside the re-formation of death and resurrection.
One attempted solution that is proposed by Owen Barfield - following Rudolf Steiner, is to posit an eternal and unchanging 'spirit' that persists through all physical and psychological changes. But this, I believe, rules out any fundamental change. If the Spirit is to carry a single identity it cannot change. All change is rendered superficial (i.e. a matter of body and soul, which are aspects of temporary incarnations) - while our core 'spirit' essence is static, by definition - or else it would not be The Same. This renders theosis trivial - hence I reject it.
There is, however (you will not be surprised to hear) a metaphysical philosophy that can readily explain why Murphy's hammer is still his favourite, and why a person can have literally everything about him (body and soul) replaced (in the process of spiritual progression to full deity) - and yet he or she will still remain the same person.
Mormon theology is based on evolutionary development as a core assumption, which entails that Time is always included in any ultimate analysis, which means (to jump a few steps) that every 'thing' is 'defined' as an uninterrupted lineage, extending through-time.This is one of its great strengths.
So that fact that at two different cross-sectional moments, the same 'thing' may have Nothing in-common, does not matter.
This is an aspect of what I understand by 'polarity' based on process of '-ing'. Or, more simply, a conscious and explicit version of the spontaneous 'animistic' spirituality of children and hunter-gatherers; a metaphysics based on Beings and Relationships in Time.
The above is based on a recent post at Junior Ganymede.
Tom Bombadil and Final Participation
If you don't already know them; I would highly-recommend The Letters of JRR Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter (1981) which are absolutely packed with fascinating and deep reflections.
In Letter 144 (25 April 1954) Tolkien makes a thought-provoking comment about the presence of Tom Bombadil in Lord of the Rings, and his importance to the story - which hits home on a matter I have been reflecting about over the past few years; the matter of the ideal form of human society, and (therefore) the nature of Heaven:
The story (of LotR) is cast in terms of a good side and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship, moderated freedom with consent against compulsion that has long lost any object save mere power, and so on; but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.
But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself, watching, observing, and to some extent knowing; then the question of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless.
It is a natural pacifist view, which always arises in the mind when there is a war.
But the view of Rivendell [i.e. the Council of Elrond] seems to be that it is an excellent thing to have represented, but that there are in fact things with which it cannot cope; and upon which its existence nonetheless depends. Ultimately only the victory of the West will allow Bombadil to continue, or even to survive. Nothing would be left for him in the world of Sauron.
I cannot, nowadays, shake the thought that it is the true goal of our Christian destiny to 'renounce control' in much the way that Bombadil represents; and that kingship, moderated freedom with consent; and an ideal of the control of the better over the worse - are all mortal expediencies that do not reflect the reality of Heaven.
What is more, the traditionalist ethical ideal epitomised by agrarian (pre-industrial) societies such as all those depicted in LotR (with the exception of the Ents and the Woses of the Druadan forest - since even Bombadil has a garden), seem more and more like mortal expediencies representing a phase in Man's development. The era of 'moderated control with consent' seems like an historic phase now receding.
Such ideals; which we see so inspiringly realised in the High Elves, Numenorean Men of Gondor, and even the Dwarves of Moria - are characterised by great arts and crafts, songs and poetry, courage and nobility, lore and knowledge... All of these ideals have been fading for several or many generations; and there seems waning support - and growing hostility - towards the requisite institutional basis of such a society (royals and nobles, guilds and professions, hierarchy and ritual, apprentices and canons).
In Barfield's terms, traditional society in LotR represents the evolving phase bridging between the unconscious immersive life of Original Participation (Ents and Woses) and the modern, disenchanted, materialist world termed the Consciousness Soul.
This evolution from Original Participation to the Consciousness Soul can be seen in terms of incrementally increasing control. As control increases, and in order to enable control; Man has become detached from nature, from The World; and regards living Nature as merely Things; so much material to be manipulated. Somehow, we have never been able to stop this tendency for increasing control at any intermediate or optimal level; once begun the quest for greater control seem to feed upon itself.
All moderating of the raw greed and lust for domination is, dissolved to mark the triumph of the bad side, ruthless ugliness, mere power and - inevitably - destruction. The spirit of Morgoth, Sauron and Saruman has already prevailed at the highest levels of authority, and the program is being rolled-out with accelerating velocity.
What lies beyond, and after this mortal life, is Final Participation, which is similar to what Bombadil represents. Final Participation is a renunciation of control - in contrast with Original Participation when control was neither sought nor even possible.
Voluntary renunciation of control power, domination, manipulation comes after the fullness of control has been either been grasped or else at least comprehended. My feeling is that this is what Bombadil represents; my notion is that at some point Bombadil had the possibility of power, domination and control - and chose to renounce it.
The tough aspect is that this is also a renunciation of much that we value most - such as arts, crafts, science, canonical accumulation of texts and the like. It is, in a genuine sense, a voluntary renunciation of civilisation.
In a sense this is an impossibility, just as pacifism is an impossibility in time of war (or, as pacifism is dependent upon that which it repudiates). Nonetheless, despite impossibility; what I think we have - at present, here and now - is the situation in which there is an irrevocable and cumulative loss of faith in those compromises (moderated controls) upon which civilisation depends - there is a mass withdrawal of 'consent'.
On one side this process is being encouraged, top-down, with evil motivation, by those who seek the destruction of civilisation because they believe it will lead to the self-chosen damnation of souls. This is Tolkien's bad side.
On the other side - which constitutes most of the good side; this top-down dismantling is opposed by (broadly) well motivated persons traditional religion and reactionaries of various types. However, it seems likely to me that the society they are fighting For (their positive goals, their alternative to the destructions and inversions of top-down evil) cannot happen.
'Moderated control by consent' is an earlier phase (the long transition-between Original Participation and the Consciousness Soul); a phase now gone, now not genuinely wanted, now irrecoverable. I feel that we either have been, or will be, called-upon to move beyond the incipient or actual absolute totalitarianism of the Consciousness Soul - move on to a Bombadil-like renunciation of power and the desire for control.
In Final Participation we are called-upon to take delight in things for themselves without reference to ourselves, watching, observing, and to some extent knowing; we are called upon to participate in creation directly in thinking - and not via arts and crafts and science.
This will come beyond death, because it is the nature of Heaven. The still-open question is whether it is meant also to come before death; or whether in this world it is impossible to actualise, and instead an ideal that we affirm even as we are overwhelmed by the worldly triumph of control.
The opposite of abstraction is experience
I've been reading Rudolf Steiner and listening to his ideas being expounded; and realise that a fundamental problem is that Steiner tended to end with abstraction. Although he stated that reality consisted of living Beings; these were explained in their nature and effect using abstractions.
The opposite of abstraction - and the nature of reality - is experience (i.e. the experience of Beings) - thus reality is within-time, and happens through time; experience is process not category.
Abstraction (as in my sentences above) is usually the fate of human discussion and exposition, since these are conducted in language, and language is abstract. We can use language to point-at experience, to describe the context of experience; but of course this will be secondary.
It is perhaps this that makes people sake that mystical experience is ineffable, un-expressible - but that is true of all experience, so the property of ineffability is not distinctive to the mystical. e.g. We cannot capture being-in-love - or any other emotion - in language.
Behind all abstraction, language and any other form of interpersonal communication there is direct, unmediated experience, a 'knowing' that is potentially a shared experience of Beings. And this is going-on all the time, in all of us - but nearly always unconsciously.
In other words, our true and divine self is always there; even when it is never attended-to. Because the real self is not inside us, so much as a perspective on reality. Reality is universally accessible, but each of us has a perspective on it; and we can only come to know reality in a linear and sequential fashion.
So, in a way, the real self is like a peephole opening onto the totality of reality (the underworld, the dwat, the collective conscious and unconscious...). Of course it is more than just a peephole; because the real self is also the source of real freedom; and a producer of (uncaused) thought; and potentially the mans of our participation in divine creation.
But in terms of our ability directly to know, we might imagine it as a peephole through which we can incrementally discover everything there is to know, eventually (but of course, that everything will keep growing, and we may contribute to it)- but always from our unique perspective.
There is an abstraction for you! A crude and simple abstract model of reality - looking through a peephole at the ocean of reality that is always everywhere and within... As such it is certainly false - both ridiculously partial, and seriously distorted. What, then is the point of it?
By my understanding, much of our learning - nowadays in this mortal life - is a matter of becoming conscious of something that is already happening, but beyond our awareness. Thus, the abstraction is helpful if or when it draws attention to some neglected reality that we may then - by experiencing it in our thinking - come to know for ourselves.
However, probably only when we come to know it for ourselves. Abstractions at the level of abstraction - and locked into that level by the need for language in public discourse - are a lethal tyranny for the soul.
And all public discourse, all institutions and organisations, operate solely at the level of abstract language or other symbolism; and so are always partial and distorted - always false. This is a big lesson that we need to learn - it is one of the big lessons of our time.
And our learning is assisted by the fact that our institutions and their leaders are so obviously corrupt and increasingly evil that we are quickly learning that they are wrong - and the abstract laws, rules and guidelines by which they attempt to control us are also wrong.
And if we want to know what is right we can derive it only from that which is validated by direct personal experience. and we are wrong.
The objectivity of truth in Final Participation
Yesterday I described how men and women characteristically - but in different ways - tend to regard Truth in a passive and materialist sense, as being That Which Overwhelms. Men by the overwhelming of imposing force, women by the overwhelming of social (especially peer group) consensus.
But that is, of course, potentially to leave out the spiritual aspect of life - the divine aspect; since the overwhelming is mostly (women especially, but nearly always men too) done by 'other people'.
And so we have these 'operational definitions' of truth that are, in practice, very 'relativistic' - in the sense that if lots of people, or just a few powerful/ high status people, decide something - then we are naturally - at a materialist level - inclined passively to accept it as true.
As I say, this is truth as 'that which overwhelms'; such a truth 'comes from outside' each us us - we are 'victims' of truth. If that was all-there-is top truth (in practice) then there could be no truth - because consensus isn't truth, power isn't truth...
If there is to be truth at all - and if that truth is to be something we personally endorse, rather than being compelled to submit-to; then there must be a higher truth that is not psychological but objective; and active, not passive. Because if truth is merely the external coercing, and our-selves submitting - then it would not be something that we personally would want. We would be merely slaves to truth.
(Obviously!) on the other hand, truth can't be something we make-up for ourselves - as a kind of wishful thinking.
Yet for most people these are the only choices - truth is either seen as that which is imposed (which in practice is usually 'other people'), or whatever-I-say (which is truth-as-delusion, since truth is private and unique).
In sum - these are demonic views of truth - with the choice being submission or pride, a hierarchy of coercion - we submit to the truths of those more powerful, and impose our own truth upon those whom we can dominate: i.e. the hierarchy of Hell.
This is another argument for the Goodness of Final Participation. That the truth that is Good, the truth which Saves, the truth which brings us towards being ourselves gods in harmony with the purposes of God - all these are the truth of Participation. They are voluntary truths in the sense that the truth is God's creation, we choose to endorse the purpose and nature of that creation, and because of love we joining our-selves to that ongoing work of creation.
So truth is not compelled but chosen - hence subjective; and truth is also objective and not just a figment of my mind, but has universality. And truth is mine, because I contribute to it; and truth is for anybody else who also chooses the heavenly life of collaborating in the work of creation.
If Time is primary instead of Space (Final Participation)
Transformation - a process in Time - has been described as the underlying principle (or assumption) of nomadic hunter-gatherer life and spiritual belief - a metaphysics to which I believe Man is destined to return, but in a freely-chosen and conscious way (Final Participation)
Most philosophy (and classical Christian theology) assumes that Space is primary, and therefore end-up (when pushing analysis to the limit of metaphysics) by discarding Time.
For instance, Plato had the ultimate reality as a Time-less realm of eternal, archetypal forms. Classical Christian theology follows this by making God outside of Time; in an eternity in which past, present and future are one.
But if, instead, we regard Time as the primary reality, then things look very different. Things exist in Time, which means that their reality stretches back either to eternity or to when they are made. Things are not defined by their cross-sectional 'spatial' properties - because they exist longitudinally, through-Time.
What we see now is a probably-ephemeral property of an entity defined as a self that goes backwards... More exactly, the entity is (in physics terms) a process. Its cross-sectional properties may, probably will, change - but it stays itself because it is lineally related to its earlier selves.
More simply, the ultimate entities are Beings, and Beings are distinguished historically. There need not be any specific thing or things about a Being that remains constant through the changes a Being undergoes in Time. It stays the same being, even if everything about it has changed.
In a system in which Time is primary, the 'units' are Beings, and the principle of their continued reality could be described as continuing-Life; and continuing-Life may entail Transformation.
A Being may transform (like a caterpillar to a butterfly, or a Man to a god) so completely that nothing about it remains unchanged - yet it is the same Being; lineally the same and going back forever without beginning.
So which is primary, Space or Time? It cannot be both although it could be neither. The question is one of metaphysics, hence answerable only by primary, direct personal intuition - each for himself. But unless asked and answered; you will merely passively, unconsciously, be absorbing the metaphysical assumptions of others.
How can a genius of Romantic Christianity affect society more widely?
This question arises when comparing the 'impact' of Rudolf Steiner - who founded an international society and movement; and William Arkle, who died known only to a 'handful' of people and remains almost wholly obscure.
In general, the most valuable kind of genius is one who dicovers something 'simple'; that is, something that was difficult to discover (because, in fact, it was Not discovered until the genius did it) but, once discovered, easy to learn.
This can be seen by technologies such as the bow and arrow, wheel or arch, whose origins are unknown, were absent from many (or all) ancient cultures, and were (I believe we can infer) discovered by specific persons (i.e. geniuses) in particular times and places.
More recent examples would include the technologies of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, which were adopted quickly and widely - oince the intellectual heavy lifting had been done by specific geniuses (who often gained nothing personally from the inventions)
Rudolf Steiner was a genius of Romantic Christianity; but he made many serious strategic errors; and in the end embedded his major (and simple) discoveries in a vast structure of mostly-dubious factual-assertion; which formed the (infallible) scriptures of a bureaucractic Anthroposophical Society; housed in a grandiose headquarters of concrete (in both senses) buildings; engaged in all sorts of formal/ procedural/ bureaucratic institutional activities relating to education, medicine, agriculture, the arts etc.
In sum, Steiner attempted to 'impose' his esoteric message on the world via an organisation, by a stepwise process, that is - by a kind of compulsion - and this is an internally-contradictory, hence ineffectual, strategy.
The outcome is that it is very hard to find the core spirit of Steiner anywhere in the world; except among a handful of individuals who are essentially outside of the Society and institutional structures (and even these Steinerites usually remain captivated by the Ahrimanic distortions of their Master, rather than discarding them).
In sum, that of Steiner which we can perceive is merely the distortion.
By contrast, except for a few disciples (who have not, apparently, made public their thoughts) anyone who has come to share Arkle's ideas must re-experience them for himself.
In other words, insofar as he has affected people, Arkle can only have influenced other people via imperceptible esoteric and direct spiritual routes. One who would share Arkle's thinking, needs to do so on the 'plane' of ultimate and universal reality - since their is neither System nor Institutions to 'educate' him.
The question is whether the existence and effect of such esoteric and direct ways of sharing are really-real (or just wishful thinking).
It strikes me that William Arkle, especially in his pictures and his 'simple' prose pieces - such as Letter from a Father, Equations of Being and the Late Prose items - made some very simple spiritual discoveries that therefore could be learned rapidly and applied very widely.
Arkle's core insight is that we can come directly and by experience to know the detailed and personal love of God the Creator for ourselves; which will give us a great confidence and faith in our own lives.
And the fact that we are God's children means that we have a share of his divinity, and this will guide us through - enable us to learn from - all possible experiences that our life brings us.
The point is that all this is knowable for ourselves, once we know about it. It is effective, if we genuinely believe it is true. The insight is very simple, and our life can be very simple.
Of course, in works like A Geography of Consciousness or Hologram and Mind; Arkle also produced works with a great deal of complexity, involving metaphors drawn from physics and engineering.
The underlying message remains simple, and I think these complex works were produced as a form of persuasive rhetoric in response to the typical kinds of questioning of modern intellectuals, who are unable to take-seriously or to believe the truth of anything that is simple and obvious.
These works of Arkles function mostly like the mathematical 'working' done to convince a skeptic, when the actual result may be simple; they provide models or analogies of spiritual truths that strike us as childishly obvious; and by that hope to get past the 'watchful dragons' of the modern skeptical intellect (based upon deep and denied reductionist assumptions and dishonest arguments).
It would seem to me that Arkle 'must have' had a considerable influence on The World; since someone of his spiritual quality could not help but have done so! But not, of course, by the normal, perceptible, means of 'communication'.
Instead, I regard the creative insights of Arkle as having made a permanent addition to the primary thought-world that is the basis of divine creation. Anyone who engages in primary thinking, who has direct intuition, may therefore encounter Arkle's insights for themselves and without ever having heard of Arkle.
As a genius, Arkle was able to think some things for the first time; but now they have been-thought - and these thoughts are available to 'everybody' who would not have had the genius to create them anew from scratch.
Since Love is primary and a part of creation; I would further emphasise that the 'spead' of Arkle's ideas depends upon love. The 'range of effect' is therefore set by the scope of Arkle's love, and the difference made will be initially in realtion to that scope.
For example, when Arkle painted something with love that embodied his genius insights, those things will have been strengthened and sustained by that love - in an objective fashion: they will have been 'Romanticised' in an objective and universal sense. A better known example would be Walter Scott or Wordsworth, who permanently transformed the power of The Scottish Borders and the Lake District (and similar landscapes) to inspire and elevate us - even for those who have never read either.
I am suggesting that - as an example, but much more widely - the Scottish Border and the Lake Distict were objectively changed by Scott and Wordsworth - we who lovingly-experience them now, do so in a way that is qualitatively different from the way such landscapes were experienced 300 years ago - and indeed we cannot recover the way they used to be regarded. And later on Tolkien further modified our experience of landscapes.
The new experience is unlocked by shared love.
This can be explained (to use the terminology of Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom) in terms of the concepts we use to interpret the raw perceptual data and memories of these places - our concepts are, when they are true, drawn from the universal, impersonal store of divine creation - and this store has been modified by the 'final participation' of human geniuses.
This, then, (as a general mechanism) is the main way in which a spiritual genius like Steiner or Arkle affects the world; not by their communications, and certainly not by institutional transmission - but by participating-in, and permanently transforming, the ongoing nature of divine creation - henceforth available to all that are attuned to it.
The polarity of our outer and inner guidance
Since we are each, from eternity, unique souls - then there is an unique destiny, a personal destiny, for every individual.
But discovering (and then, of course, following) one's unique destiny is a difficult matter, and many people don't know how to start - or how an unique destiny differs from randomness or arbitrariness.
To make an unique destiny possible requires both internal and external guidance, and it is from the dynamic polarity of their relationship that we can navigate our destined (but not pre-destined) path through life.
Our external guidance is known as the Holy Ghost, and is accessible to all Christians; since the Holy Ghost (according to the Fourth Gospel) was provided by Jesus after his ascension.
Yet if the Holy Ghost had been the only kind of guidance, then our destiny would be 'given' to us; and our task would merely be to consult the Holy Ghost, and then passively to 'follow' its instructions, as best we could.This would be a life a spiritually children (and was indeed our own life as children, and probably the life of all Men in earlier periods of Man's history.)
Such a life of obedient passivity is a one-sided caricature, because it never was, nor could be, wholly the case; but this life of child-like obedience to external dictates was surely once regarded as an ideal; wheras now a passively obedient life is Not the task of modern Man.
(Such a life is simply Not An Option. Modern Man is an adolescent in spiritual terms, negatively rejecting of passive obedience; and as adolescents we cannot return to childhood. Our task is freely to choose to develop, to grow-up, into spiritual adults... or else we will remain, as we are: perpetually adolescent.)
Due to the evolutionary-development of human consciousness since the time of Jesus, our task is now to take an active, conscious path through life - freely chosen. This does Not At All mean that the Holy Ghost has been superseded, but instead that we now have a 'dual guidance system' formed from the interaction of outer and inner.
The inner guidance comes from our real self; the eternal self that is divine; albeit an undeveloped divinity; which is how it can be the creative source of uncaused thinking, primary thinking. A life guided solely by the inner guidance system would be merely egotistic, prideful, rebellious, hedonistic, impulsive - adolescent.
But outer and inner guidance combine to form a classic polarity; in the sense that the outer guidance is centripetal, constraining, receptive, 'feminine'; while the inner guidance is centrifugal, generative, exploratory, 'masculine'.
This is a polarity because although they can legitimately be distinguished, neither guidance can exist in actual detachment from the other - and this union arises because at a deep level outer and inner are continually-being-produced-consequences of a single, living, conscious, dynamic process.
So our task in this mortal life is therefore actively to work from our own inner motivation, which is in continual interaction with the Holy Ghost. The result is experienced as 'intuition', which is our directly known direction and purpose through life.
Love and Time = Creation
What Owen Barfield (drawing on Steiner) terms 'polarity' - I have reformulated as Beings in Relationship.
In other words, polarity is described abstractly in terms of a self-generating distinction, a dynamic process - but ultimately I understand this is terms of the Beings that constitute reality having Relationships.
When it comes to Creation - the relevant Relationship is Love.
To put it differently - When Love between Beings acts over Time, there is Creation.
This applies to God - it is God's Love acting through Time, that is Creation. (In other words, the process of love between beings in intrinsically creative.)
However, when Time (process, change) is Not mediated by Love; then we have evil - because any relationship other-than Love is anti-Creation.
So the Good/ Positive situation is of Creation (made by Love through Time).
Not-Love (anything other-than Love) is a negative situation - and is destructive of Creation.
(This is evil and the situation is hell. Absence of Love is hell.)
Not-Time is No-Creation; it would be Stasis; it would be neither Good nor evil; neither Heaven nor Hell - but Just-Be.
(Not Be-ing - just Be, just mere Existence.)
This situation is the Nirvana asserted by 'Eastern Religion'.
Note: This clarifies why Christians should acknowledge the reality and necessity of Time - and should set-aside pre-Christian hangovers and metaphysical errors (common to almost all mainstream, classical Christian theology) about God being outside-of-Time, or a state of Timelessness being the highest state. One would have thought (hoped) that the incarnation of Christ in history would have made this clear - but apparently not. Unless there is Time, there would be no Good, no direction, no Freedom - and no Love. Thus Time is necessary for Christianity; without Time, Christianity is refuted. It is a superiority of Romantic Christianity that it regards Time as necessary and intrinsic.
Romantic Christianity and morality
I should first say that Romantic Christianity is for adults, for post-adolescents. It is, in other words, a product of the modern adult consciousness.
It is for all Western adults, because all modern Western adults are Romantic; and all may (if they want it) choose to accept the gifts of Jesus.
But I need to say this because this means that Romantic Christianity is neither intended-as nor suitable-as as a Christian way of bringing-up children - raising kids is still, essentially, pretty much the same as it was in the era of traditional Christianity. In other words, for pre-adolescents guidance must necessarily be external, and therefore a Christian environment is the key (home, school, church, books, 'media' etc).
But beyond adolescence lies the destiny of a Romantic consciousness, and the new thing needed is that this be a Christian consciousness.
One major concern about Romantic Christianity relates to morality - and in these times and this place, this means primarily sexual morality. Traditional Christianity was pretty clearly defined in relation to sexual morality; and mainstream modernity has as its (perhaps) core value the Sexual Revolution in its various dominating phases.
The Sexual Revolution is, of course, ever 'advancing' its scope (despite the contradictions) via advocating positively divorce, extramarital promiscuity, abortion, feminism, homosexuality, sadomasochism, transexualism and so on 'forward' toward paedophilia and I don't know what next - the stages of dominance of which define modern culture.
Traditional Christianity is clearly against the sexual revolution - on various grounds: for example the teachings of scripture, the authority of the church, the primacy of tradition, the rigorous implications of theology. Now, all of these grounds are 'external' - so Romantic Christianity requires that they must be validated by internal and intuitive understanding and assent.
The problem has often been that the Romantic impulse has, since the time of Lord Byron and Shelley, often been used as a reason to reject traditional sexual morality - by simply claiming that one does not find intuitive confirmation of 'conventional' morality; and that - on the contrary - inner conviction validates unfettered expression of one's own current lusts and desires.
This 'morally relativistic' way of reasoning has become 'official' over the past several years; so that the sexual revolution requires no greater validation than that claim that it would make some person or group unhappy, or simply unfulfilled (here and now) if they were prevented from doing some sexual thing that they currently very much want to do. If, that is, the 'thing' is currently approved-of by the mainstream sexual revolution at that particular point - and this has changed, and reversed, through recent history. For instance, 'Weinstein-type' promiscuous behaviour was strongly supported, positively-media-depicted, and leftist-advocated in the late 1960-70s, when 'hetero'-sex was officially regarded as merely a pleasurable type of physical exercise; not to be taken seriously.
This validation of extended sexuality began by being applied only to 'consenting adults in private' and was presented as toleration; but has swiftly been extended to public situations and to children of any age and it is now necessary that extending the sexual revolution (in officially approved direction) be actively and publicly embraced - and this positive attitude is compulsory.
It certainly seems (to traditionalist Christians) as if Romantic Christianity is either sure to be distorted to rationalise the sexual revolution (as happens all the time among the mainstream churches, and by 'liberal' Christians'). But then, the fact is that anything can-be/ has-been/ is-being perverted to rationalise the sexual revolution - whenever the motivation to do so outweighs the desire for truth.
The way I think of it is that the intuitions of Romantic Christianity do not merely 'validate' the truth of sexual morality as it is (partially, with some distortions) represented by the various traditional Christianities (which situation would suggest that the intutions are not necessary, because we could take traditional moal codes as a short-cut to where we wanted, ultimately, to go). Instead, what happens is that by Christian intuition we are able to know for our-selves that sexual morality arises-from ultimate and universal reality.
We personally tap-into the very source of morality, in the nature-of-things - that is in God's creation.
But this direct knowledge of ultimate sexual morality is Not in the traditional form of general laws and rules about collectives of people; instead (as Rudolf Steiner makes clear in Philosophy of Freedom).
What would be (can be) discovered is that morality is on the one hand absolutely specific to each situation, and also absolutely objective - there is always just one right thing to do, and one only.
And this we can know for-ourselves, and can only know for-ourselves - although equally the judgement of what we may say or do is open to the unique and direct evaluation on others who love us*.
*But only those who love us - because only such have the ability to know directly concerning our souls - by contrast, with other strangers and secondhand observers, they will merely be applying general principles to general situations.
Bruce Charlton
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Pastor, Church Official Shot Dead in Nigeria
Posted on June 10, 2011 by particularkev
Muslim militants of Boko Haram blamed for killings in Borno state.
JOS, Nigeria, June 10 (CDN) — Muslim extremists from the Boko Haram sect on Tuesday (June 7) shot and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) pastor and his church secretary in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state.
The Rev. David Usman, 45, and church secretary Hamman Andrew were the latest casualties in an upsurge of Islamic militancy that has engulfed northern Nigeria this year, resulting in the destruction of church buildings and the killing and maiming of Christians.
The Rev. Titus Dama Pona, pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Maiduguri, told Compass that Pastor Usman was shot and killed by the members of the Boko Haram near an area of Maiduguri called the Railway Quarters, where the slain pastor’s church is located.
Pona said Christians in Maiduguri have become full of dread over the violence of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) on northern Nigeria.
“Christians have become the targets of these Muslim militants – we no longer feel free moving around the city, and most churches no longer carry out worship service for fear of becoming targets of these unprovoked attacks,” Pona said.
Officials at COCIN’s national headquarters in Jos, Plateau state, confirmed the killing of Pastor Usman. The Rev. Logan Gongchi of a COCIN congregation in Kerang, Jos, told Compass that area Christians were shocked at the news.
Gongchi said he attended Gindiri Theological College with Pastor Usman beginning in August 2003, and that both of them were ordained into pastoral ministry on Nov. 27, 2009.
“We knew him to be very gentle, an introvert, who was always silent in the class and only spoke while answering questions from our teachers,” Gongchi said. “He had a simple lifestyle and was easygoing with other students. He was very accommodating and ready at all times to withstand life’s pressures – this is in addition to being very jovial.”
Gongchi described Usman as “a pastor to the core because of his humility. I remember he once told me that he was not used to working with peasant farmers’ working tools, like the hoe. But with time he adapted to the reality of working with these tools on the farm in the school.”
Pastor Usman was excellent at counseling Christians and others while they were at the COCIN theological college, Gongchi said, adding that the pastor greatly encouraged him when he was suffering a long illness from 2005 to 2007.
“His encouraging words kept my faith alive, and the Lord saw me overcoming my ill health,” he said. “So when I heard the news about his murder, I cried.”
The late pastor had once complained about the activities of Boko Haram, saying that unless the Nigerian government faced up to the challenge of its attacks, the extremist group would consume the lives of innocent persons, according to Gongchi.
“Pastor Usman once commented on the activities of the Boko Haram, which he said has undermined the church not only in Maiduguri, but in Borno state,” Gongchi said. “At the time, he urged us to pray for them, as they did not know how the problem will end.”
Gongchi advised the Nigerian government to find a lasting solution to Boko Haram’s violence, which has also claimed the lives of moderate Muslim leaders and police.
The Railway Quarters area in Maiduguri housed the seat of Boko Haram until 2009, when Nigerian security agencies and the military demolished its headquarters and captured and killed the sect’s leader, Mohammed Yusuf, and some of his followers.
The killing of Pastor Usman marked the second attack on his church premises by the Muslim militants. The first attack came on July 29, 2009, when Boko Haram militants burned the church building and killed some members of his congregation.
On Monday (June 6), the militants had bombed the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, along with other areas in Maiduguri, killing three people. In all, 14 people were killed in three explosions at the church and police stations, and authorities have arrested 14 people.
The Boko Haram name is interpreted figuratively as “against Western education,” but some say it can also refer to the forbidding of the Judeo-Christian faith. They say the word “Boko” is a corruption in Hausa language for the English word “Book,” referring to the Islamic scripture’s description of Jews and Christians as “people of the Book,” while “Haram” is a Hausa word derived from Arabic meaning, “forbidding.”
Boko Haram leaders have openly declared that they want to establish an Islamic theocratic state in Nigeria, and they reject democratic institutions, which they associate with Christianity. Their bombings and suspected involvement in April’s post-election violence in Nigeria were aimed at stifling democracy, which they see as a system of government built on the foundation of Christian scripture.
Christians as well as Muslims suffered many casualties after supporters of Muslim presidential candidate Muhammudu Buhari lost the April 16 federal election to Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian. Primarily Muslim rioters claimed vote fraud, although international observers praised the polls as the fairest since 1999.
Nigeria’s population of more than 158.2 million is almost evenly divided between Christians, who make up 51.3 percent of the population and live mainly in the south, and Muslims, who account for 45 percent of the population and live mainly in the north. The percentages may be less, however, as those practicing indigenous religions may be as high as 10 percent of the total population, according to Operation World.
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Two Church of Christ in Nigeria Journalists Killed in Jos
Posted on May 2, 2010 by particularkev
Other Christians murdered in area that continues to be wracked by violence.
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 27 (CDN) — The killing of Christians in Jos, Plateau state in Nigeria continued over the weekend with two journalists and five other persons falling victim to Muslim youth gangs.
Nathan S. Dabak, an assistant editor at a newspaper of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) called The Light Bearer, and Sunday Gyang Bwede, a reporter at the publication, were stabbed to death on Saturday (April 24) at Gado-Bako in Jos North Local Government Area along with an unidentified motorcyclist.
“The staff of the church were murdered in cold blood by some Hausa Muslim youths,” the Rev. Pandang Yamsat, president of COCIN, told Compass today. “This is clear because they have been using the hand phones of the deceased journalists and boasting that they are the ones that killed them.”
The young Muslim men have been boldly answering calls to the cell phones of the deceased journalists, he said; when a friend of Dabak called his cell phone number, an unknown voice responded, “We have killed all of them – you can do your worst!”
Dabak, 36, and the 39-year-old Bwede had left their office on Saturday morning and were on their way to interview local politician Bulus Kaze when they fell into the hands of young Muslim men, Yamsat said.
The church started a search for the two Christians that day but did not discover their bodies until about noon on Sunday at the mortuary of Jos University Teaching Hospital, he said. He added that the church was eagerly waiting for results of a police investigation.
“The security team of the church has been communicating with the police, but they are yet to make any headway on this unfortunate incident,” he said.
Burial of the slain journalists is scheduled for Friday (April 30).
In his statement on Monday (April 26), Yamsat lamented that “while efforts have been tailored towards the return of peace to the state by the military Special Task Force, it is regrettable that the state is confronted with a spate of killings.”
“The church is still mourning the death of its pastor and his wife killed in Boto, Bauchi state,” Yamsat said, in reference to the April 13 kidnapping and murder of the Rev. Ishaku Kadah, 48, and his 45-year-old wife Selina. “It is sad that it should again be left to face another brutal murder of two of their staff.”
The state branch of the Nigerian Union of Journalists also condemned the circumstances that led to the death of the two journalists, expressing deep concern over what it described as “a series of attacks on its members in recent times in the course of carrying out their legitimate duties.”
Four other Christians also were killed on Saturday (April 24) in the Dutse Uku district of Jos’ Nasarawa Gwom area in a revenge attack following the discovery of the corpse of a teenage Muslim who had been missing. Their names were not released at press time.
The four Christians reportedly died, three of them stabbed to death, when hundreds of Muslim youths rampaged throughout the area in protest.
Earlier, police reportedly exhumed eight bodies from shallow graves in a predominantly Christian village near Jos. The discovery of the bodies brought to 15 the number of corpses found in three days in an area fraught with Muslim aggression that has left hundreds of Christians dead.
Jos has become a flash-point for ethnic and religious tensions in Plateau state, which is located between Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north and Christian south. Previously hundreds of Christian villagers were struck with machetes and burned to death on March 7 in Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Rastat, three villages in Jos South and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas.
On March 17, Muslim Fulani herdsmen assaulted two Christian villages in Plateau state, killing 13 persons, including a pregnant woman and children. In attacks presumably over disputed property but with a level of violence characteristic of jihadist method and motive, men in military camouflage and others in customary clothing also burned 20 houses in Byei and Baten villages, in the Riyom Local Government Area of the state, about 45 kilometers (29 miles) from Jos.
On Jan. 17, two pastors and 46 other Christians were killed in an outbreak of violence in Jos triggered when Muslim youths attacked a Catholic church. Police estimated over 300 lives were lost in subsequent clashes, in which 10 church buildings were burned.
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Islamic Assailants Kill Hundreds of Christians Near Jos, Nigeria
Fulani herdsmen strike Christian villages, slaying mainly ethnic Berom with machetes.
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 8 (CDN) — An uneasy calm prevailed in Plateau state, Nigeria today following the killing of hundreds of Christians early yesterday morning in three farming villages near Jos by ethnic Fulani Muslims.
The mostly ethnic Berom victims included many women and children killed with machetes by rampaging Fulani herdsmen. About 75 houses were also burned.
State Information Commissioner Gregory Yenlong confirmed that about 500 persons were killed in the attacks, which took place mainly in Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Rastat villages.
“We were woken up by gunshots in the middle of the night, and before we knew what was happening, our houses were torched and they started hacking down people” survivor Musa Gyang told media.
The assailants reportedly came on foot from a neighboring state to beat security forces that had been alerted of a possible attack on the villages but did not act beforehand.
The attack on Sunday is the latest in several religious clashes in the state in recent months that have claimed lives and property. Plateau state is a predominantly Christian state in a country almost evenly divided between Christians and Muslims. The Muslim minority has been contesting ownership of some parts of the state, leading to frequent clashes.
Bishop Andersen Bok, national coordinator of the Plateau State Elders Christian Fellowship, along with group Secretary General Musa Pam, described the attack as yet another “jihad and provocation on Christians.”
“Dogo Nahawa is a Christian community,” the Christian leaders said in a statement. “Eyewitnesses say the Hausa Fulani Muslim militants were chanting ‘Allah Akbar,’ broke into houses, cutting human beings, including children and women with their knives and cutlasses.”
Soon after the militants besieged Dogo Nahawa, the Christian leaders said, at 1:30 a.m. they contacted the military, which is in charge of security in the state.
“But we were shocked to find out that the soldiers did not react until about 3:30 a.m., after the Muslim attackers had finished their job and left,” they stated. “We are tired of these genocides on our Christian brothers and state here that we will not let this go unchallenged.”
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) President Ayo Oritsejafor decried the attack on the Christian community as barbaric and urged the federal government to stop the killing of innocent citizens or risk a total breakdown of law and order.
“I have just returned from a trip abroad,” he said. “While I was away, I was inundated with reports of another catastrophe in the Jigawa state capital, where several churches were burnt, and just as I was trying to settle down and collate reports from the field, I am hearing of another on Sunday morning.”
Director of Social Communications, Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Rev. Monsignor Gabriel Osu said the Sunday killing in Jos is a major setback for the country’s effort to gain the confidence of the international community.
“Do you know that because of things like these, anywhere Nigerians travel to they are subjected to dehumanizing scrutiny?” he said. “Any act of violence at this time is totally condemned, and the government should make haste to fish out all identified perpetrators of such heinous crimes against God so that we can move forward as a people united under one umbrella.”
On Friday (March 5) the National Youth President of the PFN, Dr. Abel Damina, expressed concern over cases of clandestine killings of Christians in remote parts of Plateau state by Islamic extremists and called on the federal government to retrieve sophisticated weapons in their possession.
“Even as I speak to you now, I am receiving reports that some clandestine killings are still going on in the remote areas of Plateau State by the fundamentalists,” Damina reportedly said. “They pounce on Christians and kill them without anybody knowing much of their identity except that they are Christians.”
He added that recently he visited the governor in Jos regarding the crisis and secured photos of Christian victims.
“Young men, Christians, were going to their farm to harvest their produce and the fundamentalists pounced on them,” he said. “They were called infidels. At the last conference, we received reports with photographs of the fundamentalists using AK-47 rifles to destroy our churches. Where did they get the arms from? We have reports of truck loads of arms that had been intercepted, and we did not hear anything about them.”
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Death Toll of Christians 48 in Jos, Nigeria Clash
Posted on January 28, 2010 by particularkev
Outbreak of violence in Plateau state results in burning of 10 church buildings.
LAGOS, Nigeria, January 27 (CDN) — Two pastors and 46 other Christians have been confirmed killed in the outbreak of violence 10 days ago in Jos, Plateau state in Nigeria, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
In the religious clash, triggered when Muslim youths on Jan. 17 attacked a Catholic church, 10 church buildings were burned and 27 Christians are still missing, CAN officials said at a press conference in Jos today. Police estimate over 300 lives were lost in the clash.
The Plateau state CAN chairman, the Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, said the CAN Directorate of Research has carefully investigated the clash “without any sentiment and come out with a factual account.”
Kaigama said flashpoint areas where clashes have repeatedly occurred should be identified and security personnel deployed.
Police said violence was triggered by an unprovoked attack by Muslim youths on worshippers at the St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Nasarawa Gwong, in the Jos North Local Government Area. Burned buildings included the Christ Apostolic Church, Assemblies of God Church, three branches of the Church of Christ in Nigeria and two buildings of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), Christian leaders said.
The ECWA on Saturday (Jan. 23) reported that some of its members were missing and appealed to security agencies to help locate their whereabouts.
“Many of our members whose houses were burnt have to date not be found, despite all efforts by the church and their relatives to find their bodies or know their whereabouts,” said the Rev. Anthony Farinto, national president of the ECWA. “ECWA suspects strongly that many of the dead bodies hurriedly buried in mass graves by the Muslims included some of its members who were murdered within the Muslim neighborhoods.”
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) accused the state General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major-Gen. Salleh Maina, and some soldiers of taking sides in the clash.
“Soldiers were seen in some parts of Jos watching Muslim youths shooting Christians and burning places without any efforts to stop them,” read a PFN a press statement.
The process of selecting GOCs nationwide should be open and brought under the supervision of the National Assembly, as the choice of GOC by one man does “not augur well for the peaceful co-existence of the nation,” according to the PFN.
The PFN urged the state government to form an Anti-Religious Riot Vigilante Group “whose officials should be well trained in surveillance, intelligence, security and brute self-defense as the first response group to any uprising before the arrival of the police to quell any uprising and save senseless killings.”
The Rev. Chuwang Avou, secretary of the state chapter of CAN, said the crisis broke out when Muslim youths pursued a woman into a church during worship on Sunday, wreaking havoc on the service. A Muslim group in the area, however, dismissed claims that Muslim youths ignited the tensions. They accused Christian youths of stopping a Muslim from rebuilding his house.
State Commissioner of Police Greg Anyating stated that Muslim youths were to blame for setting off the violence.
