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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.
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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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Harmonious society
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has instructed the country's leading officials and Party cadres to place "building a harmonious society" at the top of their agenda. Experts believe that a harmonious society is one that puts people first.
When addressing a high-level Party seminar recently in Beijing, Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the country's leading officials and Party cadres to place "building a harmonious society" at the top of their agenda.
Xiao Zhuoji, professor of the School of Economics of Peking University and vice-chairman of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, believes that a harmonious society is one that puts people first. Excerpts of his comments follow:
Building a harmonious society has been placed at the top of the agenda of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the central government. The programme is based on the goal of building a well-off society and creating a new socialist situation.
Since China introduced its reform and opening-up policies in 1978, profound changes have taken place in the economy and in the domestic and international environments. It is against such a backdrop that the Chinese Government has raised the goal of building a harmonious society.
Currently, China's economy is a socialist market economy. But some drawbacks of the planned economy still remain and the market economy is neither mature nor complete. Our society has many contradictions and uncertain factors in it, such as huge gaps in income, increasingly serious problems facing rural areas, farmers and agriculture, the drainage of farmland, heavy pressure in the workplace and an incomplete social security system.
But, more than two decades of reform and opening-up have brought about tangible achievements in China's economic development. People's living standards have been greatly improved and the number of poor people has decreased by a large number. Job opportunities have increased and deep-seated problems are being solved step by step. A harmonious society featuring orderly competition and honesty is taking shape.
Currently, the per capita GDP exceeds US$1,000. Other countries have shown that when a nation enters a stage where its per capita GDP stands at US$1,000 to US$3,000, society is likely to see major changes. During this period, urbanization develops swiftly, the gap in income continues to grow and social contradictions become more complicated. Internationally, increased labour costs decrease the competitiveness of the labour market. During this period, the nation's economy can develop smoothly if dealt with correctly. Otherwise, it is likely to be disturbed by social unrest, a waste of resources, unbalanced ecological conditions and economic stagnation. The building of a harmonious society aims to co-ordinate and streamline the relationships between different sectors, to ensure the economy will develop in a sustained and fast way.
Currently, China's economy is in a golden age. Peace and development are still the main themes in the world and globalization is the world trend. But the threat of war still exists and regional conflicts occur frequently. These issues, however, are unlikely to lead to the breakout of a world war in the near future. Therefore, we can enjoy a peaceful international environment for a long period, which provides favourable conditions for building a harmonious society.
In addition, the CPC has accumulated rich experience in governing, solving domestic contradictions and various other problems and in dealing with international political relations and economic globalization. All of these are the fundamental conditions to build a harmonious society.
What are the main characteristics of a harmonious society? It will put people first and make all social activities beneficial to people's subsistence, enjoyment and development. In a harmonious society, the political environment is stable, the economy is prosperous, people live in peace and work in comfort and social welfare improves.
These goals should be demonstrated in the following areas:
As the economy grows, people's living standards should increase gradually. As the essence of a harmonious society is affluence, the development of a country should go from being moderately well-off into being well-off and affluent; from having big gaps in income to narrowing gaps; from dealing with poverty to eliminating poverty.
In a harmonious society people at all levels respect each other. Labour, knowledge, technology and capital are all factors of wealth creation, which can make profits and should be respected so long as they have made contributions to society. A harmonious society should see honest, friendly and harmonious relationships and just, fair and open competition between social members, regions and departments. In such a society, competition will optimize the distribution of resources, foster technological progress, develop social productivity and raise overall national strength.
A harmonious society advocates an overall, co-ordinated and sustainable development concept, making the interests of different sectors balanced. So long as we follow this scientific development concept, we can get rid of social unrest and the destruction of natural resources that generally occurs in developing nations. During this period, we should pay attention to the relationship between humanity and nature, properly protect natural resources, reduce pollution and make efforts to raise the quality of the environment in order to realize sustainable development.
A harmonious society should also see great improvements in morals and education. The strategy of invigorating the nation by education should be followed and elementary education and higher education universalized. Various academic theories should flourish. China has attached much importance to education, particularly compulsory education. The central government has planned fee exemptions and subsidies for students in 592 poor counties included in the national poverty-relief programme by 2007. Some experts want to extend the policy to poor families both in urban and rural areas.
In addition, a harmonious society is also manifested by the gradual improvement of the legal system and standardized social management. A harmonious society is a society with the rule of law, where there is ordered market competition, strict market management and standard market behaviour. We have much work to do in these areas.
We must be aware of the fact that building a harmonious society is a long and gradual process. Currently, we should pay attention to the following aspects:
The first and foremost is to maintain sustainable and rapid economic development. Only by constantly developing social productivity, continuously enhancing national economic strength and constantly improving people's living standards can society develop harmoniously.
Second, we should uphold the principle of governing the country by law and building a legal system for a harmonious society. In accordance with the spirit of the Constitution, it is imperative for us to firmly support, encourage and guide private economic development.
Third, we should increase employment opportunities, alleviate employment pressures and gradually establish a perfect social security system. We should also implement proactive employment policies. At the same time, we should improve the social security system, for example, in unemployment benefit, medical expenses and pensions.
Also, we must raise the income of low-wage earners and increase the size of the middle classes. To avoid polarization and social contradictions, we must gradually narrow the gap between income and living standards. Here, the key lies in the government, which has an unshirkable duty to help the poor. So, the government should enhance its poverty-relief strength and its financial investment to really improve the conditions of poor families and raise them up to become members of the middle class. This is of great significance to the building of a harmonious society.
In addition, we will crack down on various social ills, which are a poisonous tumour in a harmonious society and must be eliminated.
Last, the Party and government officials and civil servants should abide by laws and public morality, work conscientiously, and must not be corrupt.
All people should co-exist harmoniously, love and help each other, encourage each other and make an effort to contribute to the building of a harmonious society.
Source: China Daily
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College of Engineering / News Center
Selen Cremaschi named among top chemical engineering researchers
By Sylvia Masango
Published: Nov 27, 2018 8:36:00 AM
Selen Cremaschi
Selen Cremaschi, the B. Redd Associate Professor of chemical engineering, has been named in the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers presented by the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemical Research.
Cremaschi is included among an elite group of 29 engineers and scientists from around the globe whose research endeavors were recognized. The global team at I&EC Research recognized early career researchers with fewer than 10 years in their independent research career.
“I am honored to be in the 2018 class,” Cremaschi said. “It speaks to the impact of our research, and it is a special recognition coming from the prestigious group of editors and editorial advisory board members of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. This honor is really a recognition of the brilliant, hardworking and talented young minds I get to work with every day, the graduate and undergraduate researchers in my group. Of course, it also motivates us for continuing our quest for solving practical engineering problems.”
The engineers and scientists named in the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers are from eight countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Singapore and the United States. Selection is based on the impact and quality of the researchers’ work on the industry.
“This is an honor not only for Dr. Cremaschi but for Auburn University as only 29 researchers from around the world have been recognized. This just showcases the stature of professors we have here in chemical engineering and the College of Engineering as a whole” said Mario Eden, chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Media Contact: Jeremy Henderson, jdh0123@auburn.edu, 334.844.3591
2018 Class of Influential Researchers
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Leo Manzano named race ambassador for 2016 Capitol 10,000
September 29, 2015 Uncategorized.
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Leo Manzano runs on the Butler Trail around Lady Bird Lake. Photo by Nell Carroll/Austin American-Statesman
Leo Manzano, who stormed down the homestretch to claim the silver medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2012 London Olympics, is teaming up with the Statesman Capitol 10,000 as official Race Ambassador.
If you need a jolt of inspiration to run the race, listen up.
Manzano grew up in a small town in Guanajuato, Mexico, with no electricity or running water, where boys were expected to work at an early age to help support the family. When he was 4 years old, Manzano’s family moved to Granite Shoals, near Marble Falls. His father worked as a machine operator at a gravel quarry and his mom held odd jobs while Manzano focused on school.
Leo Manzano, left, poses with Jeff Simecek, race director of the Statesman Capitol 10,000. Photo by Nell Carroll/
He started running with a track program the summer after sixth grade. Initially, his parents discouraged him because it seemed like a waste of time. But in seventh grade, he joined the cross-country team and quickly showed promise. During his four years at Marble Falls High School, where the track around the football stadium now bears his name, he won a total of nine Texas high school track and cross-country titles.
Manzano went on to become the first in his family to graduate from high school, then landed a track scholarship to the University of Texas, where he became a five-time NCAA champion and an 11-time NCAA All-American.
He raced at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 but was eliminated in the semifinals. He redeemed himself in 2012, coming from behind to take second and becoming the first American to medal in the 1,500 meters since Jim Ryun won silver in 1968.
At 5 foot 5 inches, Manzano is short for a track athlete, but he can run a mile faster than anyone in Austin. People say he has a Ferrari engine packed into a Pinto body. He’s known for his kick, that last-minute burst of speed that pushes him out of the pack and into the lead as he crosses the finish line.
“I am very excited and honored to have the opportunity to represent a race that means so much to so many of us,” Manzano said. “I invite everyone to come out, share their joy of running and support a race that makes a positive impact in the community with the generous support of local nonprofits and initiatives.”
The 2016 race is set for April 10. Registration opens Thursday here. A portion of proceeds will benefit The Trail Foundation.
“The Statesman Capitol 10,000 is an iconic race and Leo Manzano is an iconic runner,” said Jeff Simecek, Cap10K race director. “We couldn’t ask for a better pairing and representative for Austin’s beloved annual race. We look forward to working with Leo and to the 39th running of the Cap10K in 2016.”
Fans can paddle with Texas Book Festival authors at Congress Avenue Kayaks
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Forge : Vol 1 No 3
106 SPONSORED ARTICLE 1860 Hub will add to Ipswich's reputation as one of the world's smartest cities. An innovative plan to launch a high-tech entrepreneurship hub is strengthening Ipswich's standing as one of the world's smartest cities, and is reinforcing its council's reputation as being among the most dynamic, progressive and digital-ready local governments in Australia. Ipswich was named one of the world's seven most intelligent cities in 2015 by the Intelligent Community Forum in New York. This is the frst time an Australian jurisdiction has achieved a prestigious 'Top7' ranking since Victoria did in 2004. Ipswich's achievement was remarkable. Only three Australian cities or regions featured in the award's Smart21 of 2015, and Ipswich's Top7 ranking placed it alongside Rio De Janeiro, New Taipei City in Taiwan, Surrey in Canada, and three North American cities. The Intelligent Community Forum said that the Top7 represent the models of economic and social transformation in the 21st century. '[The Top7] each exemplifed best practices in broadband deployment and use, workforce development, innovation, digital inclusion, and advocacy that offer lessons to regions, cities, towns and villages around the world. They are charting new paths to lasting prosperity for their citizens, businesses and institutions.' That is true of Ipswich. The Ipswich City Council's strategy to seize opportunities from the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout is transforming the Queensland city. Ipswich partnered with surrounding councils and regions to build a case for an early NBN rollout in what it termed 'the Western Corridor National Broadband Network'. In 2010, two regions in the Ipswich area received the frst deployments of fbre to the premise. The Ipswich City Council quickly capitalised on the potential. It launched courses on digital applications for citizens, a Digital Hub demonstration centre to showcase the most advanced technologies, and a Digital Enterprise Program to help train employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and not-for-proft organisations. Digital technologies are being incorporated into a major redevelopment of the city centre, to attract commercial and residential tenants through improved public safety and facilities. New environment standards will make Ipswich one of Australia's greenest cities, and among the most innovative, digitally based cities when the council's 20-year i2031 Plan is completed. 'Ipswich is on the threshold of a new era,' says Ipswich City Council Chief Executive Offcer Jim Lindsay. ‘Council has done a lot of hard work in the past fve years, ensuring Ipswich is at the forefront of the digital era as high-speed fbre is rolled out through the city. We are using technology to encourage more innovation, more start-up ventures, and the industries of tomorrow to be represented in Ipswich.' The seeds of an innovation ecosystem The Ipswich City Council's latest initiative for digital transformation is the 1860 Digital Incubator Hub for start- up enterprises. Modelled on a similar project in Chicago, the Hub is named after the year that Ipswich became a city. Based at Ipswich's historic, redeveloped former fre station, the 1860 Hub is expected to attract up to 100 start-up ventures in the next few years. By providing practical support, affordable rent and strong opportunities for collaboration, the Hub will drive a larger innovation ecosystem within Ipswich that will become a catalyst for more technology start-ups. The 1860 Hub, expected to open at the end of 2015, will be a true collaboration. The Ipswich City Council says that Ipswich City Council at forefront of digital era
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GoWild NEMC Project
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Located just northeast of Denver, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,000-acre expanse of prairie, wetland and woodland habitat. The land has a unique story – it has survived the test of time and transitioned from farmland, to war-time manufacturing site, to wildlife sanctuary. It may be one of the finest conservation success stories in history and a place where wildlife thrives.
Prior to becoming a Refuge, Plains Indians followed large herds of bison and lived off the land. Later, as settlers moved west to start a new life, they began growing crops and grazing cattle. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army transformed the area into a chemical weapons manufacturing facility called the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to support World War II. As production declined at war’s end, a portion of the idle facilities were leased to Shell Chemical Co. for the production of agricultural chemicals. The Arsenal was later used for Cold-War weapons production and demilitarization.
Transition to a National Wildlife Refuge
In the early 1980s, the Army and Shell began an extensive environmental cleanup under the oversight of federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Soon after, a roost of bald eagles was discovered prompting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to become involved in managing wildlife at the site. The discovery also led Congress to designate the site as a national wildlife refuge in 1992. In the mid-1990s, a unique public-private partnership formed among the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Co., and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. As cleanup progressed and projects met federal and state regulatory requirements, the Army transferred land to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to establish and expand the Refuge. The Arsenal’s cleanup program was completed in 2010 and the Refuge has reached its final size of 15,000 acres making it one of the largest urban refuge’s in the country.
The US FWS has undertaken a major effort to restore the RMANWR to native short-grass and mixed-grass prairie, wetlands, and woodlands. Please follow the link to learn more about the RMANWR Habitat Management Plan, which details current activities to restore the wildlife and birds to the Refuge. https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/RMANWR%20HMP_041613.pdf
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The Refuge provides environmental education and interpretive programs, catch-and-release recreational fee fishing, 10 miles of hiking trails, wildlife viewing opportunities, site tours for the public, a self-guided Wildlife Drive auto tour, and is a sanctuary for more than 330 species of animals, including bison, deer, coyotes, bald eagles and burrowing owls. For more information about the Refuge please call the Visitor Center at 303-289-0930.
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Freebird is the realization of a vision and
collaboration between some of the restaurant
industry’s finest names.
Alan Barr
Alan Barr, Founder & Managing Director of the Singapore headquartered award-winning boutique hospitality design agency greymatters. Overseeing projects spanning Asia, the Middle East and North America greymatters specialize in identity design, food & beverage concepts, hotel & resort development, architecture, interiors, landscape, and lighting design; Alan is one of the region’s most sought after designers.
Top Russell
Executive chef Top Russell’s love for food grew into passion when he joined his first kitchen career at the age of 17. His career developed rapidly as he moved to work in multiple Michelin starred restaurants in London with highly acclaimed names such as Alexis Gautheir, Jun Tanaka and most notably the legendary french chef Peirre Gagnaire. The freedom of using modern western techniques coupled with Asian flavours is still relatively new and unexplored in the Bangkok dining scene. Freebird is a true canvas for chef Top Russell and his team to explore the many depths of these techniques.
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Derek Fathauer, Daniel Berger poised to earn Tour cards
August 22, 2014 Brian Biggane, Web.com Tour.
Two area golfers should have reason to celebrate come Sunday night.
Derek Fathauer of Stuart and Daniel Berger of Jupiter, whose consistency has kept them near the top of the Web.com Tour standings all year, have made it a virtual certainty they will be among the top 25 money-winners for the season that technically ends with this week’s Portland Open, thus earning their PGA Tour cards for 2014-15.
Fathauer, 28, and Berger, 21, have had very different paths to the big Tour. Fathauer, a 2009 Louisville graduate, spent three years on the local mini-tours before notching two top-10 finishes and six top-25’s in 26 Web.com events in 2012 on his way to finishing 68th, earning $81,502. But he went backwards in 2013, earning only $36,269 in 20 events without a single top-10.
This year has been a completely different story. Riding on solid statistics including 15th on Web.com in putting, 39th in greens in regulation and 43rd in driving, Fathauer has five top-10’s, including a second at Nova Scotia, and earned $218,252 to rank 12th on the money list, easily good enough to earn a card.
Berger, 21, just turned pro last year after deciding two years at Florida State was enough preparation. He’s two spots behind Fathauer on the money list in 14th overall at $207,422, also with five top-10 finishes including a second two weeks ago in California. He ranks sixth in driving (310.6 yards) and seventh in greens in regulation (74.4 percent).
This week, Berger opened with a 5-under 66 in Portland to sit fourth after the first round while Fathauer struggled to a 75. No matter. Both are comfortably safe inside the top 25.
Both players will nonetheless participate in the Web.com Q School Finals Dec. 11-16 at PGA National, which will decide how much status those 25 qualifiers will have on the PGA Tour next year.
One last note: Steve LeBrun of West Palm Beach, who finished No. 151 on the PGA Tour last year, had the same ranking on Web.com last week before moving up one spot. He’ll have to work his way through the earlier rounds of Web.com qualifying to have a shot at one of the 25 PGA Tour cards up for grabs there.
PGA Tour schedule change could hurt Honda Classic field
Tiger Woods parts ways with Sean Foley
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"Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch
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In his first two books – “Lit Light” and its sequel “Gotham Tragic”, Kurt Wenzel explored the highs & lows of the publishing world, New York City and Islamic religion. Now, I haven’t read either of those books, but when I saw the description for Kurt Wenzel’s newest novel “Exposure” – “a blistering mash-up of science fiction and mystery…William Gibson (Neuromancer, Spook Country) meets Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Rant)” – I was definitely intrigued.
With “Exposure”, Mr. Wenzel takes on Los Angeles and in particular Hollywood, introducing readers to a frightening near future (2017) where digitalism has taken on a life of its own. We’re talking about a Hollywood where moving image billboards (MIBs) are plastered virtually everywhere – on buildings, cars, mirrors, in bathroom stalls, etc.; where ReStars – digitized versions of deceased movie actors like Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant and so on have been resurrected to sell products in commercials; and where advertising on the moon, on your home, in your conversations and even on your body, are just around the corner. And let’s not forget the wild animals that are addicted to fast food, the manufactured drugs (Bliss) which offer a high unlike anything else, and the Home Security Checkpoints (HSCs) – random security stops where agents with nearly unlimited powers can violate a person’s life, all in the name of anti-terrorism. Quite a milieu if I do say so, but what’s most fascinating about Mr. Wenzel’s vision is that it’s not science fiction…these are all plausible concepts or scenarios that could easily transpire in our lifetimes, and, in some cases, are already nearly a reality.
As far as the story, “Exposure” follows a group of screenwriters, actors, agents, television personalities and other ‘Hollywood’ types who get caught up in a fast-moving plot that is part Hollywood satire, part whodunit, part science fiction extrapolation and a statement on America’s infatuation with image, advertisements polluting our lives, & the loss of privacy. Storylines include the friendship between screenwriter Marshall Reed and the number one actor in the world Colt Reston, not to mention plenty of background information regarding the two; the Black Book – a mysterious novel with no title or author that talks about the dangers of media saturation; Mr. Black, the unnamed writer behind the Black Book who offers journalist Lindsay Williams an exclusive interview; competing talent agencies; antimedia cabals, inexplicable diseases; murder and other shadowy conspiracies. Basically, there’s a lot to process in such a small book (262 pages), but everything and everyone is somehow connected to one another, so as “Exposure” builds towards its climax, which features some unexpected revelations, all of the individual pieces start coming together and are wrapped up nicely by the end, though some parts will require a suspension of disbelief, while a couple of others are left unanswered.
So, what did I think about my first Kurt Wenzel book? For starters, the author’s writing really impressed me with the deft dialogue, better-than-average characterization, well-orchestrated surprises (though a couple were predictable), excellent pacing and some nice symbolism, not to mention the issues that he brings up regarding image & advertising, which I thought were pretty interesting. The story itself grabbed me from the first page, was hard to put down and, apart from some slow moments, was over before I even knew it. Above all, Kurt Wenzel’s “Exposure” was just fun to read, reminding me somewhat of a cross between the movie S1m0ne starring Al Pacino, the F/X television show Nip/Tuck and the noirish elements from Blade Runner or Richard K. Morgan’s “Altered Carbon”, and I would not hesitate in recommending this book to anyone who’s looking for a good time…
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Tag: retro games
150 SNES games reviewed #39: James Pond’s Crazy Sports (aka The Super Aquatic Games)
You have your Sonics and your Marios, then there are all the lesser-known platforming heroes – some of which are in games which could rival the likes of the above and others who are in games that are poor, pale imitations.
If you owned an Amiga there were certain characters you were bound to know and love, and one of these was James Pond. He was a well-loved star of several games but they weren’t Amiga exclusive. In fact I think all of them ended up on the Mega Drive, and the SNES got everything apart from his first game. (James Pond 2: Codename Robocod was released on the SNES under the name Super James Pond, almost ignoring that there was a previous game.)
Now you might think that I am going to be talking about Super James Pond or its sequel James Pond 3: Operation Starfish but actually the game I am going to be talking about today is James Pond’s Crazy Sports (known as The Super Aquatic Games in the US, and just The Aquatic Games on Mega Drive). Basically this game took the character of James Pond and used him to front an aquatic-themed parody of the sports mini games joystick wigglers like Konami’s Track & Field.
This game is the only James Pond title not to be a platformer. You can’t help but think the developers had the idea they could spin the character off in to other genres and in doing so might help him to grow in fame and begin to approach Mario levels.
The first thing I noticed when booting this game up was that I knew the opening music. I more than knew it, it was something I have found myself humming before and then it hit me it was a particularly cheery eight-bit version of Ode to Joy (from Beethoven’s ninth symphony). I have to say this was a good start as I put a smile on my face before I had even pressed a button.
Now in talking about James Pond’s Crazy Sports, I have to admit some of these issues are not really raised in relation to the game but to the whole genre at that time. There’s only so much you can do when it’s bang buttons like mad till you win or lose. It tires your fingers, you get blooming scared you will break the pad. The game does nothing to teach you how to play it so you end up spending so much time just messing around working out what you are supposed to be doing. Sure back in the day you would have had the manual and that would have helped but it wouldn’t have been that hard to put some in game instructions – some text on the screen – before an event? All of the games are really basic and despite my best efforts I couldn’t come anywhere, I admit I didn’t hammer the pad as hard as a kid would have done back when this came out but who really wants to risk breaking a joypad from an old system when the number out there is finite?
I loved the three James Pond platformers as a kid. I found them funny charming and enjoyable. I even enjoyed picking up the Nintendo DS re-release of the second one so the problem here is I was and am invested in the character. I think James Pond rules and if you can’t manage to sell a spin-off to someone who clearly loves the original franchise then you are clearly barking up the wrong tree.
It’s just a shame. The game’s bright, has good music, but just doesn’t deliver. It feels souless and shallow and well I feel I need to give it 2.5 out of 10 – a sad, sad day for James Pond.
At first I thought it didn’t even hit these shores as all the copies I saw were American and between £10 to £15. Add to the fact that a modfied machine wont even play it without a heavy-duty Datel Universal Adapter and it’s expensive. But then I realised that in the UK it had a different name and it’s about £8 to £10 for a PAL game, but it’s still not worth it.
150 SNES games reviewed #36: Super Strike Eagle
Super Strike Eagle for the SNES was both developed and released by MicroProse. Yes, that MicroProse.
MicroProse was a US video game publisher and developer, founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and the one and only Sid Meier. It developed and published numerous games, many of which are fondly remembered either to this day as groundbreaking or as titles with huge cult status, examples being the Civilization and X-COM series. The majority of its internally developed titles were often either vehicle simulation games or strategy titles.
The name MicroProse still exists today but it has basically nothing to do with the original company, all of the big names and talent from the original MicroProse left and formed Firaxis Games in 1996. The name MicroProse was acquired through the original company having been bought up when it was struggling and the people who brought it at Hasbro have since sold the rights to the name and various other assets which have been sold on and on till they ended up in the hands on someone who wanted to use it.
The basic story behind this game is that you are a fighter pilot flying for the United Nations whose overall objective is to bring various governments around the world back into cooperation with the UN basically by blowing the crap out of them. Yes this could be termed as diplomatic negotiations James T Kirk style, or at least it could be if there was a mini-game involving sex with hot alien women, but I digress.
The game uses three different perspectives. When you take off the game starts you off in third person, utilizing its Mode 7 graphics to give you an interesting interactive take off. Then once you’re up in the air the view switches to an overhead world map, where the plane can be moved between objectives. In this view you can see enemy jets and missiles and if you can keep your distance then you’ll stay in this view. When enemy planes get close to you the game switches briefly to a first-person cockpit mode. This is kind of like Wing Commander, in that you chase the planes and try to get them in your sights. This is kind of the most realistic looking part. When you find yourself near to mission-critical targets (ones which you have to bomb) then the game again switches view, this time to an overhead bombing mode, this is where the game uses its Mode 7 scaling and rotation abilities the most.
I find the game fun. It kind of just leaves you to it though and doesn’t hold your hand much which is either a good thing or an awful thing depending on how you like your games. Also the switching of views is something which some people will probably like, others will probably be confused by. In my opinion though this is one of the things that makes the game really interesting and different. Some of the graphics are amazing for when this game came out but they are a little bit dated now. There is a real sense of effort with this game though, like they tried to throw every trick in the book at it in order to make it stand out. Back in the day I remember this game getting a lot of 65%-type ratings. To me there seemed to be a general attitude of this game not being the kind of thing that belonged on a console. Now days though we have seen just about every type of game possible both on PC and on console. Yes, some might lend themselves to one slightly better than the other but I always feel the need to salute people who try to get a new trick out of an old dog, who try to break convention. For this reason I give this game seven out of 10. Back in the day If I had played this game I would have scored it even higher than that I believe.
I bought this game specifically for this review because I managed to get a US copy boxed with manual for £6 including postage, and at that price I have to admit I am incredibly happy with this game. There are a few copies online now knocking around the £8 to £12 figure for boxed US copies. As for UK PAL versions though they seem to be few and far between with people asking up to £25 for a cart alone. This game is an easy import it played on my modified machine and through a regular cheap converter with no issues at all so it might even be cheaper to get a boxed copy and a cheap import converter rather than go PAL.
150 SNES games reviewed #35: UN Squadron
U.N. Squadron is a side-scrolling shooting game which came out in arcades in 1989. It was programmed by Capcom and released for use on their CPS arcade hardware. I won’t explain what this was but if you look back at my Final Fight review there is an explanation there.
The game was released in Japan under the name Area 88, the same name which was used for the Super Famicom (Japanese version of this game).
The game is a typical side-scrolling shooter, unlike many of Capcom’s other shooters around this time such as their 1940 series which are vertical-scrolling shooters. It was based on a Manga series Area 88 which never really came to these shores. But the game has a nice intro which explains the rough idea behind the story.
Unlike some shooters which are one hit and you’re dead this game is a little different. If you’re hit then your plane is damaged but if you can keep it safe from harm for a little while then you’ll be fine. This actually adds to the excitement, you will find yourself going: ‘OK I have got to keep away from the enemies as you keep trying to dodge incoming fire and hold on’. When you manage it you will thump the air in triumph, and when you fail you will curse yourself for not having quick enough reflexes but the main thing is it always feels like any failures are down to your own lack of skills.
Before starting a level you get the option of purchasing special weapons or added defense options from the shop. As you shoot down enemies you gain cash and at the end of the level any special weapons you purchased and did not use get converted back in to funds and added to your cash reserve. This is a great little addition as once you get better at the early levels you can try to challenge yourself with the added benefit of an easier time in later missions by trying to complete the earlier ones on a strict budget allowing you to hold back enough money to kit your plane out with lots of special weapons for the later missions.
If you were a big fan of Capcom then the SNES was definitely the machine for you to get your arcade fix on back in the day. If you have read my Final Fight review then you might be asking what has been dropped from the original arcade version?
Well the SNES version is not an exact replica of the coin-op. Yes, it is a port and yes, this port does have certain things missing and disappointingly one of these missing things is once again the two-player mode. Some of the game’s levels are different or modified from the arcade version but it is not always in a bad way. It’s not really a worse version. it’s more of a slightly remixed version. In this case they didn’t just strip things from the game, there are actually a few additions including some more weapons and the chance to purchase different aircraft. Ignoring the missing two-player mode this game is no worse than the arcade machine, it’s just a little bit of a different version.
With bright graphics, enjoyable music and epic action it is hard to see what this game could do better. The end of the level will see you meeting some kind of large end of level boss which you will have to defeat. At this point you better hope you have held something back to save the day.
I would have to give this game eight out of 10. It’s a darn good scrolling shooter. The only thing it is really lacking which would make me bump the score up would be a two-player mode, at this point some of you must be wondering if Capcom ever managed to bash out a high-quality SNES game which catered for more than one.
If you want to try this game you will most likely be paying £15 minimum for a cart of it. I managed to get one for £10 but it took a heck of a lot of looking around and waiting. Capcom have actually made quite a few of those classic collections but U.N. Squadron has never seemed to make the cut, and this is probably one of the reasons it holds its price.
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Posted on 14th May 2018 at 8:32 am by Fruit Of The Loom / Uncategorised
A trend spotted internationally and slowly being seen here in SA is the comeback of BRAND ICONOGRAPHY. The ’90’s shirts that you grew up in back in the day are now better than ever.The 1990’s logo centric is going to invade high fashion and we want to be part of it.
It’s difficult to think of any one item of clothing that has had quite as colourful a history as the humble hoodie.
Over the past century, this sportswear staple has gone from playing field to runway, stopping off at every conceivable urban subculture along the way. It’s been name-checked by prime ministers, designers and screeching Daily Mail editorials, and has even been banned in some parts of the western world for brief periods of time, all thanks to its street associations.
Today, the hoodie is enjoying a golden era of acceptance. Just as with Elvis, denim jeans, electronic music and all other aspects of youth culture that initially made grown-ups nervous, everyone has now calmed down and said a collective, “You know what? Maybe a sweatshirt with a hood on the back isn’t inherently evil after all.”
About time too, because the hoodie truly is a wonder garment. It’s functional, comfortable and stylish in equal measures. And now, thanks to fashion’s ongoing steamy love affair with streetwear, it’s also bang on trend.
“The hoodie epitomises streetwear,” says fashion designer Gordon Richardson, former creative director of Topman. “What began as a trend in the 1990s has developed into a global phenomenon because of its versatility and comfort.”
There aren’t many items of menswear that work for a hungover afternoon of Netflix, streetwear stunting, a hobble back home from the gym and an athleisure-ly stroll around the city. But the hoodie has you covered for all of them, and even smarter outfits, too.
“As the hoodie has become a wardrobe staple, big brands are listening to their market. Guys aren’t afraid to splash the cash on designer sportswear now, and mixing track tops or joggers with tailoring has become a trend in recent years,” says Richardson.
Source: FashionBeans
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Profile: Shelley Watson
Shelley Watson was a participant or observer in the following events:
(6:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Radar Located in Northeast US Offline for Repair Work
The Joint Surveillance System (JSS). [Source: Dr. Steven R. Bussolari, MIT Lincoln Laboratory]Military radar in Massachusetts, which is used by NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), is out of use this morning in order to undergo maintenance work. [9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ]
Radar Scheduled to Go Down - The J53 radar in North Truro, Massachusetts, is one of a number of radar sites that NEADS receives data from. [United States Space Command, 12/30/1995; Jane's C4I Systems, 9/1/2005; North American Aerospace Defense Command, 10/23/2006 ] It has a range of 250 miles. According to Technical Sergeant Jeffrey Richmond, the assistant air surveillance technician at NEADS, J53 is scheduled to go down this morning for some major repairs to be carried out. [9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ]
NEADS Personnel Refer to Radar - A member of staff at NEADS apparently refers to the J53 radar being offline shortly after those on the NEADS operations floor learn of the Flight 11 hijacking (see (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001) and while they are trying to locate the hijacked aircraft. She mentions that NEADS technicians “still should be able to get it” (presumably referring to the plane’s radar track) “without 53.” [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/11/2001] (According to Richmond, the area covered by J53 is overlapped by other radars, “so the need for radar to undergo routine maintenance is accounted for.”) ID technician Shelley Watson will later recall that the NEADS ID desk uses the J53 radar as a point from which it attempts to locate Flight 11. At some time during the morning, Richmond insists that J53 be put back online at some capacity. Whether this happens is unstated. [9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ]
Radar Part of 'Joint Surveillance System' - The J53 radar site is part of the Joint Surveillance System (JSS). [Transportation Safety Board of Canada, 9/2/1998; US Department of the Air Force, 11/1/1999 ; 9/11 Commission, 2004] The JSS consists of “long-range radar sites around the perimeter of the US, with data shared by the [Department of Defense], FAA, Customs, and others.” A 2003 Department of Defense report will state that, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, US air defense relies “largely on outward looking ground-based radars, specifically, the Joint Surveillance System.” [US Department of Defense, 7/2003 ] According to General Ralph Eberhart, the commander of NORAD, NORAD has access to the JSS, “which is that system that rings the United States and looks out.” He will say this system “looks for that foreign threat. It looks for someone coming into our airspace that’s not authorized.” [US Congress. Senate, 10/25/2001]
Entity Tags: Joint Surveillance System, Northeast Air Defense Sector, Jeffrey Richmond, Ralph Eberhart, Shelley Watson
(8:38 a.m.-8:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Personnel Mistake Hijacking for Part of an Exercise
Major Kevin Nasypany. [Source: CBC]When the FAA’s Boston Center first contacts NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) to notify it of the hijacking of Flight 11 (see (8:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001), personnel there initially mistake the hijacking for a simulation as part of an exercise.
Lieutenant Colonel Dawne Deskins, mission crew chief for the Vigilant Guardian exercise currently taking place (see (6:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001), will later say that initially she and everybody else at NEADS think the call from Boston Center is part of Vigilant Guardian. [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/2002] Although most of the personnel on the NEADS operations floor have no idea what the day’s exercise is supposed to entail, most previous major NORAD exercises included a hijack scenario. [USA Today, 4/18/2004; Utica Observer-Dispatch, 8/5/2004] The day’s exercise is in fact scheduled to include a simulated hijacking later on. [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006]
Major Kevin Nasypany, the NEADS mission crew commander, had helped design the day’s exercise. Thinking the reported hijacking is part of it, he actually says out loud, “The hijack’s not supposed to be for another hour.” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006]
In the ID section, at the back right corner of the NEADS operations floor, technicians Stacia Rountree, Shelley Watson, and Maureen Dooley react to the news. Dooley, the leader of the ID section, tells the other members of her team: “We have a hijack going on. Get your checklists. The exercise is on” (see (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001). Rountree asks, “Is that real-world?” Dooley confirms, “Real-world hijack.” Watson says, “Cool!” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006; Spencer, 2008, pp. 25]
When NEADS Commander Robert Marr sees his personnel reacting to the news of the hijacking (see (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001), he reportedly thinks the day’s exercise “is kicking off with a lively, unexpected twist.” Even when a colleague informs him, “It’s a hijacking, and this is real life, not part of the exercise,” Marr thinks: “This is an interesting start to the exercise. This ‘real-world’ mixed in with today’s simex [simulated exercise] will keep [my staff members] on their toes.” [Spencer, 2008, pp. 26]
Major General Larry Arnold, who is at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, also later says that when he first hears of the hijacking, in the minutes after NEADS is alerted to it, “The first thing that went through my mind was, is this part of the exercise? Is this some kind of a screw-up?” [ABC News, 9/11/2002; 9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003] According to author Lynn Spencer: “Even as NORAD’s commander for the continental United States, Arnold is not privy to everything concerning the exercise. The simex is meant to test commanders also, to make sure that their war machine is operating as it should.” [Spencer, 2008, pp. 38]
At 8:43 a.m., Major James Fox, the leader of the NEADS weapons team, comments, “I’ve never seen so much real-world stuff happen during an exercise.” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006]
Entity Tags: Northeast Air Defense Sector, Shelley Watson, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Stacia Rountree, Robert Marr, Maureen Dooley, Vigilant Guardian, Kevin Nasypany, Dawne Deskins, Larry Arnold, James Fox
8:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns of Threat to Flight 11 Cockpit
One of the ID technicians at NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) calls the FAA’s Boston Center, and learns that there have been “threats in the cockpit” of Flight 11. The communications team at NEADS is currently trying to quickly find out all they can about the hijacked plane, such as its flight number, tail number, and where it is. ID tech Shelley Watson calls the management desk at the Boston Center, which had alerted NEADS to the hijacking minutes earlier (see (8:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001), wanting to make sure she has all the information that is available on Flight 11. Her call is answered by Boston Center’s military liaison, Colin Scoggins. Scoggins tells Watson: “He’s being hijacked. The pilot’s having a hard time talking to the… I mean, we don’t know. We don’t know where he’s goin’. He’s heading towards Kennedy [International Airport in New York City]. He’s… 35 miles north of Kennedy now at 367 knots. We have no idea where he’s goin’ or what his intentions are.” Scoggins says, “I guess there’s been some threats in the cockpit,” and adds, “We’ll call you right back as soon as we know more info.” Master Sergeant Maureen Dooley is standing over Watson, relaying any pertinent information she hears to Major Kevin Nasypany. She calls to him, “Okay, he said threat to the cockpit!” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006; Spencer, 2008, pp. 34]
Entity Tags: Shelley Watson, Northeast Air Defense Sector, Colin Scoggins, Kevin Nasypany, Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, Maureen Dooley
8:51 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns of Plane Hitting WTC, Informs FAA’s New York Center
Technicians on the operations floor at NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) receive what is apparently their first notification that a plane has hit the World Trade Center, in a phone call from the FAA’s Boston Center. [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006] NEADS ID technicians are currently trying to locate Flight 11, when they are called by Colin Scoggins, the military liaison at the Boston Center. ID tech Stacia Rountree answers the call. In response to Scoggins’s information, Rountree says to her colleagues, “A plane just hit the World Trade Center.” She asks Scoggins, “Was it American 11?” He tells her this is not confirmed. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 50] Another of the ID techs, Shelley Watson, starts murmuring in response to the news: “Oh my God. Oh God. Oh my God.” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006] A computer maintenance technician then runs onto the operations floor and announces that CNN is broadcasting that a 737 has hit the WTC. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 51]
NEADS Calls New York Center - Master Sergeant Maureen Dooley, the leader of the ID techs, tells Watson: “Update New York! See if they lost altitude on that plane altogether.” Watson immediately calls the FAA’s New York Center and asks, “Did you just hear the information regarding the World Trade Center?” When the person who answers her call says no, Watson explains, “Being hit by an aircraft.” The person at New York Center says, “You’re kidding,” but Watson adds, “It’s on the world news.” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006] One of the NEADS technicians is finally able to display the live CNN coverage on one of the 15-foot screens at the front of the room. People stare in silence at the footage of the burning North Tower. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 51]
Entity Tags: Northeast Air Defense Sector, Shelley Watson, Maureen Dooley, Colin Scoggins, Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, New York Air Route Traffic Control Center, Stacia Rountree
10:05 a.m.-10:08 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Alerted to Flight 93, Reportedly for the First Time
The military liaison at the FAA’s Cleveland Center calls NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) and alerts it to the hijacked Flight 93. According to the 9/11 Commission, this is the first notification NEADS receives about Flight 93, but it comes too late, since the plane has already crashed (see (10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 30; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 46]
'Bomb on Board' Flight 93 - At 10:05 a.m., the military liaison at the Cleveland Center, who is unaware that Flight 93 has just crashed, calls NEADS to inform it that Flight 93 is heading toward Washington, DC. Even though communicating with NEADS is not one of his responsibilities, he wants to make sure it is in the loop. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 224] At NEADS, the call is answered by Tech Sergeant Shelley Watson. Shortly into the call, at 10:07, the military liaison tells her: “We got a United 93 out here. Are you aware of that?” He continues, “That has a bomb on board.” Watson asks: “A bomb on board? And this is confirmed? You have a mode three [beacon code], sir?” The military liaison replies, “No, we lost his transponder” (see (9:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001). The news about Flight 93 is shouted out to Major Kevin Nasypany, the NEADS mission crew commander. Nasypany responds: “Gimme the call sign. Gimme the whole nine yards.… Let’s get some info, real quick. They got a bomb?”
