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Kelly Clarkson Releases Sneak Peek of “Piece by Piece” Video
RCA Records Kelly Clarkson has released a teaser for her new “Piece by Piece” music video. The singer posted a 10-second clip from the black-and-white visual showing a close-up of her face with her hair blowing and two people holding hands.
The full-length video comes out tomorrow. Kelly previously called “Piece by Piece” the most personal track on her album of the same name. She wrote it about being abandoned by her father as a child, and how her husband, Brandon Blackstock, restored her faith in men.
She’s currently expecting her second child -- a boy -- with Brandon. They have a daughter named River Rose.
Kelly's #PieceByPiece video premieres tomorrow, but we've got a special sneak peek for you today! - Team KC https://t.co/N6VKTZnCts
— Kelly Clarkson (@kelly_clarkson) November 18, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 7:00PM Music News Group Permalink
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Gülen Band Owns $60 billion, Runs Heroin Network
TURKEY 18 march 2014
The daily Turkish newspaper, Akşam, interviewed the FBI consultant Paul L. Williams who, as a specialist on radical Islam and terrorism, has studied the Islamist cleric Fethullah Gülen and his gang for years. He even made it into Gülen’s enormous mansion in Pennsylvania and had a look at the shady community behind the scenes. He claimed that the Gülen Band holds a great amount of property all around the world, approximating at $5 billion, and takes its real strength from drug dealing. According to Williams, Fethullah Gülen and his band initially worked for the USA’s interests over the middle-east region. The entire interview of Williams is as following:
“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attitude about the Mavi Marmara incident is not surprising, and neither is the fact that he made Gülen an enemy due to his Syrian policies. General Kenan Evren had acted 34 years ago according to the US National Security Principal Consultant Zbigniew Brzezinski’s command, which was necessary for a new system for the Turkish countries in Asia. However, Gülen was the one who responded this need of his, by leaking into the region with his teaching institutions in order to deliver the control of gas and oil sources in the region to the USA. This is why the CIA authorities bestowed a letter of reference upon him for his Green Card application. In the sound recordings, Gülen talks about the revival of Ottoman Empire and a new Islamic system, which is interesting because the CIA seems to share this notion. Otherwise, why would the CIA assign its people to the Gülen’s schools in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kırgyzistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan? Russia and Ukraine shut down the Gülenist schools because of this. Gülen has also an effect on the protests in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. He tries to seize Turkistan’s independence from China as the CIA recognizes the country as a sovereign already, and because the leaders of Uyghur Turks live in Chicago, USA.
Williams claimed in his article in July 2013: “There are dormitories, resorts, guest houses, a heliport, test-fire areas in Gülen’s mansion which is protected by a 100 Turkish people day and night. People in the neighbourhood complain about the constant gunshots. They say that a helicopter flies low from time to time. Gülen lives in a mansion with those who do paramilitary armed training, yet he claims to be against terrorism.” There are a 130 CIA agents working in the Gülen schools which are financed by means of narcotics and smuggling. They dominate the banks and business world in Turkey. Women cannot get married even if they are 50 without Gülen’s permission and he even selects the husbands for them.”
“I have visited Fethullah Gülen’s farm so many times before, had meetings with the authorities in it, all the neighbours around and the principals in the Gülen schools. According to some people who come and go to Gülen’s farm, he decided to abandon the AKP and support the CHP instead. Their goal is to take hold of that party and this idea nourished in Gülen’s farm in Pennsylvania. They surely have the support of the US Foreign Affairs Ministry. Gülen is known to serve to the CIA.”
“The Susurluk incident proved the fact that there was a deep situation in the state and the criminal, mafia and politics are interlaced each other. Gülen is used by the CIA. I am currently writing a book on the relation between Fethullah Gülen and Susurluk incident.”
“This kind of structuring is exactly what Gülen represents. The Gülen Movement lives on a massive heroin network. Gülen, supposedly the head of an education network, secretly declared to the court when he applied for Green Card that he had wealth of $5 billion. This amount of money is too much for a man who even denies to be the head of an educational network. How did they gain this amount of money? I can provide you with the document which was presented to the court.”
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The Royal Canadian Air Force has announced that the theme of the 2019 CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team will be celebrating the history of the RCAF and highlighting Canada’s role in the NATO alliance. They also announced that the demonstration pilot for the 2019 airshow season will be Captain Brian “Humza” Kilroy from Alberta.
Each year’s theme is reflected in a special paint job applied to the primary demonstration aircraft; for 2019, the 70th anniversary of NATO and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion were popular suggestions for the theme. In recent years, themes have honored the 60th anniversary of NORAD, 150 years of Canadian confederation, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and the Battle of Britain.
There have been indications that the 2019 demo paint scheme will be limited to the aircraft’s tail fins. Recent designs have covered the entire aircraft but tail-only designs have been done before as well. Regardless of the limitations, we look forward to seeing what the talented paint techs can come up with!
Unfortunately, according to the schedule they released at ICAS the CF-18 team will not be performing anywhere outside of Canada in 2019. In fact, their schedule has been reduced by 40% compared to last year. A later report by the Toronto Star indicates that the reduced schedule is a conscious decision in light of significant personnel shortages in the RCAF, although the wisdom of reducing recruitment efforts during a shortage is questionable. The aircraft are also in poor shape; the team had many high-profile struggles to keep the primary aircraft flying during the 2018 show season and had to skip at least one entire weekend due to mechanical troubles. Less time on the road should reduce wear and tear on both man and machine.
Make sure you check the CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team’s 2019 schedule to see if they’ll be anywhere near you!
Here is the full press release from the RCAF:
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Captain Brian Kilroy as the pilot for the 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team.
Captain Kilroy will wow audiences around Canada during the 2019 air show season, flying his specially-painted CF-18 Hornet commemorating the RCAF’s pathway to the stars and the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
“The 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team theme is an opportunity for the Royal Canadian Air Force to reflect on the innovations and people that have contributed to our success while challenging ourselves and the next generation to help us shape the future of our organization for the better,” said Major-General Christian Drouin, Commander of 1 Canadian Air Division/Canadian NORAD Region. “I am very proud of what the RCAF has accomplished in the last 95 years and I can’t wait to see where the next few decades take us.”
Captain Brian Kilroy
Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta Captain Kilroy spent his childhood in Stony Plain, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in chemical engineering.
The son of an RCMP officer, he was strongly supported to pursue his aviation dreams by his mother, who also shared his love for aviation. He attended numerous airshows throughout his childhood where he even had the chance to see the CF-18 Demonstration Team perform, which further inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a fighter pilot.
Captain Kilroy was a member the Royal Canadian Air Cadets in Stony Plain before deciding to pursue his dream of flying and joining the RCAF in 2006. He was later given the opportunity to attend the Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program in Witchita Falls, Texas, where he went on to fulfill his lifelong dream of receiving his RCAF pilot’s wings.
Following flight training, he was posted to 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta, as an operational fighter pilot in 2013. Captain Kilroy has actively served throughout Canada on the Hornet in support of NORAD and has deployed numerous times on international NATO and Canadian Armed Forces missions.
Today, Captain Kilroy is a four-ship lead and qualified Electronic Warfare Instructor with 410 Tactical Fighter (Operational Training) Squadron, using his combat and operational experience to train the next generation of CF-18 pilots.
“Being chosen to represent the Royal Canadian Air Force as the 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Pilot is a true honour and I can’t wait to meet the rest of my team and start the season,” said Captain Kilroy. “To me this year’s theme really is a call to action and an amazing opportunity to inspire the next generation. We’re challenging ourselves and Canadians to keep pushing the limits of what is possible and to keep innovating. I hope that this summer our team will inspire Canadians to think and dream big while also demonstrating the impressive capabilities of their Air Force.”
Based on the RCAF’s motto Sic Itur Ad Astra (Latin for “such is the pathway to the stars”), the 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team will celebrate the history of the RCAF, recognize the innovative and driven Canadians who have led the charge for change and stand ready to inspire a new generation to take up the flame of innovation and help shape the RCAF’s pathway to the stars.
The 2019 season also provides an opportunity to highlight the RCAF’s operational role within NATO, a cornerstone of Canada’s international security policy, as it celebrates its 70th anniversary.
The 2019 schedule will see the team visit 15 different show sites across Canada, as well as take part in the Parliament Hill flypast in Ottawa on Canada Day. The 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team is looking forward to thrilling audiences across Canada this summer and demonstrating the RCAF’s capabilities to Canadians.
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Beyond Greed
Basic Bliss | Togo Smials' LiveJournal | MozDawg DAV | CityZen
"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
posted April 12, 2003 at 10:26 p.m. MDT
Common sense is seen as anti-American? Okay, then, common-sense is anti-American. Let us now proceed.
From the troops on the streets of Iraq we hear that they are there to fight the war, with no instructions concerning police duties. So, therefore, the Great Grande Self-Proclaimed Bringers of Peace, the Pentagon, is guilty not only of abrogating international law in launching this optional war (in contravention of the United Nations' Charter) but also of disregarding their responsibilities as laid out in the Geneva Convention.
With regards the consequences of the Ba'ath Party's rule, and the presidency of Saddam Hussein, we should speak of thugism as a cult, cutlure, world-view, and approach to questions of politics. In that frame of mind we consider "Henny Penny" Rumsfeld, good old boy "Tommy" Franks, and "Jay" Garner ... do any of these hugely powerful men know anything other than armed slaughter?
The people who brought you Windows 95 (presenting it as a legitimate and valid operating system) and Enron (presenting it as a legitimate and valid corporate entity) caused even the invaluable treasure of ancient Babylon to be subjected to ruin (50,000 items disappeared from a single museum, while brave young men soldiers, armed to the teeth, merely shrug) ... have they absolute impunity? What individual believes that armed gangs have impunity before the law because they happen to be American?
Americans are actually very powerful ... perhaps they behave as a nation of cowards because they have convinced themselves that righteousness is weak ... thugs who kill the good and see no lightning, so kill again and again and again, and yet again, and yet again. [Ask around to find out what it means to be a "double veteran" ... you'll then have clue #1, if you dare open your ears and then think.]
It's a hard rain, is gonna fall.
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I suppose the situation makes sense, in a primitive sort of way: nations with international reputations based on decades of experience will be allowed to play a role in Iraq /If and Only If/ they kiss American ass; I think we all have some experience with that attitude. No?
Three War Critics Want U.N. Effort to Rebuild [nytimes.com] - " ... At an hourlong news conference notably short on specifics, Mr. Putin said Mr. Chirac had suggested that the rebuilding effort in Iraq should be modeled after the one in Afghanistan last year. In that instance, the United Nations held an international conference to line up postwar aid for Afghanistan, then helped assemble a temporary government to serve as a bridge to free elections.
Only the United Nations has the stamp of legitimacy and impartiality essential to creating a broadly backed government, Mr. Putin said, adding that "the fate of the country should be given to the hands of the Iraqi people, the Iraqis themselves." "But first of all," he said, "the occupying forces should resolve the most urgent humanitarian issues."
Groups Say U.S. Lags on Restoring Order [washingtonpost.com] - "... In Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that it is "profoundly alarmed by the chaos currently prevailing in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq." It said the medical system in Baghdad "has virtually collapsed," with hospitals closed due to combat damage, looting and fear of looting.
The ICRC urged the United States and Britain to fulfill their obligations under international humanitarian law as "occupying powers" to stop violence against civilians. Amnesty International made a similar demand, calling on the allies to deploy "adequate numbers of troops with the appropriate training to maintain law and order."
U.S. Diplomats Are Leaving Overseas Posts [nytimes.com] - " ... In recent months, the State Department has evacuated about 1,400 diplomats and their dependents from 17 countries, the officials said.
This rather hastily written article illustrates what it's like when the liberators are more concerned about oil fields than citizens: In Need Of Help, Nowhere To Turn [washingtonpost.com]
Why does support for American policy lead to brain damage? Alliance party leader DumDumb Harper says Deputy Prime Minister Manley acts like the Iraqi information minister; US Ambassador Paul "batteries included" Celucci finds it "Incomprehensible". What's the buzz?
Canadian Navy announced it would follow international law and Canadian foreign policy on the high-seas of the Persian Gulf. That requires denunciation from the US Government and their boot-licks like Harper. (Where was Mulroney and Kline, and the rest of the brown-nosers? Standing in line, waiting their turns, I guess.) A Navy spokesperson said Canadian Forces capturing fugitives at sea would follow procedure rather than turning them over to American authority. This, of course, is disloyalty to the Eagle Empire ... one nation, and one nation only rules this earth.
Have Americans gone completely insane?!
Annual world expenditure on education is 4 billion.
Annual world expenditure on water and sanitation is 6 billion.
Annual world military expenditure is 538 billion.
- figures from the United Nations Human Development Report
posted April 11, 2003 at 8:57 p.m. MDT
My one post this day: Rumsfeld responds to calamity in Iraq with, "Henny Penny! The sky is falling!" ... he mocks, and he lies. He ridicules, "You see 20 times the same pictures of someone stealing a vase and wonder, are there that many vases?!" (The cretins at the press conference giggle and laugh.)
Bush is a dry-drunk ... Rumsfeld is an incompetent and deluded sociopath ... Cheney licks corporate boots ... Wolfowitz and Perles are mouthspieces for the psychopaths who rule the corporate elite. Proof? Evidence? "Yee shall know them by their works" ... these autocratic thugs created bin Laden; they armed and encouraged Saddam Hussein; they over-ran Iraq while protecting oil fields, ignoring hospitals, and throwing civilians to the dogs.
Yet another shameful legacy of American hubris: the minority who saw their standard of living increase substantially over the past two decades have their eyes on the ball: screw the French, the Germans, the Russians, the Iraqis, the Arabs, the Palestinians, the Muslims; screw humanistic democracy and fuck liberalism. Grab the oil, maximize payments to corporate management; mobilize the IMF and World Bank!!
Noteworthy: UNICEF's activity in Iraq
IHT: Prisoners of war in Iraq and at Guantánamo [International Herald Tribune] "NEW YORK Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has at last recognized the Geneva Conventions. Observing, correctly, that Iraq’s televised display of captured American soldiers violated the laws of war, Rumsfeld said that the conventions spell out the rules governing international armed conflict.
The United States is right to insist that Iraq honor the Geneva Conventions. But its position is weakened by failure to practice what it preaches in holding 641 prisoners without charges at the U.S. military facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Most of the Guantánamo prisoners were captured during the U.S. war against the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The Bush administration says that the men were all combatants, but has refused to treat them as the laws of war require."
U.S. digs in on lesser role for UN [iht.com] - "The United States will not give the United Nations the primacy in Iraq that several countries favor, though it will seek a UN endorsement of plans for an interim Iraqi authority as well as help with humanitarian aid, Secretary of State Colin Powell has said, in one of his clearest statements on the matter.
Europeans and others have called for a broader UN role in overseeing not just Iraqi recovery from war but its political reconstitution. They are critical of U.S. plans to dominate Iraq's remaking. Leaders of three of the complainant countries - France, Germany and Russia - are to meet Friday in St. Petersburg to discuss the matter.
In the meantime, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz laid out with greater clarity Thursday the sequence and nature of the transitional administrative and governing institutions envisaged by the United States for Iraq. He, too, spoke of a UN role limited largely to the humanitarian."
* Human Rights Watch: Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
* International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative - Iraq
The smart donor's guide to aid for Iraq [SocietyGuardian.co.uk] - "Nick Cater untangles the politics and logistics of choosing which aid agency to support"
Just in: numerous hospitals and clinics have been stripped by looters.
Official Statement - 10APR03
Statement Attributable to
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy
UNICEF urges all parties to protect Iraqi children; AMMAN/GENEVA/ NEW YORK - "UNICEF is deeply concerned about the impact of this war on Iraqi children and women. We know that in wartime children are the most vulnerable population. This is especially so in Iraq, here poor governance, two prior wars, and years of international sanctions have combined to weaken the Iraqi population.
"Iraqi children are extremely vulnerable. More than 1 million children under age five are malnourished. When children are poorly nourished they are susceptible to disease. Disease spreads rapidly during war, when safe water supplies are disrupted, people are displaced from their homes, and sources of food and medicine are compromised. When you factor in the loss of education and the psycho-social trauma, there is no question that war takes its greatest toll on children. And we should all remember that children make up half of Iraq's population."
[Pick one: a gram of antibiotics tomorrow, or radical amputation in ten days ... the quality of our response makes the difference.]
What UNICEF said at the UN briefing; 10 April 2003, Amman Jordan - Malnutrition rates are likely to increase sharply by the end of April all over Southern Iraq due to the water situation. UNICEF finds reports of continued chaos in Baghdad seriously worrying. The situation in hospitals continues to be critical ...
The widespread looting and chaos spread to UNICEF’s offices in Baghdad yesterday – phones, chairs, essentially everything was taken away. [Medical facilities in Basra have also been looted, according to the patients who have made the journey from the city.]
UNICEF teams reaching Um Qasar are also painting a seriously worrying picture. In the past few days UNICEF has had water and health specialists there. The most alarming information they reported is the dramatic increase in diarrhoeal disease during the past five days. Doctors at the local hospital reported the staggering increase of childhood diarrhoea – this is directly related to the water situation in Southern Iraq: In April 2002 there were 30 cases of diarrhoea in the entire month. During the first five days of April 2003, doctors reported 50 cases.