The violence comes at a time of a leadership vacuum in Nigeria, with illness requiring Muslim President Umaru Yar’Adua to leave the country on Nov. 23 to seek treatment in Saudi Arabia.
The same area suffered on Nov. 28-29, 2008, when murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders. More than 25,000 persons were displaced in the two days of violence.
What began as outrage over suspected vote fraud in local elections quickly hit the religious fault line as angry Muslims took aim at Christian sites rather than at political targets. Police and troops reportedly killed about 400 rampaging Muslims in an effort to quell the unrest, and Islamists shot, slashed or stabbed to death more than 100 Christians.
Sectarian violence in Jos, a volatile mid-point where the predominantly Muslim north meets the mainly Christian south, left more than 1,000 people dead in 2001. Another 700 people were killed in sectarian outbreaks of violence in 2004. Located in Nigeria’s central region between the Muslim-majority north and the largely Christian south, Plateau state is home to various Christian ethnic groups co-existing uneasily with Muslim Hausa settlers.
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Christians in Jos, Nigeria Fear Further Attacks
Churches burned following assault on Catholic church in volatile Plateau state.
LAGOS, Nigeria, January 19 (CDN) — Gunshots and smoke continued to alarm residents of Jos in central Nigeria today, with the Christian community fearing further violence from Muslim youths who on Sunday (Jan. 17) attacked a Catholic church and burned down several other church buildings.
A 24-hour curfew imposed yesterday in Jos and the suburb of Bukuru by the Plateau state government was extended through Wednesday. Police said continuing violence was initially triggered by Sunday’s unprovoked attack by Muslim youths on worshippers at the St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Nasarawa Gwong, in the Jos North Local Government Area.
Also burned were buildings of the Christ Apostolic Church, Assemblies of God Church, three branches of the Church of Christ in Nigeria and two buildings of the Evangelical Church of West Africa, Christian leaders said.
The number of casualties continued to grow, reportedly reaching more than 100 as security forces tried to rein in rioters, with both Christian and Muslim groups still counting their losses. Hundreds have reportedly been wounded.
“We have been witnessing sporadic shootings in the last two days,” said the Rev. Chuwang Avou, secretary of the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria. “We see some residents shooting sporadically into the air. We have also seen individuals with machine guns on parade in the state.”
Avou said many of those who are shooting are civilians, not policemen, and that they have been mounting road blocks and causing chaos in the area. At least 35 people have been arrested.
“What we have witnessed only goes to show that the problem in the state is far from over,” he said. “Many families have been displaced. There are a number who are receiving treatment in the hospital. The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed in the state has not solved any problem, as there is still tension in the land.”
Avou said the crisis broke out when Muslim youths pursued a woman into a church during worship on Sunday, wreaking havoc on the service.
“Some Muslim youths invaded some churches and started burning and destroying properties,” he said. “We were told that the youths pursued a lady to the church. Nobody knew what the lady did. What we just discovered was that the entire atmosphere was ignited and houses were being burned.”
A Muslim group in the area, however, dismissed claims that Muslim youths ignited the tensions. They accused Christian youths of stopping a Muslim from rebuilding his house.
As violence continued today, there was a mass movement of Christians and Muslims from areas where rampaging youths were unleashing mayhem on the city despite heavy security. The Nigerian army was reportedly summoned to try to restore order.
The Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, co-chairman of the state Inter-Religious Council and Catholic Archbishop of Jos, condemned the recurring civil disturbances in the state and called on all to “sheath their swords and be their brothers’ keepers.”
The secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Pastor Wale Adefarasin, said attacks on Christians are a manifestation of terrorism in the country.
“What we should realize is that the government is not helping situations,” he said. “It is an illusion that Nigeria is safe.”
He added that terrorism affects both Christians and Muslims negatively, and that it is the duty of elected officials to ensure that terrorists are detected early and deterred.
“The Muslim fundamentalists want to take over Jos by all means,” Pastor Adefarasin said. “They claim that Jos is a Muslim state, which is not true.”
Violence hit the same area on Nov. 28-29, 2008, when murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders. More than 25,000 persons were displaced in the two days of violence.
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NIGERIA: VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN JOS
Posted on December 2, 2008 by particularkev
Hundreds killed, thousands flee after Muslims attack Christians over election results.
JOS, Nigeria, November 30 (Compass Direct News) – Communal violence broke out in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Friday (Nov. 28) after Muslims began attacking Christians on claims of vote-tampering, leaving hundreds dead and thousands fleeing their homes.
After officials reportedly refused to post local council election results on Thursday (Nov. 27) – prompting speculation that a party backed largely by Christians had won – Muslim gangs in the Ali Kazaure area of the city began attacking Christians, according to local residents. Violence along political, ethnic and religious lines followed, with security forces said to be responsible for killing more than 300 Muslims whose bodies were later brought to one mosque.
On Saturday (Nov. 29) officials announced that the ruling People’s Democratic Party, backed mainly by Christians, had won 16 of 17 council seats, defeating the All Nigerian Peoples Party, said to be primarily supported by Muslims.
The Muslim attacks on Christians had spread across the city shortly after it began in the Ali Kazaure area, resulting in the destruction of some Christian churches. Muslim militants burned the sanctuary of the Church of Christ in Nigeria in the Sarkin Mangu area of Jos, and its pastor has been confirmed killed.
Plateau state Information Minister Nuhu Gagara told Compass on Friday night (Nov. 28) that the Sarkin Mangu church of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) was destroyed. Names of other destroyed churches had yet to be confirmed at press time. Several mosques also were reportedly razed.
With streets calm today, Gagara gave a preliminary death toll of 200 people, though relief organizations said the figure was at least twice that.
As early as Friday, residents in various parts of Jos told Compass by telephone that more than 100 people had died. At the University of Jos, eight Christian students were said to have died, according to a source who requested anonymity for fear of being attacked by Muslim militants.
Ishaya Pam, chief medical director of the Plateau State Specialist Hospital, told Compass by phone that security agents had deposited three dead bodies in the hospital’s morgue. About 150 persons had taken refuge at the hospital, Pam added.
Additionally, authorities at the Jos University Teaching Hospital confirmed that it was treating about 50 injured persons.
Plateau Gov. Jonah David Jang said in a radio and television broadcast Friday night that the crisis was pre-planned by disgruntled elements who had schemed to manipulate religious sentiments to create instability in the state.
Gunfire heard Saturday morning (Nov. 29) died down by the end of the day as the government sent troops to quell the violence. But tensions remained high on Sunday as authorities had extended a curfew on residents of several districts of the city, with military guards ordered to shoot on sight.
On Friday (Nov. 28) Samson Wudeh, police commissioner of the Plateau State Command, told journalists in Jos that police had arrested at least 200 persons in connection with the religious crisis, and by the end of the weekend state officials said that 500 people had been arrested.
There was fear that the rioting could lead to a repeat of the violence that hit Jos on Sept. 7, 2001, which resulted in more than four years of bloodshed, killings of thousands of people and displacing thousands of others.
In 2004 an estimated 700 people died in Plateau state during Christian-Muslim clashes. Located in Nigeria’s central region between the Muslim-majority north and the largely Christian south, the state is home various Christian ethnic groups co-existing uneasily with Muslim Hausa settlers.
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Since Standing Rock, 56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests
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“Meanwhile, the Dakota Access Pipeline itself has confirmed some of the Standing Rock Sioux’s fears: After becoming fully operation on June 1, the pipeline has already leaked at least five times.”
Source: thenation.com
In the year since the last activists were evicted, the crackdown on journalists and activists has only intensified.
By Zoë Carpenter
February 23, 2017: Law-enforcement officers point their weapons at two water protectors praying near the Sacred Fire of the main resistance camp of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Both men were arrested, along with the photographer, shortly after this image was taken. (Tracie Williams)
On February 23 of last year, a day when the frozen ground had started to turn to mud, law-enforcement officers rolled into the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. Donald Trump had been inaugurated a month earlier, and the new president quickly reversed an Obama administration decision to deny Energy Transfer Partners a permit to finish construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.78 billion project running directly under the Missouri River. The water protectors, as protesters called themselves, had been fighting the pipeline since the spring of 2016, concerned that the proposed route cut through ancestral land of spiritual significance, and that a pipeline leak could contaminate the primary water supply to the reservation. The small group who had remained through the bitter winter at Oceti Sakowin had been ordered to leave by February 22 or face eviction and arrest. Most did; a few dozen remained the following the day, when Humvees with snipers on their roofs rolled into camp, a helicopter buzzing above them.
Photojournalist Tracie Williams, on assignment for the National Press Photographers’ Association, captured some of what happened next. Officers wearing military fatigues walked through the camp with assault rifles and knives, which they used to slice open the skins of teepees. Rain and fat flakes of snow fell against a backdrop of smoke rising from structures that had been set alight in a ceremonial gesture. Moments after clicking through the last two frames on her memory card—of two men in prayer, weapons aimed at their heads—she was arrested. Williams, who had been documenting life at Oceti Sakowin for three weeks leading up to the raid, told officers she was a journalist—and says she’d previously identified herself as a member of the press to the governor and the Army Corps and let them know that she’d be there, documenting, and obtained a press credential from the Morton County Sheriff—but they confiscated her equipment as evidence and detained her anyway. Williams was later charged with physical obstruction of government function, a Class A misdemeanor that could result in a year in jail and $3,000 in fines. Her trial is scheduled for June.
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Standing Rock: The Documentary
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The main significance of Black Snake* Killaz is the continuous historical record it provides of the 2016 Standing Rock occupation and blockade of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The occupation drew participation from indigenous supporters all over the world, as well as environmental activists and veterans. It also inspired dozens of support protests in cities around the US.
By engaging in continuous direct action, either placing their bodies in the path of construction equipment, vandalizing it or locking themselves down to it, the Water Protectors succeeded in bring pipeline construction to a total halt.
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Exclusive: Michael Wood Jr. On Veterans Stand Group, DAPL, and Surveillance
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by Isiah Holmes • March 1, 2017
Standing Rock, North Dakota (TFC)— The Fifth Column News contacted Michael Wood Jr. regarding his organization Veterans Stand and it’s Standing Rock operations. Wood responded shortly before the government issued eviction orders, then raided the remaining camps. He relayed Veterans Stand’s goals and its volunteer’s experiences at Standing Rock.
Veterans Stand unites US veterans wanting to “defend America from enemies, foreign and domestic”, its website reads. Former Baltimore PD Sergeant of 10 years and US Marine Michael Wood Jr. currently serves as the organization’s executive director. According to Wood, VS has “ a continually growing volunteer staff of 16”. It’s staff largely consists of military veterans wishing to continue fulfilling their oaths to protect.
This is What American Fascism is Going to Look Like
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By Gary G. Kohls, MD
“Christian Fundamentalist Dominonist theocracy is hard to distinguish from Islamic Fundamentalist Sharia law (which is condemned so vociferously by conservative Christians). Some call it Christofascism.”
“You drop bombs on seven Muslim countries and then you wonder why Muslims are upset. Or you drop bombs on innocent Muslim children with U.S. drones and then you wonder why the gangsters, the fascists that are coming out of the Muslim world, are organizing.” – Dr Cornel West – in a recent interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! More
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Quiz: Can You Name These Classic Southern Desserts?: HowStuffWorks
Can You Name These Classic Southern Desserts?
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Leave room for dessert! Just the sight of these rich, sweet treats is enough to make anyone's mouth water!
Southern dishes run the gamut from simple and homey to over-the-top and fanciful. Many of the dishes can be traced back to the early European settlers, but there are those which are completely Southern creations. What they all have in common, however, are ingredients which can be found in abundance in the region - berries, nuts and citrus, for example.
Pecans, whether whole or chopped, make an appearance in many Southern desserts. Apart from being included in the batter, they are,more often than not also used to generously adorn the top of the completed dish. There is a swoon-worthy selection of pecan desserts among the delectable offerings in this quiz. Get cracking and see which ones you can identify!
If you are from Dixieland or just love the unmistakable flair of Southern cooking, then you are probably familiar with many of these scrumptious desserts. To ace this quiz, however, you have to know their names as well as your taste buds know their flavors. Check out the quiz and see how you do!
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What are these all-time favorite treats called?
The chocolate chip cookie was invented in New England - Whitman, Massachusetts (1938), to be exact. It has become a Southern favorite over the years with special twists, such as baked pecans, added to give the cookies a more local flair.
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What is the name of this “smooth” layer cake?
Coca-Cola cake
Red velvet cakes most often (and traditionally) get their red color from food coloring, but beets can also be used to give the cake its namesake color and a little extra body. Love of the red velvet cake has spawned variations such as red velvet pancakes, cupcakes, cookies and ice cream.
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Can you name this dish with many levels?
tarte à la bouillie
coconut layer cake
Southern cuisine contains a variety of layered dessert treats. Among them is the coconut layer cake, which is typically made with coconut in the cake, the filling, and the frosting. Some recipes go a step further by topping the frosting with coconut flakes.
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Which traditionally no-bake classic Southern dessert is shown here?
pecan tassies
German apple cake
lemon icebox pie
The lemon icebox pie is one of the easiest (and tastiest) Southern desserts to make. The crust is typically made out of graham crackers, but store-bought crust works just as well for some home cooks. The flavor and consistency of the lemon icebox pie is similar to that of the Key lime pie.
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Which classic Southern dessert is shown in this photo?
pecan cobbler
blackberry ice cream
Banana pudding did not become a part of Southern cuisine until the latter half the 1800s. That’s when bananas became readily available and affordable in the region, thanks to large imports from the Caribbean.
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Can you name the frozen treat shown in this photo?
Both South Carolina and Georgia are among the top peach-producing states in the US. Peach ice cream is a longtime Southern favorite especially on hot summer days. The treat is popular all over the country, as well, with National Peach Ice Cream Day being celebrated on July 17 each year.
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Do you know what these tasty nut cookies are called?
pecan sandies
The name sandie refers to a wide variety of sugar or shortbread cookies which can be plain, flavored or contain different nuts such as almonds and cashews. Pecan is such a popular addition, however, that these melt-in-your-mouth cookies usually get called pecan sandies all the time!
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What is the name of the frozen treat shown here?
fried hand pies
Fresh blackberries (or any fruit, for that matter) make a good base for delicious homemade ice cream. Many ice cream recipes have a very short ingredients list, and there are plenty of no-churn methods which take all of the hassle out of ice cream making.
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What is the name of this classic Cajun dessert?
The tarte à la bouillie first appears in Louisiana as a Cajun dessert. It is said to have been created as a way to make use of excess eggs and milk.
Can you name this nut-filled Southern dessert?
Hello Dolly bars
The pecan pie is regarded as one of the genuinely Southern dessert creations. With an abundance of pecans in the region, the pecan pie is traditionally made with pecans added to the filling, as well as decorating the top of the pie. The pecan pie is often served as dessert at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
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Can you identify this dessert made with a crunchy orange vegetable?
Carrot cake is quite often prepared as a decadent layered cake with frosting between the layers and around the entire cake. Apart from freshly grated carrots, other add-ins include pineapple, chopped almonds, various spices and of course, chopped pecans!
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Which dessert made with leftovers is shown here?
date and nut chews
Bread pudding is, by no means, a creation of the Southern states. It is, however, one of the favorite desserts throughout the region. Bread pudding is believed to have originated in 11th century Europe, out of the practical need to make use of stale bread.
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What is the molasses-based dessert shown here called?
buttermilk pie
The shoofly pie is a Pennsylvania Dutch original which, according to some sources, dates back to the colonial era. Its unusual name is often attributed to bakers having to shoo away the flies which were drawn to the sticky, sweet molasses it contained.
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Can you name this delightfully decadent dessert?
When it’s time for dessert, there is a wide range of scrumptious chocolate cakes to choose from. Popular ones include red velvet cake, Devil’s food cake and black forest cake but many families have their own prized chocolate cake recipe to whip up whenever the occasion arises.
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Can you identify these citrus-flavored treats?
Lemon flavor is common among many of the traditional desserts in the Southern states. Lemon cookies are often prepared with both freshly squeezed lemon juice and freshly grated lemon zest.
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What is the name of this classic Southern dessert?
The sweet potato pie is often noted as being a creation of African-American slaves. In fact, Abby Fisher, a former slave, is credited with the very first published sweet potato pie recipe.
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What are these small, cup-shaped desserts called?
Mississippi mud brownies
Pecan tassies are often likened to miniature pecan pies and are believed to have originated New Orleans. The name “tassie” ultimately comes from the French word “tasse” which means cup. Pecan tassies are popular during the Christmas season.
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Do you know what these crusty and filled treats are called?
preacher’s cake
Fried pies, hand pies or fried hand pies are typically stuffed with sweet fruity fillings such as lemon, blueberry and cherry. They are easy to prepare and are often used as additions to a picnic basket.
Can you identify the gooey treats shown here?
While it is not clear when Mississippi mud brownies were actually invented, what is certain is that they are loaded with chocolate and gooey marshmallows – hence the “mud” in the name. The same is true for the equally popular Mississippi mud cake and Mississippi mud pie.
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Can you name this pie which originated in Florida?
The Key lime pie gets its name from limes grown on the Florida Keys, where the recipe was created. The limes are also responsible for the pie’s tartness, which is balanced out by the recipe’s condensed milk. It is the egg yolks, however, which give the Key lime pie its characteristic pale yellow color.
Do you know this dessert’s “fowl” name?
The hummingbird cake originated in Jamaica. It bears the name of that country’s national bird and includes both bananas and pineapples, which are abundant in that island country. The recipe was first published in the US in 1978 when a North Carolina resident submitted it to Southern Living magazine.
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Do you what this dessert named for a brewed drink is called?
Coffee cake may be an all-time favorite in the Southern states but the original recipe is said to come from Germany. It is called coffee cake whether or not it is flavored with coffee, since the coffee cake is meant to be served with coffee, either way.
The Coca-Cola Co.
Do you know the name of this soda-inspired creation?
The first published recipe for the Coca-Cola cake can be found in a 1952 newspaper article from Charleston, West Virginia. This sweet and gooey cake’s ingredients list contains both marshmallows and chocolate and as a result it is often called a Coca-Cola chocolate cake or a chocolate Cola cake.
Which nutty dessert treat is shown in this image?
The popularity of pecan-based dishes in the Southern states may be due to the fact that pecans grow naturally and plentifully in the Southern states. In fact, Georgia, New Mexico and Texas rank highest in the US in terms of pecan production.
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Can you identify this dessert named for the red fruit it contains?
Strawberries and shortcake have been a part of European cuisine for centuries, with the strawberry shortcake coming along some time in the 1500s. The classic Southern strawberry shortcake is formed on a pie crust.
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Do you know the fruity name of the pie shown here?
The lemon meringue pie may be particularly popular in the Southern states, but it also well-loved across the rest of the US. So much so, in fact, that Aug. 15 is celebrated as National Lemon Meringue Pie Day.
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Do you know this dessert which also goes by the name pandowdy?
Most cobblers are essentially deep-dish, thick-crust pies with a fruit filling. While the filling can be made of mixed fruits, in the Southern states, cobblers are often single-fruit creations. Recipes for cobblers vary slightly by region, with local names including crow’s nest pudding, bird’s nest pudding, pandowdy, buckles, crisp, croustade, grunt and slump.
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Do you know what this easy-to-whip-up dessert is called?
According to folklore, preacher’s cake gets its name from being easy to prepare, which makes it the ideal dessert to whip up for (and impress) unexpected company – like the local preacher. Spices, pineapple and coconut are the most popular flavors added to preacher’s cake.
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Which cake known for its high liquor content is shown here?
Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton, Alabama created this bourbon-laced cake sometime before 1898 and originally named it prize cake after it won her first prize in a Columbus, Georgia county fair. Lane cake gained national attention after it and its high alcohol content were mentioned in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Which dessert, named for the amount of each ingredient, is this?
Flour, butter, sugar and eggs are the four basic ingredients in this cake. This means the added flavors, such as lemon and almond, are what sets one person’s pound cake apart from the rest. A pound cake is traditionally baked in a loaf tin or a Bundt pan.
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Can you name this elegant New Orleans creation?
Bananas Foster may just be one of the most exciting desserts to serve. It contains banana liqueur which can be ignited (flambé-style) just before serving. The bananas Foster dessert is a New Orleans original and is quite popular in that region.
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Which cocoa-derived dessert is shown in this image?
Its custard-like consistency makes chocolate pudding a very versatile dessert item. It can be served on its own or used as filling for a variety of dishes. National Chocolate Pudding Day is celebrated annually in the US on June 26.
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Do you know what this traditional Southern dessert is?
Early British settlers in the Americas are said to have created the cobbler in what is perhaps a classic case of “Necessity is the mother of invention.” They lacked the right ingredients to make the type of pudding they did back home, and when they made it with the ingredients which were available, the cobbler was born!
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Can you name this popular Thanksgiving dessert from Texas?
It is quite common for people to confuse a buttermilk pie for a chess pie. There are two main differences, however, in their ingredients. The chess pie has cornmeal and the buttermilk pie has buttermilk.
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Which sticky dessert is shown in this photo?
The “nut” in these chewy chews is often pecan but other nuts, such as walnuts and almonds, can be used as well. Date and nut chews are sometimes simply referred to as date-nut chews.
Which dessert, named for its heavenly taste, is shown in this image?
The divinity candy is also known as divinity fudge. Thanks to its widespread popularity in the Southern states and the regular practice of adding pecan halves to the recipe, the treat also goes by the name Southern candy.
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Which creamy, nutty confection is shown in this image?
The praline was originally created in Europe and made its way to the New World in the 1700s. The Southern version of the praline, with pecans instead of almonds and with cream added to the mix, was concocted in New Orleans after the praline was introduced by the French.
Do you know the “gamey” name of this pie?
One theory about the origin of the name chess pie is that it comes from the response “It’s just pie” which, in some Southern accents, sounds more like “It’s jes’ pie.” The cornmeal in chess pie’s recipe helps to differentiate it from buttermilk pie.
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Do you know the name of this fruity cake?
Just as its name suggests, the German apple cake originated in Germany. Southern recipes usually call for the addition of pecans, perhaps because that ingredient is quite common throughout the region.
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Which dessert, also known as seven layer cookies, is shown here?
Hello Dolly bars, seven layer cookies and magic bars are the names usually used to refer to these Southern treats. They are typically made with a graham cracker base and an assortment of toppings. Popular toppings include shredded coconut, chocolate or butterscotch chips, chopped pecans or walnuts.
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December 29, 2017 February 21, 2019 Pop Cult Master
Unlikely compatriots
Each of Stanley Kubrick’s last five films echoes films which were made by Miloš Forman. Here are the many commonalities between Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Stanley’s The Shining (1980):
1) Jack Nicholson and Scatman Crothers in the cast.
2) Scatman played Turkle in Forman’s film, whereas an actor named Joe Turkel played Lloyd in Stan’s film. It would’ve been quite hysterical if Lloyd was played by Christopher Lloyd, seeing as how Stan had enough calcium in his funny bone to cast Jack as a man named Jack.
3) Set in Oregon.
4) They relate madness to physical confinement.
5) The treatment of Native Americans as a subtext.
6) Both have the American Dream and the American ideal of individualism as a subtext.
7) Television figures prominently. In Forman’s film, there is a subliminal association between television and medical techniques. In Stan’s film, television is connected with telepathy.
8) Nicholson’s character has contempt for the leading female character which indirectly causes his death.
9) It has been commented by others that the opening drive scene in both films resemble each other.
10) Interestingly, the films end with opposite images – Chief Bromden’s escape to nature and Jack Torrance’s integration into high society.
A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The People Versus Larry Flynt (1996) have thematic similarities. They deal with decadent society and the social pressures to suspend civil liberties in the cause of moral improvement.
Barry Lyndon (1975) has Valmont (1989) as a distant relative. They are based on novels which take place in the 18th century. The widow in each film is the MacGuffin.
Full Metal Jacket (1987) is a kind of inversion of and sequel to Hair (1979). The latter by Miloš deals with America’s drop-outs of the sixties; whereas Stan’s film deals with those who “stayed with the program” and dropped in on Vietnam.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) has certain affinities with Amadeus (1984), even quoting Mozart’s Requiem. The former by Stan has a hidden connection to Vienna in that it was based on a novel which originally took place there. Maybe if Stan had only changed the time period then it would be not only more relevant and mysterious but sexier. Both films share the theme of coping with mediocrity and dreaming of something better.
Themes of Eros and Thanatos are prominent in both films, as is the motif of the mask and the secret society. The Don Giovanni (Don Juan) theme in Amadeus parallels to some extent Bill’s sexual odyssey. Although Bill is no Mozartean child prodigy, he is something of a man child. One senses that he rose through the ranks with extreme facility – thus with some detriment to his humanity (in the sense that he has skimmed the surface of life and left its depths unexplored).
The unlikeliness of this compatriotism is that while Miloš is an enthusiastic immigrant to America; Stan was a somewhat reluctant emigrant. Forman’s films seem intellectually softer i.e. the edges rounded off for easier consumption – more conventionally liberal, whereas Stan’s approach seems more anthropological than political. But Miloš is no intellectual slouch – the projects which he takes up are bold and he handles them intelligently. Like David Lean, he strikes me as being like Stan – similar in the frequency and magnitude of the films which he creates that always combine visual splendor with a didactic underpinning.
Final note: It’s a shame that Stan died, because Richard Linklater’s filming process for Boyhood would not have been as distinctive. If Stan was alive, he would’ve told people that Richard got the selling point from when Stan was working on Aryan Papers (an unrealized project). The selling point of the filming process was to shoot scenes over a series of years so as to convincingly portray the growth of a boy.
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"Where Are The Men of God" is a powerful, 5-minute excerpt from a message that Steve Hill preached where suddenly, in the middle of his sermon, the Holy Spirit through Steve begins to call out for God's people to return to the God of our forefathers. The Spirit of God implores leaders to stand for truth and righteousness, and to not abandon the faith. One question still stands: "Where Are The Men of God?"
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Dishonored 2 Gameplay Debut
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Dishonored 2 was announced at e3 2015. Now at e3 2016, we have details, video of the game in action and a release date! Dishonored 2 is being made specifically so that you can play it even if you never experienced the first game. Those who have will benefit from a deeper understanding of the narrative but this game will be its own story. You will be able to reprise the role of the first game's protagonist, Corvo Attano. You will however, have the option to play as the new empress and daughter of the former one, Emily Kaldwin. Each character has their own set of upgradeable abilities, both natural and supernatural. In the spirit of most Bethesda titles, you will be free to play how you want. You can focus on stealth or handle enemies directly. You will able to be a lethal or non-lethal character and you will be able to change your mind on the fly. The story shall evolve based upon your actions, so be wary of your steps. Get ready to enter a world of shadow, assassination and intrigue; Dishonored 2 comes to PC, PS4 and Xbox One on November 11, 2016
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Pan-Oriental Shipping Company
When A Lackluster Shipping Company Became A Successful Motorcycle Company
The Pan-Oriental Shipping Company was one of the shipping companies that rose in Cebu after World War II, one of the replacements of the Cebu shipping companies that did not survive the war. This shipping company was among those who were able to purchase surplus World War II ships tendered by the Philippine Government. These are the ships given to the Philippines by the US to jump start the economy and not among those given as replacement for the ships lost during the war or the ships they ordered scuttled to prevent it from falling into the enemy hands and be used against the Allies. The ships were also atonement for the massive air attacks against the Japanese that practically wiped out many of the infrastructure of Manila.
From the Manila Chronicle 1/13/52. Research by Gorio Belen of PSSS in the National Library.
The Pan-Oriental Shipping Co. started operations in 1948 doing the Cebu-Manila v.v. route. Like some of the other ships then, there were modifications carried out in the superstructure to accommodate passengers (the surplus Army transports were actually not people carriers). It did not have the sophistication, if that term is appropriate, of similar ex-“FS” ships of the major shipping lines.
The first passenger-cargo ship (I am leery of using the world “liner” here) of the Pan-Oriental Shipping was the Oriental that was acquired in 1948 and the name is not a surprise, of course. She was the former “FS”ship FS-318 built by John H. Mathis & Company Shipbuilders in Camden, New Jersey, USA in 1944 for the US Army as its own transport and in the main they were manned by US Coast Guard personnel.
The MV Oriental. From the Manila Chronicle 1/13/52. Research by Gorio Belen of PSSS in the National Library.
The Oriental’s Length Over-all (LOA) was 53.9 meters with a Length Between Perpendiculars (LPP) of 50.7 meters and Breadth of 9.8 meters. The Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) of the ship remained at 560 tons even though there were additions to the superstructure. Weighed down by additional metal and for greater stability, her Depth rose from 3.2 meters to 4.3 meters. The ship was powered by two General Motors engines with a total of 1,000 horsepower that gave her a speed of 11 knots. The permanent ID latter given to the Oriental was IMO Number 5264895.
Pan-Oriental Shipping’s next acquisition came in the next year, 1949, and this was the former “FS” ship FS-350 which was built by J.K. Welding in Yonkers, New York, USA in 1944 for the US Army, too. In the Pan-Oriental fleet she was named as the Occidental. The name is not surprising also.
The MV Occidental. From the Manila Chronicle 12/3/53 (the attached date is incorrect). Research of Gorio Belen of PSSS in the National Library.
The Occidental’s external dimensions were exactly the same as that of the Oriental but the Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) is only 558 tons. That was after there were additions to the superstructure (funny, isn’t it?) The ship was also powered by two General Motors engines with a total of 1,000 horsepower that gave her a similar speed of 11 knots. The IMO Number of the ship was 5260045.
After another year, in 1950, the Pan-Oriental Shipping acquired their third ship which was also another former “FS” ship, the FS-197 which was built by Higgins in New Orleans, Louisiana for the US Army too in 1944. Higgins was the company that designed and built the famous Higgins boat which was used as beach assault craft in World War II. In the Pan-Oriental fleet the FS-197 was named as the Continental.
The MV Continental. Research by Gorio Belen of PSSS in the National Library.
This ship was a little longer than the Oriental and Occidental at 54.9 meters LOA with an LPP of 51.2 meters and the common Breadth of 9.8 meters of all the FS ships. With additional metal the GRT of Continental went down from 573 tons to 512 tons (so GRT shaving was not a recent phenomenon). The ship is powered by two General Motors engines with 1,000 horsepower on tap giving her a cruising speed of 11 knots. The IMO Number of the ship was 6117935.
The Oriental, Occidental and Continental being all former “FS” ships were all sister ships. The ships were purchased from the Philippine Government through the Rehabilitation Finance Corporation (RFC) which was a predecessor of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). As mentioned before, US Government gave it to the Philippines to help the economy recover from the war.
The sole route of the Pan-Oriental ships was Manila-Cebu, v.v. and they stressed cargo rather than passengers. However, as time went by there were already plenty of ships calling in Cebu from Manila as Cebu is an in-port of ships still proceeding to Mindanao. After all, they have to carry and supply the Cebuano migrants in that land of opportunity but that resulted in the displacements on the natives of the island.
Having a ship with just a sole port of call was actually disadvantageous as it does not maximize the ship. And that was compounded by just a once a week sailing. Competitors, on a once a week schedule with calls in Cebu, Tagbilaran, Dumaguete, Ozamis and Iligan can also do a once a week sailing
In 1954, after six years of operation, the Pan-Oriental Shipping quit the shipping business by selling out altogether lock, stock and barrel. The Oriental and Occidental went to Carlos Go Thong & Co. while the Continental went to Compania Maritima in the end after several transfers. With the sale of the two ships to Go Thong & Co., that company became a national liner company from being just a regional shipping company. Initially, Oriental and Occidental retained their names in the Go Thong fleet. After several years, the Oriental was renamed to the Don Jose and the Occidental was renamed to the Don Francisco. Meanwhile, the Continental became the second Basilan of Compania Maritima. All three had new superstructures in their new companies.
From the Philippine Herald. Research by Gorio Belen of PSSS in the National Library.
The Pan-Oriental Shipping Company was owned by Norberto Quisumbing (sounds familiar?). After selling the company he founded Norkis in Mactan island (in Opon, now Lapu-lapu City) which assembles the well-liked and popular Yamaha motorcycles. Everybody knows how successful were the Quisumbings in motorcycles. And that is also true for Go Thong (later Gothong) in shipping and later they spawned the legendary Sulpicio Lines Incorporrated and Lorenzo Shipping Company.
The transaction between Pan-Oriental and Go Thong proved to be a win-win deal for the two companies.
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In The Middle of the 1960’s We Needed New Liners and Europe Filled That Need And Not Japan
Posted on August 5, 2016 by psssadmin
With the exception of De la Rama Steamship Company, the Philippine liner shipping companies that were born or resurrected after World War II were dependent on the former “FS” (for Freight and Supply) ships from the US Navy. That type of ship was the backbone of our postwar passenger fleet; it was also the most numerous. One reason for that was so many of that type was built during World War II and most were deployed in the Pacific Ocean campaign of the US. Having to pay for the Philippine prewar ships they requisitioned for the war effort that type became the most common replacement given by the US together with the former “F” ships. Aside from direct replacement, the US also had to dispose so many of them and instead of bringing them back to the US where they have no use of them, many were just given to the Philippine government as aid and reparations. The Philippine government then put them up for sale at near-bargain prices (about $60,000 only; where can you get a ship that cheap?). Of course, as always, political considerations mattered and so those who have political connections had the inside track in the purchase of these vessels.
Many of the Philippine liner shipping companies were so enamored with these former “FS” ships that they practically purchased no other vessel type for the next twenty years after the war. Among those were William Lines Incorporated, Southern Lines Incorporated (they also had former “F” ships too) and General Shipping Corporation. In other liner shipping companies’ fleets like that of Philippine Steamship Navigation Company/Everett Steamship, Hijos de F. Escano Incorporated and Manila Steamship Company, the former “FS” ships were in clear majority. Even in the venerable Compania Maritima’s fleet half of those were former “FS” ships. Meanwhile, half of fleet of Madrigal Shipping Company was composed of former “Y” ships which were related to the former “FS” ships. These were former tankers converted into passenger-cargo ships. There was no Negros Navigation Company route then yet to Manila. What had a route then to Manila was the small Ledesma Shipping Lines. Negros Navigation Company became a liner company when they and Ledesma Shipping Lines merged.
Being “enamored” with former “FS” ships also had a reason. They were cheap and while they may be basic sea transportation, the passengers were willing to put up with its deficiencies. And for whatever deficiency, sometimes good food is enough to make passengers overlook it. And so whenever a former “FS” ship becomes available in the market the liner shipping companies readily snapped it up. That goes true even for the fleet of the shipping companies that quit the shipping business like Manila Steamship in 1956 (along with some much smaller shipping companies).
The future great Carlos A. Go Thong & Company was not among the recipients of ships from the US as reparation. Their first ships were salvaged “F” ships that they bought. They only had their first ex-”FS” ships when they bought out the Pan-Oriental Shipping Company of the Quisumbings of Mandaue which then went into motorcycle assembly (the Norkis-Yamaha concern). Like Go Thong, the style of the other smaller passenger liner shipping company was to lengthen the hull of the former “F” ships so these will be “FS” ships equivalent. That was the origin of the first flagship of Go Thong, the Dona Conchita. However, some other small liner shipping companies which did not have enough capital or were just sailing minor routes simply sailed straight their small ex-”F” ships. Some other were also using converted minesweepers and PT boats. Many of the shipping companies in regional routes were using converted “F” ships and converted minesweepers.
These former “FS” ships like the other war surplus ships from the US like the “C1-M-AV1” ships were classified as “passenger-cargo” ships. Obviously, they carry passengers and cargo but it actually has a deeper meaning. In those days, passenger liner shipping companies don’t normally operate pure cargo ships like these recent decades. It is actually these passenger-cargo ships that carry the bulk of cargo in the inter-island route in liner operations (which means there is a fixed route and schedule). The passenger capacities of the ships then were small (there were no 1,000-passenger capacity liners then yet and tops then was just about 700 passenger capacity and normal was just about 300). What was more prized then sometimes were the cargo holds of the ships. Handled by booms (there were no container vans yet) the interport hours were long and departures especially in the interports were not prompt. As long as there is cargo to be loaded, the ships would not leave. Unloading of cargo then in the interport can already take several hours and with so many interport calls the longest-distance ports like Davao takes one week to be reached.
In the mid-1960’s the workhorse fleet from former US Navy ships were already long in the tooth. There were no more of that type to replace the hull losses and our population and trade was growing. Mindanao too has already experienced great migration from the Visayas and so migrants had to travel and goods had to be exchanged. Obviously there was a need to refleet or add to the fleet. The only company that was still able to acquire former “FS” ships from the US in the 1960’s was the newly-established Philippine President Lines, a shipping company well-backed from the highest circles of government. Most of what they were able to acquire were former “AKL” ships of the US Navy. These were former “FS” ships retained by the US Navy after the war and refurbished for use in supplying the many scattered islands and bases of the US in the wide Pacific Ocean. These ships were among the last of its type released by the US.
Some liner shipping companies which had easy starts because of political connections, specifically, Southern Lines Incorporated and General Shipping Corporation shirked from the challenge and quit shipping and simply sold their ships. Southern Lines’ ships went to various liner shipping companies while that of General Shipping Company was divided between Aboitiz Shipping Corporation and Sweet Lines Incorporated. Amazingly, this gave birth to two separate events and entities. Once again, Aboitiz Shipping Corporation had a fleet of its own (before they were just a partner in the Philippine Steamship and Navigation together with Everett Steamship of the US; before the war they were partners with Hijos de F. Escano in La Naviera Filipina). The second event and entity was the regional shipping company Sweet Lines Incorporated became a long-distance liner company. General Shipping Corporation, meanwhile, followed another bandwagon and moved into foreign routes using ships chartered from the National Development Corporation of the Philippine government. It was not difficult for them because they were well-connected politically.
Since no surplus ships were still available from the US then a new source had to be found. Japan by this time was still building their merchant fleet because these were the years of Japan’s “economic miracle” of galloping growth and so no surplus ships were still available from them at that time. The only logical place to look at would then be Europe as the US as a nearly solid continental country has many locomotives and rail wagons but not passenger liner ships. Before this time Compania Maritima has already shown the way in sourcing surplus passenger-cargo ships from Europe. It was easy for them since they have Spanish origins and connections.
I will start from the companies that made moves in acquiring passenger cargo-ships from Europe starting from the one which made a big move. It was the shipping company Carlos A. Go Thong & Co. that was not a recipient of US reparations which took a big gamble in acquiring passenger-cargo ships from Europe. I don’t know but maybe there should not be a great deal of surprise there as they did not get any favors from the US or the government before which means they will have to pull their own bootstraps up themselves if they want to move up. And over a period of six years until 1969 they acquired a total of 9 European passenger-cargo ships for local waters (the Gothong, Dona Pamela, the Dona Gloria, Tayabas Bay, the Dona Rita, the Dona Helene, the Don Lorenzo, the Don Camilo and the first Don Sulpicio. Aside from the nine, Go Thong was able to acquire the big ships Subic Bay, Manila Bay and Sarangani Bay. The first two were C1-A ships of US built but acquired from Europe while the last was a former ship of De la Rama Steamship. Also acquired in the same period was Dona Anita, the former Governor B. Lopez of Southern Lines which has airconditioning and the Dona Hortencia, a former Northern Lines ship of Japanese origins.
Three of these ex-European ships were former refrigerated cargo ships and that means a lot because with refrigeration facilities then Go Thong can then build First Class sections, lounges and restaurants that have airconditioning. So cold drinks will be available anytime too (when the bulk of Filipino homes don’t have refrigerators yet) along with the capacity to carry loads that should remain frozen or chilled. These things were simply not possible with the ex-”FS” ships and besides these former ships from Europe were bigger, a little faster and they have big cargo holds which means more capacity for generating profitable runs. With 14 ship acquisitions Go Thong was already more than Compania Maritima in the inter-island routes before they broke up in 1972 even though they are using their big ships to Europe and the Far East.
For a major, William Lines Inc. had a rather tepid response. They only acquired two surplus ships from Europe (the sister ships Virginia and Zamboanga City, the first) in the mid-1960’s but they bought two former “FS” ships (the Dona Maria and Don Jose) let go by the other liner shipping companies (yes, they have a definite liking for that). The new liner company Sweet Lines Inc. acquired only one surplus passenger-cargo ships from Europe in this period (the Sweet Bliss) and that is understandable as they were just a new liner company. However, they also bought two passenger-cargo ships discarded by the other liner companies (these were not former “FS” ships).
Meanwhile, Aboitiz Shipping Corporation, at the same time did not purchase any passenger-cargo ship from Europe. But in Philippine Steamship Navigation Company (PSNC) they had three passenger-cargo ships which has airconditioning and refrigeration which only arrived in 1955 (The Legaspi, Elcano and Cagayan de Oro). In effect, for them this is their equivalent of the passenger-cargo ships from Europe. The Philippine President Lines and its successor company for local routes Philippine Pioneer Lines purchased only one passenger cargo ship from Europe (the Aguinaldo) as they were already concentrating on their international routes (and that ship was soon passed to their foreign operations). In fact, they soon transferred their local operations to their subsidiary Philippine Pioneer Lines.