Liaison Wants Fighters Sent toward Flight 93 - The military liaison continues, asking Watson if NEADS scrambled fighter jets in response to Delta 1989, an aircraft that was mistakenly reported as having been hijacked (see (9:28 a.m.-9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and 9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001). Watson replies: “We did. Out of Selfridge and Toledo” (see (9:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and 10:01 a.m. September 11, 2001), and says these jets are airborne. When the military liaison asks if the fighters can be directed to where Flight 93 is, Watson asks him if the Cleveland Center has latitude and longitude coordinates for this aircraft. The military liaison replies that he has not got this information available right now. All he knows is that Flight 93 has “got a confirmed bomb on board… and right now, his last known position was in the Westmoreland area.… Which is… in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area.” [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/11/2001; Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006]
NEADS Searches on Radar - The news of a bomb on board Flight 93 spreads quickly at NEADS, and personnel there search for the aircraft’s primary return on their radar screens. But because the plane has already crashed, they will be unable to locate it. NEADS will only learn that Flight 93 has crashed at 10:15 a.m., during a call with the FAA’s Washington Center (see 10:15 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 30-31]
FAA Failed to Notify Military Earlier - The Cleveland Center’s notification to NEADS about Flight 93 comes 39 minutes after the plane was hijacked (see (9:28 a.m.) September 11, 2001) and 33 minutes after FAA headquarters was alerted to the hijacking (see 9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 11, 28] At the time NEADS is alerted to Flight 93, NORAD is similarly uninformed about this aircraft, according to the 9/11 Commission. The Commission will state, “At 10:07, its representative on the air threat conference call stated that NORAD had ‘no indication of a hijack heading to DC at this time.’” According to the Commission, the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon learned about the Flight 93 hijacking slightly earlier on, at 10:03 a.m. (see 10:03 a.m. September 11, 2001). However, the NMCC was notified by the White House, not the FAA. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 42] A former senior FAA executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, will later try to explain why it takes the FAA so long to alert NEADS to Flight 93. He will say, “Our whole procedures prior to 9/11 were that you turned everything [regarding a hijacking] over to the FBI.” [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006] Yet military instructions contradict this, stating, “In the event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious means by the FAA.” [US Department of Defense, 7/31/1997 ; US Department of Defense, 6/1/2001 ]
NORAD Commanders Claim Earlier Awareness of Flight 93 - Two senior NORAD officials will contradict the 9/11 Commission’s conclusion, and claim they were aware of Flight 93 well before it crashed (see Shortly Before 9:36 a.m. September 11, 2001 and (9:36 a.m.-10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Filson, 2003, pp. 68, 71-73] Colonel Robert Marr, the NEADS battle commander, will tell the Commission that, while the flight was still airborne, “his focus was on UAL 93, which was circling over Chicago,” and he “distinctly remembers watching the flight UAL 93 come west, and turn over Cleveland.” [9/11 Commission, 10/27/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 1/23/2004 ] Major General Larry Arnold, the commander of the Continental US NORAD Region, will recall, “[W]e watched the [Flight] 93 track as it meandered around the Ohio-Pennsylvania area and started to turn south toward DC.” [Filson, 2003, pp. 71]
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Greek Books @ the 70th Frankfurt Book Fair
At least 1,000 Greek books from the recent production of more than 40 publishing houses will be displayed at the Greek Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair taking place on 10-14 October 2018. Greek novelist Maro Douka is the guest of honour of the Greek participation, which is organised by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture with the official support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Greece’s official participation is also supported by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, in cooperation with the Directory of Greek Publishers, the Consulate General of Greece in Frankfurt and the Frankfurt office of the Greek National Tourism Organisation. The Greek presence this year is expected to be the richest and most pluralistic one since 2001, when Greece was the Book Fair’s guest of honour.
The 16th Thessaloniki International Book Fair (set to take place on 9-12 May 2019), the project Athens 2018 World Book Capital (which will continue running until 22 April 2019) and the Hellenic Authors’ Society are also participating in the official Greek Pavilion, while 18 Greek publishing houses (including Agra Publications, Aiora Press, Volatilium, Cube Art Editions and Romiosini Editions/CeMoG) are participating with their own stands.
The works of 60 Greek writers will be featured in a complete “Catalogue of Greek books translated for 2017-2018”, including books of all kinds (fiction, non-fiction, children’s books) that have been translated in various languages. Also, visitors will have the opportunity to meet the famous writer Maro Douka, and attend two discussions where she will participate.
The Greek participation will focus on a three-pillar tribute-intervention to the issue of migration in Europe, as a follow-up to the latest editions of the Thessaloniki International Book Fair, which was dedicated to the situation of the refugees. This is also in line with the “On the same page” campaign launched by this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, in an effort to raise awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rightswhich was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly 70 years ago.
The tribute will feature: the thematic library “Imagine All the People” at the Greek Pavilion with selected books on immigration and the refugees; the discussion "Alternating Homelands: Democracy in the 21st century and the Challenge of Migration Flows" with the participation of the guest of honour, Maro Douka, human rights advocate Kostis Papaioannou and Syrian refugees; the photographic exhibition "Roads of Survival" -depicting the plight of Syrian refugees along the Balkan route to Europe- organised by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation, which has also been presented at the European Parliament.
The Greek programme will also feature various other events on topics such as contemporary trends of noir fiction in the Balkans, the “Faces of Greek Wine”, Greek-German relations through literature and the Greek poets’ anthology “Stubborn poetry”, put together by Maria Topali and translated into German by Torsten Israel.
For the complete programme of events (in Greek) see here
Read also via Greek News Agenda: Reading Greece | Athens - World Book Capital City of 2018; Russia, Refugees Honored at Thessaloniki Book Fair 2016; 14th Thessaloniki International Book Fair: In Search of the South; Greek Books - Global Ideas @ the 68th Frankfurt Book Fair.
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The mission of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Community Center is to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies. The Center’s strategies inspire and strengthen our community by:
Fostering greater opportunities for people to thrive.
Organizing for our future.
Celebrating our history and culture.
Building resources to create a legacy for future generations.
Despite gains in social understanding and approval for LGBT people over the past 40 years, LGBT people still face both individual and systemic discrimination. Since its opening in 2002, the Center has established itself as a cornerstone of the LGBT community with an impact that goes beyond its direct services. As the only non-profit in San Francisco serving all members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, the Center plays an important role as the physical and spiritual home for LGBT culture, and is vital to the ultimate survival of our identity as a community.
The Center's critical safety net programs serve the most vulnerable members of the community -- people of color, transgender, lesbian, and bisexual women, differently-abled people, youth, elders, immigrants, and low-income individuals -- who often experience additional, intersecting forms of discrimination.
Today, when visitors arrive at the Center, they find free services like career counseling, job fairs, computer lab, social activities, mentorships, youth meals, daycare, various workshops and much more. Here they can connect with other LGBT people and organize to secure our equal rights. The Center is truly the heart, home and hands of the San Francisco LGBT community.
http://www.sfcenter.org/
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Baker's Dozen
Why is a baker's dozen 13 of something? I think it should be 11. I realized this today as I was making cookies...for every 12 I put into the oven, only 11 made it into the cookie jar. Warm and gooey cookies are just too good to resist, and I wouldn't blame any baker for eating a few of them soon after they come out of the oven. Finishing with groups of 11 is easy - put 12 on the cookie sheet (which fits really well, 3 rows by 4 columns), bake them, take them out, eat one, and put the other 11 in the cookie jar. How could you end up with 13? Put 14 on each cookie sheet? What's that, 2 rows by 7 columns? That wouldn't fit most cookie sheets very well. A checkerboard pattern of 3-2-3-2-3 might fit pretty well, but that is exactly 13, so then you can't eat any of them. As the baker in this case, I find this unacceptable. I suppose you could just make as many cookies as the batch allows, then eat however many it takes to leave youself with a total that is a multiple of 13 - like making 60 cookies and eating 8 of them for 4x13=52 cookies. But to do that you'd probably have to wait until all the cookies are baked, and there are all sorts of reasons for this being a bad idea: 1) You might be eating way too many cookies all at once. 2) If by some chance you make 13 dozen (or some other common multiple of 12 and 13), then you wouldn't get any cookies. 3) You don't get to sample one from each "sub-batch" that comes out of the oven. 4) You're never more "the baker" than while you're actually baking, and if it's "your" dozen, you shouldn't have to wait for the final count. Wouldn't this all be easier if baker's dozens were groups of 11? Maybe we could call groups of 13 "eater's dozens", since that's who they really seem to benefit in the first place. Or maybe I should just find something productive to do while making cookies instead of counting and overanalyzing...
Sports Roundup
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Before we can save the souls of the poor, we must give them a life worthy of the name.
- St. Vincent de Paul
St. Vincent de Paul was born in France in 1580 and was ordained in 1600.
While sailing from Marseilles, he was captured by Turkish pirates and taken to Tunisia where he was sold as a slave. He escaped after two years, and returned to France where he worked as a teacher to a wealth family.
The young priest began ministering to convicts in the French jails, bringing them food and health care. He eventually established a hospital and a hospice for the elderly. The French king appointed him royal almoner.
As his work among the poor and imprisoned grew, Vincent was encouraged by others to start a religious institute of priests to work with the poor in rural areas. This became the Congregation of the Mission (the Vincentians). With St. Louise de Marillac, he established the Daughters of Charity and Ladies of Charity to go out into the community and serve the poor.
Vincent's ministry extended beyond France's borders. He and his missionaries worked among the slaves along western Africa's Barbary Coast (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), ransoming up to 1,200 galley slaves.
Vincent de Paul died in 1660. His feast is celebrated on September 27.
St. Vincent de Paul was named patron of all charitable institutions by Pope Leo XIII, who was born on this day in 1810.
- Little Black Book, Diocese of Saginaw
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Category: Business Partnerships
Is it permissible to subscribe to the “Tasweeq Net” company?
Is it permissible to subscribe to the “Tasweeq Net (marketing net)” company?.
Fatwa from the Standing Committee on the “Business and “Hibbat al-Jazeerah” companies and pyramid marketing schemes
Ruling on “Business” and other scams
This company’s activities are similar to those of the “Business” company, and the scholars have stated that it is haraam to subscribe to this company. The “Tasweeq net” company is no different from “Business” apart from the fact that they sell a product that has some value, but the purpose is not the product, rather it is marketing. These companies are based on what is known as “pyramid selling”.
Shaykh Saami ibn Ibraaheem al-Suwaylim said:
The essential idea behind pyramid selling is simple and may be summed up as follows: a person buys the company’s products in return for the opportunity to convince others to do what he did (i.e., buy the company’s products), and he receives payment or commission in return for that. Then each of these people who joined the program has to convince others to buy as well, and the first one gets increased commission [?] and so on.
The reason why it is haraam to join this type of program may be explained by the following points:
1 – It is based on consuming wealth unlawfully
2 – It is based on ambiguity (and deceit) that is forbidden in sharee’ah.
Consuming wealth unlawfully:
It is clear from the above that this kind of program cannot grow without there being someone who will lose out to the interests of those who profit from it, whether it stops growing or not. Loss is inevitable for the final levels of the pyramid in all cases, and without it the higher levels cannot gain their astronomical commission. The losers will be in the majority and only a few will profit, i.e., the few will take the wealth of the majority unlawfully. This is consuming wealth unlawfully which the Qur’aan forbids. The economists call this a zero-sum game, whereby what some gain is what the others lose.
Ambiguity:
The basic meaning of the kind of ambiguity that is haraam is paying money in exchange for something which one thinks is most likely not to exist, or may exist in a manner that is not desired. Hence the fuqaha’ said: ambiguity is uncertainty between two things, the most likely of which is the one that the person fears or dislikes most. The one who joins these schemes pays money in return for profits that are unlikely to be realized.
Schemes that are based on pyramid selling, including the scheme mentioned in the question, are based on consuming wealth unlawfully and deceiving others, because this pyramid cannot continue forever, and when it stops the result will be that a few will gain at the expense of the majority. The logic of pyramid marketing depends on huge profits for the top levels at the expense of the lower levels of the pyramid, and the last levels will always lose out, even if we assume that the pyramid will never end. The fact that there is a product does not make this scheme permissible, rather this makes it come under the heading of deceit which is haraam. And Allaah knows best.
The Shaykh also said concerning the “Tasweeq net” company in particular:
The system mentioned in the question is a pyramid marketing system, which may appear in a variety of forms, but may be summed up as being a system where the subscriber persuades others to buy in order to join the marketing scheme. As long as the commission is greater than the price of the product, the aim behind buying is primarily to earn commission; the product is a secondary concern. Based on that, it is not allowed according to sharee’ah because it involves ambiguity and consuming wealth unlawfully, because the subscriber does not know whether he will succeed in convincing others to join or not. If he does succeed, he will be making profit at their expense and the expense of the money they pay to subscribe, and if he does not then he will lose out to the tune of whatever portion of his original payment went towards marketing, and those who joined through him will suffer the same fate, so every level of the pyramid will lose out, unless there is a level or two beneath him who will bear the brunt of the loss, and so on.
See also questions no. 40263 and 41620.
And Allaah knows best.
Ruling on making money by surfing websites and ads, and making referrals
They formed a business partnership; how should the profits be shared among them?
Ruling on financial sponsorship; does it make a difference if the debt is transferred from one lender to another?
The difference between maniy, madhiy and moisture
The punishment for breaking the fast in Ramadaan with no excuse
Etiquette of Eid
He kissed his fiancée and touched her; is she haraam for him?
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SOSNO
Alexandre Sosnowsky, better known by the name Sacha Sosno, was an internationally renowned French sculptor and painter born in 1937 in Marseille. After the completion of his academic studies Sosno founded the magazine "Sud Communications", in which he published his first theory of the « School of Nice ».
In the last decades of his life Sosno achieved international recognition for his monumental outdoor sculptures on the French Riviera. Along with Yves Klein, Arman and Cesar he was a member of the New Realist movement. Sosno had a singular artistic approach based on the concept of obliteration. His sculptures consist of empty or full spaces assigning to the viewer the task of imagining what is absent: "I only do 50% of the work; other people have to finish creating the sculpture", affirms Sosno.
Sosno's most recognizable work remains the "Tête Carrée" library in Nice, which he completed in 2000. This work once again confirms Sosno's interest in architecture, which he treats as inhabited sculpture to imbue with the artistic.
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The hardest words to say....
Subject: The hardest words to say.... Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:54 pm
He had originally come over half an hour ago to drop off the new print of the English release of the cd, with the cover that Ursa had been asked to pose for. But not five minutes into going to drop it off there had been pounding on the door a chaos of hyper voices and laughter and what sounded like skate wheels going down the hall and he had shifted and to his smaller hound form and jumped up to curl up and lay down on the bed watching them and listening. They were friends of Ursa and talking for a while back and forth Ursa so utterly relaxed among them as they all took seats on guy on a desk the other on the chair Ursa sat near him on the bed the other two not so close.
"Check it out man.....these places have some hellish rad courses to grind wheels on." Kenichi said waving the travel guides in the air as he leaned forwards and handed them to Ursa. "We're gonna be heading to the first in Russia tomorrow, It's gonna be a blast Ursa you're coming right?"
"Slow down Azure..." Rickard said laughing as he looked at there friend Rickard didn't place but these two did. Ursa first Azure second. "It's gonna be a real thrill I don't know if you planned on heading back home for a while after this Urs, or if your coming with but we have at least a dozen or more stops planned out....it's gonna be a blast...."
Kenichi looked at Ursa and then looked at the deep azure hound and shook his head. "We've scooped out at least twenty places to really burn up the tracks at Urs, and when we go I'm certain we'll find at least twenty to thirty more who needs to settle down or place roots as long as we've got our boards?" Kenichi and Rickard fist bumped and looked at him as he was quiet not really saying anything. "....Hey Ursa where'd you get the hound? You know you can't take him traveling all over the world with us right? It wouldnt' be fair to the poor guy to keep sticking him in a kennel in storage on planes every couple of days." Kenichi said thinking of how cramped caged in it would be for the poor dog he was looking at not at all thinking that the dog might have other ideas...or have a home here.
Jigoku laid there head on his front paws listening to these two they had only been talking for the last half an hour about taking Ursu and leaving Japan....his ears were perked up they were laying down his tail was tucked in and he was for better lack of terms curled up just behind Ursu....he didn't want him to go.
Subject: Re: The hardest words to say.... Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:06 pm
He had laughed and goofed off with them, but when they mentioned just packing up and leaving right away, he felt a twinge of pain in his chest and he fell silent, his expression changing into one of sadness. "I don't know mate. I don't really think that Russia is my scene, ya know?" he said as he sat there looking at them all. When did his thinking change and verge from theirs? When did he begin to think of this place as home?
"I'm not sure if I want to go with you guys..." he responded as he looked at them all and then down at the carpet of the hotel. They were all around the same age, so it was normal for them to all be in a group like this. They had been his friends since he started, especially Rickard. He had started out with him in Australia. But now he felt like he had finally found a place to settle down in. Even if he didn't know much of the language, he could learn that.
Kenichi leaned forward. "Do you hear what you're saying Ursa? Russia is just one stop on a long list of...." He said and blinked when Rickard put his hand out stopping him looking at Ursa. He smiled.
"I hear ya mate." Rickard said smiling. "Russia's a bit cold for my liking too, but I'm looking forward to where we're going after." Rickard got up and walked over putting his hand on Ursa's shoulder smirking as he looked at him. "Man this rocked....and not like we won't be making circles back this way, hell Nippon Pro was hellish rad." He said smirking. "But....you really took off here didn't ya?"
Kenichi looked and rolled his eyes. "He hit that double half pike like it was nothing." He said leaning forwards. "Up till Nippon Pro you missed it every damn time Ursa and suddenly you land it." He shook his head and sighed standing up as Rickard grinned squeezing his shoulder a bit.
"We've been to a helluva lota places mate, a helluva lot. But Since we got here out of all of us you just sorta fit in everywhere you know? When you skate here it's like your really happy here and it's like all your stress and worries are gone mate. Don't....decide right now don't worry about Azure hell....figure out YOU want the most Urs, your gotta know you'll always be able to skate always be able to join in the the tournaments. Doesn't mean you have to be a wanderer like the rest of us....besides...maybe I'll be lucky and find me that pretty Italian I'm always looking for." He said laughing as he sat back and flipped his board up.
"We're gonna hit the streets for a while, did you wanna come?" Kenichi asked as he too flipped his board up....Since coming here...since that day he collided with that guy....everything had begun to change with Ursa he had begun to change...
Rickard looked at Ursa and smiled. "Hey Urs....mate....there's nothing wrong with finding a place....to call home. I'm still looking for mine but if you found yours....." He said holding out his hand fist closed as he kept his board tucked under his left arm. he was smiling as he the dog behind him on the bed had seemed to have fallen asleep when they were talking. "It's hellish rad."
Kenichi rolled his eyes as he hands rested on the door knob. "Gag me....who needs a place to call home...I'd rather be hitting the streets and jumping ramps every day...." He said looking at his to Aussie companions one who was waiting to 'fist bump' the other.
Ursu smiled sadly at them all though. "I don't know when it happened really, but this place just feels right...ya know?" he said as he stood up off the bed and brought up his fist and fist bumped Rickard. "I'll always be at the tournaments, but this place seems to have a lot to offer for my career...I think I'll stick around for a bit and see what comes of it mate," he told Rickard as he smiled at him. Goodbyes were never his thing. However, this wasn't really a goodbye, it was a "until next time."
He moved over to Kenich though, who was obviously the one taking this the hardest. Rickard had grown as a skater and as a person with Ursu. Kenichi hadn't had that chance. He was a little younger than him and Rickard, so he was still fond of dreaming that he would always have his friends with him where ever he went in life. He put a hand on Kenichi's shoulder and turned him to look at Ursu. "Ken, mate, don't get so upset please, for me?" he asked lowly as he looked at him. "I know it might seem like I'm saying goodbye forever, but really, it'll only be a few months until the next tournament and you'll be seeing me again, right?"
Ken looked at him and sighed reached up and ran his hand through his hair. He sighed as he listened to Ursa and then smiled nodding. "Your right, it's not forever it's just a couple of months." He said looking at him. "It's gonna be weird without you there though Ursa. It's always been the three of us since I joined up but now it's just me and Rickard...."
Rickard laughed. "Yeah but I gotcha yer back mate." He said looking at the kid as he walked up and ruffled his hair as well then looked at Ursa. "We knew there's always a chance something like this might happen ya know? We left this 'Walkabout' as a team of six and ended up a team of two till Ken joined up." He looked at Ken making a point of telling him so that he understood. "But we always see the others at the tournaments." He said smiled. "It's never goodbye mate, it's 'Till we meet again."
Ken nodded as he looked at them and smiled. "Alright take care of yourself Ursa. I don't know what you found here but if it feels right, then it feels right." He said and that was hard to argue with. He held up his hand for that fist bump there usual 'see ya later' parting or good luck till we meet again. Ken didn't know if they'd see him tomorrow morning or heck...anytime within the next couple months till the next meet but....he did know Ursa well enough to know he'd be at the tournament. "And next tournament I'm taking the gold Ursa....you won't be the star of the show." He said smirking.
Rickard laughed. "I wouldn't count on it mate. Urs has been skating since he's been walking. I swear he was born with a board in one hand." He said good naturedly as he looked at his best friend. "Take care Urs."
Kenichi laughed. "Yeah but where is Ursa gonna get the ramps to practice on? This place isn't exactly full of different height ramps all over the place you know? That's why we travel..." Rickard looked at him and smiled.
"I don't know mate....something tells me Urs will be just fine. We'll catch ya later mate....it's getting near time for our own walkabout to be starting one more night in town before we catch that plane in the morning ya know?" Rickard said smiling goodbyes were always hard but....he knew he'd see Ursu Agni again. He grew up around him it wasn't good bye never. But at the same token....one of Ursa's dreams was finding a place where he could have the one thing...he never really had a home and a family and that was....here. He was radiating here....happy. Rickard wasn't about to try to talk him into giving that up not for all the stars in the sky.
Ursu sighed and smiled at him, fist bumping Kenichi as he finally offered it to him. "Yeah. We started this thing with all of our friends and ended up with it just being me and you, huh Rick?" he said as he remembered those days. The sadness as he watched each and every one of his friends scatter across the globe and different parts of Australia. Two had went to America, while one went to England and one went to Germany to live with his family there. The others had moved to other parts of Australia leaving Rickard and Ursu behind.
"When they told us a kid from Japan was coming to join our sponsors, I never imagined he'd end up being Kenichi. It was so cool to get to learn things about this place and learn the silly things, like how to cuss and stuff. We got into so much trouble all the time because of Ken, but it was because we were all having so much fun that I was able to feel happy then...you guys were the brothers I never had..." he said as he lowered his hand and looked at Kenichi and Rickard.
"I don't know what I'll find here, but I'll find it and then I'll tell you about it. All of it, no matter how bad or good. I'll learn to speak Japanese properly and then I'll send you letters in it Ken. I'll show you everything I've learned and everyone I've met. I'll make sure you know I'm all right mate," he told Kenichi, who was still unhappy with the sudden choice.
He smirked though. "Don't count on beating me mate. I'm gonna jump over your head like a 'roo!" he said and ruffled Kenichi's hair.
Kenichi snorted. "Ha." he said but he was feeling better. "You better write. And will have fun writing back...." He said nodding as looked at him and smiled. "You may jump like a 'roo....but I? I will soar above you like a dragon in the sky...." He said smirking as he looked at him but he was smiling now really smiling it was hard saying good bye to him but they had to....this was his choice. Kenichi wasn't here, this was his place and he knew it and Rick wasn't here either. But for Ursa....it was.
Rick looked at him and nodded. "Yeah, nothing but trouble but total fun." He said looking at Ursa and nodded. "We'll see you at the next meet mate. Family is family so you know he'll keep in touch Ken." he said and Ken nodded and grinned.
"Alright. We'll catch you later Ursa we'll see you at the next big meet, but for now there's some primp skating hours we're loosing and I'm itching to try out a few new tricks."
Rick started laughing. "You mean your itching to fall flat on your arse and have me carry ya back home again mate." Ken stuck out his tongue and then shook his head.
"I'm not the one whose gonna be falling...I'm gonna land it this time you'll see..." Ken said and Rick shook his head. Looked at Ursa.
"Sure he's still trying to land that reverse double flip and still lands on his bloody arse every time mate.......every time..."
Ken mock pouted. "I just haven't found a high enough ramp yet.....that's all you'll see once I get the soaring height I"ll land it and then I'll be the one laughing." Rick smiled.
"It's all good." He looked at Ursa nodding. "You got something good here Urs...I've never seen you this happy.....ah crazy bugger." He said as Ken laughing and shouting see ya later Ursa had darted out the door and then hit the stair well railing on his board grinding down the rail...."I suppose I should go watch his fool arse...." He said shaking his head.
Ursu laughed at them both as Kenichi being Kenichi darted out of the room. Even if the kid wasn't going to show them, Ursu knew that when he ran like that, it was because he wanted to run away before he started crying in front of them all. Ursu knew that while Kenichi was skating down the rail, he was crying because he had had to say goodbye for now.
When Rickard had said that he had better go watch after Kenichi, Ursu grew serious and looked at his best friend. "You take care of him Rick. He's gonna be pretty upset for a while, but don't be too hard on him. This is his first time having to say "Until next time" okay?" he said as he looked at his best friend. "I'll see you guys tomorrow. I promise I'll come see you off so you make sure you tell Ken not to cry just yet, okay?"
Rick nodded. "Your got it Urs." He said as he looked at him. "I"ll tell him not to cry yet he can do all his balling on the way onto the plane." He said nodding smiling. "Don't worry I'll look after him for ya Urs." He said knowing that Ursa had been looking after the kid for the most part but now he was staying here and they were moving on. But Ursa also knew he could count on Rick to look after Kenichi for him and he would. He'd travel with the kid and keep him safe. "Catch ya tomorrow mate."
He left him then with the hound and jumped hitting the rail grinding down it after Ken knowing he had to catch up before the kid went and got himself hurt because his eyes were all blurry with tears Rick himself was fine, he wasn't gonna cry because he knew he'd see him again. One did not get rid of Ursu Agni they'd hear form him again. And again.
Jigoku wasn't really listening to them this was private between all of them so he was curled up on Ursa's bed in his hand form head resting on his paws and tail laying across the bed. his eyes were closed He knew they were talking and about what? Not really sure he was drifting in and out taking a nap for the last half an hour figuring he'd give Ursa space to be with his friends since....it wasn't his place either way to tell him to go or stay...even though he really wanted him to stay. So here he was laying on his bed....half asleep.
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Ursu smiled and waved at Rickard. "Thanks for everything up until now mate, take care of yourself too," he told Rickard as he watched them leave to go skate. It wasn't really sad for him. Not as sad as it should have been at least.
When they were gone, he sat down in the floor and sighed. He knew that was going to be hard, but he never imagined Kenichi would be the one to take it the hardest. But this was his chance, this was his time to start over and he was going to take it.
"Jigoku, I know why you stayed when they came....and it's okay. I wasn't going to leave anyway..."
Jigoku yawned and stretched shaking himself out as he did then moved still in the form of a hound and dropped to the floor before he padded easily enough over to Ursa and then dropped down behind him. He laid down behind Ursa and dropped his head on his paws. "I'm glad your not leaving..." He said lowly as he laid there behind him he was curled just right his head was beside him. He sighed. "I stayed for a couple of reasons..." He said lowly. "One....if you were leaving....to be able to say goodbye....the other if you were staying to let you know how glad I am you are." He said as he curled around Ursa a bit.
Jigoku hadn't shifted back though was in no hurry to, he looked like he himself was taking it rough and so he shifted forwards a bit more and pushed his head under Ursu's hand so that his hand was resting in the silken fur on top of his head. Either way.....Jigoku had stayed in case he just need some comfort. It was something Kira had said at one point sometimes just being able to pet a vampwolf helped calm raw nerves because of how soft and silken the fur was.
Ursu looked down at him and smiled at him. "I know you didn't want me to leave Jigoku," he said as he ran a hand through the Inu's fur. "I realized that almost the moment they mentioned leaving. The look in your eyes clearly said you didn't want me to go," he explained as he sat there and continued to pet the large dog.
"Thanks for wanting to help me all of this time. Especially after I ran into you. Normally when something like that happens, people are pissed off and won't listen to anything I have to say...so thanks, for being so patient with me," he said as he smiled at Jigoku. But even while he was smiling, he could feel the inner turmoil begin. He was happy here, but what would he do for work? Where would he get a place to live? How long would it take him to learn Japanese?
Jigoku sighed softly and shifted just a bit more so that he was resting his head right on Ursa's lap one of the perks of this form. He could also scent the pheromone shift in him as he started into that turmoil of what now? It was a common place to go when you made a choice like he did and he knew why it was happening to Ursa. He had suddenly decided to put down roots and he was still trying to learn the language. "You'll be alright." He said as he felt the fingers running through his fur. "I can help you learn Japanese, as to work....well if you don't mind it we can always talk to Rei and the others, palace guards and aids and such..." he said as he relaxed. "You met him although you didn't actually get to see him at the Nippon Pro because he was covered with a scarf the whole time, Kira, Rei and the others are always looking for someone to look after him when he goes out Kira is such a gentle soul that some people make him nervous because there presence is so strong." He said as he relaxed there.
"There's also the restaurant that Sai runs, if you'd rather do something like that." He said easily relaxed. "He actually pays his employee's really well for having to deal not only the customers but his temper he knows he has a short fuse." Jigoku said bemused. "As to a place to stay....I can help you with that depending on if you want an apartment or if you decide to work at the castle you'll have a home and room there....you'll become part of the family there...." Jigoku's tail bounced lightly on the carpet of the hotel room. "Honestly Rei and the others wouldn't mind you being there. They'd welcome you as part of the family with open arms.."
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Ursu shook his head. "I'm not really that worried about getting a job. The problem is breaking the language barrier before I can do any of the other things. I want to get an apartment, but I don't understand the language enough to read it or write it...." he said and sighed.
"I need someone to move in with me until I learn Japanese and can speak, read and write it fluently..." he complained lowly as he ran his hand through Jigoku's fur.
"As far as a job goes, I still have my skate sponsors. They pay me everytime I go to a competition and cover everything while I'm there. The problem is, between competitions, I don't make money from my sponsors because they're no events for me to enter. If I was working somewhere while I had those breaks between, it'd be much easier..." he said as he let his gaze move to his sketch book. "Hopefully I can get into a gallery or something to make some extra money for all of the new expenses I'll be having...first thing's first though, I need to go get my working visa and everything for here..."
Jigoku listened to him as he said he'd need someone to move in with him while he learned...the language for one. Then there was the working visa and he was an artist. The things he learned every day he was with him. He stayed as he was a moment longer not in any real hurry to move as he simply enjoyed feeling Ursa's fingers running through his fur like this. Right now Ursa didn't seem so nervous talking with him and that was fine with him. His tail continued it's light rhythm on the carpet as he listened to him and then spoke. "I can room with you." he said he lived in the castle normally but it wouldn't be that big of an issue he didn't believe if he wanted to go and get an apartment with him, besides this way he could help him learn Japanese, how to read and write it.
"As to a working Visa, that's through the Diet building the forms are in Japanese though so I'll go with you to translate them. They can read English just fine but the forms are all in Kanji." He was relaxed and in no honest hurry to move unless Ursa made him move by getting up himself Jigoku could lay there and just let him play with his fur for hours like this. "As to getting into a gallery? I can talk to Kira....he's actually well loved in several galleries if he's willing to sponsor you as up and coming Artist here in Japan they'll scoop you up." He said as he relaxed there and it was true. If Kira painted something, sculpted made anything.....the art world wanted it and was willing to pay millions for the smallest piece of his works. If Kira was willing to walk into any art gallery with Ursu and sponsor him his art to the gallery.....they would eat up Ursu's work.
Jigoku remained relaxed. "But if your art is anything like how you skate.....then you shouldn't have a problem at all, Kira sponsoring you will just make them push up the value of your art instead of pushing down." Jigoku mused as he laid there with him. His ears twitched as he thought about what he said earlier about people not giving him a chance after he collided with them. "How could I not give you a chance Ursa? It wasn't about being patient....I like being around you...."
He sighed as he closed his eyes and his ears turned back. "Honestly....I'm more used to people pushing me away then allowing me to be near them....for a long time....I was hurt and sick...but someone in my family found a way to help me and heal the damage done...." He laid there admitting it.."This is....the closest I've been to anyone outside of my brothers and those in the castle no one else has ever wanted to be near me....I just happy to be able to near you..." Jigoku said lowly even if he wanted so much more with Ursu....he was afraid of never having it of pushing to fast to far and making Ursu hate him.
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At a deserted, mossed ice field filled, there was a huge underground world built beneath karst.
A few kerosene lamps spread minimal heat to the surroundings, and the light they emitted hit the cave ceiling and walls, refracting luster between metals and ores.
It was damp, cold, lonely and depressing.
In this inaccessible underground space which seemed like an entirely different world, numerous steel pillars with the width of an arm securely formed a square iron prison with an area of a few hundred square meters.
An immensely heavy and rusty giant lock tightly sealed the only door of the iron prison.
This was a place isolated from the rest of the world. It was a place where sunlight couldn’t be seen throughout the year. One couldn’t inhale fresh air inside as well.
The cold, underground humidity could unstoppably erode, or even swallow anyone’s soul.
However in the iron prison, there were around ten thin and small figures curled up in different places of the iron prison. Some were lying on the ground, some sat there while hugging their knees while the others leaning against the steel pillars of the prison.
They were a group of boys and girls who looked around ten years old. They were all wearing grey short-sleeved shirts and shorts on their haggard and gaunt bodies.
There was no food. The only thing which allowed them to survive was merely the underground water which was occasionally dripping from the stalactites.
After days of suffering cold and hunger, many of the children were on the edge of collapsing.
More horrifyingly, there was no sound at all in the underground world which had a creepy and dark atmosphere. Even adults would feel insecure and oppressed after staying in the isolated space for a long time, not to mention it was an ice-cold iron prison. The feeling of despair would repeatedly emerge.
Two days ago, there were still children who were sobbing as a result of failing to suppress the fear in their hearts. However, these children who spent most of their energy had long finished their fuel.
Among the ten or so children, the ones who were lying on the ground were mostly cold corpses by now. However, due to the extremely low underground temperature, the decaying of the corpses took place in a particularly slow manner. They were merely at a rigid state.
Being in the underground which lacked sunlight and moonlight, none of them knew how much time had passed.
Slowly, the remaining ten or so children became the final ones who were alive.
In the huge iron prison, no one was talking while everyone’s breathing became extremely quiet. This was because they knew if they wanted to continue living, they couldn’t waste even the slightest amount of energy.
At this moment, a kid who had a relatively big physique finally had some movements after enduring immense hunger which was unimaginable by normal people.
Using the most efficient posture, he slowly moved towards the child’s corpse which was nearest to him.
In the dark, the boy leaned downwards to the neck of the body which was about his size. Slowly and resolutely, he took a bite on the body!
Before long, the sound generated by the friction between raw meat and teeth echoed in the quiet iron prison…
It was a sound that ordinary people would never get to listen in their entire lives. To the children there who were still alive, it sounded incredibly familiar. It wasn’t something that would shock them.
Following the first child’s hunt for food, three other children started looking for corpses.
Children’s teeth were much sharper than imagined. He swallowed the stiff and cold raw meat silently, only his deep breathing sound could be heard.
After swallowing a few mouthfuls of bloody flesh, the child slowly regained energy, causing his biting sound to be louder…
In a corner of the iron prison, yet another boy couldn’t endure his hunger anymore. He moved his limbs and climbed to two corpses which were closest to him.
One of the corpses was a girl while the other was a boy. They had been lying on the ground for more than a day without moving. The girl’s body was small and thin as opposed to the boy’s. However, under such a situation, whether it was a girl or a boy didn’t make a difference. They were both food!
The boy didn’t bother to choose. Gulping his saliva which had gotten bitter, he opened his mouth and leaned downwards to chew the girl’s corpse…
Suddenly! The boy felt something abnormal!
However, it was already too late the moment he felt something was wrong!
The girl ‘corpse’ that was assumed to be dead violently turned around and extended her palm which was as skinny as a bone near the boy’s temple.
The girl had rather long fingernails. At this moment, she used all the energy she had to clasp her palm, inserting her fingernails into the boy’s head…
The previously ‘diner’ suddenly turned to a dead ‘prey’ in the blink of an eye.
The girl pounced on the boy who just died a short moment ago. Just like a crazy and insanely hungry lioness, she started biting the boy’s flesh…
A newly dead corpse still contained body warmth after all while the blood was similarly heated. Such a ‘food’ evidently gave the ‘predator’ a much better fuel for survival.
As the girl started her first meal in a many days for around ten seconds, the ‘boy’s corpse’ located nearest to the girl slowly climbed up as well.
The boy quietly went towards the corpse which got killed by the girl with one strike. He didn’t communicate with the girl at all. Opening his mouth, he started biting the flesh at the areas where the girl hadn’t chewed on before...
The girl seemed like she wasn’t surprised. Apparently, she knew that the boy was similarly faking his death earlier, to wait for a warm prey. They minded their own business as they devoured the corpse and drank the hot blood.
Since it was all raw meat which was incredibly tough to be chewed, the two basically swallowed it without biting much. Their meal lasted for almost an hour before they finally stopped eating. Currently, their faces and hands were drenched in blood.
The body which was previously warm had already started releasing a stench.
However, since there were many corpses eaten in the iron prison, the smell had long diffused in the air.
The two went back to their own corners in the prison. In the dark, the two could barely see each other’s faces. Both of them had messy hair while their eyes held a beast-like, cautious gaze, as if they were ready to launch an attack.
The two children both knew that each other was most skilled in this type of survival training. If either of them gave the opposite side any opportunity, they’d end up being a prey.