Another alarming observation is related to staffing in the hospital itself. Normally, the local hospital has a staff of six doctors. Now there are only two. The others have left to be near their families and homes. By 10am this morning, the two doctors had seen 100 patients; some wounded and lots of women and children – often very young children, under the age of 5. On average since the conflict began, the doctors treat 340 cases a day. They see patients from Safwan and even Basra."
While the war-mongers were quick to attack protestors with "Why weren't you protesting against Hussein, all this time?" despite the fact that many of us have been, they were equally quick to ignore the fact that we have for months been predicting a humanitarian catastrophe. Will Uncle Sam be as flint-hearted as Uncle Saddam?!
Are American Generals really such lamers? I know comms and logistics ... I think they just don't give a good god-damn ... it seems they have brown butt to kick, and that's their only concern.
*Please excuse my vehemence ... these malevolent bastards intend to make the entire human race look bad. Get it? Get it? Get it?!!*
Headline: "US Troops in Baghdad do Little to Restore Order"
Did Rumsfeld neglect to include the Geneva Convention in the rules of engagement?
Vandals! Malevolent punks! (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Perles ... not the GIs.) Anything to descredit liberalism and human nature!
What next, political assassination? (Remember, yet again, this invasion was brought to Iraq by the folks who empowered Hussein because "he's our asshole", just like they empowered Noriega because "he's our asshole".
Speaking of assholes, Garner ... dunno ... a corporate militarist ... whadya figure? Twenty-three ministries ... that's quite the shell-game! *Who over-sees the over-seers? Who watches the watchers? The US doesn't care about international law, remember? [This war was preventive, not pre-emptive ... optinal, a matter of choice. Congress was lied to about WMD and nuclear capability. Get it?]* What's the real agenda? Fuck the French, screw the Russians ... the Germans? pfffffffft. Oh yaa, and marginalize the UN. (The Brits? What about the Brits ... what's the question? Like, *DUHH!*) (And for gawd sake distract everyone from Colombia and North Korea!!)
NY Police Admit Keeping Anti-War Protest Database [reuters.com]
Let me save you the trouble: in 1973 I was in uniform, working Soviet illicit communications (satellites included) and tracking the Soviet navy's North Atlantic group. ("Yuri Gagarin" isn't only the name of a Russian cosmonaut.) After industrialized democracies overthrew the Chile's democratically elected government (not only did Allende do without WMD, he didn't even arm the population; what was he thinking? where was his faith? who did he trust?) I abandoned the military. After a stint managing communications for NORAD/SAC, I worked for public radio, studied for the priesthood (Catholic) and then Soto Zen, and then undertook projects like resisting American cruise missile testing and deployment. It's been a busy three decades!
My point is, while Powell caves (State folds to Pentagon ... how do you like the sound of that?!) we see that Rumsfeld et al took more care to protect the oil-fields than civil structures in Iraq. Consequence? Those who might be positioned as credible dissenting democrats (i.e. autonomous of Uncle Sam) get blown away (see google cluster concerning the death of respected cleric Abdul Majid al-Khoei) while Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, foot-in-mouth Cheney, and always sneering Perles project their power ahead of the curve (see google news on Chalabi).
Eagle Empire? ... the work of buzzards, looks to me. How much shame are the American people prepared to bear? Is this the "end of history"?! More likely, this is the "best of all possible worlds" for new-millenium fascists (who, I'm sure, will get along with mid-East Stalinists and mafia just fine).
p.s.1 the people of Basra are having to drink salt-water from the drains ... who cares?
p.s.2 number of WMD found: zero. Remember this? "They have WMD. We know they have WMD. We have proof that they have WMD. They have lots of WMD." That's what responsible authorities told the US Congress. Have the American people bought into a lie, just to beat up on someone? Have they lied to themselves? Have they lied to the whole world? How is the government of the United States of America different than a hugely powerful band of thugs? And fools like Stockwell Day, Ralph Klein, Brian Mulroney, Earnie Eves, Mike Harris and dumb-ass Harper say they're ashamed of Canada, begging Uncle Sam to spank us because we dared stand by the UN charter and by international law.
What do a bunch of whores have to say to the world about democracy? Precious little ... the lesson is not "might makes right"; the lesson is this: under the flag of the United States, in this 21st century, we fundamentalists will declare ourselves Christian while serving the Prince of Confusion; we will scorch the earth, plunder the land, torture the men, rape the women, and work the children as beasts of burden. We will it, and our will shall be made so, because we can. Behold! Might, lust, and passion without compassion, pity, or wisdom. Behold and be afraid, all who dare conceive of better!
URGENT IRAQ APPEAL - War Child Canada The Humanitarian Situation in Iraq
War Child Canada is deeply concerned about the worsening humanitarian condition of Iraq’s 12 million children. The United Nations estimates that as many as 500,000 people, half of them children, will require emergency medical treatment as a result of the current war in Iraq. Hospitals and clinics will run out of essential medicines within weeks. Families have limited food reserves, and growing food shortages could lead to malnutrition and starvation.
Our Common Responsibility
The highest praise for the Commander in Chief, from a representative of the Republican Congress? "He didn't listen to Holywood ... he didn't listen to the New York Times. And he didn't listen to the French." Hubris and impunity: dismiss popular culture, dismiss dissenting opinion from credibly informed sources, and dismiss international disagreement.
Keep in mind: Rumsfeld's hand-picked puppet, Chalabi, is facing a prison sentence in the mid-east for his business dealings, affairs so distasteful that the CIA stopped handling him (the Pentagon is, apparently, less principled). He hasn't even been in Iraq for the past 40 years. This has something to do with democracy? But of course American culture is about unquestionning loyalty to authority, not about integrity; it is about corporate profit, not integrity; it is about control, not human rights. No surprise that the IMF (in which the USofA is the majority stock-holder) is already moving to implement its plans for Iraq, starting with the imposition of a currency system.
If I'm basically wrong, how to explain that Dick Cheney prematurely announced the meeting that has already been planned for Nasaraya, where Chalabi has already been installed by the Pentagon?!
Filthy ... hypocritical ... under-handed ... bloody-minded, hard hearted, scheming, wretched ... ultimately? Fascistic ... the fix is in, and the President of the United States is at the center of it.
Rumsfeld recited a list of failed tyrrants ... Hussein, Hitler, Stalin. He, of course, is entirely different: hubris dictates that he cannot imagine failing, tyrrant that he is becoming.
Arrogant, prideful bullies ... and in the midst of such martial excellence ... what wrath can counterbalance such waste?
How do American war-mongers view the international community? Here's one way to assess this: first, read this lead paragraph
" April 9, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - France, Germany and Russia - the coalition of the unwilling that tried to block the Iraq war - yesterday said they'll huddle this weekend with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to map their post-Saddam strategy."
Now, read the headline: TRYING TO WEASEL WAY INTO IRAQ
It is true that the gesture of draping the star spangled banner of the head of the Saddam statue was in bad taste ... far too authentic, far too honest, far too representative of the Eagle Empire's real state of mind. In short, the action was in bad taste because it was far too revealing; Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perles, Cheney ... dangerous rogues.
Rumsfeld's scoring higher ratings than Dubya?! Hey, someone remind Stormin' Norman about Maj. General Smedley Butler, would you? Surely someone in the States can recall clue 1 about democracy.
Pentagon's favorites get a foot in the door [Asia Times] - " ... the US State Department, or even the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the British government, which have all argued for months that any postwar Iraq leadership should emerge only as a result of consultation, optimally under United Nations auspices, among mainly internal forces, as well as exile groups.
The Pentagon, on the other hand, has long favored the installation as soon as possible of an Interim Iraqi Authority (IIA) led by the exiled Iraqi National Congress (INC) of Ahmed Chalabi, to give an Iraqi face to the occupation authorities.
... President George W Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice appeared to side with the State Department, declaring that both internal figures and exile parties should play a role in any IIA.
So it came as some surprise when, as Rice was speaking, the Pentagon flew some 500 INC activists - plus Chalabi himself - from the northern Iraqi safe haven where they had been cooling their heels into the southern US-occupied city of Nasiriyah ....
That this took place on the eve of Bush's Belfast meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair was regarded as particularly significant, since Blair had lined up solidly behind the State Department. "Bush agreed that we would not dream of parachuting people from outside Iraq to run Iraq," a senior Blair aide had told Newsweek two days before.
While senior Pentagon officials insisted that the move was not intended to give a leg up to Chalabi in the competition to succeed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the contingent as "basically the core of the new Iraqi army once Iraq is free".
Their arrival, however, marked the successful culmination of a two-week-old campaign by neo-conservatives in and outside the administration to get the INC and Chalabi into Iraq before any other group, presumably to preempt any moves by the State Department or other opposition groups to claim the media spotlight.
It also marked the fact that, with 250,000 men on the ground, the Pentagon will be calling the shots in Iraq, even in defiance of other bureaucracies that, in contrast to the Defense Department, have real experts on Iraqi politics, history and culture who could prove helpful in carrying out an occupation.
"You can call this another aspect of [Deputy Defense Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz's preemption strategy," said one administration official. "You can call this a coup d'etat."
Factoid: at the end of trading this day, in the face of "Iraqis dancing in the streets of Baghdad", Dow and NASDAQ were both down. Soooo, what's the excuse now? Why, SARS of course!
A moment to ponder: while simple-minded quasi-republicans like the leader of Canada's Alliance party are empowered by their servile self-loathing, more vigorous forces are shifting their slow thighs; while the Bush regime is at ease with the increased space for unilateralism gained by its having splintered the community of nations (Perles is spouting that the UN had failed Iraqis and so it should only play a secondary role in humanitarian concerns if that), and though Rumsfeld's Pentagon can reverse de-nuclearization with its renewed talk of tactical nuclear deployment (nuke bunker-busters ... a pressing need, right?) Uncle Sam leans on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.
So, really ... American citizens are paying for the establishment of an openly fascistic apartheid, where the US is free to do what it wills, and others are required to do as it instructs them. Isn't that so? The war against Iraq was optional, it was elective, it was a matter of choice, it was deemed preventive by those who rule the US, it was based on tendentious conclusions and questinnable evidence, and it was mounted in the face of great international disagreement.
Some of us have been saying for decades that, however well-intentioned, American culture is the culture of bullies. I say, today, that the political regime in the USofA is driven by corporate interests who have regard for not even generally accepted accounting practices, let alone international law.While Stalinists world-round will mourn the loss of Uncle Saddam, democrats world-round should shudder at the prospect of Uncle Sam lobotomized by fully fledged fascists (in the most modern incarnation, of course).
One law for all, else me and mine will declare that the bandits have elected their own sheriff, and call for the marshall.
Hospitals in Bahdad and southern Iraq "at the breaking point". The international community called upon to respond "soonest".
* The International Committee of the Red Cross
* Catholic Relief Services - Iraq Humanitarian Response
* International Blue Crescent Relief And Development Foundation - Activities
* Catholic Near East Welfare Association - Press Releases
Baghdad Doctors Low on Medical Supplies [washingtonpost.com] - "Baghdad's hard-pressed surgeons, flooded with war-wounded, are amputating the limbs of children and adults with too few anesthetics to block the pain and too few antibiotics to protect the patients, a Greek doctor newly arrived from Iraq reported Saturday.
"They don't have drugs," Dr. Dimitrius Mognie said. "I saw it myself. I opened the cabinets."
Mognie's account, after a full day touring hospitals during the U.S. bombardment, was a firsthand substantiation of a report by World Health Organization officials here, who said Friday the Iraqi capital was running low on anesthetics, analgesics and surgical items."
Body bags, anesthetics lacking, surgeons sleep-deprived [San Francisco Chronicle] Red Cross Aid - "...Some help arrived Monday from the International Committee of the Red Cross, which delivered 100 kits of surgery supplies that include anesthetics, serums and bandages. The agency has delivered more than 7,000 such kits in the past two weeks throughout Iraq, said spokesman Roland Huguenin-Benjamin.
"We are increasingly concerned," he said. "If street fighting becomes widespread in the urban area, health facilities could become totally overwhelmed." "
Baghdad's hospitals 'overwhelmed'; Doctors are said to be exhausted [bbc.co.uk] - "The fighting in Baghdad is taking an increasing toll on the Iraqi capital's hospitals, according to the Red Cross. [...] The hospital only had enough medical supplies to last for another two days, he added.
A Red Cross spokeswoman in Geneva, Antonella Notari, said the organisation might need to bring extra supplies into Baghdad from warehouses in Iran, Kuwait, Jordan or Syria, depending on the length of the fighting, the number of new casualties and security guarantees.
The United Nations has described the situation in Baghdad's hospitals as "critical", while the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a health emergency both in Baghdad and in the country as a whole. "
Baghdad hospitals pushed to the limit Supply of drugs and water run low [guardian.co.uk] - "... In Geneva ICRC spokeswoman Nada Doumani warned that "hospitals have reached their limit". There were not enough anaesthetics, she added.
The World Health Organisation also reported a "shortage of equipment to deal with burns, shrapnel wounds and spinal injuries" and described the situation in the hospitals as "critical".
A doctor at Kindi hospital in the north-east of the city reported treating "injuries to the head, to the chest, to the limbs" as fighting intensified. The hospital had medical supplies to last for only another two days, he warned.
The ICRC is considering sending in extra supplies from its warehouses in Kuwait, Jordan or Syria but is awaiting guarantees of any convoy's safety. Casualty figures continue to rise but both the ICRC and the WHO say they unable to provide even an estimate of the number of Iraqis killed and wounded. "Nobody is adding up all the numbers, but it's clear they are huge," a WHO spokesman said."
Supplies are few, concerns are many at struggling hospital [boston.com] - '... "'The medical system has suffered from chronic underinvestment for many years, but it has quality people working there,'' said Colonel John Graham, a doctor who has been overseeing military site visits to hospitals in the southern Iraqi towns of Basra, Zubayr, Safwan, and Umm Qasr. ''If we can keep the system supported while they reestablish themselves over the next days and weeks, I'm sure it will be a very good medical service.'' But conditions didn't look so good at the ramshackle and malodorous Umm Qasr Hospital yesterday.
Dozens of test tubes with traces of dried blood filled a sink in the laboratory, left there because there was not enough water to wash them. The only clean test tubes were the broken ones.
A 60-year-old man languished in a sweltering, putrid-smelling room with flies buzzing around him. He had leg injuries, suffered, he said, when a shell hit his house during fighting between Iraqi and coalition forces.
''I don't know what Saddam Hussein wants; I don't know what Mr. Bush wants,'' said the injured man, Ali Walli, his speech slightly slurred and his eyelids heavy, as his daughter pleaded with visitors to take him to Kuwait for surgery. ''The victim is not Saddam Hussein and not Mr. Bush. I am the victim,'' he said.
Medical aid for Iraqis Gulf Daily News (The Voice of Bahrain) - "... The medical supplies have been purchased from Syria and are now being distributed to hospitals in Baghdad, Ar Ramadi, Samarra, Rawah, Anah, Kirkuk, Tikrit and Bayji," said Mr Busaiba.
"Iraqis are being taken to the hospitals in large numbers and if donations don't increase then there will be a shortage in medical supplies and more people will suffer," he said.
"The society is supplying medicine to Iraqi hospitals and the flow of medical supplies wouldn't stop even if the war ends because many people will continue to be in need of treatment."
Aid groups in Portland Oregon get U.S. go-ahead Portland's international relief organizations, bolstered by U.S. government clearance and financing, are poised to launch large-scale operations in Iraq.
Mercy Corps, which on Monday announced receiving a $5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, is starting to hire more than 130 workers to provide humanitarian assistance throughout Iraq. The organization is prepared to raise as much as $20 million to meet the needs of as many as 700,000 people.
"The United States is now saying that Iraq is no longer off-limits" to relief and development organizations, says Barbara Agnew, Northwest Medical Teams spokeswoman. "Now if we can just get in through Turkey, we'll be even happier."
It takes minutes for many able hands and some heavy equipment to topple the central symbol of a tyrrant ... after nearly three decades of ultimate horror. How many hundreds of thousands of innocents slaughtered and executed in that period? A million? How many tens of thousands imprisoned, tortured, raped ... hundreds? Decades of mundane terror at the hands of innumerable opportunists and sadists, directed by a man who knew very well the cruel game of power and wealth.
If the military adminstration is capable of some magnanimity (remembering how the Stars and Stripes were draped over the face of Saddam Hussein's statue in the penultimate moment) perhaps this can be the beginning of a new age of humane governance ... if. In the name of those uncountable thousands who suffered directly under that one dictator, let us strive to establish an unremitting committment to principles of justice and human dignity.
How will corporations take to the backing of a military governor in the Persian Gulf? Looking at how business operates when it has a free hand might provide a clue or twelve. Originally published in July, 2001, this article by Seymour M. Hersh "investigates the Mobil Corporation's operations in Kazakhstan and Russia." ... fill your boots.
The world of Business; The Price of Oil
Other items from Asia Times' Middle East section:
In the pipeline: More regime change - "An Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, has reported that Israel is seriously considering restarting a strategically important oil pipeline that once transferred oil from the Iraqi city of Mosul to Israel's northern port of Haifa. Given the Israeli claim of a positive US approach to the plan, the Israeli project provides grounds for a theory that the ongoing war against Iraq is in part a joint US, British and Israeli design for reshaping the Middle East to serve their particular interests"
Watch Woolsey - "If you want to figure out whether the administration of President George W Bush intends a crusade to remake the Middle East in the wake of Washington's presumed military victory in Iraq, watch what happens with R James Woolsey. A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Woolsey is being pushed hard by his fellow neoconservatives in the Pentagon to play a key role in the post-Saddam Hussein US occupation.