Special note should be given to two liner shipping companies that took a different tack and the higher road — those that purchased brand-new liners instead of surplus. One of them was Hijos de F. Escano (later known as Escano Lines). What they did was to take out loans and they ordered three brand-new passenger-cargo liners from West Germany which already had airconditioning. These are the Fatima, Agustina II and Fernando Escano II. Negros Navigation Company, meanwhile, which is establishing itself as a liner company outdid them and took a different supplier. They ordered brand-new liners with airconditioning starting in 1962 which was followed by one each in 1965 and 1967. Those ships were the second Princess of Negros, the Dona Florentina and the beautiful Don Julio, the second. The difference was they ordered their liners from Japan except for the first which was ordered from Hongkong.
Compania Maritima also ordered one brand-new liner with airconditioning from West Germany, the Visayas. Compania Maritima also acquired two big cargo-passenger ships from De la Rama Steamship, the Lingayen Gulf and the Sarangani Bay. They also acquired a local-built liner from General Shipping Corporation that had already airconditioning which they renamed as the Mactan. As a footnote, Sweet Lines Inc. also ordered one brand-new liner from West Germany, the Sweet Grace which for me was rather surprising for a new liner company given that older but more “conservative” liner companies did not go into this direction.
Among those that did not make moves were Madrigal Shipping Company and De la Rama Steamship, two formerly revered names in shipping. Madrigal Shipping Company were then already disposing ships either to the breakers or to other companies. Among the local liner shipping companies, they, together with the already-defunct-then Manila Steamship Company had the penchant for buying really old ships from Europe before and so its expected life is not long. Moreover, Madrigal Shipping Company was by this time already losing in their quixotic routes to Northern Luzon and Northern Bicol and it was just practically using the remaining life of the ferries they have not disposed off. They had only one ship acquired from Europe in this period that they did not immediately dispose of and this was the Viria. Like the rest of their acquisitions this was small because their routes were minor compared to the rest. Hence, this acquisition was not comparable to the European acquisition of the others.
Meanwhile, De la Rama Steamship at the middle of the 1960’s was beginning to function just as international shipping agents. They have already disposed then of almost all their ships including those chartered from the National Development Corporation and they have long disposed of their former “FS” and “F” ships. Two of their big ships went to Compania Maritima in this period.
The smaller passenger liner companies with lesser routes and revenues proved incapable of moving up to the European category of ships, brand-new or surplus. However, four upstart companies tried to join this trend. The new Dacema Lines Incorporated was able to purchase two old passenger-cargo liners from West Germany in 1967, the Athena and the Demeter. The new E. K. Litonjua Steamship Company Incorporated/Eddie Steamships (Philippines), Incorporated was able to do likewise with three old passenger-cargo ships from various countries, the Sultan KL, the Aurelio KL and the Eddie KL. Another upstart, the Northern Lines Incorporated was able to acquire two passenger-cargo ships in this period (along with cargo ships), the Don Salvador and the Don Rene and surprisingly the source of their ships was Japan. Another newcomer, the MD Shipping Corporation was also able to procure a surplus passenger-cargo ship from Norway, the Leon. Except for the Northern Lines ships the ship mentioned did not really last long because they were already old when they can here.
These moves or non-moves determined the fate of the liner shipping companies for the next ten years. With the bold move of Carlos A. Gothong & Co. they moved up fast in the totem pole of the local liner shipping companies that by the start of the 1970’s they were not only barking at the heels of Compania Maritima but has already achieved parity or were even slightly ahead already in the inter-island routes. On the other end of the pole those that did not acquire any or practically had no acquisition were already gone from the inter-island routes in the next ten years and this included Philippine Pioneer Lines and the successor company Galaxy Lines. Madrigal Shipping Company by then had also disposed of almost of their ships and had almost no more ships sailing. The ships of the two companies many of which were ex-”FS” and ex-”Y” ships went to minor liner companies NCL/NORCAMCO Lines (the former North Camarines Lumber) and N&S Lines.
All these moves or non-moves in the middle of the 1960’s determined the fate and the positions of the liner shipping companies from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s. Go Thong, a relative newcomer in liner shipping moved up a lot in liner shipping tier with their big acquisition. The liner shipping companies that made enough acquisitions in the mid-1960’s chugged along and generally did not lose rank for the next decade, relatively. Among these were Compania Maritima, William Lines Inc., Sweet Lines and Escano Lines. Philippine Steamships and Navigation Co. declined. The ex-”FS” ships were no longer as competitive in the 1970’s and the “C1-M-AV1” ships did not prove resilient and the the Type N3 ships even less durable. Negros Navigation Company was on the way up as they have new ship. The smaller liner companies that were still dependent of ex-”FS” ships (and the related ex-”Y” ships) and the ex-”F” and former minesweepers and were not refleeting were already on the way down. That included Bisayan Land Transport, NORCAMCO, N&S Lines, Rodrigueza Lines and many other small operators.
As recap, twenty years after our inter-island fleet basically relied on war-surplus ships from the US, the first augmentation we had were ferries sourced from Europe as ships from Japan were still rare in the mid-1960’s because they were in the midst of their own economic boom. Up to the end of the 1960’s and early 1970’s we will still source liners from Europe (like the legendary Sweet Faith). It will in the next decade when Japan will be our main supplier of surplus passenger ships.
So from war-surplus ships from the US in the end of the war and up to early 1960’s to European surplus ships in the 1960’s to Japan surplus ships in the 1970’s – these were what marked the early periods of our postwar liner shipping, the period most people now are no longer aware of. This article seeks to fill that void.
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38 Content-Based Color Image Retrieval Based On 2-D Histogram and Statistical Moments
Authors: Khalid Elasnaoui, Brahim Aksasse, Mohammed Ouanan
In this paper, we are interested in the problem of finding similar images in a large database. For this purpose we propose a new algorithm based on a combination of the 2-D histogram intersection in the HSV space and statistical moments. The proposed histogram is based on a 3x3 window and not only on the intensity of the pixel. This approach overcome the drawback of the conventional 1-D histogram which is ignoring the spatial distribution of pixels in the image, while the statistical moments are used to escape the effects of the discretisation of the color space which is intrinsic to the use of histograms. We compare the performance of our new algorithm to various methods of the state of the art and we show that it has several advantages. It is fast, consumes little memory and requires no learning. To validate our results, we apply this algorithm to search for similar images in different image databases.
Keywords: Indexing, statistical moments, similarity distance, histograms intersection
37 Retrieving Similar Segmented Objects Using Motion Descriptors
Authors: Konstantinos C. Kartsakalis, Angeliki Skoura, Vasileios Megalooikonomou
The fuzzy composition of objects depicted in images acquired through MR imaging or the use of bio-scanners has often been a point of controversy for field experts attempting to effectively delineate between the visualized objects. Modern approaches in medical image segmentation tend to consider fuzziness as a characteristic and inherent feature of the depicted object, instead of an undesirable trait. In this paper, a novel technique for efficient image retrieval in the context of images in which segmented objects are either crisp or fuzzily bounded is presented. Moreover, the proposed method is applied in the case of multiple, even conflicting, segmentations from field experts. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the suggested method in retrieving similar objects from the aforementioned categories while taking into account the fuzzy nature of the depicted data.
Keywords: fuzzy object, fuzzy image segmentation, MRI imaging, object-based image retrieval, Motion Descriptors
36 Retrieval of User Specific Images Using Semantic Signatures
Authors: K. Venkateswari, U. K. Balaji Saravanan, K. Thangaraj, K. V. Deepana
Image search engines rely on the surrounding textual keywords for the retrieval of images. It is a tedious work for the search engines like Google and Bing to interpret the user’s search intention and to provide the desired results. The recent researches also state that the Google image search engines do not work well on all the images. Consequently, this leads to the emergence of efficient image retrieval technique, which interprets the user’s search intention and shows the desired results. In order to accomplish this task, an efficient image re-ranking framework is required. Sequentially, to provide best image retrieval, the new image re-ranking framework is experimented in this paper. The implemented new image re-ranking framework provides best image retrieval from the image dataset by making use of re-ranking of retrieved images that is based on the user’s desired images. This is experimented in two sections. One is offline section and other is online section. In offline section, the reranking framework studies differently (reference classes or Semantic Spaces) for diverse user query keywords. The semantic signatures get generated by combining the textual and visual features of the images. In the online section, images are re-ranked by comparing the semantic signatures that are obtained from the reference classes with the user specified image query keywords. This re-ranking methodology will increases the retrieval image efficiency and the result will be effective to the user.
Keywords: Image Retrieval, CBIR, Image Re-ranking, Semantic Signature, Semantic Space
35 Gaussian Density and HOG with Content Based Image Retrieval System – A New Approach
Authors: N. Shanmugapriya, R. Nallusamy
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) uses the contents of images to characterize and contact the images. This paper focus on retrieving the image by separating images into its three color mechanism R, G and B and for that Discrete Wavelet Transformation is applied. Then Wavelet based Generalized Gaussian Density (GGD) is practical which is used for modeling the coefficients from the wavelet transforms. After that it is agreed to Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) for extracting its characteristic vectors with Relevant Feedback technique is used. The performance of this approach is calculated by exactness and it confirms that this method is wellorganized for image retrieval.
Keywords: content-based image retrieval (CBIR), Relevant Feedback, Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG), Generalized Gaussian Density (GGD)
34 Fuzzy Inference System Based Unhealthy Region Classification in Plant Leaf Image
Authors: K. Muthukannan, P. Latha
In addition to environmental parameters like rain, temperature diseases on crop is a major factor which affects production quality & quantity of crop yield. Hence disease management is a key issue in agriculture. For the management of disease, it needs to be detected at early stage. So, treat it properly & control spread of the disease. Now a day, it is possible to use the images of diseased leaf to detect the type of disease by using image processing techniques. This can be achieved by extracting features from the images which can be further used with classification algorithms or content based image retrieval systems. In this paper, color image is used to extract the features such as mean and standard deviation after the process of region cropping. The selected features are taken from the cropped image with different image size samples. Then, the extracted features are taken in to the account for classification using Fuzzy Inference System (FIS).
Keywords: classification, Feature Extraction, Color, fuzzy rule, Image Cropping
33 Image Retrieval Using Fused Features
Authors: K. Sakthivel, R. Nallusamy, C. Kavitha
The system is designed to show images which are related to the query image. Extracting color, texture, and shape features from an image plays a vital role in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Initially RGB image is converted into HSV color space due to its perceptual uniformity. From the HSV image, Color features are extracted using block color histogram, texture features using Haar transform and shape feature using Fuzzy C-means Algorithm. Then, the characteristics of the global and local color histogram, texture features through co-occurrence matrix and Haar wavelet transform and shape are compared and analyzed for CBIR. Finally, the best method of each feature is fused during similarity measure to improve image retrieval effectiveness and accuracy.
Keywords: Haar wavelet transform, color histogram, Fuzzy C-means, Co-occurrence matrix; Similarity measure
32 SC-LSH: An Efficient Indexing Method for Approximate Similarity Search in High Dimensional Space
Authors: Sanaa Chafik, ImaneDaoudi, Mounim A. El Yacoubi, Hamid El Ouardi
Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is one of the most promising techniques for solving nearest neighbour search problem in high dimensional space. Euclidean LSH is the most popular variation of LSH that has been successfully applied in many multimedia applications. However, the Euclidean LSH presents limitations that affect structure and query performances. The main limitation of the Euclidean LSH is the large memory consumption. In order to achieve a good accuracy, a large number of hash tables is required. In this paper, we propose a new hashing algorithm to overcome the storage space problem and improve query time, while keeping a good accuracy as similar to that achieved by the original Euclidean LSH. The Experimental results on a real large-scale dataset show that the proposed approach achieves good performances and consumes less memory than the Euclidean LSH.
Keywords: Scalability, approximate nearest neighbor search, curse of dimensionality, multidimensional indexing, Content based image retrieval (CBIR), Locality sensitive hashing
31 Performance Evaluation of Content Based Image Retrieval Using Indexed Views
Authors: Tahir Iqbal, Mumtaz Ali, Syed Wajahat Kareem, Muhammad Harris
Digital information is expanding in exponential order in our life. Information that is residing online and offline are stored in huge repositories relating to every aspect of our lives. Getting the required information is a task of retrieval systems. Content based image retrieval (CBIR) is a retrieval system that retrieves the required information from repositories on the basis of the contents of the image. Time is a critical factor in retrieval system and using indexed views with CBIR system improves the time efficiency of retrieved results.
Keywords: Image Retrieval, Color, Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), indexed view, cross correlation
30 Evaluation of Robust Feature Descriptors for Texture Classification
Authors: Jia-Hong Lee, Mei-Yi Wu, Hsien-Tsung Kuo
Texture is an important characteristic in real and synthetic scenes. Texture analysis plays a critical role in inspecting surfaces and provides important techniques in a variety of applications. Although several descriptors have been presented to extract texture features, the development of object recognition is still a difficult task due to the complex aspects of texture. Recently, many robust and scaling-invariant image features such as SIFT, SURF and ORB have been successfully used in image retrieval and object recognition. In this paper, we have tried to compare the performance for texture classification using these feature descriptors with k-means clustering. Different classifiers including K-NN, Naive Bayes, Back Propagation Neural Network , Decision Tree and Kstar were applied in three texture image sets － UIUCTex, KTH-TIPS and Brodatz, respectively. Experimental results reveal SIFTS as the best average accuracy rate holder in UIUCTex, KTH-TIPS and SURF is advantaged in Brodatz texture set. BP neuro network works best in the test set classification among all used classifiers.
Keywords: SIFT, texture classification, texture descriptor, SURF, ORB
29 Similarity Based Retrieval in Case Based Reasoning for Analysis of Medical Images
Authors: M. Das Gupta, S. Banerjee
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) coupled with Case Based Reasoning (CBR) is a paradigm that is becoming increasingly popular in the diagnosis and therapy planning of medical ailments utilizing the digital content of medical images. This paper presents a survey of some of the promising approaches used in the detection of abnormalities in retina images as well in mammographic screening and detection of regions of interest in MRI scans of the brain. We also describe our proposed algorithm to detect hard exudates in fundus images of the retina of Diabetic Retinopathy patients.
Keywords: Case based reasoning, exudates, retina image, similarity based retrieval
28 Automatic Extraction of Water Bodies Using Whole-R Method
Authors: Nikhat Nawaz, S. Srinivasulu, P. Kesava Rao
Feature extraction plays an important role in many remote sensing applications. Automatic extraction of water bodies is of great significance in many remote sensing applications like change detection, image retrieval etc. This paper presents a procedure for automatic extraction of water information from remote sensing images. The algorithm uses the relative location of R color component of the chromaticity diagram. This method is then integrated with the effectiveness of the spatial scale transformation of whole method. The whole method is based on water index fitted from spectral library. Experimental results demonstrate the improved accuracy and effectiveness of the integrated method for automatic extraction of water bodies.
Keywords: Remote Sensing, Feature Extraction, chromaticity, water index, spectral library
27 Content Based Image Retrieval of Brain MR Images across Different Classes
Authors: Abraham Varghese, Kannan Balakrishnan, Reji R. Varghese, Joseph S. Paul
Magnetic Resonance Imaging play a vital role in the decision-diagnosis process of brain MR images. For an accurate diagnosis of brain related problems, the experts mostly compares both T1 and T2 weighted images as the information presented in these two images are complementary. In this paper, rotational and translational invariant form of Local binary Pattern (LBP) with additional gray scale information is used to retrieve similar slices of T1 weighted images from T2 weighted images or vice versa. The incorporation of additional gray scale information on LBP can extract more local texture information. The accuracy of retrieval can be improved by extracting moment features of LBP and reweighting the features based on users feedback. Here retrieval is done in a single subject scenario where similar images of a particular subject at a particular level are retrieved, and multiple subjects scenario where relevant images at a particular level across the subjects are retrieved.
Keywords: Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Modified Local Binary pattern (MOD-LBP), T1 and T2 weighted images, Moment features
26 Composite Relevance Feedback for Image Retrieval
Authors: Pushpa B. Patil, Manesh B. Kokare
This paper presents content-based image retrieval (CBIR) frameworks with relevance feedback (RF) based on combined learning of support vector machines (SVM) and AdaBoosts. The framework incorporates only most relevant images obtained from both the learning algorithm. To speed up the system, it removes irrelevant images from the database, which are returned from SVM learner. It is the key to achieve the effective retrieval performance in terms of time and accuracy. The experimental results show that this framework had significant improvement in retrieval effectiveness, which can finally improve the retrieval performance.
Keywords: Image Retrieval, Wavelet Transform, relevance feedback
25 NOHIS-Tree: High-Dimensional Index Structure for Similarity Search
Authors: Mounira Taileb, Sami Touati
In Content-Based Image Retrieval systems it is important to use an efficient indexing technique in order to perform and accelerate the search in huge databases. The used indexing technique should also support the high dimensions of image features. In this paper we present the hierarchical index NOHIS-tree (Non Overlapping Hierarchical Index Structure) when we scale up to very large databases. We also present a study of the influence of clustering on search time. The performance test results show that NOHIS-tree performs better than SR-tree. Tests also show that NOHIS-tree keeps its performances in high dimensional spaces. We include the performance test that try to determine the number of clusters in NOHIS-tree to have the best search time.
Keywords: High-dimensional indexing, k-nearest neighborssearch
24 Local Image Descriptor using VQ-SIFT for Image Retrieval
Authors: Qiu Chen, Feifei Lee, Koji Kotani, Tadahiro Ohmi
In this paper, we present local image descriptor using VQ-SIFT for more effective and efficient image retrieval. Instead of SIFT's weighted orientation histograms, we apply vector quantization (VQ) histogram as an alternate representation for SIFT features. Experimental results show that SIFT features using VQ-based local descriptors can achieve better image retrieval accuracy than the conventional algorithm while the computational cost is significantly reduced.
Keywords: Image Retrieval, SIFT feature, Vector quantization histogram, Localdescriptor
23 Image Indexing Using a Color Similarity Metric based on the Human Visual System
Authors: Angelo Nodari, Ignazio Gallo
The novelty proposed in this study is twofold and consists in the developing of a new color similarity metric based on the human visual system and a new color indexing based on a textual approach. The new color similarity metric proposed is based on the color perception of the human visual system. Consequently the results returned by the indexing system can fulfill as much as possibile the user expectations. We developed a web application to collect the users judgments about the similarities between colors, whose results are used to estimate the metric proposed in this study. In order to index the image's colors, we used a text indexing engine to facilitate the integration of visual features in a database of text documents. The textual signature is build by weighting the image's colors in according to their occurrence in the image. The use of a textual indexing engine, provide us a simple, fast and robust solution to index images. A typical usage of the system proposed in this study, is the development of applications whose data type is both visual and textual. In order to evaluate the proposed method we chose a price comparison engine as a case of study, collecting a series of commercial offers containing the textual description and the image representing a specific commercial offer.
Keywords: Indexing, content-based image retrieval, Color Extraction
22 A Medical Images Based Retrieval System using Soft Computing Techniques
Authors: Pardeep Singh, Sanjay Sharma
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been one on the most vivid research areas in the field of computer vision over the last 10 years. Many programs and tools have been developed to formulate and execute queries based on the visual or audio content and to help browsing large multimedia repositories. Still, no general breakthrough has been achieved with respect to large varied databases with documents of difering sorts and with varying characteristics. Answers to many questions with respect to speed, semantic descriptors or objective image interpretations are still unanswered. In the medical field, images, and especially digital images, are produced in ever increasing quantities and used for diagnostics and therapy. In several articles, content based access to medical images for supporting clinical decision making has been proposed that would ease the management of clinical data and scenarios for the integration of content-based access methods into Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have been created. This paper gives an overview of soft computing techniques. New research directions are being defined that can prove to be useful. Still, there are very few systems that seem to be used in clinical practice. It needs to be stated as well that the goal is not, in general, to replace text based retrieval methods as they exist at the moment.
Keywords: Rough Sets, CBIR, CBMIR
21 Effectiveness of Dominant Color Descriptor Technique in Medical Image Retrieval Application
Authors: Mohd Kamir Yusof
This paper presents a dominant color descriptor technique for medical image retrieval. The medical image system will collect and store into medical database. The purpose of dominant color descriptor (DCD) technique is to retrieve medical image and to display similar image using queried image. First, this technique will search and retrieve medical image based on keyword entered by user. After image is found, the system will assign this image as a queried image. DCD technique will calculate the image value of dominant color. Then, system will search and retrieve again medical image based on value of dominant color query image. Finally, the system will display similar images with the queried image to user. Simple application has been developed and tested using dominant color descriptor. Result based on experiment indicates this technique is effective and can be used for medical image retrieval.
Keywords: Medical image retrieval, Dominant ColorDescriptor
20 Image Retrieval: Techniques, Challenge, and Trend
Authors: Hui Hui Wang, Dzulkifli Mohamad, N.A Ismail
This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of the retrieval techniques focusing on development, challenges and trends of the image retrieval. It highlights both the already addressed and outstanding issues. The explosive growth of image data leads to the need of research and development of Image Retrieval. However, Image retrieval researches are moving from keyword, to low level features and to semantic features. Drive towards semantic features is due to the problem of the keywords which can be very subjective and time consuming while low level features cannot always describe high level concepts in the users- mind.
Keywords: content based image retrieval, semantic gap, keyword based imageretrieval, semantic image retrieval
19 Application of l1-Norm Minimization Technique to Image Retrieval
Authors: C. S. Sastry, Saurabh Jain, Ashish Mishra
Image retrieval is a topic where scientific interest is currently high. The important steps associated with image retrieval system are the extraction of discriminative features and a feasible similarity metric for retrieving the database images that are similar in content with the search image. Gabor filtering is a widely adopted technique for feature extraction from the texture images. The recently proposed sparsity promoting l1-norm minimization technique finds the sparsest solution of an under-determined system of linear equations. In the present paper, the l1-norm minimization technique as a similarity metric is used in image retrieval. It is demonstrated through simulation results that the l1-norm minimization technique provides a promising alternative to existing similarity metrics. In particular, the cases where the l1-norm minimization technique works better than the Euclidean distance metric are singled out.
Keywords: content based retrieval, l1-norm minimization, modified Gabor function
18 Text Retrieval Relevance Feedback Techniques for Bag of Words Model in CBIR
Authors: Nhu Van NGUYEN, Jean-Marc OGIER, Salvatore TABBONE, Alain BOUCHER
The state-of-the-art Bag of Words model in Content- Based Image Retrieval has been used for years but the relevance feedback strategies for this model are not fully investigated. Inspired from text retrieval, the Bag of Words model has the ability to use the wealth of knowledge and practices available in text retrieval. We study and experiment the relevance feedback model in text retrieval for adapting it to image retrieval. The experiments show that the techniques from text retrieval give good results for image retrieval and that further improvements is possible.
Keywords: Image Retrieval, relevance feedback, probabilistic model, vector space model, bag of words model
17 Standard Deviation of Mean and Variance of Rows and Columns of Images for CBIR
Authors: H. B. Kekre, Kavita Patil
This paper describes a novel and effective approach to content-based image retrieval (CBIR) that represents each image in the database by a vector of feature values called “Standard deviation of mean vectors of color distribution of rows and columns of images for CBIR". In many areas of commerce, government, academia, and hospitals, large collections of digital images are being created. This paper describes the approach that uses contents as feature vector for retrieval of similar images. There are several classes of features that are used to specify queries: colour, texture, shape, spatial layout. Colour features are often easily obtained directly from the pixel intensities. In this paper feature extraction is done for the texture descriptor that is 'variance' and 'Variance of Variances'. First standard deviation of each row and column mean is calculated for R, G, and B planes. These six values are obtained for one image which acts as a feature vector. Secondly we calculate variance of the row and column of R, G and B planes of an image. Then six standard deviations of these variance sequences are calculated to form a feature vector of dimension six. We applied our approach to a database of 300 BMP images. We have determined the capability of automatic indexing by analyzing image content: color and texture as features and by applying a similarity measure Euclidean distance.
Keywords: Euclidean distance, variance, Standard deviation Image retrieval, color distribution, Variance of Variance
16 Unsupervised Feature Selection Using Feature Density Functions
Authors: Mina Alibeigi, Sattar Hashemi, Ali Hamzeh
Since dealing with high dimensional data is computationally complex and sometimes even intractable, recently several feature reductions methods have been developed to reduce the dimensionality of the data in order to simplify the calculation analysis in various applications such as text categorization, signal processing, image retrieval, gene expressions and etc. Among feature reduction techniques, feature selection is one the most popular methods due to the preservation of the original features. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised feature selection method which will remove redundant features from the original feature space by the use of probability density functions of various features. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, popular feature selection methods have been implemented and compared. Experimental results on the several datasets derived from UCI repository database, illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods in comparison with the other compared methods in terms of both classification accuracy and the number of selected features.
Keywords: Feature selection, filter, feature, Probability Density Function
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Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration
But I think it’s legitimate to go further and ask, “Why are there people as rich as this anyway?” Why aren’t there progressive taxes on both income and capital assets, as economist Thomas Piketty suggested, such that the richest people max out at a certain nicely high number, beyond which wealth is passed through to the collective that made it? People and corporations could be taxed at the high rates we had under the Eisenhower Administration, for instance, with perhaps the additional perk that individuals could choose which government programs some portion of their taxes would go to—a kind of direct democracy support for the different functions of government. If the various agencies’ funding was partly a matter of popular “vote by taxes,” rather than entirely the result of Congress’ corrupted appropriation process, then it would be interesting to see how much money NASA ended up with, as well as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and so on.
- inthesetimes.com
Nobody "Votes Against Their Interests" - Lawyers, Guns & Money
In practice, intersectionality intends to break down prejudice by understanding how different identities overlap and then working to fix that. But intersectionality has at least as much value in understanding people who actively engage in oppression. In other words, poor white voters aren’t “voting against their interests” when they vote for Donald Trump. They are prioritizing their white interests, their misogynist interests, their homophobic interests, their xenophobic interests, their Christian nationalist interests, etc., etc, over their class interests.
- lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
There is no bottom for Roy Moore Republicans - Alabama Political Reporter
What’s it going to take, Alabama voter? What’s it going to take before you realize that your family values, my-sin-is-better-than-your-sin, conservative voting approach has produced a state government filled with lying, cheating, sexually assaulting, money-grubbing criminals who have embarrassed us countless times, and on top of everything, mismanaged the hell out of this place? I’m serious. Take a look around you. We’re terrible as a state. We’re near the bottom in public education, medical care, infrastructure, economy and upward mobility and at the top in infant mortality, poverty, obesity and political corruption. Our budgets are consistently a mess — we’re going to have to magically find $100 million somewhere next year — and our state services are so underfunded that they’re all but worthless. We’re short on troopers, courthouse workers, road crews, maintenance personnel and teachers. This is what the Roy Moore Republican Party has brought Alabama.
- alreporter.com
What the Bolsheviks Saw | Siddhartha Deb
“October, for an instant, brings a new kind of power,” Miéville writes. “Fleetingly, there is a shift towards workers’ control of production and the rights of peasants to the land. Equal rights for men and women in work and in marriage, the right to divorce, maternity support. The decriminalisation of homosexuality, one hundred years ago. Moves towards national self-determination. Free and universal education, the expansion of literacy.” It is sobering to reflect that a hundred years from that red October, those demands still strike us as revolutionary.
#socialism - thebaffler.com
Profs: Daniels leaves it to us to fend off racist, right-wing threats
We believe our universities and communities ought to be constitutive of freedom understood in the broadest possible sense. The freedom, for instance, for women to walk alone at night without threat of violence. Or the freedom for people of color and people of Jewish and Muslim faiths to be able to come to class without the shadow of violence mocking us. The principle of free speech is only one freedom which ought to be part of this expansive assurance of freedom to work and live on our campus and in our community without threat of violence. What good is the right to free speech if it is severed from the right to work and exist freely without the threat of racist violence?
#politics #1st-Amendment - jconline.com
On the anniversary of 9/11
For me, 9/11 will always be a time of tremendous fear, stifling conformism, forced patriotism, and vicious nationalism. Which is why I’ve always found the claim that Trump represents a new authoritarianism, even fascism, to be so fanciful and false. There was a moment in the recent memory of this country when dissent really was stifled, when opposition really was suppressed, when the military and police were sanctified and sacralized, when the Constitution was called into question (not a suicide pact, you know), when the two-party system was turned into a one-party state, when the entire nation was aroused and compelled and coerced to rally behind the dear leader, when questioning the nation-state’s commitment to violence and war provoked the most shameless heresy hunts. When intellectuals and journalists and academics dutifully—and shamefully—performed their parts in the Gleichschaltung of the moment, instructing the unreconstructed among us to understand that we were living in a new age when all the old truths no longer held. Thankfully, the intensity of that moment didn’t last too long—the fiasco in Iraq did it in—though we’re still living with its consequences today. But, yeah, when I hear about the unprecedented authoritarianism of Trump, I think to myself: either you weren’t around after 9/11 or you were part of the problem.
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alicublog: TRIGGERED.
If you forget everything else about these people, never forget that they're totally full of shit. For them, free speech isn't a principle, it's just another tactic in their arsenal of victim poses.
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The lessons of the Russian revolution, 100 years later
You could, I suppose, try to pin some blame for later Stalinist atrocities on the Marxist labor theory of value, which asserts that all capitalist profit is in a sense stolen from workers. If that is true we should be on the lookout for a revolutionary vanguard of libertarians who think taxation is theft. But it is simply not the case that Marxism — an arid and over-elaborate doctrine, very interesting in some ways and clearly mistaken in others — is some turn-crank formula for purges and dictatorship.
#politics #marx - theweek.com
Universal basic income - what do socialists say?
Capitalism has created enough productive capacity to enable the complete wiping out of poverty and poor living standards. However, not only will the capitalist classes not do that, they are presiding over the opposite trend – ever-increasing inequality, the enrichment of the richest at the expense of the majority. Eight individuals now own as much wealth as half of all humanity. It’s also the case that they are unable to use anywhere near all of the productive capacity they have brought into being. A socialist system based on public ownership of the main industries and services and socialist planning could not only use the presently unused capacity but could hugely increase the production of socially useful goods, and in an environmentally friendly way. Automation could be used to phase out the most tedious and ‘dirty’ jobs and reduce working hours, rather than being the threat to workers’ livelihoods it is under capitalism.
#socialism #UBI - socialistparty.ie
Morbid Thoughts in Time of Trump
If I’ve had any precedents in my mind for the worst that may lie ahead, it’s not been Hitler, Mussolini, Berlusconi, and all the rest. It’s been World War I. It’s been senseless murder on a grand scale, of the sort the United States is more than capable of. And then I start thinking about the seeming irrationality of it all, the way men and women allowed themselves to be led to their own destruction, which led Freud to start thinking about a death drive in European civilization if not in humanity as a whole. And I start thinking about the way we’ve allowed ourselves to be lulled into our own slow-motion destruction in the form of climate change, where we watch our futures and our children’s futures being held hostage, being mortgaged, not only to our corporations but also to our complacency, our corruption born of comfort. And I look around for any sign of leadership from the political class, and see nothing at all. They all seem so reactive, so frightened, so cowed, so clueless. They can’t stand up; they’re too used to sitting down.
- coreyrobin.com
In DeVos nomination, Sen. Richard Burr to cast confirmation vote on one of his key contributors - The Progressive Pulse
But here’s one overlooked component of this developing story: Richard Burr, North Carolina’s senior senator and a member of the Senate confirmation committee that could advance or turn back DeVos on Tuesday, has benefited from the political largesse of DeVos and her wealthy Michigan family in recent years. According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog in D.C., DeVos’ family made individual contributions to Burr’s campaign in 2015 totaling $43,200. Family members each gave $2,700, the maximum amount per individual allowed for a candidate during one election cycle. Of course, given the murkiness of federal election laws concerning Super PACs, it’s hard to gauge exactly how much DeVos cash went Burr’s way.
#politics - pulse.ncpolicywatch.org
Obama's Mistake - MTV
Obama often seems a bit perplexed by the very existence of his political opponents. "How can elected officials rage about deficits," he asked in a telling passage of the speech, "when we propose to spend money on preschool for kids, but not when we’re cutting taxes for corporations?" The answer to this rhetorical question seems obvious: Elected officials think that cutting taxes on corporations is more important than the deficit, and federally funding preschools is not. Instead of taking the obvious divergence in values seriously, Obama speaks as if these politicians hold the same values he does and ascribes disagreement to bad faith or hypocrisy.
#politics - mtv.com
Neutering the News | Chris Lehmann
Times figureheads like Keller and Spayd are apt to roll over at the first right-wing charge of rampant liberal bias because they themselves are ill-equipped to face down right-leaning challenges to their journalistic legitimacy. This is not so much because they are ensconced in their elite bubbles of liberal opinion and are terrified at the prospect of sustained contact with anyone professing to be an emissary from the Real America of NASCAR, megachurches, and Trump Worship. No, the real problem here is that these people are journalists second, and corporate managers first. And the thing that truly terrifies corporate managers in the brave new digital era of our news environment is anything resembling the defiance of consumer prerogative. Put another way: as shops like the Times continue to hemorrhage readers and ad revenues at an historic clip, their managers will rally by instinct to the ritual protection of the injured sensibilities of any and every reader demographic.
#journalism - thebaffler.com
Media Ignore What It Means to Have a Real Conversation About Race - BillMoyers.com
This is the journalism of resignation. It shrugs its shoulders. It says, in effect, polarization is everywhere and absolute. It says that the truth here is signed, sealed, and delivered. If there is any contrary evidence to be gathered, the reader won’t know. A “conversation about race” is not accomplished by acts of stenography, tit versus tat, black hats versus white hats. A conversation jostles assumptions. A conversation seeks to grasp and explore more than two points of view. It investigates why people say what they say, and whether any of them change their minds because they might have heard — if they were listening — something other than what they expected to hear. Journalists can expedite that conversation, or they can spin their wheels and contribute to the vast blindness afflicting an agonized nation that, at least sometimes, strives to learn something it doesn’t already know.
#MayaMooore #blacklivesmatter #WNBA - billmoyers.com
Obama can appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court if the Senate does nothing - The Washington Post
Here’s how that would work. The president has nominated Garland and submitted his nomination to the Senate. The president should advise the Senate that he will deem its failure to act by a specified reasonable date in the future to constitute a deliberate waiver of its right to give advice and consent. What date? The historical average between nomination and confirmation is 25 days; the longest wait has been 125 days. That suggests that 90 days is a perfectly reasonable amount of time for the Senate to consider Garland’s nomination. If the Senate fails to act by the assigned date, Obama could conclude that it has waived its right to participate in the process, and he could exercise his appointment power by naming Garland to the Supreme Court. Presumably the Senate would then bring suit challenging the appointment. This should not be viewed as a constitutional crisis but rather as a healthy dispute between the president and the Senate about the meaning of the Constitution. This kind of thing has happened before. In 1932, the Supreme Court ruled that the Senate did not have the power to rescind a confirmation vote after the nominee had already taken office. More recently, the court determined that recess appointments by the president were no longer proper because the Senate no longer took recesses.
#politics #SCOTUS #Obama - washingtonpost.com
Brexit: the bloodbath — Crooked Timber
A coalition of English and Welsh voters, advanced in years, low in education, and xenophobic in attitude, have enabled the worst and most reactionary people in British society, made it extremely likely that Scotland will secede, undermined the peace settlement on the island of Ireland, and destroyed the UK’s access to the single market. They have made it likely that their children and grandchildren will be deprived of the right of free movement within the EU. The pound is tanking and the stock market too. Imports will be more expensive, inflation will rise, house prices will fall but interest rate rises will keep the cost of being housed high. Immigration will probably fall, but not because “we” regained “control of our borders” but because immigrants come for jobs and there will be way fewer of those. Already we have the farce of areas of the country, like Cornwall, that voted for Brexit demanding that central government guarantee that the EU subsidies they get will be replaced. And then the horrible lying politics of the whole campaign, with Leave claiming that money saved on the EU would be diverted to the NHS (a commitment Farage repudiated within hours of the result). Little England with Wales is a poorer, narrower, stingier place. Cameron, the most incompetent Prime Minister in British history and the architect of this disaster is walking away, to be replaced by a hard right Tory administration under the leadership of Gove, May or the Trumpesque clown Johnson. People, we are well and truly fucked.
#politics #brexit - crookedtimber.org
After the Fact - The New Yorker
The past has not been erased, its erasure has not been forgotten, the lie has not become truth. But the past of proof is strange and, on its uncertain future, much in public life turns. In the end, it comes down to this: the history of truth is cockamamie, and lately it’s been getting cockamamier.
#politics #philosophy #internet - newyorker.com
It’s become fairly clear, and I hope not just to me, that white people in this country have gone crazy. Granted, an apocalyptic belief in the final, definitive loss of 400 or so years of economic and cultural supremacy will do that to you—the fall has been long in coming; masters of the universe should’ve been better prepared. Instead, they act stunned. And to cope with that loss, as well as to cope with the fearmongering of Fox News and right-wing talk radio, which promises them Muslim terrorists in every closet and under every bed, they—or an insanely significant cohort—seem to have given themselves over to the worst sort of race-baiting and anti-immigrant nativism, under the guise of making or keeping America “great,” which is to say, making or keeping America “white.”
#politics #BernieSanders - newrepublic.com
Conjunctions Archive: "Theses on Monsters," by China Mieville, Conjunctions:59, Colloquy (Fall 2012)
6. Epochs throw up the monsters they need. History can be written of monsters, and in them. We experience the conjunctions of certain werewolves and crisis-gnawed feudalism, of Cthulhu and rupturing modernity, of Frankenstein’s and Moreau’s made things and a variably troubled Enlightenment, of vampires and tediously everything, of zombies and mummies and aliens and golems/robots/clockwork constructs and their own anxieties. We pass also through the endless shifts of such monstrous germs and antigens into new wounds. All our moments are monstrous moments. 7. Monsters demand decoding, but to be worthy of their own monstrosity, they avoid final capitulation to that demand. Monsters mean something, and/but they mean everything, and/but they are themselves and irreducible. They are too concretely fanged, toothed, scaled, fire-breathing, on the one hand, and too doorlike, polysemic, fecund, rebuking of closure, on the other, merely to signify, let alone to signify one thing. Any bugbear that can be completely parsed was never a monster, but some rubber-mask-wearing Scooby-Doo villain, a semiotic banality in fatuous disguise. It is a solution without a problem.
#analysis #philosophy #monsters - conjunctions.com
Minnesota Normal | Eruditorum Press
But the thing is… I don’t think competence, good sense, politeness, etc, are inherently conservative virtues. In fact, if you know anything about the Right, the idea that they have more than their fair share of such things - let alone a monopoly - is patently ludicrous. The Right like to harp on about such things and, in their patronising and hypocritical way, to thus appropriate the presumed values of ‘ordinary people’. This kind of populism is a standard conservative tactic, as is the accompanying tendency to sneer at ‘liberal elites’ who look down on the presumed values of red-state America, or ‘middle England’ for that matter, or whatever. It’s one of the fundamental paradoxes of modern conservative thought: they push the idea of people as essentially selfish and competitive, all pursuing rational self-interest at the expense of everyone else, all striving to maximise marginal utility all over the place… and yet they also want to mythologise the great mass of the population (upon whom, of course, the maintenance and continuance and reproduction of society depends) as folksy heroes possessed of lashings of downhome wisdom, etc There is a fundamental incoherence in modern conservative discourse… (fuck, what am I saying? - there’s barely any coherence to be found anywhere in any of it!) …to do with the performative and rhetorical lip-service paid to admiration for the values of ‘ordinary people’, which clashes with the basic and foundational assumption of modern conservatism that the natural state of humanity is competition and predation, for man to feed upon man like monsters of the deep. This incoherence is not a problem for them (if they worried about consistency they wouldn’t be who they are), and is an unavoidable product of the tactical syncresis of populism and neoliberalism which is constitutive of modern conservatism… which is itself only the latest form of a paradigm for conservative thought going back centuries, possibly even millenia: the combination of appeals to the fears and self-interests of a moderately privileged layer of society in order to create a sufficient mandate for the protection of the system of privilege itself, and thus protect the people at the very apex of the hierarchy.
#analysis #Fargo #film #Coen-Bros - eruditorumpress.com
Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos (William Gaddis) – Biblioklept
Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you’re not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it’s the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos . . .
#literature #gaddis #knowledge - biblioklept.org
Capitalist Pig 4: Black Mirror, Grey Miasma of Bland Cultural Commentary | Eruditorum Press
I mean, look, a world in which our late capitalist drive for growth at all costs is blatantly running against the fundamental resource limitations of the planet, where our insistence on the Protestant ethic remains a fundamental and inarguable part of political discourse despite the blatant reality that we in no way have enough work that needs doing, and where the efforts to produce enough work to maintain some semblance of the Protestant ethic is literally killing us all, a black mirror is not a fucking observation that we should look up from our phone screens or that it’s tough to be an abusive stalker. And for one brief and squealing moment it seemed like we might get this; that Black Mirror might actually stare long and hard into the darkness and summon forth something that revealed the awful reality of the world. Indeed, for one moment, as the camera panned across the people watching the Prime Minister fuck a pig, their faces turning from amusement to horror at the awful carnality of it, it does just that. And then it flinches, and we get a series about sad little manfeels. A bunch of Guardian columns brought to life, shambling around like the liberal consensus is going to save us from itself. It won’t, and Charlie Brooker’s clearly intelligent enough to realize that, but apparently his “satirical pessimism” (to quote Wikipedia) doesn’t actually extend comfortably past how these damn kids will never be as witty and insightful as he is. But then, perhaps that’s the real appeal of a black mirror: you can’t actually see anything in it, least of all the way the future is creeping up behind you, its teeth bared.
#analysis #sci-fi #media - eruditorumpress.com
Sardonicky
It's not surprising that in its obituary of Sheldon Wolin, who died last week, the New York Times studiously avoided any mention of the term for which this political philospher is most famous: inverted totalitarianism. Instead, the obit's headline misleadingly and somewhat crankily blared that Wolin was an expert on "the limits of popular democracy." So it was all the more eerily prescient that in an interview with Chris Hedges last year, Wolin observed that it is essentially verboten for the media-political complex to openly declare that American democracy has been kicked upside the head, resulting in the creation of the Total Capitalistic State. Speaking such a truth might give the plutocratic ruling class a bad case of agita, even if it's mentioned in the obituary of the man who made educating the public about this inconvenient truth his life's work.
- kmgarcia2000.blogspot.com
Masculinity Is an Anxiety Disorder: Breaking Down the Nerd Box - Uncanny Magazine
Men often minimize their gender policing by calling it “teasing,” “ribbing,” or “ball–busting,” but it usually manifests as ridicule meant to point out behaviors which are not coded as masculine in an effort to correct them. This may be done with or without malice; parents, for example, may feel that by discouraging feminine–coded behaviors, they are protecting their sons from future ridicule by firmly correcting them early. Yet the cumulative effect of this is to circumscribe a section of acceptable behavior, such that by the time the average man reaches adulthood, he has internalized an extensive checklist of behaviors that must be avoided lest ridicule result. In essence, male children are subject to trauma in an effort to spare them from trauma.
- uncannymagazine.com
Affirmative Action Is a Good Idea | Al Jazeera America
Like any other judgment criteria, race- and gender-based affirmative action isn’t error-proof, nor is it impervious to the occasional knave like Hudson who tries to work it. But data from all sorts of different fields suggest that it makes our perception of reality more accurate. Affirmative action is an improvement on American judgment. In our Big Data–driven society, in which competition is supposed to filter for merit, why aren’t smart managers and owners practicing aggressive affirmative action above and beyond proportional representation? There is, in effect, a cartel of white men agreeing not to compete to employ the talents and abilities of people who don’t look like them — the very existence of which calls into question the whole labor system’s supposedly competitive structure. The fact remains that if you don’t want to engage in affirmative action, then you’re just adopting white male mediocrity as your standard of excellence.
#AffirmativeAction #WhiteSupremacism - america.aljazeera.com
The Mean Progressive: Dear MNSBC: I Am Done!
When MSNBC finally determined to get back to its programming, what was the audience offered? Commentary on the Trump rally. Yep. For 20 full minutes. We saw it. Thanks. The whole goddamned thing. We don't need it rehashed for us. He didn't actually say anything. The last 5 minutes of the show Hayes gave us a glimpse into a rally for Bernie Sanders this evening. That was newsworthy. The audience from the left would have really found it interesting to hear the speech Bernie Sanders gave to Liberty University. This is, after all, the most Liberal of our candidates in the most fuckered up setting on the planet for him. Liberty University is the place that teaches their students the absolute opposite of the actual New Testament Bible (am I the only one who wonders if they missed the whole bit about why they are called 'Christians'?) while finding new groups of people to condemn and hold judgement over with every election cycle. That would have been a very interesting rally to hear about. But MSNBC thought we needed to devote the hour to Donald Trump and the speech he has given repeatedly where he has said nothing.
#DonaldTrump #BernieSanders #MSNBC - meanprogressive.com
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Taylor’s underwriting scheme could choose first six projects ‘by Christmas’
Angus Taylor expects up to six new projects will be approved under the underwriting scheme before the end of the year, and is likely to favour fossil fuels.
Michael Mazengarb Posted on 18 October 2019 4 Comments
Federal energy minister Angus Taylor has said he expects the first six projects under the Underwriting New Generation Investments (UNGI) program will be approved before the end of the year, giving the green light for what is expected to be a mix of new gas and pumped hydro energy storage projects.
In March, Taylor announced that the government had shortlisted 12 projects for its UNGI program, that would seek to underpin investments in new dispatchable generation infrastructure, a process that he said then was urgent and needed to be completed before the May election.
Taylor ran out of time, and little has been heard of since. But, speaking with Nine newspapers, Taylor said he expected the government would be in a position to make a final decision on as many as six of the UNGI shortlisted projects before the end of the year.
The shortlist consists of five gas-fired power stations, six pumped hydro projects and an expansion to the Vales Point coal-fired power station proposed by Delta Electricity. The government has already committed to providing support for the ‘Battery of the Nation’ expansion of Tasmanian pumped-hydro capacity.
It is likely that only a single pumped hydro project from South Australia would win support, otherwise it would be a crowded market, which means that at least half of the first round of approved UNGI projects being fuelled by either gas or coal.
Taylor has drawn upon the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to provide advice on the 12 shortlisted projects.
Both the CEFC and ARENA have previous involvement in pumped-hydro energy storage projects, with both agencies providing financial support to the Kidston pumped-hydro energy storage project, which will utilise disused mine pits to create an energy storage system. The project has subsequently been paired with a large-scale solar project, to provide a zero-emissions source of electricity for energy storage.
It is understood that neither the CEFC nor ARENA will be asked to assess approvals involving coal generation, but despite the “technology-neutral” approach of the UNGI program, wind and solar projects are likely to be excluded for not being sources of “firm” supply. It is also unlikely that the greenhouse gas emissions impact of a proposal is likely to be factored into a decision to provide support.
This opens the door to the Morrison Government using the UNGI program to provide funding for the expansion or extending the life of ageing coal-fired generators, like the Vales Point power station already shortlisted in the first round of funding.
Under the UNGI program, the government will use taxpayer funds to financially underwrite view projects using any fuel source, by providing the project with a financial loan, grant funding, or derivatives contracts to provide the project with a revenue guarantee.
Numerous parties, including the Grattan Institute and others, have said the government’s heavy-handed intervention would likely dissuade other private investments.
The Australian Greens have previously proposed legislation that would prohibit the federal government from putting taxpayer funds into any coal projects as part of the UNGI program, such as Vales Point, and said that the party would continue to oppose the UNGI being used to prop-up coal projects.
“By propping up coal the government is also driving up prices, as it will contribute to the stall in investment in new clean generation. The Greens will move to amend the big stick energy bill currently before the Parliament to prevent the underwriting of coal fired power stations,” Greens MP Adam Bandt said.
“Vales Point is due to be closed by 2028, yet its owner and Liberal Party donor wants to keep it limping along for another two decades, harming our climate and the health of the local community.”
The Morrison Government says that the UNGI scheme is a response to a recommendation of the ACCC’s Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry that the government underwrite investments in projects that seek to serve multiple commercial and industrial customers.
It remains unclear whether the involvement of any commercial and industrial customers remains an essential criterion of the UNGI program, as per the ACCC’s recommendations, but it appears that requirement may have been dispensed.
The Morrison Government believes it can achieve a 25 to 30 per cent reduction in wholesale electricity prices under the UNGI program by the end of 2021.
The index of wholesale electricity futures contracts produced by the Australian Stock Exchange has shown that wholesale electricity prices have risen steadily since Scott Morrison became Prime Minister in 2018.
The reasons behind the surging wholesale electricity prices include the rising cost of gas, and pressures on drought affected hydro generators, as a stable policy environment that still sees the federal government without a solid policy on energy and emissions.
Wholesale electricity prices contribute around 40 per cent of the end retail electricity price paid by energy users.
Source: ASX Energy
The Government expects the UNGI program to operate across multiple “phases” over the four years to June 2023.
Minister Taylor’s office and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation have been contacted for additional comment.
Michael Mazengarb
Michael Mazengarb is a journalist with RenewEconomy, based in Sydney. Before joining RenewEconomy, Michael worked in the renewable energy sector for more than a decade.
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Joe 1 week ago
More new coal and gas, meeting and creaming our emissions reduction targets…”in a canter”.
Seriously...? 1 week ago
Any expansion of FF generation will cut into other FF generation. Sure, they can create a virtual taxpayer subsidy. But the losers will be other FF generators that don’t get the subsidy. What’s that? In the interest of fairness, extend the subsidy to other FF generators? Then all forms of storage will ultimately collect on the subsidy, by buying cheap power and selling it when prices go high. FF generators can only win by flattening prices and keeping them under VRE prices. How much subsidy would that require? How far can the federal budget stretch? Meantime rooftop PV keeps depressing demand for FF electricity. Rooftop PV competes with the retail price, not the wholesale price, so wholesale subsidies are irrelevant. Rooftop solar peaked at 60% of SA demand last week. FF power stations will have to close, regardless of subsidies. If they keep playing chicken with each other, trying to be last to be forced out, they’ll continue to cut each others’ throats in a declining market. With or without subsidies.
RobertO 1 week ago
Hi Seriously…?
We do not want capacity payments made to coal just to keep burning coal. If the Federal Government gives them $10 per MWHr that will increase the departure day by many months. $40 will move the date out to years. Everything depends on what my BIG IDIOT taylor does, and how he works the system to keep the status quo.
Alexander Hromas 1 week ago
Basically this is the policy you have when you have no policy. Stupidity wins every time and in this case all of us mug punters pay the price get as much PV on your roof as you can
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Approach to the Andalusian dialect gastronomic lexicon from the repertoires of lexical availability for a didactic proposal
Ester Trigo Ibáñez University of Cádiz
Manuel Francisco Romero Oliva University of Cádiz
Inmaculada Clotilde Santos Díaz University of Málaga
Keywords: lexical availability, dialectalism, gastronomic lexicon, CEFRL, SFL
The analysis of the dialectal words of a speaking community is transcendental in multiple disciplines, specially Language Teaching. The objectives of this paper
are, on the one hand, to collect the dialectalisms of the center of interest «Food and drinks» present in the dictionaries of lexical availability of the eight Andalusian provinces and, on the other hand, to make a didactic proposal for students of SFL, level C1-C2 of the CEFRL. For the collection of data, the lexical availability materials of the studies carried out in Andalusia have been used. 129 words have been registered and distributed provincially taking into account two criteria: the temporal one, which has a relationship with foods that one can eat through the different moments of a day dedicated to the alimentation breakfast, lunch and dinner–; and the typological one, with is related to the type of food –drinks, vegetables/ legumes, meat, fish, cooked food and sweets and bread– with the lexical repertory obtained it will be possible to design didactic sequences under the communicative vision of language, grouped in communicative situations of daily life than one can experiment in his life (public environments and places, according to CEFRL: restaurants, bars and hotels, concreted in objects, like foods, drinks and tapas) and the teaching of grammar, which takes as reference the structure of language and communication, in our case, lexical selection.
Trigo Ibáñez, E., Romero Oliva, M. F., & Santos Díaz, I. C. (2019). Approach to the Andalusian dialect gastronomic lexicon from the repertoires of lexical availability for a didactic proposal. Verba Hispanica, 27(1), 115-130. https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.27.1.115-130
Copyright (c) 2019 Ester Trigo Ibáñez, Manuel Francisco Romero Oliva, Inmaculada Clotilde Santos Díaz
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Oneohtrix Point Never and Nate Boyce's Performance at MoMA PopRally
By Nick Hallett
Photos by Kristy Leibowitz/elkstudios
This past weekend, MoMA presented a collaboration between electronic musician Daniel Lopatin—who records under the moniker Oneohtrix Point Never—and video artist Nate Boyce, as part of its PopRally series of art parties. While not an overly serious gathering, Boyce and Lopatin delivered an hour of strobing, structuralist-minded imagery over relentless digital throbbing. Each of the work’s sections was based upon a specific object in the MoMA’s sculpture collection and the overarching title, Reliquary House, suggested a congratulatory pat on the back for the museum. PopRally events are more often than not thematically connected to what’s concurrently on MoMA’s walls, while in this case the institution’s history was the tie-in.
The video screen displayed 3-D renderings of modernist forms by Isamo Noguchi, David Smith, Jacob Epstein, and Anthony Caro, which gyrated in “impossible” landscapes evoking the Panopticon look of the music video to Nine Inch Nail’s “Down In It.” To clarify their intention, Lopatin began each movement with details of the image being projected—dates, dimensions, curatorial texts—dictated by robotic voices a la Siri and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Within the foreboding visual environment, these came off as provocations of a sort, which gave way to beds of digital glitches and rollicking bass oscillations, positing a bleak underbelly to the neutrality of the subject material. Boyce and Lopatin, who often communicate a sense of humor about the austerity of contemporary tools and approaches in their work, perplexed the droll audience, who perhaps expected Lopatin to perform the angelic synthesizer music indicative of his latest record, Replica. Boyce and Lopatin stood ground side-by-side, facing their laptops, but more often were caught gazing up at the video screen.
Lopatin’s other recent art project, a zine titled Cool Drool, was available to PopRally attendees upon entry. Its contents are mostly visual contributions from like-minded musicians—Laurel Halo, C. Spencer Yeh, Adam Forkner, and Dominick Fernow—but also a photo essay of gifted restaurant-chain credit cards by Cory Arcangel, and a writing on the Amiga Demo scene during the early 1990s by Derek Walmsley of The Wire. Walmsley’s description of the Demos—“vector graphics, bastard digital sound, primitive sampledelia, ray traced objects, rolling copper bars, metallic surfaces”— applied just as easily to Boyce and Loptatin’s Reliquary House.
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I'm a music lover and play in America - Have for 29 years …The thing that fascinates me is all the cultural differences that influence local music around the country - I hope that one day, all musicians can safely say that they stay off the sauce - wish I had, but it's things like this that saved me and brought me back to the real world of great music! http://www.medallionsaana.com/index.html
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SAFC Blog
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It’s all new as Charlton Athletic come to town
August 7, 2018 August 7, 2018 by Colin Randall
I last saw Sunderland play in February, at the Macron, when we lost 1-0 in a dire and dreary game. Things have changed since then, not least the playing squad. In fact, in my three previous games I’d seen twenty-eight players starting, and the Charlton game was to add another eight. The only three I’d seen previously were Love, against Watford in December 2016, Matthews, at Preston almost a year ago, and Honeyman, whom I’d seen alongside Matthews and again at Bolton.
So many changes explains my inability to recognise players; these things take time. Three different managers and inept performances explain my inability to recognise the system(s) they adopted. Patterns and interplay you might have come to expect pass me by completely, I don’t know who fits where; everything is new.
Taken all together it explains why I find it difficult to give a minute by minute or player by player commentary. But you’ve already had Pete Sixsmith’s report, and Malcolm’s introduction. You don’t need anything along those lines from me, even if I could emulate Pete. What I’ll try to do instead is give you a different perspective and write about the players who stuck out, for good or bad.
I was in the North Stand and we kicked off playing south, so it was our defence that made itself known first.
Our new keeper is OK at stopping shots, can catch crosses and moves about the box. But when it comes to distribution and starting attacks he has some work to do. Balls sent upfield often came back quickly because Charlton had big defenders who weren’t afraid to challenge for the ball. We struggled against them when kick-outs turned into 50-50 balls, which they did because McLaughlin’s no Jordan Pickford and Maja’s not experienced enough to win them outright. Will McLaughlin do better with Charlie Wyke as a target man? It’s possible, Sinclair helped raise the game and brought Maja into it more, so we’ll have to wait and see if Wyke can do something similar.
It wasn’t just kicking, however. When he played the ball out from the back McLaughlin did it too slowly and at times after telegraphing his intent. We almost got caught a couple of times, and we couldn’t get it forward because the recipient(s) were quickly under pressure. I’ve no doubt he’ll adjust to the pace, indeed he looked more comfortable in the second half, when he could play to Matthews, but I hope Jimmy Walker was making notes.
And when McLaughlin’s recipient is Ozturk rather than Matthews early pressure is not something you want. There were times when he looked like he didn’t know what to do with the ball. His passes went awry, tackles were missed. Opponents went past him, turned him, or passed beyond his reach and apparently beyond his ken. It could be a communication problem with teammates. It could be match fitness, but after 20 minutes I feared for us with him at the centre of our defence and thought he needed to be subbed. And yet, he got into the game. He didn’t give up and he had a much more solid second half. So maybe, with more game time, he’ll improve.
There were some good ‘uns. I’ve already mentioned Maja. He will be an asset but he showed in the first thirty minutes that he can’t do it on his own. When he had help he was much improved, especially in the second half, when Gooch began to be creative and Sinclair made space for him. And didn’t he score just when we needed it? There’s the beginnings of a good understanding developing between these three – only the beginnings, mind, they ran into the wrong space or released the wrong ball for each other too often, but they can only get better.
As can Bali Mumba. Cool, calm, collected. Mature beyond his years. You can pick from a load of clichés but he earned his keep on Saturday and gave midfield something that was missing when last I saw us play. I liked the way he was willing to step up, to collect the ball and that Charlton, for all their physical presence, found him difficult to deal with. I thought he stood out, whereas Honeyman didn’t, but I think Honeyman stayed in the game while Mumba faded in the last 20 minutes. Should Mumba play every week? Probably not, but he can expect to be in the line up again.
a super sub
And let’s not forget Bryan Oviedo, who seemed to be a calming presence when he came on as a sub. We started to get back into the game shortly after he arrived. He made himself available for Ozturk, it was he who had the first real shot we managed, and it was he who put over the ball for Gooch to run onto for that killer goal. In between he was there when he needed to be, doing it right, doing it simply. A consummate professional. I’ll be sorry to see him go but don’t expect him to stay.
There were others, of course, but you have to remember that even with my specs on I can’t easily read names on shirts, and I’ve yet to recognise faces, hairstyles etc. An exception was Loovens, who from the start positioned himself just about in front of us and just too far away (physically and mentally) from Ozturk – did they first meet in the tunnel? I wondered about them both as players until half way through the second half. I suppose that my no longer worrying when someone was about to take Loovens on tells you how much he grew into the game.
I was also made aware of Maguire after about 10 minutes. There might be those who would criticise him for giving away the penalty. I wouldn’t be so hasty. He made a terrific effort to get to the ball after Loovens was turned and left for dead and he nearly made a saving tackle (while Loovens was still trotting back) and he was excellent when taking players on and pressing attacks, with Gooch or on his own. I’d stick with him
So there we have it. We matched a capable Charlton side for about 10 minutes, went behind and let them start to boss us. Taylor showed why we were right to try to buy him and their physical aggression (not dirty play, just combativeness and tenacity) matched with intelligence and no small measure of skill gave them the upper hand, and we could have been in deeper trouble.
But by half time we had stopped them and got back into the game. One-nil down, it’s true, but certainly not out of it. And the crowd kept faith. They were quieter than I’ve known but I have to temper that by saying I did see us win six in a row. There were no boos as the team went off, just applause and cheers, followed by further appreciation as they came back on, and even when time grew tight there was no negativity.
The second half brought an opportunity for a better look at our attack, in which respect I think the North Stand had the best of it. The restart brought energy and bite, Sinclair brought something that was lacking – I’m not saying O’Nien was poor but he never stuck out in any way – and Josh Maja brought that turn in the box which surprised both us and the keeper and lifted the crowd in the best possible way.
After which there was more and more pressing from players, including those runs from Gooch and Maguire, and a crowd that didn’t leave, that stayed to the end knowing we could do it, that erupted with Gooch’s goal and then stayed further to applaud the whole team, the manager and anyone else who came on to the pitch at the whistle. It was a brilliant way to end a football match.
True, there was a poor period in the first half. True, there were some players who didn’t impress me at the start. True, we must improve if we are to build on this win. But let us look at it another way. At the end of the match a motley group of players, still in the throes of assembly, still learning each others’ names, and still going to school in one case, were standing at the centre of a horde of formerly disenchanted, disengaged and disgruntled fans who were cheering their heads off because they had come to the realisation that with this motley crew, this manager and these owners we can do it.
And we can.
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Decriminalization Is the Only Feminist, Humane Response to Prostitution, Says Human-Rights Group Amnesty International
Group calls on governments worldwide to stop the criminalization of sex work
Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.26.2016 2:25 PM
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After nearly a year of contentious and high-profile debate from concerned parties, the worldwide human-rights organization Amnesty International has released its official policy paper on sex-worker rights, which calls for the global decriminalization of adult prostitution. The main focus of the document is identifying "the most prominent barriers to the realization of sex workers' human rights and underlin[ing] states' obligations to address them." Among these obligations:
Repeal existing laws and refrain from introducing new laws that criminalize or penalize directly or in practice the consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for remuneration;
Refrain from the discriminatory enforcement against sex workers of other laws, such as those on vagrancy, loitering, and immigration requirements;
Ensure the meaningful participation of sex workers in the development of law and policies that directly affect their lives and safety;
Refocus laws away from catch-all offences that criminalize most or all aspects of sex work and towards laws and policies that protect sex workers' health and safety and that oppose all acts of exploitation and trafficking in commercial sex (including of children);
Ensure that there are effective frameworks and services that allow people to leave sex work if and when they choose; and
Ensure that sex workers have equal access to justice, health care and other public services, and to equal protection under the law.
Read the whole policy paper here. It was "developed in recognition of the high rates of human rights abuses experienced globally by individuals who engage in sex work; a term that Amnesty International uses only in regard to consensual exchanges between adults," states Amnesty at its start. And consent is emphasized throughout the document, with Amnesty pointing out that understandings of consent in the context of sex work must prioritize "the views, perspectives and experiences of individuals selling sex." While that might not sound terribly radical, people engaged in prostitution have long been stereotyped by police, government agents, and clients as either "always consent[ing] to sex (because they may engage in sex frequently for their work) or, conversely, that sex workers can never consent to sex (because no one could rationally consent to selling sex)."
Amnesty concludes that laws criminalizing commercial sex between consenting adults have "a foreseeably negative impact on a range of human rights," including "the rights to life, liberty, autonomy and security of person; the right to equality and non-discrimination; the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; the right to privacy… [and] the right to freedom of opinion and expression." Furthermore, criminalization "creates an environment where law enforcement officers and other officials can perpetrate violence, harassment and extortion against sex workers with impunity." And because sex workers fear violence and arrest by police, they are leery of reporting crimes against themselves or others in their community, offering "impunity to perpetrators of violence and abuse."
The response in media and among activists has been predictably mixed (and heated).
The group formerly known as Morality in Media put out a press release accusing Amnesty of "defending pimps and sex traffickers," despite Amnesty's strong condemnation of any forms of sex work that involve violence or non-consent. Socialist feminist Laurie Penny called Amnesty's decision "great news," but also complained that instead of focusing on sex work as a specific entity, we should be focusing on "the abolition of work in general." Professor Allison Bass, author of the 2015 book Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, wrote at the Huffington Post that "my hat's off to Amnesty for having the guts to stand up and shout the truth. I hope that some day the state and federal governments in this country will listen." As for the word on Twitter…
Thank you @amnesty for supporting the human rights, dignity, and autonomy of sex workers. #sexwork #humanrights https://t.co/19Tczy3N5m
— Alex S. Morgan (@Alex_S_Morgan) May 26, 2016
Women's rights group @genderhealth applauds @amnesty policy on #sexworker rights https://t.co/JV7Dq8fP4P #BreakBarriers #Decrim #HumanRights
— Serra Sippel (@SerraSippel) May 26, 2016
This is an important & powerful statement. Thank you @amnesty for making data-driven, harm reduction recommendations https://t.co/6BTn7bRSus
— Mike Crawford (@BringMeTheAx) May 26, 2016
Prostitution Is Sexploitation; Decriminalizing Helps Pimps & Sex Buyers! #NoAmnestyForPimps #AmnestyInternational https://t.co/gLLHhVNn8u
— Rachel Moran (@RachelRMoran) May 26, 2016
NSWP Welcomes Amnesty International's Policy on Protecting the Human Rights of Sex Workers https://t.co/PO8lVf6scn via @GlobalSexWork
— Kate (@KateDAdamo) May 26, 2016
@amnesty well done for listening to what #Sexworkers want not their detractors, #decriminalisation is the best way forward! @Maggie_McNeill
— Queens Of The Realm (@QueensofRealm) May 26, 2016
.@amnesty You're a fake agency run by #pimps who want to legalize #pimps right to sell our children as sex slaves & men's right to buy them!
— Diana f/k/a (@desifoxx) May 26, 2016
With @amnesty's report on human rights violations visited on sex workers, will its decriminalization mainstream into the #CJReform movement?
— Meretricious Lobby (@MerryMissLissie) May 26, 2016
In addition to the policy reccomendation, Amnesty International released four location-specific sex work reports on Wednesday:
The human cost of criminalising sex work in Buenos Aires
Criminalising sex work in Hong Kong
Criminalisation of sex work in Norway
Criminalising sex work in Papua New Guinea
The Norway report has been getting the most attention, due the fact that Norway's model of punishing prostitution clients more harshly than those selling sex (also known as the Swedish model) has become popular far outside Scandinavia. Canada adopted a similar model in 2014, and perversions of the model have made their way to various parts of the U.S. as well.
"The legal model adopted by the Norwegian government is promoted as one that encourages protection of people who sell sex, shields them from criminalization and instead shifts the criminal burden of blame to buyers of sex," states the Amnesty report on Norway. But this isn't how things work in practice found researchers after interviewing an array of Norwegian sex workers, lawyers, government officials, and social -ervices workers. In fact, human rights abuses against people who sell sex in Norway "are compounded by and, in some cases, directly caused by the legal framework" there.
"The claims that individual sex workers are not criminalized or penalized under the 'Nordic Model,'" are simply untrue, according to the organization's research. "Oslo police have over the last decade adopted a 'preventative policing' approach to sex work which involves the enforcement of lower level offences as 'stress methods' to disrupt, destabilize and increase the pressure on those operating in the sex sector. One academic researcher describes how police sources 'in Oslo often use terms like they are going to 'crush' or 'choke' the [prostitution] market, and unsettle, pressure and stress the people in the market'. Amnesty International has also found that many sex workers remain subject to a high level of surveillance by police," in part so police can identify sex buyers in order to fine them.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.
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Clich? Bandit
Has anyone posted the HuffPo Tweet fiasco? Cause that shit is hilarious!
I know that the IPA Newsletter (where i saw it) is IFH’s beat but I haven’t seen her in a while. Perhaps the drop bears got her.
Feminists in their true colors…the responses are priceless.
Linky!
DenverJ
Hmm. A most diverse group of people.
Mo’ crackers than Nabisco!
Brochettaward
There are certain posters here who trash ENB. I will never do that (fully) because at the very least she is fully libertarian on this issue and it’s a pretty important one on both practical grounds as well as principle. It ties back to the most fundamental of rights – self-ownership.
A lot of people aren’t fully libertarian, but they have certain issues that can be emphasized to show them the inanity of faith in government. That may be the missing link between Michael Hihn’s Nolan chart libertarians and actual libertarians.
at the very least she is fully libertarian on this issue
Agreed, ENB is solid on this one issue. Now let’s all give her hell for the ones where she isn’t.
Crusty Juggler
I will never do that (fully) because at the very least she is fully libertarian on this issue
More importantly she covers the subject very well, which more important than acing a libertarian purity test.
DEATFBIRSECIA
Notice how the malfeasance of the police forms one of the main arguments in the push to remove sex workers from their purview.
Selling is legal; fucking is legal; why isn’t selling fucking legal?
The children. Duh doy.
Don’t make me stop this car and turn around and smack you!
Selling & fucking are each only somewhat tolerated. Combined, the objections are too great.
Diana f/k/a ?@desifoxx
.@amnesty You’re a fake agency run by #pimps who want to legalize #pimps right to sell our children as sex slaves & men’s right to buy them!
This moron is a huge part of the problem. Her twitter bio: Mom/Blogger/Activist – Porn Valley Sells You Fantasies. At Porn In The Valley Learn the Realities of Porn for FREE because what Happens in Porn Affects us ALL!
I went to that website. Summary: porn is evil.
Florida Hipster
My penis doesn’t think it’s evil.
Take it up with Diana, porn-loving monster.
I bet she is a dirty girl behind closed doors.
A crucifix, or two, has definitely been inside of her.
Roger Perdactor
So prostitution should be legal for the providers…congrats.
Unfortunately, your customers will be fined heavily and harassed….even arrested and shamed.
So good luck on your business.
Amnesty International:
Repeal existing laws and refrain from introducing new laws that criminalize or penalize directly or in practice the consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for remuneration
Thanks. You saved me the effort of posting that.
Cdr Lytton
Don’t go crazy!
Repeal existing laws and refrain from introducing new laws that criminalize or penalize directly or in practice the consensual exchange of sexual goods and services between adults for remuneration
You know, I see this expression “decriminalization” used in reference to various vice type “crimes” and I honestly don’t know what to make of it. What does it mean exactly? Things are either against the law or they are not. Are these things to be made “infractions” like traffic tickets or what? In other words, the state still get to torment you for your personal life choices, just not to the degree they could previously?
I was thinking the same. Massachusetts decriminalized marijuana yet if you are caught with more than an ounce, it is a misdemeanor that can carry 6 months in jail and/or a fine of $500.
Notorious UGCC
A feminist *and* humane policy? Does such a thing even exist?
feminist:female::Islamist:Islamic
Ms. Silver
I disagree with the topic of decriminalizing. However I thank the author for pointing out that two organizations, Amnesty and NWSA, both hold the same acceptance of it. This is because I was about to apply to work with Amnesty and be a dues paying member of NWSA. Which I won’t do now. I also would like the add the Department of Justice and FBI are still issuing stings on Commerical Sex Act crimes throughout the year of 2016. In which a bust in Tennessee recently indicted more the five dozen persons including 2 pastors.
I think person with a criminal conviction involving Commericalized Sex, like Pimps- Prostitutes- Sexual Exploitation- And Purchasing a Prostitute should be treated like the same issue as a Rapist or Child Molestor. It should be a topic of Probate Law like it is in some Asain countries, where former Sex Workers are required to make manufactured goods that help the non-profit organization rescue other victims. Women who are convicted of such a crime need more than jail cell to re-enter society. They should be put into work camp where they live in tents and repay society for the criminal damage they have engaged in. One part of the problem of solving the criminal matter is dealing with men who are in governmental roles where they themselves have been a Jhon or Purchased Commerical Sex from a Prostitute..
Hamster of Doom
I think trolls and randos who cannot grasp proper nouns and the use of capitals ought to be barred from written communication for life. Certainly anywhere I have to read it.
Want in one hand and piss in the other, and see which fills fastest.
What do anti-prostitution activists & reformers propose as substitutes for prostitution for people who desire sexual services? Do any of them favor anything like a Sex Corps of volunteers? Or a push for more singles clubs?
Or more sex therapy? Or a research program for a drug or device substitute?
Julien Couvreur
On the same topic, see this recent TED talk which explains how most policies hurt sex workers, whereas decriminalization actually helps: http://www.ted.com/talks/toni_…..eally_want
Maflaherty
June.9.2016 at 1:22 pm
Prostitution, recreational drug use and alcohol prohibition are all riding in the same morality boat. Criminalization only exacerbates the societal fallout. The US in particular continues to refuse to acknowledge everything painfully learned historically from alcohol Prohibition, and the longest ongoing war — the drug war.
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How to watch 2017 Test cricket in 4K Ultra HD
By Chris Barraclough
Sky Sports is offering Test cricket in glorious 4K Ultra HD resolution for the first time in the summer of 2017. Here’s the list of Test cricket matches you can watch in 4K and how to get involved.
Sky Sports was one of the first broadcast services to offer live sporting events in 4K resolution, courtesy of the brilliant Sky Q offering. You can already enjoy the likes of Premier League matches and F1 in 4K resolution and now Test cricket has joined the Ultra HD fold.
This summer, Sky Sports will broadcast the England vs South Africa matches in 4K for the first time. These gorgeous, super-crisp visuals join a host of other great features that Sky has implemented over the years, including Hawkeye, stump microphones, hi-motion replays and enhanced statistical offerings. Not to mention Sky’s funky new split-screen mode.
Sky Sports Head of Cricket Bryan Henderson said: “With Ultra HD, customers can enjoy the four Test matches with four times better picture quality and four times greater clarity. It is a first for Sky Sports and we can’t wait to bring you closer to the action, excitement and drama that the South Africa Test series will deliver this summer.”
Read next: How to check you’re ready to stream 4K video at home
What Test cricket matches can I watch in 4K resolution in 2017?
All four Tests of the England v South Africa coverage will be broadcast live by Sky in Ultra HD. These will be shown on the following dates:
1st Test: July 6-10
2nd Test: July 14-18
3rd Test: July 27-31
4th Test: August 4-8
How can I watch Test cricket in 4K on Sky Sports?
To enjoy these matches in Ultra HD, you’ll of course need to be a Sky Sports subscriber. However, you’ll also need to be a Sky Q customer, as only Q subscribers can get those 4K visuals beamed to their TVs.
Still not got Sky Q? Well, this year might be the time to jump on board. Sky has already added some great new features, including a nifty split-screen mode for watching live sports and of course full voice search. If you’re a sports fan or simply enjoy collapsing on your sofa with a good telly boxset, Sky Q really is a solid offering – and with multi-room support and the ability to take shows and movies on the go, it’s a pretty complete package.
Read next: How to get Sky Sports and BT Sport for cheap
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IT Tools Roundup, August 6
From the business wires this week: extending USB devices; handheld wireless analyzer from Comarco; iSCCI-based SAN for small/medium businesses; PDF conversion tool.
By Michael Domingo
Keyspan has upgraded its USB Server, which connects USB devices to Macs and PCs via a wired or wireless Ethernet LAN. New features:
automatic connection/disconnection to printers from Windows; System Tray icon; support for compound devices, such as USB devices with embedded hubs; and UI improvements. It's $129, but the upgrade is free to current customers. http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/server/downloads/
Icron Technologies Corp. announced the Ranger 130 and Ranger 140, the first new releases in its family of hi-speed USB 2.0 extenders, with transfer speeds of up to 480 Mbps over 50 meters. Retail availability is slated for September. http://www.icron.com
SonicWALL upgraded its firewall operating system, SonicOS 2.5, with enhanced VoIP support, including Cisco, Mitel, Pulver, Apple iChat, and "softphones" from Yahoo and Microsoft; full stateful IGMP multicast support, with support for IGMP 1, 2 and 3; policy-based routing; and secure VPN deployment capabilities, among a host of other new features. It's available for SonicWALL's PRO and TZ 170 security appliances. http://www.sonicwall.com/
System Engineering Int'l released seven new models to its Juice Box line of IEEE-802.3af Power-over-Ethernet Mid Span Power Hubs. The line includes 12- and 24-port units with AC or DC input and with or without WEB/SNMP; the units fit in a 1U rack. http://www.seipower.com/ethernet.htm
SlipStream Data's SlipStream SP 3.2, a Web and e-mail accelerator, updates several features: integration with third-party apps; improved image compression and quality; and the addition of anti-spam functionality. http://www.slipstream.com
SEI's JuiceBox provides power over Ethernet to VoIP and other point-of-entry applications. Units are small, fitting in a 1U rack space.
Sentinare Messaging Solutions, which provides outsourced e-mail security services, adds a spam detection technique it calls "tarpitting," which monitors traffic and applies sluggish responses to senders showing spam-like behavior. http://www.sentinare.com
WinAbility Software's Folder Guard 7.0, a Windows security program, can be used to hide or restrict access to files and folders that contain sensitive information on both NTFS and FAT volumes. It protects files from access by programs such as Explorer, Office applications, even MS-DOS programs by intercepting those request, then requiring password access. Folder Guard XP and Classic is $39.95; Professional is $59.95. Volume discounts are available. http://www.winability.com
Foundstone released a free tool, SSLDigger, that automates the testing and rating of the use of SSL ciphers on an organization's Web site. It can generate data that can then be used to report on compliance with regulatory and industry encryption standards, including HIPAA and VISA's Cardholder Information Security Program. http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/ssldigger.htm
Nimbus Data Systems, Inc. released Nimbus IPS, a series of high-performance iSCSI storage solutions for small and medium-sized IT organizations. They're based on the native iSCSI standard, using Gigabit Ethernet, and are available in 500GB and 1TB configs that are stackable to 8TB per storage pool. Also new is Nimbus SAN Manager, which provides SAN management — including creation and resizing of volumns, monitoring, alerting, and security setup — from a central interface. Solutions that include support start at $4,995. http:/www.nimbusdata.com
Winability's Folder Guard 7.0's simplifies secure access to folders and programs.
Comarco Wireless Test Solutions is now shipping a series of handheld WiFi Analyzers for designing, installing, troubleshooting and optimizing 802.11-based Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum wireless networks. They track: Packet Error Rates; multipath and received signal strength indicator signal levels of home and neighboring networks; unauthorized access points; and throughput and security performance, among other features. It's $3,200. http://www.comarco.com
Software602's Print2PDF 4.0 Server Edition allows network users to convert documents from any application that has a print command into Adobe's Portable Document Format. It's $299.95 for 25 users to $1,999.95 for an unlimited user license. http://www.software602.com
For developers tackling the Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Visual C# .NET and Visual Studio .NET, Whizlabs Software released MCSD .NET (70-316) Certification Exam Simulator, a study guide that comes with 440 questions in five mock exams and a quiz. http://www.whizlabs.com/mcsd/70-316.html
To showcase your products in MCPmag.com News, send e-mail to Michael Domingo: mdomingo@101com.com, with "MCPmag News" on the subject line of your message. Publication of submissions are at the sole discretion of the editors.
Michael Domingo has held several positions at 1105 Media, and is currently the editor in chief of Visual Studio Magazine.
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Реферат / Рефераты /category/by/type/referaty Иностранные языки /category/by/type/referaty/inostrannye-yazyki The Clock Stopped Essay Research Paper This
The Clock Stopped Essay Research Paper This
The Clock Stopped Essay, Research Paper This clock stopped at 8:15 am the morning of August 6, 1945 when America released the fatal forces of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Unfortunately the owner of this watch, Kengo Futagawa, was terribly burned and mortally wounded by the atomic forces as he stood only 1600 meters from the point of impact. Sad deaths like Futagawa?s are commemorated each year by various Anti-Atomic Warfare organizations that try to spread the realism and the devastation of Atomic Warfare through the told accounts of individual Hiroshima victim?s horrific stories. They, the people of Hiroshima paid an awful price as do many victims in the time of warfare, but their story is different because it was a price that did not need to be so heavy. Due to ruthless war
tactics, negligence, and ulterior motives America, the power of peace, used excessive force on Japan when it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. There are many ways to cruelly explain America?s actions in this matter; such as revenge, or simply a quickened end to the war, but the plain truth is the A-Bombing of Hiroshima could have been easily avoided. If the decision to bomb or not to bomb was placed solely on the threat of Japan at the present time of the decision anyone could see that atomically bombing Hiroshima was unnecessary and by all means should have been used as a last resort. Scientist, Botanist, and creator of the theories behind the Atomic Bomb, Leo Szilard and 58 others protested against the use of Atomic Bombs in the war against Japan by writing a letter to the
President of the United States. The petition respectfully asked that the use of this new weapon be used in a last resort. An excerpt from the petition clearly states their intentions. ?The war has to be brought speedily to a successful conclusion and the destruction of Japanese cities by means of Atomic bombs may very well be an effective method of warfare. We feel, however, that such an attack on Japan could not be justified in the present circumstances. We believe that the United States ought not to resort to the use of atomic bombs in the present phase of the war, at least not unless the terms which will be imposed upon Japan after the war are publicly announced and subsequently Japan is given an opportunity to surrender.? (Dannen pg. 2 ) Unfortunately, this view was not
shared by the decision makers, aconfined group of men; ?only about a dozen, high government officials, military advisers, and Scientist who were appointed by President Truman to help advise in the awesome decision of whether and where the bomb would be dropped.? (Fogelman pg.2 ) The recommendations of this committee and above all the advice of Secretary of War Stimson, confirmed President Truman?s own conviction that use of an atomic bomb against Japan would be necessary to bring the war to a speedy end. However, it seemed as if the speedy end Truman was so desperately seeking was around the corner. With America?s very strong air raids, and a strong chokehold on Japanese importing systems, Japan was already frantically looking for a way to surrender. America?s strong air raids
were due to ?Area Bombing,? an air raid tactic that the U.S. Airforce adopted from the Germans in their war against England, sought not to hit specific targets, but struck rather at whole cities, killing thousands of citizens. They aimed to ?de-house? enemy industrial workers, disrupt the enemy war effort, crush enemy morale, and ultimately send the enemy into submission. With this ruthless tactic in place the ?Americans had already killed well over half a million Japanese civilians by ?Area Bombing? efforts, perhaps nearly a million. This was before atomic weapons were even ready for use.? (Long pg.4 ) While Japan was being bombarded from the sky, a naval blockade was strangling Japan?s ability to import oil and other vital materials and its ability to produce war materials.