Under such an unnecessary condition, fighting face to face was evidently irrational. As a result, defense was the best choice.
Once they sat down, their gazes hadn’t move away from each other’s faces before…
After an unknown amount of time, light entered the iron prison from the door. When the light shone upon the two, they slowly turned their heads to look at the light source.
A pale and cold voice resounded in Russian language to record the results…
“2 survived out of 57 subjects, number thirteen and number seventeen…”
In a dense rainforest, a multi-colored, venomous snake was wrapped on top of a red towering sequoia.
On the side of the sequoia facing away the sunlight, there stood a youngster who looked thirteen or fourteen year old, dressed in a tight-fitting camouflage shirt and camouflage pants made of canvas. Had had a strong and well-built body. He was currently resting his back against the tree as he sat on a pile of fallen leaves relaxedly.
He held a combat knife in his hand which had blood stains that weren’t dry yet.
The sound of cicadas repeatedly echoed in the rainforest. The youngster seemed like he was sleeping. His eyes were shut while his head was slanted.
At this moment, a figure similarly dressed in a camouflage shirt slowly walked out of the bunch of banana leaves. Holding a short knife in hand, it approached the youngster.
When he was one foot away from the youngster, the combat knife the youngster held suddenly pointed towards the figure that walked towards him while his eyes had opened as well.
It was a pair of cold and emotionless eyes while the emptiness within felt like surging lava was hidden inside.
“It’s you…”
The youngster spoke in a dull manner in English. Evidently, he knew who the person who appeared was.
The person in front was a teenaged girl who was similarly thirteen or fourteen years old. Her short hair extended to her ears while her skin was lightly red since it was exposed in sunlight for a long time. It could be seen that her face was extraordinarily exquisite. She would definitely be a beauty that could attract countless people when she grew up. However, her eyes held an expression which felt like the coldest period of winter, and had the same numbness and toughness as the youngster’s. It was hard for people to get close to her. Anyone who took a glance at her would even take three steps back.
“I want to partner up with you,” the girl said directly.
“You’re the strongest among everyone. I want to live. I have the highest chance of success if I team up with you,” the girl said concisely.
The guy laughed. “You should know that except venomous snakes and beasts, my enemies also include anyone in the rainforest.”
“You’re not afraid of me?” The girl laughed disdainfully.
“Don’t try to provoke me in this childish manner. Take out your assets.” The guy smiled coldly.
The girl suddenly revealed a seductive look which didn’t match her age at all, while her eyes expressed a strong, enchanting quality of a female.
“There have been two foolish men who thought they could eat me, but got killed by me at last. You’re stronger than them, but there’s something similar between you and them…”
The girl stopped talking for a while. Using an immensely enticing and husky tone, she said, “You’re a man as well. Similar to them, you want a woman to vent on…”
The guy’s gaze looked a bit different from before. After remaining quiet for a short while, he said, “You’re not the only woman here.”
“That’s right.” The corners of the girl’s lips revealed contentment. “But you are well aware that I’m the most good-looking one among them.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she started elegantly removing her tight-fitting shirt. Slowly, from her soft but firm, slim waist, her alluring skin of her body was revealed…
The girl had evidently been professionally trained. Every action she made was exceptionally alluring. No one could imagine they were performed by a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl!
The moment the girls body which was still in its development stage completely presented in front of the guy, his eyes finally couldn’t keep calm anymore as flame ignited inside them.
“I want to live, and you want to survive as well. Being the weak one, I’ll use my body in exchange for your help.” The girl didn’t try to seduce him with her female weapons anymore. Standing in front of the guy completely naked, she asked solemnly, “Thirteen, do you dare to want me?”
“How do you want me to trust you?” The guy was evidently suppressing something. Having understood the nature between men and women, he indeed needed a channel to vent on, to prevent his mind from collapsing as a result of the immense burden. However, he was very aware that the owner of the body in front of him was a beautiful, venomous scorpion…
The girl bit her thin lip while her gaze still looked so resolute and cold. Clearly, she said, “I don’t have any evidence, but I can tell you that—this, is my first time.”
The guy didn’t ask any more questions. Just like a leopard, he pounced on the girl who had given up all her energy, causing her to fall onto the ground…
After a series of stormy events, the top of the fallen leaves had finally regained peace.
“What’s your name…”
“Number Seventeen.”
“Your original name…”
“Then why are you still persistent on living? Dying, is actually a kind of relief…”
“I want to return to my hometown. I want to meet my parents.”
“I want to ask them, about my name…”
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In 1968, This Kentucky Derby Winner Lost its Crown for a Drug Most Horses Take Now
May 7, 2019 in History
By Becky Little
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“At the time, Kentucky had what’s called a zero-tolerance policy for prohibited medications,” Toby says. “Which meant that even the smallest trace of this drug and the other prohibited medications in a horse’s system was grounds for disqualification. It didn’t matter how much it was, there just had to be at least a trace.”
One of the drugs on the prohibited medications list was phenylbutazone, often referred to as “Bute,” which acts as an antihistamine and pain-reliever in horses, similarly to how aspirin works in humans. It isn’t a steroid or stimulant that affects a horse’s performance as drastically as heroin or cocaine, and many horses used it during training for the 1968 Kentucky Derby. Still, they weren’t supposed to have any of it in their systems by the time they raced in Louisville, and the chemist found that Dancer’s Image did.
Peter Fuller with racehorse Dancer’s Image in 1968.
It later came out that a veterinarian had given Dancer’s Image some phenylbutazone about a week before the race. Most horses would have gotten the drug out of their system by then, but it seems Dancer’s Image’s body didn’t process it as quickly. Because of the zero-tolerance policy, racetrack chemists only tested for the presence of certain drugs, not the amount that was in a horse’s body. So it didn’t matter whether Dancer’s Image had a lot of phenylbutazone in his system or just trace amounts from a previous dose—he was going to be disqualified.
Officials at Churchill Downs didn’t discover the drug test results until Monday when they received the chemist’s report. They spent the day tracking down the horse’s trainer, Lou Cavalaris, to tell him that Dancer’s Image had tested positive for phenylbutazone. This meant the horse would lose its first place title and be moved to last place. The next day, Churchill Downs made the news public. The new winner was Forward Pass, who’d come in second behind Dancer’s Image.
Fuller sued over this decision, and the court cases dragged on for nearly five years while the first-place prize money sat in an escrow account. “He had a lot of money, and he was the first person to actually make a serious claim that the tests were inappropriate and that the racing chemist was incompetent,” Toby says.
A state judge actually ruled in Fuller’s favor, but the victory was short-lived because the Kentucky State Racing Commission appealed and won. …read more
Chinese Americans Were Once Forbidden to Testify in Court. A Murder Changed That
By Erin Blakemore
Yee Shun was new to Las Vegas, in New Mexico Territory, and he didn’t intend to stay long. Though he’d secured a job at a local hotel, he’d decided to move on to Albuquerque, a frontier city even more promising and bustling than 1882 Las Vegas. But first, he planned to look up a friend at a local Chinese-owned laundry.
That decision proved fatal—in more ways than one. It set the stage for one man’s murder, and another’s suicide. It also resulted in something unexpected: a legal case that overturned a longstanding practice of refusing to allow Chinese people to testify in U.S. court.
At the time Yee immigrated to the United States from China, Chinese people had few civil rights. Men from China had been immigrating since the 1840s, drawn by the country’s ample opportunities for laborers. As railroad companies competed to grow as quickly as possible, they needed a pool of cheap labor willing to take on dangerous and often backbreaking work, and Chinese immigrants fit the bill. Up to 15,000 Chinese men became railroad workers, then branched out into mining, farming, sewing, laundry, and other fields.
But though Chinese immigrants were essential to westward expansion, they were not welcomed by many white Americans, who felt threatened by enclaves of unfamiliar workers who spoke a different language, practiced a different religion and made significant contributions to both labor and business in the burgeoning West. By the 1880s, anti-Chinese sentiment reached its peak with the Chinese Exclusion Acts, a series of laws that restricted immigration from China and limited Chinese-born people’s civil rights within the U.S.
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act suspended immigration for ten years, required Chinese people to carry documentation at all times, and refused Chinese people the ability to become naturalized citizens. “The coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof,” the Act read.
Chinese miners working alongside three white men in Aubine Ravine, California circa 1852.
Chinese people lacked another civil right: the right to testify in court in many states and territories. Laws and court cases denying them that right went back almost as far as Chinese immigration in the United States, and in states where there were no such laws, Chinese people who wanted to testify were often dismissed as liars before they even took the stand.
In 1854, …read more
Why Trump's Tariffs on China Hurt Everyday Americans
May 7, 2019 in Economics
By Daniel J. Ikenson
With negotiations to remove sweeping U.S. tariffs and end the
year-long trade war seemingly in the homestretch, President Donald
Trump abruptly reversed course on Sunday and announced his
intention to increase those tariffs and extend their application to
all imports from China by the end of the week.
The president believes that depriving Chinese exporters access
to the U.S. market will compel Beijing to accept Washington
demands. Although raising tariffs certainly will tighten the vice,
the squeeze will be felt most acutely by Americans because tariffs
are nothing more than taxes on U.S. consumers, producers and
investors.
Contrary to Trump’s simplistic portrayal of trade, the United
States doesn’t purchase goods from China. Trade is not conducted
between countries. Rather, trade is the culmination of billions of
daily transactions between individuals around the world seeking to
obtain the most value from that exchange — the biggest bang
for their buck. By raising costs, tariffs ensure that consumers get
less bang for their bucks.
Rather than get on an airplane to China to purchase goods from a
local vendor, we avoid those transaction costs by letting our
retailers do the heavy lifting. U.S. companies such as Walmart,
Home Depot and Amazon purchase goods from Chinese
manufacturers.
Those purchases are made not because the retailers have any
interest in consuming those goods but because U.S. individuals
— and U.S. companies requiring intermediate goods and
machines to produce their own output — demand these goods. By
virtue of the volume of their transactions, wholesalers and
retailers have the market power and the logistics infrastructure in
place to negotiate prices and purchase these products on our
behalf.
When tariffs (or duties) are imposed at the U.S. border, those
costs get factored into the prices paid for each transaction in the
supply chain and, ultimately, by box store customers like you and
me. China is not paying those tariffs. And trade wars are neither
good nor easy to win.
In 2017, before the onset of the trade war, U.S. importers
purchased $504 billion of goods from China and paid tariffs (or
duties) of $13.5 billion to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
— about 2.7%.
Last July, tariffs of 25% were imposed on approximately
$50 billion of imports from China, and in September,
tariffs of 10% were imposed on an additional
$200 billion of Chinese goods.
Year-end figures show that in 2018, U.S. importers purchased
$543 billion of goods from China and paid duties of $23 billion
— 4.2%. That nearly $10 billion increase in tariffs paid came
out of the wallets of American consumers.
If the president follows through with his plan to hit all
imports from China …read more
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6-Year-old Etan Patz—boy on milk carton—goes missing
By History.com Editors
On the morning of May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz walked the two blocks from his home to his bus stop in Manhattan. It was his first time walking there alone before school, and the last day his parents would ever see him. That’s because someone abducted Etan during that walk. In his parents’ effort to find him, Etan became among the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons.
Julie and Stanley Patz didn’t realize her son was missing until later that day, when he didn’t come home from the Independence Plaza School. They soon learned he hadn’t been in his first grade class that day or even made the bus that morning, and called the police. Etan’s disappearance led to nationwide search that wasn’t resolved until 2017, when Pedro Hernandez was convicted of abducting and killing him.
Etan was among the first non-celebrity missing children to gain national attention, the way JonBenét Ramsey would in 1996. In the early 1980s, Etan’s face appeared on milk cartons all over the country encouraging people to contact the authorities if they’d seen him. Etan’s case also led President Ronald Reagan to declare May 25 National Missing Children’s Day in 1983, and played a role in the founding of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In the decades after Etan went missing, there were fake confessions, false leads and even young men who showed up at the Patz’s doorstep claiming to be Etan. For a long time, investigators suspected Jose Ramos of abducting him. Ramos was a friend of Etan’s former babysitter who was convicted of child molestation in the 1980s. But investigators were never able to confirm that Ramos was guilty. In 2000, authorities declared Etan legally dead, and the case went cold.
Investigators reopened the case in 2010, and two years later they excavated the foundation of a home near Etan’s to look for clues. The excavation didn’t turn anything up, but the media coverage of it did lead people to report some new tips, one of which lead investigators to the person they were looking for. That person was Pedro Hernandez, who had been 18 and worked at the bodega near Etan’s bus stop the day he disappeared.
Investigators discovered that in 1982, Hernandez had admitted in an open church confessional that he had killed a young boy. His family knew about this …read more
When Grapes Became America's Most Controversial Fruit
By Adam Janos
The story of the epic Delano grape strike has long focused on Cesar Chavez and Mexican-American farm workers. Less well known: the crucial contributions of Filipino migrants.
In the late 1960s, grapes grabbed national attention—and not in a good way.
Newly organized farm workers, fronted by Mexican-American civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez, asked Americans to boycott the popular California fruit because of the paltry pay and poor work conditions agricultural laborers were forced to endure. Using nonviolent tactics like marches and hunger strikes, grape pickers made their plight a part of the national civil-rights conversation. It took time, but their efforts paid off: In 1970, after five years of the so-called Delano grape strike, farm workers won a contract promising better pay and benefits. A few years later, their efforts led to the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, which established collective-bargaining power for farmworkers statewide.
Cesar Chavez (TV-PG; 3:59)
But while Chavez has been honored with a national monument, a postage stamp and three state holidays, he wasn’t the only catalyst for change. Or even the leading one. Rather, it was Larry Itliong, a Filipino-American organizer, who led a group of Filipino-American grape workers to first strike in September 1965.
“The Filipinos were far more radical” than the Mexican-American farm workers, says Matt Garcia, a professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement. “They were focused like a laser, and decided that they were going to force the issue.”
Who really started the Delano grape strike?
The farm workers of Central California’s San Joaquin Valley largely hailed from two groups: Mexican-Americans and Filipino-Americans. But while they performed the same jobs in the same fields, they had arrived into California’s agricultural industry via very different routes.
The first big wave of Filipino migration to the U.S. came between the two world wars. According to the book Little Manila is in the Heart by Dawn Mabalon, more than 31,000 Filipinos came to California between 1920 and 1929, many in search of agricultural work. Most came from rural areas of the Philippines, having sold off farm animals, crops and small parcels of land in order fund the 7,000-plus-mile journey across the Pacific.
As a group, they were more than 90% male. And because anti-miscegenation laws forbade interracial marriage in California, …read more
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Lily Morton
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I’ve been thinking about the writing process lately and I thought that I’d share a few thoughts on the way that I write.
My writing is quite fluid. I don’t start out with a hugely detailed plan as I’ve found to my cost that this actually just makes me not want to write the book! I have a whole file of incredibly detailed plans of books that I’ve never gone back to.
Instead when I start a book I have just a loose idea of the plot and a more in depth understanding of my characters – what they look like, their backgrounds and the way that they’d react to situations etc. I also have a whiteboard on which I have written scenes that I want to see in the book. These have included scenes in past books such as the Dirty Dancing scene from ‘Keep Me’, the jogging scene from ‘Promise Me’ and the moment that Nell takes centre stage in ‘Trust Me’.
Once I start writing, things often take quite a different turn and things happen that can totally change the direction that the book was heading. This therefore means that my more detailed planning can, and does, occur while I’m in the middle of writing, as I check and check again that everything works and ties in with the other books. My Beggar’s Choice books are all standalones but they run alongside each other so everything has to dovetail. This led to a lot of hair pulling (my own) and frustration with Bram’s story as I had to make his actions in ‘Trust Me’ make sense in his own book.
I love the fact that different things can happen once I start tapping away on my laptop because it’s led to events in the books that I never foresaw. I had planned a totally different ending for Sid and Nell that didn’t include her car accident, but I needed him to really grovel and that was a step towards that. Also Bram’s wooing of Alys over Europe was never planned, and occurred as a result of my reading a travel article about Europe while I was at the dentist.
I think my musing on writing has mainly been caused by my new book. It features a character Matt who cropped up in ‘Keep Me’. Originally he was just meant to be a one line character who entered the book in an early chapter as Bram’s assistant. However, when I finished writing that chapter it was to find that he wasn’t just his assistant but was actually his best friend. After that he had a habit of cropping up in the rest of the book, to the extent that I couldn’t let him go in my head.
I spent a while day dreaming about his happy ever after and then people started to write in asking for more of him. Before I knew it his story was in my head and I couldn’t get it out, and when I realised who his happy ever after was going to be with, I started writing. Originally I planned to write a novella or just a short story for my website but as normal it grew and grew into a full story.
Matt and John’s story has been the most enjoyable book that I’ve written so far which just goes to show that plans aren’t always the best thing. I fell in love with both of the main characters and it was a wrench to set them aside when I’d finished. I hope you enjoy them. I’ll be in my office making things difficult for myself with the next book.
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The forgotten south: african religious traditions and their global
título The forgotten south: african religious traditions and their global
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Paper Presented at the American Theological Library Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis
“The Forgotten South: African Religious Traditions and Their Global Impact”
As we approach the end of the first decade of the Twenty-first Century, it continues to surprise me how many Religious Studies Departments, dedicated to the comparative study of religions, fail to include within the canon of specialties that their departments offer, the study of indigenous African religions: those religious traditions created by African peoples that are closely linked to their sense of ethnic identity and provide a spiritual connection to the land, to the supreme being, to lesser spirits and to their ancestors. To the extent that this field exists at all within the Western university, it is usually relegated to departments of anthropology, that have their roots in Western expansion into the Forgotten South of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. It is indeed curious that our students learn about theoretical approaches to the study of religions by examining the work of anthropologists and historians of religion who studied African religions, but they seldom have the opportunity to study African religions on their own terms, in order to understand some of the oldest and still dynamic and vital religious traditions in human history. Indeed, if physical anthropologists are correct and human beings first came into being on the African continent, then it stands to reason that religions themselves began in Africa, as well.
If that is the case, then why this profound neglect? Why the forgotten South? What I will try to do today is address the origins of this neglect, the stereotypes of African religions, and some sense of the rich diversity of African religious traditions. I will conclude with some brief remarks about their encounter with Christianity and Islam, as well as the future of indigenous African traditions.
The distinguished philosopher and novelist, Valentin Mudimbe has demonstrated the remarkable persistence of two fundamental assertions about Africa in the Western imaginings of the continent. These have had a profound impact on the place of African Studies within our universities. Since the time of Herodotus, he notes, Western travelers and scholars have imagined Africa as a place without history and without religion. Herodotus described Africa as populated by a host of bestial creatures, most notably the Troglodytes, none of whom possessed a sense of history or a religious system. This distinguished Africans from the Greeks and Egyptians, and eventually, the Romans, with their emphases on civil religions and civic histories.1 This discourse of disparity, persisted into the modern era, most influentially in Georg Friedrich Hegel’s, Philosophy of History:
Africa proper... the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of self-conscious
history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of night....But even Herodotus called the
Negroes sorcerers: now, in sorcery we have not the idea of God, of a moral faith....
At this point we leave Africa... For it is no historical part of the world: it has no
movement or development to exhibit... What we properly understand by Africa is
the unhistorical, undeveloped spirit, still involved in the conditions of mere nature
and which had to be presented here only as on the threshold of the World’s History.2
These images find their way into accounts by travelers and slave merchants during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, conveniently echoing these ideas of non-historical peoples without religion, as a way of describing Africans as people who ought, by their very natures, be enslaved. Had not Plato once described peoples without history or religions as brutes for whom enslavement could be justified?3 These images found their way into the travelogues of intrepid explorers like Sir Samuel Baker: who, despite the fact that he spoke no African language and was continually on the move in his quest for the source of the Nile, wrote confidently about his encounters with various peoples without religion. Less than a century later, British anthropologists wrote some of the finest analyses of African religions based on field research among Baker’s peoples without religion.4 If, however, the slave traders and explorers of the sixteenth through the nineteenth century were correct, than I would find myself as both a historian of Africa and a student of African religions, as a person who has spent his entire professional career studying the history of peoples without history and the history of religions of people without religions. So I can stop now. It is only a short trip back to Columbia. But, alas, I will not have met my task.
Where did these images that dominate Western imaginings of Africa come from? I think they are rooted primarily in four phenomena. First, is the long-standing continuity of the nature of interaction between peoples of the Mediterranean and European worlds with Africa. Since the time of the pharaohs, people from the North have purchased the lives and labor of African peoples from south of the Sahara. Their legitimation of such practices and their eventual sale of African slaves to other peoples helped created these images of barbarians without history and religion. Such images persisted in the Islamic world where non-Abrahamic religions were seen as simply forms of “unbelief” and whose adherents could be subject to enslavement. As the Portuguese explored the African coasts seeking sea routes to Asia, they discovered the utility of employing unfree African labor on sugar cane plantations off the coasts of North Africa and Iberia. The idea of bringing religion to people without religion and putting Africans into history became a justification of the Atlantic slave trade endorsed by French, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, and Baltic slave traders. A second reason for this idea that Africans had no religions, apart from Islam and Christianity, was that Europeans associated “religion” with houses of worship. They looked for church-like dwellings, mosque-like dwellings, and temples and, not finding many, this reinforced their image of Africa as a place without religion.
Similarly, they thought of religions having some kind of scriptural foundation, a practice common not only to the Abrahamic religious communities, but to most of the Asian religious traditions that, since the eighteenth century, they were beginning to study. African religious traditions relied primarily on oral traditions handed down from teacher to student, from father to son, and mother to daughter. These traditions were inaccessible to European travelers not only because they did not understand African languages, but because of the fourth reason for European unawareness of African religions, the only one that came from African traditions themselves. The focus on oral transmission of knowledge, the idea that knowledge is power, and that one must demonstrate one’s ability to handle the power being offered through education, has served to reinforce the esoteric nature of African religious education. Only people with the right to know, who had demonstrated their ability to handle the power of religious knowledge would be taught. Travelers for short periods of time, missionaries who sought to revolutionize African societies through the introduction of Western forms of Christianity, colonial administrators, and even eager graduate students funded for a year of the field research experience did not qualify. In many cases, they were told what village elders wanted them to know, the kinds of stories they told their children, stories devoid of the central paradoxes of their religious traditions. And dutifully in accordance with the intent of their informants, missionaries, travelers and anthropologists wrote about child-like beliefs, practices, and superstitions, never suspecting that they were being kept at arm-length and were being told the equivalent of Bible Stories for Children.
Although there were occasional vivid and accurate descriptions of African religious practices during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, it was only with the arrival of missionaries, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with their vocational focus on religious phenomena and the work of conversion, that we began to get reports on African concepts of the supreme being, of lesser gods or spirits, and the rituals they performed to worship them. They wrote reports back to their missionary and/or geographical societies, to popular magazines and newspapers, and what became known as “arm-chair” anthropologists wove them together into encyclopedic studies of the non-Western world, arranged according to the dominant paradigms of the time, evolutionary schema that saw Africa and other “primitive” parts of the world as living laboratories for the study of the origins of religions. Various theorists came up with different ideas about the origin of religions, ranging from Sir Edward Burnett Tylor’s animism (the belief in souls in everything), Charles de Brosses and James Frazer’s concept of fetishism (the worship of powerful objects), polytheism (the worship of many gods), etc. African religions were always placed at the bottom of the evolutionary schema and either monotheism or atheism, both most influential in the West, were placed at the apex. Evans-Pritchard describes a standard “recipe” for these types of descriptions of African religions:
a reference to cannibalism, a description of Pygmies (by preference with a passing
reference to Herodotus), a denunciation of the inequities of the slave trade, the
need for the civilizing influence of commerce, something about rain-makers and
other superstitions, some sex (suggestive though discreet), add snakes and elephants
to taste; bring slowly to the boil and serve.5
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, only Father Wilhelm Schmidt suggested the possibility of an initial monotheism, suggesting that all religions can be traced back to Adam and Eve and their primal revelations in the Garden of Eden.6 It is interesting to note that when Christian missionaries began to proselytize in earnest in the mid nineteenth century, each African religion they encountered had a word for a supreme being that missionaries saw as roughly equivalent to the Christian concept of God. Now, they occasionally had problems with interpreters and translation. Okot P’Bitek described an early encounter of missionaries with the Acholi of Uganda in which they asked some elders about who created them. The interpreter, however, chose a term for create that meant “mold” with the implication of “deform.” The elders replied that Rubanga was that deity. The missionaries said that this was their god. The Acholi elders thought that this was strange, that they usually try to keep Rubanga out of their lives, but perhaps the Europeans knew something that they did not. Nevertheless, the missionaries had few converts in the years before they discovered the error of their translation and switched to the term that was used by the Acholi to describe the supreme being.7
Systematic anthropological research on the subject of African religions began in the 1920s and original research by historians of religions on African religions had to await the conclusion of the Second World War. Not surprisingly, many of the early religious studies, ie. Geoffrey Parrinder and Placide Tempels, were written by former missionaries with many years experience in African societies.8 By the 1950s a number of African scholars, largely Christian in religious practice, began to write on their own communities’ religious systems, often attempting to demonstrate strong parallels between Christianity and African religions.9 From the late 1960s, scholars like Charles and Jerome Long, Benjamin Ray began to study African religions within the framework of the history of religions.10 By the late 1980s, African religions scholarship had created a small, but critical mass, which led Rosalind Hackett and Robert Baum to create an African Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion.11
So based on this gradual expansion of research on African religious traditions, what do they entail? First, I would suggest two strong cautionary statements: there are over one thousand different African cultures, each of which have their own distinct religious practices. Their differences reflect different linguistic groups, ecological zones, political systems, interaction with other cultures, including those of Muslims and Christians, the impact of the Atlantic slave trade, and the influence of disease. Thus, there are significant differences between African religions of the Sudanic and Sahelian regions of West Africa in comparison with traditions of Upper Guinea and with Lower Guinea. Both are significantly different from the religions of Bantu-speaking Equatorial, East, and Southern Africa, as well as from the Nilotic religious traditions of East Africa. Second, the term “religion” has a distinct meaning within Western religious discourse; terms associated with “religion” in African languages may not convey an exact parallel. As Jonathan Z. Smith challenged historians of religion to do, we must stipulate what we mean by “religion” in the societies in which we work. Thus, in my own work on Diola “religion,” I associate four terms with the English term: makanaye “what we do” or tradition;
boutine, a path; kainoe, thought; and huasene or ritual. Thus, Diola think about what Westerners identify as “religion” in terms of tradition, following a path, thought, and ritual.12
Next, I would suggest that in every case in which I am familiar, African religions have at their center, a concept of a supreme being, who is seen as eternal and the source of all power in the universe. Many have suggested that the supreme being is relatively remote and inactive, what has often been called a deus otiotus, the source of all life power, but relatively inaccessible to ritual supplication. In fact, the importance of the supreme being differs dramatically, from one religious tradition to another. As we turn to specific religious traditions, one should keep in mind, that these supreme beings are not all-knowing; they make mistakes and they allow emotions to cloud their judgement.13 Among the Dogon, for example, the supreme being, Amma, rapes mother earth, because of his profound loneliness as the sole being in the universe. These supreme beings are considered to be male in some religious traditions, female in others, and androgynous in some. When I asked Diola elders about whether their supreme being, Emitai (Of the Sky) was male or female, the response I got was “You are from America. They have sent someone up to Emitai (to the moon). You tell us if God has male parts or female parts.” In short, they thought it was an inane and prurient question about the anatomy of the supreme being. One could consider my asking of this question as a reflection of an American culture where the gender of God was a matter of considerable contestation in the 1970s and 1980s.
In every case, this supreme being begins the process of creation and is seen as the source of life. In the ecological zones where adequate rainfall can make the difference between feast or famine, the supreme being is often identified as the source of rain. Finally, the supreme being judges the behavior of people when they die and determines their initial destination in the afterlife. Only those people who have lived in ways that helped their families and communities become ancestors. Those who violated community norms through violence, sexual improprieties, theft, or witchcraft are sent to various kinds of punishments, but they, along with the ancestors, are eventually reborn. As one Diola Catholic said, even though he had learned in catechism that people stay in Heaven or Hell for all eternity, “The priest was a white man. He could not see the spirits of the dead, returning to the living. We do not believe that God could hate anyone so much as to condemn them to Hell forever.” In many African religions, the supreme being is neither remote, nor inactive, but controls the creation of life, the distribution of rain, and determines one’s fate in the afterlife. In describing African religions, I avoid the sterile debate about whether African religions are monotheistic or polytheistic, a debate that Okot P’Bitek accurately suggests has far more to do with polemical debates about the founding of Christianity in the ancient world than the religious realities of African farmers and herders.14 I prefer to describe African religions as monocentric; there is a supreme being, of varying degrees of importance, at the center of each African religious system.
In most African religions, there are also lesser deities or lesser spirits. Among the Yoruba of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, they are known as
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Reinvention, the Big Bang and Empty Mind…
Posted on November 25, 2010 by Mandy
I’ve been thinking a lot about storytelling and reinvention lately….
As a documentary filmmaker and editor, the last three decades has been all about crafting good stories. More recently I’ve been exploring the use of story to engage community through OPEN CINEMA‘s programming and publicity. And now that social media and transmedia are reinventing our media ecosystem, it’s forced me to grapple with my own personal and professional reinvention as a transmedia producer, story architect and social media marketing strategist. Mostly, it’s been exciting and rewarding, but it’s also edgy and challenging.
Over the last few weeks, I’m grateful to have found myself amongst a like-minded tribe of storytellers, brought together around an innovative virtual campfire. “The Reinvention Summit” is a model for the remarkable use of online networking and social media tools to engage people around the future of storytelling. It was an honour to be a Summit Producer, a speaker in one of the 32 presentations, as well as one of over 500 virtual delegates from across the planet. The ideas, connections, conversations and twitterstream (#story10) that flowed from this gathering have been nothing short of inspirational, with revolutionary undertones. I particularly appreciated the sessions offered by Lance Weiler, Gunther Sonnenfeld, Nancy Duarte and Jim Gaines. Big ups to Michael Margolis and the design team at GetStoried for having the chutzpah to pull off such a grand experiment — and succeed!
Now that the Summit is over, I’m left with an elemental complex of ideas and flash points. I know they will eventually find their true orbital patterns within my narrative solar system, but for now, we’re still at the Big Bang stage. Thankfully my understanding of story allows me to trust the transformative relationship between chaos and order. The post-Big Bang universe must have been pretty messed up before it all settled into something relatively predictable. Likewise, I’m in the eye of this hurricane of change and for the moment, it’s hard to know where and how it will all land.
A Quantum Guttenberg Moment
My professional reinvention lies at the confluence of a number of factors: the economic downturn has punched large holes in the broadcast media funding model, which has been the mainstay of the Canadian documentary industry, so documentary commissions and contracts are few and far between. Meanwhile, cheap digital filmm aking equipment, Web 2.0 and mobile technology is offering easy access to media tools, turning everyone into a documentarian of sorts. Consider the effect that the invention of the Guttenberg press had on writers and readers, then quantiply it: the social media revolution effectively puts a printing press and broadcast network into everyone’s pocket. The good news: it’s reinventing the way we create, share, experience and watch content and stories. But the bad news is that it’s challenging the way traditional professional media creators like myself make a living.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been diversifying, retooling and exploring this new terrain with plenty of excitement and a modicum of success. I’ve been offering media education in both traditional film and social media, while exploring transmedia, interactive storytelling and marketing. But we’re still standing on the threshold between the old and the new, a foot in both camps, so to speak. It can be dizzying, disorienting and, at times, overwhelming.
Reinvention is messy
The Reinvention Summit was like a therapeutic irritant, creating a space to really dive into this liminal stage of transformation and collectively explore its boundaries. Along with my new narrative cohorts, we discussed everything from brand strategy, hip-hop, Maori myths, education, civic engagement, transmedia and much much more. It was fascinating, and a lot to take in. But reinvention isn’t a simple one-step process; it takes time, it’s messy and deceptive. So now I’m grappling with how to make sense of it all: thinking, writing, soul searching, talking and reading a lot. But I’m itching to break out of the mold; I feel the butterfly’s hunger to shed the cocoon, an urgency to spread my damp new wings out into the world, to catch a glimpse of the bright, bold, unfolding story. It’s taking shape nicely, but it’s not quite cooked yet.
Empty Mind
Then today, I stumbled upon this little story that offered fresh insight, and stopped me in my tracks.
“There was an American professor who had made a lifetime’s study of the Japanese tea ceremony. He was the western expert. He heard there was an old man living in Japan who was a master of the tea ceremony. So he made a special trip to Japan to see him. He found the master living in a small house on the outskirts of Tokyo and they sat down to have tea together. The professor immediately started talking about the tea ceremony, his study, all he knew about it and how he was looking forward to sharing his learning with the old man. The old man said nothing, but started to pour tea into the professor’s cup. While the professor talked, the old man continued to pour the tea, the cup filled and the old man kept pouring. The tea split down the sides of the cup in a stream onto the floor, yet the old man did not stop. “Stop!” said the professor. “You are crazy. You can’t fit any more tea in that cup. It’s full.” “I was just practicing,” replied the old man, “for the task of attempting to pass learning to a mind that is already full.” (Source http://www.lifepositive.com)
That’s when I decided to take a break from trying to figure it all out. Stay tuned for more on this process as it unfolds; but for now, there’s nothing like a long walk on the beach to empty the mind…..
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MCC leaders fasting for immigration reform
Sep 22, 2013 by Kelli Yoder and Mennonite World Review
Saulo Padilla is fasting for immigration reform. And the hunger he feels is familiar. A few years ago while living in Goshen, Ind., his daughters were threatened with deportation. For four days they waited for border patrol officers to make a decision. “There was a hole in our gut every day,” he said. “This is the same hole in my gut that I feel now when I’m hungry.” Padilla coordinates the immigration education national program for Mennonite Central Committee U.S. He’s joined the Fast Action for Immigration Reform, a national effort Sept. 9-Oct. 18 organized by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, of which MCC is a member. There are 6,300 and counting registered participants in the 40-day fast, including four from MCC: Padilla, executive director J Ron Byler, board chair Ann Hershberger and Virginia representative of MCC East Coast Luke Schrock-Hurst. All are skipping at least one meal a day during the work week. Current politics are adding pressure for immigrants and activists, Padilla said. With energy unexpectedly focused on Syria early this month, House leaders said immigration reform was not likely to be addressed this fall. Many fear a window of opportunity is closing, because election campaigns begin in the spring. “[There] is a sense of urgency for us to start speaking more vocally about immigration reform,” Padilla said. “If we don’t pass immigration reform at this point, then who knows when it will come up again?” He, Byler, Hershberger and Schrock-Hurst are fasting for many reasons, but all want to urge the church to get more involved. Along with using meal times for prayer or contemplation, the Interfaith Immigration Coalition urges action with resources at fastaction.us and regular email updates. Take the energy forward For Mennonite Church USA, immigration issues were brought to the forefront in July at the national convention in Phoenix. “I am very impressed with the depth of conversation and desire that I experienced at Phoenix at the convention,” Byler said. “And I’m equally impressed with what I see as a desire to take that energy forward.” Delegates decided to revise a 2003 document regarding immigration. Padilla is part of the team reviewing the document. “I hope we will make sure that this continues to be in the forefront of the church,” Padilla said. Byler said there’s enough material in the Bible about loving people on the margins that all people of faith have reason to support reform. It starts with the Israelites of the Old Testament. “They’re people on the move, and they’re dependent on others for their well being at times,” he said. “There’s significant conversation about laws for caring for foreigners, strangers.” He’s disappointed more didn’t join the fast and action. “I’m embarrassed by the smallness of this effort,” Byler said. “We want to identify with the folks that are suffering, but what we’re doing is barely able to identify with the depths of the suffering around us.” Spiritual connection In Padilla’s life and work, immigration issues can’t be ignored. But immigrants, he said, are part of or affect every community in some way. No one should be able to ignore the issues. The hole — the hunger — he currently feels in his stomach connects him to them. “When they get up and they get in their cars, they have a hole in their gut, that sensation that they don’t know if they’re going to come back,” he said. “There are people in the church who have carried that for 15 years.” The hunger Ann Hershberger feels when she fasts each day from 10 a.m. until dinner reminds her of undocumented students in the nursing classes she teaches at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. Many can’t get loans or jobs because they don’t have social security numbers. “I have worked with some immense suffering and mental health results of that lost potential,” she said. “People who we have invested in our local school systems and then say, ‘There’s nothing we can do.’ ” The fast helps her connect to the spiritual aspect of the issues. Initially, she agreed to do the fast because of the specific situation of one student. “It starts with the personal and then moves broader than that,” she said. “That is because of the spiritual connection. This work cannot be done without a miracle.” Hurst-Schrock, a pastor in Harrisonburg, feels the same way. “Something like this is clearly spiritual,” he said. “It takes a miracle to happen for the complexity of the issue of immigration.” Schrock-Hurst and Hershberger both served with MCC in Latin America, where they saw firsthand the reasons people move to the U.S. Hershberger saw work opportunities lost by farmers in Nicaragua because of trade agreements. Hurst met people fleeing conflicts in El Salvador. And it surrounds them in Harrisonburg, where there’s a high population of immigrants, many of whom are refugees.
“It’s those personal connections in an ongoing way here that sensitized me to what’s at stake,” Schrock-Hurst said. He thinks it’s a connection all Anabaptists should be able to make. “The growth edge of our people here in the Shenandoah Valley is going to be immigrant churches,” he said. Byler said that’s a trend in all of MCC’s constituent denominations. “This is not about folks outside our community. This is folks within our community,” he said. Byler has been using his lunch hour to read Our God Is Undocumented, by Mennonite theologian Ched Myers. “Early Anabaptists were people on the move,” he said. “It just seems so appropriate for Anabaptists to give special attention to the questions that surround us today regarding immigration.” Schrock-Hurst asked: “If we as an immigrant, refugee people historically cannot open ourselves to the story of this immigrant generation, who is going to?”
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Why Is There a Mohammad Statue at the Supreme Court?
BY Matt Soniak
(President) Will and (Editor) Jason told me about a Mohammad statue at the Supreme Court they heard about on This American Life. This was their way of saying, "We're curious, so you should go do a bunch of research on it. Let us know how that goes."
When I hear about depictions of Mohammad, I picture Muslims burning Aqua* CDs in the streets and boycotts of Danish"¦danishes.
But much to my surprise, the Danes aren't to blame this time around. The statue in question is, in fact, right in our very own Supreme Court building.
Let's start at the beginning.
A Court to Call Home
Despite its stature in the country's political and cultural landscape, the Supreme Court was something of a vagabond in its early years. When New York City was our capital, the Court met in the Merchants Exchange Building, and when the capital moved to Philadelphia in 1790, the Court set up shop in Independence Hall, and then City Hall. When the federal government went off to Washington, the Court used the Capitol Building as a flophouse, but got bounced to a new chamber six different times during their stay.
Finally, in 1929, Chief Justice William Howard Taft decided enough was enough and persuaded Congress to authorize the construction of a permanent home for the Court. Construction on the Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935, and the Court finally had a home to call its own after 146 years of existence.