Less well-known than his long-time associates and close friends, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and the former head of the Defense Policy Board (DPB) Richard Perle, Woolsey has long believed that Washington has a mission to use its overwhelming military power and its democratic ideals to transform the Arab world. And he has pushed for war with Iraq as hard as anyone, even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."
The war that may end the age of superpower - "The United States, like ancient Rome, is beginning to be plagued by the limits of power. This fact is tactically acknowledged by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard B Myers that the war plan should not be criticized by the press because it has been framed in a diplomatic and political context, not merely pure military considerations in a vacuum. They say that it is the best possible war plan politically, though it may be far from full utilization of US military potential. America's top soldier has criticized the uniformed officer corps for expressing dissent that seriously undermines the war effort. Such criticism is characterized by Myers as "bearing no resemblance to the truth", counterproductive and harmful to US troops in the field."
Spoils of war: The case of the Iraqi campaign - "To the victor belong the spoils," goes the old adage. But the United States is a different type of victor. Its spoils do not include permanent occupation of a vanquished nation; it is content with having a long-term, if not a permanent, influence in determining the form of government and the nature of economic policies of the vanquished, a la Japan and Germany. Those types of "spoils" are likely to come out of the US invasion of Iraq. Even though there are expectations that the US will end up occupying Iraq for many years, observers outside the US government - including this writer - don't believe in that possibility. So, what are some of the economic arguments related to the George W Bush administration's present Iraq campaign?"
Offense and Defense [newyorker.com] The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon. - "... Rumsfeld’s personal contempt for many of the senior generals and admirals who were promoted to top jobs during the Clinton Administration is widely known. He was especially critical of the Army, with its insistence on maintaining costly mechanized divisions. In his off-the-cuff memoranda, or “snowflakes,” as they’re called in the Pentagon, he chafed about generals having “the slows”—a reference to Lincoln’s characterization of General George McClellan. “In those conditions—an atmosphere of derision and challenge—the senior officers do not offer their best advice,” a high-ranking general who served for more than a year under Rumsfeld said. One witness to a meeting recalled Rumsfeld confronting General Eric Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, in front of many junior officers. “He was looking at the Chief and waving his hand,” the witness said, “saying, ‘Are you getting this yet? Are you getting this yet?’”
The requirement for a swing to the far right ... whose hands on the levers of power?
Rumsfeld under three-pronged attack [Asina Times] - "... A coalition of retired senior military officers, moderate Republicans, and even some civilian hawks who have strongly supported Rumsfeld's efforts to "transform" the US military is increasingly taking aim at the Pentagon chief, whom they accuse of intimidating the uniformed military and needlessly alienating Washington's European allies.
In a searing column in Wednesday's New York Times, the former commander of the US central command in the Persian Gulf region, retired Marine Corps General Joseph Hoar, even called on Congress to hold hearings on how the current military campaign in Iraq was conceived and developed and whether Rumsfeld had prevented senior officers from testifying to Congress about their concerns.
Except for a handful of liberals who have expressed alarm at the eagerness with which Rumsfeld and his neo-conservative advisors have taken Washington to war, Democrats have been reluctant to join the attacks lest they be accused of being unpatriotic. But they voted unanimously in key congressional committees on Tuesday for a supplemental 2004 appropriations bill that denied the Pentagon control over a US$2.5 billion fund to provide relief and development assistance in Iraq. The committees instead earmarked the money for the State Department's Agency for International Development (USAID).
In another slap, the House and Senate appropriations committees also deleted a requested $150 million account that Rumsfeld had requested for assistance to unspecified "indigenous forces" involved in the US-led global "war on terrorism"."
*At this moment Rumsfeld is mocking people for discussing forms of government in post-conflict Iraq; when he isn't babbling the ruling paradigm, the man shows himself a fascist.*
Human Rights and Unilateral Coercive Measures Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/21 [NonAligned Movement] - The Commission on Human Rights,
Recalling the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 which declares that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,"
This just in, ABC / BBC: Pentagon officials announce that chemical weapons have been found at two different sites; missile warheads containing Sarin at one, and barrels of "a blister agent" at another.
... slightly more plausible than the fantasy the Iraqi MInister of "Information" is spinning right now ... slightly.
"At the very least, an audacious probe." With American troops controlling at least the Information Ministry and one presidential palace in the heart of Baghdad, I hope and pray the hospitals can be resupplied very soon.
I get the bad feeling that there is a new sense in the air: a sense that there will be no victory, not even with the defeat of Hussein. If 9-11 did not change the entirety of global history, perhaps this administration has managed to do just that.
Where Have You Gone, Condi Rice? [time.com] - "The administration would be wise to adopt a more nuanced approach to Iraq.
... Cheerleading is a plausible presidential function, I suppose, but an odd thing has happened to Bush as the war has progressed. He has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do; he may have diminished. He seems imprisoned in a bleak, hortatory rhetoric of simple sentences and simpler ideas. Freedom good. Tyranny bad. We Tarzan, world Jane.
... [C]omplexities argue for subtle, careful postwar diplomacy. That seems unlikely. The Pentagon has control of the post-war plan, which makes some sense in the short term: the U.S. military is the only institution that can restore order to Iraq. But it seems plain that an extended military occupation—and, particularly, an interim government run by a retired American general with interim ministers including James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and other assorted neoconservative bravos—will further alienate our allies and lead much of the world to suspect that imperialism was our purpose all along.
Go ahead, Rummy! Give Powell hell! Call him a left-leaning muddle-brained incoherent limp-wristed pansy!!
Clash of the Administration Titans [time.com] - "There are moments in history when ideology stops being a parlor game for academics and actually shapes the future of the world. As American troops mass outside Baghdad, a battle of ideas is taking place inside Washington's corridors of power that could fashion a new Middle East.
At the core of the conflict are two different ways of looking at the world. Rumsfeld and his team of neoconservative civilians at the Pentagon favor an activist and often unilateralist approach to advancing America's interests abroad. Powell's camp sees the world through a prism of interlocking interests that need to be protected by alliances and stability. The fight between internationalists and unilateralists has gone on in the Republican Party for a generation. What's different this time is that Rummy and Powell are engaging in it at the very moment when the principles of U.S. foreign policy are up for grabs.
Here's a frightening fact: Rumsfeld was ambassador to NATO for good-old Tricky Dick "I am not a crook" Nixon!
Just in: Wolfowitz is saying that US military may run Iraq for a good deal longer than six months.
I suppose outright larceny is something like a change from hypocricy.
I have a single question about Americans: when did they decide that loving those who lie to them for the sake of profit was the way to go?
Folks, you were lied to in order to get you to back a war in Iraq. (Saddam, the malevolent bugger, didn't have anything to do with 9-11 even if he still does have a few chemical bombs around [which he doesn't] and even if he had continued his nuclear program [which he didn't].) You were lied to about the need for a war against Iraq, and now you're going to be lied to about another war and another war (pick one: Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea ... Colombia?). And meanwhile the folks who brought you these wars (you know, the folks who manipulated the California energy problem, just like they manipulated your grief about New York) will get you to finance a Nuclear Missile Defense strategy ... and you'll buy it ... because you're a nation of junkies.
Armegeddon is gonna be God's way of kicking Uncle Sam's ass, just to remind him he's human.
Word's out in EU: Iraq is a protectorate for US business; Garner and the other governors are marionettes; any serious business has to cross Rumsfeld's desk.
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They Just Don’t Get It
August 8, 2005 by antipinko
I have never been a registered member of any political party. I always thought of myself as a “vote the man” kind of guy instead of a straight ticket voter. But in recent years, the political left has done a great job of helping me narrow that down – and it isn’t making me warm and fuzzy towards the DNC. For a party that portrays itself as the champion of tolerance and acceptance, we must realize that means everyone – all races, sexual orientations, and religions, with the exception of Christians. Instead, Christians are now grouped in to some kind of made up “Religious Right” and are to be shunned as a group. That’s ok with me because come election time, it makes the decision that much easier.
Take for example an editorial in the 8/8/05 edition of Investor’s Business Daily. In the column “On The Left”, syndicated columnist Richard Cohen basically says that Christians are a bunch of dopes with no common sense. (Actually, he doesn’t say “Christians”. Instead, he uses the term “Religious Right” but its pretty clear who he means.) The point of his column, right or wrong, was to discuss the flip-floppiness of politicians like NY Governor George Pataki and Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts. These so-called moderate Republicans were elected on platforms that left-leaning swing voters could be comfortable with – a woman’s right to choose. Now with GOP presidential primaries on the horizon, they are changing their view.
I am ok with Cohen pointing this out. I don’t like chameleon candidates on either side. I want someone that will stand for what he believes in. (Incidently, it was pretty convenient for Cohen to leave out some other well known chameleons like Ted “Chappaquiddick” Kennedy, John “I voted for it before I voted against it” Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. But to include them wouldn’t have allowed Cohen enough room to bash the Christians.) But Cohen takes it too far, and in doing so has should make it easy for any Bible believing Christian to make a political choice. It is becoming abundantly clear that the left seeths with hate of what we stand for. And whats more, they clearly have no understanding of it. As an example, here are Cohen’s own words:
It has now become clear that a viable Republican presidential candidate must oppose abortion, stem cell research, the morning-after pill, gay marriage and, for good measure, evolution.
At the very least, you have to offer a good word for intelligent design, as the president did just the other day in the single dopiest statement of his presidency.
These are positions that defy logic – not each and every one of them, but as a totatlity. Taken together, they require GOP presidential candidates to take a kind of loyalty oath to ignorance, to see virtually every issue through a religious prism.
So there you have it. The Richard Cohen considers Christians to be ignorant dopes. Appearantly one is supposed to take a position on moral issues based on Cohen’s definition of “logic,” which seems to be “as long as you leave religion out of it.”
Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: abortion, christians, cohen, gop, IBD, kennedy, kerry, pataki, religious-right, romney
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Indianapolis Colts Crushed by Atlanta Falcons 31-7 to Drop to 0-9
November 6th, 2011 Matt Loede Posted in Indianapolis Colts
The longest season maybe ever for the Colts continued on Sunday, and as expected the Atlanta Falcons did pretty much as they pleased as they thumped the Colts 31-7 to drop Indy to 0-9 on the season.
Atlanta improves to 5-3 on the season. Matt Ryan threw for 275 yards and three touchdowns, including two long strikes to rookie first-round pick Julio Jones.
Ryan was 14-for-24 with an interception, but had touchdown passes of 50 and 80 yards to Jones that gave the Falcons a 21-0 lead in the first half. Jones, who had missed the previous two games with a hamstring injury, caught three passes for 131 yards and scored the first two touchdowns of his NFL career.
Michael Turner rushed for 71 yards and a TD on 19 carries and veteran tight end Tony Gonzalez caught a touchdown pass for the Falcons (5-3), who have won three straight games.
The only points for the Colts came on Jerraud Powers’ six-yard interception return for a touchdown. The offense otherwise did little against a Falcons D that came in playing not to watch another upstart team land an upset.
Curtis Painter struggled for the Colts, throwing for 98 yards on 13-of-27 passing and one interception, while Dan Orlovsky was 4-for-6 for 20 yards in relief. Donald Brown ran for 70 yards on 16 carries and Austin Collie hauled in four passes for 32 yards.
The Colts got the ball to begin the game, but turned it over when Delone Carter fumbled on the second play from scrimmage, giving possession to the Falcons at the 26-yard line.
They took advantage of excellent field position and went 26 yards in five plays before Turner pushed his way into the end zone for a one-yard touchdown run and a 7-0 lead.
Late in the opening quarter, Atlanta extended its lead to 14-0 when Ryan hooked up with Jones deep down the middle for a 50-yard touchdown pass. The play was called incomplete, but the Falcons challenged and won.
Early in the second quarter, Atlanta made it 21-0 when Ryan connected with Jones on a quick slant to the right and the receiver out-ran the defense 80 yards to the end zone.
The Colts finally got on the board midway through the second quarter after Ryan took a quick drop and fired a slant pass to the left that was undercut and picked off by Powers, who took it back to make it 21-7.
The Falcons added to their lead late in the third quarter. Ryan led a 12-play, 73-yard drive that ate up 7 1/2 minutes of game time and found Gonzalez wide open in the end zone for a one-yard touchdown strike and a 28-7 lead.
Matt Bryant kicked a 20-yard field goal to account for the final margin with just under five minutes gone in the fourth quarter.
The Colts next Sunday will be at home to host the Jaguars at 1pm.
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Bert Bijnen
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Bert Bijnen made his opera debut with Opera Forum, the predecessor of the present-day Nationale Reisopera, a company which he joined for over 12 years. The debut took place on October 30th 1955 in the Twentse Schouwburg at Enschede with the opera De barber of Sevilla, in which Bert Bijnen performed the role of Fiorello. He joined this company until 1967.
His debut with the Nederlandse Opera he made on August 25th 1961 in the Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg as Wagner in Faust of Gounod. He would sing for both companies. He performed roles as Rigoletto, Giorgio Germont (Traviata), Vargas (La forza del destino), Amonasro (Aïda), Nabucco and Renato (Un ballo in maschera) of Verdi; Marcello (Bohème), Bonzo (Butterfly), Scarpia (Tosca) of Puccini; Don Giovanni, Der Sprecher (Die Zaubeflöte), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) and count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) of Mozart; Eschenbach (Tannhäuser), Veit Pogner (Die Meistersinger), Donner (Das Rheingold), Holländer (Der fliegende Holländer), Wotan (Die Walküre) and Telramund (Lohengrin) of Wagner.
Furthermore he sang a.o. Don Fernando and Don Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio, Bluebeard (Bartok), Boris Godoenov, Escamillo (Carmen), Peter in Hänsel und Gretel, Der Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), but also light parts as Ein Bonze in Viktoria und ihr Husar, Homonay in Der Zigeunerbaron and Ollendorf in Der Bettelstudent.
Bert Bijnen as 'der Musiklehrer' in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, 1971
Bert Bijnen co-operated in several productions of the Holland Festival. In 1962 as Tereus in Philomela of Hendrik Andriessen, in 1965 as Armand in Jean Lévecq of Guillaume Landré, in 1967 as Plutone in L'Orfeo of Monteverdi and in 1969 as L'empereur in Le rossignol of Strawinsky. He appeared also in opera companies abroad. His last appearance in the Netherlands was at January 13th 1973. He sang then the title role in Bluebeards Castle of Bela Bartok. An one-act play with only two roles ... a masterpiece. Judith was performed by Nelly Morpurgo and the prologue was spoken by the actor Jules Croiset.
Bert Bijnen died on September 23th 1973 in Mainz at the age of 51.
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Hamptons Real Estate
As the East End gears up for summer 2017, a look at the market’s soft off-season, new high-profile pop-up restaurant and the latest mega trades
The famed East Hampton home known as Grey Gardens is on the market for $19 million.
As New Yorkers get ready for the upcoming Hamptons season, they’ll have no shortage of off-season news to chew on. While they were perched in their high-end Manhattan condos and townhouses watching the 2016 presidential election unfold and braving the winter, the East End market was chugging along, albeit at a slower clip. Prices in the Hamptons dropped 8.1 percent between 2015 and 2016, and the number of transactions sank by 14 percent. While sales dropped across various price segments, a fourth-quarter market report by Douglas Elliman found that transac上海千花网论坛
tions above $5 million fell a massive 40.3 percent, “skewing marketwide price indicators lower.” Still, despite that slowdown, there has been plenty of action and celebrity-house swapping on the East End. “Today” host Matt Lauer, for one, plunked down $33 million on Richard Gere’s former house back in September. Meanwhile, the iconic home dubbed Grey Gardens hit the market in late February; the tony restaurant 11 Madison Park inked a阿拉爱上海同城
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eet in that town, burned to the ground. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting off-season stats.
The asking price for the Hamptons’ most expensive rental for the Memorial Day-to-Labor Day season. The oceanfront home — which can also be snared for $1M for July or $1.5M for August through Labor Day — is being listed by the boutique firm Bespoke Real Estate. By comparison, the priciest rental on the more modest North Fork is asking $85,000.
The listing price for the East Hampton property where the Michelin-starred restaurant 11 Madison Park is opening a pop-up outpost dubbed EMP Summer House while its Manhattan location gets renovated. Chef Daniel Humm and partner Will Guidara reportedly have the option to buy the building at the end of their summer lease.
The listing price for Grey Gardens, t上海千花社区
he famed East Hampton estate that once belonged to Jackie O’s reclusive relatives “Little Edie” and “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale. The house, which was the subject of a 1975 documentary, fell into disrepair under the eccentric mother-and-daughter duo but was later bought by Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.
The drop in average sales price that listings in the Hamptons saw between 2015 — when that number hit $1.9 million — and 2016, when it clocked in at $1.74 million. Last year wasn’t that far off from 2007, when homes on the swanky South Fork were selling for $1.79 million.