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By Jessica Binns, Apparel Contributing Writer - 10/25/2016
If Retail Prophet Doug Stephens is to be believed, the term "store" someday will be remembered as a relic of the Industrial Revolution as our culture and technology enable transactions virtually anywhere, thanks to socially integrated buy buttons, mobile commerce and more.
We've already seen a shift in the language of retail away from "stores" to "physical retail spaces," which Stephens told attendees at September's SAP Retail Forum is a better way to describe how retailers should think about their businesses as commerce channels proliferate.
Selling experiences instead of stuff
Instead of simply selling "things, retailers would do well to sell experiences — alongside attractive products, of course. Stores that emphasize "storytelling," such as Pirch in New York City, engage shoppers in a singular way. The average dwell time at Perch is two hours, driven by customers free to try out any appliance in the home fixtures and furnishings store, and sales per square feet stand at more than $3,000.
Millennials in particular are drawn to "experiences" versus "things," and Stephens points out that these consumers say an experience with any given retailer is more important than the actual product being sold. This might explain why adidas has partnered with Wanderlust, which creates multi-day festivals and single-day fitness events, merging the energy of a music festival into the community atmosphere of a yoga and fitness event. Wanderlust co-founder Jeff Krasno describes Millennials as an "active generation inspired by physical challenge as well as style, fashion, music and art."
New retail concepts such as the sensory-driven Story in New York City are moving toward an "experiences per square foot" model. "If you're appeasing the ‘sales per square foot' metric, stores will continue to get more boring," says Stephens, "because buyers won't take risks with adding new products."
If you're not using your data, you're doing it wrong
Once upon a time, not too long ago, flash-sale e-commerce company Beyond the Rack was a shooting star alongside comrades like Gilt Groupe and Rue La La. Headquartered in Montreal, the company quickly attracted the attention of deep-pocketed financial firms. "Venture capital companies were throwing money at Beyond the Rack because it was meeting top-line sales," says Natalie Ben-Zur, CEO of Tempt Brands and former vice president of merchandising, fashion and accessories for Beyond the Rack. Five years later when those firms came looking for returns on their investments, they were sorely disappointed. Beyond the Rack filed for bankruptcy protection in 2015.
Ben-Zur says the flash-sales company made one critical mistake. Despite "collecting and measuring everything under the sun," Beyond the Rack never actually did anything with all that data. "They knew the customer, what they liked and disliked but never acted on it," she explains. That's because the company was more focused on marketing than on caring for its customer base. Beyond the Rack's net promoter score was down in the 20s, Ben-Zur says, when the average is typically in the 70s. Money was spent on marketing to rapidly inflate the membership base, which reached 13 million during its heydey. "They didn't listen to the customer, didn't improve service or delivery time," Ben-Zur notes. "Many customers would leave after just one transaction because they couldn't ship quickly enough."
Athleisure's appeal won't last forever
Why is the activewear trend so hot? Because people feel healthier simply by owning and wearing it, says NPD Group chief industry analyst Marshal Cohen. While active and athleisure apparel accounts for 20 percent of total annual clothing sales and is growing at 16 percent year over year, don't expect that momentum to last forever.
Cohen says competitors to the established players, such as Nike and adidas, will level out the playing field and put pressure on the market with lower price points — and consumers whose closets are crammed full of moisture-wicking leggings and slouchy slogan sweatshirts will decide they have enough activewear to meet their needs. The next big consumer-born trend — innerwear stepping out, a la bralettes and slippers as streetwear — is already here, according to Cohen, but won't be nearly as dominant as athleisure.
Is Under Armour even an apparel company anymore?
Under Armour is undoubtedly pleased with the consumer craze for activewear, though the company is banking on customers who actually use its products to work out and not just to look fashionable. In recent years the Baltimore-based athletic apparel giant has grabbed headlines for its aggressive investments in the digital arena. Founder and CEO Kevin Plank created Under Armour with the concept of product innovation at its core, and he leveraged his ability to stay on top of — perhaps even ahead of — consumer desires by pivoting along with where the market was going.
"He saw that the world was changing, consumer needs were changing, and we needed to become a digital company," says Kurt Kendall, vice president of analytics and data solutions for Under Armour. "We needed to drive innovation not just with physical products but with digital products as well. More importantly, the physical product needed to become digital."
Kendall says the company's Record-integrated running shoe is the most "transformative" thing Under Armour has done all year. Record is the apparel giant's centralized dashboard and repository for round the clock monitoring of a user's sleep, activity, nutrition and more. With the Record chip and its powerful sensors built into footwear, fitness enthusiasts don't need to remember to carry their phone or put on a smartwatch or fitness tracker because forgetting to put on your shoes is never a problem, Kendall notes. All of a shoe wearer's activity is monitored and automatically synced with the Record platform, and the chip inside the sneaker lasts for the lifetime of the shoe itself: roughly 450 miles. Under Armour is researching metallic threads and flexible sensors so that all apparel can be manufactured with built-in sensors.
Under Armour is doing its best to use all of this data to its advantage and personalize each and every customer experience with its family of brands — including the Endomondo, MyFitnessPal and MapMyRun apps — which caters to 180 million users in 60 countries. "If you come to our website, and you were running yesterday ... we will personalize your web screen ... based on that information," explains Kendall.
Likewise, UA Shop, the app that launched in June, similarly uses the data consumers share to tailor and improve their experience. Picture this: shoppers can walk into an Under Armour store and find their perfect running sneaker based on data from their worn-out Record shoes that shows their running style means they land more heavily on the heel of their foot. Now that is why consumers are willing to share their data in the first place.
Under Armour has discovered that it can effectively and strategically market to its digital communities. Products such as its hunting and hiking gear aren't typically carried in stores and mass channels but the company has found success by reaching out to individuals who are in its digital groups focused on hunting or hiking and delivering relevant content to them. "We get a better response because we're aligning with what the consumer already likes to do," Kendall says.
Is is 2017 yet?
This year has seen more than its share of retailers succumbing to financial woes, and Scaling Retail CEO Syama Meagher wonders why so many companies are still so slow to act when trouble rears its ugly head. "Why does it take J.Crew two years of losing sales to go do something innovative and collaborate with Nordstrom?" she says.
Because 2016 is a leap year, Christmas falls on a Sunday this December, opening up a whole additional weekend for sales, promotions and traffic-driving in-store events. "But are retailers preparing for it?" says NPD's Cohen.
With Amazon's new mall-based pop-up shops, "the wolf is in the hen house," notes Stephens of the e-commerce giant that has many retailers running scared. What's more, Amazon's Prime Day has emerged as the fourth-largest shopping day in the United States, behind the usual suspects such as Black Friday, whose power to lure consumers may be waning as sales shift online and great deals can be found throughout the year. Still, many retailers will be satisfied just to make it out of the "challenging" 2016 election year still standing.
And as for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his men's suits are "made in Mexico, so I hope he can get [them] over the wall to get into the stores," Cohen quips.
Jessica Binns is a freelance writer covering the intersection of fashion, retail and technology.
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Our 2019 Scotch Nosing not only sold out, it was a fun and successful event. Take a look at the short video below, and you'll see why.
Richard Mewhinney: Green Oranges for Sustainable Living in Uganda
Water for Fruit Trees Transformed a Town in Uganda
Ongutoi is a village in central east Uganda that had a languishing local economy and poor access to healthcare until Rotary-sponsored projects created a medical centre and transformed barren ground into a grove of Valencia orange trees. Richard Mewhinney from the Rotary Club of Newmarket, who has led this project for several years, explained how this near-miracle unfolded.
Zarmina Nekzai and Canadian Community Organization for Women and Youth
Hockey Girls: Gender Equality in Afghanistan and Beyond
Petite, courageous and focussed, Zarmina Nekzai has made it her life's work to advance gender equality in Afghanistan and internationally by promoting education for girls and women. As an embodiment of the spirit of Rotary, Zarmina's personal story is a triumphant illustration of what can happen when people take action.
Patti Wright: RTW's Projects in Ukraine
Changing Young Lives in Ukraine
Rivne, Ukraine is not what you might think. The bustling city seems to be thriving and yet healthcare and other forms of support for children with disabilities are sadly lacking. Being handicapped is the 4th leading cause of death in Ukraine and children with disabilities are often abandoned by their families. Over the past four years, RTW has sponsored several projects directed to supporting these kids and Patti Wright visited in September to see first hand the difference they've made.
Scotch Nosing Success!
RTW Hosts Sold Out Scotch Nosing Event
The Rotary Club of Toronto West held it's annual Scotch Nosing fundraiser at the Lambton Golf and Country Club on the evening of November 14th. The event had sold-out quickly and lived up to its own superlative standards, featuring a five course gourmet meal, each course paired with a premium scotch whiskey. What was on the menu? Read more to find out!
Willis Rudy: My Life in Nepal, 1958 - 1961
Three Years in Nepal Changed His Life
At 22, Willis Rudy felt adrift: his career in music seemed at a dead-end, he was struggling financially and wasn't sure what to do next. So, of course, he went to Nepal. Willis shared some of the highlights of his new book, My Life in Nepal, 1958 - 1961 with us.
Sean Cragg: Canada's Aviation Wonder - The Avro Arrow
Rotary Toronto West was privileged to welcome professional engineer Sean Cragg to speak to us about the history of the Avro Arrow, one of Canada's greatest aeronautics achievements. Sean described the Arrow as setting the gold medal standard for its era. Initially designed in 1953 by A.V. Roe Canada, it took 4 years of work to bring it to roll-out status, which occurred on October 4, 1957. The period during which the Arrow was being designed, built, tested and launched constituted a "perfect storm" of design issues and politics. The original Rolls Royce engine proved to have problems so a new engine was designed by Orenda, with a 5:1 thrust ratio. This made it one of the most powerful engines for its time and enabled the plane to fly at speeds exceeding Mach 1.98.
FEAT for Children Of Incarcerated Parents
Restoring Connections In Vulnerable Families
Jessica Reid understands a child's heartbreak when a parent is absent. Her own experience with this and her subsequent joy at being reunited with her dad, Derek Reid, is what led them to found FEAT in 2011, now a registered charity with a challenging mandate, as encapsulated by the acronym in their name. Derek was visibly moved as he told us about how FEAT for Children of Incarcerated Parents was founded and why it is committed to tackling these challenges day by day.
iIMPACT Wraparound
Building Connections To Prevent Gun Violence
Gun violence exists in a complex social context that draws on other determinants of health such as poverty, hunger and lack of access to Toronto's civic resources. Toronto Police Services representative Isabelle Cotton and entertainment mogul Farley Flex spoke about a project to create a cell phone app in connection with the iIMPACT Wraparound initiative to help families and youth who are vulnerable to gun violence find support.
Atlas 365: Accelerating Low Carbon Consumerism
Using hemp to fight climate change
Green house gas emissions contribute to global warming and climate change. The air pollution they cause is associated with increases in dementia and respiratory problems. The issues connected with green house gases are costing the economy billions of dollars.
Imagine being so moved to act on these issues that you would put your career in law on hold to devote yourself fully to this cause - using hemp as the medium for change. That's what Akeem Gardner did, and he told us why.
PEOPLE OF ACTION: RTW and DAYS FOR GIRLS, 2019 Update
Project: Supporting the Health and Literacy Needs of Girls
Project Partners: Days For Girls, Etobicoke Collegiate Institute Interact Club, and Richview Collegiate Institute Interact Club
Status: Ongoing - click "Read more..." below for the 2019 update
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Just a few short years ago, Carlos Bastidas approached Humber Valley United Church with an inspired idea: connect the community with light classical and popular music while providing students and recent graduates with opportunities to build skills and experience in an orchestra. From this simple beginning, The Ontario Pops Orchestra grew to one of the most lauded music organizations in Canada.
2019 UPDATE: Adopt a Village In Laos – Bringing Health And Happiness To Villagers In Laos
Posted by Linda Braendel on Jul 18, 2019
Steve Rutledge, a Rotarian who knows how to make a difference visited us this month to give us an update on the work of bringing clean water to villages in Laos. One of Rotary Foundation’s Areas of Focus is Providing Clean Water and Steve works energetically towards this goal.
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Established in 1984, The Children's Breakfast Club has decades of experience in helping children develop their potential by nurturing their bodies and spirits. Famous alumni include the Raptors' Assistant Coach Jamaal Magloire and CBC Toronto's Dwight Drummond. Rick Gosling told us how it all got started...
The Scott Mission - The Miracle On Spadina
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Water and sanitation projects are central to Rotary International's mission. For landlocked areas in the middle east, such as Al'Qaa (Elkaa, El Kaa), Lebanon, accessing fresh water for drinking and other everyday needs can be a huge challenge. Wasim Jarrah, from the Rotary Club of Newmarket, told us about the club's ongoing project to provide assistance.
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The War Amps Put the Future in Focus for Young and Old
2018 was the 100th anniversary of the War Amps organization and its efforts to have amputees help amputees to adapt to the challenges associated with amputation. The War Amps programs have expanded and changed during its tenure, and it looks forward to continuing its mission in a country the founding World War I veterans would scarcely recognize.
The Little Sun Solar Lamp Lights Up Ethiopia
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The Etobicoke branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women was looking for a project to mark their 100th anniversary and chose to bring light to displaced people living in primitive camps in Ethiopia through their connections with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
Drs. Philip and Nancy Wood - Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Doctors Philip and Nancy Wood have been working for more than 4 decades to help health professionals in the Democratic Republic of Congo create sustainable healthcare in some of the country's most under-serviced regions.
April 2019 Update on the Amarok Society
"Teach a mother, change the world"
The Amarok Society educates about 3,000 students in Bangladesh by teaching mothers how to teach children. Amarok Society's programs target the poorest women in the slums of Bangladesh, women for whom a job paying $1 per day would be prized. Educating them to teach Bangladeshi, English and mathematics to children raises the literacy and numeracy levels of the entire community. We recently received a letter from the mother we sponsor, Sathi, updating us on her progress.
Denis Doracin: CrossFit Training for Health at Any Age
Come As You Are, Start Where You Can Fitness
People tend to think of fitness as something that is out of reach because of age or illness. Denis Doracin, using RTW member John Hastings (pictured above) as an example explained why that's not true.
Mahad Shazad: Using Social Interaction for Mental Health in Vulnerable Populations
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We often think of at-risk youth as being a vulnerable population with respect to suicide but the disturbing truth is that seniors are 3 to 5 times more likely to commit suicide due to mental illness associated with social isolation. Mahzad Shahzad told us all about it.
Sylvia Kwan: Community Policing in Action
Bridging Gaps and Building Awareness Through Community Policing
Advocating for a heightened police presence in afflicted neighbourhoods. Educating the public about trends in crimes that could affect them. Promoting awareness of the Community Police Liaison Committee. Sex trafficking in Etobicoke. Sylvia Kwan tolds us about all this and much more.
Harold Rudy: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
Ensuring Food Security For Growing Populations
Harold Rudy is an expert on various aspects of agribusiness and conservation. He dished the dirt about the importance of soil health/conservation, science and technology, and people's habits related to diet and food management to highlight the challenges in global food security.
Harold spent his formative years on a Mennonite family farm in Waterloo County as one of ten siblings, including RTW member Willis Rudy, who taught Harold how to drive a tractor at the early age of about 6 years. So began Harold's fascination with agriculture.
Harold attended the University of Guelph, where he earned a B. Sc. (Agriculture) and a M. Sc. (Rural Planning and Development) as the foundation for a thirty year career devoted to promoting the environmental stewardship programs of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA). He has authored a book called The Soil Fixers which covers some of his experiences working with farmers and agricultural specialists on issues related to soil protection, conservation, and sustainability.
Harold continues to live on the family farm that was originally established in 1929. Even after 90 years of production, it continues to be actively farmed by one of Harold's neighbours.
ECI Interactors Support Days For Girls
Posted by John Stevenson on Feb 22, 2019
ECI Interact Club improves the lives of girls internationally through Days For Girls
RTW sponsors the ECI Interact Club and provides financial and practical support to Days For Girls.
Over 30 Interact students of ECI volunteered to stay after classes to fabricate kits for the local Toronto chapter of the international Days for Girls organization. Thousands of kits are sent to schools in SE Asia and Africa where it is common for young girls to miss out on several days of important schooling each month due to menstruation.
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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged Beyonce, Bruce Jenner, Cher, Daily Life, Feminaust, feminism, Floyd Mayweather, For Harriet, Glee, Grey's Anatomy, intimate partner violence, Junkee, Mother's Day, Nicki Minaj, porn, reproductive rights, Salon, Sofia Vergara, Spook magazine, The Guardian, Twitter ¶ Leave a comment
In praise of Cher’s Twitter account. [The Guardian]
Women who choose not to have children are “just frivolous people who are wasting our lives away until we add to the world’s population.” [Salon]
Further to that, Sofia Vergara is well within her legal and moral rights to destroy the fertilised embryos she created with her ex. [Daily Life]
Should we be showing porn in schools? [Junkee]
I also wrote at Junkee about the end of Glee and, with it, its atrocious treatment of minorities. And storytelling.
Do we only care about the plight of black women when they’re on our TV screens? [For Harriet]
Why are self-proclaimed feminists like Beyonce and Nicki Minaj supporting woman-beater Floyd Mayweather? [Spook Magazine]
I wrote this a couple of Mother’s Days ago: the divide between second- and fourth-wave feminism.
My last “Welcome to Monday” for feminaust is jammed packed with goodness.
ICYMI: “Some Thoughts on Bruce Jenner”.
Grey’s Anatomy‘s top ten deaths.
Some Thoughts on Bruce Jenner.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in In the News ¶ Tagged Alice Eve, Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, GLAAD, Janet Mock, Jezebel, Jill Soloway, Redefining Realness, Slate, The Kardashians, The Mary Sue, Transparent, transpeople ¶ 1 Comment
I’ve been loath to contribute my feelings about Bruce Jenner’s coming out as a trans woman to a feminist/humanist/trans rights sphere because, as a cisgender person, the last thing I’d want to do is cisplain.
However, as probably the most well-versed person on human rights in my immediate circle of friends, colleagues and family members, I’ve been throwing my two cents out there whenever the conversation inevitably veres Bruce’s way.
Because the people I’ve been talking to about him* are espousing predictably ignorant views. Things like “what’s his deal?”, “is he a she-he” and “tell me about this Kardashian who now thinks he’s a woman”.
I try not to get angry when explaining that gender is a spectrum, being transgender is a legitimate gender identity, and that it’s not for us to judge a person who’s spent 65 years keeping this secret, but I can feel my expression change as the fury bubbles up inside me.
One person I was actually able to have a tempered conversation with about Bruce wondered whether ignorance to trans issues (and, by extension, race, gender, sexuality, disability, class issues) could excuse such bigoted reactions: “You can’t fault people for not being aware,” she said.
Except you can. How do you think anyone who’s sensitive to minority issues came to be that way? Because they listened to people who are from these communities and actually deal with these things on a daily basis. Read about them in books like Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness and online. Follow enlightened people on Twitter. Watched Bruce’s interview with Diane Sawyer to understand that not everyone who falls under a certain umbrella wants to be addressed in the ways that are generally accepted as politically correct. The information is out there and ripe for the picking so ignorance is not an excuse. I actually have more respect for bigots who are informed about the issues they choose to be so bigoted about, even though I fundamentally disagree with them and think they’re horrible people.
My friend agreed, saying that watching shows like Transparent (which is problematic in it’s own right) has opened her up to trans issues. The problem she has with Bruce’s coming out though, she said, is that he lied about it: “You don’t have to come out, but when he was asked whether he was a trans woman in the past, he said no.”
Sure, there are ways Bruce could have framed his answers to be more ambiguous, but the media still would have spun it to service their agenda. It’s not Bruce’s job to make us more accepting of people who don’t fit our preconceptions.
Imagine the weight on his shoulders being a trans woman whilst also being a) held up as an American hero as an Olympic gold medalist in a sport that women can’t even compete in (thanks, Alice Eve!); and b) a member of a family comprised of some of the most famous women in the world who, whether we agree with it or not, are the epitome of femininity in many instances. (And for all the Kardashian haters who’ve made comments such as those in the third paragraph of this piece, Bruce’s family has actually come out in support of him—a low barometre of decency, but I digress—in his transition which makes them better than you.) No wonder he didn’t feel safe or accepted to come out. (Props to Bruce and ABC for mentioning the very real violence trans people face, especially trans women of colour who aren’t protected by the security Bruce has.)
Maybe it’s just because I try to surround myself with progressive people (at least online if not IRL), but the reaction to Bruce’s interview has been overwhelmingly positive. Those who actually took the time to listen to his experiences can take into account the obstacles put in Bruce’s way that have prevented him from living his truth in public. Maybe it will open their eyes to the obstacles put in the way of other trans people who haven’t been #blessed with the privileges Bruce Jenner has.
*I’m referring to Bruce by his birth name and using male pronouns as that is what he’s stated a preference for at this time and is in line with GLAAD’s guidelines.
Elsewhere: [Slate] Jill Soloway Apologises for Joking About Bruce Jenner on Facebook.
[The Mary Sue] Why Transparent Has Lost the Trust of the Trans Community.
[Jezebel] Alice Eve is Sorry She Said Bruce Jenner is “Playing at Being a Woman”.
[GLAAD] GLAAD Responds to ABC News Interview with Bruce Jenner, Releases Tip Sheet for Journalists.
Image via ABC News.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged Beck, Beyonce, Bitch magazine, Bruce Jenner, Daily Life, Down Under Feminists Carnival, Grammys, Grantland, Kanye West, LA Review of Books, MamaMia, Mia Freedman, publishing, race, Robyn Lawley, sexism, Spook magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Hand Mirror, Tony Abbott, transphobia, veganism, wrestling, Writers Bloc ¶ Leave a comment
In case you hadn’t realised from the uptick in wrestling-related links I’ve written and posted here of late, I’m kinda obsessed with it! Here I am, erm, writing about that obsession. [Writers Bloc]
Why should we worry about the lack of women in publishing when there are bigger gender inequality problems in the world?:
“The obscuring of women’s voices in media platforms, however elite, however niche, is part of the obscuring of their voices in general; and a lack of commitment to, or an inability to hear, their voices in literary culture is related to the same lacks and inabilities in relation to their voices in harassment, in sex, in courtrooms, and in the workplace.” [LA Review of Books]
Unpacking the media’s handling of Bruce Jenner’s alleged gender transition. [Bitch]
Shit vegans say. [Spook Magazine]
Mia Freedman—like the rest of the country—was wrong about Tony Abbott. [MamaMia]
Just because Beyonce used a plethora of producers to help make Beyonce, doesn’t mean she’s any less of an artist than Beck or any less worthy of the Album of the Year Grammy. [Daily Life]
Further to that, Kanye West is right in saying she should have won it. He just goes about voicing his opinion in a manner that rubs people up the wrong way. It probably also has to do with race, which I would’ve liked to see the author go into more. [Grantland]
Robyn Lawley being featured in Sports Illustrated is not a win for diversity or feminism. [Daily Life]
And if you’re thirsty for more links, the 81st Down Under Feminists Carnival has them all. [The Hand Mirror]
TV: Is Kris Jenner a Bad Mother?
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in TV ¶ Tagged Bruce Jenner, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Khloe & Lamar, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Lamar Odom, Scott Disick ¶ 5 Comments
She’s constantly on Khloe for her weight, Kim to prioritise her money-making appearances with family and love, and Kourtney to get married before she has another child. Not to mention that she neglects, according to them, Kendall and Kylie in favour of her older daughters.
But is Kris Jenner a bad mother because of this?
One could argue that she spent her former days of motherhood raising her six kids (not to mention Bruce’s four other children from previous marriages), and is rewarded by earning 10% from their business endeavours.
But some of the things Kris says and does arguably aren’t in the best interests of the wellbeing of her children. Or is that just how they choose to portray her on the show?
In the first season of Khloe & Lamar, Kris berates Khloe for her size (in the same episode that Lamar calls her “not small” in Playboy magazine), saying it’s not cohesive with her other sisters’ frames, nor with QuickTrim, the diet supplement the Kardashian sisters promote. In other episodes of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians franchise, Kris is on Khloe’s back to have a baby. After all, she has been married for two years (who would have thought that would last?!) and is relatively young, so it shouldn’t be that hard, right?
Kris also doesn’t approve of Kourtney’s boyfriend and baby daddy Scott Disick, and in earlier seasons of the show, who could blame her? But even after Scott made a 180° turnaround in his behaviour after son Mason was born, Kris still can’t accept him.
Kim, the head moneymaker of the Kardashian cklan, can usually never put a foot wrong in her mother’s eyes, but every now and then Kris will get upset with her for being so uptight. So do her sisters, for that matter.
But, in the latest season of Keeping up with the Kardashians, Bruce surprises Kris and the family with a trip to Bora Bora to celebrate the couple’s twentieth anniversary. The tables are turned from Khloe’s weight woes to Kris’, as she worries about her body and even contemplates surgery before they go away.
Kris asks how she’s supposed to strut around poolside in a bikini, when all of her young, hot daughters are, too? When I heard this, I wanted to throw up in my mouth a little bit. If anyone had any doubts about Kris being a “stage mum” of sorts, I think the proof is in the pudding (pardon the pun) here, as she’s jealous of her children.
I’m not a mother, so I don’t know if this is a common occurrence, but mothers should be proud of their daughters, not envious. And it’s not healthy for mothers to talk down about their own weight and appearance at the risk of passing that attitude on to their children. At the end of the day, she helped make them the way they are, and she should be proud they’re so successful.
It’s a peek into the insecurities she perhaps projects onto Khloe. I know my mum and I have clashed because of our similar traits.
If you’ve ever watched an episode of the show, you’ll see each 20-minute installment is wrapped up nicely by the time it comes to an end. Like Beverly Hills, 90210, each episode has a message, and everyone learns their lesson and it’s all hunky-dory at its culmination. Khloe realises she has nothing wrong with her body, and she’ll become pregnant sooner or later. Kim realises she needs to loosen up and, incidentally, her new husband, Kris Humphries, helps her do that.
But does the neat little package the Kardashians’ antics are tied up into mean that Kris’s overbearing and insensitive nature is just for show, or edited from an even more tyrannical version of herself?
Elsewhere: [Jezebel] Is Kris Kardashian Just a Glorified Pimp?
[Jezebel] Kris Jenner, Momager Extraordinaire, Has Body Issues Too.
Image via Celebuzz.
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Home/Press Release/Commercial Air conditioner Market Global Trends, Size, Segments And Revenue Growth Forecast Till 2026
Commercial Air conditioner Market Global Trends, Size, Segments And Revenue Growth Forecast Till 2026
Top Players in Commercial Air conditioner Market are Carrier Corporation, Daikin Industries Ltd., Johnson Controls Pvt. Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric, LG Corporation, Samsung, Ingersoll Rand Inc., Blue Star Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Airedale International Air Conditioning
The rising pollution levels is a key factor fostering the growth of the Commercial Air Conditioner Market, says Fortune Business Insights in a report, titled “Commercial Air Conditioners Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, By Type (Packaged Air Conditioners), By Refrigerants (R-32, R-410A/R-407C, R600A/R-290, Others) By End User (Healthcare, Educational/Institutional, Public/ Government, Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing) and Regional Forecast, 2019-2026.”
The global Commercial Air Conditioners market was predicted to have a volume of around 14 Million units annually in 2018 and is expected to reach 19.4 Million units by 2026, exhibiting a CAGR of 4.3%.
As per the report, the Packaged Air Conditioners are expected to generate the highest revenue during the forecast period. On the basis of refrigerants, the market is segmented into R-32, R-410A/R-407C, R600A/R-290, and others. The R-410A/R-407C segment is likely to grow at a rapid pace owing to its growing popularity in the end-user. The R-410A/R-407C are quiet and energy-efficient as its compressor runs only at the capacity needed at that current condition. It also offers features such as heat and cools simultaneously, less downtime, less space, modern controls. In addition, the R-410A/R-407C segment will account for maximum share owing to the many features provided by VRF/VRV air conditioners.
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The Prominent Players Present In The Commercial Air Conditioners Market Are:
Daikin Industries Ltd.
Johnson Controls Pvt. Ltd.
LG Corporation
Ingersoll Rand Inc.
Blue Star Ltd.
Hitachi Ltd.
Airedale International Air Conditioning
Launch Of Energy-Efficient Smart Air Conditioners Will Propel Growth
The introduction of energy-efficient smart commercial air conditioners has resulted in high demand for air conditioners with less air pollution or ozone depletion caused. The increasing numbers of smart homes and commercial spaces demand around the globe has fuelled demand for smart commercial air conditioners with new inverter technology and environment-friendly solutions. The increasing demand for smart air conditioners owing to the lesser energy consumption is expected to create growth opportunities for the market. The air conditioners market trend includes the shifting focus of manufacturers and stringent regulation by government authorities for the production of energy-efficient and eco-friendly products by completely phasing out Chlorofluorocarbons CFC’S and replacing it with Hydrochlorofluorocarbons HFC and other refrigerants.
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Furthermore, the acquisition by Daikin Industries, Ltd. is expected to aid the growth of the market during the forecast period. For instance, Daikin Industries, Ltd., through its subsidiary Daikin Australia Pty., Ltd., acquired Airmaster Corporation Pty Ltd., a leading company in Australia for air conditioning equipment so as to strengthen its reach in the Australian market.An all-encompassing study on the developments of the commercial air conditioners market is integrated into the report. It provides a grand synopsis of the market and discusses in detail the recent market trends besides elaborating on the segmentations and industrial developments impacting its growth trajectory.
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Scope of the Commercial Air Conditioners Market Research Report –
1. By Type
Packaged Air Conditioners
VRF/VRV
2. By Refrigerant
R-410A/R-407C
R-600A/R-290
Others (R-22, etc.)
3. By End-User
Educational/Institutional
Public/ Government
North America (U.S. and Canada)
Europe (U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Rest of Europe)
Asia Pacific (Japan, China, India, Southeast Asia, and Rest of Asia Pacific)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of Latin America)
Table of Content –
1.1.Definition, By Segment
1.2.Research Approach
1.3.Sources
2.Executive Summary
3.Market Dynamics
3.1.Market Drivers, Restraints and Opportunities
3.2.Emerging Trends
4.Key Insights
4.1.Macro and Micro Economic Factors
4.2.Consolidated SWOT Analysis by Key Players
4.3.Porter’s Five Force Analysis
5.Global Commercial Air Conditioner Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast, 2015-2026
5.1.Definitions
5.2.Key Findings / Summary
5.3.Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By Type (Value & Volume)
5.3.1.Packaged Air Conditioner
5.3.2.VRF/VRV
5.4.Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By Refrigerant (Value & Volume)
5.4.1.R-32
5.4.2.R-410A/R-407C
5.4.3.R600A/R-290
5.4.4.Others (R-22, etc.)
5.5.Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By End-User (Value & Volume)
5.5.1.Healthcare
5.5.2.Educational/Institutional
5.5.3.Public/ Government
5.5.4.Retail
5.5.5.Hospitality
5.5.6.Manufacturing
5.6.Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By Region (Value & Volume)
5.6.1.North America
5.6.2.Europe
5.6.3.Asia Pacific
5.6.4.Middle East & Africa
5.6.5.Latin America
Continued…!!
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Uptown News Food Briefs – May 17, 2019
in Featured, Food & Drink, Uptown Food Briefs
These unique, caffeinated bars are now available at the Hillcrest Farmers Market. (Photo courtesy Ritual Energy)
By Frank Sabatini Jr.
The Hillcrest Farmers Market recently doubled the number of chairs, tables and canopies in its food court area to provide ample shaded seating for those purchasing dishes prepared onsite.
In addition, several new San Diego-based vendors have arrived since the start of spring. They include: Fresh Flavors Chutney, which sells six different chutneys created by Madhulika Achal from India. There is also Marley’s Pet Planet Dog Beer specializing in a fermented non-alcoholic beverage for canines; Grandma Sally’s Farm out of Chula Vista, which brings in fresh herbs, mini beets and other seasonal veggies; Ritual Energy, a maker of healthy bars containing 100 milligrams of caffeine; and Veg-N-Out, a purveyor of pea-protein burgers, vegan bratwurst and homemade sauces.
Vendor manager Mark Larson says the current number of food and merchandise sellers has reached 176 — and there’s still room for several more.
“We now rank as the largest farmers market in the city of San Diego,” he added.
The market runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday along Normal Street between University Avenue and Lincoln Street. For more information, call 619-237-1632 or visit hillcrestfarmersmarket.com.
Paleo Treats in Normal Heights is celebrating its 10-year anniversary beginning May 25. The company, owned by Lee Selman and her husband, Nik Hawks, touts itself as the first paleo bakery in the nation and the only one in San Diego. It launched originally from a tent in 2009 at Cross Fit Games in Northern California. Soon after, the couple grew it into a direct-to-consumer business before moving the business into its current retail space a couple years ago.
A paleo bakery celebrates a milestone anniversary. (Photo courtesy Paleo Treats)
The celebration kicks off with a day of raffles and samples followed by daily samples from its six-item product line through the end of June. The treats include chocolate bars with nuts and raisins, assorted cakes and espresso brownies, all of which are free of gluten, grains, dairy and starches. 4662 30th St., 619-795-2203, www.paleotreats.com.
Carlsbad-based Pure Burger has opened a new branch on the lower level of Fashion Valley Mall, just under the AMC Theatres. Known for using organic grass-fed beef that is ground daily onsite, the burgers are handmade to order and served on white, whole-wheat or gluten-free rolls. Lettuce wraps are available as well. Topping choices include Tillamook sharp cheddar, fresh jalapenos, avocado, alfalfa sprouts, pineapple and more.
Fashion Valley Mall’s latest food tenant specializes in grass-fed beef burgers. (Photo by Frank Sabatini Jr.)
The menu extends to grass-fed bison burgers, Jidori chicken sandwiches, vegan Impossible burgers and gluten-free french fries cooked in non-GMO rice bran oil. 7007 Friars Road, 760-683-5101, www.pure-burger.com.
Los Angeles-based Elite Restaurant Group recently purchased the three remaining locations of Project Pie in San Diego County, which includes the outlet at 3884 Fourth Ave. in Hillcrest. The others are in Chula Vista and Eastlake.
A source connected with the sale tells us the restaurant group will likely convert the Project Pie eateries into Patxis Pizza shops, a brand-name concept it has established in cities throughout California and Colorado. The company also owns Slater’s 50/50 and Daphne’s restaurants. www.patxispizza.com.
Bankers Hill has seen the much-anticipated arrival of Il Dandy, an Italian restaurant of striking midcentury design located on the ground floor of the famed “Mister A’s” building.
An Italian restaurant driven by two Michelin-star chefs has opened at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Laurel Street. (Il Dandy Yelp page)
The venture was launched in part by Dario Gallo of Little Italy’s Civico 1845 and chefs Antonio Abbruzzino and his son, Luca — recent transplants from Italy who earned Michelin stars for their restaurant back home called Ristorante Abbruzzino.
Open daily for dinner, meals potentially start off with house-baked bread, salted cod and slow-cooked pork belly before progressing to fuller plates such as pumpkin-truffle pizza, wheat pasta with rabbit ragu, and dry-aged rib-eye with artichoke salad.
The space features an outdoor patio and will soon open a small offshoot dining area called Arama for intimate multi-course meals based on the whims of the chefs. 2550 Fifth Ave., Suite 120.
— Frank Sabatini Jr. can be reached at fsabatini@san.rr.com.
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SKA Bar and Restaurant to arrive in Normal Heights, Small Bar reopens
City of San Diego gives zoo Recycler of the Year award
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Home bench Email Lite Benchmark Email Marketing Review – 2019
Email Lite Benchmark Email Marketing Review – 2019
by newadmin July 12, 2018
Summary Email Lite
For many a day in 2004, three people sat Around a single desk in a tiny medical office — an office that served as the group’s conference room, lunch room, and idea hub. Backed by a little programming group in India, the trio (comprising Benchmark Internet Group founder Curt Keller, his wife Denise, and an search engine optimization pro ) discussed ideas for how to implement a deceptively simple idea. Simple email advertising. Many of the ideas were beyond the resources of the fledgling business, but that didn’t stop Keller from moving ahead.
The first Customers of Benchmark Email were small companies located in close proximity to Benchmark’s one-room HQ in Long Beach, CA. Keller and his team sold them on the usage of email marketing, while working hard to create a simple user interface that would be simple to operate. All the while, the company uses such innovative ideas as customizable templates and software which adapted to consumer needs. They also made sure from the beginning that anybody who needed help would have rapid access to outstanding customer care.
Benchmark Has continued to rise and advantagesper. Its present focus. Providing worldwide email advertising solutions to small and medium-sized businesses while continuing to honor a commitment to help kids in need. This doesn’t mean that Benchmark is a little-guys-only service, however; it has stuck to its core principle of adaptability and functions large organizations like UNICEF and Kaiser-Permanente via its High Volume Enterprise plans.
Today, Benchmark serves upwards of 73,000 users from across the globe, but the company hasn’t forgotten its roots. Benchmark still maintains good relationships with small, locally-based businesses. In fact, the company supplies a full page of testimonials from local users of the app. You can read more about Benchmark’s background and development here.
While the Majority of the features Benchmark provides Are on par with the rest of the industry, among the standout characteristics of the ESP is the fact that most of its features come standard with each accounts — such as the free ones. Here are some of Benchmark’s most notable offerings.
· Countless Industry-Specific, Themed Templates. Benchmark provides all users access to the library of over 400 templates. These are organized into 19 categories, some of which are tailored to particular industries like education, entertainment, and retail. There is also a class for societal media-specific templates.
· Video Emails. Perhaps the best-known benefit of Benchmark is its support for video mails. The business describes the benefits of this attribute here.
· Online Surveys. You can create professional-looking online surveys using one of Benchmark’s 6 templates. Post your poll on your website or build it directly into an email.
· Dedicated Email Server. All Benchmark’s High Volume programs have a dedicated IP address to help increase deliverability prices. Users on other plans have the option of paying for this service ($30/month) to boost their particular delivery stats. Read more about the benefits of dedicated servers .
· Email Delivery Direction . Benchmark’s email delivery management program is all about getting clients’ emails into inboxes. The company is a part of the Email Sender and Provider Coalition and operates with ReturnPath, a top email delivery and delivery support. The business also communicates with ISPs on its clients’ behalf. Email Lite
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· Mobile App. Benchmark’s mobile apps allow customers with an Apple device to get several functions on the road. They can access and include contacts, read reports, send videos through integration with a YouTube accounts, and even layout and send fast email blasts with one of 10 templates that are available. That is quite a little more than a number of other companies offer in their mobile programs, making them much more operational.
· Photo Editing. If the pictures you intend to utilize on your email campaign aren’t perfectly sized or want some color adjustment, you can use Benchmark’s integrated picture editor. This is a pretty handy feature if you do not have photoshop accessible.
· Code Editor. If you’ve got the know-how to work magic with HTML, Benchmark offers this ultra-customization option with which you may construct your mails from scratch.
· Autoresponder. Every Benchmark client has the ability to style up to eight custom autoresponder messages. These could be scheduled as a series or occasion lead-up, or designed as annual messages like birthday or anniversary mails.
· Sign-Up Types . The only way to become prosperous in email marketing is by way of growing your list, and Benchmark actually promotes doing so through sign-up forms. The business bases its Free For Life account entirely around website and Facebook sign-ups and provides an easy-to-use instrument to create customized templates for each medium.
· Inbox Checker. Because every email program differs and each internet browser has a signature style, making certain your emails look great across the board is important. It is possible to use Inbox Checker to look at the way that your email screens in Gmail using Explorer and Outlook 3. Employing the full program (which checks everything out of AOL to Yahoo, Explorer to Safari, mobile to PC) is a paid add-on service, available for $14 per 100 checks.
· RSS-to-Email. Regular bloggers may create newsletters from their sites mechanically through the RSS-to-Email feature, which works with any blog which manages an RSS-feed. Users only need to set up a template and campaign within Benchmark once.