Sculpture figures prominently in the Corinthian architecture of the Court Building. One chamber features a frieze decorated with a bas-relief sculpture by Adolph A. Weinman of eighteen influential law-givers. The south wall depicts Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius and Octavian, while the north wall depicts Napoleon Bonaparte, John Marshall, William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, Louis IX, King John, Charlemagne, Justinian and, you guessed it, Mohammad.
Things were all well and good for a few decades, with no documented controversies over the sculpture that I could find. But then, in 1997, the fledgling Council on American-Islamic Relations brought their wrath to the Court, petitioning then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist to remove the sculpture. CAIR outlined their objections as thus: 1. Islam discourages its followers from portraying any prophet in artistic representations, less the seed of idol worship be planted. 2. Depicting Mohammed carrying a sword "reinforced long-held stereotypes of Muslims as intolerant conquerors." 3. Building documents and tourist pamphlets referred to Mohammad as "the founder of Islam," when he is, more accurately, the "last in a line of prophets that includes Abraham, Moses and Jesus."
Rehnquist dismissed CAIR's objections, saying that the depiction was "intended only to recognize him [Mohammad]"¦as an important figure in the history of law; it was not intended as a form of idol worship." He also reminded CAIR that "swords are used throughout the Court's architecture as a symbol of justice and nearly a dozen swords appear in the courtroom friezes alone."
Rehnquist did make one concession, though, and promised the description of the sculpture would be changed to identify Mohammad as a "Prophet of Islam," and not "Founder of Islam." The rewording also said that the figure is a "well-intentioned attempt by the sculptor to honor Mohammed, and it bears no resemblance to Mohammed."
The reasoning behind Rehnquist's rejection? For one, he believed that getting rid of any one sculpture would impair the artistic integrity of the frieze, and two, it's illegal to injure, in any way, an architectural feature of the Supreme Court Building.
Other Depictions of the Prophet
While the Qur'an forbids idolatry, it doesn't expressly forbid depictions of the Prophet. The prohibition on such depictions that we often hear about comes from hadith (oral traditions that supplement the Qur'an). Muslim groups have differing opinions on the prohibition, with Shi'a Muslims generally taking a more relaxed view than Sunnis. That said, there are more depictions of Mohammad in art out there than we'd think, from the US to Uzbekistan. Until the 1950s, there was even a statue of the Prophet at the Manhattan Appellant Courthouse, right on the front steps. Anyone want to clue us in on other Mohammad art hanging around out there?
*Yes, they're the most famous Danes I could think of"¦
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The Quick 10: The Boxcar Children
BY Stacy Conradt
I think this may have been the #1-requested series when I asked what books you wanted to know more about last week. And I am a little embarrassed to admit that I haven't read a single one of them! I may have to remedy that soon. Anyway, ask and ye shall receive: The Boxcar Children Q10!
1. Of the 123 BC books and the 21 specials, only the first 19 books were written by the original author, Gertrude Chandler Warner. The rest just bear the tagline "Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner."
2. The first one was written and published in 1924, but it wasn't until its rerelease in 1942 that the series really found an audience.
3. According to the Kansas City Star, more than 50 million Boxcar books have been sold just since 1979, and that's not including any hardcover editions.
4. There are remnants of Gertrude's childhood sprinkled throughout her books. When she was a kid she lived right across the street from the railroad tracks; when she saw a caboose go by and could look right in to see a coffeepot and a table and a stove, her imagination ran wild. She also loved to pick wildflowers with her sister and would spend hours doing so at her grandparents' farm "“ Gertrude's favorite were violets.
5. You would think that a good old-fashioned book like The Boxcar Children could hardly raise any parental eyebrows, but when the book was first published, there were definitely some upset adults. "Perhaps you know that the original Boxcar Children raised a storm of protest from librarians who thought the children were having too good a time without any parental control," Gertrude once wrote to her fans. "That is exactly why children like it! Most of my own childhood exploits, such as living in a freight car, received very little cooperation from my parents."
6. We're lucky Gertrude was prone to illness because otherwise The Boxcar Children may have existed only in her imagination. She was quite sickly as a child and even had to drop out of high school due to her illnesses. Even so, Gertrude managed to land a job as a grade school teacher because there was a massive shortage in the profession because of WWI. When she had to take a break from that due to a nasty bout with bronchitis, she decided she would use the down time to do something she had always wanted to: write a book for herself. She decided if she had her druthers, she'd be living in a freight car, hanging her laundry out to dry on the little back porch area and sipping coffee made on the ancient stove. Thus, Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny were born.
7. Despite her commercial success, Gertrude Chandler Warner never left the city she grew up in "“ Putnam, Connecticut. She lived there for nearly 90 years until her death in 1979.
8. Warner never married and had no children.
9. Unlike many of the other authors I've mentioned over the past few days, it wasn't Warner's family that decided to continue the Boxcar tradition after she stopped writing them. In fact, the series was stagnant from her last book in 1976 (Benny Uncovers a Mystery) until the 1991 revival (The Haunted Cabin Mystery). That's when Albert Whitman and Company picked up the series and started to produce new ones.
10. Believe it or not, the Aldens are on Twitter! Here's Jessie, Benny, Henry, and Violet. That Henry is pretty adept in his Internet knowledge "“ in one Tweet he references John Hodgman to say that "He is an expert on many things. Including CATS WHO COMMIT CRIMES." But he also jumps back into Boxcar world with, "Mowed Dr. Moore's lawn. Earned $2. Bought potatoes."
OK, Boxcar fans, be honest: did you have a favorite Alden? Let us know who you wanted to be friends with and why.
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MRBlog | “The Evangelicals” and the Rise of Donald Trump
By L. Benjamin Rolsky
On June 10th, 2016, business executive and presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition as part of a wider campaign to court the evangelical vote. His platform consisted of firm if not traditional conservative commitments to the rights of the unborn, heterosexual marriage, global terrorism, and the Second Amendment. In fact, Trump mentioned the National Rifle Association (NRA) by name as an organization worthy of his support. Amidst calls to restore the “rule of law” in American society, Trump called on his evangelical supporters not to discriminate based on religious creed or racial color. Despite the fact that his audience clapped only after he connected this declaration to “bringing the country together,” Trump nevertheless articulated a principle that is constitutionally grounded as part of the first amendment and the right to free speech and religious expression.
On this point, Trump’s campaign is broad enough to include Christian and non-Christian voices in his effort to become President of the United States. Unfortunately, this type of comment is the exception that proves the rule of the Trump phenomenon—abrasive communication and messages for their own sake in the face of political correctness and liberal condescension. Additionally, the fact that Trump gave his speech in front of seemingly supportive conservative evangelicals belied its hit-or-miss relevance to evangelical communities themselves. In this sense, Trump’s approach to “the evangelicals” (his words) says more about the effectiveness of conservative electoral strategy since the 1970s than it does Trump’s actual candidacy as the potential Republican nominee. Such success, however, has come at a cost—one that strategists continue to wrestle with as Republicanism undergoes yet another redefinition in the wake of “the Christian Right” and “the electronic church.”
Evangelicals have been wary of promises of political expediency before. In fact, one could argue that the 1960s and 1970s witnessed a fundamental re-evaluation of evangelicalism’s role in a fast-moving world of revolution and reformation. Writing in the early 1970s, evangelical academic Richard V. Pierard was one of the first scholars to question the all-but-assumed relationship between Evangelical Christianity and political conservatism in the public square. In his book, The Unequal Yoke: Evangelical Christianity and Political Conservatism, Pierard examined the application of the evangelical tradition to American politics through its relationship to, and appropriation by, “the far right” or “the radical right” in various electoral circumstances.
What is most striking about this text, one of many to explore how best to apply evangelicalism to the challenges of the 60s, is its insistence on “the integrity of the faith” and its commitment to constructive dialogue with fellow evangelicals. The religio-political positions that Pierard argued for as an evangelical, however, were often times in the minority compared to his conservative counterparts in Christ including evangelists Carl McIntire and Billy James Hargis. They were also minority positions relative to the business interests that supported the work of McIntire and other conservative activists including then President of Schick Safety Razor Company Patrick J Fawley Jr. and Presbyterian layman J. Howard Pew.
As various evangelical Protestants began finding their organizational feet at America’s mid-century, they began to test the waters of religio-political mobilization and politics generally considered. Beginning with the Anti-Communist movement in the 1950s, which was supported fervently by many conservative fundamentalist preachers including the ones listed above, American Protestantism began to experience a form of religious realignment or restructuring along a new set of political parameters. The traditional unit of the Christian denomination started to matter less as scholars began examining new allegiances and divisions arising within the denomination itself versus the conflicts between denominations themselves. In this sense, one could argue that many American Protestants began to have more in common with their political counterparts according to “liberal” and “conservative” understandings of the biblical text than with some of their own denominational brethren. By the mid-1960s, this trend had developed into a self-sufficient coalition of conservative Protestantism, which was the product of an encounter between evangelical Christianity and a post-war political conservatism embodied in the candidacy of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. For Pierard, this was not the direction evangelicalism should be headed in its own encounter with the turbulence of the period—far from it.
“Certain rightist organizations specifically claim to be ‘Christian’ in their nature and basic thrust,” Pierard advised, “These will be pointed out so that the reader can be made aware of them and the manner in which they prey upon churches and concerned Christians for funds and support.” Pierard’s moderate evangelical voice was one of many at the time that questioned the less-than-transparent relationship between a burgeoning movement of conservative Protestants and equally conservative politicians and businessmen. Despite the fact that many if not all of these groups and individuals could be considered part of American evangelicalism writ large, Pierard sensed that a large number of them were being led astray by shrewd conservative organizers and strategists of “the New Right.” In this sense, Pierard argued that a “Christian Far Right” had emerged due to a “parasitic” relationship between “the Far Right” and conservative evangelicalism. “Evangelicals must beware of the insidious attempts of Christian Rightists to exploit their religious concerns and to yoke the faith to an ultraconservatism that violates the basic ethical principles of Christianity,” argued Pierard. “It takes advantage of the zeal and dedication of Christian believers and misuses the name of Jesus Christ for political purposes.” For those who were familiar with Pierard’s subjects, a simple suggestion would suffice: “heed the injunction of James: Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
Trump can relate to his evangelical base only through categories and abstractions of evangelicals themselves.
The extent t which Pierard’s words should be heeded in light of Trump’s latest speech is a question perhaps best left answered by those directly involved. Yet we cannot help but notice that the speech was only too characteristic of the historic conservative appropriation of “Christian zeal and dedication” by Presidential candidates for political gain—liberal or conservative. In this instance, Trump’s usage of phrases such as “the Evangelicals” and “heavy Christian groups” is an indication of a fundamental gap between those he’s actually appealing to in person and the ways in which such populations of voters become “the Evangelicals” in the first place. In other words, Trump can relate to his evangelical base only through categories and abstractions of evangelicals themselves. This is arguably why Trump spent almost five minutes identifying his immediate evangelical support system including Ralph Reed himself, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition before which Trump stood Friday afternoon.
In this sense, Trump attempted to establish a form of evangelical authority while among “the evangelicals” themselves, but the delivery of his words disclosed anything but a desire to connect with his all-important evangelical base. Instead, Trump’s words showed signs of a way of thinking dating back Pierard’s time, a moment of evangelical angst in the public square in the face of growing conservative political power. As such, Trump’s speech on Friday represented the very same parasitic logic that Pierard identified as detrimental to the Christian community of evangelicals that was in flux during a tumultuous period of American social and political history. Needless to say, evangelicals may want to heed Pierard’s words as we inch ever closer to election day—for their own sake, and the sake of a divided country.
L. Benjamin Rolsky received his Ph.D. from Drew University’s Graduate Division of Religion in the field of US American Religions. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled, Norman Lear, People for the American Way, and Spiritual Politics in Late Twentieth-Century America.
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Muslims of London Movement
‘Grown up’s are extremely boring because, they are always on their phone’s & also answering calls and ignoring their children….but in some way’s they’re quite nice, like giving sweets. But the bad ways are always bad.’
‘I have never felt like anywhere else was home, until I returned back to London. It’s so many things at once. You can sit in the park all day and see tree’s or you can come and observe the urban nature of the city. London’s great.’
‘Our community likes to blame a certain community for all the going-on’s in the world. Like Islam. But it’s not about Islam, it’s about terrorism, something apart from Islam. The mosque is just down the road in the heart of the community and it’s a space that doesn’t feel separate.’
‘The more people I meet in the area I live, Tower Hamlet’s, the more I see how many muslims in the community are involved in relief aid.
Poverty has started to hit people beyond the working class & it’s even effecting the middle class. People like the junior doctor’s can’t even afford to live in London. Most of the wealth in the world is owned by the 1% of the world and no-one wants that. They laugh at us as they don’t think they need us. Uber driver’s and Deliveroo drivers/riders went on strike and won. It shows the power of the worker.
Why spend your life living in ignorance?’
‘My mum really cares for me. Sometimes people say that money is what makes you happy, but it really doesn’t. You think money makes you happy, but it’s not something that gives you happiness. Everyone in the world needs happiness, there no two way’s about it. It’s like when I don’t my aunty in a while, I don’t feel as happy.
My family supports me and that is what makes me really happy. I’m addicted to football and basketball, I love football because I want to be a footballer when I grow older. I want to play for my favourite team Arsenal. I want to go to a football academy….but I also want to be a police officer. I believe in god & feel like he is always close to me. I believe we have to pray. London is my city. My home is here, my aunty is here, when I leave the country, it never feels the same.’
‘I am not from London, but Southampton & have been homeless for quite a while now. I am not a drug addict, nor an alcoholic and don’t have anything until I’ve been in London for a few months. I have disowned by most of my loved one’s & most people don’t want to know me….at least my sister still love’s me. A muslim man walked up to me one day, offered me a job, took me to Matalan for new clothes & gave me a opportunity to have a new life. Just out of pure kindness.
If I had to convert to a religion, it would be Islam. If understood the Quran a lot easier & understood the my own perception for the religion. I don’t know much about religions but I know: God made me in his image and he love’s me.’
‘I run a circle for all sisters, regardless of what background they’re from. Living in cosmopolitan London, it’s nice to see the diversity and variety in acceptance in our society. I’d say my main piece of advice is to just go an meet a muslim if you want to find out more about it all and each different story behind each individual.’
‘My best bredren was a good muslim. He did my proud when we were together. He prayed for me everyday. He had my back.’
‘I would say money is the route cause of all evil, that’s what I would say. Wars and social problems are all caused by money.
The happiest day of my life was when my daughter was born. She changed my life. The moment showed me what life had to offer.
I grew up in a quite racist area, but honestly, I’ve never have truly experienced racism. It use to baffle me when people use to ask me how it felt to live in such an area, when I had never truly felt it.’
‘I’ve been doing performance for about 6 month’s now. I just love making people smile and making their day’s happy. I feel quite privileged living around London. I get how hard it is nowadays to stay here.
In regards to what’s being put out on the media, it’s damaging. I have lots of Muslim mates and they’re not like that at all and it’s just something pushed by the media. You’ve just got to do the best you can.’
‘I guess that they feel like that they have a right to comment on it. They always ask why I wear that as if it wasn’t my choice. I love London, I was born here, it’s my home. I love how diverse it is. I feel free to practise my faith. Right now I feel like there is a lot of avenue’s & opportunity for me. I love physic’s. I think it comes easy to me and just makes sense.’
‘Oud is oil based & no alcohol, so most Muslim’s use it. It’s longer lasting so more countries have started to use it. It’s expensive as it’s hard to source. It can get to the thousands. It’s a diverse clientele, more so than the expected Asian and Arab communities.’
‘The happiest day of my life was when my daughter was born. She’s 5 now. When you have children I think you start to see the love your parent’s actually had for you. London to me is home, London to me is life. I don’t think I could live without London. I wasn’t even born here.
From an Islamic point of view, I’m not the best Muslim. I think it’s difficult to comment on how the city living impacts on your own practise, as there are people out there that can make it work seamlessly.
I feel the practise element is one thing & the real deep belief you have is another.
My worst experience so far was when, I saw 3 to 4 guy’s coming towards us and one of them had a broken bottle and he came at me. I didn’t realise, but I had been stabbed.’
‘My father was posted here to work at the Egyptian consulate. He came here and found somewhere for all of us to stay and then me, my sisters and my mum came over. We love going to Edgware road to discuss the challenges that we go through, being disabled and muslim in London. We talk about the lack of knowledge in the media & how it effects us, especially when it comes to our faith.’
‘I have a passion for food. It just happened. It doesn’t matter what religion you are, you have to eat. It doesn’t matter how you cook it. When people say that they like my food, that is my happiness.’
‘I originally came to London to work as an au pair, but it didn’t happen and the family that I was supposed to stay with didn’t come and I had to stay the night in an airport. But thankfully I have made it and I love London because I can express myself. I started wearing hijab after I came to London & figured out who I really was. I like knowing who I am now. I started practising Islam after I became independent from my parents.’
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Home » Featured Facts » New Buffalo Station
The Pere Marquette Railway began life in 1900 through a merger of Chicago & West Michigan, Flint & Pere Marquette and the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western. The Chicago & Western portion of the line used tracks that extended from New Buffalo to Pentwater Michigan from 1868 to 1899.
In December 1903, trackage was completed from New Buffalo to the Michigan Central Railroad at Porter, Indiana and direct service to Chicago was started – carrying freight and passengers.
Fueled by the demand for lumber to rebuild Chicago the Great Fire of 1871, the Pere Marquette expanded its business at a rapid pace. A new rail yard was constructed in New Buffalo from 1919 – 1920. It was he last Pere Marquette railroad yard on home rails for trains making the run to Chicago. It was a large complex, complete with a roundhouse, water towers and two coaling towers; one on the service tracks and one over the mainline and a workman’s hotel.
The Pere Marquette operated until 1947 when it was sold to the C&O, when a new chapter in New Buffalo’s Railway heritage began.
An old postcard view of the original Pere Marquette depot at New Buffalo, Michigan. A replica, based on original blueprints, stands in the same location today (Circa 1910).
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Prominent Graduates speak at Al Ain Women’s College
Al Ain Women’s College hosted three successful graduates who shared their experiences with students on Thursday November, 25.
The first speaker, Maryam Hamad Al Darmaki, Al Ain Branch Manager of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, started her talk by saying that she believes that Emirati women can achieve their dreams once they set goals and focus on their studies at college, while also enjoying student life.
This was followed by a talk from Layla Shaker Al Shimmari, Training Officer at Tawazun Subsidaries, who mentioned how the Higher Colleges of Technology has had a great impact on her life and career. She talked about her studies, culminating in a Bachelor of Education Degree in 2005, and her subsequent work as a teacher in a government school for 2 years. She later travelled to Australia and was able to complete a Master’s Degree in Education in 2009.
Layla’s advice to the students was to, “enjoy life at college and make sure that your work is always done to the best of your ability”.
The third speaker was Aysha Al Ketbi, Deputy Manager at the UAE Environment Agency. Aysha has a Master’s Degree in Business and advised students to follow their dreams and to fulfill them one by one.
She added that they should, “start small and build your career and try your best to also meet your personal needs.”
All the graduates agreed on the high quality of the time they spent at college and how the teachers and administration proved to be a source of inspiration.
The college is proud of all its graduates who continue to be in great demand in the UAE workforce. The skills these graduates, and others, developed both in the classroom and through involvement in other activities and events have helped them to establish and pursue flourishing and successful careers.
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Police Captain Turned Criminal Defense Attorney
Robert E. Brown, Esq. Quoted in Today's Daily News.
EXCLUSIVE: Hui Lin says she and her husband camped out for days in front of the Fifth Ave. Apple store so they could buy a dozen iPhone 6s for her family. Cops claim she was reselling them.
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Hui Lin, 51, claims cops falsely arrested her for reselling iPhone 6s, though she claims she only bought them for her family.
A garment worker who had a pink tote bag full of hotly sought after new iPhones is iRate with cops she says falsely arrested her and accused her of trying to sell them.
Hui Lin, 51, says she spent days camped out in front of the Fifth Ave. Apple store so she could buy a dozen iPhone 6s for her sons, nieces and nephews.
“They’re desperate for the iPhones — the new models,” the Chinese immigrant said of her family, adding, “An iPhone costs three weeks of wages!”
Between Lin and her husband, they scooped up the phones at the two-per-person limit, waiting on line overnights beginning on Sept. 19, paying in the $700 to $800 range per gadget using a mix of cash and credit cards.
After a sleepless night on Tuesday, she left the store with her husband and nephew with iPhones Nos. 11 and 12 and was approached by a tall man on the street, she said.
He asked if she had an iPhone. He then asked her, “How much?”
“I said, no, I don’t want to sell it” — and then the undercover officer slapped her in cuffs, she told the Daily News through a Chinese interpreter.
The petite mother of grown children, aged 26 and 22, was put in an NYPD transport van with other suspects and taken to the Midtown South Precinct to be booked.
She said it took over seven hours for her to be released, and that she was deprived of her asthma medication and water. She also said she couldn’t understand what she’d been arrested for, and police didn’t provide her with a translator.
She was given a desk appearance ticket for allegedly operating as an unlicensed vendor and ordered to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on Oct. 18.
“I never met a judge in my life,” she said. “I feel very scared.”
Adding insult to injury, police also vouchered the phones as evidence — and only acknowledge having 10 of them.
Lin’s lawyer, Robert Brown, said he would ask prosecutors about the allegedly missing items and said it would be “troubling” if the officers involved stole the phones.
He called his client’s arrest a sham.
“It’s frightening to think the NYPD is using its resources to have police officers sit outside the Apple store to try to trap people into selling them iPhones,” Brown said.
Police said they observed Lin trying to hawk phones to two men for $850 a piece before she approached the undercover. They also denied she asked for a translator or medication.
While there have been multiple reports of people snapping up the new iPhones in hopes of reselling them in China and other second-hand markets, Lin insists that’s not what she was doing.
Lin, who makes $8-per-hour as a seamstress in the Garment District, insisted the phones were just for family who live locally.
She said she was supposed to be reimbursed for some and that others were gifts.
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Moore's Swamp Thing broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane. This is far from Swamp Thing's first foray into live-action. After the run of Mark Millar, Swamp Thing had also mastered the elements of Fire, Earth, Water and Air; the Parliaments of each were later killed by the Word, implying that he has retained these abilities and has the power once held by the Parliaments; this has yet to be explained. Her stories tended to be ecologically based and at one point featured giant killer flowers. Introduce Dream and the rest of The Endless.
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Due to the circumstances under which she was conceived, while the Swamp Thing, possessing , was not aware he was given a blood transfusion by a demon, she held power over both plants and flesh. He is featured as one of the superheroes who got their own movie. The Swamp Thing now believed himself to be Nekron, similar to how he had once believed himself to be Alec Holland. The last two issues saw the Swamp Thing transformed back into a human being and having to fight one last menace as an ordinary human. He had been a scientist working on a formula to repair damaged crops when the Parliament chose him, and he died in flames—as all elementals must. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions.
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The Swamp Thing reveals that the formula does not produce strength, but instead amplifies a person's natural qualities, explaining that Bruno's timidity caused his diminished stature. Alec Holland and Abby Arcane. A beam of sunlight emitted through the door re-grows the Swamp Thing's missing arm, allowing the creature to free itself, Alice, and Bruno. Wes Craven's 1982 movie is a legit cult classic, although its sequel, Return of the Swamp Thing, is less so. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions.
In July 1990, premiered the television series. He was seen at a. In order to locate , the go to find the Swamp Thing. The moment comes after Dr. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. Swamp Thing is normally human-sized or slightly larger than average, but he can grow bodies much larger.
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The Swamp Thing makes good on his threat near the climax of Year Three, where he appears to aid the Regime against the Insurgency. The series was cancelled and a blurb for an upcoming battle with led nowhere however, the story was later told in Swamp Thing vol. And take off that silly costume. He was initially depicted as an evil human-like interdimensional exile — with the ability to control plants — who transformed himself into a bark-skinned plant person. There's beauty in this movie, if you know where to look for it.
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The hulking man's body shrinks to half its size as he grows pointed ears and a misshapen skull. Sometime later, Alice and the Swamp Thing emerge from the water, followed closely by Arcane's monster, which stabs Alice with a sword. A sequel, , was produced in 1989. This saw Dick Durock reprising his role using a modified version of the Return of Swamp Thing costume. After Alice dresses, Arcane's men follow her, capture the Swamp Thing in a net, and retrieve the final notebook. In the game's story mode, he initially mistakes Batman's insurgency for disturbing the peace of Slaughter Swamp, before saving them from the Scarecrow's minions' gunfire and offering his future services to the crew should they need him. Rodgers served a number of years as the Swamp Thing before taking his place in the Parliament of Trees, the final resting place of his predecessors, where his consciousness would live on as the flesh of the body passed away.
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When Arcane shoots Linda for attempting to escape with the formula, Alec grabs the beaker, but trips, causing the spilled chemicals to set him on fire. Swamp Thing's powers and abilities make him the true powerhouse of the team. Later, she strips naked and goes skinny dipping in the water as the monster paces along the banks. In the 1982 film, she played Alice Cable, a gender-swapped version of the comic book's Matt Cable character who also served as Swamp Thing's love interest, e. The most obvious of the changes is the character of Alice Cable.
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This is explained as a result of the plant matter of the swamp absorbing Holland's bio-restorative formula, with the Swamp Thing's appearance being the plants' attempt to duplicate Holland's human form. Afraid of what would be waiting for him on the other side of death, he enlisted in the to try and escape the pull of the Green. In April 2010, was confirmed to direct, but on May 12, 2010, Vincenzo Natali decided to delay the Swamp Thing reboot to pursue other projects. After revealing she stole Alec's last notebook, Alice waits for Ritter's return alongside the young gas station attendant, Jude, but Arcane's men arrive and chase her through the forest. A vegetarian nightmare or ecology propaganda? Regaining consciousness, Jude realizes the creature is a friend of Alice's and gives it the notebook for safekeeping. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. Floro, has varied over the years.
As sales figures plummeted towards the end of the series, the writers attempted to revive interest by introducing fantastical creatures, aliens, and even Alec Holland's brother, Edward a plot point ignored by later writers , into the picture. Instead of merely thinking it was Holland, this version of the Swamp Thing would actually be him. Issue 29, intended to be the final issue of the fourth volume, was cancelled due to low sales numbers. The Abby character manifested in the Swamp Thing movie series in the notoriously campy 1989 sequel, The Return of the Swamp Thing, played by Heather Locklear. He lives with the long-retired Pamela Isley , as well as encountering a plant doppelganger she created earlier on to keep Batman from trying to locate her. The new Swamp Thing a resurrected Alec Holland has no power over a Power Ring but he can control all forms of plant life and even grow every kind even if it is unknown to him, he can also grow from any plant life anywhere, dead or alive, this is seen when the Seeder creates a portal to the moon and banishes him there. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions.
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Maile Flanagan has voiced the lead in Naruto & Naruto Shippuden for over 650 episodes, 42 video games and 6 movies. She also plays Principal Perry on Disney XD’s Lab Rats and all the spin-offs. In 2006 she won an Emmy (also nominated 2007) for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for “Jakers!The Adventures of Piggley Winks”. She’s recurred on Nick’s Pig Goat Banana Cricket, The Loud House, Shameless, Bad Teacher, The Class, and Grey’s Anatomy. Other animation work includes the Oscar winning film Rango, Ice Age 3, Uncle Grandpa, Shimmer and Shine, the lead in the feature Lola and Ava, Final Fantasy XIII and XIII 1/2, Fish Hooks, Back At The Barnyard, and many animated pilots. Other film/tv includes guest starring on The Mindy Project, Modern Family, Mike and Molly, 500 Days of Summer, Transformers 3, Reno 911!, Weeds, Evan Almighty, Yes Man, Phone Booth, Last Man Standing, The Station Agent, The Office, ER, Desperate Housewives and much more. This fall you can catch her in the horror short “The Lift” at festivals around the country and in the lead in the feature “My Babysitter the Superhero”.
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Release Date Updates
As October nears, we're just about there! Within the next 5 weeks, 8 new Tony Hawk games will be sitting on store shelves. I took a quick peek over at EBgames to see what they had listed as the latest US release dates. Here's what I found!
24 October - NDS, GBA (THDJ)
07 November - PSP, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox360 (THP8)
14 November - Wii (THDJ)
Of course, the PS3 doesn't launch till the 17th of November, but you could buy the game early, it seems. The same goes for the Wii, with the launch dated for the 19th of November and the release of THDJ 5 days prior.
Also note suggested pricing (may vary):
$29.99 - GBA
$34.99 - NDS
$39.99 - PSP$49.99 - PS2, Xbox, Wii
$59.99 - PS3, Xbox360
Start saving up! In addition to all this, there are going to be some cool changes and additions here on PTH which I'm very excited about. This should be the best launch in several years.
Oh! One final thing! While these dates are all for the US, Davey Wallis wrote me from Belgium telling me that Sony & Microsoft's games should ship on the 30th of November, with the NDS version of THDJ on the 31st of October. These are unofficial dates, and may only cater to Belgium, but perhaps this extends to the rest of Europe as well! Thanks!
News Date: Thursday, 28 September, 2006
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Once Upon a Great Salt Selfie
I'm thoroughly convinced that I am the only person in the State of Utah that likes swimming in the Great Salt Lake.
I love it. I love this pond of salty water so much.
When I tell people this, the automatic response is always, "Why?".
The Great Salt Lake is the historical remains of Lake Bonneville, a massive 19,000 square mile fresh water lake that covered much of ancient Utah and into Nevada and Idaho. The Great Salt Lake is now a 1,700 square mile hyper saline lake that averages around 13% salt for the main body, although the northern most arm averages well up to 28% salt.
It's an incredibly shallow lake. When you walk to the shore the most apparent thing to the eye is how far the shoreline is from the vegetated mainland. This salt encrusted "beach" typically separates you from the water at around one thousand to well over three thousand feet. For reference, that is the distance of 4 to 12 New York City blocks. Or for those of us in Salt Lake City, the small end of that scale is from the south end of Gateway to the north end, and at the large end of that scale, from the Salt Lake Temple to the State Capitol Building.
The average depth is 15 feet, with a maximum depth of 33 feet. Because of this, the lake's surface fluctuates greatly based on the water level. And being an terminal lake, the water level does just that.
Being so incredibly salty, the lake only has three naturally occurring organisms:
1) Brine Shrimp Artemia Salina
2) Brine Flies Ephydra Cinerea
3) Algae (Various Species)
Occasionally, there are very rare spottings of select non native organisms in the lake:
4) Aaron Browne Sebright Homo Sapiens
Today there aren't many public access points to the lake. For nearly a century, the lake was at the constant attraction of Utahns via a multitude of resorts and beaches: Syracuse, Lake Side, Lake Park, Lake Shore, Black Rock, Garfield and the most famous of all, The Great Saltair.
Saltair I and II ironically burned down into the lake, and Saltair III now borrows the name as a concert venue on the shore. Coincidentally, I went swimming in the lake at the original location of the Saltair today, 25 minutes outside of Salt Lake City.
It's a visually stunning place. The lake extends into the horizon due to its vast surface area but is usual very placid on the surface. The salt content gives the smell of the ocean but the nature of being a lake gives it somewhat muddy shores that combine together into a somewhat unpleasant smell during rain storms.
The water clarity ranges from murky to perfectly clean, more often the latter in the summer. You can see the minute bright orange shrimp swimming around you as you float in the water.
Surrounded by absence you come to better understand the fine beauty of life and what it means to be living.
"Too many people have talked about what the lake should be and what the lake should do for us, but so very few have ever stopped to listen to what the lake is. Those who do almost invariably fall deeply in love with this shallow lake that speaks a special language."
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ivrcti June 29, 2014 at 9:46 PM
Your post was quite poetic. You've convinced me to give the lake another try!
Adon July 1, 2014 at 6:50 AM
I was there with my kids in 1976. It sounds like it's still about the same. I liked your photos.
Trevor - INSIDE gay Mormon July 1, 2014 at 8:50 AM
First off, thank you for the historical and information points on the lake. I always am a geek for that kind of knowledge.
Second, while the insects and shrimp would scare the hell out of me, I think I might want to try going in the Salt Lake sometime.
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July 31, 2016 -- A Quick Run Around the Web
"Pope urges priests and nuns to accept migrants amid crisis"--New York Post. From the article:
Pope Francis warned priests and nuns on Saturday not to “remain enclosed, out of fear or convenience.”
“How can we fail to hear… the great appeal of Saint John Paul II: ‘Open the doors?’” he said at the Sanctuary of St. John Paul II in Krakow, amid criticism of Polish church leaders’ reluctance to accept migrants.
Related: "Priest in Belgium stabbed 'by asylum seeker in his own home after letting him in to use shower'"--Mirror.
"Federal Racial Discipline Quotas Create Chaos In St. Paul Schools"--The Federalist. The federal government is imposing discipline quotas on public schools--i.e., that the racial makeup of students being disciplined must reflect the racial makeup of the students in the schools, irregardless of whether certain groups may be more prone to cause trouble. The theory is that racial disparity in discipline is the result of racism, and only racism. How will this pan out? Well, either white and Asian kids will be over-prosecuted, or blacks and Hispanics will be under-prosecuted. The article describes St. Paul, Minnesota's experience over the past 6 years after it implemented such a system:
... the city’s high schools have become menacing places where gangs of out-of-control teens prowl the halls, and “classroom invasions” by students settling private disputes are commonplace.
Tumultuous brawls are a fact of life. Today, fights that “might have been between two individuals” can grow into “melees involving up to 40 or 50 people,” according to Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman. Roving packs often attack individuals, and police have had to use chemical irritants to break up what they call “riots.”
Teachers fear for their safety. In the last school year, a vicious student assault landed one in the hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Another was punched repeatedly in the chest, while another required staples for a head wound. One high school has issued emergency whistles to teachers and assigned a guard to every floor. A teacher who was crushed into a shelf in a classroom invasion now instructs her students to use a “secret knock” to enter her classroom, according to City Pages.
Anarchy also reigns at many elementary schools. A teacher caught between two fighting fifth-grade girls was knocked to the ground with a concussion. In the St. Paul Pioneer Press, former fourth-grade teacher Aaron Benner described young kids running screaming through the halls, cussing out teachers, and attacking classmates. “Safety was my number one concern, not teaching,” he wrote.
"Russian officials blame thawed reindeer carcass in anthrax outbreak"--CNN. The outbreak occurred in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Officials believe that warm weather led to the thawing of a 75-year old infected reindeer carcass, parts of which were eaten by other reindeer and, from there, passed on to residents. Over 1,200 reindeer have died of anthrax over the past month. 13 people have been hospitalized.
"Elderly man, 76, is in critical condition after being shot by state troopers in his own living room - before they realized they were at the WRONG address"--Daily Mail.
The fruits of sin socialism: "Venezuela calls for mandatory labor in farm sector"--CNBC. According to the article:
A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a 'transitory labor regime' in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is 'necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,' and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days.
Of course, under socialism, some animals are more equal than others, so don't hold your breath if you expect the privileged and wealthy to join in.
"Cousin of terrorist who murdered French priest may face terror charges as he knew 'perfectly well' what killer was planning"--Daily Mail.
"Let’s Roll: Why Standing Up to a Terrorist Is Your Best Self-Defense"--The Daily Signal.
A September 2013 FBI report found that of the 160 active shooter incidents in the U.S. between 2010 and 2013, 21 (13.1 percent) ended after unarmed citizens made the “selfless and deeply personal choices” to confront the active shooters. In each of these cases, the citizens “safely and successfully disrupted the shootings” and “likely saved the lives” of many others present.
Another compelling reason to consider change is because future attacks are inevitable, and relying on police rescue might actually lower your own chance of survival.
The 2013 FBI report found that of those 160 active shooter incidents—incidents that generated 1,043 total casualties—60 percent ended before police arrived. These disturbing numbers warrant attention, especially when examined alongside CIA Director John Brennan’s recent remarks: “ISIL has a large cadre of Western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West … our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach … [and] we judge that it will intensify its global terror campaign.”
"Hillary Clinton, Extreme Startle Reaction, Startle Epilepsy, And Her Red Mouth"--Anonymous Conservative. A good overview of Clinton's health problems.
"This guy used over 80,000 old photos to create a Google Street map of New York City in the 1800s"--Tech Insider (h/t Instapundit). Actually, the photos range from the late 1800s through the 1920s and into the 1930s.
Hillary Clinton's Lack of Legitimacy
It is claimed that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails leaked via Wikileaks where gathered by hackers for the Russian government. If so, the Russians have severely weakened Hillary Clinton if and when she is elected President. Not necessarily because the Russians may have compromising emails that can be used to blackmail Clinton, although those may exist, but because her election will be so tainted as to rob it of legitimacy. And because her election will be robbed of legitimacy, her presidency will also be robbed of legitimacy.
It was a stroke of genius. Fourth generation warfare revolves around government legitimacy and Hillary, should she win, will begin her term already crippled. This can already be seen in stories such as this one from Hot Air entitled "Why Bernie Sanders Never Had A Chance," which suggests that Hillary's nomination today was the result of a deal struck with Obama back in 2008. Sure it may be speculation, but as the author points out:
Speculation can run rampant, especially on a weekend after a political convention that was manipulated to make sure that the Bernie Sanders people got screwed over every which way possible.
When you look back at this chain of events, post-DNC hacking scandal, it sure is a lot easier to understand why there was a thumb, a fist, hell, a side of beef, on the scale against Bernie Sanders and his supports in the 2016 primary cycle.
Bernie voters, you sad saps, you never had a chance. Now, we can reasonably suspect that the chance you didn’t have goes back eight years. We can also deduce that the Democratic Party is a top-down organization, not a grassroots organization. They claim to be, of course, but the power at the top has nothing to do with the will of the people in its base. It’s a club where only the opinions of a couple of members count.
Worse, for Hillary, is that the revelation of DNC favoritism spurs others to dig into the DNC's and Hillary's dirty laundry. Stories that otherwise would never see the light of day are now going to be freely published. For instance, The Daily Kos reports that "Election Justice USA Study Finds that Without Election Fraud Sanders Would Have Won by Landslide." The authors of the study concluded:
Based on this work, Election Justice USA has established an upper estimate of 184 pledged delegates lost by Senator Bernie Sanders as a consequence of specific irregularities and instances of fraud. Adding these delegates to Senator Sanders’ pledged delegate total and subtracting the same number from Hillary Clinton’s total would more than erase the 359 pledged delegate gap between the two candidates. EJUSA established the upper estimate through exit polling data, statistical analysis by precinct size, and attention to the details of Democratic proportional awarding of national delegates. Even small changes in vote shares in critical states like Massachusetts and New York could have substantially changed the media narrative surrounding the primaries in ways that would likely have had far reaching consequences for Senator Sanders’ campaign.
The Daily Kos author finishes his article: " So, at the end of the day, Ralph Nader was right: She did win by dictatorship."
The result is incidents like that in Colorado Springs, where Trump supporters began chanting "lock her up," in reference to Clinton, and anti-Trump demonstrators joined in with the chant.
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Zika in the Wild in the U.S.