The year that Hamptons Real Estate Online — or HREO — launched. The property website was scooped up by StreetEasy’s parent company, Seattle-based Zillow, in January for an undisclosed sum. But critics say that HREO is an ineffective platform that will need a complete overhaul. Zillow bought StreetEasy in 2013 for $50 million and Trulia for $2.5 billion in 2015.
The number of seats at the famed Sag Harbor Cinema, which was destroyed in a December fire along with seven other businesses — including the offices of real estate firms Compass and Brown Harris Stevens. The theater, which was financially struggling, was listed for $14 million at the time of the fire and remains on the market at that price. It’s iconic neon sign was salvaged.
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t from the year before and from 2014’s high of around 3,100. But it’s still way up from the dark days of 2009, when only about 1,100 homes sold.
The total volume of residential sales in the Hamptons in 2016, according to a recent report from the Corcoran Group. That’s down 10.7 percent from $4.61 billion in 2015.
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Biography – BOYD, ALFRED – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
BOYD, ALFRED, businessman, office holder, jp, and politician; b. c. 1836 in England, son of Alfred Boyd; m. Sarah Warner (Warriner); they had no children; d. 16 Aug. 1908 in England.
Alfred Boyd may have been in Rupert’s Land as early as 1858. An entry in the journal of daily occurrences at Fort Ellice (Man.) mentions that on 9 July 1858 “Mr. Boyd arrived here from Red River.” A later note by trader Isaac Cowie describes this Boyd as a “British sportsman.” By the eve of the Red River troubles, however, Alfred Boyd was a wealthy trader. He had a store in St John’s parish, but engaged in the fur trade with the Inkster family on a far greater scale. Although precise measures of his wealth are not possible, indirect evidence provides some clues. On 9 Dec. 1869 he wrote to his brother Thomas in England expressing concern that the natives would not trap furs during the troubles and that he would be ruined. He owed £4,000 to the London forwarding firm of Frederick E. Kew (whose agent in Red River was John Inkster*) and £2,000 to his brother. He concluded with instructions to his brother to sell all his property and divide it among his creditors. The letter was written from Hawthorne Lodge, near Lower Fort Garry, one of the most impressive houses in the settlement. Later, when politicial enemies attacked him, they alleged that he had submitted an exaggerated claim for $56,000 to cover losses sustained during the troubles and that he had received $2,000. Boyd replied that these sums were for goods supplied to the government forces and were not compensation, but he did not dispute the figures cited.
Just how badly he suffered financially is not clear. He seems to have been at least temporarily embarrassed, for in September 1870 he was obliged to borrow £100 from Inkster. It may have been for financial reasons that about 1870 he moved to Redwood, a house built by William Inkster in St John’s parish. The residence appears to have passed to Boyd as a result of the arbitrated settlement of William Inkster’s estate.
If Boyd was wealthy, he was not prominent. In fact, he seems to have gone out of his way to maintain a low profile. He was never mentioned as having attended meetings in the settlement, or as having contributed to worthy causes. In the 1860s suits for debt were common, but Boyd appears neither as plaintiff nor as defendant. He does not seem to have served on any juries.
Despite this lack of leadership and visibility, he was selected in January 1870 as one of the representatives from St Andrew’s parish to the convention of 40 proposed by Métis leader Louis Riel*. As might have been expected, he was not a leading member. He had already privately expressed some anti-Métis sentiments. At the convention he refused to vote in the election that chose Riel as president and he spoke in favour of territorial status rather than provincial status should the Red River settlement enter confederation. Riel described him a few months later as “one of the most decided against us.”
Notwithstanding this animus, Boyd was seen by Adams George Archibald*, first lieutenant governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, as “not obnoxious to the French.” Since Archibald found him “a man of fair abilities, of considerable means, and very popular among English half-breeds,” Boyd was selected as provincial secretary in September 1870. (He was also made a commissioner to administer oaths of allegiance and office, a justice of the peace, and a member of the board of health.) Archibald acted as his own premier; consequently, Boyd and the other ministers served as “secretaries rather than advisors.” The old claim that Boyd was Manitoba’s first premier is quite untenable.
Boyd was returned for St Andrews North in the first elections for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, held in December 1870. The following month he relinquished the secretaryship and was appointed minister of public works and agriculture. From July onwards, the ministry was under bitter attack from recent Ontario immigrants, mainly English-speaking and Protestant, who were settling in Manitoba in large numbers. Meetings in his constituency condemned Boyd for doing nothing to build bridges or a jail. His vote in favour of a grant of £500 to the Hôpital de Saint-Boniface and his support of a bill to incorporate the diocese of St Boniface which permitted it unlimited landholding were hurled against him. His response in part was that he was bound by cabinet solidarity, a misleading reply since his voting record showed that he was often prepared to vote against his fellow ministers.
On 9 Dec. 1871 he resigned as minister, citing the need for English half-breed representation in the cabinet; John Norquay* was his replacement. The pro-government Weekly Manitoban in commenting on his resignation could find nothing more positive to say than that he was “calm, shrewd, always cool,” and “moderate in his views.”
Boyd was a founding member of the Council of the North-West Territories, established in December 1872; he attended seven meetings and would remain a member until the council’s reorganization in 1875. In March 1873 he was appointed minister of education for Manitoba, a post he held until October. He was not a candidate in the next provincial elections.
Boyd’s end was as shadowy as his beginning. It is said that he left Manitoba about 1889 to live in England. In 1902 he was living in Pimlico, London, but owned numerous properties in Essex and was a wealthy man. At his death six years later he left an estate valued at over £83,000. In addition to the many properties he left his wife, he made generous cash bequests to her, their relatives and servants, and the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He left the remainder of his estate in trust to his wife.
John L. Finlay
Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Biog. scrapbooks, 8 Oct. 1909. PAM, MG 1, C6(B); MG 2, B3-2; C22; MG 3, B6. Somerset House (London), Will and codicil of Alfred Boyd, probated 20 Oct. 1908. Manitoba Liberal (Winnipeg), 19, 26 July, 17 Nov. 1871; 26 Jan. 1872. Manitoba News-Letter (Winnipeg), 8 Oct. 1870; 19 April, 10 May 1871. New Nation (Winnipeg), 7 Jan. 1870. Times (London), 23 Oct., 14 Nov. 1908. Weekly Manitoban and Herald of Rupert’s Land and North-Western Territory (Winnipeg), 22, 29 April, 18 Nov., 16 Dec. 1871. The Canadian northwest, its early development and legislative records . . . , ed. E. H. Oliver (2v., Ottawa, 1914–15). CPG. J. J. Hargrave, Red River (Montreal, 1871; repr. Altona, Man., 1977). Louis Riel, The collected writings of Louis Riel, ed. G. F. G. Stanley (5v., Edmonton, 1985).
Business – Commerce
Legal Professions – Magistrates and justices of the peace
Office Holders – Provincial and territorial
Politicians – Provincial and territorial governments – Appointed
Europe – United Kingdom – England
North America – Canada – Manitoba
ARCHIBALD, Sir ADAMS GEORGE (Vol. 12)NORQUAY, JOHN (Vol. 11)RIEL, LOUIS (1844-85) (Vol. 11)INKSTER, JOHN (Vol. 10)GIRARD, MARC-AMABLE (Vol. 12)
INKSTER, JOHN
RIEL, LOUIS (1844-85)
ARCHIBALD, Sir ADAMS GEORGE
NORQUAY, JOHN
GIRARD, MARC-AMABLE
John L. Finlay, “BOYD, ALFRED,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/boyd_alfred_13E.html.
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Biography – O’GRADY, STANDISH – Volume VII (1836-1850) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
O’GRADY (Grady), STANDISH, farmer and poet; b. probably in 1789 or 1790 in County Limerick (Republic of Ireland), son of Standish Grady; m. Margaret Thompson, also of southern Ireland, and they had at least three children; fl. 1807–45.
Standish O’Grady’s life in Ireland cannot be determined precisely; what information is known comes largely from his own writings and is occasionally contradictory. In addition, the existence of several contemporaries with the same name has led to some confusion. It appears that O’Grady entered Trinity College, Dublin, on 3 Feb. 1807 at age 17; he received his ba in 1810. On 3 Oct. 1813 he was ordained deacon of the Church of Ireland and on 24 July 1814 he was priested in the diocese of Limerick. He was collated priest of Tullybracky in this diocese on 16 Sept. 1817; before that he had been curate of Cullen in the diocese of Emly. From 1820 until his immigration to Lower Canada in 1836, he may have been rector of Kilnasoolagh and several other parishes in the diocese of Killaloe. His decision to emigrate was at least partly precipitated by the “tithe wars” that beset the Church of Ireland in the 1820s and 1830s and that left many clergymen without pay and, in his own words, in “the most abject state of distress.” O’Grady became “[disgusted] with the government, and unable to exist at home, . . . sailed for America, with a small competency.” A revenue of £382, owed to him since the early 1830s, was never paid.
O’Grady and his wife sailed from Waterford in early April 1836 and arrived in Quebec on 22 May. By August they were living on a farm near William Henry (Sorel); they remained in the area until at least 1842. A son was born in June 1836 but died the following January. Another was born in September 1837 and a daughter in March 1839. A young and an increasing family was only one of the many problems faced by O’Grady in his new home. Unaccustomed to hard physical work, unprepared for the severity of the Lower Canadian winter, and unable to cultivate a soil that was “a perfect compilation of sand not worth the labouring,” he did not succeed as a farmer. One winter “a Canadian stud horse with one miserable cow were the only remnants of [his] stock which survived.” His difficulties were exacerbated by the unrest resulting from the rebellions of 1837–38; unsympathetic to republicanism, he called Louis-Joseph Papineau* a coward who fled while “the bold, intrepid peasants” bled for his cause. In the end, poor health finally forced him to try to change his circumstances. O’Grady provides these details about his life as a Lower Canadian farmer in the lines and notes of his poem The emigrant.
In the summer of 1841 O’Grady visited Montreal to sell subscriptions to “a poetical composition.” The editors of the Literary Garland, “favoured with glimpses at a few pages of this work,” reported in their issue of August 1841 that it bore “the character of an epic poem, enriched with a considerable store of notes, of a laughter-inspiring nature, and occasionally sparkling with wit and genius.” The lines they had read were “very beautiful,” and the “respectable names” on the subscription list, together “with the highly flattering notes addressed to the author,” afforded further evidence “that the work [was] of no inconsiderable merit.” The emigrant, a poem, in four cantos was printed and published in Montreal by John Lovell* in 1841, although it was probably not distributed until early in the next year. On 20 Jan. 1842 the Montreal Transcript contained a long, mostly favourable review, and the following week it reprinted a short, enthusiastic notice from the Montreal Messenger.
The emigrant contains the first canto only of the title poem, along with copious notes and 13 short lyrics. In the preface O’Grady emphasizes that he is not “an enemy to emigration,” but recommends Upper Canada rather than Lower Canada with its “excessive” cold and “too long” winters. He promises to tell more in his “next Canto” about Upper Canada, “by far a more desirable emporium for our redundant population.” The first canto deals with several subjects, including the troubled state of “proud Erin,” emigration, the climate of Lower Canada, the customs of the Canadians, and the political strife in the Canadas. These subjects are given an emotional force by being linked to and interwoven with the poet’s own story and that of the fictional Alfred and Sylvia, young lovers who flee Ireland, elope to Lower Canada, and fail as miserably there as the poet himself. The canto, written in rhymed couplets, ends optimistically with the arrival of “rude spring” and “cheering hopes” because “mighty Wolfe [James Wolfe*] in Colborne [John Colborne*] still survives.” Yet the discontinuous way in which the canto’s various subjects are presented reveals the sense of displacement and despair felt by O’Grady as he composed “this first volume” and dedicated it to “Nobody.”
Shortly after the publication of The emigrant, the O’Gradys left William Henry. In March 1843 the Transcript reported that O’Grady was a member of a committee of Irishmen from Montreal who went to Lachine in an attempt to quell riots that had broken out between feuding Irish labourers from Cork and Connaught, who had gone on strike to protest low wages during the construction of the Lachine Canal. He “mainly contributed to the success of the mission, by bringing several hundreds of the Corkonians to the spot, where a reconciliation was effected. He received the warm applause of his countrymen.” By late 1845 “poor old O’Grady,” apparently living somewhere in Upper Canada, was a “distressing case,” according to the British Canadian, and Canada West Commercial and General Advertiser. Although “descended . . . from a highly respectable Irish Protestant family,” he now had “the chill hand of poverty pressing heavily upon him,” and “his grey hairs” were “descending in sorrow to the grave.” O’Grady was “silent” about his “wants,” so the newspaper was publishing “this brief notice – wholly unknown to him” – to ask for charity on his behalf. O’Grady could “be heard of” at the office of the British Canadian. As a result of this notice, the Montreal Gazette offered to receive “contributions” on O’Grady’s behalf. The Examiner, however, was incensed by the request for charity and hinted, somewhat obscurely, that O’Grady’s life had been one of “dissipation.”
Nothing further is known about O’Grady. Most likely, he died somewhere in Upper Canada. His monument is The emigrant, incomplete and disjointed, but still frequently anthologized and quoted. In its mixture of hope and despair, alienation and accommodation, it is a fitting memorial both to O’Grady and to the thousands of other Irish emigrants – Protestant and Roman Catholic – who, driven from their native land, arrived in North America in the middle decades of the 19th century.
Mary Jane Edwards
Standish O’Grady’s death date has not been located despite extensive research in Ontario and Quebec. He is the author of The emigrant, a poem, in four cantos (Montreal, 1841), parts of which have been included in a number of anthologies, among them The Oxford book of Canadian verse, in English and French, ed. and intro. A. J. M. Smith (Toronto and New York, 1960) and The new Oxford book of Canadian verse in English (Toronto, 1982).
ANQ-M, CE3-1, 20 août 1836; 27 janv., 9 oct. 1837; 2 avril 1839 (mfm. at PAC). Representative Church Body Library (Dublin), ms 61. “Our table,” Literary Garland, 3 (1840–41): 432. Examiner (Toronto), 19 Nov. 1845, which quotes the British Canadian, and Canada West Commercial and General Advertiser (Toronto). Montreal Gazette, 19 Nov. 1845. Montreal Transcript, 20, 27 Jan. 1842; 11 March 1843. Quebec Gazette, 23 May 1836. Alumni Dublinenses . . . , ed. G. D. Burtchaell and T. U. Sadleir (Dublin, 1924). The Oxford companion to Canadian literature, ed. William Toye (Toronto, 1983). D. H. Akenson, The Church of Ireland, ecclesiastical reform and revolution, 1800–1885 (New Haven, Conn., and London, 1971). L. [M.] Lande, Old lamps aglow; an appreciation of early Canadian poetry (Montreal, 1957). Literary history of Canada: Canadian literature in English, ed. C. F. Klinck et al. (2nd ed., 3v., Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1976), 1: 149–50. M. L. MacDonald, “Literature and society in the Canadas, 1830–1850” (phd thesis, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, 1984). H. C. Pentland, “The Lachine strike of 1843,” CHR, 29 (1948): 255–77.
Agriculture – Farmers
Europe – Republic of Ireland
North America – Canada – Quebec – Montréal/Outaouais
North America – Canada – Quebec – Trois-Rivières/Eastern Townships
LOVELL, JOHN (Vol. 12)COLBORNE, JOHN, Baron Seaton (Vol. 9)PAPINEAU, LOUIS-JOSEPH (Vol. 10)WOLFE, JAMES (Vol. 3)
PAPINEAU, LOUIS-JOSEPH
LOVELL, JOHN
WOLFE, JAMES
COLBORNE, JOHN, Baron Seaton
Mary Jane Edwards, “O’GRADY, STANDISH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/o_grady_standish_7E.html.
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Message From the Commanding General Emeritus
Birney’s Division:
The Passing of the Generals Flag
on Sunday August 12, 2018 Birney’s Division underwent a change in overall command. Brig. Gen. Michael D. Maffei one of the founding members of Birney’s Division has stepped down from command to answer the call from President Lincoln to report to Washington City, bringing his years of experience there to assist in the war effort.
Before relinquishing command I announced and congratulated my replacement, Brig. Gen. Paul D. Baltzer. A long time confidant and close friend to me for many years. As I stated “it is time and only fair that Gen. Baltzer after many years of loyal and dedicated work for Birney’s Division be named as my replacement.”
Birney’s Division has been extremely fortunate over the years to have been associated with so many wonderful and dedicated people in our hobby. Not forgetting with a reverent respect those hugely important figures, which have now passed Major Gen. Ed Kelley, Major Gen. Ron Palese and others who have shaped and formed our hobby.
Gen Baltzer is the next step in the evolution of our division and I wish him and Birney’s Division the very best. Birney’s Division has formed an excellent staff of officers who are well versed and present a very proper impression as well as being capable of handling any situation brought to them on or off the field. Our troops are battle trained and represent an outstanding impression as a hard fighting battle force on any field, led by our seasoned commanders and NCO’s. Birney’s Division’s continued association with the Army of the Potomac (AoP) under Major Gen. Brian Withrow and his very capable staff has been very favorable for us over the years and we hope to continue that relationship.
It has been an experience and honor beyond words, belonging to Birney’s Division and forming friendships with so many wonderful people. In the future I hope to continue to maintain those friendships and support the Division in any way I can.