· API Integration. An API (Application Program Interface) allows different software programs to communicate with one another without a formal plug-in link. Benchmark’s API Integration feature permits users with XML-RPC, HTTP POST, or HTTP GET abilities to retrieve data from some other apps that use JSON, XML, XML-RPC, or PHP serialization strings. In brief, this permits them to perform three purposes. Manage contact lists, manage campaigns and effort sending, and check statistics. The business describes this role in more detail here.
· Advanced Metrics. Benchmark provides both Listing Segmentation and AB Split Testing.
Signing up for a Benchmark account is fairly straightforward. After entering your name, email, contact number, and business name, you need to validate your email address. This is a five-minute process for me. Upon logging in to my account (using the free plan) I was greeted by an attractive UI that gave me a very clear path about the best way to create my first email campaign. Great start!
On its own dashboard, Benchmark offers users five chief options. Emails, Automations, Contacts, Surveys, and Reports. To create a new effort, go to the Emails segment, then hit on the big blue”Create New Email” button at the top right-hand corner. Email Lite
From there, you must decide If You Would like an RSS Or traditional email message. You can use Benchmark’s drag-and-drop editor, or move for more customization with the built-in code editor. If you are somebody who codes their own email, then my hat is off to you, but I am not personally gifted that way, so I went with the drag-and-drop option.
I had been prompted to enter a subject line for my Email and set up how much observation I desired on the message, as well as if I wanted an automatic tweet once the campaign went out. The next task was to choose which contacts I wanted to receive the campaign. With that, I was eventually able to begin constructing the email . If you would like to, you are able to assemble your own email designs employing a very intuitive editor. On the other hand, you can modify one of Benchmark’s templates, which can be great, and much better than I managed to do in my.
Preventing the Email Campaign
If you are just Starting out, you can certainly do as I did and manually input contacts at a time. However, for people who already have a list, there are numerous ways to import it. You are able to upload a CSV, xls, or txt file directly from your computer; import contacts directly from Salesforce.com, Hotmail, or Gmail accounts; or copy and paste large lists of contacts into a text type. When you create your Benchmark lists, then they will appear on your dash, together with a Master Unsubscribe List.
The actual sending of this email is rather easy. When you’ve finished all of your tweaks, you can either save email as a draft, send it instantly, or schedule a time and date for delivery. If you want to verify everything is well before distributing your email on the planet, you can send it to your self to preview it as many as 10 times/day. I chose to schedule my email for shipping to see how timely the automated system would really be. I scheduled my email for 2.45 and received it at 2.50, so while the timing was not exactly ideal, it was probably within tolerance levels for most users. If you’re among the more infrequent users who demand on-the-minute email sending, you may have to appear elsewhere. More worryingly, my email didn’t go to my primary inbox but was automatically sorted into my”promotions” folder. Definitely not perfect.
The first thing I Discovered about Benchmark email reports was something I’d read about in a few reviews. They are really, really fast. I mean lightning fast. Opens enroll from the Benchmark system virtually instantaneously. I’ve worked with several other programs where these reports require hours or even days to look.
Benchmark provides users with several key Bits of data about every campaign. The possibly most important statistic, the open rate, appears in both pie graph and numerical type. Additionally, Benchmark provides users with stats for clicks, forward, bounces, unsubscribes, and abuse. Every stat further breaks down to the exact email addresses related to a given activity. Users can export this information for further analysis via a csv or xls file. There is also a social networking area which reports shares through Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, as well as a map that breaks down, by country, who opens your mails. Email Lite
Though all of this information Is Excellent and Necessary, it is not enough to sustain higher level marketers who need more info such as conversions, which hyperlinks were clicked, and revenue analysis. Though Google Analytics provides a lot of that info with appropriate integration, there may come a time when serious marketers need more info than Benchmark provides. Whether or not a small company will reach that point varies, naturally, dependent on the company.
Benchmark made its 3-tiered pricing Structure with the objective of serving everybody from the smallest kitchen-table startup to big email marketers. On the other hand, the company’s main focus is on small to medium businesses, particularly those just beginning in email advertising. This is particularly reflected in the fact that customers subscribing to the medium plans get unlimited mails, while bigger plans have constraints.
Benchmark Offers approximately 20 plug-ins and integrations. If you do not observe the integration you need, there is still hope. You’re able to use the API or ask an integration by sending an email to [email protected]
· Benchmark Events — Benchmark Events is event marketing software designed to integrate fully with Benchmark Email. Launched in 2012, this program allows users to make and customize events, promote and sell tickets, and monitor the success of the events through their Benchmark Email accounts. A variety of programs are available, such as a free alternative.
· Salesforce.com — This integration enables users to import contacts into Benchmark and utilize Benchmark’s email system to maintain Salesforce customers participated. Read our review of Salesforce here.
· WordPress — Benchmark Mail Lite is a WordPress plugin which allows users to quickly build an email audience through their readers. The plug-in can automatically create email versions of blog posts and allows users to connect up to five Benchmark accounts.
· Highrise — Merges Highrise contacts with a Benchmark list. Read our overview of Highrisehere.
· Benchmark Power — This free plugin lets you source pictures for your Benchmark mails from places across the net. Benchmark Power captures images you find and instantly uploads them to your Benchmark account for future use.
· Flickr — Users with Flickr accounts may link Flickr to their own Benchmark image galleries.
· Shopify — You are able to link a Shopify accounts to Benchmark and mechanically add Shopify clients to Benchmark lists. You may even add contributors to different lists based on which products they purchased. Read our overview of Shopify here.
· PayPal — Users can add some of their PayPal customers for their Benchmark email lists bylinking the accounts. Read our overview of Paypal here.
· Easy List — Know more about this very simple list-making app and download it .
· WordPress — The ever-present site and site builder offers an integration using Benchmark. Use it to send mails of your blog posts and use the analytics to observe how your readers respond to them. Learn more here.
· Zapier — Gain entry to Zapier’s enormous integration library here. Email Lite
Because Of the key connection between social media and email marketing, it’s important to check out the social networking features included in Benchmark.
· Social Media Templates — One section of Benchmark’s enormous email template listing is made of social media-specific templates that directly promote your company’s participation in social media forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
· Facebook”Like” Button — Benchmark offers a simple function which allows you to bring a Facebook”Just Like” button to your emails.
· Facebook Sign-Up Form — Benchmark provides easy-to-create sign-up forms (see”Features” above) for both websites and Facebook fan pages, to help you convert followers to readers.
· Social Links within Email — Once you connect your Benchmark account together with your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn account, you can add buttons to every email which will direct your subscribers to each of your social networking pages.
Benchmark Email is a TRUSTe certified web site. The company’s privacy policy may be viewed here. Benchmark may use the personal information which you provide so as to send you newsletters and for marketing purposes, however it does not share or sell that information to other companies for their advertising purposes.
The company also fully Complies with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks regarding the selection of personal data from citizens of these nations. When clients provide credit card numbers to Benchmark, the business uses secure socket layer (SSL) security to encrypt the info. The entire system is encrypted to ensure the safety of customers’ personal details.
Like All valid ESPs, Benchmark takes spam seriously and outlines a clear zero-tolerance policy for any of the users trying to engage in spam activities. The company is entirely in compliance with the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Benchmark additionally takes several measures to preserve its reputation as a spam-free supplier, one of them membership from the Email Sender and Provider Coalition. The business uses the app SpamAssassin to filter messages sent through its host.
To stop users from Unknowingly sending spam-like substances, Benchmark provides a spam check feature which looks for words widely used in spam messages. It scores each email on a scale from 1 to 5; 5s are assigned to content that’s very likely to be blocked. In case of a high score, the program suggests”less spammy” alternatives. Individualized IP addresses also help large-volume senders decrease their spam amounts.
Benchmark Offers its customers a lot of support tools. Customer service is usually responsive, with minimal waiting times. The website provides good learning resources, but can be opaque at times. Crucial information is often buried and difficult to find, particularly if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, especially in regards to minute details about plans. For instance. That the Free For Life plan comprises Benchmark branding on each email, however you won’t find that mentioned on the Free For Life webpage, not even in the fine print. Nor will you see it said when you sign up. The only place it is mentioned is at the FAQ, here.
Here are some of the resources Benchmark offers. Email Lite
· Live Email and Support — Benchmark supplies live one-on-one support through these means.
· Email Support. Contact Benchmark at [email protected] or through the company’s contact form . Accessible 24 hours Monday — Friday and limited hours on Saturday.
· Telephone Support. You are able to reach Benchmark in 800-430-4095 (U.S.) or 001-562-252-3789 (all countries). Available weekdays from 6 am to 5 pm PT.
· Chat Support. Accessible nearly 24 hours daily Monday — Friday and limited hours on Saturday. Founded in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
· FAQ — Benchmark’s FAQ section is somewhat mislabeled because it is closer to some QandA-format knowledge foundation than a typical FAQ. You will find over 900 entries, sorted into 18 topics ranging from”Getting Started” to”API.” Users can perform a keyword search of any topic (or sub-topic) or from the FAQ as a whole. 1 caveat. With such an extensive knowledge base, it is pretty much inevitable that some entries will be out of date. Some of the QandAs provide information which is wholly incorrect, so in some cases, you may want to contact support to hash things out.
· Video Tutorials and Webinars — Benchmark provides about two dozen video tutorials that take users step by step through the features of this app. The company also offers a webinar known as”Benchmark Mail Crash Course.” You may view it live each Friday at 10.00 a.m. PST or watch the recorded version at any time. You might also request a particular webinar on a number of different subjects. Live webinars include the chance to ask questions during the demonstration.
· Email Marketing Manuals and Articles — There are more in-depth information on email marketing in general, in addition to the Benchmark program specifically, in the Manuals Section. These downloadable documents also cover industry-specific troubles. Articles, very similar to sites, offer users advice beyond that found in the FAQ section, but in shorter, more readable chunks than the guides provide.
· Glossary of Email Marketing Requirements — This is a particularly helpful tool for those brand new to email marketing who believe consumed by all of the jargon. Benchmark gives a glossarywith 50 of the most popular email advertising terms from”above-the-fold” to”whitelists.”
· Website and Newsletter — For current information about email marketing trends, check out Benchmark’s monthly newsletter, as well as its extremely active blog. All subscribers automatically obtain access to present newsletters, and Benchmark also offers an archive of newsletter articles from November 2007-October 2012.
· Benchmark Community — Benchmark users may post their latest newsletters on message boards at the Benchmark Community. This forum allows users to discuss newsletter creation approaches, vote for their favourite newsletters, and gain inspiration from other Benchmark users.
Benchmark is completely web-based and does not Require any installation on your computer.
Favorable Reviews and Reviews
Benchmark Has a four-out-of-five star score on G2 Crowd, with a slightly better showing on GetApp and Capterra. 4.5 stars each. Email Lite
Some common points of praise.
· Top Notch Service . This is perhaps the most common monitoring regarding Benchmark, and something I noticed for myself too. People tend to find support prompt and helpful, and some say it’s really the component that distinguishes Benchmark from its rivals. The business also receives praise for its website posts and videos.
· Characteristic Selection Across All Aims . Some users praise the inclusion of features like AB analyzing and surveys in all programs; many companies charge extra for such attributes or just include them into their pricier plans.
· Benefits of Use. Users have a tendency to find Benchmark’s interface extremely intuitive and user-friendly. The program gathers praise from a broad assortment of demographics, from first time ESP consumers to people who have attempted a variety of programs before settling on Benchmark.
· Mobile Friendly Emails. Consumers were impressed with the mobile-friendly email design of Benchmark’s templates. Since an increasing number of people access their email from mobile devices, this is an increasingly important factor to consider.
I was not able to find many people who loathed Their Benchmark experience. But, I was able to find a few complaints.
· Inconsistent Send-Times. Apparently a few users experienced an issue with Benchmark in which their emails were sent hours after they were scheduled. One customer theorized the issue might arise in lengthy lists of recipients. Not all clients of Benchmark will have time-sensitive sending demands, but other people will. Should you want your emails to go out exactly when your schedule dictates, you might have to consider this situation.
· Buggy Social Media Integrations. I saw several user testimonials that commented the social networking integrations in Benchmark aren’t up to par.
· “Spammy” Templates. Some users were concerned that Benchmark’s templates may feel like spam email, leading receivers to mark them as spam and not studying the contents. Since the whole point of an ESP would be to stop this from occurring, this may be an issue. On the flip side, I never felt this way whilst looking through the template list, therefore it may not be the most valid of complaints.
Benchmark Provides a enormous number of pricing plans, including a free plan and a huge array of paid programs that may service anywhere between 600 and 7,140,000 subscribers.
Benchmark’s free plans do not require credit Cards, that is always refreshing. The only grab. There will be a small Benchmark logo in the bottom of each email you send out. Obviously, you can always opt to upgrade to a paid program if you don’t want the Benchmark branding. The free program allows you to send up to 14000 mails to around 2000 subscribers and gives you access to all but not all Benchmark’s features record. Notable absences into the attributes list for free accounts include email automation and sub-accounts (allowing many users to get one Benchmark accounts ).
Paid Plans. Email Lite
Users with small contacts lists and limited Monthly messages have the choice of paying for their email advertising depending on the amount of mails that they send each month.
o Medium Plans. 600-50,000 subscribers, $13.99-$254.99 per month
o Massive Plans. 1,070,000-7,140,000 subscribers, $4,500-$29,200 per month
Benchmark accepts all Major credit cards and also lets you pay through PayPal. They also offer a 25% discount for nonprofits and teachers.
Benchmark is a solid program. It is Simple to Use, Open to innovation, and competitively priced. Its free alternatives may very well be the very best in the business for anyone who only wants to dip into email advertising (particularly small, local companies ). For that matter, any Benchmark plan can work well for a small business which views email as a minor aspect of its advertising and has no desire to operate past the basics just yet.
If you are a little or maybe medium-sized Business looking for a simple email advertising program with a multitude of great features, Benchmark is an excellent option. Though there may come a time when you outgrow the program, it provides a great deal for the price, offers excellent support, and the company seems to be sensitive to the requirements of its customers. You can’t ask for much more.
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Overview Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
For many an evening in 2004, three people sat Around a single desk in a small medical office — an office that functioned as the team’s conference room, breakfast area, and thought heart. Backed by a small programming group in India, the trio (comprising Benchmark Internet Group founder Curt Keller, his wife Denise, and an search engine optimization expert) discussed ideas for how to implement a deceptively simple concept. Simple email marketing. Many of their thoughts were beyond the resources of the fledgling company, but that did not stop Keller from planning ahead.
The first Clients of Benchmark Mail were small businesses located in close proximity to Benchmark’s one-room HQ in Long Beach, CA. Keller and his staff sold them on the usage of email advertising, while working hard to make a very simple user interface which would be simple to operate. All the while, the company championed such novel ideas as customizable templates and software which adapted to user requirements. They also made sure from the beginning that anyone who needed help would have rapid access to excellent customer support.
Benchmark Has continued to rise and advantagesper. Its current focus. Providing worldwide email advertising solutions to small and midsize businesses while continuing to honor a commitment to help kids in need. This does not indicate that Benchmark is a little-guys-only company, however; it’s adhered to its core principle of adaptability and serves large organizations such as UNICEF and Kaiser-Permanente through its High Volume Enterprise plans.
Today, Benchmark serves upwards of 73,000 users from across the planet, but the company hasn’t forgotten its roots. Benchmark still keeps good relationships with little, locally-based businesses. In fact, the organization offers a complete page of testimonials from local users of the app. You may read more about Benchmark’s history and development here.
While the Majority of the features Benchmark supplies Are on par with the rest of the industry, among the standout characteristics of this ESP is the simple fact that nearly all its features come standard with every single account — including the free ones. Below are a few of Benchmark’s most noteworthy offerings.
· Hundreds of Industry-Specific, Themed Templates. Benchmark provides all customers access to the library of over 400 templates. These are organized into 19 classes, some of which are tailored to specific industries like education, entertainment, and retailstores. There’s also a category for social media-specific templates.
· Video Emails. Possibly the best-known advantage of Benchmark is its support for video emails. The business describes the benefits of this feature here.
· Online Surveys. You can create professional-looking online surveys using one of Benchmark’s 6 templates. Post your survey on your website or construct it directly into an email.
· Dedicated Email Server. All Benchmark’s High Volume plans come with a dedicated IP address to help increase deliverability prices. Users on other plans have the option of paying for this service ($30/month) to boost their own delivery stats. Read more about the benefits of dedicated servers .
· Email Delivery Management. Benchmark’s email shipping management program is all about getting customers’ mails into inboxes. The business is a member of the Email Sender and Provider Coalition and operates with ReturnPath, a leading email delivery and consulting service. The company also communicates with ISPs on its customers’ behalf. Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
· Mobile App. Benchmark’s mobile apps make it possible for customers with an Apple device to access several functions on the road. They can access and include contacts, read reports, send videos via integration with a YouTube account, and even design and send fast email blasts with one of 10 templates that are available. That is quite a little more than many other businesses offer in their mobile apps, which makes them considerably more operational.
· Photo Editing. If the photos you intend to utilize in your email campaign are not perfectly sized or need some colour adjustment, you may use Benchmark’s integrated picture editor. This is a pretty handy feature if you do not have photoshop available.
· Code Editor. In case you’ve got the know-how to work magic with HTML, Benchmark provides this ultra-customization option with which you can construct your mails from scratch.
· Autoresponder. Every Benchmark customer has the ability to style around eight custom autoresponder messages. These can be scheduled as a series or event lead-up, or made as yearly messages such as birthday or anniversary mails.
· Sign-Up Forms. The only way to become successful in email advertising is through growing your list, and Benchmark actually promotes doing so through sign-up forms. The business bases its Free For Life account completely around website and Facebook sign-ups and supplies an easy-to-use instrument to create customized templates for each medium.
· Inbox Checker. Because every email program is different and every internet browser includes a signature style, making certain that your emails look good across the board is crucial. It is possible to use Inbox Checker to look at the way that your email screens in Gmail using Explorer and Outlook 3. Employing the entire app (which assesses everything out of AOL to Yahoo, Explorer to Safari, mobile to PC) is a paid add-on provider, available for $14 per 100 checks.
· RSS-to-Email. Regular bloggers can create newsletters out of their sites automatically through the RSS-to-Email feature, which works with any blog which manages an RSS-feed. Users simply have to establish a campaign and template inside Benchmark once.
· API Integration. An API (Application Program Interface) enables different software programs to communicate with one another without a formal plug-in connection. Benchmark’s API Integration feature allows users using XML-RPC, HTTP POST, or HTTP GET skills to retrieve data from some other apps that use JSON, XML, XML-RPC, or PHP serialization strings. In a nutshell, this allows them to play three purposes. Manage contact lists, manage campaigns and effort sending, and assess data. The business explains this role in more detail here.
· Advanced Metrics. Benchmark provides both List Segmentation and AB Split Testing.
Enrolling in a Benchmark accounts is fairly straightforward. After entering your name, email, contact number, and company name, you need to confirm your email address. This is a five-minute procedure for me. Upon logging into my account (using the free plan) I was greeted by an attractive UI that gave me a clear path on the best way best to create my first email campaign. Great beginning!
On its own dashboard, Benchmark offers users five main options. Emails, Automations, Contacts, Surveys, and Reports. To make a new campaign, go into the Emails segment, then hit the large blue”Create New Email” button in the top right-hand corner. Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
From there, you must decide if you want an RSS Or traditional email message. You can use Benchmark’s drag-and-drop editor, or move for more customization with the built-in code editor. If you’re somebody who codes their own email, then my hat is off to you, but I am not personally gifted that way, so I went with the drag-and-drop option.
I had been motivated to enter a subject line for my Email and set up how much tracking I desired on the message, in addition to when I wanted an automated tweet once the effort went out. The next task was to choose which contacts I wished to receive the campaign. With that, I was eventually able to begin constructing the email . If you want to, you can assemble your own email layouts using an extremely intuitive editor. On the other hand, you can alter one of Benchmark’s templates, that are great, and much better than I was able to do on my own.
Sending the Email Campaign
If You’re just Starting out, you can do as I did and manually enter contacts one at a time. However, for those who already have a list, there are several ways to import it. You can upload a CSV, xls, or txt file directly from the personal computer; import contacts directly from Salesforce.com, Hotmail, or Gmail accounts; or copy and paste large lists of contacts to a text form. Once you create your Benchmark lists, they’ll show up on your dashboard, along with a Master Unsubscribe List.
The sending of this email is quite easy. Once you have finished all of your tweaks, you may save the email as a draft, send it immediately, or schedule a date and time for delivery. If you would like to check all is well before distributing your email on the world, you can send it to yourself to preview it as many as 10 times/day. I opted to schedule my email for shipping to see how timely the automatic system would actually be. I scheduled my email for 2.45 and received it in 2.50, therefore while the timing wasn’t exactly perfect, it was probably within tolerance levels for most users. If you’re among the more rare users who need on-the-minute email sending, then you may have to look elsewhere. More worryingly, my email did not go to my main inbox but was automatically sorted in my”promotions” folder. Definitely not perfect.
The first thing I Discovered about Benchmark email reports was something I would read in a couple of reviews. They’re really, really fast. I mean lightning fast. Opens register in the Benchmark system virtually instantaneously. I have worked with several different apps where these reports require hours or even days to look.
Benchmark provides users with several key Pieces of information about each campaign. The arguably most important statistic, the open speed, appears in both pie graph and numerical type. Additionally, Benchmark supplies users with stats such as clicks, forward, bounces, unsubscribes, and abuse. Each stat further breaks down to the exact email addresses associated with a given activity. Users can export this information for further analysis via a csv or xls file. There is also a social media area which reports shares through Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, as well as a map which breaks down, by country, that opens your emails. Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
Though all of this information Is Excellent and Necessary, it is not sufficient to sustain higher level marketers that need more information such as conversions, which hyperlinks were clicked, and revenue analysis. Though Google Analytics provides a lot of that information with appropriate integration, there may come a time when serious marketers need more information than Benchmark provides. Whether or not a small company will reach that point varies, of course, dependent on the company.
Benchmark made its 3-tiered pricing Structure with the objective of serving everybody from the smallest kitchen-table startup to large email marketers. On the other hand, the company’s key focus is on small to medium businesses, particularly those just starting out in email advertising. This is particularly reflected in the reality that clients subscribing to the moderate plans get unlimited emails, while bigger plans have constraints.
Benchmark Offers roughly 20 plug-ins and integrations. If you do not see the integration you need, there is still hope. You can use the API or ask an integration by sending an email to [email protected]
· Benchmark Occasions — Benchmark Occasions is event marketing applications designed to integrate fully with Benchmark Email. Launched in 2012, this app permits users to create and customize events, promote and sell tickets, and monitor the success of the events through their Benchmark Email account. A variety of programs are available, including a free alternative.
· Salesforce.com — This integration enables users to import contacts directly into Benchmark and utilize Benchmark’s email system to keep Salesforce customers engaged. Read our overview of Salesforce here.
· WordPress — Benchmark Email Lite is a WordPress plugin which permits users to quickly build an email viewer via their readers. The plug-in can automatically produce email versions of blog posts and allows users to connect up to five Benchmark accounts.
· Highrise — Merges Highrise contacts with a Benchmark listing. Read our overview of Highrisehere.
· Benchmark Power — This free plugin allows you to supply images for your Benchmark emails from locations throughout the web. Benchmark Power captures pictures you locate and immediately uploads them to a Benchmark accounts for future use.
· Flickr — Users with Flickr accounts may link Flickr to their Benchmark image galleries.
· Shopify — You can link a Shopify accounts to Benchmark and automatically add Shopify customers to Benchmark lists. You can even add contributors to different lists based on which products they bought. Read our overview of Shopify here.
· PayPal — Users may add any of their PayPal customers for their Benchmark email lists bylinking the accounts. Read our overview of Paypal here.
· Easy List — Learn more about this simple list-making app and download it .
· WordPress — The ever-present blog and website builder provides an integration using Benchmark. Use it to send emails of your blog posts and also use the analytics to observe how your readers react to them. Learn more here.
· Zapier — Gain access to Zapier’s huge integration library . Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
Since Of the integral link between social networking and email advertising, it is important to check out the social networking features contained in Benchmark.
· Social Media Templates — One segment of Benchmark’s massive email template list is made of social media-specific templates which directly promote your institution’s participation in social networking forums like facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
· Facebook”Like” Button — Benchmark offers a very simple function which permits you to add a Facebook”Like” button to your own emails.
· Facebook Sign-Up Form — Benchmark supplies easy-to-create sign-up forms (see”Features” above) for both sites and Facebook enthusiast pages, so you can convert followers into readers.
· Social Links within Email — After you connect your Benchmark account with your Facebook, Twitter, and/or LinkedIn account, you can add switches to every email that will direct your readers to each of your social media pages.
Benchmark Email is a TRUSTe accredited website. The organization’s privacy policy may be viewed here. Benchmark may utilize the personal information you provide so as to send you newsletters and also for advertising purposes, however it doesn’t sell or share that information to other companies for their marketing purposes.
The Business also fully Complies with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks regarding the selection of personal data from citizens of these nations. When clients provide credit card numbers to Benchmark, the company utilizes secure socket layer (SSL) security to encrypt the information. The whole platform is encrypted to ensure the safety of all customers’ personal details.
Like All legitimate ESPs, Benchmark takes spam seriously and summarizes a clear zero-tolerance policy for any of the users trying to engage in spam activities. The business is entirely in compliance with the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Benchmark additionally takes several measures to maintain its reputation as a spam-free provider, one of them membership from the Email Sender and Provider Coalition. The company employs the app SpamAssassin to filter messages sent through its host.
To prevent users from Unknowingly sending spam-like substances, Benchmark provides a spam test feature that looks for words commonly utilized in spam messages. It scores each email on a scale from 1 to 5; 5s are delegated to content that’s likely to be blocked. In case of a high score, the program suggests”less spammy” alternatives. Individualized IP addresses also help large-volume senders decrease their spam amounts.
Benchmark Offers its customers a lot of support resources. Customer service is generally responsive, with minimal waiting times. The site offers good learning resources, but can be needlessly opaque occasionally. Crucial information is often buried and difficult to find, particularly if you don’t know precisely what you’re searching for, particularly when it comes to minute details about plans. As an example. That the Free For Life plan comprises Benchmark branding on every email, however you won’t see that mentioned on the Free For Life page, not even in the fine print. Nor are you going to see it mentioned when you sign up. The only place it is mentioned is in the FAQ, here.
Here are some of those resources Benchmark offers. Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
· Live Support and Email — Benchmark provides live one-on-one aid through these means.
· Email Service. Contact Benchmark at [email protected] or through the organization’s contact form here. Accessible 24 hours Monday — Friday and limited hours on Saturday.
· Telephone Support. You can reach Benchmark in 800-430-4095 (U.S.) or even 001-562-252-3789 (all states ). Available weekdays from 6 am to 5 pm PT.
· Chat Support. Accessible nearly 24 hours daily Monday — Friday and restricted hours on Saturday. Offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
· FAQ — Benchmark’s FAQ section is somewhat mislabeled because it is closer to a QandA-format knowledge base than a typical FAQ. There are more than 900 entries, sorted into 18 topics ranging from”Getting Started” to”API.” Users may perform a key word search of any subject (or sub-topic) or of their FAQ as a whole. 1 caveat. With such a comprehensive knowledge base, it is pretty much inevitable that some entries are going to be out of date. Some of the QandAs offer advice that’s wholly incorrect, so in some cases, you may want to contact assistance to hash things out.
· Video Tutorials and Webinars — Benchmark supplies about two dozen video tutorials that take users step by step through the features of the app. The business also supplies a webinar known as”Benchmark Mail Crash Course.” You can see it live each Friday at 10.00 a.m. PST or see the recorded version at any moment. You might even ask for a particular webinar on quite a few other subjects. Live webinars include the chance to ask questions during the presentation.
· Email Marketing Manuals and Articles — You can find more in-depth details on email marketing generally, in addition to the Benchmark program specifically, at the Manuals Section. These downloadable documents also cover industry-specific issues. Articles, similar to sites, offer users guidance beyond that found in the FAQ section, but in shorter, more readable chunks than the guides provide.
· Glossary of Email Marketing Terms — This can be a particularly valuable tool for those brand new to email marketing who feel absorbed by all of the jargon. Benchmark provides a glossarywith 50 of the very popular email advertising conditions from”above-the-fold” to”whitelists.”
· Website and Newsletter — For current info about email advertising trends, check out Benchmark’s monthly newsletter, in addition to its exceptionally active site. All subscribers automatically gain access to current newsletters, and Benchmark also offers an archive of newsletter articles from November 2007-October 2012.
· Benchmark Community — Benchmark users may post their latest newsletters on message boards in the Benchmark Community. This forum allows users to talk about newsletter creation approaches, vote for their favorite newsletters, and gain inspiration from other Benchmark users.
Benchmark is entirely web-based and does not Require any installation on your PC.
Positive Reviews and Reviews
Benchmark Includes a four-out-of-five star rating on G2 Crowd, using a slightly better showing on GetApp and Capterra. 4.5 stars each. Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
Some common points of compliments.
· Top Notch Support. This is maybe the most common observation regarding Benchmark, and something I discovered for myself as well. People tend to find support prompt and helpful, and a few say it’s really the element that distinguishes Benchmark from its competitors. The business also receives praise for its blog articles and videos.
· Feature Selection Across All Aims . Some users praise the addition of features like AB analyzing and surveys in all programs; many firms charge extra for these features or only include them in their pricier programs.
· Ease of Use. Users tend to find Benchmark’s interface incredibly user-friendly and intuitive. The program gathers praise from a broad range of demographics, from first time ESP consumers to those who have tried a variety of programs before settling Benchmark.
· Mobile Friendly Emails. Users were impressed with the mobile-friendly email layout of Benchmark’s templates. Since an increasing number of people access their email from mobile devices, this can be an increasingly important aspect to take into account.
I was not able to find many Men and Women who disliked Their own Benchmark experience. However, I managed to discover a couple of complaints.
· Inconsistent Send-Times. Apparently some users experienced a problem with Benchmark where their mails were sent hours after they were scheduled. One customer theorized the issue might arise in long lists of recipients. Not all customers of Benchmark will have time-sensitive sending needs, but other people will. Should you need your emails to go out exactly when your schedule dictates, you may need to consider this situation.
· Buggy Social Media Integrations. I saw several user reviews that commented the social networking integrations in Benchmark aren’t up to par.
· “Spammy” Templates. Some users have been concerned that Benchmark’s templates may feel like spam mail, leading receivers to mark them as junk rather than studying the contents. Since the whole purpose of an ESP would be to prevent this from happening, this may be a problem. On the flip side, I never felt this way while searching through the template list, so it may not be the most valid of complaints.
Benchmark Offers a enormous number of pricing strategies, including a totally free plan and a huge array of paid plans which may service anywhere between 600 and 7,140,000 subscribers.
Benchmark’s free programs do not require credit Cards, which is always refreshing. The only grab. There’ll be a little Benchmark logo at the bottom of each email you send out. Obviously, you may always choose to upgrade to a paid plan if you don’t need the Benchmark branding. The free plan allows you to send up to 14000 mails to up to 2000 subscribers and provides you access to most but not all Benchmark’s features list. Notable absences into the features list for free account include email automation and sub-accounts (enabling multiple users to get one Benchmark accounts ).
Paid Plans. Email Marketing Software Php Mysql
Users with small contacts lists and limited Monthly messages have the option of paying to get their email advertising depending on the number of mails that they send each month.
o Moderate Plans. 600-50,000 subscribers, $13.99-$254.99 a month
o Massive Plans. 1,070,000-7,140,000 subscribers, $4,500-$29,200 a month
Benchmark accepts all Major charge cards and also lets you pay through PayPal. They also offer you a 25% reduction for nonprofits and teachers.
Benchmark is a solid program. It’s Simple to Use, Open to invention, and competitively priced. Its free alternatives may very well be the best in the company for anyone who just wants to dip into email marketing (particularly small, neighborhood companies ). For that matter, any Benchmark strategy can work nicely for a small business which views email as a minor aspect of its marketing and has no desire to operate past the principles just yet.
If you are a little or even medium-sized Company trying to find a easy email advertising program with a multitude of amazing features, Benchmark is an excellent option. Even though there might come a time when you launch the app, it provides a great deal for the price, provides exceptional support, and the business seems to be sensitive to the needs of its users. You can’t ask for more.
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Islamabad has urged the world to put pressure on Myanmar, where renewed violence has forced out tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif says the Rohingyas’ plight is “a challenge to the conscience” of the world and that Pakistan was committed to providing humanitarian aid to them.
The ministry issued a statement containing Asif’s opening remarks at a conference of Pakistani diplomats on Thursday.
Political parties and clerics have organised rallies across Pakistan to express their solidarity with Rohingyas and to condemn Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the reported massacres of Rohingya Muslims.
The government of Myanmar has counted 400 deaths and says most were terrorists.
The latest violence began on Aug 25 after insurgent attacks on police. The government forces retaliated with what they called “clearance operations”.
UN says 146,000 have now fled Myanmar violence
The United Nations says some 146,000 people have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since August 25.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday that the World Food Programme is appealing for $11.3 million to support the influx of people and those already living in camps.
The UN agency has provided food to tens of thousands of people, with Dujarric describing women and children arriving there as “hungry and malnourished.”
Dujarric also said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “is continuing his diplomatic contacts regarding the situation in Myanmar.”
The Myanmar government’s top security adviser claims an insurgent group that attacked 30 police posts two weeks ago is trying to carve out a separate Muslim state from the Buddhist-majority nation, and the armed forces are using maximum restraint in their operations against them.
Myanmar’s National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said at a news conference on Wednesday in the capital, Naypyitaw, that security forces are making every effort to avoid harming innocent civilians. He was responding to accusations that the army and police fired indiscriminately on civilians and razed Muslim Rohingya villages after the attacks on the police posts in Rakhine state.
Myanmar must allow humanitarian groups to distribute aid in Rakhine: Norway
Norway’s foreign minister called on Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her government to allow humanitarian groups to distribute aid in violence-wracked Rakhine state, deeming limits on their work “extremely serious.”
Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende said on Wednesday that the Norwegian government is deeply concerned about escalating violence and the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the Rohingya. He said “all groups must show restraint,” but stressed that “authorities, under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, have a particular responsibility to protect civilians from abuses, to stop the violence and to ensure humanitarian access.”
‘Turkey wants a lasting solution to the plight of the Rohingya’
According to officials, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s wife is heading to Bangladesh to oversee the distribution of aid to Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and to highlight the crisis.
Erdogan’s office said on Wednesday that Emine Erdogan will be accompanied by her son, Bilal Erdogan, the family and social affairs minister, and senior Turkish aid officials during her visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is also scheduled to depart for Bangladesh and is expected to visit a refugee camp and oversee the delivery of aid. He said on Wednesday that Turkey wants a lasting solution to the plight of the Rohingya.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says his country wants a lasting solution for the plight of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar. Cavusoglu spoke on Wednesday in Baku, Azerbaijan, before travelling to Bangladesh where he’s expected to visit a refugee camp for Rohingya and oversee the delivery of humanitarian aid.
He says Turkey will also deliver ambulances to Bangladesh to help it cope with the refugee flows, Cavusoglu said. Cavusoglu said Turkey was determined not to “abandon” Rohingya and said his visit would help determine steps that can be taken to improve their conditions.
He says: “God willing, together with the international community, a lasting solution can be found.”
Bangladeshi PM asks officials to prepare a database with fingerprints for new arrivals
A Bangladeshi disaster management official says the country will set up a new camp to accommodate Rohingya Muslims who have arrived from Myanmar since August 25.
But Shah Kamal of the Ministry of Disaster Management did not say when the new camp would be ready. He said on Wednesday that the camp would be established in Tyingkhali, south of Cox’s Bazar district and near the established camp in Balukhali where more than 50,000 Rohingya have been sheltering since October.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked officials to prepare a database with fingerprints for the new arrivals.
Cox’s Bazar official Ali Hossain said the plans were still under discussion, and the government was coordinating with international agencies to handle the “very complicated” situation.
He said officials were visiting the area and, “if necessary, we will take 400 acres or more land for the new establishment. The Bangladesh government will take responsibility.”
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May 31, 2012 By rbapadmin
Filed Under: Accomplishments, Feature Story, Media Releases, Photos, President's Corner, Press releases
Smart Money Training -Ilo-Ilo City -Jun 22, 2012
May 31, 2012 By RBAP
The Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI),
together with Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) Program
and Smart Communications, Inc. is NOW READY TO ROLL-OUT SMART MONEY-IN
MONEY-OUT (MIMO) SERVICES TO RURAL BANKS. Take advantage of the upcoming
scheduled Smart Money Accreditation Training on June 22, 2012 at Amigo
Hotel, Iloilo City and be among the FIRST rural banks to offer Money-In
Money-Out services to rural clients.
Rural banks that wish to attend the training must meet only two (2)
• CAMELS rating of at least 3.0
• No major exceptions noted in the latest BSP examination
The training is designed for senior officers (from Marketing,
Compliance/Audit Dept, and/or Operations) that are in the position to
cascade this training and facilitate the implementation of recommended
procedures within the bank. Each bank is allowed to send up to 3
participants. Please note that the training will be limited to the first
40 participants who register for the course. (Additional slots may be
available and are subject to space availability on a first come, first
serve basis.)
The training fee is P1,700.00 per participant inclusive of materials, food
and venue. However, those who register and pay at least a day before the
event will enjoy a discounted early bird fee at P1,300.00 per participant.
Note that there is a minimum of twenty (20) participants in order to hold
this event. Should we be unable to meet the minimum number of
participants, you will be notified at least two days before that the
course will be moved to a later date. Please deposit your payment to the
RBRDFI Account No. 0012-1046-26 at Landbank, Intramuros, Manila Branch and
fax a copy of the deposit slip along with your confirmation to RBAP at
(02) 527-2980 or to MABS Office at (02) 400-4561 (Manila).
Attached are the training agenda for your advance information and the
confirmation sheet for your reservation.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Roselle
Hernandez of MABS-Manila Office at (02) 400-0971 or Grace Dimapilis at
(02) 527-2968 to 69.
Download the Training Agenda and Confirmation Sheet in PDF
Filed Under: Events and Activities, Training Courses
Manila Times: Opportunities abroad are also opportunities here
The recently-concluded 45th Annual Board of Governors’ Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) tackled a number of economic issues not only in the Philippines but also for the whole region. But one thing that created a lasting impression and curious interest for the rural banking industry was the forecast on the level of remittances from our modern heroes, the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), this year.
The Manila-based multilateral funding institution predicted that the country’s gross national product (GNP) will grow by five percent this year due to a strong service sector and the continuously steady flow of OFW remittances, the latter being the consistent economic driver over the years. The flow of remittances is anchored not only on more Filipinos opting to find better opportunities overseas, but also on the sustained demand for professional and skilled Filipino workers abroad.
Foreign governments have done their part to keep the steady flow of Filipino workers for their respective countries. This year, enhancements in the recruitment systems of host countries are expected to support the resilience of remittance flows, including the launching of the International Direct e-Recruitment System for Filipino workers in Taiwan, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Labor Cooperation and a Protocol on Regulating the Recruitment and Employment of Domestic Workers with Lebanon and Jordan, and the amendment of the Korean Employment Permit System. These factors underpin the general prognosis that influx of much-needed foreign currencies will continue to grow for years to come.
On a grand scale, OFW remittances generate various activities in the Philippines, as well as augment the stability of the local consumer market. Boosted by remittances, families of OFWs typically are a strong player in the market, be it in real estate or in commercial and industrial sectors. They have money to spend and they are active purchasers.
How significant is this for banks?
Banks now account for around 90 percent of the entire remittance business as OFWs shifted from informal channels like couriers and door-to-door delivery services to safer methods to send money home through the banking system.
As such, several banks have opened various services to accommodate these remittances. Nearly all major banks have services tailor-fit for OFWs, as well as a few value-adds to gain new foreign-based depositors and keep the existing ones. For rural banks, a steady flow of OFW remittances means a healthy money transfer business. Thus, several rural banks have joined the Philippine Payments and Settlements System (PhilPaSS) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas last year.
The PhilPaSS Remit System for OFW remittances is an online and real-time gross settlement payment system administered by the BSP to facilitate payment transactions between banks. It offers a rate of P50 per transaction compared to P100 to P500 per charged by other money transfer systems.
With PhilPaSS, rural banks can offer a faster yet more affordable service to clients in the countryside who are also beneficiaries of many OFWs. By utilizing this system, rural banks can offer cheaper, if not the cheapest transaction fees without incurring any losses.
A number of rural banks are set to course their financial transaction through PhilPaSS as part of the many innovations of the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines.
The PhilPaSS-Remit system is also part of the advocacy of the BSP to help Filipinos abroad and their beneficiaries by providing a safer, faster, and cheaper means of remittance. The project is one of the initiatives undertaken by the BSP in coordination with the Association of Bank Remittance Officers Inc. through a memorandum of agreement in December of 2009 but was only implemented in the second quarter of 2011. The BSP has encouraged banks and financial institutions to course OFW remittances through its electronic payment and settlement system so that beneficiaries of Filipinos working abroad could enjoy lower fees.