The Florida governor has confirmed that there are 4 cases of Zika in Miami that were apparently the result of transmission from mosquitoes. According to the article, "three men and one woman have been infected all within a one-mile radius in northern Miami." No Zika infected mosquitoes have been located, but authorities believe the four were infected by the insects because "none of the four patients under investigation had traveled to a Zika-infected region, nor had they had sex with a Zika-infected patient." I would note, however, that a recent case of transmission in Utah was apparently not due to sex or mosquitoes, suggesting that it could be transmitted through other bodily fluids or by air trasmission.
In the latter instance, "[t]ests have already shown that the deceased elderly patient had 'uniquely high amounts of virus' in the bloodstream, according to a CDC statement. The level of virus was more than 100,000 times higher than seen in other samples of infected people, according to the CDC."
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"Tourniquet, how to use them, what to do when you don't have one and need it." (H/t "Watch: Tourniquet | How To Use Them"--Loadout Room). Please note that the Loadout Room article links to a second video that may be worth your time.
TGIF: "Weekend Knowledge Dump"--Active Response Training. Among the articles linked to this week is one analyzing the difference between lethal wounds suffered by soldiers and those suffered by civilians entitled "The profile of wounding in civilian public mass shooting fatalities" published at The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The authors of the study conclude:
We found that the overall wounding pattern and the fatal wounding pattern following civilian active shooter events differ from combat injuries. There were no deaths from exsanguinating extremity wounds. As such, we discourage the current myopic focus on hemorrhage control for civilians. Instead, we urge that the tenets of civilian-based TECC be implemented across the entire prehospital trauma spectrum, and we further recommend studying this strategy to affirm its benefit.
Basically, as you would expect from the shooting of helpless victims versus armed soldiers, the majority of lethal wounds to civilians were to the head and torso, which obviously obviates the usefulness of tourniquets. This is, of course, why it is recommended that your medical kit also include hemostatic gauze, pressure bandages, and a chest seal. However, I would not throw away the tourniquet yet--the hope is that you will fight back, not be a sitting duck, so it is more likely that you may suffer limb injuries than the run-of-the-mill victim.
"Rapid Application Tourniquet: A New Standard in First Aid"--Loadout Room.
Nathaniel F. has added a couple more cartridges to his ongoing series on intermediate rounds:
.300 AAC Blackout; and,
7.62x40 Wilson Tactical.
"Armed Citizens and the 1966 University of Texas Sniper Attack"--The Truth About Guns (h/t Instapundit).
"Debunking the Myths of Appendix Carry"--Guns & Ammo. From the article: "How effective is it? I’ll offer one tangible anecdote: Due to the extreme time constraints, only one shooter in the decades-long history of Rogers Shooting School has shot a perfect score using a concealed handgun on the course’s extremely challenging test. That shooter drew from concealment using an appendix holster."
"Polymer80 Spectre 80% Frames In New Colors and G19 Frames on The Way"--The Firearms Blog.
"Survivalist Guide for Preparedness"--Newswire. A nice infographic with tips and warnings for particular natural disasters: earthquakes, tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes.
"This survivalist fashion line is designed to help Syrian refugees"--Tech Insider. Some interesting ideas on clothes that can be converted into, e.g., a tent, a backpack, or a sleeping bag, respectively.
"In Latest Political 'Coup', Catalan Parliament Votes To Secede From Spain"--Zero Hedge. The collapse of a complex society.
Secret combinations: "IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece"--Telegraph. The IMF favored the EU and the Euro at the expense of other currencies and nations. However, even more significantly to me, is an admission from the IMF's own investigators that it could not determine who had made key decisions. From the article:
In an astonishing admission, the report said its own investigators were unable to obtain key records or penetrate the activities of secretive "ad-hoc task forces". Mrs Lagarde herself is not accused of obstruction.
“Many documents were prepared outside the regular established channels; written documentation on some sensitive matters could not be located. The IEO in some instances has not been able to determine who made certain decisions or what information was available, nor has it been able to assess the relative roles of management and staff," it said.
"France Has Two Options — Civil War or Submission"--Gates of Vienna. "[French President] Hollande cannot declare war on ISIS because ISIS is not just some foreign power in far-away lands which can be bombed from the air with impunity. ISIS is Islam and Islam is in France. Islam is in Paris and Marseilles. Like a rapidly expanding virus, Islam has invaded France and is attacking the racial base, the cultural base, the spiritual base and the political base of the host country itself."
"Scott Adams Sees Liberalism Crushing Testosterone"--Anonymous Conservative.
As a conservative, I watched some of the Democrat convention, and was struck by two things. One, I am now uncontrollably repulsed by liberals. I cannot tolerate them within my sphere, to the point I literally had to change channels periodically to let my amygdala rest. As I pondered this, I pictured what would happen if there ever is a civilizational breakdown, because I am a civilized guy and even I can see an ideologicidal war being a major stress reliever.
I would imagine the uncivilized guys are going to go hog wild if they happen on hipsters with Bernie or Hillary bumper stickers once the law is non-existent. Eliminating amygdala irritation is the foundation of violence. I can easily see Bosnian level violence become normal if the façade comes down.
Two, I felt a real wave of vigor as I contemplated what I saw, because as I watched it I felt like I was watching the early part of a Charles Bronson Deathwish film. The Democrat Convention was like the first part of a Deathwish movie, where the thugs are running wild, shooting children, raping women, and laughing about it. That is the part where the movie is establishing all the reasons Charles would later have to kill them, so you could properly enjoy their deaths.
If you know they are all going to be killed, all the first part does is invigorate you, and make you look forward to the second part, where Bronson does what Bronson does to all of the people who deserve it.
July 28, 2016--A Quick Run Around the Web
"Locked in time: How the once most advanced power station in Europe now lies abandoned and untouched in tribute to its former glory"--Daily Mail.
"Pope Francis says world is at ‘war’ but it’s not about religion"--Christian Science Monitor. From the article: "'The world is at war because it has lost the peace,' he said, according to the Wall Street Journal. 'There is war for money. There is war for natural resources. There is war for the domination of peoples.'" He is incorrect in stating that war is not associated with a particular religion, as Islam preaches that peace can only be obtained through submission to Allah, even if such submission is by force. But he is correct as to our losing the peace--and that loss is because we, as a civilization, have lost our roots and, thereby, our vitality.
"Killer Drought Strikes Southern Africa"--American Interest. This year’s El Niño is particularly strong, resulting in droughts throughout the Southern Hemisphere, including southern Africa. Although it is clear that mismanagement and corruption has severely reduced agricultural output in the region (Zimbabwe, for instance, in stealing land from the white farmers), the author suggests that the U.S. and other rich countries need to do more in the way of providing "free" aid. However, I've read enough about the corruption involved with providing aid, and how such programs tend to insulate and protect corrupt dictators and governments, that I have serious doubts about doubling down on past policies that have not worked.
Just a reminder that we are living in the 21st Century: "Small modular reactors are nuclear energy’s future"--Financial Times. From the article:
SMRs are designed as shrunken versions of larger plants; they can be made in factories and moved by train, truck or barge to the site. Developers say that if enough are built in the same factory, costs per unit of energy output can be driven down well below those of larger plants.
Small reactors are already used on nuclear submarines and in some developing countries such as India and Pakistan. But only recently have the industry and politicians begun to take seriously the idea that they could be made economically on a large scale.
Anurag Gupta, nuclear director at KPMG UK, says: “SMRs promise all the benefits of nuclear — low cost and green power — but without the significant cost and schedule overrun issues that have beset conventional large nuclear projects.”
"Peter Thiel Was Wrong"--Rob Dreher at The American Conservative. Dreher has penned a response to Thiel's assertion that the cultural wars are fake or irrelevant. Dreher writes, for instance:
You hear this kind of thing a lot from social liberals who genuinely believe that nothing serious is at stake in the culture war. If conservatives would just roll over and accept that the liberal view is naturally, obviously correct, we could get back to our “real” problems. Thiel is the sort of person who looks at pro-Brexit voters and cannot imagine why they didn’t understand that their material interests were with the Remain side. What people like Thiel — really intelligent people, let us stipulate! — don’t understand is that not everybody values the things they do. Real, important things are being struggled over.
He continues:
Culturally speaking, to be born in many places in the US is to suffer an irreversible lifelong defeat. If you come from a culturally conservative region, or family, you understand that the people who make the decisions in this culture are on the other side. At best they regard you as irrelevant. At worst, they hate you, and want to grind your nose in the dirt. Whatever the case, the things you value, that are important to your identity, and your sense of how the world is supposed to work, are either fading away or being taken from you — and you can’t do anything about it.
"By The Numbers: Glock 26 vs Glock 43"--The Firearms Blog. The author argues that although the Glock 43 is somewhat lighter, there are otherwise no appreciable advantages to it over the Glock 26 given that the size is about the same, but the magazine capacity is much less; particularly when you consider that the Glock 26 can use magazines intended for the Glock 17 and 19. It appears that the weight savings is about 4 to 5 ounces, which, in my book, can be fairly significant for concealed carry.
Some Light Reading
Beat P. Kneubuehl, ed., Wound Ballistics--Basics and Application (3rd ed., 2008) (PDF, 520 pages). Please be aware that this is a large download, nearly 8 Mb.
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"EMPTY SHELL Engineers the 'World’s First Hand Held Electric Gatling Gun in 5.56mm'"--The Firearms Blog. Also some more from The Truth About Guns. Seems to me that General Electric had developed a 5.56 version in the 1970s, but I don't know if had been intended to be hand held.
News and Opinion:
"'Suitcase bomb' explodes near migration office outside Nuremberg as Germany remains on high alert over ISIS terrorism fears"--Daily Mail.
"The French Are Stocking Up on Guns and Preparing for Civil War"--The DC Clothesline. The French people apparently aren't buying the story that the motives of these killers is unclear.
"Mexican Newspaper: Build a Trump-Style Wall with Central America"--Breitbart. Mexico has no problem with a wall to stop illegal immigrants ... provided its on Mexico's southern border.
"Due Process Transposed"--Straight Forward in a Crooked World. The author discusses the importance of due process, relating experiences where he was the subject of law enforcement investigations. Quick take away, however: "... the Bill of Rights proves that if the men who seek to seize power and control over their fellow man are viruses, then the Bill of Rights is anti-viral and due process it's firewall."
"Psycho Dish and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week"--Anti-Dem. An acquaintance of the author found the body of a murdered black man and took it upon himself to try and help the murder victim's grandmother, who now had no one to look after her. All of which lead the author to pose some questions that should be uncomfortable to the Black Lives Matter supporters:
Why is it that the lingering consequences of this this situation – and many more like it, for stories like this are not uncommon – end up falling to white people to deal with? Why are the efforts of blacks themselves not sufficient to shoulder these burdens? Why is it the job of white people, like the policemen who spent Friday morning drinking Psycho Dish’s coffee (and unlike an entire neighborhood full of black residents who all saw nothing, heard nothing, and knew nothing about the crime), to seek justice for their murdered youth? Why is it the job of white people, like the good-hearted Christians at his church (and unlike an entire neighborhood full of black residents who live a few steps away), to find ways to care for their needy elderly? Why, instead of relying on white people to help them, do they not take care of each other, as Psycho Dish’s family did through his mother’s long illness?
Will it ever not be the job of whites to deal with the seemingly-endless problems of, and to clean up the seemingly-endless messes left by, black people? If so, when? How? Under what circumstances? What will be the secret ingredient that finally makes it happen after decades of fruitless trying? ...
As they say, read the whole thing.
"If You Can't Touch It, You Don't Own It"--Zero Hedge. In the wake of the Brexit vote, many mutual fund holders attempted to cash out their mutual funds, only to have their asset managers refuse to make payments to prevent a run. Just a reminder that possession is nine-tenths of the law.
"The Right Way to Write About the Volcanic Apocalypse"--Eruptions Blog. The author, a volcanologist, explains that there is no scenario where all, or most, of the volcanoes on earth would erupt at the same time. I would note that there is nothing in Revelation that indicates this either: one or two very large eruptions (not even supervolcanoes) would account for the darkening of the sun and the moon appearing red.
Firearms:
"The Fall of the 6.8 SPC and Rise of the 6.8 SPC II as a Hunting Round"--AR15 Hunter. A history of how the 6.8 SPC failed as a military cartridge, but, after being tweaked a bit, is achieving some popularity as a hunting round.
Nathaniel F., at The Firearms Blog, has started a new series discussing the ballistics of various "intermediate" calibers. So far, he has discussed:
5.56x45mm (5.56 NATO);
7.62x39mm;
6.8x43mm Remington SPC; and,
6.5 Grendel.
"Moderate power firearms"--Backwoods Home Magazine. In an article from 2008, Massad Ayoob discusses why you don't need, or even want, too much gun--e.g., one that will make you flinch each time you fire it. He discusses calibers (and gauges) that are softer on the shoulder and hand (and wallet, I might add) but can still get the job done, as well as using .22 LR.
The News:
"Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 in their sleep at disabled center"--Reuters. 25 other residents were injured. The attacker was arrested after he turned himself in at a local police station (warning: video plays automatically).
"Hollande says France is at war with ISIS: Islamist knifemen chanting 'Allahu Akbar' behead French priest, 84, and leave nun fighting for her life after storming Mass - before police shoot them dead"--Daily Mail.
Related: "Revealed: ISIS butcher, 19, who murdered a priest was a convicted French terrorist who had an electronic tag - but it let him roam FREE in the mornings"--Daily Mail.
"Turkish troops hunt remaining coup plotters as crackdown widens"--Reuters. "Turkish special forces backed by helicopters, drones and the navy hunted a remaining group of commandos thought to have tried to capture or kill President Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup, as a crackdown on suspected plotters widened on Tuesday."
"Putin, Erdogan Mend Ties as Post-Coup Turkey Turns to Russia"--Bloomberg. The deputy prime minister of Turkey described Russia as not only a "close and friendly neighbor," but also a strategic partner.
"Drug dealers shot dead on the streets of the Philippines as president dubbed 'The Punisher' continues his war on drugs - with 300 gunned down this month alone"--Daily Mail. "Nearly 60,000 Filipino drug addicts surrendered themselves earlier this month to the government after President Duterte urged citizens to 'go ahead and kill' drug dealers and users." It appears K-selection may have hit the Philippines earlier than the rest of the world.
Prepping/Firearms:
"Generac Vs. Kohler: Finding The Best Portable Generator"--Survive the Wild. The author compares a portable generator (the Generac) and what is essentially a large Universal Power Supply (UPS) (the Kohler) for use as a short term backup power source. He also discusses some alternatives to the aforementioned products, and notes the advantages to the UPS's when combined with solar panels for charging.
"PTR-91 A3R Review"--Modern Rifleman. The PTR-91 is a semi-auto version of the HK G-3 battle rifle; i.e., an American made HK-91. The author goes a bit into the history of the G-3 and how the PTR rifles came to be made in America, before delving into the specific details of this particular rifle. One of the failings of most versions of the HK-91 style rifles (and the HK-93 styles, as well) is the general lack of the paddle-mag release. Although there is a side-button release, similar to the release on the AR pattern rifles, the size of the HK rifles places the button too far forward to be accessed without breaking your grip on the weapon. To make up for this, the CETME and G-3 rifles included a paddle shaped magazine release at the bottom of the magazine well that you can engage with your thumb when grasping the magazine as you withdraw the magazine. However, most civilian versions of the rifle lack this release. The A3R version of the PTR-91 includes that paddle mag release; it also has a Picatinny rail for mounting scopes or other optics.
"BREAKING: US Army Introduces New Enhanced Performance Magazine for M4/M16 Series Rifles"--The Firearms Blog. The new magazine, which will be tan with a blue follower, is designed to angle the cartridge slightly upward so that the steel tips on the new M855A1 rounds do not contact (and thus damage) the aluminum feed ramps.
"Is Middle America Due For a Huge Earthquake?"--The Atlantic. From the article:
The source of all this anxiety is the fabled New Madrid Seismic Zone. In the winter of 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes of magnitude 7, and possibly as high as 7.7, and countless punishing aftershocks thereafter, rocked the sparsely inhabited frontier of the American Midwest. The earth had slipped somewhere deep under the frontier settlement of New Madrid, Missouri, and the resulting earthquakes opened up chasms, diverted the Mississippi, threw trees to the ground and landslides into the river. It created temporary waterfalls and lasting lakes. Meanwhile, existing lakes were turned inside out, as cracks in the ground spewed volcanoes of sand and water into the air. Boatmen caught in the maelstrom said the Mississippi appeared to run backwards. The quakes woke New Yorkers, rang church bells in Charleston, South Carolina, buzzed bemused Torontonians a country away, and brought down chimneys from St. Louis to Cincinnati. Because the deep rock in the middle of the continent is older and colder than out west, strong shaking was felt over an area 10 times that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. An alarmed President James Madison even wrote Thomas Jefferson from DC about the tremors.
However, the author goes on to interview a geologist that has studied mid-plate faults who argues that the strain is gone and the New Madrid Fault has shut down. The next big earthquake will be somewhere else. Read the whole thing.
"Supervolcanoes May Erupt Surprisingly Fast"--Real Clear Science. "Once primed, a supervolcano can decompress and erupt in under a year, a new study shows, offering little warning before a potentially cataclysmic event."
"The economy: 'Things fall apart', Part 1" and "Part 2"--Bayou Renaissance Man. Part 1 gives a background primer on inflation, the devaluation of money, and how globalization has led to reduced wages. Part 2 discusses how it impacts us, the ordinary citizen. For instance, the author asserts that the actual rate of inflation is currently 10%, which means that if you are not getting at least a 10% raise in salary or wages each year, you are actually slipping behind in terms of purchasing power.
Odds and Ends:
"The Cost of Nepotism: J.P. Morgan to Pay $200 Million"--The American Interest. The author writes: "J.P. Morgan had been running a 'Sons and Daughters' program; hiring children of several powerful Chinese officials as well as friends and family of leaders at '75% of major Chinese firms it took public'." I've noted before that a meritocracy only lasts one generation.
Related: "Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People"--an interview with J.D. Vance at The American Conservative. Vance was a hillbilly that wound up attending Yale. He relates:
A lot of it is pure disconnect–many elites just don’t know a member of the white working class. A professor once told me that Yale Law shouldn’t accept students who attended state universities for their undergraduate studies. (A bit of background: Yale Law takes well over half of its student body from very elite private schools.) “We don’t do remedial education here,” he said. Keep in mind that this guy was very progressive and cared a lot about income inequality and opportunity. But he just didn’t realize that for a kid like me, Ohio State was my only chance–the one opportunity I had to do well in a good school. If you removed that path from my life, there was nothing else to give me a shot at Yale. When I explained that to him, he was actually really receptive. He may have even changed his mind.
Life imitating art: "Physicists Combine Gold with Titanium And Quadruple Its Strength"--Futurism. "The study, published in Science Advances, described the properties of an alloy of the two metals, a 3-to-1 mixture of titanium and gold, called Titanium-3. They found the alloy to be four times harder than titanium." A lot more gold than the hypothesized fictional Iron Man suit, which used an exoskeleton supposedly of 95.5% titanium and 4.5% gold.
"Uncontrolled Refugeeism Will Be The Undoing Of Now-Ruling Political Class"--Zero Hedge. The author writes: "Globalization has resulted in the loss of millions of well-paid manufacturing jobs, we are well aware of it; but undocumented labor flooding the country also has had a significant impact on both wages and the loss of jobs, or opportunity for jobs, by American-born."
"The Gold Timers"--Vox Popoli. Vox Day comments on an article about "the Gold Timers"--baby boomers that intend on spending all their money rather than leaving something to pass on through their estate to children or other relatives. Day comments: "At the very least, it's a convincing case for eliminating Social Security, shutting down all the bankrupt pension plans, and letting millions of literally useless old Boomers rely upon the children they didn't have."
"Was Dominique Strauss Kahn Set Up?"--Anonymous Conservative. How politics works in the big leagues.
Firearms/Self-Defense:
"Why the German #4 Still Rocks"--The New Rifleman. The author writes about the versatility of the German #4 scope reticle (see above: thick bars on the left, right and bottom, with thinner reticle lines at the center and from the top), and then demonstrates how many popular reticles on illuminated scopes are so fine that they are pretty much useless should you lose the illumination in the scope.
"Remington Announces The New R51 Gen 2 Now For Sale At Your Local Gunshop"--The Firearms Blog. I know that the mention of the R51 generally elicits a hiss and byword, but I'm still interested in seeing it.
"Magpul Teases Sub-Compact 12 Rd. GL9 Glock Magazine"--The Firearms Blog. Magpul already produces magazines for the Glock 17 and 19 models of pistol, and now it appears that they will be releasing magazines for the Glock 26. I'm interested, if somewhat cautious. I had purchased one of Magpul's 17-rounders for evaluation, and it is not very reliable on feeding the last round or locking the slide back after the last round. I have purchased a second example to see if it is just a problem with the particular example I had purchased.
"The handgun used by Munich killer was a converted replica which had been bought on the 'dark web' and was originally from Slovakia, say investigators"--Daily Mail. Yet Germany, which already has some of the most stringent gun control laws in the world, seems to think the solution is even more stringent gun control laws. It must be the default response among the r-selected population.
"Guns vs. The Environment"--Active Response Training. I respect people that are open about mistakes in order to provide a lesson to others. Greg Ellifritz admits to a couple incidents where he neglected maintenance on firearms that resulted in the firearm not being able to function. These are mistakes that anyone can make, and will make given enough time. The lesson is to periodically check your firearms, especially if you are going to be using it for a carry weapon.
The Democratic National Committee as an example of a secret combination: "Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments"--Daily Caller.
Central banks as examples of secret combinations: "With Globalization in Danger, G-20 Double Down on a Defense"--Washington Post/Bloomberg. From the article:
In a pile of documents left behind at the G-20 meetings was one with the title of being a "zero draft" of the leaders’ communique for the summit in Hangzhou Sept. 4-5, and it included some stark language: "The world economy stands at a crossroads," the paper dated July 15 said. "We will work to build an open world economy, reject protectionism, promote global trade and investment, ensuring broad-based public support for expanded growth in a globalized economy."
"On Free Trade"--Jerry Pournelle. He argues that free trade is not conservative, writing:
The advantages of Free Trade are lower prices for stuff. That means they are more cheaply produced. As the economist David Ricardo wrote, there is a principle of comparative advantage that coupled with free trade guarantees maximum profits for when there are no trade restrictions, and impediments to free trade are supposed to be mutually disadvantageous.
But do understand, what is conserved is lower prices. Nor social stability. Not communities. Not family life. Indeed those are often disrupted; it’s part of the economic model. Under free trade theory, it’s better to have free trade than community preservation, better to have ghost towns of people displaced because their jobs have been shipped overseas; better to have Detroit as a wasteland than a thriving dynamic industrial society turning out tail finned Cadillacs and insolent chariots and supporting workers represented by rapacious unions in conflict with pitiless corporate executives.
I would point out that what is commonly described as "free trade," is not free trade--at least not in the sense of free trade in the face of comparative advantages. The principle of comparative advantage can be shown with an example from history. For a fairly long period of time before the industrial age, Spain produced the best steel in Europe and, possibly, the world. Because of this, many historical swords would have blades made in Spain, after which the blades would then be exported to other countries, where pommels, grips, and guards would be added as was preferred in that particular locale. England, during the same period, was a prime producer and exporter of textiles, especially wool. Thus, free trade would dictate that the best outcome for Spain and England would be for each to produce those goods on which they had a comparative advantage (sword blades and wool textiles, respectively) rather than for England to attempt to produce and sell sword blades and Spain to produce and sell woolen textiles. What is missing from this example is Spain or England exporting their technology and knowledge which provided them a comparative advantage to a third country (say, China), so that China could produce steel blades and textiles cheaper than either Spain or England. The latter example is what we have today: knowledge, technology and expertise being exported and destroying the United States' comparative advantage. That is globalism, not free trade.
"Syrian suicide bomber - nicknamed 'Rambo' - who blew himself up outside German music festival had pledged allegiance to ISIS, had Islamist videos at his home and had enough chemicals to make ANOTHER bomb"--Daily Mail. Not a simple suicide.
"Turkey's new sultan"--Glenn Reynolds at USA Today. The coup attempt is being used by Erdogan in much the same way that Hitler used the Reichstag fire.
Related: "Erdogan’s Self-Serving Purge Has Gone Too Far"--Austin Bay at The Observer.
"A series of seemingly random, violent crimes in L.A. leaves a trail of chaos, pain"--Los Angeles Times. From the article:
The Dec. 9 attack that left Bheri Werntz seriously injured was part of a month-long series of shootings, robberies, carjackings and at least one killing that authorities across Los Angeles County attribute to Artyom Gasparyan, a 32-year-old with an extensive criminal record. Police launched an around-the-clock search that ended when detectives shot and wounded Gasparyan after a wrong-way chase on the 5 Freeway in early January.
Detectives have since widened their investigation into Gasparyan, linking him to at least one other homicide case, according to court records. The documents also show and that authorities missed earlier opportunities to keep him behind bars before December’s bloody rampage.
Germany's Refugee Problem Gets Worse
Germany saw two more attacks by refugees. Earlier today, the Daily Mail ran this headline: "Syrian refugee, 21, hacks PREGNANT woman to death with a machete and injures two others before hero BMW driver runs him over, in latest attack to shock Germany." Later in the day, a second headline: "Failed Syrian asylum seeker, 27, dies in 'deliberate' explosion at a restaurant near Nuremberg, leaving at least eleven injured and causing evacuation of music festival."
Stratfor recently published an article entitled "The Dawn of a New Dark Age," in which the author lists 5 "horsemen of the Apocalypse" which he contends have been present in all major collapses of complex societies, including the fall of Rome and the Bronze Age collapse of the 18th Century B.C. They are:
The first, which is always prominent, is mass migration, on a scale that the societies of the time cannot control. Just how many immigrants it took to destabilize borderlands and spread violence across entire empires must have varied, although DNA seems to suggest that in the wrong circumstances even a group less than one-tenth the size of the host population could bring the roof crashing in.
The second factor, often coming on the back of the first, is disease. Long-distance mass movements sometimes merged what had previously been separate disease pools, producing new infections to which hardly anyone was immune. Steppe nomads migrating across thousands of kilometers were probably the main vector for the Black Death, which killed perhaps a quarter of the world's population between 1350 and 1400.
The third force, regularly linked to the first two, is state failure. Collapsing borders and shrinking populations often bring down governments too, and as chaos spreads, even states that have not been directly hit by invasion and plague can be sucked into the whirlpool.
Fourth, and strongly linked to the first three forces, is the collapse of trade. When failing states can no longer protect merchants, long-distance exchange networks break down, bringing starvation and yet more rounds of migration, disease and violence. Many historians think that the tipping point in the fall of the Roman Empire came when the Vandals invaded North Africa and cut off grain shipments to Italy from what is now Tunisia in 439. The city of Rome lost three-quarters of its population across the next two decades, and in 476 the Western Empire was officially declared defunct.
The fifth factor, always present but never in a straightforward way, is climate change. Some great collapses, such as that in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1200 B.C., coincide with rising temperatures; others, such as the Roman and Han Chinese breakdowns in the early first millennium, coincide with global cooling. The direction of climate change seems to matter less than the fact that any big change puts stress on farming, which — when everything else is already going wrong — might be enough to push people over the edge.
Take note that the first of the horsemen is "mass migration" into the affected nation or civilization. Since one of the basic functions of a state is to protect against invasion, I would suggest that uncontrolled mass immigration is a sign of state collapse. And it is interesting that in analyzing whether a civilization can reverse or stop a dark age, the author selected one where the key was reversing mass migration. He relates:
One [example where the downward spiral was disrupted], in China after 600, is particularly informative. The empire had recently been reunited by the Sui dynasty after a dark age, but Turkic invasions from the steppes, new epidemics, civil war, trade breakdowns and global cooling threatened its recovery. In 614 the Sui government collapsed and the worst seemed about to happen; but through a clever combination of diplomacy and war, the first two emperors of a new Tang dynasty, Gaozu and Taizong, stopped the population movements completely by 650. Freed from external threats and with plagues abating, they restored law and order and revived trade. They could do nothing about climate change, but the absence of the other Horsemen reduced it to a mere nuisance. By 700 China had entered a golden age, its economy booming so much that a million people were living at Chang'an.
It is also interesting to me that another example references was post-1945 Europe, which, while the author does not mention it, was marked by mass expulsion of foreign populations from many of the countries of Europe.
Germany--all of Europe, really--is facing uncontrolled mass immigration. The latest figures I can find is for 2010, at which time Germany had 4.8 million Muslims, or 5.8 percent of its population. Germany had 476,000 asylum applications in 2015 alone; but it is estimated that 1.1 million immigrants entered Germany last year. In short order, Germany will cross the 10 percent threshold. This pool of immigrants mean that Germany is already seeing the first and third horsemen. The second will likely come due to the influx of refugees bringing either new diseases or antibiotic resistant versions of older diseases. And the climate is expected to cool in the 2030s.
Time is running short.
Labels: Decline of Civilization, Demographics, Europe
Mini-Review: Inova XS Flashlight
Inova XS Flashlight
Several months ago, I strode into the local REI with my dividend certificate clutched in my hand and on a mission to find a small pocket flashlight. My impetus was a general dissatisfaction with using a flashlight app on my smart phone, and wanting something more than the tiny led flashlights that are designed to work as key-fobs.
Perusing the selection of flashlights, my eye was drawn to the Inova XS flashlight due to its relatively small size as a result of using a AAA battery. The Inova XS is produced by Nite Ize. The specifications for the XS indicates that it has two power settings: high (80 lumens) and low (15 lumens). The switch is a 3-position end-cap. Twisted all its way down, it turns on the flashlight in constant mode (i.e., without the need to push on the end of the cap). Turning the cap a half turn allows use of momentary mode, where the end cap acts as a pressure switch (there is a bit of rubber coating on the back that keeps one's finger from slipping off). Turning the cap a full turn puts the flashlight in a lock mode where the light cannot be turned on accidentally--a nice feature for a flashlight carried in one's pocket, purse, or bag.
When first turned on, the flashlight will default to "high" mode. To switch to "low" mode (and much greater battery life), one need only momentarily turn the light to off and then back on within 2 seconds.
The flashlight is also water resistant and, since the body is made of aluminum, appears to be sturdily built. As you can see from the photograph above, the flashlight measures 2.9 inches in length, and, according to Nite Ize, weighs in at 1.1 ounces.
In the high setting, the flashlight is comparable to many larger flashlights, with a good spread of light. It is certainly powerful enough for searching around outside (such as your yard or a parking lot). In fact, it actually appears to outperform my Surefire G2 in casting a beam. Although not ideally shaped for use as a tactical flashlight, it can easily be pressed into that role. Its small size, however, makes it easy to always have on your person.
After carrying it most every day for several months, I have found it to be very useful. Even though I don't normally carry it in the locked mode, I have not had any problems with the battery running down. In short, I am very satisfied with it. It was retailing for $24 at the time I purchased it, and while a bit more than I originally intended on spending on a mini-flashlight, it is well worth the money. I give it two thumbs up.
"MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator Closely Matching Final Flight"--New York Magazine
The article claims that "New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances. The revelation, which Malaysia withheld from a lengthy public report on the investigation, is the strongest evidence yet that Zaharie made off with the plane in a premeditated act of mass murder-suicide."
Labels: Asia, Terrorism
A Quick Run Around The Web -- July 22, 2016 (Updated)
"Rifle Reloads - Cowboy Action Shooting"--NSSF
TGIF: Time for the Weekend Knowledge Dump from Active Response Training.
Opposing views:
"Why I Don’t Use PMAGs"--Alex C. at The Firearms Blog.
"Rebuttal – Why I Choose to Use PMAGs"--Nathan S. at The Firearms Blog.
Just a reminder that one person's solution may not be ideal for you or someone else.
"It’s Back – Remington Now Shipping the Redesigned R51"--The Truth About Guns. Having gotten its warranty claims out of the way, Remington is supposedly shipping product to the retailers.
Europe Burns:
"Terrifying moment gunman shouting 'f*** foreigners' opens fire outside Munich shopping centre as at least FIVE die and many are injured in shooting rampage: Police hunting for THREE gunmen "--Daily Mail.
Update: Gunman was an 18 year old Iranian.
"Five charged over France truck attack"--Yahoo News. The Bastille Day killer had help, and had been planning his attack for nearly a year.
"Teaching the Police to Wage the 'Three Block War'"--Small Wars Journal. An article urging that police adopt certain lessons and techniques from counter-insurgency (COIN) warfare. However, as Herschel Smith (The Captain's Journal) points out: "Expecting the police to perform COIN and stability operations is a testimony to just how badly the progressives have botched their urban, utopian dream."
The Olympics are just around the corner: "Welcome to the slums of Rio, where bullet-riddled bodies lie in pools of blood and gun-toting teens in flip-flops rule the day as attempts to curb violence crumble and murder rates soar"--Daily Mail.
The wages of sin socialism: "Hungry Venezuelans cry at the sight of food, as economic crisis deepens"--CNN Money.
"Hidden Fault Could Trigger Cataclysmic Megaquake in Asia"--Live Science. From the article:
A massive fault could trigger a cataclysmic earthquake beneath Bangladesh, parts of east India and Myanmar, new research suggests.
The hidden fault, which has been buried under miles of river sediment, could release an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 to 9.0 in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, the study found. And because researchers discovered the system relatively recently, they have no estimates for when such a megaquake could occur.
"Turkey’s demographic winter and Erdogan’s duplicity: Spengler"--David Goldman at Asia Times. Goldman writes:
Turkey’s Kurdish citizens continue to have three or four children while ethnic Turks have fewer than two. By the early 2040s, most of Turkey’s young people will come from Kurdish-speaking homes. The Kurdish-majority Southeast inevitably will break away. Erdogan’s hapless battle against the inevitable motivates the sometimes bewildering twists and turns of Turkish policy.
"China Is Building More Houses Than It Has People"--American Interest. Housing bubble?
"Report: China a Major Source of Crystal Meth Shipped Into US"--VOA News. More accurately, China is the major source of precursor chemicals that go to Mexico to be made into meth.
"It's Not That Social Security Will Run Out Of Cash - It's Whether Taxes Will Rise To Fund It"--Forbes. The author points out:
It is true that the promises have been over generous and that the current taxation and reserves to pay for them too little but the system is underpinned by the full financial might of the US Government. And if we’re about to worry about the solvency of that then we’ve all got much greater problems than whether pensions continue to be paid. The true point is that the Federal government has taxing rights on the entirety of the US economy. The question is not whether there’s enough they can raise from that to pay the bills due, it’s whether they’ve the political will to do so.
State or municipal pensions may be a different story: "The Pension Vise Tightens in California"--American Interest. "Earlier this week, CalPERS—California’s pension fund for most public employees—reported abysmal annual earnings of 0.61 percent, a tiny fraction of the seven-and-a-half percent annual returns needed to keep it solvent over the long run. And its sister fund for teachers, CalSTRS, isn’t doing much better."
Putting the guess-work back into science: "Global Temperatures Are Mostly Fake"--Real Science. The article points out that there is little temperature data from the Southern Hemisphere, so "researchers" just make it up. Also: "This date in 1934 may have been the hottest in US history. The map below shows actual temperatures, not the “heat index.” Almost two-thirds of the US was over 100F on July 21, 1934 – with temperatures of 115 in Missouri and South Dakota, and 113 in Minnesota."
Related: "What a Cooling Antarctica Means for Climate Science"--American Interest. "... over the past two decades, our southernmost continent has actually been cooling, sending scientists scrambling for explanations and silencing the shouts of environmentalists who just twenty years ago were convinced that we’d be seeing an ice-free South pole by now."
"The progressive thread weaving evil together"--Bayou Renaissance Man. Peter Grant observes:
There's a common thread weaving together all the terrorist incidents in Europe, all the murders of police officers in the USA, and all the political protest from the sometimes fringe, often violent left-wing and progressive groups in this country. It's a fundamental determination to tear down and demolish the status quo in society by whatever means are necessary. It's a declaration of war against the standards that have hitherto defined civilization.
Related: "Germany’s Secret Islamic Horror: How Blind Elites Are Destroying A Once-Great Nation"--Breitbart.
"The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 1"--The Great War. The Great War Channel started a couple years ago and goes through World War 1 a week at a time as it played out a hundred years ago, plus has miscellaneous videos providing background to the war, specific weapons, or other special topics. I only started watching this channel a few weeks ago, so I have a lot of catching up to do, but recommend it to anyone that is a history or military aficionado. The videos on the prelude to the war are also recommended to preppers as it shows the various elements that can lead to an outbreak of war. Significant to World War I is that the Germans knew that Russia was improving its railways such that it would be able to effectively transport troops by 1915 or 1916, so Germany saw 1914 as the last year in which they could contest Russia.
"Training classes are NOT, I repeat NOT making you a better shooter….GASP, what did he say?"--Modern American Shooting & Firearms (h/t TFB). The author writes: "Improvement happens with purposeful and regimented practice wherein the tools you gain from those classes can be utilized toward a goal that is worked for. That’s how you make the training classes pay off." He also recommends dry fire practice and has some other tips on improving your shooting.
"An Armed Citizenry Can Frustrate and Deter Vehicle Attacks"--American Thinker. The author uses Israel as an example.
Related: "We Live In A Time Of War!"--Gabe Suarez. "You are on your own - leave the house prepared to do battle - every single day! Leave the house prepared to treat any injuries you may incur - every single day!"
"The History of the .380 Cartridge"--Ammo Land.
"History of the .45 ACP Cartridge"--Ammo Land.
Assault weapon guidance from the Massachusetts attorney general (PDF). The law in Massachusetts appears to track the 1994 federal ban in many respects, including a list of specific firearms, but also bans "copies or duplicates of the weapons" listed. The guidance explains that:
A weapon is a Copy or Duplicate and is therefore a prohibited Assault weapon if it meets one or both of the following tests and is 1) a semiautomatic rifle or handgun that was manufactured or subsequently configured with an ability to accept a detachable magazine, or 2) a semiautomatic shotgun.
1. Similarity Test: A weapon is a Copy or Duplicate if its internal functional components are substantially similar in construction and configuration to those of an Enumerated Weapon. Under this test, a weapon is a Copy or Duplicate, for example, if the operating system and firing mechanism of the weapon are based on or otherwise substantially similar to one of the Enumerated Weapons.
2. Interchangeability Test: A weapon is a Copy or Duplicate if it has a receiver that is the same as or interchangeable with the receiver of an Enumerated Weapon. A receiver will be treated as the same as or interchangeable with the receiver on an Enumerated Weapon if it includes or accepts two or more operating components that are the same as or interchangeable with those of an Enumerated Weapon. Such operating components may include, but are not limited to: 1) the trigger assembly; 2) the bolt carrier or bolt carrier group; 3) the charging handle; 4) the extractor or extractor assembly; or 5) the magazine port.
If a weapon meets one of the above tests, it is a Copy or Duplicate (and therefore a prohibited Assault weapon), even if it is marketed as “state compliant” or “Massachusetts compliant.”
There are exceptions, so read the whole thing. I wonder if this would include the Ares SCR?
"INFOGRAPHIC: Concealed Carry 101"--Outdoor Hub. The basic issues of selecting and carrying a concealed handgun.