Brig. Gen. Emeritus
Michael D. Maffei
P.S. Not to take away from the importance and sincerity from the above letter, I would like to take a moment to explain what in addition to the change of command did occur on that Sunday. Yes, on Sunday August 12, 2018. I did unfortunately suffer a medical issue during the ceremony. I was transported to the hospital and tests did confirm, I suffered a mild stroke. There seems to be no permanent damage only some dizziness and unsteadiness as I walk. The Neurologists tell me it will pass in time. My sudden illness on the field took away from the importance of the moment and for that I am truly sorry. I hope you will congratulate Gen. Baltzer on his promotion and follow his command as you have done mine in the past. I had prepared a fine speech for that ceremony, however due to circumstances was unable to deliver it.
I would at this time like to say to my staff and so many of my friends who have sent messages and phone calls, thank you for your concern, I so much appreciate you taking the time to contact me and inquire about my health and needs. Once fully recovered I hope to see you all on the field again in the future. “Once a reenactor, always a reenactor.”
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Berkhamsted School Prefects, 1922.
A hatchet faced photo of a dozen Berkhamsted School Prefects in the Summer of 1922 shows my grandfather, Dennis Goffey, on the far right, standing. Charles Greene, headmaster & father of Graham, is in the centre, and Claude Cockburn, the writer, and friend of Graham, seated (appropriately, he was once denounced as the ‘eighty-fourth most dangerous Red in the world’ by Senator McCarthy) on the far left.
The photo may or may not explain my interest in Berkhamsted’s most famous literary figure – I mean after Ed Reardon.
The following article can be read – complete with illustrations at https://grahamgreenebt.org/our-quarterly-magazine/ – at least until August, I think.
Graham Greene, aged 41⁄2, and the violent genesis of a Brighton shocker?
In Graham Greene’s volume of autobiography, A Sort of Life (1971), he recalls a vivid memory from Castle Street, Berkhamsted, when he was about five years old. He is with his nurse walking past a row of old cottages near the canal. There is a crowd of people. A man, threatening to commit suicide, runs into a house. Greene can’t remember what happens next, but his brother, Raymond, suggests that he may (or may not) have seen the man cut his throat in a window on the first floor.
Greene suggests the facts of the story might be found in The Berkhamsted Gazette. His biographer, Norman Sherry, scoured four years’ worth without coming across the relevant article. Or it may be that he saw it and discounted it because it did not quite fit Greene’s story. Either way, I sympathise with Sherry. Reading four years of the Gazette (there is still no digital copy) might cause a scholar to contemplate suicide themselves. Today there are happier alternatives.
The Bucks Herald, Saturday 03 April 1909. ‘BERKHAMSTED. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.’, the headline screamed, cautiously. This was not quite the story that Greene remembered, but it involved:
a kerfuffle in Castle Street
a razor
reports in The Bucks Herald and (I could now call up the hard copy with the correct date) The Berkhamsted Gazette.
Albert Thorn, an army pensioner, of Berkhamsted was charged with attempting to commit suicide in the town on March 31st 1909. My story shapes the news reports into a single narrative which is supported by army, census and other records in the public domain.
Albert Thorn was 42 at the time of the events described and he had been lodging with his brother’s family in Shrublands Avenue for about eight months whilst he looked for a job. Brother John worked at the Mantle Factory in Lower Kings Road. Mantles were a type of Ladies’ cloak popular at the time. Officially called the Bulbourne Factory, it manufactured various lines in the “Ladies’ Coat, Costume, Dress, Showerproof” trade and at the height of production between the wars would employ a thousand people.
The Thorn brothers had been born in the East End of London to John Thorn, a labourer from London, and Mary, from Cork, Ireland. In the East End, the rag trade was king. Albert himself had operated a boot press when he was 14 years old. He had decided that manufacturing was not for him and joined the army. It is not too difficult to imagine that his parental heritage influenced his choice of regiment, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Now he had retired after 18 years, 190 days service. His conduct had been ‘exemplary’ – as John told the magistrate in his brother’s defence – and his references excellent: “Specially suited for caretaker. Most reliable and dependable man”. But there are always fewer caretaker posts than old soldiers. Certainly, John thought, it was Albert’s lack of employment that was the chief cause of his depression.
The day before the attempted suicide, there had been a commotion at the Thorn household in Shrublands Avenue to which the police were called. It seems John Thorn’s wife, Clara, had got fed up with her brother-in-law and thrown him out of the house. Albert was threatening to kill her. A policeman found temporary lodgings for the old soldier at the Fish in Mill Street, opposite the south eastern corner of the Moor, one of a handful of pubs tied to the small Rodwells Brewery in Tring.
The following day, seeing his brother outside the police station, Albert, already several sheets to the wind, kissed him goodbye and told him he was going to throw himself under an L&NW express. John did not believe his brother’s threats because, he said, he’d heard them all before. However, he appears to have had second thoughts and set off in pursuit having enlisted the help of two policemen.
Turning down Castle Street, Albert apparently found time to enter a pub – presumably the Railway Hotel at the bottom of the street near the mill stream (and like the alms houses cottages and the Fish, since demolished) – before resuming his plan.
By the time John Thorn and the two policeman reach the bottom of Castle Street a small crowd has formed which includes a four-and-a-half year old writer and his nurse. Someone directs the police to the railway (just beyond the canal) where they apprehend Albert ‘between the fast down rails’ and, on searching him, find a new ‘Splendid’ razor in his pocket. Albert Thorn is charged with attempting to commit suicide and held on remand to stand trial at the next Assizes in Hertford.
Before looking more closely at the differences between Greene’s account and the newspapers’, I wondered if there was anything in Thorn’s army career in India and South Africa that made him particularly vulnerable to depression? He had returned to home service (at Naas, just outside Dublin) in 1898, a year before the Boer War, in which his regiment fought. Could survivor guilt have contributed to his employment woes, homelessness and alcoholism?
Before South Africa, he had served in Bombay (Mumbai) during the bubonic plague epidemic of 1896. The authorities viewed the plague as not only a public health disaster, but a potential threat to British rule. Soldiers were tasked with house to house searches. Anyone found with a fever could be stripped and searched for bubos (swollen lymph glands) in the groin and armpits. Victims would be removed to hospital and their families herded into camps, having first watched all their worldly goods tipped into the street and burnt, and their houses doused with disinfectant and lime-washed. Sometimes the houses were de-roofed or demolished altogether.
Clearly this was a catastrophe for the families but it is hard to imagine it not having a detrimental effect on the soldiers’ mental health, quite apart from the not unreasonable fear of catching plague themselves, and dying horribly, five thousand miles away from their own nearest and dearest.
If Albert’s gloom dated from his army service in India, he was not alone. I wondered if watching a colleague hanged also preyed on his mind? The regimental historian writes:
“A tragic event took place at Deesa [in Gujarat] in the spring of 1897. Private Mooney, suffering from a fit of morbid depression, became obsessed with the idea that one of his best friends, Private Flood, was going to the bad. To save the latter’s soul, as he declared, Mooney shot him dead in his barrack-room. He was condemned to be hanged by sentence of a General Court-Martial, and, as Deesa was more than the stipulated distance from any place where the execution could have been professionally carried into effect, the gruesome duty fell on the staff officer (now Lieutenant-General Sir James Wilcox) and the officers of the detachment.”
Perhaps the gloom is mine as much as Albert’s. He after all maintained that he was just drunk and foolish and very sorry. He had no intention of taking his own life and the fact that he lived until February, 1936 seems to bear this out. Though the fact that he died in the hospital wing of Hemel workhouse suggests that he may never quite have found his feet in civilian life.
On 2nd June 1909 Albert Thorn appeared at Hertford Assizes accused of ‘Unlawfully attempting, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, to kill and murder himself, at Great Berkhampstead, on the 31st March, 1909.’
One feels the language alone could kill a sensitive man. Happily for Albert, the judge accepted the defence claim that he intended no such thing. What’s more the judge suggested that, even if he did, intention was not, of itself, an offence. The jury agreed and Albert walked out of court a free man.
Perhaps Albert’s story is of marginal interest to Greene scholars. But the incident itself was clearly a vivid memory for the writer. He refers to it directly in six works – seven if you count, as Sherry did, unpublished material. It might be argued that the influence of the event reverberates, transformed, throughout his work. Was a middle-aged Pinkie with his razor and vitriol bottle running amok in Castle Street in 1909?
Why the difference between Greene’s version of the story and the newspaper account?
It seems to me that Greene’s memory is accurate – as far as it goes. It bears all the hallmarks of what Esther Salaman calls ‘involuntary memory’ – a memory from a very young age of a traumatic experience. ‘It seems,’ argues Salaman, ‘we do not lay down memories when the stream of our lives runs smoothly.’ Involuntary memories are episodic in nature and often characterised by a sequence of concrete images. Greene’s memory seems to fit this description. He remembers the alms houses, the canal, a crowd, a man running into a house …
Sherry not unreasonably looked for some literary development in Greene’s various revisitings, but the defining quality of such a memory is that it leads nowhere. It is an ‘island in a sea of oblivion’ in Salaman’s phrase – a closed loop, a kind of mental tick. As Greene himself observed of his early memories, ‘the fragments remain fragments.’
The problem for historians (an autobiography – even a sort of one – makes a claim to historical fact) is not the memory per se but the author’s attempt to put it into context. Greene strains to stick facts to the memory – although not to the extent of checking the Gazette himself. But the facts don’t quite adhere. Beat at it as he may, there is nothing the other side of the door. Nothing and everything of course: the point at which his traumatic childhood memory fails is the birthplace of his creative imagination.
A couple of nice ironies occur to me. Firstly, the incident as it turned out, was not actually a suicide but rather the dramatic representation of suicidal thoughts: a description that might equally be applied to some of Greene’s literary output as well as his not infrequent journalistic incursions into harm’s way. The other irony is that even at age four-and-a-half, Greene’s world is informed by the printed word – in this case reported to him by adults. It is a conflation of experience and imagination.
Greene is often called ‘widely travelled’ – with good reason. But he was not unique in that respect a century ago, in an empire that straddled the globe. Albert Thorn had been to India and South Africa in the service of two British monarchs. He had not fought but he had witnessed sights, particularly in plague-ridden Bombay, that he would probably much rather have forgotten, including the judicial murder of a mentally troubled colleague.
Whatever the real driver of his agitation, the fact that Albert Thorn achieved his three score years and ten suggests that he managed to find at least some accommodation with the demons witnessed by a four-and-a-half year old writer in Berkhamsted on the last day of March, 1909.
© Richard Shepherd, 2018.
I think Graham Greene would have enjoyed the unexpected poetry of the surnames in the historical record. Surely only a novelist with a religious frame of mind could have invented Private Flood, or poor old Albert Thorn, travelling to his own personal crucifixion – and resurrection – on the London & North Western Railway.
A Sort of Life, Graham Greene, London Penguin, 1974 (First published by the Bodley Head 1971)
‘Berkhamsted. Alleged Attempted Suicide.’ Bucks Herald. Saturday 03 April 1909. The British Newspaper Archive [ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000270/19090403/024/0006 visited 25.04.2018]
‘Army Pensioner’s Foolish Conduct’
Berkhamsted Gazette. Saturday 10 April 1909.
‘Berkhamsted Man Discharged’
Berkhamsted Gazette. Saturday 05 June 1909.
National Archives HO 140/272 – A Calendar Of Prisoners Tried At The Assizes
National Archives WO 97/6075 – Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1913
Crown and Company The Records of The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Major A.E. Mainwaring, 1911, London, A. L. Humphreys [ https://archive.org/details/crownandcompany00unkngoog visited 25.04.2018]
Room 000, Kalpish Ratna, London, Pan Macmillan India, 2015. A novel about the Bombay plague of 1896 written by two doctors.
Cedric Watts noted the appearance of ‘the despairing man who sought suicide at the almshouses by the humpbacked bridge’ in A Sort of Life, Journey Without Maps, The Lawless Roads, ‘The Innocent’, The Captain and the Enemy, and Reflections.
(A Preface to Greene, Cedric Watts, Longman, London and New York, 1996.) Norman Sherry’s similar list does not include Captain, but does include an unpublished manuscript ‘Fanatic Arabia’. (The Life Of Graham Greene Volume 1: 1904-1939, Norman Sherry, London, Jonathan Cape, 1989-2004.)
” … our memory of a moment is not informed of everything that has happened since; this moment which it has registered endures still, lives still, and with it the person whose form is outlined in it.”
Marcel Proust, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, quoted in A Collection of Moments A Study of Involuntary Memories, Esther Salaman, London, Longman, 1970. This was a study of her own memories of childhood in revolutionary Russia, and of writers (though not Greene) who wrote about their early childhood. I came across it in Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
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Classic Interview: Greg Theakston Pt. III – Tiny Hotel Rooms, Rights for Comic Artists and Never going against Neal Adams
In 2010 I decided to try to track down as many of the fabled “Crusty Bunkers” as I could to tap their memories of working at Neal Adams’ and Dick Giordano’s Continuity Associates.
This segment is part 3 of 3.
Greg Theakston: Now in the summer of I think 1980 Neal took a beach house on Fire Island and around late July I said, “Hey, you know, you keep inviting people out to your beach house. When are you going to invite me?” He says, “Oh, you can come whenever you want.” I said, “Cool.” So I show up on a Saturday afternoon and Lynn’s there visiting. At this point the only way to get out of Fire Island is by ferry. The last one was at about 10:30 at night. So I said, “Lynn, walk me to the ferry.” So we’re walking to the ferry and having kind of a heart to heart and suddenly Neal comes charging down the boardwalk and says, believe it or not, “I’m not breaking up anything, I hope, I hope, I hope.” “Get out of my romance!” That was that moment where it’s like not only is Neal feeling competitive with me, but he’s getting in the middle of my shit. So very shortly after that I said, “Look, Neal, I think I’m going to just start working from home.” I’d come in once in awhile. I said, “I know I owe you a few hours as the office manager. I’ll come in on Fridays because that’s the best day and I’ll catch up on my last 15 hours or whatever it is I owe you.”
He says, “Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You misunderstand. You owe me another 84 hours.” “What?” “You rented a room that is fitted for two tables, not one.” “We never discussed this.” From the start I thought this was a one-table room and believe me, I could put my hand on my table and turn around and put my hand on the wall. That’s how big it was.
Bryan D. Stroud for Comics Bulletin: Reminds me of a Japanese hotel room I once occupied.
THEAKSTON: It was like 6 phone booths. So he said, “That’s a two table room. You’ve been racking up that rent and now you owe me 84 hours.” (Heavy sigh.) What do I do? I want to keep on good terms with Neal, but on the other hand, geez. I feel like I’m being raped. So I call up the New York City Workman’s Rights Something to try and figure it out and it’s “Oh, no. Only one person can work in a room that size. It’s not a two person room.” So I tell him that and he says, “Well, Bob Wiacek and Terry Austin share studio space in the same amount of room.” So it comes to this point where, all right, I’m still coming in on Fridays, putting in 3 or 4 hours each Friday in an effort to maintain peace between Neal and I. And part of the deal was I said, “Look, I don’t want to pay any money for this. I’ll work for it, but if I’ve got to pay money for it I might as well work at home.”
So after about two months of coming in every Friday and putting hours in he says, “This isn’t going fast enough. I want doors on all the cupboards in the front room and you pay for the wood.” I said, “That was not our deal.” “Yeah, but you’re not working this thing off fast enough.” Okay, so now it’s dueling personalities.
CB: The classic battle of wills.
THEAKSTON: Yeah. I said, “No, that was not our deal. I tell you what, this two table thing was not our deal either.” He says, “Well, buy the cabinet fronts or that’s it.” I said, “Well, that’s it.” That’s how Neal and I ended.
I never heard back from him ever again. We see each other at conventions and we don’t even nod. On the other hand he doesn’t shout at me. There’s something to be said for that.
CB: Take the good with the bad.
THEAKSTON: Also, very interesting, Neal had a 10-year lease on that space and developers wanted to come in and knock down the building on the right and on the left and the building Continuity was in and build a gigantic skyscraper, which they eventually did. But Neal was a hold out. He wanted money before he was going to be bounced from this space. So it came to loggerheads.
Michael Golden worked for Neal at this period. They came up with Bucky O’Hare. A brilliant idea that went nowhere. Golden and Neal sat down and constructed this idea and all of the toy pieces that would go with it in an effort to sell it to a toy manufacturer. The gun was detachable from Bucky O’Hare’s hand and so forth.
Anyway, I won’t say the mafia word, but somehow they got all the other tenants out of the building. Except Neal. Neal won’t budge. He’s got a 10-year lease or at least a long-term lease. They tried to burn the building down.
CB: Wow!
THEAKSTON: They started a fire on the ground level and the last time I snuck in (wicked laughter) to Continuity because I was persona non grata, it stank like charred wood. Ultimately I think he got 2.5 million to get out.
CB: That’s a tidy sum.
THEAKSTON: Yeah, he was dealing in futures at the time. Sugar. That’s where he was putting his money. And every once in awhile the kids would come up and you’d meet the family. The Adams family, as we called them. And I won’t even go into that. It’s far too personal.
On the other hand…I’m a firm believer…and I know this from the very start. Not only am I an artist, but I’m a reporter, who is always interested in the journalistic aspect of life as well as being an artist, so when people did things in front of me they didn’t realize there was a reporter on hand.