According to the BSP, the settlement of OFW remittances through the PhilPaSS Remit System would result in savings of between P100 and P500 per transaction as current system charges between P150 and P550 per transaction. OFW families are expected to save at least P92 million due to the faster and cheaper delivery of remittances to the beneficiaries at a lower rate of P50 per transaction.
Of course, rural banks can offer other value-added services, just like their bigger brethren, aside from savings through the use of PhilPaSS. Among the other financial and non-financial products and services rural banks offer to OFWs and their families include high-yield medium/long-term time deposit, children’s savings accounts, education and housing loans, bills payment and collection services, and advisories about successful business ventures and skills in partnership with different government agencies. These opportunities can help improve the utilization and conversion of remittances into productive investments and other business opportunities.
The number of OFWs is expected to increase every year. Being away from their loved ones for many years is the ultimate sacrifice an OFW has to bear for the financial betterment of his or her family. Admittedly, this supreme sacrifice has also served as the fulcrum of the national economy. The least we in the industry can do is to maximize every foreign currency-denominate remittance that is sent home.
(Please click the link to view the full article: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/top-business-news/23926-opportunities-abroad-are-also-opportunities-here)
Filed Under: Feature Story, Latest News, Media Releases, Press releases
CLOSED — Supervisory Skills Enhancement Program -Jun 28-29, 2012
FOR : ALL PARTICIPATING RURAL BANKS
FROM : MA. CORAZON L. MILLER, Chairperson
Dear Fellow Rural Bankers:
As part of Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP) continuing
strategy to strengthen the rural banking industry, the Rural Bankers’
Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI), will be conducting a
seminar on Supervisory Skills Enhancement. The program enhances the
managerial competences through introduction of management functions, tools
and techniques.
Course Title: Supervisory Skills Enhancement Program
Speaker : Ms. Maria Elena Sandel-Marquez
CHRES Sr. Training Consultant / Psychologist/ HR
Leadership Management Trainer for Banks, Gov’t.
Venue: Gov. Licaros Hall, RBAP Bldg., A. Soriano Ave., cor.
Arzobispo St., Intramuros, Manila
Schedule: 28-29 June 2012 (Thursday - Friday), 8:30AM -5:00PM
Participants: Directors / Presidents / Compliance Officers/ Administrator
and Prospective Managers
1. Define a leader, a manager, a supervisor.
2. Differentiate a leader’s mentality from that of the ranks; managing
vs. leadership; boss vs. leader
3. Identify and demonstrate the changing roles, functions and skills of
leadership and management in the 21st century.
ROAD MAP - Day 1
I. Module 1 - Starting Point : Where Are You Now?
II. Module 2 - Differentiations
●A Supervisor to a Rank and File
●A Leader to a Boss
●Managing vs. leading
III. Module 3 - Four Roles of a Leader : PAEM
IV. Module 4 – Basic Supervisory Functions : PLOC
ROAD MAP –DAY 2
Module 5 – Planning vis a vis Pathfinding
Module 6 – Delegating and Controlling
Module 7 –Problem-Solving & Decision-Making
Module 8 - Closing
Acceptance of reservation is on first come first-served basis; only forty
(40) participants will be accommodated.
a) Four Thousand Four Hundred Pesos only (P4, 400.00).
b) Early bird registrants (those who pay the full amount on or before June
15, 2012 are entitled to a 5% discount or PhP4, 180.00.
c) Five Thousand Three Hundred Pesos only (P5, 300.00) registration fee
for non-member rural banks. To avail of the regular registration fee,
non-member banks are encouraged to apply for membership with RBAP/RBRDFI.
Please call RBAP for details.
d) This is a live-out seminar. Seminar fee includes snacks, training kit
and certificate of attendance.
For your reservations, kindly observe our training policies:
1. Deadline for submission of registration is not later than June 26, 2012.
a) Nomination form of the participant(s) duly endorsed by the bank’s
b) Filled-up Participant’s Profile.
2. A Non-Refundable commitment fee of P2,200.00 per participant (50% of
the registration fee). Payments can be remitted to the Rural Bankers
Research and Development Foundation, Inc. bank account (Land Bank of the
Philippines – Intramuros Branch Savings Account Number 0012-1046-26).
Proof of payment (i.e., deposit slip) should be sent immediately for
verification at (02) 527-2980. Check payments, should be payable to Rural
Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI).
3 Reservation via telephone conversation is accepted. However,
Registration Form and fee must be settled 10 days prior the seminar date.
Otherwise, reservation is considered cancelled.
4 Cancellation Policy:
a) 10 days prior the seminar date is entitled for a full refund. *
b) 3 days prior to the seminar date is entitled for a half refund
c) Participants who have paid but failed to show up for the seminar will
only be entitled to a rebate of 50% of the total registration fee.
d) For special cases (health, accident etc.) will require written
information. Kindly coordinate with RBRDFI staff for refund procedures and
Download the Schedule and Confirmation Sheet in PDF
Filed Under: Events and Activities, Seminars
RB Ignacia’s new business name
This is to inform all members of the approval of Rural Bank of Sta. Ignacia’s adoption of a new trade name by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, as stipulated in Circular Letter 2012-036 dated 21 May 2012. With this approval, the bank is now known as SIGNABANK Rural Bank of Sta. Ignacia, Inc.
To secure a copy of the BSP Circular letter, please click the attached link. cl036
For your information and guidance
Filed Under: Feature Story, Latest News, Media Releases
CLOSED – FRP Seminar -June 15, 2012
FROM : MA. CORAZON L. MILLER, Chairman
SUBJECT : FINANCIAL REPORTING PACKAGE SEMINAR
The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), through the Rural
Bankers’ Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI), will conduct
a seminar described below as part of its continuing strategy to strengthen
the rural banking industry:
Course Title: Financial Reporting Package (FRP) Seminar
Speaker : DANIEL VINCENT BORJA, CPA
Associate Professor / Consultant / Trainer
Participants: Compliance Officer, Accountants, Cashiers
Internal Auditors, Managers
Date Venue
June 15, 2012 (Friday) Gov. Licaros Hall, RBAP Intramuros, Manila
Participants are advised to bring the following items to maximize the
learning opportunity:
1. Laptop running on Windows OS with MS Excel spreadsheet software (if
possible)
2. Rural Bank sample Financial Statement.
a) One Thousand Eight Hundred Pesos only (P1, 800.00).♣
b) Two Thousand Two Hundred Pesos only (P2, 200.00) registration fee for
non-member rural banks. To avail of the regular registration fee,
c) This is a live-out seminar. Seminar fee includes snacks, training kit
1. Deadline for submission of registration is not later than: = June 12,
2. A Non-Refundable commitment fee of P900.00 per participant (50% of the
registration fee). Payments can be remitted to the Rural Bankers Research
and Development Foundation, Inc. bank account (Land Bank of the
Proof of payment (i.e., deposit slip) should be sent immediately
Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI)
3. Reservation via telephone conversation is accepted. However,
4. Cancellation Policy:
information, kindly coordinate with RBRDFI staff for refund procedures and
Please be advised that we accept on a first-come-first-served basis with a
manageable level up to thirty (30) participants only.
For your reservation, please call RBRDFI Training Officers:
Mr. Ace M. Calang
Ms. Grace Dimapilis.
Ms. Jesica Cepeda
Contact details: (02) 527-2969, 527-2980; 09178374604; 09178374603;
Emails: training@rbap.org, grace@rbap.org, cepedajesica_rbap@yahoo.com
Please note that this is a live-out seminar.
Download the Participant's Profile Sheet in PDF
Invitation to Gcash Accreditation Training
TO: ALL MEMBER RURAL BANKS
SUBJECT: INVITATION TO REGISTER TO MOBILE PHONE BANKING ACCREDITATION TRAINING COURSE FOR RBAP MEMBER RURAL BANKS
We are inviting you to participate in Mobile Phone Banking Accreditation Training and become part of the increasing number of GCASH partner rural banks offering mobile phone banking services to their clients and enjoy the benefits to earn additional fee-based income from GCASH transactions, cost savings in mobile payment and increase deposit level through mobile phone banking services. Through Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI) together with RBAP’s Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) Program and G-Xchange, Inc. (GXI), subsidiary company of Globe Telecom the accreditation training will be conducted on the following dates and venue:
Date Venue Target Banks
June 14, 2012 Diamond Suites and Residences, Cebu City VisMin Banks
June 28, 2012 Ridgewood Residence, Baguio City NorthLuzon East Banks
Rural banks that wish to attend the training must meet only two (2) requirements:
* CAMELS rating of at least 3.0
* No major exceptions noted in the latest BSP examination
The training is designed for senior officers (from Marketing, Compliance/Audit Dept, and/or Operations) that are in the position to cascade this training and facilitate the implementation of recommended procedures within the bank. Each bank is allowed to send up to 3 participants. Please note that the training will be limited to the first 40 participants who register for the course. Additional slots may be available and are subject to space availability on a first come, first serve basis.
The training fee is P1,400.00 per participant inclusive of materials, food and venue. However, for those who register and pay at least a day before the event, the early bird fee is reduced to P1,000.00 per participant. Note that there is a minimum of twenty (20) participants in order to hold this event. Should we be unable to meet the minimum number of participants, you will be notified at least two days before that the course will be moved to a later date. Please deposit your payment to the RBRDFI Account No. 0012-1046-26 at Landbank, Intramuros, Manila Branch and fax a copy of the deposit slip along with your confirmation to RBAP at (02) 527-2980 or to MABS Office at (02) 400-4561 (Manila).
Attached are the training agenda for your advance information and the confirmation sheet for your reservation. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mr. Ace Calang of RBRDFI at (02) 527-2968 to 69 or Ms. Roselle Hernandez of MABS-Manila Office at (02) 400-0971 or 0917-545-6227.
Download the Invitation for Regional G-Cash Training in PDF
2012 RBAP 59th Annual National Convention Program
Download the Annual National Convention Program in PDF
Taxation Seminar – June 21, 2012
SUBJECT : SEMINAR ON TAXATION FOR RURAL BANKS
Course Title: Seminar on Taxation for Rural Banks
Speaker : ATTY. EDWIN R ABELLA, CPA
Former, Assistant Commissioner, BIR
Professional Lecturer on Taxation
BAR Reviewer, University of the Philippines
Chairman, VAT Review Committee
Venue: RBAP Conference Room, RBAP Bldg., A. Soriano Ave., cor.
Schedule: 21 June 2012 (Thursday) 1 day (8:30AM-5:30PM)
Participants: Compliance Officer, Accountants, Cashiers
Internal Auditors, Managers and Presidents
a) Two Thousand Six Hundred Pesos only (P2, 600.00).♣
c) Three Thousand Two Hundred Pesos only (P3, 200.00).♣ Non-member
rural banks. To avail of the regular registration fee, non-member banks
are encouraged to apply for membership with RBAP/RBRDFI. Please call RBAP
1. Deadline for submission of registration is not later that June 18, 2012.
Registration Form and fee must be settled 10 days prior the seminar date
or June 11, 2012. Otherwise, reservation is considered cancelled.
d) For special cases (health, accident etc.), please send a letter and
coordinate with RBRDFI staff for refund procedures and requirements.
Please be advised that we will be accepting up to thirty (30) participants
only. We reserve the right to limit the number of participants to a
manageable level and we accept on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact details: (02) 527-2969, 527-2980
Signature Verification and Forgery Detection Seminar – June 07, 2012
FROM : MA. CORAZON L. MILLER, Chairperson
SUBJECT : SIGNATURE VERIFICATION, BANK FRAUD AND
FORGERY DETECTION SEMINAR
Course Title: Signature Verification, Bank Fraud and Forgery Detection
Speaker : JENNIFER DOMINGUEZ
Question Document Dept., NBI
Bank Trainer & Consultant
Venue: RBAP Conference Room, RBAP Bldg., A. Soriano Ave., cor.
Schedule: 07 June 2012 (Thursday) 1 day (8:30AM-5:30PM)
Participants: Compliance Officer, New Accounts, Cashiers
Tellers, Managers
a) Two Thousand Two Hundred Pesos only (P2, 200.00).♣
b) Early bird registrants (those who pay the full amount on or before May
c) Two Thousand Six Hundred Forty Pesos only (P2, 640.00).♣ for
non-member rural banks.To avail of the regular registration fee,
or May 20, 2012. Otherwise, reservation is considered cancelled.
d) For special cases (health, accident etc.), kindly coordinate with
RBRDFI staff for refund procedures and requirements.
Basic Course on Tellering – June 06, 2012
SUBJECT : BASIC COURSE ON TELLERING
Course Title: Basic Course on Tellering
Speaker : VYKES PALANCA
Trainer-China Banking Corporation, Consultant
Schedule: 06 June 2012 (Wednesday) 1 day (8:30AM-5:30PM)
Participants: Tellers, New Accounts, Cashiers
The seminar is designed to respond to the external developments by
transforming rural banks from process-centered units to effective sales
channels.
c) Two Thousand Two Hundred Pesos only (P2, 200.00) registration fee for
PDIC Advisory on suspicious calls
To all member banks and partners, please take the time to read the letter of Mr. Valentin Arenata, warning all banks to ignore or report any suspicious/solicitation calls falsely representing his office.
Contents of his letter are copy pasted below. You may also download the pdf version by clicking the attached link: Letter to RBAP
Dear Mr. Pama:
It has come to the attention of the undersigned that calls ore being made to Banks by individuals falsely representing themselves to be the undersigned’
In particular, several banks have received calls purportedly made by the undersigned ond soliciting sponsorships. The cellphone numbers used are:
Please be advised that the PDIC and its officers do not solicit any form of support in their activities.
Please do not entertain any such calls or representations and feel free to validate or confirm any call or calls that you received or may receive by calling the undersigned of our office number (632) 818-5906 and 84.|-4806 or at my cellphone number 0917-3070995. My email address is vaaraneta@pdic.gov.ph.
May we request that this notice be disseminated to your members.
Thank you and best regards.
Valentin Araneta
RBAP members, for your protection, we encourage all to remain vigilant.
For your information.
Filed Under: Latest News, Press releases
Philippine Daily Inquirer: BSP ups incentives for rural banks’ consolidation
Commercial and thrift banks are urged to acquire troubled rural banks, with regulators offering various incentives to potential white knights in a bid to end costly failures in the rural banking sector.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas announced Wednesday that the Strengthening Program for Rural Banks (SPRB), under which incentives are granted to encourage acquisition of weak rural banks, has been expanded to include commercial and thrift banks among those eligible to get incentives should they acquire a problematic rural bank.
The new and expanded version, called the “SPRB Plus,” will be in effect until December 2013.
Under the old version, which was supposed to end in August this year but is now superseded by the SPRB Plus, only financially healthy rural banks were offered incentives to acquire a weak rural bank.
The move to offer incentives to commercial and thrift banks came amid lack of takers from the rural banking industry. Most of the strong rural banks are not interested in acquiring a weaker industry player, regulators said.
The incentives being offered to potential white knights include loans to help plug capital shortfalls and to help meet needed resources to improve operations, temporary regulatory relief such as on capitalization requirements and easier requirements for branching.
Loans to be extended to investing banks will be sourced from the P5-billion fund, which the BSP and the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. have put up through their equal contributions.
“SPRB Plus expects eligible investors not only to sustain and strengthen the financial condition of resulting banks but also to improve their quality of corporate governance and management,” the BSP said.
The move to offer incentives for banks that will acquire troubled rural banks comes amid a spate of closures in the rural banking sector over the past few years.
BSP officials said closure orders for rural banks were prompted mostly by capitalization and mismanagement problems of the banks. Some closures were also prompted by alleged unsafe and unsound banking practices of the closed banks.
In this year alone, four rural banks have already been ordered closed by the Monetary Board of the BSP and placed under receivership of the PDIC. These include First Provincial Bank of Tarlac, Rural Bank of Gigaquit of Surigao del Norte, Rural Bank of Luna in La Union, and Rural Bank of Nasugbu in Batangas.
The BSP said problematic rural banks are the exception rather than the rule, saying that the country’s entire banking system remains generally sound and stable.
Nonetheless, it said acquisition of troubled rural banks is encouraged to help avoid costly closures.
Upon closure of a bank, government-owned PDIC assumes the failed bank’s remaining assets and shoulders payment of all its liabilities, including deposits from the public.
Given this, regulators said saving a troubled bank is preferred over closing it down.
Note: The SPRB Plus will last until December of 2013, due to the SPRB’s special features, all concerned rural banks are encouraged to take advantage of this enhancement program. For more on this article, please go to Inquirer website, by clicking the attached link http://business.inquirer.net/59845/bsp-ups-incentives-for-rural-banks’-consolidation . You may also check out Mr. Lawrence Agcaoili’s article on the the Philippine Star http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=66&articleId=807649
Filed Under: Feature Story, Latest News
Manila Times: Better safe than sorry
The times, they are a-chan-gin,’ as the legendary crooner Bob Dylan used to sing. Well, right now, the rural banking industry is likewise in the midst of change, especially when it comes to a collective mindset among rural banks that encourages prudence to go along with the unyielding dream of expansion. These two things need not contradict each other, but should in fact go hand in hand, now more than ever.
As recent as five years ago, there were only 12 rural banks that have enrolled in the Negative File Information System (NFIS) of the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) Credit Bureau. The NFIS is a computerized negative information system that provides member-banks with data of more than four million borrowers’ and clients’ adverse records. By the end of 2011, 77 rural banks are enrolled in the system, a hefty five-fold increase.
Over the last five years, the number of rural banks utilizing the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) Credit Bureau’s NFIS has grown almost five-fold with 77 rural banks now enrolled and 51 rural banks actively using the system. There has also been an almost nine-fold increase in the number of credit inquiries by rural banks. In terms of the number of active users, the numbers rose from 11 to 51, with the number of inquiries jumping from 5,228 queries in 2007 to 44,909 queries as of last year. This year, the numbers are expected to further increase.
These data clearly show the great importance rural banks are placing on having a reliable access to information about bank clients, specifically about their credit history. In fact, Leonilo “Topper” Coronel, managing director of the BAP-Credit Bureau, pointed out that some commercial and thrift bank clients, with poor repayment histories, are increasingly attempting to borrow from rural banks. Suffice it to say that if it was not for the data provided by the bureau, this type of clientele might have also “made the rounds” in some rural banks. The potential risks associated with these types of borrowers would not have been exposed.
Awareness and self-protection from clients with bad credit history have always been present among companies involve in lending like banks. Their primary tool is their own credit investigation. Now, the faster and better way to do this is to have a readily available system that presents the data to all types of banks.
How does this work? Borrowers with delinquent loans with rural banks who attempt to obtain additional loans from other banks, including commercial and thrift banks, would be flagged in the NFIS. Since all commercial and thrift banks now access the NFIS, and normally require all outstanding delinquent loans to be repaid first, rural banks naturally benefit from sharing these accounts as a way to improve their loan collection efforts, according to BAP-Credit Bureau Manager Manuel Batallones.
Once a rural bank has access to the NFIS, it enjoys protection against credit applicants who have bad loan records in commercial, thrift or other rural banks, because it can verify a particular client’s record. Not only that, the processing of loan applications also becomes faster as a rural bank can approve or disapprove a loan application in just a few hours. The credit profile of a particular loan applicant would now be immediately known and the rural bank can make a quick decision on the application.
But while we have tackled the benefits of the NFIS, what about the rates? Surely enrolling and accessing such an important system would cost some. That would be understandable. But to the pleasant surprise of the entire industry, I should say, it is so cheap that it is practically offered for free! Rural banks may now enroll in the BAP-Credit Bureau for free and only need to pay a meager fee of P5 per credit inquiry. That’s the cost of a text load! The bureau also provides free training for all subscribers. The bureau only requires that all subscribers share and update their negative files with the NFIS. With all the benefits of the system, that is a cinch.
While rural banks wait for the implementation of the Credit Information System Act, the BAP-Credit Bureau has the largest database that rural banks can actively start to use.
The BAP-Credit Bureau has also enhanced their services to better support microfinance credit institutions in the Philippines through the Microfinance Data Sharing System (MIDAS). This system is already being rolled out in different parts of the country after a pilot test in Panay Island earlier.
Access to a credit bureau is one of the important tools that could improve the analysis of the credit histories of potential clients. It assists rural banks in managing multiple borrowing and over-indebtedness much better. In a co-dependent environment, this also helps bank clients overall. A healthy rural bank, unburdened with problematic clientele, is a productive rural bank. A productive rural bank can better serve its community. The community can then rest easy, knowing fully well that its bank can support its needs.
(To view the full article, please go the website of the Manila Times, or click the attached article: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/top-business-news/23026-better-safe-than-sorry)
Amendments to the regulations on the approval of new officers
This is to notify all member banks of the amendments of certain provisions of the MORB with regards to the approval/confirmation of directors and officers. The revisions are in pursuant to Resolution Nos. 588 and 596A, both issued by the Monetary Board.
Among those amended are Subsections X141.4, X141.9, X143.3, X143.5, X144, X180.4 and X406.10, which are all specified in Sections 1 to 9 of Circular 758. The remaining sections, on the other hand, are reserved for MORNBFI.
As for Section 1, it specifically outlines the conditions before a director or officer can be officially confirmed. For example, only the Monetary Board has the authority to confirm the appointment or election of directors, senior vice presidents (above or with equivalent ranks) of all banks with total assets of 1.0 billion, while those with less than 1.0 billion shall be subject to confirmation of the SES Committee. However, these requirements may not be required when certain admissible conditions are met.
With regards to the appointment of a Chief Compliance Officer, Section 7 stipulates that the appointment should have a prior approval from the Monetary Board and, all pertinent documentary and identification requirements shall be submitted to the SES. Likewise due to the nature of the job, a would-be CCO must possess all the required qualifications, particularly considering fit and proper criteria such as competence, diligence, education and the like.
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Ella's Umbrella
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When You Lived in My Belly
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Like The Ocean Moves
Book One of the Torchbearer Series
by Liz Mitchell
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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Like The Ocean Moves is Book One of the Torchbearer Series by Liz Mitchell, an inspiring story that explores the power of faith and the themes of physical and spiritual freedom and human trafficking, a story with strong spiritual undertones but with a realism that makes the reader’s skin crawl. A six-year-old girl is abducted and is on the market for sale to the highest bidder. While the police and experts are doing all they can to locate the young girl, Amy and her son, Jonas, make an extraordinary odyssey of faith, a journey which allows them to contemplate heaven and its beauty, but they return with a mission to rescue the abducted child. Read on to discover what happens when great detective work mixes with the power of faith and prayer.
This is a story that reads like an allegory, a story that is constructed to entertain, edify, and awaken the reader’s consciousness to the realities of faith and hopelessness, of darkness and light, of heaven and hell. The world is presented as a battleground and readers will be introduced to a new form of warriors, called the Torchbearers. In fact, it’s a name used to describe a specific type of being. Liz Mitchell’s characters are lovely and readers will want to follow them. The plot is deceptively slow at the beginning, but it gets faster as the reader is introduced to the conflict. The author combines great prose with an exceptional skill for dialogue to create wonderful entertainment for readers. Like The Ocean Moves is a moving story that will inspire readers and will find its home in men and women of faith and those who still believe that angels are real.
Rosemary Moerles
I was given the book as a gift and I was immediately drawn into the story. It is inspiring and inspired ... a truly creative story that is at times difficult, but so worth the read. Very uplifting. I am eager to follow this author and her series.
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Exploring From Quarks To Quasars
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Week
Basics of Astrophysics
Sky Gazing This Month
The Nuclear Reactions In Stars
August 13, 2019 Rishabh Nakra Astronomy & Astrophysics Leave a comment
Rishabh Nakra
Admin and Founder of The Secrets of the Universe and former intern at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, I am a science student pursuing Master’s in Physics from India. I love to study and write about Stellar Astrophysics, Relativity& Quantum Mechanics.
Stellar Astrophysics is one of the most active branch of Astronomy. It involves a lot of Physics. Subjects like nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics and particle physics are crucial to understand stellar evolution deeply. Today, let us learn about the nuclear reactions in stars. I have tried to put this article in the simplest words and I really want you to understand this important branch of Astrophysics that isn't taught by pop science.
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Nuclear Reactions In Stars
Before we begin studying the nuclear reactions in stars, let us understand the basic elementary structure of the Universe. The Universe is made up of two major elements: hydrogen and helium. Stars form when huge clouds of dust and gas collapse under their own gravity. These clouds are also made of hydrogen and helium. In Astrophysics, in contrast to the chemical convention, every element except hydrogen and helium is termed as metal. So in Astronomy, non metals such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen etc are all called metals. This is just a convention due to the relative abundance of the first two elements. Now stars begin their life with fusion of hydrogen. In this article we will be just studying the reactions without caring much about the evolution of stars. The next article will give a detailed account of the same.
How are the elements formed?
Hydrogen Fusion
Hydrogen fusion is the fundamental nuclear reaction in stars. From Hertzsprung Russell Diagram, we know that any star that is fusing hydrogen in its core is known as a main sequence star. Our Sun is a main sequence star. The two most prominent reactions that fuse hydrogen into helium are: PP Chain and CNO Cycle.
Also Read: The most important diagram in Astrophysics, The Hertzsprung Russell diagram
PP Chain
PP Chain stands for Proton-Proton chain. In this reaction, 4 hydrogen nuclei combine to form 1 helium nucleus as shown below.
The PP Chain
Two protons come together and form a deuterium nucleus (one proton and one neutron). This is a two step process. First two protons combine to form a diproton. Then one of the two protons changes into a neutron by releasing a positron and a neutrino (beta plus decay). Now, on this deuterium, another proton attacks and forms helium-3 as shown above. This helium-3 combines with another helium-3 produced parallel to it and forms a helium-4 thereby releasing 2 hydrogen atoms as shown. Note that the total mass number (number of nucleons) is always conserved.
This nuclear reaction is the reason why we are alive. This is how the Sun is producing its energy. A single reaction produces 26.4 MeV of energy. In a single second, the Sun produces more energy than produced by the mankind so far. The PP chain initiates at about 15 million K. So, when the temperature of the collapsing cloud of gas reaches this mark, stars are formed. This reaction is slow. For a Sun like star, it will take 10 billion years to convert hydrogen into helium in its core. If you did not understand the reaction, it's okay. Understanding its importance is enough.
CNO Cycle
CNO stands for Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen. The CNO cycle is yet another nuclear reaction by which stars produce helium from hydrogen using carbon, nitrogen and oxygen as catalysts. The CNO cycle is a dominant source of energy for stars that are about 1.3 times more massive than the Sun. This reaction becomes dominant at about 17 million K. The core temperature of Sun is 15 million K and thus PP chain is the dominant reaction. The reaction mechanism is shown below:
The CNO Cycle
Helium Fusion
Triple Alpha Process
Once all the hydrogen has been converted into helium in the core, it is time for the next nuclear reaction. After helium, carbon forms via the triple alpha process. This reaction is simple. Two helium-4 nuclei come together and form beryllium-8. This beryllium-8 nuclei is further attacked by a helium-4 and forms a stable carbon-12 as shown below. The net release of energy is about 7.275 MeV and the reaction requires a temperature of 100 million K.
The Triple Alpha Process
One important thing to note in this reaction is the temperature dependence. The energy released in previous PP chain reaction is proportional to the 4th power of temperature while that in triple alpha process is proportional to a whooping 17th power of temperature. Thus the energy released is enormous. Once a star starts burning helium to carbon, end of the star is near.
Also Read: How to become an Astrophysicist?
Production of Heavier Elements
The reaction sequence does not stop at carbon. However, it should be noted that only massive stars can host full scale nuclear reactions beyond this point. Let us glance over some key nuclear reactions in stars beyond helium
Carbon Fusion
Carbon fusion begins at a whooping 500 million K. The common products of this reactions are neon, oxygen, sodium and magnesium. Stars below 8 solar masses 8 cannot host a carbon fusion. Stars between 8-11 solar masses begin carbon fusion with a flash but this disrupts the star. The ones with mass above 11 solar masses go on to fuse even heavier elements.
The Carbon Fusion
Oxygen Burning
The oxygen core that forms due to previous nuclear reactions requires very high temperatures to fuse further elements. At about 2 billion K, oxygen core transforms into a silicon, phosphorus and sulphur core. This reaction takes place in a few years and the amount of energy released is tremendous.
Alpha Ladder
Once silicon forms in the core, a ladder of reaction begins. Silicon has a mass number of 28. Beyond silicon, heavier alpha elements form. This means the elements that have mass number of multiples of 4 beyond silicon as shown below.
The Alpha Ladder
The reaction sequence stops at Ni-56. The next element in the chain is Zn-60 but conversion from Ni to Zn isn't thermodynamically unfavorable. This because the reaction is endothermic (absorbs energy). Silicon fusion begins at about 3 billion K. The intensity of this reaction can be realized from the fact that while PP chain took 10 billion years to finish, silicon burning ends in a single day. So Nickel and Iron are the last major fusion products in the core. The star then collapses and forms either a neutron star or black hole.
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Fenugreen FreshPaper in The Washington Post May 13 2015
"Kavita Shukla started her company a few years ago at a farmers market with $300 dollars and an idea that had been ruminating since a middle school science project.
A decade later, her vision –- a piece of paper infused with spices that would keep food fresh — is shipped to families and farmers in 35 countries.
FreshPaper — inspired by a home remedy given to Shukla by her grandmother — is knocking it out of the park.
“For such a long time, I was told I needed more money,” she told a crowd of 250 rapt women (and a few men) Friday at the Post’s Women in Small Business live event. “I almost lost hope.”
Indeed, money — and the difficulty women have borrowing and raising it — was the recurring theme among the audience and speakers that also included Small Business Administration head Maria Contreras-Sweet, Georgetown Cupcake founders Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, Personal Independence Trust chair Nell Merlino, and Katherine Jollon Colsher, national Director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
Before joining SBA, Contreras-Sweet founded three of her own small business, including a community bank in California and a private equity firm. She said her frustration with the banking systems is what led her to start her own. She would gather women and say to them, “You always tell me you’re frustrated with our own institutions. We need to build ownership. So let’s get together and build a bank of our own.”
The Georgetown Cupcake sisters said no’s and shut-doors were common when they started their first brick-and-mortar shop in 2008, a Georgetown suite smaller than their current Georgetown location.
“[Banks] were skeptical,” said LaMontagne. “Most of the bankers we met with were male.”
Shukla, whose company is called Fenugreen, filed for a patent when she was a senior in high school. Her goal was to get her paper to people in Africa and India who, like her grandmother, didn’t have access to refrigeration.
That was when she started going to the farmers market. “Frankly, the money made a big difference. It funded our first production facility. It funded our ability to get into Whole Foods. It funded us getting out of my apartment,” she said..."
Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-live/wp/2015/05/08/how-can-women-raise-money-let-us-count-the-ways/
Fenugreen FreshPaper Review in The Washington Post January 01 2015
The Washington Post - Food Section
Saving food, one sheet of paper at a time
By Jane Black
When I was a kid, the future promised all kinds of whiz-bang technologies. Jet boots. Robot maids, like on “The Jetsons.” And, most exciting for a 12-year-old with a subscription to Gourmet magazine, “smart” refrigerators that performed tricks like alerting you to eat that lettuce in the back of the produce drawer before it spoiled and went to waste.
Smart refrigerators finally do exist. (Sadly, I’m still waiting for jet boots.) For about $4,000, I can have a fridge that generates recipes based on what’s on the shelves and tells me when I’m out of milk. But no matter how smart the appliance is, it still cannot warn me when those pricey strawberries from the farmers market are about to get moldy or when that bunch of cilantro is about to turn black. Nor will it be able to assuage my guilt for forgetting about them and wasting food.
Happily, there is a better, low-tech solution to that problem: FreshPaper, which looks like small, square paper towels. They are infused with a mixture of organic spices and botanicals that inhibit bacterial and fungal growth and extend the life of quickly perishable produce. One sheet of maple-scented FreshPaper helped my basket of very ripe strawberries last more than a week in the fridge. A sheet tossed into a plastic bag with cilantro helped the herb last about 10 days.
FreshPaper doesn’t blink or beep, but I’m not complaining. Its power is in its simplicity — and its price. Each 5-by-5-inch sheet, manufactured in Massachusetts, costs 50 cents. Sheets can be used and reused over the course of two or three weeks and then composted.
Like many useful inventions, the idea for FreshPaper began by happenstance. Kavita Shukla, then a student at Burleigh Manor Middle School in Ellicott City, was visiting relatives in India and swallowed some water while brushing her teeth. Immediately, she began to worry that she would get sick to her stomach. But her grandmother made her a spice tea from an old family recipe, and Shukla avoided illness. Soon, she began to wonder what else this magic formula could do.
If Shukla, now 27 and living in Cambridge, Mass., were like most of us, the story would end there. But she was a determined teenager with a talent for invention. She received her first patent at 13 for a product called Smart Lid. Inspired by her mother, who regularly forgot to screw on the gas cap on her car, the lid beeped when a container or jar was left open.
In high school, Shukla began to look in earnest for practical applications for her grandmother’s special tea. (“As a kid,” Shukla says with a laugh, “I couldn’t test for stomach ailments, except on myself.”) She found it one day at the grocery store when her mother asked her to pick out a pint of strawberries. Many of the baskets had berries that were already going bad. Would dipping the berries in her spice mixture help them stay “healthy”?
It did. And it seemed to work for other fruits and vegetables as well. At 17, Shukla was awarded her second patent.
Shukla thought her invention would be best used in developing countries, where many people lack refrigeration and a lot of produce spoils between the farm and the table. While studying at Harvard — where else would a young woman with two patents on her résumé end up? — she considered starting a nonprofit organization to promote the product. But, she says, “I didn’t really understand how difficult it would be to distribute something, even if you were giving it away for free.” For several years, she put her plans aside.
Then, in 2010, Shukla decided to market her product closer to home, in the United States. She began to visit farmers markets and street fairs in Boston. As she talked to potential customers, she heard stories of frustration about tomatoes and greens thrown in the trash and families skipping fresh produce for fear that it would go bad before they used it. Food spoilage and waste, Shukla realized, were big problems everywhere.
That’s an understatement. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, approximately one-third of food, about 1.3 billion tons, is lost or wasted annually. American and European consumers toss out between 210 to 250 pounds of food per person each year. A study at the University of Arizona at Tucson in 2004 estimated that household food waste in the United States alone adds up to $43 billion each year.
And so, a decade after receiving her patent, Shukla founded Fenugreen along with a friend, Swaroop Samant. (The company’s name is a play on fenugreek, one of FreshPaper’s main ingredients.) Their first customer was Harvest Co-op in Cambridge, which agreed to sell the product after performing its own semi-scientific experiment. Chris Durkin, the director of membership and community relations, bought two baskets of blueberries and left them unrefrigerated. The berries without FreshPaper shriveled within
three days and grew moldy by day five. The ones with FreshPaper nestled at the bottom of the basket stayed fresh. “I tend to be a bit of a cynic,” Durkin says. “So I was pretty excited when it worked. This is a low-cost, low-environmental-footprint solution to help fresh food to last longer.”
Fans of FreshPaper have likened it to “dryer sheets for produce,” according to Shukla, as they toss them in the vegetable drawer, a fruit bowl or a cardboard berry box. And they say FreshPaper saves them money. “I have not thrown out a single carton of berries since I started using it,” raved Joan Popolo, a customer in Carlisle, Mass.
It also alleviates the guilt of wasting food. Denis Healy, the director of development for the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, uses FreshPaper regularly to extend the life of mushrooms, broccoli and green beans. “I hate to waste,” he says. “You put all this time in shopping for the best things you can find, and if you don’t eat it right away it goes bad.”
Washington area consumers will get their first glimpse of FreshPaper this weekend, when Shukla and Samant will be selling it at the FreshFarm Markets in Silver Spring on Saturday and in Dupont Circle on Sunday. (Fenugreen will donate proceeds of its sales to the markets’ Matching Dollars Program for nutrition assistance.) Farm 2 Family’s mobile farm stand will carry FreshPaper starting this week at Eastern Market and at the Maret School, and at the Farm to Family Market in Richmond.
Shukla remains determined to make FreshPaper available where it is most sorely needed. To that end, she is working to introduce the product to farmers and distributors who might use it during harvest and shipping (with customized paper sizes). Later this year, Shukla is launching a “buy-one, give-one” program in which, for every package of FreshPaper that is sold, Fenugreen will donate a package to food banks or nonprofits in less-economically developed countries.
“We started Fenugreen as a social enterprise,” she says. “We still believe that in areas where there is no access to refrigeration for farmers and consumers, it can be life- changing.” Smarter than even the smartest technology.
Black, a former Food section staffer based in Brooklyn, writes Smarter Food monthly. Follow her on Twitter: @jane_black. Shukla will join today’s Free Range chat at noon at live.washingtonpost.com.
FreshPaper Reviews Posted on July 27, 2015
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Fenugreen Story Featured by Inc. Magazine - February 2015 Posted on January 29, 2015
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We Love These FreshPaper Reviews from Our Friends at The Grommet! Posted on December 15, 2014
FreshPaper Mission Posted on December 15, 2014
FreshPaper featured on the Queen Latifah Show! Posted on December 15, 2014
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What Are Some of the Top Nob Hill Restaurants?
Discover Nob Hill restaurants and learn a little about the area's history in the process.
One of San Francisco’s vibrant neighborhoods, Nob Hill is renowned for its landmarks and luxurious hotels. It’s also famous for its steep streets lined with nightspots and restaurants that feature stunning views. From bistros offering top-notch neighborhood food to upscale restaurants offering exceptional fine-dining experiences, Nob Hill surely satisfies every diner’s appetite. Here’s a look at some of the top Nob Hill restaurants.
Nob Hill Café
Located within walking distance of a few popular spots, including the historic Mark Hopkins, Fairmont, and Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Nob Hill Café is an Italian restaurant that features an elegant space perfect for relaxing after a day of sightseeing. It offers an extensive selection of pizza and pasta dishes as well as veal, lasagna, and chicken entrées. Diners enjoy lunch and dinner or wake up late for a delicious weekend brunch. The outside area of the restaurant features a great view of some of Nob Hill’s steep streets, so diners can watch people passing by as they eat. Its pasta and gnocchi are typically freshly made every day in its kitchen.
Seven Hills Restaurant
Seven Hills is a rustic neighborhood bistro that serves excellent Italian dishes. It has a seasonal menu that focuses on homemade pasta. It also has a small wine list that complements its cooking style. Seven Hills offers a wide variety of gluten-free options for those with intolerances or sensitivities.
Swan Oyster Depot
Located at Polk Street, Swan Oyster Depot is one of the older restaurants in San Francisco. This seafood restaurant serves a variety of fresh catches and house-made dishes, including oysters, crab and clam chowder. It’s a good idea to get there early, as it usually has a long line to get to the counter. Other items in its menu may occasionally include sourdough, scallop sashimi, smoked salmon, uni and seafood salad.
Acquerello is a high-end restaurant that has been offering unparalleled Italian fine-dining experience for about 28 years. It serves a variety of classic and modern Italian dishes in a traditional space with an elegant yet comfortable atmosphere. Each of its prix-fixe promises finesse and expertise, with a well-curated wine list to pair. Some of the popular items in its menu have included tajarin with white truffle; and venison medallions topped with onion jam, pear slices, butternut squash purée, and chanterelles. There are mouthwatering desserts as well, including the almond milk panna cotta wrapped with vin santo jelly and topped with quince, crushed almonds, and tufts of Balsamic vinegar.
With so many dining spots to choose from, Nob Hill restaurants can surely give you whatever cuisine you fancy during your stay. Sample one or sample all, and remember to call ahead to see what’ll be available on the menu during your visit.
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Order of Canada
Awarded by the
Queen of Canada
National order
Desiderantes meliorem patriam
All living Canadians, except federal and provincial politicians and judges while holding office.
Awarded for
The highest degree of merit, an outstanding level of talent and service, or an exceptional contribution to Canada and humanity.
Currently constituted
David Lloyd Johnston
Grades (w/ post-nominals)
Companion (CC)
Officer (OC)
Member (CM)
Former grades
Medal of Service
Medal of Courage
First induction
Total inductees
Precedence
Next (higher)
Member of the Order of Merit
Next (lower)
Commander of the Order of Military Merit
The Order of Canada was set up in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II, to reward service to Canada.
It is at the top of Canada’s honours system. It has three classes or ranks to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.
Only Canadian citizens can have the award, but every year up to five foreigners can be given an honorary award.
The Order of Canada’s motto is Latin: DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM (English: They desire a better country).
1 Grades
1.1 Companion (CC)
1.2 Officer (OC)
1.3 Member (C.M.)
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Companion (CC)[change | change source]
Given to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement and merit of the highest degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large.