"Gear Review: Vedder LightTuck IWB Holster"--The Truth About Guns.
Related: "5 Things I Learned After Trying Appendix Carry"--Outdoor Hub.
"How Do You Test Handgun Reliability?"--Shooting Illustrated. The basic points made by the author are that some guns are reliable with only a few brands or types of ammunition, while others may be reliable with virtually any ammunition in that caliber, so it is up to you test your firearm to determine which is which; and if you find that it is only reliable with certain ammunition, then it behooves you to stock up on that particular type of ammunition so you are not left having to use unknown ammunition during an ammunition shortage.
"Red Dot Use At Close Distances"--Fleeting Survival. Some thoughts and links to a video about running a pistol with a red-dot site mounted on it.
Check out how fast this guy is with a semi-auto AR (note: the video loops after 10 seconds or so).
Terminal Effectiveness
Nathaniel Fitch, writing at The Firearms Blog, has been doing a series of articles on the fundamentals and some advanced concepts about firearms and ballistics. Past articles have dealt with explaining basic terms and concepts involved in ballistics, and various firearms actions. Today, however, he has published the first of a series of articles on terminal ballistics: the ballistics of what happens after the bullet has struck a target. This is a subject that has interested me. His article today is entitled "Ballistics 201: Introducing a New Way of Thinking About Terminal Effectiveness – Force, Energy, and Work."
While on the subject, you may want to read the FBI report entitled "Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness" (PDF here; HTML--Part 1 and Part 2).
Labels: Ammo, Wounds and Terminal Ballistics
Survival Weapons: The SKS
SKS -- 7.62 x 39 mm Simonov SL Rifle (source)
The Simonov SL Rifle (or carbine) was designed by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, and is a scaled down version of a 14.5 mm anti-tank rifle he had designed in World War II. Although sources are somewhat conflicting on this point, it appears that the carbine may have seen limited use by Soviet troops toward the end of World War II. In any event, it was the first general issue weapon to use the 7.62 x 39 mm M43 cartridge: an "intermediate power" cartridge adopted by the Soviets and inspired by the German 7.92 mm Kurz. Of course, this cartridge was the standard military cartridge used by the Soviet Union and its various satellite nations and allies from the 1940s through the 1970s when it was replaced (at least in the Soviet Union) by the 5.45 x 39 mm cartridge. The 7.62 x 39 cartridge was used by the SKS's replacements: the AK47 and AKM "assault" rifles.
As you can see in the photograph above, the SKS is a rather standard rifle for the period when it was adopted, featuring a single piece wooden stock, and using substantial amount of milling in its construction. It uses a gas-piston system for operation, and employs a tilting block locking system.
According to my references, the Soviet version of the weapon has an overall length of 40.2 inches (1022 mm) and a barrel length of 20.5 inches (521 mm), and weighs 8.5 lbs (3.86 kg) unloaded. The standard sights are a post sight on the front, and tangent notch sight on the rear. The rear sight is adjustable for elevation from 100 to 1000 m, with a "battlefield" setting of 300 m. Notwithstanding the settings, this is a 300 to 400 yard rifle at best. Beyond that range, use would dictate a large number of men shooting at the same time to provide plunging or grazing fire over an area rather than attempting precision shooting. The safety is a simple lever that flips down to block the trigger from being depressed.
Although the SKS was only used for a short time by the Soviet Union, it was widely distributed and used by various allies and client states through the 1950s, and was at one time a common guerrilla weapon in the Middle-East. It was also manufactured by Yugoslavia (who designated it as the M59/66 A1 Rifle) and China (where it was known as the Type 56 carbine).
As manufactured, it featured a folding style bayonet that attached near the muzzle, and folded up below the barrel. Soviet and Yugoslavian versions of the SKS both featured blade-style bayonets. Although early Chinese versions used a bladed bayonet, the vast majority sported spike bayonets of a roughly triangular cross-section. Nevertheless, after 1994, restrictions on "assault weapons" resulted in many rifles being sold without bayonets, and many owners have removed the bayonet in order to lighten the weapon.
The overall quality of build of the rifles was pretty good when in an unissued state. Russian and Yugoslavian models are generally considered to be better made than the Chinese examples. However, even this can be variable as the Chinese weapons were manufactured in many different facilities, with differences in quality and other minor differences between them. For instance, Chinese rifles can be found with either pinned barrels or barrels that screwed into the receiver.
SKS carbines were, at one time, fairly rare in the United States, consisting mostly of "bring backs" from Vietnam. However, in the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of these rifles were imported from China from the Norinco company. Because of the low price ($80 was not an uncommon price at the time) and rugged simplicity, these rifles became immensely popular, including with the survivalist/prepper community and hunters. After sanctions were imposed on China, the supply of Chinese carbines dried up. However, subsequent imports of carbines from the former East Bloc nations and Yugoslavia brought significant numbers of these weapons into the United States. Thus, because of the large numbers imported, they are still easy to find for sale. And, although prices have increased, they can still be had at a much lower price point than most any other semi-automatic rifle.
Loading the SKS using a charger or clip.
The SKS employs a fixed 10-round box magazine that can be reloaded using stripper clips (chargers) or individual rounds. The magazine is hinged so it can be opened up from the bottom of the weapon to allow easy unloading.The weapon employs a bolt hold open that locks the bolt back on an empty magazine.
Loading the SKS is pretty straightforward. As you can see from the photograph above, with the magazine bolt locked back, the clip is inserted into slots on either side of the bolt. After placing the loaded clip into the slots, the operator then uses his thumb to push down on the top cartridge and presses the cartridges into the magazine. I find that it is easy to get 5 rounds in, then pause or release pressure a bit, and then push the remaining rounds into the magazine. As noted, one can also load the rifle by pressing individual cartridges into the magazine.
There are aftermarket attempts to develop detachable box magazines for the weapon. For instance, some variants imported from China were adapted so they could use a standard AK magazine. More common, however, was to remove the fixed 10-round magazine, and then use box magazines especially designed to fit and lock into the empty magazine well.
A couple styles of detachable magazines for the SKS.
The photograph above shows a couple styles of detachable magazines for the SKS. The top is a metal magazine from an unknown manufacturer, while the lower one is a polymer model produced by Tapco. While the Tapco magazine offers a clear improvement over the versions from earlier manufactures, there are problems with using these styles of magazine. First, the magazines require careful placement to lock the front into place, as it has to fit over the hinge for the old magazine, before locking into place. Second, because of having to accommodate the bolt and feed design, the front and back of the magazines are cut low, making it very easy for the top cartridge to slide forward or backward out of alignment. (See the photographs below).
Although the Tapco magazine is superior to other manufacturer's, it is still possible to easily have a cartridge slide forward.
In this magazine, the cartridge has slid to the rear, and would prevent insertion of the magazine.
There are several common improvements made to the SKS. First, although certainly sturdy, the original wood stock is rather blocky and, consequently, is not very ergonomic. Thus, a lot of people choose to replace the stock. Various manufacturers have offered Monte Carlo or other fixed stocks appropriate for hunting, and I've even seen bullpup stocks sold for the SKS. Tapco also offers their Intrafuse stock featuring a SAW style pistol grip, and an AR style adjustable rear stock. It is currently priced between $80 and $85 depending on the specific features and configurations. Accessories can be purchased for this stock, including Picatinny rails.
Standard Rear Sight
Another common improvement is to replace the rear sight. As noted above, the standard rear sight is a simple notch tangent sight, which uses a very small notch. There are numerous options for replacing the rear sight, including a very nice system manufactured by Tech Sights.
Tech Sight Model TS100 peep style sight
It is also possible to find mounts and rails for attaching a scope or red dot to the weapon.
In this age of fairly inexpensive AR and AK variants, it begs the question of why purchase or use an SKS rifle. As mentioned, the biggest plus is cost. When imported in large numbers, the prices were very low--particularly for a rifle that was suitable for both combat and hunting applications. (That was certainly the primary reason I first purchased one in the early 1990s). Even today, although prices have increased, they are still well below that for AR and AK rifles. In their original configuration, they are also rather benign looking (at least with the bayonet removed) and may not be banned under restrictive "assault weapon" laws. Finally, clips are plentiful, cheap, and it is practicable to keep one's ammunition pre-loaded on the clips; and while slower than a detachable magazine, it is still much faster to load the SKS than a rifle that has to be loaded one round at a time.
There are disadvantages to the weapon, as well. Considering the power of the cartridge, the weapon is overly heavy. It has a limited magazine capacity and, even using clips, is slower to load. Although there are many accessories available, it is not easy to modify the weapon to use optical sights or mount flashlights or other accessories without relatively costly changes to the stock. It is nowhere as ergonomic as the AR or even the AK. Its long barrel makes it harder to move around in a building or other enclosed space.
If you have the money, I would certainly recommend an AK or AR rifle over the SKS. But cost is the key. I see the SKS as an inexpensive "starter" rifle for a prepper. As such, I think it is a mistake to spend much to improve the rifle or convert it into something it is not. It is perfectly serviceable in its original configuration. If I had one in its original configuration, I would keep the original wooden stock and bayonet (yes, given the limited magazine capacity, a bayonet could prove useful). But if lacking the bayonet, I don't think it is worth getting a replacement. If I were to make any upgrades, it would be to replace the rear sight. I don't think it is worth the money to add an optical sight, and a telescopic sight, unless a scout type scope, would interfere with loading using the clips. I would retain the original fixed magazine, and avoid the detachable magazines. If you have no plans of upgrading to an AK or AR rifle, it might be worth replacing the stock if the replacement is of sufficiently low cost. Otherwise, I would recommend keeping the wood stock. The rifle is worth more in its original configuration (original stock, original sights, etc.) than if it is modified--something to keep in mind if your goal is to eventually sell the rifle in order to upgrade to something better.
I have found the SKS to be a very reliable weapon, able to shoot all types and brands of ammunition. I have noted in other posts that the 7.62 x 39 mm FMJ round is a very stable round and, for that reason, not particularly good against a flesh-and-blood target. It will turn 180 degrees (the heavy end leading) after striking a target, but otherwise does not create a large wound channel. Thus, for hunting, and even for self-defense purposes, I would recommend getting soft-point or hollow-point ammunition that will expand or upset the bullet when striking the target, and save the FMJ for penetration against a barrier. The price difference between soft-point or hollow-point versus FMJ is generally so small that there is really no great advantage to buying FMJ even for practice.
To sum up, the SKS rifle has limitations that prevent it from being a great self-defense rifle. Nevertheless, it was built and designed for combat and, while at a disadvantage compared to more modern rifles, it is still functional in that role. Its primary positive point is its low price. Because of this, it should be kept in its original configuration rather than investing in improvements of dubious value. The only real change of any value would be to obtain a better quality rear sight.
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Home » Featured » A Conversation With: Nic of !!!
Posted by Aleah Axiom on Feb 26, 2016 in Featured, Interviews, Music | 0 comments
A Conversation With: Nic of !!!
There is only one musical act we know which defies classification, presents one of the most electrifying live shows out there, and has a track record of over 20 years under their belts. That act is !!!. The currently 6-piece band (pronounced “Chk Chk Chk”) is equally delightful on the stage and in the studio. Their unique blend of a variety of styles of dance & rock music has led to comparisons to LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, The Faint, and more, and they’ve shared a bill with everyone from Richie Hawtin to Pulp. Recently, they’ve also been moonlighting as DJs, and deliver high-energy, super-fun sets. Their positive attitudes and work ethic are infectious. We got the chance to chat with front man Nic Offer ahead of their recent journey to Europe to find out about their creative process, DJ history, and more. Sit back, press play on one of their 6 albums, and enjoy.
RP: So how’s it going? What are you up to?
NO: Just trying to get some writing done, we go on tour in a couple days and I don’t get a lot of stuff done on tour – actually I might this time – but I’m trying to work as much as I can this week.
You guys are about to tour Europe, do you have any favorite places to play over there or are you particularly excited about any of the shows?
You try to get excited for all of them… But Spain’s always good for us. Spain’s probably where we do the best. Paris is always good, and this last record has been doing really well in London so I’m excited for that.
Who is playing with you over there?
We’re opening for ourselves as Stereolad.
I was going to ask… When I just saw you that was the whole show. Is it not just exhausting to play as two different things night after night?
I was use the other “ex” word which would be exhilarating. It’s just fun. You’re there to play. Bruce Springsteen plays for three and a half hours.. DJs DJ for 10 hours sometimes.. It’s more time to play, and it’s such a different experience than playing as !!!.
How much work did you guys have to put into it to make it happen? Or did you know all the songs and go for it?
It ended up being a bit more work than we originally anticipated. We probably spent 4 or 5 days putting it together. It’s a short set – 4 or 5 songs – and it took a while for it to gel, but we went at it, and after 2 or 3 days we started seeing the light and knew it was going to work.
We’ve seen you guys several times, including at Movement Festival last year. We loved it! Since you were the only band, how was that experience compared to other festivals?
When we first came about, in places like Spain we were such a novelty in the dance world that we were playing a lot more festivals that we would be maybe not the only band, but definitely one of the only ones. We’re kind of used to that whole thing, and it feels special to be that only band, but it is a difficult task to be able to bring something that sounds as good as a mastered record. I feel like with DJs, you’re not supposed to watch. You’re supposed to lose yourself in the music. And with us, we still want people to lose themselves and not look, but that’s kind of unrealistic because we’re known for being such an exciting band to watch. We were certainly proud to be there, and it was an exciting show for us. It was a fun festival. There was a lot of stuff we got to see.
Is there anyone that’s been super inspiring that you’ve seen lately?
At that show, I thought Ben UFO was great. The last great band I saw was Viet Cong. They were pretty inspiring. For me personally, I want something different out of bands than I do dance music. What I want out of dance music that a band would do is what my band does. And there’s not a lot of other bands that are doing it. So when I see a band, I want that visceral energy.
You guys DJ too, and our readers are more on the electronic side of things. I love your sets, I think you do a good blend of “accessible techno” (if that’s a thing) and some house-ier, disco-influenced stuff – all really fun. How did you get into DJing or is it something you’ve always done?
The guys in the band who left all turned into DJs, like our old bass player and producer Justin van der Volgen does really well as a DJ. It used to be someone in the band was always DJing, then at one point there was nobody left, and it was at a time where we were starting to get more into club music than ever, so it was one of those things where we decided to just do it.
I was the iPod techno guy, and knew it wasn’t the way it was meant to be listened to, so we just started to play it. We come from something different, so we have a different perspective on dance music and where we see the lines of what we play. We like to keep it accessible, but it’s such a fine line between having a good hook and being too cheesy. If it’s something that would be played in a club I wouldn’t want to be in, we don’t play it.
Do you have any favorite labels or do you just browse through stuff?
I don’t feel a special affinity to any of them just yet. I’m pretty much still the Beatport comber and just grab stuff that catches my ear.
You said you were working on new music, but your last album came out in October. Isn’t that super fast?
That’s what everyone always says, but it takes a few years to make a record, and as soon as one’s finished there’s nothing to do but start working on another one. We’re pretty much never not working on new stuff.
You guys are spread out across the country, do you have one set studio or dates or do you bounce ideas off each other electronically?
We do all kinds of stuff… I’ll go out to California and work with our bass player Mario where we’ll just set up, jam, and record everything, then I edit it down until we have loops to play with, then we start building from there. When I’m back in New York, Rafael and I go back and forth and show each other what we’re working on and get on each other’s laptops and change stuff around. It’s almost like we give each other assignments. Like, “Ok this is good but it’s gonna need a chorus” then we meet back the next week. We like to learn from producers, so by the end of the record, we’re taking everything around to different people.
Is there anything else super exciting set for the rest of the year?
We’re scheduled to play the Shaky Beats festival in Atlanta and do some touring around that but that’s not totally for certain yet. We’re just focused on writing for now.
Find out when !!! is coming to your town by following them on Facebook. Then don’t miss the show. Seriously, don’t.
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Chinese students in LA kidnap, torture fellow study-abroad student
A group of Chinese study-abroad students in Los Angeles, California are standing trial for the alleged abduction and torture of a fellow Chinese student, according to media reports.
The victim, surnamed Liu, claims that a group of students stripped her naked, forced her to eat sand, shaved her head and burned her. It is revealed that the dispute arose from jealousy between the victim and the defendants.
Among the six arrested defendants, three are are minors. It is reported that four other accomplices involved in the case are still at large.
Liu says that on March 30, her female classmate, surnamed Di, invited her out to “discuss” matters in private. She took Liu to Rowland Heights Park, where Di and a group of students began kicking and hitting Liu. Two of them grabbed her arm, while one of the defendants, surnamed Yang, stripped Liu naked and burned her nipples with a cigarette. Liu recalled that there was another girl who even tried to burn her hair with a lighter, but it never caught fire, as she was being splashed with ice water.
The girls reportedly chopped off Liu’s hair, pressed her to the ground and forced her to eat sand. The victim says she recalls girls recording videos of the incident on their cell phones. The torturing lasted for five hours, and left countless bruises on Liu’s body and face.
At a friend’s suggestion, Liu called the police and reported the assault at Rowland Heights Park. Not long after, six of the students involved, male and female, were arrested.
More controversy ensued when the father of one of the defendants tried to pay off a witness, hoping to ‘settle’ the fiasco. He was later arrested for bribery of a witness.
The three non-minors will enter their plea in court on June 18.
By Crystal Lau
[Images via news.sina.com]
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Source: en.rian.ru, author: RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik
Russian military plan to resume tests of the Bulava missile at the end of this year, a Navy Headquarters officer said.
The new ICBM is expected to enter service in 2009 along with the new submarine designed to carry this missile, the Borei-class Project 955 nuclear-powered undersea cruiser Yury Dolgoruky.
It is nevertheless clear that the Bulava, also known as R-30 in the Russian navy, 3M30 in the Main Missile/Artillery Directorate of the Defense Ministry, RSM-56 on the START treaty and SS-NX-30 NATO designation, hasn't met expectations so far, with four of the seven test launches failing and the last one "partly successful" according to official reports.
Specialists name a number of reasons for the trouble, which occurred in different phases of the missiles' flight, from the first minutes after the launch to the warhead dispensing, which indicates that the missile's components need further improvement. The initial cause is said to be that the Bulava development project was handed over to the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, which had never dealt in sea-based missiles.
The Bulava's defects can probably be eradicated, but this would take up to three years and 12 to 14 test launches, and therefore delay the entering into service of the Project 955 submarines, weakening Russia's strategic nuclear force, as seven Project 667BDR ballistic missile submarines will be decommissioned until mid-next decade. The latter were earlier scheduled to be gradually replaced by Project 955 submarines.
Meanwhile, the Russian navy maintains the 667BDRM submarines built in late 1990s and early 1990s and currently undergoing repairs and upgrades, with R-29RM missiles being replaced by R-29RMU2 Sineva ICBMs. The recent successful test-firing at a record distance of 11,547 km proved the high potential of the Makeyev Design Bureau, traditionally specializing in ballistic missile development.
As for the Sineva and Bulava missiles, it is clear that switching the naval missiles development to the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology had been a mistake. The dubious advantage of unification with Topol-M missiles, which in fact is impossible neither in size, weight or appearance, set the development back years and led to huge spending, which is not sure to produce any significant effect. The Bulava's only advantage over Sineva is a shorter boost phase, which makes enemy interception more difficult.
The Sineva, however, has a significant advantage in throw-weight at 2,800 kg compared to the Bulava's 1,150 kg, and is also fitted with a more advanced penetration system. Additionally, a longer range of fire enables the submarines stay far away from NATO naval and anti-submarine aircraft bases.
A possible solution is to modernize the already afloat Yury Dolgoruky and its sister ships still in production and to equip them with Sineva missiles, whose diameter allows them to be fired from Bulava silos. The Sineva, however, is longer, which would require slightly higher silo enclosures installed.
A more serious obstacle could be that the Bulava is launched via a "dry start" with solid-state pressure accumulators, while the Sineva requires a preliminary filling of the launch tube with off-board waters.
This problem could be solved, however. Some sources say, the Makeyev Design Bureau has developed a Sineva version, which uses the "dry start" technology. If this version passes tests in the near future, the first Project 955 submarine armed with Sineva ICBMs could enter service in 2010.
Another advantage of the Sineva is its production maturity, enabling the manufacturer to launch its production fast and therefore replace the Project 667BDR submarines in time.
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Howard University Appoints Donna Brazile as King Endowed Chair in Public Policy March 29, 2019
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Howard University announces veteran political strategist and author Donna Brazile as the 2018-2019 Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy. Brazile will develop and host a five-part lecture series to engage the Howard community on several subjects, including politics, voting, criminal justice reform, and civility.
“Ms. Brazile has spent decades at the table of the political discourse in our nation,” says Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick. “She can now draw on all her experience and wisdom to bring a bipartisan discussion to these critical issues.”
Brazile is the first African American woman to direct a major presidential campaign, serving as Al Gore’s campaign manager in the 2000 election. She is the former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. And, she is a co-author of the forthcoming book entitled, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics.
During the year-long position, Brazile will focus on the theme, “The Future Is Now,” exploring several public policy areas. Brazile says she is excited to make Howard University her first chair position, an historically black college and university (HBCU), in such an important political year.
“2018 is an election season like none other,” Brazile says.
“Having a conversation, not only about public policy, but also citizen political activism just ten years following the historic election of President Barack Obama, is a great and timely opportunity.”
The King Chair provides students access to experienced, senior public service executives who have developed and advanced public policy initiatives. Since 2008, six prominent public leaders have engaged students on issues related to the public interest, including an examination of the intricacies of policy making.
“We are delighted that such a renowned political strategist as Donna Brazile will hold the King Chair in Public Policy this academic year,” Gwen and Colby King said in a joint statement. “Donna Brazile will bring unparalleled breadth and depth of experience and knowledge to Howard students across several academic disciplines. Her presence on HU’s campus will spark a higher level of understanding and pique interest in the political process – having them eager to engage with her.”
The first event, scheduled September 4, is titled, “Finding Your Seat At The Table.” Her goal is to demystify the political process and how public policy is made.
Brazile is the recipient of over ten honorary doctorate degrees from major colleges and universities, including her alma mater, Louisiana State University. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, serving since 2002, and a recent fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Fellowship in Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Brazile is the founder and director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, DC.
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From Enchanted Revelries:
Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades and is often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker. He came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from viewers) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." Prior to 1980 there had long been talk of Hitchcock being Knighted for his contribution to film. Critic Roger Ebert wrote: "Other British directors like Sir Carol Reed and Sir Charlie Chaplin were knighted years ago, while Hitchcock, universally considered by film students to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, was passed over". Hitchcock was later to receive his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in the 1980 New Year Honours. In 2002, the magazine Movie Maker named Hitchcock the most influential filmmaker of all time. (Read more.)
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Learning to live watching others die
Over the last three years I was privileged to get to know a beautiful young woman. Her name was Emma Betts. Emma Simic. I’m sure you already know her. She’s really become quite famous – but in a way NONE of us would ever want to be.
When I first met her, I naively thought I might be able to help her with her newly diagnosed terminal cancer. To help her raise awareness of not only her condition but also her newly launched Blog “Dear Melanoma”. So, I interviewed her as part of my own humble blog series “Al interviews a Woman of Style”. And, honestly, not just because of her diagnosis or her Blog launch, but because Emma really did have an incredible, unique and infectious sense of true style – inside and out. And it was obvious from the very first day we met.
It was my friend Bec Sparrow who first introduced me to her, and I do believe (as Bec said at Emma’s FUNeral today) that Bec was meant to meet Emma. For so, so many reasons that even Bec won’t ever really be able to understand or explain. All I know is she really does have an incredible way of finding the best in people and encouraging them to have the courage to show that “best” off to the world. But that’s a whole ‘nother story. More on that later…
Back to Em. You see, I was lucky enough to have dodged my own “Big C” bullet at age 29 (not Melanoma, thankfully, but…) and I perhaps again, naively, thought I could help this beautiful young woman raise awareness and support for Cancer – the horrible disease that has claimed way too many people I love – both young and old.
It’s a diagnosis that Emma herself used to describe to me as “frustrating beyond belief”. We had way too quickly discovered too many similarities; too many shared surgeons/specialists. Too many references to us both being “duds”. We both agreed how frustrating it was to live with chronic conditions that others just couldn’t see or even begin to understand. But then, how do you deal with this? Now we’re talking Terminal Cancer! It really was a game changer. And as we both understood, it was definitely one of those things about which you don’t get the luxury of “thinking positively” just so that others will feel better. As she used to say often, “Sometimes you just can’t win an unwinnable fight – even from the very beginning”. And as for anyone who dared to tell her to “think positively” about her diagnosis at such a young age? Well, lets just say both of us would laugh (and cry) and chink our wine glasses and say “Give me one fucking good reason to think positively about dying at the age of 23?! Pulllleeeasse!”
So. We became friends. We shared sushi and wine. She visited ME in hospital (go figure?). She brought me chocolate-coated berries (a delicacy she said I just HAD to discover); both she and Serge shouted ME Aburi salmon at the Sushi Train when I just wish I had been able to shout them; we shared and compared stories of two of our (mutually excellent long-term) Specialists, one of whom I had inappropriately renamed after he had removed my large bowel, and happily shared with her his nick-name. She and I shared stories of what it had been like to “look well”. To be young, but also to be living with a chronic illness that was simply not visible to the world. She would offer advice to me (yep, the 23 year old advising the woman twice her age) about coping with the downturn in income when you can no longer work as hard as you once used to; the guilt of feeling like a failure to your husband/family; the frustration of not being able to do anything to change it. She was a total INSPIRATION to me for the short three years of friendship we had. And now she’s gone I can’t describe the survivor-guilt I now harbour. I’m hoping a good counselor will be able to help me with that though. I mean, compared to what Emma and her husband/family are going through, I’m disgusted to even admit that I’m struggling here right now!
So. Let’s fast-forward to the last few months of 2016….
What was I doing? I was just doing whatever it is I do – which is nothing compared to what this amazing young woman had been doing for her whole (way too short) life. I was becoming increasingly concerned about my Mum’s health, but also kind of in denial. Was I ready to face that next stage? Nope, I was definitely not. I’d just said goodbye to six friends/family in the space of less than six months and was vowing that 2017 just had to be better. But all the while, Emma was clinging to any hope she could of simply accessing another clinical trial that might buy her some more time. More time to be with her gorgeous husband Serge; time to be with her beloved fur-baby Ralph; and for goodness sake, what about time to be with her incredibly strong, loving, supportive and close family?
Over the last three months or so, I’d kept in touch with Em privately. I was very aware of what she was going through and knew how many much-closer friends and family she had, and how her energy levels would certainly only allow her enough time to keep in touch with her nearest and dearest. I certainly didn’t want to add any more pressure so I watched from the sidelines and felt completely helpless/useless. Hopeless. Possibly partly to do with what I was personally facing myself. My mother’s health had been clearly declining in the last few years, but none more so than it had in the latter quarter of last year and the first three months of 2017.
I think we, as kids, want to think that our parents will be there forever. We’d love to deny that they’re actually “aging”. And no matter what our relationship with them is/was, we still want to think that we’ve got plenty of time to sort out our shit and say what we want to say. Well, you know what? Life doesn’t always follow a script. And if Emma’s early death hasn’t taught us anything, then please let it at least teach us this: How PRECIOUS life is. How you never know when it will be taken from any of us. That age isn’t a guarantee. That we can all try to follow a script but life doesn’t. We can deny that the things we’re doing will have any great impact, but the thing is, we never know when it will end for any of us. Emma lived every single day of her way-too-short life to the fullest. She inspired. She raised funds. She helped others less fortunate. She had goals. She had dreams. She spent every moment of that life LIVING. I honestly can’t say I have done that. And I have already lived twice as long as she did. I hope I can find the strength to do even half of what she achieved.
Even if you know death is imminent, you’re still never really ready…
On Christmas Day 2016, it was clear to me that my usually crazy, wild, unconventional 89yo Irish Mum was definitely not quite “herself”. If I’m honest, it was clear things hadn’t been right for many, many months prior. But she was fighting SO hard to conceal things; to be strong; to be “normal”. I allowed myself to think/hope that “she’ll be right” as she always was. But…
We admitted her to hospital mid-January for a simple UTI and the associated “delirium” that often accompanies it (and had been back in 2015). But it was clear to me this time that there was really a lot more to it. After two weeks of fighting with her to go back to hospital for more investigations, she finally relented, and was diagnosed with malignant ascites in early February. Advanced Ovarian Cancer. My Mum was gone by the end of March. March 30th to be exact. Not even 8 weeks from diagnosis to death. I know for a fact she had fought this for a LOT longer than she/we had ever known – or at least been willing to let on.
Why am I sharing this story with you on the day that we said goodbye to my beautiful YOUNG friend Emma?
Because I want to make sure that none of us ever take our life (or the lives of those we love) for granted. That we never just think “she’ll be right”. Or that that we’ve all got a “lifetime” to say what we want to say to those we care about.
On a positive note, I do feel so very fortunate. Actually, I feel quite blessed. Because I got to spend precious time with my mum in the last few months, and to say what needed to be said. And truth-be-told, she said things to me that I don’t think she’d ever had felt comfortable saying when we she was supposedly “well”, or trying to act like she was. She’d spent a lot of her life trying to keep up appearances. Trying to be strong. She also had struggled with showing emotion (something I seem to have NO problem with, thanks to my highly-emotional Greek Dad!). Regardless, I still very much feel the loss. Both of my parents have now gone from this life, but you know what? In the scheme of things, I am also SO very lucky to have outlived them both. You know…The Circle of Life and all that? Because what Emma’s family is going through today – what they’ve gone through these last three years – is just unimaginable. Unfathomable. To lose a child (no matter how old) is just wrong. It’s not fair. It really pisses me off. I have no answers or theories about the meaning of life and I doubt I ever will. Other than to say this:
“Emma, in dying, you taught me more about living than I’ve ever been able to understand. You taught me what strength and resilience really looks like. You knew how hard it was to live with a chronic illness; with an invisible disability, long before you were diagnosed with the mother of them all – a Terminal Illness. Just knowing you taught me – hopefully has taught us all – what resilience is. It has taught me what being grateful is all about.”
RIP Emma. You will NEVER be forgotten. I promise.
If you’d like to read more about Emma, visit her Dear Melanoma Blog here. Let’s continue to help spread her message about Sun Safety while raising much needed funds for research into a cure for Melanoma.
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I talked with local DC artist, Jane Claire Remick, while she was in China researching textile production (supported by the NEA). In this interview, JC tells us about her art and process.
Holly Mason: Tell us about the work you did in your residency at Elsewhere in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Jane Claire Remick: The residency at Elsewhere is a project-based residency. You create the site-specific project in 4-6 weeks, so, it’s like an exercise, but it becomes part of their collection, so, it’s more than that, too. I created a web-based parody of iStock.com by restaging a set of stock images from that site with photographs of dolls from Elsewhere’s collection. The name of the project is Elsewherestock.com.
The project explores folksonomy, which is a system that websites like “Flicker” use to create metadata by having users tags their own photos with keywords. I wanted to create this space where people would have open access to change the language that’s associated with the image. On elsewherestock.com viewers can interactivly edit those keywords.
Screen Grab from “Elsewherestock.com,” Jane Claire Remick 2015
I am interested in time and perception. And how we think about things changing drastically over time, but maybe they are just mutating or maybe things are basically the same, just expressed a little differently, which is what the Elsewhere collection/project is about. A lot of the depictions are pretty violent. There are a lot of sexist and racist objects in the museum, but one of the founding principles of the museum is that nothing comes or goes from the space; so part of the reason I wanted to do this project was to confront these objects and see how they relate to representations in digital media today. But in retrospect, especially with the racist objects, I’d like to find a way to talk about those issues without reproducing that violence, especially as a white person, who can approach it as “oh interesting discussion” but actually it’s really violent.
HM: Tell us about your artistic process.
JCR:Usually, I start with a concept and then I take the medium that can best execute that idea. But I think that I may be changing a little bit to where the medium informs the concept, especially in the field of developing technologies like web development… I am interested in creating a lot slower… more slowly… and I am interested in creating more long-term bodies of work. So I think because I have just kind of been getting started as an artist over the past 5 years, I’ve created a lot, but it’s sort of been all over the place- so I’m trying to focus in now on what I really want to talk about and how I want to talk about it.
HM: Tell us about your digital work, Distaff.
JCR: Distaff is a time lapse video… projections for a part of a performance. Not really a narrative. The Distaff video is kind of like a study for what I’m working on now. And I’m still sorting out kind of how specific I want to be with that project.
I’m looking at how the use of technology has been masked in the gendered field of textiles. I was turned onto Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s book, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, by a librarian at the DC Public Library. That’s where I found the source image for the tapestry that Distaff is based on, an embroidery by Eunice Bourne. And I was fascinated by her writing about how gender, labor, race, and all those factors combine to create that myth of the American agricultural industry birthed through colonialism.
In Distaff, I spin hair, a symbol of femininity, into yarn in order to simultaneously spin a “digital tapestry” into existence; the projections are a rough stock video collage of motifs found throughout 18th Century Mid-Atlantic embroideries, particularly the ubiquitous “woman spinning on a rock.” The thread used to embroider would’ve actually been produced using a more technologically-advanced spinning wheel at that time, not an archaic drop spindle; so, the embroiderers contribute to the perception that their labor is less modern and therefore less materially valuable.
Remick Distaff Still, Jane Claire Remick
Which brings up the question of how are these textiles produced today? Currently, I’m in China looking at a number of factories. A lot of the raw material is coming from New Zealand and Australia, but everything from spinning to constructing garment often happens here in China. I’m interested in gender and labor, like aesthetic depictions of labor vs. the actual producer. The producer and how the producer is depicted. How that visual language changes over time. My main question with that is: originally, the labor is idealized but today the labor is really invisible. So why is that? And how can I work at elucidating something that is purposefully invisible.
HM: What are you currently working on?
JCR: I’ve been working online a lot, because I’ve been interested in the online space as like a performance space. I’m interested in how you can perform an identity through a website. Not necessarily personal but also like an institutional identity. It’s an interesting performance site. So far I’ve just been putting together the web pages with open source tools, but I’ve been learning about coding so I can do more customized web development stuff.
What I think I’m kind of coming to with this whole research is I think at the end of the day I’m more interested in the way we experience historical and archival objects on the web. Because there’s this big push for museums to digitize their archives. That’s basically what I was doing at Elsewhere. When you go to a museum it’s curated in a certain way, so when it’s digitized it’s curated through the search interface. It’s a different way of interacting with the objects within the museum. Museums exist to support a certain social and/or political narrative. How does digitizing those archives change that interaction? It’s definitely fragmenting the narrative and adds subjectivity on the viewer’s part. But some criticism with the web, within activism, is that you can start to create these really specific microcosms that could become a reality around these objects. There might be more bubbles instead of big metanarratives. A lot of institutions are giving access to nice high-res images though, so people can share them. And so you can share them on your social networks.
HM: Your work is really smart, JC.
JCR: You’re like “your work is smart,” but I also feel it’s narcissistic. I’ll just make art about something so I can go on about my own theories about shit. So, sometimes I am just wrapped up in those ideas and that’s therapeutic in a way, but I’m not necessarily thinking about the audience experience, whether it’s interesting or pleasurable. Especially working online, a lot of net art is really candy coated, it’s computer graphics and new aesthetics that are really easy to look at. But I’m interested in appropriating much more boring online images and user interfaces. I don’t know that I make work that’s really visually satisfying.
I think the one thing that I tend to default to is humor, whether I’m meaning to or not. That’s something that I default to in order to try and engage people. But deep down I do really want people to engage with me in thinking about the issues that I’m talking about…
HM: Some of your responses have already organically mentioned the Feminist ideals presented in your work, but could you also more explicitly talk about the Feminism in your art?
JCR: It’s really important for me to work not just with Feminist ideas, but within the structure of the arts community and art ecology. In DC I’m super lucky to be able to work almost exclusively with other people who also identify as women, non-binary, and queer people. I’m very very lucky I think.
It’s not “cool” in this century to be militant, but I’m pretty militant—if I know a gallery is showing 80% cis male white men, I don’t want to go there, I don’t want to work with them. I’m trying to figure out professionally when or if it’s worth it to make those compromises. But spaces like “Transformer” in DC is super women driven. In DC a lot of the performance scene and art scene is very DIY… I’m lucky to be connected to being part of that and be in spaces that facilitate re-embodying and imagining what feminism looks like in practice rather than trying to insert feminist ideals into a conventional structure like the musuem or gallery.
Jane Claire Remick
Using sincere parody, I bring individual meaning to tired tropes and ask audiences to question authenticity in order to generate new ways of seeing, hearing, and experiencing personal, social, and historical events. Creating parallel planes is achieved through unapologetic appropriation of signifiers such as institutional voice and stock images, sociological and archival inquiry, pedagogical techniques such as socio- dramatic play, and temporal juxtaposition.
Recent shown at venues including: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hillyer Art Space, The Fridge, The Back Alley Theater, and other DIY venues in D.C., as well as The Leslie – Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Manhattan, Panoply in Brooklyn, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL.
Featured Image: Close-up of a loom, Free Stock Photos
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Europe and the politics of Neo-Obscurantism and violence
Yesterday was a tragic day in Europe. Death and violence have swept the continent in two episodes that might, at first hand, seem unrelated.
In the Belgian city of Liège, a man threw hand grenades and opened fire on the crowd at the city center’s Christmas market, killing four and injuring more than 100 (of which seven are reported to be in serious condition). He then turned the gun to himself and committed suicide. The Guardian reports:
A convicted gun fanatic threw hand grenades and opened fire on a square bustling with Christmas shoppers in the centre of the Belgian city of Liège, killing five people, including himself, and wounding at least 122, some critically.
Hours after failing to show up for police questions about his preoccupation with guns, the 33-year-old unleashed a lunchtime attack on Place Saint Lambert, which was hosting a Christmas market that attracts 1.5 million visitors a year.
Last night, King Albert II and Queen Paola visited Liège, a tough, post-industrial city in the east of the country, which was in a state of shock after the attack.[…]
The gunman was named as Nordine Amrani, a 33-year-old Liègeois who was known to be a “gun freak”, according to the police. He was given a jail term of almost five years after police officers raided his metal workshop three years ago and found a dozen firearms, including an AK-47 machine-gun, and 9,500 gun parts. He was also found guilty of drug dealing after cultivating 2,800 marijuana plants.
Today, police have raided the murderer’s home and found the body of a woman who he had presumably killed prior to the attack. Again, from The Guardian:
Belgian police have found the body of a woman at the home of the gunman who killed four people and injured 122 in an attack in the city of Liège.
Liège prosecutor Daniele Reynders said the body of a woman in her 40s had been discovered during a search of Nordine Amrani’s property.
A few hours after the attack in Liège, in the Italian city of Florence, a man who is described as a “lone gunman with extreme rightwing sympathies” opened fire over a group of African migrants, killing two Senegalese street vendors and wounding a third one. According to reports:
Gianluca Casseri, 50, an accountant, first shot dead two vendors and wounded a third with a .357 Magnum at the crowded Piazza Dalmazia street market on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday morning.
He then fled in a car after threatening to shoot a stall holder who attempted to stop him, reappearing later in the day at the central San Lorenzo market where he fired at two African vendors, wounding both.