So I’m up at Continuity and Neal’s not there. Kristine shows up and she’s still in high school and she says, “Oh, Daddy’s not here. I’m all out of money. I need some money.” Mike Nasser says, “I’ll give you $20.00. Don’t worry about it.” So he gives Kristine a twenty-dollar bill. Later on in the evening I hear this tussle in the hallway. Up in the reception area. I stick my head out the door to see what’s going on. And it’s Neal and Mike having a confrontation and Mike will confirm this, Neal will probably deny it up and down, and again, don’t print this until Neal is dead. He picks up this cripple and smashes him by the lapels against the elevator doors. This is clearly about Mike giving Kristine twenty bucks. I mean really. Mike’s a victim of polio. He walks with a limp. And Neal just manhandled a cripple?
Dave Spurlock of Vanguard productions is doing a documentary on Jim Sterankno and I was his first assistant and I said, “Dave…come on. I was his first assistant. I’ve got a lot of stories. Are you ever going to interview me? He said, “Well, Jim might not like what you say about him.” I said, “Look, are you a documentarian, or are you a suck-up? If he doesn’t like it, don’t include it. But really it should be recorded for posterity.”
CB: Precisely.
THEAKSTON: On the other hand, my newborn son needed an operation. Not a very serious operation, but it was $400 I didn’t have and Neal sat down and wrote me a check, Boom! Like that as soon as I told him. So he’s a complex personality.
CB: Complicated.
THEAKSTON: Yeah. He was an Army brat.
CB: That I didn’t know.
THEAKSTON: Yeah, apparently he was dragged all over the United States. That’s tough on a kid. And fascinating, same thing with Kirby, when they don’t talk about a particular topic you know that’s a hot-button issue. I knew Kirby for years and first started talking to him in ’69 or ’68 and knew him until he died in ’93. I think he only spoke about his father maybe four times. And I can’t remember Neal ever speaking about his father other than that he was an Army brat and his father dragged him around. Vaughn Bode had no problem telling me his issues about his father. It made Vaughn Bode what he was. He hated his father and made no bones about it. And the only way to escape his father was to go into a fantasy world and create a new world where his father wasn’t there. Which is one of the reasons he was such a brilliant creator.
I’m talking to Larry Todd and I said, “What happened to Wrightson? I thought he was going to be one of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century and suddenly it just fell apart.” And Todd says, “Well, his father died. He can’t kill him any more.” Ouch! And you know, you’re right. So with the artistic temperament, it’s one of the reasons I’ll never be a great artist. I’ll be a functional, good, solid artist, but I won’t be a great artist, because I don’t hate my father. I don’t hate my mother. And I landed smack dab in the middle of all these guys with mommy and daddy issues. And I was completely unable to relate with them. “I had a happy childhood. Why are you so pissed-off all the time?”
Part of the point is that I lived through it to report it. Believe me the unrelated Continuity stories are just as horrifying…and funny.
CB: I have no doubt.
THEAKSTON: Let’s see, what else can I tell you about Continuity? Oh. The missing Tarzan covers. Neal was hired by Ballantine to illustrate the Tarzan series they had just picked up. And he’s working on at least six paintings. You’d have to look it up. Six or eight paintings at the same time. And they’re pretty good. There’s just no getting around it. But Neal had this idea that people would wait for him to do his thing. When he did his contract with DC for Superman vs. Muhammad Ali there was a time schedule. And if he did not have the project completed by this particular time, money would be deducted from his check. DC had figured this out. By this point, Neal’s ego is so big he thinks that everybody will just wait for him. And I am pretty sure there is a contract clause for press time he’ll be penalized on if it’s not used. So he’s working on these Tarzan paintings for Ballantine and the art director calls him up. He says, “These are all due next week. It’s now or never.” So Neal I guess decides to finish his eight paintings and they’re all pretty much complete, but not done. And he starts looking around the studio. Can’t find them.
CB: Uh-oh.
THEAKSTON: He said, “Greg, you’re my studio manager. See if you can find these.” So, seriously. I’m the studio manager and I know where these will be? Not likely. So I proceed to go through every square inch of ground in that entire place. This is a pretty big place. It’s the whole floor of the building. And they’re gone. Neal’s thinking, “Who stole my paintings?” And I would think that, too. “Which one of my so-called friends is a thief?” So I’m sitting to his right and I’m thinking, “I’ve covered every square foot of the floor of this place. I’ve looked in all the shelves, I’ve looked in all the portfolios, I’ve looked in all the drawers.” And these are pretty big pieces. These are not easy to miss. And then it comes to me: I said, “Neal, I know where your paintings are.” And I drag a chair into the stat room, which doubles as the Art-o-graph room, which is a dark room, stand on the chair and they’re on top of the stat camera. How they got there, who knows? But it’s the only place above the top of my head that I haven’t looked yet. And sure enough there they all were. I saved his ass on that one.
CB: Oh, I guess.
THEAKSTON: You want to talk about saving ass? Gray Morrow comes up on a Friday. He says he’s got the assignment to do Space 1999. So Gray comes up and he says, “I’ve got this job to do on Space 1999 for Charlton and I’m farming out the work.” The downside? He only has five stills. One is costume. One is the ship. One is a villain from episode three or whatever and so on. So Gray heads to the back of the studio. Everybody around here is going to get one story. Neal says, “Xerox these stills.” I made five Xeroxes of each of the stills. So I turn one of the stills over and its ITC and the address is two blocks up on Madison Avenue. And we’re talking 4:30 in the afternoon on Friday. So I call up the head of publicity at ITC and I say, “Look, we’re working at a handicap here. We’re supposed to do this thing for Charlton and we only have five photos.” The guy says, “Come on over.” So I get there and he pulls out this two feet by 18 inches and 6-inch deep box. He opens it up and it’s got the plot synopsis for the first 13 episodes, proof sheets for the first 13 episodes and probably an additional 30 stills and a 16mm trailer. I said, “Wait a minute. You keep everything else, just give me the trailer.”
CB: Jackpot!
THEAKSTON: There was a beautiful presentation booklet, 18 x 12 laminated. Twelve pages. So I come back to the studio and say, “Gray, Neal. Come into the front room. It’s the mother lode.” I said, “Gray, can I do one of these stories?” “Oh, sorry. While you were away I gave them all out to the other guys.” “You’re welcome.”
CB: No joke.
THEAKSTON: It was that kind of thing that separated me from the rest of the pack at Continuity. The young guys. It doesn’t take too much to figure this out. And sure enough everybody else in the studio that got in on Space 1999 got paid for it after I saved the studio’s ass. No good deed goes unpunished. It was all just kind of comical. “I’ve got an idea. Let’s go to ITC, two blocks away on the 15th floor and get some material that might help.” It had not even occurred to Gray Morrow to look at the back of the still, get the address and go get some extra material. Really it was not a brain-buster.
I contributed to Continuity in a way that none of the other young bucks ever did. And in some respects it put me at odds with Neal.
CB: It sounds like you were perceived as a threat.
THEAKSTON: Yeah. How ridiculous is that? Me and Neal Adams? What kind of a threat am I? Good Lord.
Now there was the Animation House at 50 East 48th, one building over, and we tended to do a fair amount of work with them. After I left, Neal did this highly erotic thing and they got together and said, “If we could just run this thing one time on television it would make such a stir.” So they did this highly erotic animated spot. A lot of work. And WPIX Channel 11 wouldn’t run it because it was so sexual.
There used to be this corkboard to the right of Joe Brosowski’s table and there was always interesting stuff being pinned up there. Neal got a hold of a picture of Barry Windsor Smith with his Barry Windsor shirt in gigantic circular signature. “Who are you?” “I’m Barry Smith.”
CB: (Chuckle.)
THEAKSTON: “Yeah, I read your shirt.” And Neal meticulously, for nothing, re-lettered it, “Barely Christ.” In the same lettering! Ha! And Barry never visited the studio, so he never tore it off the wall, but everybody got a laugh out of it who did see it. Dear dead days…
Once or twice a month I’d straighten up Neal’s desk. All the correspondence in the upper left hand corner of the desk, hot projects are in the middle, and stuff that I can’t figure out what’s supposed to be done is on the right. “I changed out the matte board on your table.” That was over and above the call of duty and…(laughter.) Neal is sitting there inking something and he says, “I’m the best inker in the business,” in a very self-satisfied tone. (Chuckle.) I kind of give him a fish eye to my left, and I go (hidden in a cough) “Ninio” And everybody’s back in the room stiffens. “Did you really say that to Neal? My God!” And there’s a beat…beat…beat, and Neal says, “I’m the second-best inker in the comic book business.” (Mutual laughter.)
And that kind of sums up the situation with Neal and I. The guys would never, ever go up against Neal.
And he’d do these long, long jokes and the payout was like, “Oh, my God…” Now I admired his creativity in coming up with this thing and trying to sell it and he says, “In Japan, the land where they make all of the toys out of plastic, they have these gigantic cooling towers and the plastic particles that float up are collected in these cooling towers.” I take a piece of paper out and I write, “This is another one of Neal’s bullshit stories.” I pass it to Lynn Varley. She looks at it and laughs. He continues, “They’re trying to figure out what to do with all the plastic in these cooling towers and it’s really durable plastic. The best of the plastic, for some reason. So they decided to use it to make cars. And that’s how Toy-oter, came to be.” Really? “Toy-oter?”
Ultimately Continuity was a lovely place to springboard into the business. Working with the master, complex as he was. I don’t have any bad feelings about Neal. He did me good turns. I did him good turns. It ended up in a loggerhead of ego.
One last memory: When they were trying to form A.C.B.A., he called a meeting up at Continuity and I swear there were 30 people in the front room who were trying to figure out how to set up A.C.B.A. Is it going to be a union? They finally decided it was going to be a loose organization that represented, slightly, the rights of comic book artists.
Marty Pasko was there and said, “I think this whole thing is a terrible idea.” Then why are you here? Just creating chaos? Oh, that’s right. You had a terrible childhood.
And in the crowd was Steve Ditko.
CB: Really?
THEAKSTON: Yeah, the man of recluse. He actually came out for it. And ultimately they chose Stan Lee as the figurehead. Great. I wouldn’t call it a radical situation, but it was a moment where all of the creators felt like, “It can’t go on like this. We shouldn’t be working like the artists in the 1950’s and early 1960’s did.” Everybody was behind it, but it never delivered. All of the artists were behind it. The A.C.B.A. portfolio kept things going. It was just some sort of symbolic thing that didn’t do anything. It’s sad.
I guess for a moment there were 30 of the…I guess I won’t say top artists, because a number of them couldn’t make it into the city, but a number of the young artists and a good smattering of the older artists who would like to see some change. I think very shortly after that the companies began giving artwork back.
CB: So something good came of it.
THEAKSTON: Yeah, well the fact that thirty artists could get off their asses and meet at some predetermined location was a sign.
And I was there for the Siegel and Shuster battle. Where Neal came to bat for Siegel and Shuster. This is another one of those moments. There were moments when the guy could be magnificent. And there were moments when you just wondered. “How can you do this and then do that?” But people said that about Sinatra, too.
Neal was just a contradiction in terms. In some respects he likes publicity, but he’s not very good at generating it.
Now Neal would go to bat for you. I was doing a painting for Atlas, Goodman’s last company and I said, “Neal, I did a good painting of Frankenstein and Jeff Rovin keeps rejecting it. I keep changing it to his demands and he’s rejecting it.” And Neal got on the phone and called Rovin up and said, “You know Theakston’s here and he’s very upset. He’s done his very best to fix this to your liking and you keep rejecting it.” There’s kind of a pause and “Well, all right.” So he stepped up for me. And I don’t think he would have done that if he’d looked at the piece and said, “This is crap. No wonder he doesn’t want it.”
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October 9 - 1859: Thoreau sets out for Cape Cod
Headed for the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts
ARTICLE | Cape Cod History | October 9, 2015 12:00 AM | By Walter Brooks
Illustration by Amelia M. Watson, from an 1896 edition of Cape Cod.
1859: Thoreau sets out for Cape Cod
"Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean..."
On this day in 1859, Henry David Thoreau set out from Concord, Massachusetts, heading for Cape Cod.
On reaching Boston he discovered that the Provincetown steamer, which should have arrived the day before, had not yet docked because of a violent storm which had killed one hundred and forty-five people in Cohasset. With that information at hand, he decided to go by way of Cohasset and the rest is history.
Below is the start of the first chapter of his book about that day.
The Shipwreck
Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod in October, 1849, another the succeeding June, and another to Truro in July, 1855; the first and last time with a single companion, the second time alone. I have spent, in all, about three weeks on the Cape; walked from Eastham to Provincetown twice on the Atlantic side, and once on the Bay side also, excepting four or five miles, and crossed the Cape half a dozen times on my way; but having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted. My readers must expect only so much saltness as the land breeze acquires from blowing over an arm of the sea, or is tasted on the windows and the bark of trees twenty miles inland, after September gales. I have been accustomed to make excursions to the ponds within ten miles of Concord, but latterly I have extended my excursions to the sea-shore.
I did not see why I might not make a book on Cape Cod, as well as my neighbor on "Human Culture." It is but another name for the same thing, and hardly a sandier phase of it. As for my title, I suppose that the word Cape is from the French cap; which is from the Latin caput, a head; which is, perhaps, from the verb capere, to take, - that being the part by which we take hold of a thing: - Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by. And as for Cod, that was derived directly from that "great store of codfish" which Captain Bartholomew Gosnold caught there in 1602; which fish appears to have been so called from the Saxon word codde, "a case in which seeds are lodged," either from the form of the fish, or the quantity of spawn it contains; whence also, perhaps, codling ("pomum coctile"?) and coddle, - to cook green like peas. (V. Dic.)
Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts
Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown, - behind which the State stands on her guard, with her back to the Green Mountains, and her feet planted on the floor of the ocean, like an athlete protecting her Bay, - boxing with northeast storms, and, ever and anon, heaving up her Atlantic adversary from the lap of earth, - ready to thrust forward her other fist, which keeps guard the while upon her breast at Cape Ann.
On studying the map, I saw that there must be an uninterrupted beach on the east or outside of the fore-arm of the Cape, more than thirty miles from the general line of the coast, which would afford a good sea view, but that, on account of an opening in the beach, forming the entrance to Nauset Harbor, in Orleans, I must strike it in Eastham, if I approached it by land, and probably I could walk thence straight to Race Point, about twenty-eight miles, and not meet with any obstruction.
We left Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, October 9th, 1849. On reaching Boston, we found that the Provincetown steamer, which should have got in the day before, had not yet arrived, on account of a violent storm; and, as we noticed in the streets a handbill headed, "Death! one hundred and forty-five lives lost at Cohasset," we decided to go by way of Cohasset. We found many Irish in the cars,(4) going to identify bodies and to sympathize with the survivors, and also to attend the funeral which was to take place in the afternoon; - and when we arrived at Cohasset, it appeared that nearly all the passengers were bound for the beach, which was about a mile distant, and many other persons were flocking in from the neighboring country. There were several hundreds of them streaming off over Cohasset common in that direction, some on foot and some in wagons, - and among them were some sportsmen in their hunting-jackets, with their guns, and game-bags, and dogs. As we passed the graveyard we saw a large hole, like a cellar, freshly dug there, and, just before reaching the shore, by a pleasantly winding and rocky road, we met several hay-riggings and farm-wagons coming away toward the meeting-house, each loaded with three large, rough deal boxes. We did not need to ask what was in them. The owners of the wagons were made the undertakers. Many horses in carriages were fastened to the fences near the shore, and, for a mile or more, up and down, the beach was covered with people looking out for bodies, and examining the fragments of the wreck. There was a small island called Brook Island, with a hut on it, lying just off the shore. This is said to be the rockiest shore in Massachusetts, from Nantasket to Scituate, - hard sienitic rocks, which the waves have laid bare, but have not been able to crumble. It has been the scene of many a shipwreck.
The brig St. John (an artist's rendition of the brigon above on right, from Galway, Ireland, laden with emigrants, was wrecked on Sunday morning; it was now Tuesday morning, and the sea was still breaking violently on the rocks. There were eighteen or twenty of the same large boxes that I have mentioned, lying on a green hill-side, a few rods from the water, and surrounded by a crowd. The bodies which had been recovered, twenty-seven or eight in all, had been collected there. Some were rapidly nailing down the lids, others were carting the boxes away, and others were lifting the lids, which were yet loose, and peeping under the cloths, for each body, with such rags as still adhered to it, was covered loosely with a white sheet. I witnessed no signs of grief, but there was a sober despatch of business which was affecting. One man was seeking to identify a particular body, and one undertaker or carpenter was calling to another to know in what box a certain child was put. I saw many marble feet and matted heads as the cloths were raised, and one livid, swollen, and mangled body of a drowned girl, — who probably had intended to go out to service in some American family, — to which some rags still adhered, with a string, half concealed by the flesh, about its swollen neck; the coiled-up wreck of a human hulk, gashed by the rocks or fishes, so that the bone and muscle were exposed, but quite bloodless, — merely red and white, — with wide-open and staring eyes, yet lustreless, dead-lights; or like the cabin windows of a stranded vessel, filled with sand. Sometimes there were two or more children, or a parent and child, in the same box, and on the lid would perhaps be written with red chalk, "Bridget such-a-one, and sister's child." The surrounding sward was covered with bits of sails and clothing. I have since heard, from one who lives by this beach, that a woman who had come over before, but had left her infant behind for her sister to bring, came and looked into these boxes, and saw in one, — probably the same whose superscription I have quoted, — her child in her sister's arms, as if the sister had meant to be found thus; and within three days after, the mother died from the effect of that sight...