Officer (OC)[change | change source]
For a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large.
Member (C.M.)[change | change source]
A Member of the Order of Canada has a lifetime of distinguished service in or to a particular community, group or field of activity
Annual appointments[change | change source]
Appointments to the order are usually announced twice a year, at the end of December (the New Year's Honours List) and at the end of June to mark Canada Day. This is the same system as in the United Kingdom, except the Queen's Official Birthday at the beginning of June is marked instead.
Only a certain number of appointments can be made each year:
Appointments per Year
Companion 15[1]
Officer 64
Member 136
Non-Canadian (Honorary) 5
↑ but no more than 165 living Companions at any given time
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Royal visit for Harrison Spinks
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Fifth-generation family bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, has welcomed the Queen’s representative in West Yorkshire to its Beeston Headquarters to receive the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Sustainable Development. Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Mr Ed Anderson, visited the 179-year old bed manufacturer on Thursday (5 September 2019). Presenting the award to chairman,
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Chiefs Gain Point in 3-2 Overtime Loss to Giants
Game Highlights Game Recap Vancouver Giants
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SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Chiefs jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Friday night but failed to hold on as the Vancouver Giants came back for a 3-2 win in overtime.
Team-leading scorer Adam Beckman got the Chiefs on the board at 10:55 of the first when Eli Zummack sent a pass across from the left wall to the Minnesota Wild prospect, who one-timed it in from the edge of the right circle.
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⏰ 10:55 (1st)
🥅 SPO 0 – VAN 0#GoChiefsGo pic.twitter.com/flAi2hnJvr
— Spokane Chiefs (@spokanechiefs) November 30, 2019
Erik Atchison earned his fourth of the season just under four minutes later as he deflected a Bobby Russell shot from the point to make it 2-0 Spokane.
After a scoreless second, the Giants continued to apply pressure in the third, putting 14 shots on net and scoring twice to force overtime. Justin Sourdif scored on a breakaway and Milos Roman chipped in his 12th of the year.
A turnover deep in Vancouver territory proved costly in the extra frame as the Giants turned a missed shot into a breakaway for Tristen Nielsen, who put it past Chiefs goaltender Lukas Parik for the win.
Box Score: SPO (2) vs. VAN (3) OT
Parik ended the night 33-for-36 in net for Spokane while Vancouver goaltender David Tendeck went 20-for-22. The Chiefs did not have a power play opportunity in the game and held the Giants 0-for-2 on their chances.
The Chiefs will have a chance to get back in the win column on Saturday night as they host the Victoria Royals for the one and only time this season. It will be Avista 35th Anniversary Poster Giveaway with the first 1,000 fans in attendance receiving a 35th Anniversary commemorative poster courtesy of Avista Utilities.
Tickets for Saturday night and all Chiefs home games can be purchased online, over the phone at 509-535-PUCK, or in-person at the Spokane Chiefs Ticket Office during normal business hours (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on game days).
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Weaker Euro Disproportionately Benefits Export-Driven German Economy - Lecturer
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https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201902261072750878-euro-germany-benefits-europe/
According to a study published by the Centre for European Policy in Freiburg, Germany gained "by far the most" from the introduction of the euro, while France and Italy saw a drop in prosperity over 20 years. Sputnik discussed this with David Coker, Senior Lecturer in Finance at the School of Finance and Accounting at the University of Westminster.
Sputnik: How did Germany and the Netherlands manage to benefit from the euro while other countries didn’t?
David Coker: The economies of both Germany and The Netherlands are outward-looking and export-driven, so a weaker Euro benefits these nations disproportionately compared to other European economies. For example, in France services account for some 71% of GDP and services don’t benefit as much from a weaker currency as manufacturing. In other words, while products that are exported are directly substituteable across nations, services aren’t.
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Palladium Hits Record High, Gold Up as Central Banks Wary Of Dollar
READ MORE: Dumping the Dollar? EU Seeks to Promote Euro in Global Energy Trade
Sputnik: According to the report, one of the main reasons for the drop in the prosperity of the other countries was international competitiveness. What role has the introduction of the euro played?
David Coker: If an economy is more inward-looking, a weaker Euro will render imports more expensive, but bring little to no benefits. Compare to an outward-looking, export-driven economy — as the Euro drops in value, exports increase, offsetting any increased costs the weaker currency brings in the form of more expensive imports.
The Euro was badly implemented. One currency exchange rate can’t apply to such disparate economies as we see in The Eurozone.
READ MORE: Bumpy Road: Euro's Fate in Limbo After 20 Years of Existence
Sputnik: According to the report, the devaluation of currencies serves as a universal tool to make exports cheaper. Is this indeed so? How does this affect taxpayers and other sectors of the economy?
David Coker: Yes, a weaker currency makes a nation’s exports more competitive. Other sectors, in theory, should benefit as tax revenue increases.
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'Dollar Depreciation': Will Gold Replace Greenback as Global Reserve Currency?
READ MORE: Eurozone Price Index Rises in January, Industry Slides Into Contraction
Sputnik: If all other countries were able to devalue their currencies, what consequences could this lead to?
David Coker: If all other nations were to devalue, we’d see no competitive advantage being gained from the relatively weaker currency. However, this would likely cause economic distress in many nations, as a stronger currency is a function of many factors, for example, domestic interest rates. To maintain a weaker currency some nations may find it necessary to lower interest rates. This would lower the cost of capital in these nations, likely trigger domestic inflation and effectively punish savers. It also likely would lead to financial instability across many aspects of business. A lower cost of capital historically has led to asset bubbles and we know bubbles don’t slowly deflate — they burst. And with historically damaging consequences e.g., America’s housing bubble in the early 2000s.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect Sputnik's position.
euro, dollar, currency, European Union
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A Story of impact; NIOSH list of hazardous drugs in healthcare settings allows healthcare workers to minimize exposure and reduce health risks
NIOSH list of hazardous drugs in healthcare settings allows healthcare workers to minimize exposure and reduce health risks ; r2p ;
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
"Modern society is fortunate to have powerful treatments available for a wide range of medical conditions. However, some useful medications can also have serious side effects. When using these drugs for medical treatment, doctors carefully control the dose and monitor the patient to minimize harmful consequences. But the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare workers who handle these medications are also being exposed and may also demonstrate adverse health effects. Hazardous drugs include drugs used for chemotherapy, antiviral drugs, hormones, and some immunosuppressant drugs - all of which may have damaging effects on the body. When these drugs must be prepared and administered, there are workplace best practices that can minimize potentially harmful exposure. These include the use of engineering controls such as biological safety cabinets, closed system transfer devices, needleless systems, and personal protective equipment such as gloves, masks, and gowns. In order to use this equipment appropriately and effectively, healthcare workers need to know which drugs pose a hazard. Starting in 2000, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) began working with multiple partners and stakeholders to address the issue of occupational exposure to hazardous drugs. The NIOSH Hazardous Drug Committee - with representatives from nursing and pharmacy professional associations, federal agencies, pharmaceutical companies, health and safety professionals, manufacturers of safety equipment, and academia - developed recommendations for how to minimize exposure when working with hazardous drugs." - NIOSHTIC-2
On back: Logo for the Research to Practice at NIOSH initiative (r2p).
Health Personnel
Antineoplastic Agents/Poisoning
Hazardous Substances/Poisoning
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Surface Wipe Sampling for Antineoplastic (Chemotherapy) and Other Hazardous Drug Residue in Healthcare Settings: Methodology and Recommendations
Connor, Thomas H.; Zock, Matthew D.; Snow, Amy H.;
J Occup Environ Hyg. 13(9):658-667.
PurposeSurface wipe sampling for various hazardous agents has been employed in many occupational settings over the years for various reasons such as evaluation of potential dermal exposure and health risk, source determination, quality or cleanliness...
NIOSH eNews ; v. 2, issue 4, August 2004
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Office of the Director.
NIOSH eNews ; v. 2, issue 4
Preventing occupational exposure to antineoplastic and other hazardous drugs in health care settings
Burroughs, G. Edward; Connor, Thomas H.; Mead, Kenneth R.; Reed, Laurence D.;
NIOSH alert
Recent evidence in the Alert summarized on this poster documents that worker exposure to hazardous drugs is a persistent problem. Although most air-sampling studies have not demonstrated significant airborne concentrations of these drugs, the samplin...
State of the sector; healthcare and social assistance : identification of research opportunities for the next decade of NORA : executive summary
NORA Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector Council. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. National Occupational Research Agenda.
"Public awareness of the potential for healthcare to actually be the source of harm to patients through exposure to infectious agents, unintended error or known side effects of hazardous treatments has spawned a highly visible 'patient safety' moveme...
NORA Symposium 2011; achieving impact through research and partnerships, July 12-13, 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio
National Occupational Research Agenda. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. University of Cincinnati.
NORA Symposium (2011 : Cincinnati, OH)
The seventh NORA Symposium held in conjunction witt the University of Cincinnati; marking 15 years of NORA and the 40th anniversary of NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)."The National Institute for Occupational Safety ...
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Melting Point by Baret Magarian
By storgy in book reviews on August 9, 2019 August 3, 2019
‘Melting Point’ is an odd collection, to say the least. Though here, ‘odd’ isn’t to be taken as a negative, rather, what makes ‘Melting Point’ so strangely enjoyable is its oddities – it’s whispered moments of surrealism and shouted moments of the humorous absurd. Magarian is a lyrical author, who fuses and blends his prose in twists and turns of imagery and imagination. At times it’s a lot to stomach, you almost hanker for a simple sentence. But perhaps that’s the beauty of Magarian and ‘Melting Point’, in that, nothing about it is really all that simple.
The theme that threads itself through each piece is that of humanity – of life and all that it harbours. Yet whilst the theme is a constant, no two stories are the same, and the imagination from which Magarian unearths each piece is a joy. Nothing is quite what it seems and nothing is repeated, not at least, in a narrative sense, nor in genre. Sci-fi bleeds into surrealism which bleeds into drama which bleeds into the downright strange – you get the idea. The characters contrast, though there is the sense that all their lives are somehow connected by the bewilderment that is life.
Fourteen stories feature, and whilst I could harp on about each, the stands out of the collection examine the range of Magarian’s ideas. ‘The Watery Gowns’ sees the otherworldly make itself known. Kirsten is a diver – someone who only feels truly ‘complete, truly whole and peaceful’ in the ‘underwater chambers’ of the sea. The prose here is gorgeous.
‘Underwater everything was lighter, friction was robbed of its power to hurt, weight was dissipated. Maybe that was why she loved to dive…’.
It’s Magarian at his descriptive best. Kirsten decides to dive out to a local shipwreck alone where unexplained magic reveals itself to her. As she sets her hands passes her hands through a tear in the hull ‘she was engulfed in a reverberating sound […] she was deafened, stupefied.’ The power of the moment changes her, proven something to herself that she cannot know. It opens her up to something new, though just like Kristen, we’re never quite sure what, other than the sensation of placing her ‘hands inside a shipwreck.’ Magarian has the knack for capturing slices of unexplainable life where everything in you realises and recognises a change – what? We can’t always know. It’s a wonderful piece.
Elsewhere absurdity of some degree takes hold. ‘Clock’ and ‘The Ball’s visit both, the latter climaxing to a comical ending, though the reveal that leads to a ‘backdrop of blood and madness in the midst of dishes of spaghetti and polenta’ is quietly heart breaking. The protagonist Salvatore – a man who ‘touched his balls’ to ward of evil, learns that the child that has changed his life for the better isn’t actually his. Melancholic as it is, it also begs the question many of us face, and a situation many fall victim too – using another’s existence as reason to better yourself. What happens then, when you realise that the other is no property of yours?
Magarian questions life constantly, and never more in ‘The Rich and the Slaughtered’ and ‘Erasing the Waves’. The former is a dinner of the wealthy which ends in a reveal – ‘Lady Rathmere began scolding the waiter, telling him off for not giving the wine enough time to breathe’ What pettiness, what indulgence […] here we are seated amidst absurd levels of comfort and luxury […] and there, at the polar opposite, in scattered places throughout the world, a dark, dismal hell exists’. ‘What a blood-soaked mess is life. It’s all so unnecessary.’ Well, quite.
‘Erasing the Waves’ ponders similar musings of life. Two friends meet – one a journalist, another a famous Hollywood star. They go out to dinner and explore the vapidness of celebrity and what it means to be known. Though at times it appears elaborate for the sake of it, Aaron, the celebrity in question, offers worthy points of contest. He is stabbed and for whatever reason, it rejuvenates his career – ‘Maybe there was a connection between that night and the subsequent flowering of my career. Or maybe there wasn’t’. And that’s true of everything is it not? Is it all coincidence or was it meant to be? We can’t ever know. Again, the prose is lyrical, and again you almost wish Magarian would take pause for a moment. Although, maybe I don’t wish for that at all.
The final two pieces ‘The Fever’ and ‘The Opiate Eyes of the Buddha’ close ‘Melting Point’ out in fitting style, again presenting us with more questions than answers about life, though the latter tale offers more concrete conclusions than the other thirteen stories.
‘The Fever’ is a strange tale that takes its surroundings and turns them, well, into a sort of weird fever dream. Our protagonist is trusted with a package that he has to transport to Los Angeles. At first, it’s a mystery as to what lays inside, and whilst the reveal that the package is in fact a transcript falls somewhat flat at first, Magarian pulls it back when you realise the author has ‘the CIA and the FBI’ opening files on him. Suddenly, the transcript is more potent. Yet from then on the tale falls into a heady mix of dream and reality – ‘drenched mixture of unreality and mental depletion’ as our unnamed protagonist makes it to a motel. Bizarre moments occur, all resulting in the question that has been posed in different forms throughout the collection – ‘What was I doing with my life? What kind of life was it?’.
‘The Opiate Eyes of the Buddha’ pulls into a similar realm, though the bizarre is swapped for heady reality. Two English sisters – Katherine and Katja, are in Sri Lanka. One is decidedly more cynical about life than the other. They question the forces around them – ‘maybe it’s the legacy of the famous tsunami’ – but on the surface everything is smooth. Buddhism is thread in brief moments, a taxi driver for the sisters explaining ‘Buddhist they believe your actions in this life are deciding your next life, so we try to be good, try to be kind, so in next life we do not return in bad form’. It’s a known message; actions have consequences, and actions lead the sisters into a maelstrom a few pages later when a local mob/gang show up at their hotel on Christmas Eve and leave it bloody, to say the least. Katherine takes the lead to save them both, and then once again questions are begged – ‘How do you explain it? Divine intervention? Why were we spared?’. Yet the ending is more concrete and serves as a fitting moment to close out ‘Melting Point’. Many times has Magarian posed the unanswerable, but here Katherine makes a discovery. ‘She perceived in a grateful moment that she had been snatched perhaps from a life of perpetual questioning and wandering, there on that beach, on that arrival or departure point that the night had propelled them towards, two young women, stumbling, uncertain, but touched by beauty, and, finally, by grace’. The piece is one of the strongest in the collection, the prose passionate – the narrative once again authentic.
Magarian has a unique voice that makes ‘Melting Point’ so utterly readable. Expected the unexpected – and though at times I felt some pieces were clipped too short of a truly meaningful ending, ‘Clock’ and ‘The Visitation’ the only two I would truly ascribe that assessment to – overall the collection is authentic and imaginative. There is little chance you could predict where Magarian’s pieces might end up; a skill many writers I would hope would wish to possess.
Melting Point is published by Salt and is available here.
Baret Magarian
Baret Magarian is of Armenian extraction, from London, and lives in Florence. His creative writing career started at an early age when he found it convenient to make up school history essays rather than learn facts by rote; he is still quite lazy and creative. In London, he was a freelance journalist, published fiction in many magazines, wrote book reviews, features, and articles which have appeared in all the major British broadsheets.
Baret has interviewed such diverse figures as Peter Ustinov, the brilliant actor-director and raconteur, John Calder, iconoclastic publisher of eighteen Nobel prize winners, and Salman Rushdie, the celebrated novelist. He has worked as a lecturer, translator, fringe theatre director, actor and nude model. He is also a composer of piano music that is in the vein of Jarrett and Alkan and draws on the tonalities of Armenian music.
Reviewed by Emily Harrison
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“The Beaches Of St Valery” At Oran Mor
November 23, 2016 in Uncategorized | Tags: A Play A Pie And A Pint, NEW PLAYS, Oran mor, Scotland, Scottish Drama, Scottish Theatre, WAR STUDIES, Writing | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
“The Beaches Of St Valery” which formed part of my PhD in English Literature from the University Of Glasgow premiere on Monday 6th of March. I am currently in negotiations to tour the play in the new year.
Here are a selection of the Four Star Reviews.
Mary Brennan In The Herald. Four Stars.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/stage/15137093.Theatre_review__The_Beaches_of_St_Valery__Oran_Mor__Glasgow/
Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman. Four Stars.
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews-the-beaches-of-st-valery-transit-la-cage-aux-folles-1-4389166
Mumbles Theatre Blog . Four Stars
The Beaches of St Valery
The play follows the life of a young Scottish Soldier of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders and the 51st Highland Division from 1938 to the end of the war in 1946.
We see our everyman soldier go from a carefree 18 year old roads engineer to a battle-hardened veteran of 26.
The photograph below shows the CO of the 51st Highland Division, Major General Victor Fortune surrendering to General Erwin Rommel at St Valery-en-Caux on the 12th of June, 1940. This event forms the central motif of the play.
Gee Willikers! Katie Morag Nominated For Screenwriting Award
August 29, 2015 in Uncategorized | Tags: Arts, BBC Children's, CBeebies, Creative Industries, Creative Scotland, Creative Writing, Katie Morag, Mairi Hedderwick, Scotland, Screen Acting In Scotland, Screenplay, Screenwriting, Stuart Hepburn, Television, Writers Resources | by stuarthepburn | 1 comment
Katie Morag fans should note that Stuart Hepburn, Martin McCardie Sergio Casci and Lindy Cameron of Move On Up TV have been nominated for Best Children’s Screenplay in the British Screenwriter’s Awards as part of the London Screenwriter’s Festival . We all owe a great debt to Mairi Hedderwick for her fantastic books, and to Director Don Coutts and his Cast and Crew. If you are fans of the CBeebies and BBC Childrens series about the adventures of the wee girl from Struay, you can vote by clicking here. VOTE FOR KATIE MORAG
Three Year Honours Degrees In Performing Arts : Big Changes At UWS.
November 15, 2014 in Screen Acting | Tags: Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Contemporary Screen Acting, Creative Industries, Creative Scotland, Creativity, Musical theatre, musical theatre training, performance training, performing in Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Higher Education, Screen Acting In Scotland, Skillset, Stuart Hepburn, Television, Television program, University Of The West Of Scotland, UWSMediaacademy | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
In schools and colleges all over the country, students interested in the Performing Arts are thinking about what their next step should be.
There have been lots of exciting developments in the performance subject area at University Of The West Of Scotland in the past year.
We have formed a teaching partnership with the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr.
We have brought BA (Hons)Musical Theatre in-house to our £81 million campus in Ayr.
We have a brand new Technical Theatre Degree delivered through our partnership with the Gaiety .
Most importantly, all our Performance-based degrees are now 3 year Honours with entry levels at second year (Level 8) as well as third year (level 9).
All degrees require an audition, but students can apply to the courses in second year with :
3 Advanced Highers BCC or plus English at Higher level and Maths at Standard Grade 3 or above, National 4 or Intermediate 2.
3 A levels BBC or
An HNC (120 points) or
A B Tec 4 or
Intermediate 2 or
An International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma: 28 points.
All our degrees also have a level 9 entry with an HND or equivalent to our DRAMA UK recognised degrees.
With all this expansion, we want the best students to come to UWS Ayr. Every year , more and more students apply through UCAS, and the standard of work and quality of candidates is increasing.
Two of our students from Edinburgh College, Emily Barr and Jennie Walker have made a short video about life at UWS.
If you have any contacts at your old college or know of any British or Overseas students who might be interested in a 3 year honours degree, please share this post with them so that they can get an idea of what it’s like being a student at UWS Ayr.
Also, here are the links for anyone of your friends or relatives who may be specifically interested in our 3 years honours degrees.
BA(Hons) Musical Theatre
http://www.uws.ac.uk/ba-musical-theatre/
BA(Hons) Performance
http://www.uws.ac.uk/ba-performance/
BA(Hons) Contemporary Screen Acting
http://www.uws.ac.uk/ba-cont-screen-acting/
BA(Hons) Technical Theatre (subject to validation)
http://www.uws.ac.uk/sp…/technical_theatre_(3rd_year_entry)/
Please feel free to share this and spread the word to your old colleges , colleagues or friends. If you think that your old college would like a visit from UWS staff to talk to students, then please let us know too.
Any questions, email stuart.hepburn@uws.ac.uk
David Hayman In Live Q&A Recording At UWS Ayr TV Studios
March 14, 2014 in Uncategorized | Tags: Contemporary Screen Acting, Creative Industries, Creative Scotland, Filmmaking, Scotland, Scottish Higher Education, Screen Acting In Scotland, Stuart Hepburn, Television, University Of The West Of Scotland | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
Celebrated Scottish actor David Hayman visited University of the West of Scotland’s Ayr Campus recently to take part in the UWS collaborative creative industries project, StudioLab.
StudioLab is an ongoing project where students from all the University’s programmes related to the Creative Industries collaborate together to create recorded work and closely replicates the work of the professional Creative Industries, where teams of different disciplines get together to create a final product.
Hayman was at the University’s state-of-the-art recording studios at its Ayr Campus on 11 March to record a live Q&A session with third year Contemporary Screen Acting and Performance students .
David Hayman, the founder of SpiritAid urged acting students to “follow their dreams” when he visited the Campus. He enthralled the audience for over an hour telling them of his humble beginnings in the business, right up to recent work with Oscar Winners Michael Fassbender and Marilyn Cotillard.
David Hayman commented: “I was completely knocked over by the talent and enthusiasm of the students and the outstanding preforming and recording facilities at UWS in Ayr. I am already planning my next visit to follow up the wonderful work being done at UWS Ayr.”
The Photo above was taken by UWS Student Oliver Karaschewski .
It was an inspirational experience for students and staff which we recorded and will publish on our School Vimeo site.
Visits like these are an invaluable part of the process of the students gaining the skills, confidence and insights to enter the professional arena and we are planning more of these for the future. Watch this space for details.
Are Women Playing A Full Role In Scottish Theatre?
September 3, 2013 in Uncategorized | Tags: Christine Hamilton, Max Beckmann, Performing arts, Playwrights' Studio Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Society of Playwrights, Theatre, Traverse Theatre | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
Are women playing a full role in Theatre in Scotland? A quick look around suggests ‘no’. On the one hand, all theatres profess to have an ‘equal opportunities policy’ on the other hand, the Review of Theatre in Scotland last year showed that fewer than half actually monitored that policy. Recent research by Equity shows that opportunities for female actors are shrinking.
Does this matter? After all we can see women everywhere in theatre, in marketing, management, front of house and other roles. Are women just not interested in running theatres or taking a lead creative role? What affect does this have on the work and on what audiences see? How does this differ from the situation elsewhere in the UK and Europe?
Come and debate and discuss at Traverse 2 – 26th September 6pm -7.30pm with a glass of wine in the bar afterwards.
Blythe Duff in “Marco Pantani”
Max Beckmann, Equity Organiser, Equity
Christine Hamilton, Arts Consultant and Author of the Review of Theatre in Scotland 2012
Blandine Pelissier, founding member of the H/F Association for Gender Equality in Culture in France
The event is FREE but please book a space via the Traverse Box Office www.traverse.co.uk or call 0131 228 1404
Supported by Equity, Federation of Scottish Theatre, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and Scottish Society of Playwrights. Organised by Christine Hamilton, Consulting – christinehamiltonconsulting@gmail.com
Thanks to the Traverse Theatre for their support.
Lorne Boswell
G1 3QQ
Scotland@equity.org.uk
TaPRA 2013 Conference Glasgow :Keynote Event Weds 4th Sept
September 3, 2013 in Uncategorized | Tags: Artistic director, Ben Harrison, David Greig, Glasgow, Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland, Scotland, Stuart Hepburn, Theatre and Performance Research Association, University of Split | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
The Theatre and Performance Research Association National Conference 2013 takes place in the Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland from Weds 4th-Friday 6th of Sept.
I’ll be assisting my friend and colleague, the freelance Arts Consultant Christine Hamilton with her contribution to the Keynote Panel Event in the Stephenson Hall at 4.pm on Weds 4th of Sept.
I’ll be performing from 3 selected pieces by writers Pamela Carter and David Greig.
To quote from the TaPRA programme :
“Each member of the panel has been asked to reflect on how the practices and insights of contemporary theatre and performance might help to inform, broaden or indeed reconfigure the cultural and political discourses around possible independence in Scotland and accompanying notions of national identity. How might the mental and imaginary landscapes of theatre and performance-making offer productive ways of (re) thinking our views about self-determination, democracy and cultural production in a local, national and global context in the early 21st century.
Ben Harrison (Co-Artistic Director of Grid Iron)
Goran Golovko (Vice-Dean, Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia)
Christine Hamilton (Freelance Arts Consultant, Glasgow)
Chair: Mary Brennan (Dance & Performance Critic for The Glasgow Herald)”
Hope to see some of you there. Rumour has it I will be around at the wine reception at The Arches at 6.30 pm.
Contemporary Screen Acting At UWS : Student Video
November 24, 2012 in Uncategorized | Tags: Arts, Creative Industries, Education, Michael Hines, Scotland, Screen Acting, Screen Acting In Scotland, Screenplay, Student, University Of The West Of Scotland, UWS | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
This video was created by University Of The West Of Scotland students to publicise and market their Contemporary Screen Acting Degree.
If you have a Higher National Diploma or equivalent in a Performance -based subject, then this two year top up Degree Programme is designed for you.
Contemporary Screen Acting At UWS
Women In Film & TV : Glasgow Launch Sat 27th October
October 20, 2012 in Uncategorized | Tags: creative, Creative Industries, feminism, Film, Movies, Scotland, Telelvision, tv, women in film | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
Women in film and television – 3:30pm for 5:00pm Start | Saturday 27 October | Venue: Hopscotch Theatre Company, Water Row, Glasgow, G51 3UW
Following the huge success of the WFTV Writers’ Group in London, they’re delighted to announce the first Writers’ Group meeting for their members in Scotland. Join Raisah Ahmed and Lynsey Murdoch and talk with fellow-members and writers. Guest speaker Eleanor Yule.
For a limited period of time, this group is also open to non-members. Only writers though, please!
CONTACT DIRECTLY for further info Belle at – belle@wftv.org.uk
A new monthly Women in Film & Television Writers’ Group – first session will be held at Hopscotch Theatre in Govan on Saturday 27th October from 3.30-5pm. All the details are on Eventbrite and here is the link: http://wftvscotwriters1.eventbrite.com
This first meeting is free to all, and is women-only. It’s for anyone interested in writing professionally for the film and TV industry. Eleanor Yule is the first speaker, and we will bring in script editors, producers, actors and designers to enable the group work with indsutry professionals.
StudioLab Screenwriting Project : Week 3
October 11, 2012 in Academic News, Contemporary Screen Acting, Creative Industries, Creative Writing, Performance, Research Projects, Scottish Writing, Screen Acting, Uncategorized | Tags: Arts, Contemporary Screen Acting Students, Creaitve Industries, Creative Scotland, Filmmaking, John Malkovich, Research, Scotland, Screenwriting, Studio Lab, Writers Resources | by stuarthepburn | Leave a comment
I have wrtitten previously about the setting up of our UWS collaboration project “Studio Lab” at our new Television Studios at University Of The West Of Scotland in Ayr . We have now reached Week 3 of the project and it is developing at a breathtaking pace.
Ten 4th year (level 10 ) Contemporary Screen Acting Students have worked on creating the scenario, characters and script of a live recorded studio production of approximately 30-60 mins in length. Readers will, I hope, appreciate that this is a substantial piece of work.It will be recorded “as live” at UWS Ayr Studios on December 5th. It will be directed by professional TV Director Michael Hines , who as well as being one of Scotland’s leading directors, also lectures on our Camera Acting Techniques and Screen Drama modules. All the improvisational materials and exercises are being been recorded , edited and disseminated online to the performance team by volunteer Film Making & Screenwriting students as part of this crossover collaboration. The volunteer recording team have put in literally hours of work to ensure that the acting team have the material in an edited form in order to reflect, and then deepen the characterisations which will be eventually reflected in an improvised shooting script to prepare for the live recording.
Rebecca Skinner, Emmi Häkkä, Marius Pocevičius and Lizzie Kane in UWS Ayr Studios
As the project progresses closer towards shooting, Broadcast Production students will become more involved, so that by the time we record, I expect a team of about 20 strong production team to be part of the behind the scenes efforts to capture the live recording of this experimental drama. Thus around 30 UWS Creative Industries students will have had the chance to take part in an authentic hands on experience which we hope will arm them for the challenges of the Professional Creative Industries.
We have now reached week 3 of the project. So far students have worked on Object, Situation and Interactive improvisations. This has produced approximately 3 hours of edited material. The first part of each session is taken up by watching, discussing and reflecting upon last weeks material. All the edited material has been previously posted on a closed Facebook Group where all the participating students, both voluntary and assessed, take part in creative online discussions through the week.Screen Acting students are tasked with creating three dimensional authentic characters with a backstory, personna, and psychological underpinning which will propel them into the creation of a fully integrated live drama.
Having now gathered a wealth of material, students are engaged in the process of “locating” the precinct within which the final production will be based. Will it be an airport? An institution? A city street? A Spaceship? Inside John Malkovich’s head? The decision of what, where and how the precinct will be will evolve over the next two weeks, so that by week 6, students have a firm grasp of the creative parameters of the project. By weeks 7 and 8, the now located script will be further improvised, developed and honed. At this point, UWS Screenwriting students will distill all the material into a developing script, so that by the time we get to the Technical Rehearsal in Week 10 on Nov 28th, we will have an agreed shooting script which fully reflects the creative input of all participants. We are then planning a final screening in our Campus HD 7:1 Movie Theatre in Week 12.
Next trimester, all the Contemporary Screen Acting students are tasked with writing a 4-6,000 word Ethnographic survey of the lived experience of the entire process. This part of the process is has been devised and delivered by my colleague Dr John Quinn at UWS.
The combination of the two processes, Recorded Artefact and Ethnographic Survey will combine in a 40 Credit Module to complete the Contemporary Screen Acting Research Project. We plan to have all student work submitted in a digital form and be deliverable online in the first ever truly paperless I will update progress with the StudioLab project as it develops.
Katie Power,Catherine Lockhart,Stuart McGowan,Anna Kennedy & Claudie Baker Park improvise. Photos by William Aldridge
University Of The West Of Scotland- At Last, a league table to make us proud!
June 5, 2012 in Academic News, Contemporary Screen Acting, Creative Industries, Creativity, Student Events | Tags: Ayr, National Student Survey, Paisley, Scotland, Scottish Index Of Multiple Deprivation, University of Glasgow, University Of The West Of Scotland, UWS | by stuarthepburn | 1 comment
I have taught Screenwriting and Performance at the University Of The West of Scotland since 2006. Dr Sarah Neely, who at that time was teaching Screenwriting here, originally asked me to visit to deliver a one hour talk on my work in the Creative Industries. At that time the institution was called “The University Of Paisley” . I thought I was agreeing to go and talk in Paisley, Renfrewshire, until the day before the visit I looked at a map armed with the Post Code and realised that I was booked to speak in Ayr. Ayr??? What….Ayr, Ayrshire? Robert Burns? Ice Cream? Butlins? I remember phoning Sarah up the night before and asking her once again…”
“It is Ayr you want me to go to, is it? ”
She assured me that it was indeed the toon of honest men and bonnie lasses, and off I went with my bike on the train, to Ayr the next day. I got out at the end of the line, and outside the station, asked the ticket inspector if he could tell me the way to the University. “Oh aye, ” he said, ” Ayr College….doon there, mate…”
“No..not Ayr College…..the University….” I said.
He drew himself up to his full 5’5″ , cupped his fag against the wind, and said ” There’s nae University in Ayr, son….”
Noting my puzzlement, one of his colleagues paused from rolling a cigarette and shouted over…” It’s Craigie he’s wantin’, Wullie”
With that, a light came on in Wullie’s eye…” Oh..CRAIGIE, is it?….how did you no say?” And with that he gave me pinpoint directions to the Craigie Campus of the University Of Paisley.
6 years later and I am still here.
The New Campus
The New University Campus In Ayr
Now renamed University Of The West Of Scotland after its merger with Bell College Hamilton, and newly relocated in our new £80 million state of the art campus on the banks of the River Ayr, the place I work in now is very different from the leaky, drafty, run down ex-teacher training college I walked into that day in March 2006. Thankfully, there is sign outside the town which says “Ayr..A University Town” , so that even Wullie from the station will now realise that there is a University in Ayr…and a damn fine one at that!
But there is something else that hasn’t changed at all. The students. Oh they aren’t exactly the same student’s of course. Six cohorts of graduates have moved on and made a life for themselves in the time I have been there. But they are exactly the same type of students.A large percentage of them tend to come from the same housing schemes, the same small towns, the same Islands and urban conurbations as they did then.
There is a specific “look” and “sound” to a group of UWS students. I can’t define it, but I can instantly recognise it. I have lectured to MA students in ancient oak and leather furnished rooms at St Andrews: to groups of Film Students in a modern Lecture Theatre at the University of Stirling: to Theatre Studies Graduates in a beautifully dramatic arts “Church” at Glasgow Uni. Every one of those groups was instantly differentiated from my students at UWS. Let’s cut to the chase here. We are talking class. The statisticians don’t talk about class. They talk about “areas of high deprivation” or “lower socioeconomic sectors”. Whatever way you dress it up as, the “look” and “sound” of a group of UWS students is closely linked to the fact that a large percentage of them come from the sort of places that most of the middle class worthies who run Scottish Education only see through smoke-tinted windscreens. Many of my students are the first person in their family to take up Higher Education. Many of them are single parents. Many of them have full time jobs in very low paid areas. Many of them subsist on bursaries, grants,handouts and overdrafts. Over 35% of our Performance Students have special educational needs which are fully supported by our fantastic team at UWS Ayr. I wonder what the equivalent figure is in St. Andrews? I don’t have that figure to hand, but today, thanks to the NUS Scotland, I DO have a figure which has made me proud to work at UWS, and proud to teach my students. More of that later.
The New NSS Survey is out? Oh……great. :..(
Creative Hack Day in The Control Room
When you work at UWS, the release of National Statistics is rarely a pleasant experience. With teeth-grinding regularity, I see the National Student Survey “Performance Charts” which put Oxford , St Andrews and Cambridge at the top, and UWS somewhere…well…. let’s say a wee bit further down than Edinburgh.
Never mind that my students are taught in the most modern Creative Industries University in Britain.Never mind that all the hard work, toil, time, effort and downright passion that my colleagues and I put in to our students learning experience comes to nothing. My UWS students aren’t even included in the National Student Survey. Astonishingly, unbelievably, incredibly, as direct entry third year “top up” students, they don’t even get ASKED what they think of their education. Why? Because the entire NSS system is geared to assessing the thoughts of 18 year olds with A Levels who are studying three year degrees. None of my students, not a single ONE of them, adheres to that biased, Southern, middle class model. Many of my students don’t even have Highers. They left school at 16, maybe took a year out to work , or signed on. Some of them have been Fire Officers, Estate Agents,full time mothers, even a magician! Whatever their past, at some point,at some time, they took an access course, went to a local FE college, and achieved an HNC or an HND in Performance and Acting. They did this in circumstances which were a million miles away from the creme de la creme of the education world who are recruited by the “elites” . This large group of Articulation students is completely ignored by the NSS. Institutions like UWS takes large numbers of these students . We cajole them, teache them, argue with them, are frustrated and infuriated by them, but finally we arm them with an honours degree , self respect, and a practical tool kit to go out into the world and make a career for themselves. And yet my colleagues, students and I have to watch as their progress is completely marginalised as the NSS statistics “prove” how wonderful the “elite” universities are, and how low down we are .
League Table Shmeague Table.
As we all know, the true situation at the chalk face is far more complex than any crass league tables can ever reflect. For example, I am bursting with pride at my two Honours students who achieved First Class degrees this year. They could walk into post-graduate studies of any elite institution in the country if they so wished. However I am just as proud of my other students who have emerged from challenging circumstances and learned advanced criticality, reflection and transferrable soft and hard skills which will help them gain employment or create their own jobs and careers. They want to ensure that their children don’t get the same free meals that they did, and I am proud to be part of that process. Indeed I am literally part of that process, because I too was the possessor of a dreaded free “white dinner ticket” while at school. But none of this is reflected in the cursed tables I see published in the papers every year. And do you know what? I’m past caring…..well…until today……because…..we made it to the top of a table today, and suddenly , I think they are a GREAT idea….so….
Our HD Television Studio at UWS Ayr.
Hallelujah! Let joy be unconfined! Let the church bells ring and let laughter and mirth spread through the land! At last, some statistics are published which finally reflect the pride I feel in my institution, and which justify the passion and energy which my colleagues and I put into our work here. UWS has come out ON TOP in a statistical survey! I will repeat that. University Of The West Of Scotland has come out ON TOP! We are the top recruiter of students scoring highest using the criteria of the Scottish Index Of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)
According to a recent study commissioned by NUS Scotland, UWS recruits a greater percentage of students from “deprived areas” than any other university in Scotland. Of course needless to say, this was not presented as a positive story. Did I pick up my Herald yesterday and luxuriate in the headline trumpeting “UWS Triumphs In Campaign For Open Access” ? Errr….No. Instead these figures were described as “Elite Universities Fail To Recruit Poorer Pupils.” ‘Twas ever thus.
Nevertheless, it IS a positive story for us at UWS! Last year we recruited 1,117 students from the lowest SIMD sector. To give this a bit of context, St Andrews, (which I believe is thought of as one of the elite ) , managed to recruit……..wait for the drumroll……..a grand total of ….13. Maybe we should call them the St. Andrews 13. Maybe they were all from the same Rugby League team? Whoever they are, I really do wish them well, because they must be 13 of the most outstanding students in the country. However it means that while 2.7% of St Andrews students might have got free school meals or had an unemployed parent, the UWS figure is 25.4%.
Not only that, but the elite universities (what a wonderful term that is ) are actually recruiting less disadvantaged students than they did 10 years ago. This means that these august educational institutions , whose senior common rooms no doubt glow with statisfaction at their domination of the NSS statistics, are getting less and less successful in helping the poorest attempt to break out of a cycle of deprivation and poverty than before.
The Blame Game?
Let’s make one point crystal clear here. I don’t blame the elite unis for this. As Alistair Sim, director of Universities Scotland states in the Herald of June 4th 2012
“To deliver significant change in universities, you first need to tackle the root of the problem, which is the large gap in attainment according to deprivation in schools, as recent reports have confirmed,”
I’ll say!
Coupled with this, I also don’t blame the elite for wanting to recruit the best students. If I got the chance to recruit a fantastic actress who had gone to Swiss finishing school and had an International Baccalauréat , I would do it in a flash. But I live in the real world too. I am competing against other institutions which are deemed “elite” and superior to mine. I know that because I see it in the League Tables, so it must be true, musn’t it?
Prolier Than Thou?
Of course, The solution to these societal inequalities, as Alistair Sim points out, lies not in the University sector at all. Universities are the symptom of the disease, not the cause. It is in the schools and pre-school system that this canker of inequality is nurtured. The fact that elite schools dominate the intake of elite universities is clearly symptomatic of the effect of pouring massive subsidy and resources into the education of the 7% of British Children who attend “independent” schools. Thus inequality is structurally inevitable if we are to continue to give parents the “freedom” to buy their children’s superior school education. Even the proposed imposition of quotas, through which the Government plans to force Universities to take more disadvantaged students (and which the “elite” will inevitably rail against) , are naught but a tiny sticking plaster on what is a far , far deeper inequality wound in contemporary Scottish society.
The Way Forward.
If we Scots decide that we want to build a fairer society (and the evidence of election after election in Scotland is that we do ) , then the only way to redress our massive societal inequalities is through investment in education and training at the pre-school, school, FE and HE level. At UWS, we can only do what we can do, and I am proud to be part of an HE institution which is clearly and demonstrably doing more to enable open access to HE than any other University in Scotland.
Graduation Day At UWS Ayr
So let’s hear it for UWS, our students, and especially for Wullie the ticket inspector from Ayr whose town has a University which is top of the performance charts in at least one crucial area.
If you want more information on the sort of work our Articulation students do in Ayr, please have a look at the Video below. It was created, written, acted and edited by my third years last term. These students came straight from an HND at FE College, and have no current voice in the National Student Survey. Let their words speak for themselves. Contemporary Screen Acting At University Of The West Of Scotland.
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