Police officers found Casseri back in his car in the car park of the market, where they fired warning shots before he reportedly shot himself dead.[…]
The Italian far-right, anti-immigration organisation Casapound said on Tuesday that Casseri was a “sympathiser” who had frequented one of its centres in Tuscany, holding talks on his book.
Following the attacks in Belgium, a round of speculations started:
Initial fears that a trio of terrorists could be responsible were ruled out by police and prosecutors, as was any speculation that Belgium could be contending with a Norway-copycat killing spree. “It was an isolated act which has sown sorrow in the heart of the city,” said Willy Demeyer, the mayor of Liège, the main city of Belgium’s francophone smaller half, Wallonia.
I am afraid to say that, as comforting as it might be for politicians to claim this was an isolated incident, they are wrong. Both attacks, in Liège and in Florence are neither isolated nor did they happen in a vacuum. Both are borne out of Europe’s increasingly alarming rhetoric of hatred. Both incidents are the result of an ongoing disdain for human life and for the growth of a kind of dehumanizing rhetoric that normalizes acts of violence.
What we are witnessing here is a continent affected by a wave of Neo-Obscurantist values and a political class that is doing little to counteract it. I am not a fan of Friedrich Nietzsche however, he was right when in “Human, all too human”, he said:
“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.”
The European Union was supposedly funded on certain values that are no longer upheld and that have given way to alienation and a rule of the financial industry in detriment of people’s quality of life. The Danish Institute for Human Rights, under the title banner of “EUROPE, ENLIGHTENMENT AND RIGHTS” succinctly explains this funding principles:
Europe, democracy and human rights have been linked for many hundreds of years. Both before and after modern political science began in the 16th century and until today. 21st century Europe has institutionalized human rights by setting up fora like the Council of Europe, the EU and the OSCE. The Council of Europe has also created the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, both of which are directly related to UN human rights instruments.
Enlightenment was an 18th century European cultural movement that sought to advance and reform society through knowledge. Contemporary philosophers like Jurgen Habermas have laid down the basis of Enlightenment, its effects and what it meant for European societies. Mostly, Habermas concerned himself with the transformation of the European Public Sphere and the original implications of the values of Enlightenment in European social developments. He mentions that, the European Public Sphere that came to be as a result of Enlightenment was:
egalitarian;
it discussed the domain of “common concern”;
its main argument was founded on reason.
In 18th century Europe, the movement that opposed Enlightenment was dubbed “Obscurantism”. Proponents of Obscurantism sought to limit knowledge to the ruling classes and proposed restricting rights only to a few, mostly members of the ruling elite. Those adept at restrictive dissemination of knowledge and rights claimed that this position was for the “greater good” of all society.
Europe, as a utopia, as a unity based on the principles of Enlightenment should abandon all pretension. What we currently have is a continent that elects leaders who promote racial hatred and who actively seek to violate the rights of minorities. A continent that has accepted the rule of financial institutions that create wealth for a few while a vast number of people struggle to make ends meet. A continent that no longer vocally opposes racist violence which, week after week, affects the most vulnerable:
Norway: Jessica Kiil, a Congolese mother of three and active participant in local community debate viciously beaten by far right thugs (Norway, while technically not a EU member, is part of the Schengen Agreement)
Ireland: Racist attacks on special needs boy on school grounds
Greece: Two men and one woman to go on trial charged with attacking a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker
UK: A new inquiry has found that a wealthy former director of a London City investment fund is giving financial sponsorship to the racist and fascist English Defence League
Czech Republic: Two racists try to murder Romani family, victims charged for defending themselves
London: woman captured on video attacking a Black young man in a bus. And two weeks ago, a similar case in a tram.
French far right group likens Muslim immigrants to invaders threatening the identity of the French heartland and menacing European civilization. The movement — with a wild pig as its logo — is gaining traction through its blend of Islam-bashing and romanticizing of French rural culture.
Spain: people who do not “look Spanish” can be stopped by police as often as four times a day.
And these are just a few of the incidents I have read this week. This is the widespread, unaddressed violence that certain groups of people have to endure on a daily basis. Nothing is left of the funding values of inclusivity and egalitarianism that preceded the idea of a united Europe. Instead, we are witnessing a form of Neo-Obscurantism with a complacent ruling class that remains moot for fear of losing votes. This ruling class, either purposefully ignoring this hatred or inciting it through inflammatory speech.
These days, media is full of stories about “saving the European Union” and rescuing those nations in financial distress. Talks of “unity” and “shared values” abound. As a European resident, moreover, a very angry European resident that is all too aware of the violence the member States of the EU allow to happen on their watch, I must ask: which Europe is worth saving? The Europe of the values of inclusion or this Europe some of us suffer on a daily basis? The Europe of violence, exclusion and racism? Because the incidents in Liège and Florence, together with the endless list of non deadly aggressions that happen on a daily basis are part of this continent, even though many would prefer to remain silent about them or claim that they are “isolated”. If anyone needs to be disavowed of the notion of “isolated” incidents, all they need is read the list above. Sadly, these are the values that Europe currently stands for.
This was written by Flavia Dzodan. Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, at 10:42 am. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged EU, Europe, Flavia Dzodan, racism, violence. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
Biscia wrote:
“Both attacks, in Liège and in Florence are neither isolated nor did they happen in a vacuum.”
This is perhaps especially noticeable in Italy because in Turin, on Saturday, a Roma camp was attacked and burned by a mob after a teenage girl falsely claimed that she’d been raped by two Roma men (she was afraid her parents would find out she was sexually active because they forced her to undergo periodic gynecological exams to make sure she was “saving herself for marriage”, as she’d promised).
The next day, the first four people to call in on a decidedly leftist radio talk show I was listening to managed to blame the Roma in one way or another. I was a little surprised, given the context, but not overly so: I’ve simply heard too many shockingly racist remarks from unexpected quarters where Roma and Sinti are concerned. But after the shootings in Florence I really thought that outside of Neo-Fascist forums, no one would be making vile comments, since white Italians who want to prove they’re not racist will generally cite the Senegalese as being a “good”, “likeable”, “hardworking” immigrant community. Plus, by some miracle no one was physically hurt in Turin, whereas in Florence two people were murdered and three seriously injured, one of whom may not make it.
But then I made the mistake of reading comments from citizens on the Facebook wall posts by Matteo Renzi, mayor of Florence. The same hideous stuff: “of course I don’t condone violence, but Italians are fed up,” “no one declared a day of mourning for that Italian worker killed on the job the other day,” “we’re not racist, we’re just tired of seeing foreigners get all the jobs and housing when Italians are hurting,” etc., etc., etc. No, these things don’t happen in a vacuum, and much as I hate Casa Pound, they’re not the ones I blame for preparing the terrain: the same center-left politicians who have enthusiastically aped the right in working to criminalize and dehumanize vulnerable communities in the public imagination are now pulling sad faces and condemning racism, but give it a week and they’ll be back to bulldozing Roma camps, rounding up Senegalese vendors, and using the local press to beat the drum of “legality”.
I think racism in Italy will only get worse as the political and economic crisis deepens. It might help if they introduced jus soli, as Napolitano has been urging, and might help even more if documented immigrants were allowed to vote in local elections. But even so, to paraphrase “The Fixer”, it’s hard to foresee any future in the future.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 12:28 pm | Permalink
@Biscia, Eli, I just came across this piece at the International Financial Times that does a great job at explaining the ideological links of all these right wing fanatics across Europe. It’s well worth the read.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 3:36 pm | Permalink
Eli wrote:
Thank you for this. The first article I read about Casseri’s attack on the Senegalese community in Florence yesterday, in national daily Corriere della sera, contained the sentence (translation mine): “It’s not clear what drove Casseri to arm himself: perhaps racial hatred, perhaps-but there is no confirmation by investigators on this point-a disagreement with a co-national of one of his victims.”
Yes, *perhaps* a man who targeted only Senegalese men, killing two and wounding three others, *may* have been motivated by racial hatred, but we would hate to jump to conclusions. It’s also entirely possible that a disagreement with a Senegalese person drove him to indiscriminately kill other members of that community–and what could be racist about that?
Mere hours after the attacks, and we’re already seeing the groundwork laid for the inevitable victim blaming. Next week we’ll have editorials which pay lip service to condemning the murders, while noting that migrants are criminals/stealing Italian jobs/destroying Italian culture and identity. Casseri’s actions have already been described as “madness,” I fear at the end of the day he will be cast as someone who responded inappropriately to “legitimate” dangers presented by Italy’s minority populations.
Cluisanna wrote:
In Germany it’s the same. Sure, everybody is condemning the streak of murders on second-generation immigrants that only gained publicity after the murderers committed suicide, although they had killed ten people over the last decade, but neo-nazis are more visible than ever – from the famous politician who first cut programs that helped children of immigrants learn better German and then claimed that there was a correlation between skin colour and IQ; over the boulevard press that called said streak of murders “kebab murders” because most of the victims were of Turkish origin; to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution that has so thoroughly infiltrated the largest far-right party that this party could not be outlawed – racist ideas are en vouge.
Caitiecat wrote:
Appalling. Thanks for the post, the information about Obscurantism is immensely useful to me in something I’m working on right now, and I think it’s good to spread the news outside Europe.
ShaunCG wrote:
An excellent post, thanks very much. I’ll pass the link around and do what I can to get it more widely read.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 9:16 am | Permalink
lizzie wrote:
it’s also ironic in a deeply upsetting way that some of these neo-obscurantist co-opt europe’s enlightenment legacy and history as proof of some kind of european superiority in order to promote a racist agenda that directly undermines and contradicts that legacy. what a cluster%*&$
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 6:44 pm | Permalink
**just to clarify, i’m referring to the idealized enlightenment legacy embodied in, say, international human rights treaties, rather than necessarily what people were saying during the actual enlightenment (which included some seriously nasty pseudo-scientific race theory)
kare wrote:
I guess this article is an attempt to turn the rhetoric of racists who claim to be defending enlightened Europe against the obscuantism of Islam But tbf it is a fact, racism is certainly a product of the enlightenment. I would say racism is an essential enlightenment value. it came from colonialism and their mania for categorising eveything in ‘natural’ ‘scientific’ categories. My people were categorised as ‘native fauna’ by the enlightened Europeans and sadly destined for extinction by science. In fact racism is one of the foundations of Europe, the main thing different European countries have in common is skin colour. In fact the quote from The Danish Institute for Human Rights is an example, was Europe really associated with human rights in the C16?? Really, Europe? Ok to be fair they didn’t categorise their victims as fully human.. but Europens also hold up the enlightenment as proof of ther own superiority as if they were the first people in the world to invent science or secularism, in reality these things were invented 1000s of years ago by the victims of enlightened European colonialism.
So I agree this is a problem but I don’t think adopting “the enlightenment” rhetoric is the solution.
@Kare, my point is that in paper, the EU has erased all of these very problematic aspects and, instead, now both media and governing bodies, pretend that it is all about inclusion and “equal opportunities”, etc. In practice, none of this is true. As a matter of fact, it is the opposite of inclusion and equality. Meanwhile, people die or are seriously injured and all over the continent, media talks about “saving the EU”. What exactly does that mean? (I know, rhetorical question in any case). As it is now, obviously, it means more deaths, more exclusion, etc, while everyone continues parroting this supposed values we are upholding. It’s almost like a parody. If it wasn’t for the all too real consequences for people’s lives, of course.
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 4:35 am | Permalink
The idealized enlightenment legacy is not the only thing embodied in international human rights treaties, the reality of the enightenment is embodied as well. For one thing the glorification of bourgeois rights over human needs which are denied by the same powers who claim authority to uphold rights. The whole system of international law is a legacy of imperialism designed to uphold and benefit enlightened west and punish everybody else. I guess my point is I’m not too keen on reclaiming enlightenment rhetoric, I can’t get over the racist foundations of the very idea of Europeans bringing enlightenment to the world.
holly wrote:
Thank you for writing about this. It’s very important to be aware of the real conditions of peoples lives, which always requires looking beyond political rhetoric, and hearing the voices of the oppressed.
I think that Enlightenment ideas and the liberalism which arose from them have always been explicitly about maintaining ruling class power structures. John Locke’s liberalism, for example, grants individual rights and freedom only to propertied men, with private property being the most sacred right of all. old school Liberalism grants freedom, equality, and the rights to knowledge only to deserving ‘rational individuals’ which of course immediately excludes women, poor people, and anyone who isn’t white. Considering Europe’s appalling colonial history, which liberal ideas helped to justify (disseminating European culture and Reason to ‘the savages’) I think its fair to say that Europe, despite the rhetoric of inclusion and equality, has never been about anything but maintaining and augmenting the power and profit of its white male ruling classes. Liberal ideas about equality even today always serve the dominant: by making people who are unequal in real life (for example, a white male and an immigrant woman) equal under law, liberalism erases the and obscures existing power dynamics, which almost always results in the dominant person retaining their dominance.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 10:52 pm | Permalink
anarres wrote:
Here in the UK our arse of a Prime Minister just dropped us out of the EU, for reasons that, when you strip away the rhetoric, basically amount to xenophobia and nationalism. That decision is being widely criticized, but mainly because it means the UK will have less of a say in negotiations on trade and monetary policies. It seems like at the moment the real meaning and purpose of the EU is to prevent the euro currency from collapsing, by creating a joint policy of transferring wealth from individuals and governments, to European banks.
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:32 am | Permalink
Linds wrote:
Wow, Flavia, you’re on fire lately. Thank you for this. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot, but couldn’t put into words.
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:59 pm | Permalink
@Flavia Dzodan: Oh true, sorry, I see what you mean. Definitely it is true the situation is disturbing! I’m not suprised because hypocrisy is the fundamental part of the tradition, it always was a parody from my point of view. I hear ‘the enlightenment’ rhetoric everywhere these days, it always seems sinister to me, like they mean it as a threat. Christopher Hitchens or the burqa bans in some countries are good examples of the enlightenment, the official doctrine of rights and civilization are used by the state against part of the population excluded from the enlightened.
If this is emerging fascism I don’t know what the solution might be. Samir Amin wrote about the future of Europe but meanwhile the EU better find a better alternative to racist nationalist movements than empty rhetoric!
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 4:37 am | Permalink
Kat wrote:
Flavia, once again thank you. And thanks to the other commenters here who are dissecting Enlightenment values as well. Connecting the dots like this is so important – it’s easy to dismiss everything as an “isolated incident” unless someone puts it in the larger context.
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
Douglas wrote:
The interesting thing is that it was an article from Slate looking at Zwarte Piet that made me realize that it had been some time since I last read Tigerbeatdown. As an American it is impossible for me to not view such a custom through a very particular lens – which is to say, I can’t see what looks to my mind exactly like blackface as anything but. More telling however was not any point in the article, but rather the responses in defense of Zwarte Piet. Any threat to the ‘traditional’ view that the custom is utterly harmless is dismissed or met with ad hominem attacks rather than even taking even the most cursory examination of the custom.
The far more frightening aspect of such intolerance on a cultural level (than personal attacks on a comment section of an article) is the artist mentioned in the piece who was attacked for wearing a ‘Zwarte Piet is racist’ shirt by the police.
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 3:35 am | Permalink
*not for posting* – and I REALLY realized it was too long since I last visited as I worked my way back in the blog, and saw your post about the Foxnewsification and trolling and saw that you had ALREADY made a post about Zwarte Peit. Clearly, Johnny on the Spot with my comments is not me…… Sorry. and cheers.
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Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Generation: J | ID: 1156 | Lifespan: 78 years Updated: 23 Aug 2013
Photo Birth Record Death Record Tombstone
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Ancestry Information
PATERNAL MATERNAL
(Paternal Grandfather) (Paternal Grandmother) (Maternal Grandmother) (Maternal Grandfather)
Robert Hazelip
(ABT 1750 - BEF 28 Nov 1830)
Millian Webb
b. UNK - d. UNK
Jonathan Wesley
(UNK - UNK)
(Father) (Mother)
Merry Hazelip
(12 May 1795 - 5 Mar 1870)
Elizabeth Jane Wesley
(15 Jan 1799 - 10 Feb 1865)
(28 Jul 1832 - 6 Oct 1910)
Marriages of Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Date of Marriage
Location of Marriage
Margaret Lindsey 4 Dec 1854 Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA
MARRIAGE NOTES: I am not entirely certain of this marriage. According to the Edmonson Co., KY, Genweb Marriage Index, a Margaret Lindsey married a Washington James in December 22, 1844. Margaret Lindsey also married a Washington James on the same day. Either the transcription is erroneous or there were two certificates--one to correct the other.
In any event, the Death Certificate of Josephine Hazelip Smith states that her father was Lewis Hazelip and her mother's "maiden name" was Margaret Lindsey.
In the Edmonson Co., KY, Genweb Marriage Index, Lewis Hazelip married a Margaret James on December 4, 1854. What I gather from this is that Margaret married, first, Washington James. Ten years later, she married Lewis Hazelip, and she did so under the last name from her first marriage.
Lewis Hazelip filed for divorce from Margaret Lindsey James on 31 March 1858.
Elizabeth Houchins ABT 1863 Unknown
MARRIAGE NOTES: This was not an actual marriage. It appears that for a period of time (c. 1862 to 1868) Lewis M. Hazelip and Elizabeth Houchins were together in some capacity and had offspring. I list it as a marriage for the sake of keeping them tied together in some fashion.
Hester Jane Madison (Ester) 1 Jun 1868 Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA
MARRIAGE NOTES: At the time of this marriage, Hester was 16, and Lewis was 35. It was second marriage and her first.
Children of Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Other Parent
UNK Hazelip (UNK - UNK) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Josephine Hazelip (10 Jan 1855 - 10 Apr 1931) Margaret Lindsey
Eliza Hazelip (ABT 1857 - UNK) Margaret Lindsey
Alpha Retta Hazelip (19 Mar 1870 - 11 Feb 1929) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Charles Sidney Hazelip (15 Mar 1872 - 26 Apr 1873) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Junaetta Hazelip (14 Jan 1882 - 4 Apr 1883) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Hunter Hazelip (24 May 1886 - 14 Aug 1887) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Bill E. Hazelip (Apr 1890 - UNK) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Ella J. Hazelip (Mar 1894 - UNK) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Nora Ellis Hazelip (Apr 1896 - UNK) Hester Jane Madison (Ester)
Siblings of Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Sarah Hazelip (Sallie) (17 Jun 1817 - 12 Mar 1879) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Robert Hazelip (16 Feb 1819 - 22 Sep 1881) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Martin Hazelip (17 Apr 1821 - 2 Mar 1856) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
William Hazelip (Bill) (29 Jul 1823 - 11 Jul 1891) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Susan Hazelip (Susannah) (14 Jan 1825 - UNK) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Parrum S. Hazelip (9 Aug 1828 - UNK) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Jonathan Wesley Hazelip (12 Sep 1830 - 5 Dec 1915) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Lewis Mathew Hazelip (28 Jul 1832 - 6 Oct 1910) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
George Washington Hazelip (ABT Jun 1834 - 9 Jul 1859) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Hiram M. Hazelip (ABT 15 Mar 1836 - 9 Oct 1864) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Ransom C. Hazelip (20 Apr 1838 - 8 Oct 1898) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Doclin Warner Hazelip (Do... (7 Feb 1840 - 16 Dec 1920) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Mary Ann Hazelip (Polly Ann) (19 Oct 1842 - 3 Sep 1904) Merry Hazelip Elizabeth Jane Wesley
Detailed Primary Information for Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Generation: J
Last Updated: 23 Aug 2013
Living: False
Primary Notes: Occupations: Judge of Circuit Court; Hotel Keeper
Census 1: 1850, Edmonson County, Kentucky; Roll M432_198; Page: 23
Census 2: 1860, ???
Census 3: 1870, Precinct 1, Edmonson County, Kentucky; Roll M593_459; Page: 379
Census 4: 1880, Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky; Roll T9_411; Page: 502; Enumeration District: 38
Census 5: 1900, Bee Spring, Edmonson County, Kentucky; Roll T623_518 Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 37
Census 6: 1910, Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky; Roll T624_505; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 113
Detailed Birth Information for Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Birth Date: 28 Jul 1832
Time of Birth: UNK
Birth Location: Unknown
Map of Birthplace: Map Unavailable
Birth Notes: Information obtained in part from this person's tombstone. The 1850 US Census appears to state that Lewis (who was enumerated with the family of his brother Parrum Hazelip) was born in 1832 in Tennessee.
Detailed Death Information for Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Death Date: 6 Oct 1910
Time of Death: UNK
Death Location: Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Map of Deathplace: Map Unavailable
Cause of Death: UNK
Death Notes: Information obtained in part from this person's tombstone. The location of his death is spec.
Detailed Burial Information for Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Burial Location: Old Brownsville Cemetery, Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA
Map of Location: Click to view map (N 37.19613889, W 86.2672222)
Name on Stone: LEWIS M. HAZELIP
Birthdate on Stone: July 28, 1832
Death Date on Stone: Oct. 6, 1910
Inscription 1: Father let they grace
be given, That we may
meet in heaven.
Inscription 2: Erected by his two
oldest Daughter's
Josephine & Alpha.
Reverse Inscription:
Burial Notes:
Cemetery Notes:
Additional Notes for Lewis Mathew Hazelip
Database Note No: 101
Apparently, the Hazelip brothers did not always fare so well in marriage. In court records relating to the divorce of Parrum Hazelip and Henrietta James, Henrietta was charged with having the "habit" of going to bed with one of Parrum's brothers. In a different case, Lewis Hazelip was married to Margaret James, and, in their divorce suit, Margaret was charged with sleeping with one of Lewis Hazelip's brothers. In both instances, the offending brother remains unnamed, leaving us all to wonder if it was the same one. With a brother like that, who needs an enemy?
In a different case, a Robert Hazelip married Nancy Jolly. After they had been married a short while, Nancy became pregnant. Only a few months after that (and before Nancy gave birth), Robert left Edmonson County for parts unknown, leaving Nancy "destitute" and relying on the "charity of the county."
Database Note No: 75
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren County.
RANSOM C. HAZELIP, who ranks as one of the leading and most active business men of Warren County, was born April 20, 1838, near Brownsville, Edmonson Co., Ky. He is a son of Merry and Jane (Wesley) Hazelip, parents of ten sons and six daughters, of whom our subject is the fourteenth. Three of the daughters died in infancy; the rest all lived to rear families. The eldest, Sallie, was born in June, 1817, and died the 12th day of March, 1879; Robert, born February 16, 1819, died September 22, 1881; Martin, born April 17, 1821, died March 2, 1856; William, born July 29, 1823; Susan, born January 14, 1825; Parrum S., born August 9, 1828; Lewis M., born July 28, 1832; George W., born in June, 1834, died July 9, 1859; Hiram H., born March 15, 1836, died October 9, 1864; Ransom C. was born next; Dr. Warrinor was born February 7, 1840, and Polly Ann was born in October, 1842. Merry Hazelip was born May 12, 1795, in Buncombe County, N. C.; about 1810, with his parents, he came to Barren County, Ky., where he remained but a short time, when he located on Green River, Edmonson County. He died in Brownsville March 5, 1870, a devoted member of the Baptist Church. He was a son of Robert Hazelip, who was born in North Carolina, of Irish parentage. He was a patriot who served in the war of the Revolution for independence; was a farmer, and married Miss Millian Webb, of North Carolina, who was of Welsh origin. He immigrated to Barren County, Ky., where he remained but a short time, when he located near the mouth of Nolin River above Brownsville, Ky., and entered and improved several hundred acres. Jane (Wesley) Hazelip was of Welsh origin, born January 15, 1799, in Halifax County, Va., and died in Brownsville February 10, 1865. She was a daughter of Jonathan, who married Miss Sallie Walker, a daughter of Dr. Walker. He and wife were born in Virginia. He died in Virginia, after which Sallie married William Strange, of Virginia. About 1810 they immigrated to Madison County, Ky., thence to Barren County, and in 1820 to Davidson County, Tenn., where they remained on a farm until death. When R. C. Hazelip was fifteen, his father settled below Brownsville, on Green River, in a broken and sparsely settled country. Young Hazelip being ambitious and desiring to procure a more liberal education than the schools of the neighborhood afforded, his father granted him the privilege of hiring out and earning the means to educate himself. He worked for $6 or $8 per month until 1857, when he hired to work at grading the Louisville & Nashville Railway for $14 per month. With the means thus earned he attended the common schools, and in September, 1858, entered Camden Seminary, near Hiseville, Ky., for one term of five months. In May, 1859, he was appointed deputy county and circuit clerk, which position he filled for $75 per year and board. While serving, he was elected and served one term as police judge of Brownsville, Ky. When the war broke out, T. B. McIntire, clerk of the county and circuit court, was a strong advocate of secession; young Hazelip, his deputy, being a very strong and zealous advocate of the Union, resigned his position and began teaching school. In September of the same year the clerk resigned his position, when Mr. Hazelip was appointed to fill both offices, in which he served until February, 1862, when he resigned and entered the Union Army, falling in with the Eleventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, with which he marched to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Shiloh, in which battle he was engaged; he was also with the regiment in the battle of Perryville, Ky. He served all this time without being mustered into the service. He was only a citizen marching with the regiment and taking part. For his bravery and meritorious services and patriotism, in 1863 the governor of Kentucky commissioned him to raise a company of mounted infantry for the Thirty-fifth Kentucky for the purpose of ridding the State of gangs of guerrillas which infested it. He was commissioned first lieutenant of the company, and at his request, H. D. Baker was commissioned captain; was for the greater portion of his service engaged in hunting down guerrillas, but was also in several engagements with the regular Confederate forces. With his company, he was mustered out December 29, 1864, but did not reach his home until January 5, 1865, when he found his mother lying low with typhoid fever, of which she died. On his return to civil life he gathered all his effects and found he had, all told, but $1,100. He and his brother William, with Capt. Morris, in 1865 built a house in Cave City and engaged in mercantile business. On the 27th of July, 1865, Mr. Hazelip married Miss Mary F. Murphey, of Barren County, Ky., a daughter of William and Nancy (Fisher) Murphey. Mr. and Mrs. Hazelip had born to them five children: William W., born May 11, 1866; Hendrick, born December 12, 1867, died September 7, 1868; Luonia Myrtle, born June 7, 1871; Edna Gertrude, born August 28, 1878, died June 19, 1880; Ransom C. Jr., born June 16, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Hazelip and two children are members of the Baptist Church. In January, 1866, Mr. Hazelip, with other parties, opened another general store at Brownsville, Ky. In the same year Capt. Morris was elected county and circuit clerk, where he sold his interest, and the business, was carried on in the name of R. C. Hazelip & Bro., R. C. Hazelip having charge of the store at Cave City, and his brother in charge of that at Brownsville. In 1869 the business at Cave City was closed and our subject moved to Brownsville, whee the business was continued. He had served as police judge of Cave City, and after going to Brownsville was appointed postmaster. He also engaged in the brokerage business with his brother. They continued business in Brownsville until 1879, when they sold out and moved to Smith's Grove, Ky., where he and brother erected a building and started a banking house. In May, 1880, the deposit bank of Smith's Grove commenced business with R. C. Hazelip as cashier, the authorized capital stock being $100,000, and he and brother owning all the stock. They owned 7,000 or 8,000 acres of land in Edmonson, Warren and Barren Counties; also owned 1,000 acres in Kansas and resident property in Smith's Grove. R. C. Hazelip is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a Republican.
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1885, Edmonson County.
L. M. HAZELIP was born in Edmonson County, Ky., July 28, 1832. He is the sixth in a family of ten boys and six girls born to Merry and Jane (Stranger) Hazelip. He was reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty began life for himself. He worked one year for his brother, and then commenced farming on his own account, which he followed for about four years. He then engaged at shoemaking at Brownsville, which trade he followed for two years; then attended Camden Seminary, Barren County, for five months, after which he returned home and attended school three months. He then taught three terms of three months each - two terms in Allen County and one term in Edmonson. Later he commenced the study of law with Veachel H. Jones at Glasgow, Ky., and was admitted to the bar in 1862. He commenced the practice of his profession at Brownsville, where he still continues, meeting with good success. Mr. Hazelip's home is on a farm one and a quarter miles west of Brownsville. He owns 500 acres, about 225 of which are under cultivation. By his first marriage, which occurred in 1854, two daughters were born. His second marriage took place in 1868, with Ester J. Madison, who has borne him six children - three boys and three girls. Mr. Hazelip was elected county attorney in 1863, and afterward served two terms by appointment. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1867, and served one term; was elected county judge in 1874, and served two terms. Politically he is a Republican. Mrs. Hazelip is a member of the Baptist Church.
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1850 US Census, Edmonson Co., KY (p. 1)
US Census page showing Parrum Hazelip (22) and his first wife Henrietta (18). Parrum's brother Lewis M. Hazelip (18) is enumerated with Parrum and Henrietta, giving the appearance of his living with them. Lewis is enumerated on page two. This is page one.
US Census page showing Lewis M. Hazelip (18) living with his brother Parrum Hazelip and Parrum's wife Henrietta James. This is page two of two.
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First Person: A Biography of Cairine Wilson, Canada’s First Woman Senator
Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first woman senator, was raised in one of Montreal’s most affluent and influential families in an atmosphere of strict Presbyterianism, tempered by rugged Scots liberalism. She early displayed an interest in politics and, as a...
Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Canadian Citizenship Act (1947), Citizenship and Immigration Canada, in conjunction with private-sector parties, commissioned this book. A survey history, it traces the evolution of Canadian citizenship and the role...
Strangers At Our Gates
Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and as a society. This crisply written history describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada and the immigration policies that have...
From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne
Winner of The Canadian Railroad Historical Association Book Award for 2005 Winner of the City of Ottawa Book Award 2005 for non-fiction Winner of The University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography for 2004 William C. Van Horne was one of North...
William C. Van Horne: Railway Titan
William C. Van Horne was one of North America’s most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific...
Capital Lives: Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities, Vol. II
This follow-up to Capital Lives contains thirty-two new profiles of well-known Canadians from Ottawa’s past, all of which have appeared in the author’s Forever Young column since the publication of the first volume in 2005. Capital Lives: Profiles of 32...
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New RCL Oasis of the Seas will be a floating buffet table
Jay Leno used to say often as a lead-in to a joke about overweight people, “As if we’re not fat enough already .....” Royal Caribbean's answer may be, “On our new ship, it will be impossible to eat too much.” RCL’s brand new Oasis of the Seas, the largest passenger liner in history, is undergoing trials, and is expected to take its first passenger cruise in December to Caribbean ports.
AAA gives legendary Beverly Hills Hotel its Five Diamond Rating
Three Los Angeles area hotels, just a short half-hour (not during drive time) from each other were honored with the American Automobile Association’s Five Diamonds, its highest honors for excellence. In addition to the Beverly Hills are the Montage in Laguna Beach and the Four Seasons Westlake Village.
Others in the U.S. earning the honors for the first time are the Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach, Florida, the Four Seasons in St. Louis, Missouri, and the InterContinental Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia.
Why it took the AAA so long to recognize the posh Beverly Hills Hotel, which opened in 1912, is a mystery. The hotel has consistently kept up its extremely high quality, including lavishly decorous rooms, tropical landscaping and luxury bungalows surrounding its pool.
Remember when: A whole lotta shakin' goin' on
John Houghtaling, 92, recently passed away. In case you don’t recognize the name, John invented the motel miracle called Magic Fingers. Remember when you drove cross-country in the 1950s and 1960s, and needed to bed down for the night? When you checked in, tired and achy from hours on the road, that’s when John’s invention offered solace.
Next to your motel bed was a metal box with a 25-cent coin slot on top. That coin would make your bed shake for about 15 minutes, presumably to help lull you to sleep. Of course, stand-up comics made jokes about how the devices could be used for more devious means at so-called no-tell motels.
British Airways begs crews to fly with no pay
CNN reports that cash-strapped British Airways has asked its 40,000 employees to work for a month without pay. BA’s CEO Willie Walsh explains that the airline lost $656 million in the past year, the most in the history of the airline. He admitted that if the losses continue, there must soon be severe cuts in service and employee ranks.
We know this should be no joking matter, but can you imagine what kind of service you’ll get if you’re a passenger on a BA aircraft staffed with unpaid pilots and flight attendants?
We don't do travel planning on company time: liar, liar, Windows on fire!
According to a USA Today poll, more than half of people who should be working at their desktop computers, cell phones and just plain old office telephones are cheating their bosses. They admit they do some vacation research and actual booking on company time.
And you thought your bags were delayed on that last flight
Disney to build hotel-resort near Washington, D.C.
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Get the Flu in Mexico and earn next three vacations for free
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Mistakes prove costly in Troy’s season opener loss at Boise State
September 7, 2017 September 6, 2017 Sports
Wesley Kirchharr
The Boise State Broncos came out on top of Saturday’s season opener, downing Troy 24-13 at Albertson’s Stadium in Boise, Idaho.
The Trojans (0-1, 0-0 Sun Belt) fell victim to costly mistakes, allowing the Broncos to capitalize and escape week one.
The first-ever meeting between the two Group of Five schools had hardly begun when the Broncos’ Avery Williams took a Troy punt all the way back for a score. The 81-yard return put the Broncos up 7-0 after just 1:34 of play, a lead that they refused to give up for the rest of the game.
Troy’s subsequent drive had the Bronco defense backed up inside the red zone, but the Trojans were unable to capitalize. Troy settled for a field goal, and Bratcher Underwood’s 38-yard attempt put the visitors on the board.
The two squads traded scores before halftime when Boise State’s Alex Mattison broke off a 49-yard run to cushion the Broncos’ lead, 14-3. After Troy’s offense was unable to answer, junior cornerback Blace Brown came up with one of the highlight plays of the game for Troy. Brown intercepted Brett Rypien’s pass and returned it 53 yards for the score to get Troy back in the game.
After halftime, Troy had its best chance to even the score after senior quarterback Brandon Silvers and crew pieced together a 16-play drive to get inside the red zone. A pass by Silvers was deflected by a defender but brought down by Deondre Douglas just outside the left pylon.
The officiating crew on the field ruled the play a touchdown, but after a closer look, Douglas was ruled to have fumbled the ball to the right of the pylon and through the back of the end zone, resulting in a turnover and a touchback.
Silvers finished the game with 139 yards, completing 17 of 33 passes with one interception. Senior running back Jordan Chunn also contributed 41 yards on 11 touches to Troy’s 215 yards of total offense, the lowest in the era of Head Coach Neal Brown. Despite a relatively quiet afternoon for Chunn, he advanced to eighth place on Troy’s all-time rushing list with 2,387 yards.
“To come in this venue and play this team that has one of the best home records in the nation since 2000 and to have a four-point game with about six minutes to go means we have a chance (to be good this season),” said Coach Brown, following the game.
The Trojans kept chipping away at the lead as Underwood sent another kick through the uprights to bring Troy within four with just under 11 minutes left to play. The Trojan defense came up with a critical stop on the ensuing Bronco drive, holding Boise on a fourth-and-one attempt to keep the game alive.
It was short-lived, as Silvers was intercepted on the opening play of the drive. Boise State then proceeded to march 49 yards down the field to take a 24-13 lead, the eventual final score.
Following the loss, Troy looks ahead to its home opener in Veterans Memorial Stadium against Alabama State this Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 5 p.m., and the game will be aired on ESPN3.
Football, SportsJohn Wesley Kirchharr, Troy football
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DIOR NAMES RIHANNA AS NEW SPOKESPERSON
FASHION, PARIS
Rihanna at Dior’s Resort AW14 show in Brooklyn
When you think of Dior, do you think of Rihanna? Well you should, because she has been appointed the new spokesperson of the fashion house. On Friday, Dior announced that the singer was to front a film and print campaign for their Secret Garden series, lensed by legendary photographer Steven Klein in the Palace of Versailles, an appointment that will make her the first black spokesperson of the fashion house in its almost 70 year history. “It is such a big deal for me, for my culture, for a lot of young girls of any color,” the singer said yesterday. “To be acknowledged by Dior means a lot, as a woman.” With the scarcity of black models in fashion, and women of color as public role models in general, this is a great move forward for the fashion industry. Anna Wintour declared the singer as evidence that “incredible style can help take a talented young woman from a small island to the world stage, and along the way spark a lot of conversation about elegance and empowerment.”
This isn’t Rihanna’s first foray into the fashion world. She is a regular at shows, has been named a CFDA Fashion Icon Winner, and has worked with Puma, Armani, and Balmain. Rihanna’s huge social media following may have something to do with her popularity as a fashion muse, as well. @BadGalRiRi has 16 million instagram followers, and 42 million followers on twitter as @rihanna. Raf Simon‘s move in asking her to be a face of Dior is another move in the brand’s effort to stay ahead of the curve, both in diversity, and in connecting with the future fashionistas of social media.
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DUBS!!! NBA finals!! Tickets on sale today 5-29!! Here’s all you need to know!
Our Golden State Warriors have won the Western Conference Title! Congrats!! Now we head to the NBA finals for the 4th year in a row! Tickets for home games on sale today with presale and general public access.
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The final presale for all Warriors Insiders at 3:00 p.m.
Tickets will made available to the general public beginning at 6:00 p.m. Fans will be able to purchase single game tickets for the team’s first three home games of the 2018 NBA Finals at Oracle Arena, exclusively online at .
In the event that a Warriors playoff game is sold out, tickets may still be purchased through the Warriors official resale marketplace on , where season ticket holders and other fans resell tickets that are 100% guaranteed by the Warriors organization.
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Huntington to Mark National Night Out August 2
By Village Tattler, on July 28th, 2016
The Town of Huntington will join communities across the nation Tuesday, August 2, in marking the 34th annual National Night Out, the event that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to help make neighborhoods safer, better places to live.
Scheduled for Manor Field Park from 5 to 8 p.m., the event is a partnership among the Town, the Suffolk County Police Department, the Huntington Station Business Improvement District and corporate sponsors Target and 7-Eleven. It is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness and to generate support for and participation in local anti-crime efforts.
Planned for this year’s event are a range of new activities, designed to build on the 600 people who attended last year. While the day is for both adults and children, many activities are geared for children, including a basketball tournament, football and soccer competitions and bounce houses. The SCPD will be running a crime scene investigation clinic and presenting a demonstration of police dogs in action. The SCPD is also bringing a Humvee and is arranging an aviation flyover. The Suffolk County sheriff will be bringing its distracted driving simulator and demonstrating its GPS tracker for children and the elderly.
Many not-for-profit groups will be handing out brochures. Among the corporations, New York Life will be providing ident-a-kits, 7-Eleven will be providing snacks and drinks and Target is providing a range of giveaways. A Huntington-based not-for-profit, Bikes for Kids in America, is donating 20 bicycles to be raffled off. There will be free food and a disk jockey to provide music.
“This year especially, at a time when the relationship between police and the community is strained in some places elsewhere in the country, it is gratifying to know that here in Huntington, everybody is working together toward the common goals of reduced crime, increased security and a better quality of life,” Huntington Supervisor Frank P. Petrone said. “Our Huntington Night Out helps cement the bond among the police, government and our residents, and I invite all Town residents to attend.”