Read more from the The Shipwreck from Cape Cod by Henry Thoreau.
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Walter Brooks (1930-2018) was the Founder of CapeCodToday.com. He was also the founder of Best Read Guide and wrote the Blogfather blog. Walter served as volunteer Managing Editor of Cape Cod Today until the day he died.
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Comedians of Chelsea Lately
I haven't watched Chelsea Lately at all since leaving for The Ranch. I miss it, it is really funny. Today I had on random TV and turned it to E!. I found out that the Comedians of Chelsea Lately special thy talked about for most of May and June was recorded and they have broken it up into a series of 30 minute episodes. Tonight is a new episode so add it to your TiVo if you haven't already.
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It's no secret that I love the crazy awful VH1 dating shows and spin-offs. The people on these shows act like crazy wild beasts. There are two new ones this month, My Antonio and Megan Wants a Millionaire.
I'm not quite sure why My Antonio is on VH1. Antonio Sapato Jr. is not a musician. Then again, The T.O. Show is "Brooke" style show about a washed up football player so this is not unprecedented. Antonio's show is worth watching as it is filmed in Hawaii and because his mother is wonderfully judgemental and his ex-wife shows up to win him back. It's a train wreck and it is trying to be so serious.
But Megan was on Rock of Love and so here place on VH1 is both secure and logical. I thought her show was one of the best dating show ever. Anything with Megan can only be light hearted and whimsical. Especially since she brings her retarded dog with her everywhere. She actually said on I Love Money that she wants to start a charity to help retarded dogs like hers. And her guys on her show were all millionaires. Many of them were acting like the douchebags you would expect millionaires who go on TV to act.
You can imagine my extreme disappointment when this show was removed from the schedule after only three of the episodes aired. You see one of the contestants was charged with the murder of his wife and so now the whole show is gone, probably for good. Ryan Jenkins got married in Vegas to a "model" earlier this year after filming for the show wrapped. A few weeks ago her body was found in a suitcase in Buena Park, CA, not to far from where I am right now. (I'm going to Disneyland today!) He fled the country and was found dead in a motel in Canada just yesterday. He was clearly a rising VH1 reality star as he was reportedly a contestant on I Love Money 3, which will also probably never air.
This goes to show you that rich people are not just as crazy as poor people, they bring a whole new level of crazy to television. Rich people get that extra level of entitlement which leads to even crazier behavior like murder and suicide. Rich people can be normal, but rich people who go on TV where their net worth is shown on screen are the highest level of crazy and they should be avoided.
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Virtuality vs. Defying Gravity
Last Sunday the new Space Exploration show Defying Gravity debuted on ABC with its first two episodes. The concept is not dis-similar to the FOX movie Virtuality which aired at the end of June. This one was obviously a pilot which was not picked up for a full season. Both were in the not-too-far-future and both had international crews on a multi-year mission through space. Both had steamy love triangles and tragic consequences. And both had a big "mystery" which was going to effect the lives of the crew and the outcome of the mission.
The 12 person crew is on the first extra-solar system mission. A ten year flight to another star and back. The mission is heavily sponsors and broadcast as a reality show on the FOX of the future. They have to wear the sponsors logos all the time. Their only private space is a cross between a virtual reality machine and a holo-deck. Of course if they had ever watched ST:TNG, they would know the holo-deck always malfunctions. A rogue computer virus/program/AI/whatever starts making their private time rather sucky. But then are they really on a space mission or just in some bigger simulation? Mystery! I liked the crew and lack of ground control involved. Plus they have a gay couple. I assume this will be on DVD soon, but there is no date announced yet. It be great if they made a few more made for TV/DVD movies to complete the story.
This made it to production because of the international production team. It's a joint German, Canadian, British, US production. The smaller team of seven is heading on a grand tour of the solar system, visiting Venus first and then on to the others. At the last minute two of the astronauts had to be replaced for health issues. But something engineered the health issues and it is in Bay 4. It has a big stake in this mission too. What is it? Mystery? Whatever it is it is giving the crew dreams which may or may not be the future. Lots of relationship drama as well. The ground crew is a big part of the show. I wonder if they are going to ignore the communication lag as they get further from Earth. I haven't watched episode three yet, later this afternoon I'll have time.
Long Term TiVo Management
I've been out of town for over five weeks. I'm back in Seattle for a few days this week. I had some things that needed to be done before I leave again. I'll be gone for six weeks this next time. Being gone for so long requires some serious TiVo management. First thing was removing all the reality shows: Brooke Knows Best, Kendra, Daisy of Love. Also the news and talk shows I like: Daily Show, Colbert Report, Chelsea Lately. And the cartoons were dropped too: Phineas and Ferb, The League of Super Evil, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. That cut down of a lot of flotsam. Then I needed to balance shows out on the two different TiVos so neither got too full. So upstairs it was:
The Soup
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Downstairs on the HD DVR:
Some shows have ended (or only have one episode left) and other new shows have started. Kathy, Burn Notice, and The Listener were removed. Newly added this week were:
Flipping Out
Web Soup
Sometimes I have to set a manual recording (specific time each week) so I don't get every show ever like RHoA and Mad Men. They often have marathons and I don't want my hard drives choked up with old content. Also while I was home I off-loaded all the episodes of Royal Pains and The Listener to my lap-top. I hope I have a chance to watch them on this next part of my summer trip.
Where have I been? I've been working on a gay guest ranch in San Luis Obispo County, California. I'll be back in Seattle permanently just before the new fall season begins. I have limited time on the Ranch to watch TV and blog about it. We don't have wireless internet so we have to use these Verizon 3G USB cards. These have limited usage so I might be able to watch one or two things each billing cycle on Hulu. I'm going to try to set up the email function on my blog so I can just email in entries from my phone. I apologize for the future lack of photos in many of the posts.
The only show I have made a huge effort not to miss is True Blood. It's my new favorite show of all time this week.
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Compounding: The Basis of Herbal Healing
Roy Upton, RH, DAyu
Americans pride themselves on being ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to scientific and medical advances, but although the US market for botanicals and herbal medicines is rapidly growing, we're a couple of centuries behind Europe and many centuries behind Asia.
The fact is, there is great benefit to be reaped from traditional herbal compounds, which once formed the basis of traditional Western medicine.
Herbs and herbal products are considered botanical medicines, as opposed to pharmaceutical medicines (even though many pharmaceuticals, for example, aspirin, were originally plant-based).
Today, single herbs are among the most widely used of all herbal products in this country, much as we've come to depend upon a single "magic bullet" pharmaceutical from our medicine cabinet. But we are way behind Europeans and Asians in utilizing the bounty of botanicals to their fullest extent, mainly due to ignorance and lack of information about the benefits (including ease of use) of herbal compounds.
Botanical Balance
Compounding refers to the process of combining various herbs in a balanced formula to treat specific problems, or to act as a whole-body or body-system tonic. Some formulas, particularly Chinese and Ayurvedic ones, have been used for more than a thousand years - quite a testament to their effectiveness.
Unlike "modern" medicine, however, rather than just treating symptoms or a specific disease, the aim of herbal compounding is not only to ease symptoms and "cure" the patient, but also to create a positive change and rebalance the body, so that long-lasting relief can be attained and maintained.
Herbal Compounding is an Art
Many companies take individual herbs known to be effective in heart problems, for example, and then combine them for consumers, taking a "shotgun" approach to formulas. The problem with this is that certain botanicals may not be compatible.
Choosing Herbal Compounds
Some companies are creating these compounds in their product-development department without benefit of a professional herbalist or healthcare professional.
They may take whatever herb is "hot" at the moment, and beef it up with another up-and-coming herb, and promote it as a compound, hoping something in there will nail whatever's ailing the consumer.
There is a real art to compounding, as the Chinese and Ayurvedic herbal traditions have demonstrated for many centuries.
In these traditions, compounds have been developed very methodically, starting with a careful diagnosis of the problem and identifying the underlying manifestations of the condition being treated.
In clinical practice, herbalists and doctors of Oriental medicine tailor each formula to each patient.
For over-the-counter compounds, preparations are designed to address many aspects of a disease as it affects a larger population.
Common Herbal Combinations
For cardiovascular disease, for example, there are five primary issues, with an herb for each:
Tonification of the heart (hawthorn)
Fluid retention (motherwort)
Stress reduction (zizyphus)
Blood clots (tienchi ginseng)
Elevated cholesterol levels (Chinese salvia)
Herbalists and herbal practitioners determine the nature of an individual's condition, then mix and match herbs to address all the manifestations of the disease.
Besides being chosen for their primary action, some herbs are included because of their secondary and tertiary action. In the example of cardiovascular disease, motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) has historically been used as a diuretic to treat fluid retention; it promotes circulation, helping to reduce the incidence of blood clots, and also lowering cholesterol.
Adding other herbs that offer different benefits ensures the compound will work for most people most of the time. This provides much more than simple symptomatic relief that may occasionally be found in "shotgun" formulas.
How Safe Are Herbal Remedies?
"Based on published reports, side effects or toxic reactions associated with herbal medicines in any form are rare. . . . Herbal medicines do not present a major problem with regard to toxicity based on a survey of the scientific literature. In fact, of all classes of substances . . . to cause toxicities of sufficient magnitude to be reported in the United States, plants are the least problematic," reports Norman Farnsworth, PhD.
Farnsworth is a researcher and professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where the United States collaborates on medicinal plant research for the World Health Organization (WHO).
Every year approximately 100,000 deaths are attributed to adverse effects of pharmaceutical drugs. But over an eight-year period, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported only one fatality caused by a dietary supplement - a finding that was later determined to be inaccurate.
Herbal medicines have proven themselves safe and effective over thousands of years, and the majority of our planet's population uses them regularly (85 percent, according to the WHO).
Note: Do not use herbal compounds in conjunction with pharmaceuticals without the approval of your healthcare provider. Some herbals are so powerful on their own, combining them with a synthetic drug that's supposed to provide the same action could be dangerous (an anti-coagulant, for instance).
Education & Herbal Compounds
Unfortunately, the burden of learning about herbal compounds is on you, the consumer.
If you don't have an herbalist to advise you, many health-food retailers are very knowledgeable and can give you a good overview of what's on their shelves. But they can't make specific recommendations without risk of violating current government restrictions. He or she can tell you, however, who developed the formula, what kind of experience they have, and which companies have a record of being reliable providers of quality products. Just ask!
Consumers must educate themselves about their conditions and the appropriate herbs and other natural therapies to use. This will ensure the healing potential of botanicals and will truly provide consumers with safe and effective medicines from nature.
Looking for a healthcare provider trained in herbal medicine? Contact any of these professional groups:
http://www.naturopathic.org
American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
http://www.aaom.org
(610) 266-1433 or toll-free, (888) 500-7999
American Herbalists Guild
www.healthy.net/herbalists
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Ed Weisfelner is the Chair of Brown Rudnick’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. He is also a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. He has nearly 35 years of experience representing official and ad hoc creditors’ and equity holders’ committees, individual creditors, indenture trustees, equity holders, and other parties in many of the nation’s largest in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Ed has also served as a court appointed litigation trustee, mediator and examiner.
Represented the Official Committee of Equity Security Holders in the Chapter 11 case of Adeptus Health Inc.
Representing Lead Counsel in the GM Ignition Switch Defect MDL Litigation as Plaintiffs’ Designated Counsel in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, opposing GM’s motion to enjoin plaintiffs’ economic injury claims based on the injunction contained in the bankruptcy Sale Order by which the assets of Old GM were transferred to New GM in the GM bankruptcy in 2009.
Counsel to Plan Sponsor in Pacific Exploration & Production Corporation’s cross-border restructuring.
Counsel to the Ad Hoc Equity Committee in Ultra Petroleum Corporation.
Counsel to Ad Hoc Committee of Second Lien Noteholders, and Special Counsel to Indenture Trustee, in the Chapter 11 case of Energy Future Holdings (TXU), the largest energy producer in Texas.
Counsel to the Official Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, the largest law firm Chapter 11 filing.
Counsel to Wilmington Trust, co-chair of the Official Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings of AMR Corporation, the parent of American Airlines.
Counsel to the Official Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Lyondell Chemical Company which, together with its non-debtor affiliates, is one of the largest petrochemical and refining companies in the world. Ed currently serves as Litigation Trustee for two separate trusts established in connection with Lyondell’s confirmed plan.
Counsel to the Official Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Six Flags, Inc., one of the largest amusement park operators in the world.
Counsel to Icahn Partners in the Chapter 11 proceedings involving the Trump Taj Mahal and affiliated gaming operations.
Other recent significant engagements include:
Counsel for the Official Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings for Global Crossing.
Counsel for the Official Equity Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation.
Counsel for the Official Equity Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings for Mirant Corporation, ranked as the 11th largest bankruptcy case in US history.
Counsel for the Ad Hoc Committee of Trade Creditors in the MCI/ WorldCom Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Counsel for the Official Committee of Equity Security Holders in the Comdisco Chapter 11 proceedings pending in the Northern District of Illinois.
Counsel for the successful plan sponsor in XO Communications, Inc.’s Chapter 11 case in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Counsel for the Ad Hoc Committee of Trade Creditors in the Adelphia Communications Chapter 11 case.
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Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the fields of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation - Bankruptcy (2019)
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What are the World’s Best Universities for 2016-2017
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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are here for 2016 to 2017.
NUMBER 1: Oxford University London (England)
There is a new university at the top of the list this year and that is Oxford University in London, England. Prior to this year, all the top ranked universities were in the U.S. Louise Richardson, the chancellor of Oxford University said that the reason they were chosen as the number one university in the world is not complicated. She said they focus on bringing the best students in the world into their university because the students make the university. She has a point because there is evidence that how others perceive the academic standing of a university and the level of research that they do affect the success of a university.
Number 2: California Institute of Technology
California Tech was the previous winner for six years in a row but this year they moved down to number two.
Number 3: Standford University
Number three is Stanford University,
Number 4: Cambridge University
Number four is Cambridge University,
Number 5: MIT
Number five is MIT,
Number 6: Harvard
Number 6 is Harvard University
Number 7: Princeton University,
Number seven is Princeton University.
Number 8 is Imperial College London,
Number 8 is Imperial College London.
Number 9: ETH Zurich
Number 9 is ETH Zurich.
Number 10: Berkeley University & University of Chicago.
10th place is Berkeley University of California and the University of Chicago.
Aspects of Ranking by Times Higher Education
The Times Higher Education ranking looks at many different aspects of universities while determining the rankings. They examine 13 specific aspects of the way universities operate, the types of research they do, their teaching methods and how they incorporate an international view into the education.
The methods they use to rank universities give all universities an equal chance to make it to the top of the list because they look at things like how many students are in each class, how they work with other countries on research and other factors that are universal. The rankings they produce represent universities all around the world as is evident by the variety of countries represented in the top 10 for 2016 to 2017.
You can learn a lot by looking at the current status of academia by reviewing the history of the Times Higher Education rankings over the last 13 years. The data used in these decisions tells us how higher education has changed. The rankings have remained pretty much the same over time so Oxford taking the lead is a surprise to many. For most of the last 13 years, the number 1 and number 2 positions traded places every year or so and the number 3 thru number 9 positions stayed in the same order with University of Chicago bringing up the rear until this year when Berkeley tied with them.
Top Countries – US, UK and Japan
The totals by country put the United States at the top of the entire list as far as number of schools with 148 on the list. The United Kingdom comes in second with 91 schools on the current list, Japan is third with 69 and China is fourth with 52 schools on the complete list for 2016 and 2017. If you look at only the upper 200 of the list, you can see where the best universities are located.
In the top 200 you will find that China is only second the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan compared to where they stand in the full list of 200 which is only 10th place.
Universities from Other Countries
You won’t see a lot of universities from Europe in the list from The Times Higher Education rankings but that does not mean that their schools are not excellent educational institutions. The top of the list consists of a lot of universities from countries in the West but universities from Asia are starting to become recognized. The list for the two previous years had four universities from Mainland China and South Korea also had four.
The Universities From Asia
The universities from Asia on the list are moving up the list and gaining ground. For example, there were five Hong Kong universities on the list this year which is two more than the previous year. The reason the Asian universities are moving up the Times Higher Education rankings is because they are spending more money on their universities. These universities are also gaining respect around the world which is improving their reputation. The universities on the rankings list are rated partially on the reputation that they have in the world.
The Times Higher Education rankings
The Times Higher Education rankings are trustworthy because an audit is done by Pricewater Coopers. Information about how the list is compiled and what methods are used is available online if you are interested.
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Orlans Receives Michigan 2017 Top Workplaces Award from Detroit Free Press
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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS NAMES ORLANS
A WINNER OF THE MICHIGAN 2017 TOP WORKPLACES AWARD
Troy, MI – November 6, 2017 – Orlans has been awarded a 2017 Top Workplaces honor by the Detroit Free Press. The Top Workplaces lists are based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey administered by WorkplaceDynamics, LLC, a leading research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace improvement. Several aspects of workplace culture were measured, including Alignment, Execution, and Connection, just to name a few.
“The Top Workplaces award is not a popularity contest. And oftentimes, people assume it’s all about fancy perks and benefits,” says Doug Claffey, CEO of WorkplaceDynamics. “But to be a Top Workplace, organizations must meet our strict standards for organizational health. And who better to ask about work life than the people who live the culture every day—the employees. Time and time again, our research has proven that what’s most important to them is a strong belief in where the organization is headed, how it’s going to get there, and the feeling that everyone is in it together. Claffey adds, “Without this sense of connection, an organization doesn’t have a shot at being named a Top Workplace.”
Orlans, which has more than 500 employees nationwide, has been honored with the award. In total, 150 companies in Michigan are recognized.
“We are so honored and excited to be recognized as a Top Work Place in Michigan from the Detroit Free Press as acknowledgement of the extra effort our employees put forth every day to serve our clients, and each other,” said Alison Orlans, president and CEO of Orlans.
“I am often asked how Orlans got to be such a great company. The answer is simple: it’s our people. Some might point to our technology, others say our working environment, but I say it’s the talented people who give it their all every day,” said Linda Orlans, Founder & Executive Chair of Orlans. “We started with a vision to create a company where we helped each other and served others. Today we can all be very proud of the company we built that has a great future.”
For more information on Orlans, visit www.orlans.com.
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Headquartered in Exton, PA, WorkplaceDynamics specializes in employee feedback surveys and workplace improvement. This year alone, more than two million employees in over 6,000 organizations will participate in the Top Workplaces™ campaign—a program it conducts in partnership with more than 40 prestigious media partners across the United States. Workplace Dynamics also provides consulting services to improve employee engagement and organizational health. WorkplaceDynamics is a founding B Corporation member, a coalition of organizations that are leading a global movement to redefine success in business by offering a positive vision of a better way to do business.
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ShanghaiStage
Love and hate, comedy and tragedy roll into Shanghai.
Theatre Anon and East West Theatre team up for an all-female production of William Shakespeare’s tragic tale of feuding houses and star-crossed love. We talk with Natasha Portwood about the passion of youth, making her directorial debut, and introducing a new generation to one of the Bard’s most celebrated works.
By Michael Thede 6 December 2018
EastIndie: Where did the idea to stage the show originally come from and why did you want to put it on?
Natasha Portwood: As a teenager I had the privilege of playing Juliet in a fairly traditional production and since then I’ve always wanted to revisit Romeo & Juliet, but with a different approach and interpretation. I decided that I wanted to direct this play some time ago, but a long period of convalescence, following a serious illness earlier this year, gave me a real incentive and the time to start working on the production properly.
EI: Why do you think Romeo & Juliet has continued to capture people’s interest over the centuries?
NP: In Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare has captured so perfectly those initial magical stages of falling for another human being, the moment when those feeling are reciprocated, falling with abandon and the absolute excitement and joy that follows. It’s about the passion of youth, not just being in love and in lust, but also the rage and frustrations that come with being young and those emotions and experiences that shape us and follow us into adulthood. Above all else, this is a play that deals with families, friendship, and relationships in their many forms and the desire to love, to be loved and to belong—I think most people can relate to some or all of the above!
Commend Me to Thy Lady: Romeo (Kirsten Lee Olson) implores Juliet’s Nurse (Elaine Fenwick) for a small favor in Theatre Anon and East West Theatre’s all-female production of Romeo & Juliet.
EI: Where do you think Romeo & Juliet rates compared with Shakespeare’s other works?
NP: It’s my personal favorite because not only does it contain some of the most beautiful dialogue in English literature, but because it also deals with many different relationships and emotions on such a real level. What I love about Romeo & Juliet is that although it’s ultimately a tragedy, it’s a play of two halves—the first of which contains some of Shakespeare’s funniest and most colorful scenes, language and characters, and the second of which is full of anger, despair, and heartbreak.
EI: Why did you want to do an all-female version of the show?
NP: As an actress it’s often a challenge to secure parts—there is always a great deal of competition and often fewer female roles on offer than male roles. I’ve been cast as a man several times and I enjoy exploring stories and situations not only from a different person’s point of view, but from a different gender perspective too. In Shakespeare’s time Romeo & Juliet would’ve been performed by an all-male cast, as women were not permitted onstage, but since we have an abundance of exceptionally talented actresses here in Shanghai I wanted to reverse that and give these wonderful women an opportunity to play some of the greatest roles in English drama. As women, we sometimes have to fight or compromise to succeed, but this has been an extremely positive, rewarding and, empowering experience.
The Blood is Spilt: Lady Capulet (Kat Cooper) reacts to the death of Tybalt (Jamie Stevens) in the Theatre Anon-East West Theatre Shanghai production of Romeo & Juliet.
EI: What other changes should we expect to see in this adaptation?
NP: Whilst we are performing using the original language, this play is presented in a contemporary setting, focusing very much on youth culture. The fights are conducted using knives, which was particularly important to me to reflect the current epidemic of knife crime amongst young men in the UK. Most of the characters appear as the genders they were written as, with a few notable exceptions—Friar Lawrence becomes Freya, a new age spiritual Earth Mother, rather than a Priest, and Lady Montague has taken on Lord Montague’s dialogue and becomes a single career mum. Finally, Mercutio is the free spirited, non-conformist who refuses to be constrained by labels and the expectations of society.
EI: Do you have a favorite moment, character, or line in the play?
NP: Far too many to mention! However, the first half of this play has me literally crying with laughter, whilst the second half is utterly devastating.
EI: What has been the most exciting part about the process for you so far?
NP: Working with a team of talented, committed, hardworking, intelligent, compassionate, gorgeous, funny people has been an absolute pleasure and watching them breathe life into this production is a dream come true!
EI: Conversely, what has been the most challenging aspect of working on this production?
NP: Directing and creating costumes, as well as other production work, has been my entire life for the last two months—but it’s been worth every minute! Trying to organize rehearsal schedules around sixteen people’s availability was a huge challenge and guiding the rehearsal periods towards performing and away from chatting was sometimes necessary—I’m blessed though to have such a large cast that got on so well with each other!
A Timeless End: Juliet (Dominique Siqueria Koo) awakes to find Romeo (Kirsten Lee Olson) in a grave way in Romeo & Juliet.
EI: What lessons have you learned from working on this production?
NP: This is my directorial debut and the most lovely revelation was that as a director you learn so much from your cast—I’d give ideas and in response they would frequently share other perspectives and discoveries, which in turn inspired me further! New ideas have continued to emerge and develop during the performances and being surrounded by that kind of inspiration, creativity, and passion fills me with joy!
EI: What do you hope people will take away from the show?
NP: So often, I see highly polished Shakespeare productions played in a sterile way and his work is often viewed as difficult or made inaccessible to audiences and students. Part of Shakespeare’s appeal is his exquisite way with words, but I also believe he’s still popular today—and why I really love his plays—because the essence of his work is his deep understanding of human relationships and what it is to be human. I want to present Shakespeare in a way that is fresh, thrilling, and relatable to everyone, without sacrificing the brilliant language, and to give our teenage audience members a positive first experience of the Bard’s work. I hope not only to entertain with this beautiful, funny, tragic story, but to move, to provoke, and to inspire a love of William Shakespeare.
There is still time to catch Theatre Anon and East West Theatre’s production of Romeo & Juliet! The show’s second weekended runs from Thursday, December 6 to Saturday, December 8 at FULU Modern Cantonese Restaurant, 4F, 758 Julu Road, Jing’an District, Shanghai. Tickets here.
Founder & Contributor
Michael Thede is a Canadian screenwriter and story consultant. He studied Film & Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario and is a graduate of the Writing for Film & TV program at Vancouver Film School. He came to Asia nearly 15 years ago and is currently based in Shanghai, where he is also the founder and organizer of the Shanghai Screenwriters Workshop. WeChat: michaelthede78
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Borellian Nomen
Revision as of 19:30, 20 June 2009 by Joe Beaudoin Jr. (talk | contribs) (tweaks)
The Borellian Nomen are humans[1] who are part of a warrior tribe. Unlike typical humans that form the Twelve Colonies, they have a bony ridge on their foreheads and are from Borella which they describe as "the land of the mega sun and the endless sands." They dislike associating themselves with the Colonials, but there is at least one ship in the Fleet that is apparently controlled by Nomen (The Man with Nine Lives). Despite their dislike for Colonials, they dislike the Cylons more, as they are machines (Baltar's Escape). The Nomen believe that they will be the only people to survive the escape from the Colonies.
Much about Nomen is not known, other than the fact that they follow a doctrine referred to as "The Code" and use laser bola as a form of weapon, which they draw with purpose (The Man with Nine Lives). Nomen are also capable of stopping, or at the very least lowering, their life-function for a temporary period of time and have extremely well-tuned reflexes and seemingly super-human strength (Baltar's Escape). They pursue a form of vendetta against enemies, called the blood hunt.
Significant Dialogue
Maga: Are we not humans? Are we not members of this Fleet with equal rights and privileges? (The Man With Nine Lives)
According to Encyclopedia Galactica (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):
The Borellians (misspelled as "Borallians") are described as a "fierce, nomadic people whose cruel tribal customs have survived into the Interstellar Age". What is known of them to the rest of humanity is "limited to their military customs", as the Nomen have no clear distinctions between "wars, feuds and criminal punishments".
Nomen have social organization based on kinship, thus making feuds into wars.
As to contact with non-Nomen: any crimes committed by outsiders result in the blood hunt, consisting of a group of Borallian [sic] Warriors that swear to pursue the criminal wherever they may go. As stated, "Death is the only sanction meted out by blood-hunting parties." The "Borallian [sic] Wars" are said to be direct extensions of blood hunts, making the criminal the enemy of the entire people. Both types of hunts may lead to Borallian [sic] Warriors dying for the fulfillment of their oaths.
The Borallian [sic] Warrior's ethic was centered around a long knife; this knife meant certain death for outsiders who seen one unsheathed, since a Nomen would prefer suicide to seeing the knife sheathed unbloodied. This tradition, which "stems from a respect for naked violence and a belief that it is not to be employed or threatened lightly", made way to the laser bola (erroneously referred to as the "Laser-Bolt").[2]
↑ "{{#episode:%episode%|1|TOS}}" TOS. Official SciFi.com Site . Seen at: 00:22:05. Format: DVD
↑ Kraus, Bruce (1979). Encyclopedia Galactica, p. 22-23.
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ATTACKS ON CUBA AT 1966 SAN JUAN GAMES
Cuba’s enemies silenced
Cuba's delegation to the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, in Puerto Rico, faced innumerable obstacles to their participation, but the island’s enemies were silenced
Author: Alfonso Nacianceno | informacion@granma.cu
february 1, 2018 10:02:20
The Puerto Rican people enthusiastically welcomed the delegation. Photo: Archive
The Cuban delegation to the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games (CACGs) held in Jamaica – the first in which Cuba competed after 1959 – circumvented the obstacles that aimed to prevent their participation. However, the delegation that attended the 1966 Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, went beyond this feat, and silenced the island’s enemies.
In the days preceding the event, which ran June 11 through the 25th, Cuba was immersed in the intense preparation of the people, faced with the threat of another armed aggression from the United States, a situation that had been aggravated following the assassination of Luis Ramírez López, on May 21, 1966, perpetrated from territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base. The young combatant of the Border Brigade became the second martyr to be killed by shots fired from the U.S. post after Ramón López Peña was killed on July 19, 1964.
The events marked part of an escalation of pressure on the island by the U.S. government.
At the same time as these Yankee threats, the passage of Hurricane Alma in May through the western part of the island and the damages caused forced authorities to focus attention on recovery efforts. It was in this context, and faced with the thousand and one obstacles introduced by the United States, that Cuba participated in the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
THE BOAT OF DIGNITY
Cuban sports authorities evaluated several options to ensure the delegation arrived on time for the Games’ inauguration on June 11 at the Hirám Bithorn Stadium. The U.S. was caught by surprise when on June 8 the Cerro Pelado ship set sail from Santiago de Cuba.
The ship, captained by Onelio Pino, who in 1956 piloted the Granma yacht from Mexico with the expeditionaries commanded by Fidel Castro, was equipped for the transportation of the athletes, who trained on deck during the 36-hour journey.
Cuban athletes disembarking to compete in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo: Archive
Harassed throughout the trip by low flying U.S. planes, they dropped anchor in international waters, five kilometers from San Juan, as an alternative to what was imposed by the U.S. administration, preventing them from docking in a safe harbor.
José Llanusa, then president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) and head of the delegation, read aboard the Declaration of Cerro Pelado, in defense of Cuba’s right to participate in the event.
The feat has become well-known and, although not all members of the delegation arrived in time to parade at the opening of the Games, the friendly hand of different nations offered solutions to the delays in Cuban athletes receiving their sports equipment and suitcases. The Dominican Republic, for example, loaned its own equipment for Cuban boxers to train.
The Puerto Rican people enthusiastically welcomed the Cubans, eager to see them compete, but the counterrevolution was also active, with mercenaries based in Puerto Rico and those who traveled from Miami, New York, and other cities, ready to encourage the island’s athletes to defect.
Even so, the Cuban delegation shone throughout the competition, with Enrique Figuerola securing the gold medal in the 100m race, with a time of 10.2 seconds. The athlete came third in the 200m, clocking a time of 21.5 seconds, and repeated his bronze performance in the 4x100m relay, alongside Félix Eugellés, Juan Morales, and Manuel Montalvo.
Also admired was the dominance on the track of the island’s women athletes, with Miguelina Cobián taking the gold in the 100m, stopping the clock at 11.7 seconds, while her compatriot Cristina Echeverría took the silver with 11.9 seconds, and Fulgencia Romay came fourth with a time of 12 seconds. Along with Irene Martínez, they secured the silver medal in the 4x100m relay, in 46.5 seconds. Irene also took the gold in the long jump (5.87 meters).
Relief pitcher Gaspar “Curro” Pérez secured Cuba’s win over Puerto Rico in the baseball competition to become the champions; fencers Mireya Rodríguez and Luis A. Morales triumphed in the singles, and many more boldly competed to position Cuba second place in the country medal count (35 gold, 19 silver and 24 bronze medals), behind Mexico (38-23-22).
CUBA’S ENEMIES LAID OPEN TO RIDICULE
The counterrevolution in San Juan reported that the 12 members of the Cuban women’s volleyball team had fled in a bus. This was broadcast by radio station WYAC and other radio and television stations. In fact, they had paid the bus driver a hundred dollars to invent the story. The truth immediately emerged: the team was resting in the Olympic Village.
Our late colleague Juan Marrero, reporting for Granma, revealed that throughout the nine innings of the baseball game between Cuba and Puerto Rico for the gold, a CIA agent did not stop shouting at Pedro Chávez with a megaphone: “Chávez, stay, jump the fence!” The player did not answer him verbally; he preferred to simply make three hits that night.
Other attacks included throwing stones at the buses that transported the Cuban delegation, while flyers were distributed inciting their defection and demonizing the Revolution.
Many stories could be told about the vicissitudes experienced by this Delegation of Dignity. Upon their return to the homeland, the athletes were welcomed with the grateful fervor of their people, and recognized by Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro, who had already congratulated them onboard the ship at sea.
OUTLINE OF HOSTILITIES
- Beginning in 1965, leaders of the CACGs Organizing Committee in Puerto Rico devised to hold the event without inviting Cuba. That year, the island had been prevented from competing in the Baseball World Cup, in Colombia, in a judo tournament in Brazil, and in a soccer tournament in Costa Rica.
- The IOC Session in Madrid thwarted the charade of not inviting Cuba, warning Puerto Rico that it would lose the right to host the Games if it went ahead with this plan, since the statutes of the governing body of international sport establish the obligatory nature of the host nation to invite all nations with the right to compete, without exception.
- With the failure of the attempt to exclude Cuba, the CACGsOrganizing Committee processed the visas for Cuban athletes through the U.S. Department of State, rather than conducting the procedure through the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana, representative of U.S. interests on the island.
The U.S. stated that the Cubans had to travel to a third country to obtain “special permits” and not visas, due to the lack of relations between the two nations.
- After negotiations in Mexico with Manuel González Guerra, head of the Cuban Olympic Committee, and INDER leader Fabio Ruiz, the issue of the permits appeared to have been resolved. The United States then demanded that the Cuban delegation travel on commercial flights to San Juan, as they were not authorized to travel on the Cubana airline. This imposition was rejected.
- The CACGsOrganizing Committee affirmed that as Cuba already had the authorization to travel and the only outstanding issue was their transportation, the Games would take place without their presence if the island decided not to transport its athletes to San Juan.
- The U.S. attempted to coerce Cuba by proposing that the landing or berthing permit in Puerto Rico would only be obtained if special facilities were given to U.S. citizens for their daily departures from Varadero to Miami. That unsuccessful demand was denounced in a letter from González Guerra to the Avery Brundage, head of the IOC.
- Despite all the obstacles, on June 8, three days before the opening of the Games, the Cuban delegation departed for San Juan on the Cerro Pelado ship, to bequeath to the Cuban sports movement one of the most outstanding feats of its history.
Sources: Enrique Montesinos & Sigfredo Barros, Centroamericanos y del Caribe, los más antiguos juegos deportivos regionales del mundo,”(Havana:Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1984).
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