“This is a great night out for the community to engage with members of their police department, for folks to learn about crime prevention and policing in their communities, and for police officers to further their relationships with those whom they are proudly tasked to protect and serve,” stated Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy D. Sini. “With all great events, this is a superb collaboration among SCPD, the Town of Huntington, Target, the Huntington Station BID and the Huntington Station Enrichment Center. Our partnership with the residents of the Second Precinct is very special and mission critical so we hope to see everyone there.”
“Huntington first started celebrating National Night Out in 2002, and now, 14 years later, recurring issues in the community make it as meaningful now as it was then,” said Dolores Thompson, vice president of the Huntington Station BID, head of the Huntington Enrichment Center and one of the founders of Huntington Night Out. “The good news is that we have forged relationships among law enforcement, government and the community that keep lines of communication open so that when problems arise, we can work together on solutions. So this year’s National Night Out is both a celebration of all that we have done and a reminder of the need to continue the dialogue that will produce progress. Come join us on August 2 for fun, food and information and to help make the statement that together, we can successfully attack drugs, violent crime and issues important to all of us.”
Now in its 34th year, National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, better places to live. Last year, 38.5 million people from 15,728 communities in all 50 states, U.S. territories and military bases worldwide participated in the event. It is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch Inc., a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the development and promotion of organized community crime prevention activities and to the groups and individuals participating in local crime watch efforts.
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Conflict and drought from Africa to Yemen have put 20 million people at risk of starvation. The current Famine has been declared as the 'largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945' - the biggest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War Two. WF-AID have stepped in to provide crucial emergency relief to those in need. We are working with our local partners to provide urgent food and water supplies to the affected regions.
In Yemen alone 3.3 million people, of which 2.1 million are children, are severely malnourished. Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, torn apart by conflict and more than 18 million people are in urgent need of life saving assistance.
Half of East Africa is starving. Lack of water has wiped out crops and killed livestock. In parts of the region, where records are available, this is the worst drought in sixty years.
The situation for children is extremely serious; Over 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe malnutrition.
370,000 Rohingya Muslims have been displaced. International media and human rights organisations have dubbed the Rohingya people as one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world. Far from home and just trying to keep alive, most are now dependent on aid for all their basic needs – food, water, shelter and medical care.
Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on Friday 17th March that "without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death" and "many more will suffer and die from disease".
WF-AID is launching an appeal to raise funds and awareness for this crisis. WF-AID is already distributing food, water and sanitation packs right now across the region, especially with those living in camps for displaced persons, with focus in Kenya and the border of Somalia where the crisis is worst. Our target is to extend aid in other affected countries in order to save lives. WF-AID has already commissioned 54 wells across Kenya and the border of Somalia and these are already under construction. Efforts are being made to expedite the completion of these wells to help alleviate some of the famine challenges faced by millions of families in the region.
With our local partners on the ground, we are already distributing food and water to remote villages that are badly affected. Distribution in towns such as Garissa, Wajir and Kilifi have been completed. The distribution aid team is currently in Tana, witnessing devastating first-hand encounters of young mothers scooping water from a roadside leak left by our envoy. Children and women are seen on the roadside begging for food and water handouts from commuters. Schools are recording poor attendance, as children travel far with their families in search for these precious commodities. As we continue to distribute food, water and emergency packs to those in the drought region, there is a huge demand for aid to cover the vast areas of drought across South Sudan and Nigeria which need to be covered by our teams.
“It is key for all of us to act today, as the effects of this famine are most likely to cause seriously damage to the minds and bodies of whole a generation of children.” - Shan Hassam – WF-AID Head
Extremely malnourished children experience stunting of growth and may even grow up with physical deformities. Their brains cannot develop normally, and they are often too weak with hunger to attend school or play with their friends. If untreated, acute malnutrition is fatal.
The story of a ‘drought widow’
One of the saddest things about the current drought in the Horn of Africa is that it's destroying families. Men go off with livestock to find water - often traveling hundreds of miles for months at a time or they flow into towns to look for odd jobs. Either way, women and children are often left behind.
This is the real life story of one of those women, Zeynab Hassan, a drought widow in the town of Hadado in Wajir County, Kenya. Zeynab is a middle-aged mother of five children. Her husband has left and is wandering with their remaining animals to search for water and food.
He left in search of food and water one month ago and she has no way of knowing when he will return. Zeynab is scraping by as she awaits his return by selling firewood. She walks 20 miles a day to gather wood, which is a tough and potentially dangerous journey. She sells the bundles of wood for a few shillings in town and uses the money to buy sugar and ugali - a favourite East African starch - for her children. It's a job that doesn't provide much. Three long sticks of firewood sell for five Kenyan shillings; a kilogram of sugar costs 120 shillings.
Finding safe water is even more difficult. Zeynab's family has been getting water from a local borehole, at a cost of five shillings for 20 litres. The water is salty and contaminated, so her children have been suffering with diarrhea. A private vendor is trucking in and selling fresh water, but at 50 shillings for 20 litres, is out of her price range.
Before the drought, Zeynab and her family used to be quite well off and owned many cattle, goats and camels. When asked by reporters how many animals they possessed, Zeynab said "I don't want to talk about the number of animals we had and lost. It makes me too sad".
Unfortunately, Zeynab's story is all too common. Just walk into any village. You will find those women everywhere. (Source: CNN)
A human catastrophe is unfolding. We need your help to prevent these children, women and men from dying. The situation is desperate. Please give what you can today.
For £100 you can provide emergency food and water to one family in East Africa, which will last a whole month. This donation can mean the difference between life and death. We have no choice but to act now.
For £300 you can provide a 20,000 litre of water bowser which will provide water for 1000 people.
This is a way of instilling hope and dignity, by providing sustainable and quality water as a basic need.
The appeal will be for the following countries: Yemen, Africa (Kenya/Somalia/South Sudan) as well as for the Rohingya Community in Myanmar.
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Ali Asghar Water Appeal
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Give your Qurbani with WF-AID
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Read the WF-AID Ramadan Relief report 2018!
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In this episode I’m looking at the use of Gliders during the war and I’m joined by Matt Yates.
Matt is a member of Chalk a living history group in the north of England who specialise in the British Glider Regiment and its activities from 1942 to 1945.
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The StuG started development before the war and was in full production by 1940. Designated an Assault Gun it was designed round a Panzer III chassis but no turret, this gave it an extremely low profile. It's role was to support infantry as they followed close behind the panzer assaults. But the Assault gun soon proved to be very versatile, in Russia they were often called upon to provide an anti-tank role.
The StuG would be produced throughout the war. The bombing of the factory in 1943 forced a change in design to a Panzer IV Chassis as production was moved to a different facility. To deal with the better armour that the Germans were now facing it was found the StuG with its larger crew compartment could accommodate the 75mm Pak40 allowing it to pack enough punch to knock out the new Soviet T34s.
The StuG became the most produced armoured fighting vehicle of the war!
In this episode I’m talking to John Phillips and we’re talking StuG, Jon owns one and currently in the process of restoring it.
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New rules for Spanish powers of attorney
Spanish Powers of Attorney signed in the UK
20 November 2016 AntonioGuillen
A new Spanish case Decision by the Director General of Notaries and Registrars in Spain (DGRN) has been issued on the 14th of September 2016 affecting Spanish Powers of Attorney signed abroad and therefore also those signed in the United Kingdom.
The said decision of the DGNR rejected the registration in Spain of a purchase transaction where a Spanish Power of Attorney signed before an English Notary Public had been granted. The reason for rejecting the registration of the document was that the Land Registrar considered the powers and faculties of the English Notary Public who notarised the Power of Attorney (POA) not sufficiently proved.
Under the aforementioned Decision, a foreign POA should have the same structure than the Spanish public documents. This means that the document should be signed by an authorized person with capacity to give faith and certify the identity of the donor/grantor and his/her capacity.
This Decision stated that the foreign POA should also mention that it will be legalized according to the relevant International rules. In the case of a POA signed in the UK, this means the legalisation of the document with the apostille of the Hague Convention.
The key point is to ensure on the document that the UK Notary public is giving sufficient warranties to the relevant Spanish authorities as to the capacity of the donor/grantor. From now on, a Spanish POA where the UK Notary Public is restricted to certifying the identity of a person will not be sufficient. A Judgment on capacity will also be required.
We are of the opinion, that the said decision cannot be extrapolated to all cases. The power of attorney that created this “storm” of doubts was a power of attorney solely drafted in Spanish and the Notary Public in question limited his involvement to adding a certificate to the power of attorney which lacked any mention to capacity. We therefore think, and hope, that Spanish Notaries and Land Registrars will reconsider their position with regards to the powers of attorney executed in the UK and will soon start to recognise these again. However, there could be the odd exception where a Spanish Notary or Land Registrar will turn down a perfectly valid power of attorney executed in the UK. To avoid these kind of situations, some carefully attention needs to be put into the drafting of the power of attorney to ensure that the document has a higher chance of being accepted in Spain.
Do not hesitate to contact gunnercooke’s Spanish desk if you require further information or help with the signing and execution of a Spanish Power of Attorney in the UK.
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The Biblical Shemitah has already begun: 2015 is the year of JUDGEMENT
The Biblical Shemitah has already begun:
2015 is the year of
GET READY: BIBLICAL ‘SHEMITAH’ BEGINS THIS WEEK (9/21/14)
Bestselling rabbi warns America of God’s 7-year judgments
LEO HOHMANN
This article was first published on September 21st, 2014. However, it becomes more relevant with each passing month during this
Mark your calendars and hold on to your hats, the next 12 months could be a wild ride for America and the world.
The biblical Feast of Trumpets, also known as the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on Wednesday, Sept. 24, which also marks the appearing of a new moon.
But this New Year on the Hebrew calendar is not just any new year. It is the Sabbath year or “Shemitah” year. Just as the seventh day was laid out by God as a day of rest in the Hebrew Old Testament, every seventh year was designated as a Sabbath year. The word “Shemitah” is most often translated as “the release” or “the remission” and applied to the wiping away of debts as well as the resting of the land.
Messianic Jewish Rabbi Jonathan Cahn believes he has unlocked the mystery of the Shemitah’s meaning as it applies to modern-day nations. In his new book, “The “Mystery of the Shemitah,” he explains that nearly every major U.S. stock market collapse since the early 1900s has occurred during a Shemitah year, as did the terrorist attack and stock market collapse of September 2001 and the financial collapse of 2008. The next Shemitah year begins Wednesday and runs through Sept. 13, 2015.
But what if the “Shemitah” contains an ominous warning about a wider collapse of not just stock markets or housing markets but potentially America’s very existence as leader of the free world? If the nation does not pull back from its current course and repent, it could be in for some rough times as this next Shemitah year plays out, according to Cahn.
Why? Because in “The Mystery of the Shemitah” Cahn explains that empires see their fortunes rise and fall in accordance with the Shemitah. Germany, for instance, began its Third Reich with the annexation of Austria in 1938, a Shemitah year, and it ended seven years later when Adolph Hitler committed suicide in April 1945, another Shemitah year. Cahn points out in his book that the Russian, Japanese, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires also fell in accordance with the Shemitah.
Cahn has also found patterns of special importance in cycles of 28-year periods or four Shemitah years in succession.
In 1945, a Shemitah year, America emerged as the uncontested leader of the free world following the surrender of Germany and Japan in World War II. And 28 years later, in another Shemitah year in 1973, America lost its first war, Vietnam, fell victim to the Arab oil embargo and saw its dollar weaken as a result of President Nixon’s decision to remove it from the gold standard two years earlier.
Spring forward another 28 years, and that brought the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and a historic stock market collapse a few days later, followed by another historic market collapse seven years later in the Shemitah year of 2008.
These are the warning signs or “harbingers,” to which Cahn has been pointing, starting with his first book, “The Harbinger.”
If you haven’t read “The Harbinger” or seen “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” yet, now is the time to catch up on the groundbreaking spiritual detective work of Jonathan Cahn.
Now comes the start of another Shemitah year, 2014-2015, and America still has not responded to the increasing signs of judgment.
For instance, the five greatest economic crashes of the last 40 years – 1973, 1980, 1987, 2001 and 2008 – all occurred in Shemitah years – those God set apart as Sabbath years.
As he pointed out in his earlier book, in 2001 and 2008 they coincided precisely with the exact end of the Shemitah year on the Hebrew calendar day of Elul 29.
Cahn says history shows that as one empire begins its descent, another starts to rise. If America refuses to heed the warnings, repent and turn back to God, he sees possibilities of China becoming the world’s next big financial powerhouse.
“When the mystery manifested in ancient times, it involved the fall of the Babylonian Empire and the rise of Persia,” Cahn told WND. “In modern times, it has involved the fall of European powers and the rise of America. What it would point to now is the fall of the American Empire.”
Another mystery in the book, the Mystery of the Towers, would point to Asia, as in China, as the most immediate replacement of America’s role, at least in the realm of economic power, he said.
“At the same time this doesn’t rule out other powers such as the European Union, etc. In the biggest picture, both ‘The Mystery of the Shemitah’ and ‘The Harbinger’ point to the fall of America’s preeminence among the nations – and this corresponds with end-time prophecy, which leaves a conspicuous absence with regard to America,” Cahn said.
There is also something special about the day of Elul 29 on the Jewish calendar. This is the last day of the Hebrew month of Elul, when all debts were canceled and all credit released, and the nation of Israel’s financial accounts were wiped clean. This is the day that ushers in the month of Tishri and the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah.
The first shaking was 9/11 and a stock market crash on Sept. 17, or Elul 29 on the Jewish calendar. The second was in 2008, seven years later to the day. At end of September 2008, the greatest stock market crash in U.S. history, again on Elul 29, touched off the Great Recession.
So the two worst stock market crashes in U.S. history both happened on Elul 29 to the day.
“So it means in Israel the orthodox Jews were canceling out their debts symbolically, while God is cancelling out the debts, there’s this giant Shemitah, across the world, both times, to the day,” Cahn explained in a TV interview with Gary Stearman on “Prophecy in the News” last year.
On Rosh Hashanah it is customary to blow the trumpets once each day as a type of a warning, and the sound of the trumpet is a symbol of alarm and judgment throughout Scripture.
“Yes Elul is all about warning, it’s about trumpets, it’s about getting right with God and it’s about repentance,” Cahn said. “Sundown comes and then comes the Feast of Trumpets, the blowing of the trumpet. The day of the judgment, or the day of the warning. All these converging on this exact precise day.”
America’s days of playing the role of the world’s policeman and of setting the tone as its financial leader all hang in the balance.
That’s because the nation was dedicated to God on April 30, 1789, the day George Washington was sworn in as its first president, according to Cahn’s earlier research for the book, “The Harbinger.”
America’s first day as a nation with a full government in place was April 30, 1789. After Washington was sworn in, he left to pray at the little stone chapel in New York on America’s very first day as a nation. That chapel was at the edge of what is today Ground Zero in New York City, America’s first capital.
Because America was forged as a nation under God, it was blessed beyond that of any other nation to date in terms of its economy, military and international influence.
While the agricultural concept of Shemitah may no longer be in place, Cahn believes the blessing and judgment aspects of Shemitah still apply, especially for nations founded by people professing Judeo-Christian values. He presents compelling evidence throughout American history that when the nation left its godly moorings, the hand of God’s protection also seemed to leave.
America’s future as a world leader also has huge implications for modern-day Israel.
“America is still Israel’s strongest ally. America is also the home of the largest Jewish population on earth outside Israel,” Cahn told WND. “A great shaking here would affect Israel. It could even play a part in leading American Jews to return (to Israel).”
But Cahn is careful not to predict what will happen in the coming Shemitah year.
“The phenomenon may manifest in one cycle and not in another and then again in the next,” he writes. “And the focus of the message is not date-setting but the call of God to repentance and return. At the same time, something of significance could take place, and it is wise to note the times.”
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2015: The Great Tribulation Of The 3rd Millennium Foreshadowed By The Shemitah Jubilee
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Internet On Fire With ‘September 2015 Collapse’ Narrative
The Seven Year Cycle Of Economic Crashes That Everyone Is Talking About
2015 AND 2016 COLLAPSE TIMELINE
The Great Global Debt Default Of 2015
Global Economic And Financial System On The Verge Of Total Collapse
The Russian Media Is Talking About What Is Coming In September, But The U.S. Media Has Been Strangely Silent
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Wigneswaran approves new Northern Governor
Former Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran says that he is pleased with the appointment of Suren Ragawan as the new Governor of the Northern Province.
A Tamil person has an understanding of the issues of the Tamil community and it is important to think as a Tamil when working with Tamil people’s issues, he pointed out.
He further said that he believes Ragawan will work with an understanding of the issues of the Tamil community.
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Events: TGTE - கோடைகால விளையாட்டு விழா - 2015
Posted Date: 06/09/2015 (Sunday)
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Photos: Chinese influence wanes on Sri Lanka’s shifting sands
News: The Left takes a back seat in Sri Lanka
Posted Date: 05/09/2015 (Saturday)
The first sitting of Sri Lanka’s new parliament took place this week amidst some uncertainty. Following the United National Party (UNP) election victory, negotiations continue on the formation of a national government, with a number of MPs from the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) expected to be given ministerial portfolios. The new cabinet is yet to be announced. One thing that’s clear is that the Left will no longer wield much clout. Earlier, though few in number the leftist MPs held important positions.
News: Why small states matter in international politics: The case of Sri Lanka
Posted Date: 04/09/2015 (Friday)
Sri Lanka occupied little thought throughout the West for much of the period since independence in 1948. In the last few years, however, Sri Lanka began to feature as a country of strategic relevance to great powers, particularly China and the United States. Sitting at the center of the Indian Ocean, halfway between China and the key energy resources in the Middle East, Beijing has sought to influence politics on the island. But it has suffered blows this year, with Mahinda Rajapaksa (friendly to Chinese interests) losing the presidency in January and his party losing in recent parliamentary elections to the center-right United National Party. Now, pro-Western Ranil Wickramasinghe holds the position of prime minister.
News: TNA agrees to give post of Chief Opposition Whip to JVP
It was reported that the TNA has agreed to give the post of Chief Opposition Whip in Parliament to JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. When the post of the Opposition Leader was obtained by a party usually the post of Chief Opposition Whip, too, went to the same party. Yet, the TNA had decided to hand that opportunity over to the JVP, TNA parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran said.
News: India’s Stand on Death Penalty and Torture is a Self-goal in Fighting Terror
The Law Commission’s recent report recommending the abolition of the death penalty except for cases related to terror and ‘waging war’ ignores a critical fact – that to fight terror, it might be more practical to do away with the death penalty. The Law Commission was responding to a Supreme Court suggestion in the case of Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar vs Maharashtra and Shankar Kisanrao Khade vs Maharashtra, that it revisit the issue of death penalty in India to “allow for an up-to-date and informed discussion and debate on the subject.”
News: Syrian Children … The Drowned Dream Syrian Children’s Death Toll during 2015
Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented the killing of 2236 children by the main conflict parties in Syria since 1 January 2015 and up till 31 August 2015.
Photos: Video: Gota, Duminda grilled for 3 hrs; asked to appear tomorrow too
Posted Date: 03/09/2015 (Thursday)
Photos: Leader of Opposition Sampanthan Moots New Scheme for Devolution of Power
Photos: India attaches highest importance to ties with Sri Lanka: Narendra Modi
Photos: Sri Lanka names first Tamil opposition chief in decades
Photos: No previous govt had such overwhelming two-thirds majority-retired armed forces rep War veteran reminds opposition of its responsibility
News: Vantharumoolai Refugee Camp Disappearances: 20 years of waiting
Many may not know that, when 5th September 2015 dawns, it will be 25 years of waiting for 158 families, who ‘lost’ a member or two on that day of 5th September 1990 from the VANTHARUMOOLAI REFUGEE CAMP at EASTERN UNIVERSITY. They did not go missing as usual, where no one knew where they went. In this case these 158 were ‘handed over’/ ‘taken over’ by the Sri Lankan Military in front of a population of nearly 40,000 people. They were forced into buses and were driven away in the direction of Valaichenai. This was the last time anyone saw any of them, to date.
News: Culture of excessive number of ministers must end - TNA Leader Sampanthan
Sri Lanka’s new Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan today said that while a national government in the present context in the country may be a national need, it would have been better if the two parties would have been able to come together without an increase in the number of ministries. The Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today recognized the TNA Parliamentary Group Leader as the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
News: Experience of Dr Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam from North of Sri Lanka
I just returned from the North after 8 months. The miitarization of the North is pervasive. The Navy occupies the Islands' coastal areas appropriating many water front areas and controlling the sea. Poonakary is filled with army and Navy. From Poonakary to Mannar road, which I have traveled back and fourth five times, every three or four miles are fortified entrance to the inside in to the forest and in some places to the coast. The A9 and the side roads to east and west and the Jaffna coastal areas and Mannar coastal areas are filled with all three armed forces.
Videos: TNA MP Sumanthiran’s Parliamentary address
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Posted Date: 02/09/2015 (Wednesday)
News: The inevitability of the banana republic
Posted Date: 01/09/2015 (Tuesday)
Sri Lanka has been a ‘banana republic,’ for quite some time, and clearly so throughout the oligarchy of the Rajapaksas. Formally, a banana republic is “a small country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity, such as bananas, and is typically governed by a dictator or the armed forces.”). But in our case, the fate of the citizenry is far worse than in most other banana republics. In Sri Lanka, all wisdom, action, dreams, hallucinations and the making of unmitigated profit came from the first family and then from its acolytes. They were essentially the centre of our universe as well as the structure that kept this universe in place in a very specific way
News: TNA Appoints Postholders
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentary Group convened its first meeting after the general elections and elected Hon. R. Sampanthan as the TNA’s Parliamentary Group Leader. It was also decided that Hon. Sampanthan should be appointed as the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. On this basis, TNA MP Hon. Selvam Adaikalanathan accepted appointment to the post of Deputy Chairman of Committee. The following appointments were also made at the meeting:
Videos: NSSP BAHU talks to the press on the southern politics
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Montreal's Max Pacioretty (67) celebrates a second-period goal with his teammates during Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Bruins at the TD Garden. The Canadiens won, 3-1, to erase a 3-2 series deficit and eliminate Boston from the playoffs.
This was supposed to be another banner year in Boston for a Bruins team that weathered every storm during the regular season, be it injuries or the inconvenience of the Olympic break.
Instead, it ended with another bitter defeat Wednesday, this time at the hands of their most bitter rival, the third consecutive season in which the Bruins have failed to win the Stanley Cup despite finishing at, or near, the top of the league.
Carey Price stopped 29 shots and three different players scored goals as the Montreal Canadiens beat the No. 1 seed Bruins, 3-1, at the TD Garden in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, erasing a 3-2 series deficit and advancing to the conference finals, where they’ll face the surging New York Rangers.
Boston finished with 117 points this year, more than any team in the NHL and 17 more than the third-place Canadiens, while winning its division for the second time in three years, but never found its rhythm in Wednesday’s do-or-die Game 7.
With their season on the line, the Bruins got off to a horrendous start, committing turnover after turnover in the opening period and allowing an early goal to Dale Weise at the 2:18 mark following a defensive breakdown in front of the net, a reoccurring theme that began early in the Bruins’ Game 6 loss in Montreal on Monday.
Another breakdown in the Bruins’ zone, this time stemming from an inability to clear out the puck, led to Max Pacioretty’s goal at 10:22 of the second period, giving Montreal a 2-0 lead.
Boston finally got a break later in the period when Jerome Iginla scored a power-play goal at 17:58, and the momentum seemed to carry over into the third when the Bruins opened the final period by killing off the remaining 1:15 of a David Krejci penalty. Increased pressure by the Bruins led to more scoring chances, but Price stood his ground. Even when he didn’t, the Bruins couldn’t capitalize; Iginla had what appeared to be a clear look at the open net on a scrum four minutes into the third, but his backhand attempt hit the outside of the post, preserving Montreal’s 2-1 lead.
The Canadiens eventually iced it on Daniel Briere’s power-play goal with 2:53 remaining on a shot that redirected off Zdeno Chara’s skate. Tuukka Rask finished with 15 saves for Boston.
Since winning their first Stanley Cup in 39 years in 2011, the Bruins’ last three seasons have ended in heartbreaking fashion. Their title defense the following year ended abruptly with a 2-1 overtime loss at home to Washington in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals while last year’s Stanley Cup run ended in dramatic fashion in the Finals when Chicago scored twice in the final 76 seconds of Game 6 at the Garden to steal a 3-2 win and clinch its second title in four years. The year before their title run in 2011, the Bruins flushed a 3-0 series lead against Philadelphia in the quarterfinals and coughed up a 3-0 lead at home in Game 7 in a 4-3 loss, one of the worst playoff collapses in NHL history.
Game 7s have been a common occurrence for the Bruins in recent years. This was the seventh consecutive postseason in which Boston played at least one Game 7 and the ninth time in franchise history it has played Montreal in a Game 7. The Bruins are now 3-6 in those games against the Canadiens, including a Game 7 loss at home in 2004 in which they blew a 3-1 series lead and a dreadful 5-0 loss at Montreal in 2008. The Bruins have now lost three Game 7s at home in the last five years and have been eliminated from the playoffs at home in each of the last three seasons.
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MKR has seven entries in the top 50, the most of any program, and its winner announced episode ranked ninth ranked with an Australian audience of 2.94 million viewers.
Ten's rival MasterChef had three entries led by its winner announced program at 14th and with an audience of 2.61 million.
Although cooking dominates, the highest-rating reality show of the year was the Nine's The Block - winner announced. A touch over 3 million people tuned in to watch Queensland couple Will Bethune and Karlie Cicero pocket $815,000 after their ground floor apartment sold for $2.6 million. This made it the second largest non-sport program in eighth position.
Drama doldrums
Seven's biopic Molly took out the prize for the highest rating non-sports show of the year. The first part of the series pulled in an audience of 3.1 million and was ranked seventh. Each episode of three-part series made the top 50 list, ahead of Seven's Wanted with two episodes and Downton Abbey, the only foreign show to feature on the list.
The lack of Aussie dramas reflects two stark realities for TV networks – that they are very costly to produce compared to reality TV and they often struggle to pull in huge ratings. This means dramas deliver lower returns on investment than other programs and are riskier to produce.
"It's definitely tougher to get a drama off the ground," Burnette tells AdNews. "Seven is the home of Australian drama (it has all entrants) and we've had great success and we'll continue to be that next year. It's hard to compete with the multi-million dollar global productions, but well made, high quality local productions have a big place going forward.
"But you also need to identify what success looks like for dramas. It's an overnight figure, a seven-day figure, a regional figure and catch up. Because they're not considered a live product, dramas need to have a life beyond one night on television and that's the future – how is it consumed over a period of time or binged, not single overnight figure propositions."
Burnette says that while there is an appetite for SVOD players like Netflix and international content, the future of Australian TV networks is ensuring their schedules are local and live, including a healthy mix of reality TV and sport.
This year's top 50 list (see below) clearly illustrates this point. Seven and Nine, which contribute the lion's share of Australia's most-watched programs, and Ten have invested heavily on local shows in their 2017 slates, promising even bigger tent pole shows and a more competitive ratings year than ever before.
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By Arvind Hickman | 29 November 2016
Seven's My Kitchen Rules has the most entries of any TV program in the Top 50.
Ever wondered why TV networks invest a lot of money into producing reality TV and live sport? One look at this rating year's list of Australia's 50 most watched programs provides answers.
The top 50 shows drew a combined TV audience of 116 million viewers with an average of 2.32 million viewers. The lowest rating entry was the ABC's Doc Martin with an audience of 1.65 million – illustrating the sheer power of free-to-air television to consistently attract larger live audiences than any other form of media.
Heading this year's list is Seven's AFL grand final presentation show, with 4.11 million Australian viewers, and the grand final itself, which had an average audience of 4.04 million. This is followed by State of Origin I (3.95 million), the NRL grand final (3.79 million) and State of Origin II (3.60 million) and State of Origin III (3.11 million).
In fact, big ticket sporting events are still the hottest properties on television. Nine and Seven, the two networks that show the most popular codes (AFL, NRL and international cricket), deliver large and consistent ratings on the back of their coverage.
Just under a third (30%) of the programs in the top 50 were sport, but these events pulled in 37% of the combined audience share.
"AFL has gone particularly well, we've had record ratings in the finals series and the Friday night games have been powering along. There's been a real lift in interest in the AFL and that's helped our entire schedule," Seven West Media chief revenue officer Burnette tells AdNews.
Aussies love reality TV
Love them or loathe them, the fact is a lot Australians really love reality television with this genre contributing 50% of the top 50 shows. The most popular type of reality, as any foodie would attest, are cooking shows led by Seven's juggernaut My Kitchen Rules.
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McQueen's 1968 Bullitt Movie Mustang Revealed At The North American International Auto Show
The Historic Vehicle Association (HVA) announced that the 1968 Mustang Fastback, serial #8R02S125559 from the movie Bullitt (1968) was recorded as the twenty-first automobile on the National Historic Vehicle Register.
This program is a partnership between the HVA and U.S. Department of the Interior, Historic American Engineering Record and the archives of the Library of Congress. Sean Kiernan of Nashville, Tennessee is the owner of the "Bullitt" car. It was revealed to the public along with the new Ford Mustang Bullitt at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the iconic movie.
The movie Bullitt was the first film produced for Warner Brothers by Steve McQueen's Solar Productions. Actor Steve McQueen, known for his love of motorcycles and fast cars, was hell-bent on bringing real action to the screen. He and Director Peter Yates succeeded with a visceral cop action flick set in San Francisco. The action was all real in Bullitt. Real speeds, real streets, with real crashes caught on film. The Kiernan's '559 Mustang was the "hero car" used for many of McQueen's close-up scenes. A second car (serial #8R02S125558) '558 Mustang was the "jump car" and was modified for many of the film's stunt scenes.
The eleven-minute chase scene was the film's core and forever changed Hollywood filmmaking.
National Historic Vehicle Register
"The 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback ("Bullitt") is associated with one of the most epic stars in film history and an automotive chase scene that helped propel McQueen to perpetual stardom. This was the moment when McQueen became "the king of cool." It was the first movie he created on his own and had all the signature qualities for which he aspired. He played an understated cop, fighting the good fight, against all odds. What he needed was a car to complete his image to enhance his persona. The 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback was just that car," said Mark Gessler, President of the Historic Vehicle Association.
"From our vantage point it is among the most important automotive artifacts of the twentieth century. It has the incredible combination of Hollywood royalty and decades of an honest family's ownership and the secret that engulfed its mystery. As it is revealed today, it marks a moment on this 50th anniversary for America to look back at a time when McQueen and a 1968 Mustang Fastback could captivate popular culture."
The HVA's historic documentation program of the 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback ("Bullitt") has been underwritten in part through the generous support of Ford Motor Company, Hagerty, Shell, Pennzoil, LKQ Corporation, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, and The NB Center for American Automotive Heritage.
Owner Sean Kiernan tells the story as follows:
"For 44 years, our family has owned the Bullitt movie Mustang – serial number '559. There were two Bullitt movie cars. The '558 car was the heavily damaged "jump car" which was recently discovered in Mexico. Our '559 "hero car" was the vehicle that McQueen drove in many of the movie scenes.
For decades, our car has been the subject of numerous rumors, myths and dead-end searches. These stories evolved and took on a life of their own and the car became something of a holy grail in the old car world – waiting to be rediscovered.
Today we revealed the car to the general public and it is pretty much the way my parents bought it back in 1974. They found it in a classified ad from the October 1974 issue of Road & Track. The ad was slightly misspelled and read: "1968 Bullett Mustang driven by McQueen in the movie. Can be documented. Best offer."
According to the New Jersey detective selling the car, my father – Robert Kiernan – was the only person that ever called. We're not exactly sure how much dad paid but it was around six grand. It was quite a bit of money back then for a used '68 Mustang Fastback. In fact, it was about twice to four times the going-rate.
My mom (Robbie Kiernan) and dad were both just 26 years old. They had been married for five years and my sister Kelly was four years old. They lived in Madison, New Jersey about 25 miles from New York City.
Bullitt wasn't a second car – it was their only car. Dad took the train every day to the World Trade Center where he worked in insurance. Mom drove Bullitt to St. Vincent's parish where she taught third grade. The car was never modified – it has a straight exhaust and shook the pavement. God only knows what those kids must have thought. Mom must have been pretty cool.
On weekends, it was the family car and was driven to Maine and upstate New York numerous times. It must have been deafening. There was no sound-proofing because it had been removed for the movie. The trunk had a huge cut-out for a smoke machine. When it rained, I have no idea how the luggage stayed dry. We recently discovered the rear seatbelts hidden with Gaffer's Tape. I guess my sister Kelly was never buckled in. Dad installed a pair of speakers in the back that are still there. With no air-conditioning, windows rolled down and the blaring AM radio, those Bullitt road trips in the 1970s must have been thrilling.
In 1977 my dad got a call from Steve McQueen. Steve had tracked down the prior owner, who gave him our phone number. McQueen wanted the car. He was a guy that was not used to hearing the word "no." But my dad told him: "no thanks, we are not interested in selling." McQueen followed up with a letter reiterating his interest, saying he wanted the car back and offered a trade or something as long as it wasn't "too much monies." Dad never answered that letter. Bullitt was part of our family.
By the time it was parked our family had put 46,000 miles on the car.
I was born in 1981 – about the last time the Bullitt moved under its own power. Dad was an executive and had a company car. Mom was driving something more practical – a Plymouth Horizon - and I had a seat belt.
Dad was always a car guy but by the 1980s another passion bit him. It was horses. Fast cars were moved to the sideline in favor of thoroughbreds. By the time we moved to our Kentucky farm outside of Cincinnati, we had a number of horses. Ultimately, the farm became a full-time job for all of us.
I grew up loving horses and cars alike. We always had something cool to drive. Eventually I learned the story about our Bullitt Mustang. It was a car I would come to know well. While I'd never heard its cylinders fire, I pretended to drive it thousands of miles. I would hop in the seat, grab the steering wheel and run through the gears. I honestly have no idea how that Hurst shifter ever survived my daily abuse.
After Steve McQueen passed, hunting for the Bullitt Mustang intensified. While the car was decidedly not for sale, it simply became a project dad didn't have time for. Gradually, it became our family secret out of necessity. Dad was now a busy executive with horse racing business interests, but he took quiet pride knowing the Bullitt was waiting in the garage.
By 1995 we moved to a house on a smaller farm near Nashville. A few years later dad retired and started scaling back.
I took a job in automotive refinishing. By the late 1990s my father and I started to talk about rebuilding Bullitt. We became further inspired when, in 2001, Ford launched its first anniversary Mustang Bullitt which stirred up more talk of the whereabouts of our original car.
Dad started disassembly of the car in our modest two-car garage. Unfortunately, we still had a farm that took most of our time.
When our father-son project finally started to gain momentum, illness struck – my father was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. For the next couple of years, we could talk about cars, but not accomplish much. In 2014, he passed away. It became a father-son project we were never able to finish together.
Over the past two years, I've worked alone in that same garage to return Bullitt to the condition it was when it was my parent's daily driver. The engine was rebuilt, aging carpets were replaced, and a new steering wheel added similar to the one used in the movie. Aside from that it is pretty much the way it was, with the evidence of our family road miles, and the gentle patina that comes from years of storage.
The paint has never been changed. Some wish it was shinier. It never was. In the movie, all the badges were removed and the paint was scoured with Scotch-Brite pads to make it dull. After the movie, it received a generous application of Bondo (to hide the damage), and a single-stage respray in its signature Highland Green color.
The seats, interior, trunk space and camera mounts remain unaltered and consistent with its prior movie life. When originally prepared for resale, the antenna was returned to the right front fender and the movie rear-view mirror was replaced with a stock unit. The Hurst shifter had been installed by the former owner and we never replaced it.
The front bumper is new and so is the front valance. These were damaged when my grandfather backed into the car in the 1970's. No artificial "patina" has been added - all the new parts can be plainly identified. The car is honest and that's the way I wanted it.
The workmanship is all mine, as it was mine to do alone as homage to my father and the family secret I had internalized.
Over the last 18 months, several experts were brought in to see the car. Mustang expert Kevin Marti was the first and he verified our Mustang as the '559 Bullitt movie car. McKeel Hagerty was contacted, as Hagerty insures the car.
We were then connected with the Historic Vehicle Association in Washington, D.C. for guidance on preserving the car and the related artifacts. They photographed, scanned and documented the car for the National Historic Vehicle Register, in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Historic American Engineering Record.
We can all be grateful that these documents will be archived in the Library of Congress so that future generations of Americans can see the car, just as it is today. Our family is honored that it is the twenty-first vehicle to be recorded under the program and the subject of an HVA documentary that they will release later in 2018. I know my dad would be proud.
We contacted Ford early on, as that had been my father's wish. Together with the HVA, we decided the best time to reveal the car would be today to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of the year the car was produced, and the 50th anniversary of the Bullitt movie.
I am grateful to my wife Samantha and my good friends Steve Forister, Steven Whitaker, Casey Wallace and Ken Horstman, because without their encouragement and support the car would not be here today. I'm also grateful to LKQ Corporation (where I've been employed for ten years) for flexibility in 2018 to tour with the car.
I thank my dad, Robert Kiernan, for the years we shared together, my sister Kelly and my mom, Robbie Kiernan. She must be the coolest third grade teacher in history, because she drove the Bullitt Mustang – our family car and a true national treasure."
The Car: 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback ("Bullitt" – '559)
Serial Number 8R02S125559
Features: extra cooling package, GT equipment group, optional axle ratio, wide oval white sidewall nylon tires, power disc brakes, AM radio, interior décor group, deluxe seat belts, remote control left hand mirror and heavy-duty battery.
The actual build date was January 8, 1968. It was sold on March 11, 1968.
- The above information courtesy of Ford Motor Company and Kevin Marti, Marti Auto Works.
Both the '558 and '559 cars shared identical build specifications. Upon purchase, the cars were prepared by Max Balchowsky for the use in the Bullitt movie. These modifications included: Borg-Warner T-10 heavy- duty four-speed manual transmission, heavy- duty Borg-Warner clutch, 390 ci engine built by Balchowsky, milled heads, carburetor and distributor modification, 4:10 Positraction rear end, heavy-duty universal joints, 5-ton motor mounts, reinforced shock mounts, cross beam support bar, Helwig stabilizers front and rear, Koni shocks, heavy-duty coil springs, frame reinforcements, American Racing mag wheels, Dunlop 5:00 M-15 racing tires on the front, 5:75x10:40 15 Firestone GP Indy Tires on the rear, custom exhaust and a Shelby-type steering wheel.
All exterior Ford and Mustang badging was removed. The Highland Green paint was scuffed to create a dull appearance. Certain features were painted black, such as the rear gas cap. The reverse lights were removed.
After filming, the "Bullitt" car was repaired and painted (Highland Green) for resale.
HVA Documentary and Tour
The HVA is producing a feature length documentary, entitled Little Pieces; The Untold Story of the Bullitt Mustang, about the '559 "Bullitt" Mustang to be released in 2018. The film will feature exclusive interviews with the Kiernan family, as well as many other people connected with "Bullitt," in a definitive telling of the beloved car's entire mysterious life.
A national tour of the '559 "Bullitt" Mustang is also being organized by the HVA and will be announced in the near future.
About the Historic Vehicle Association
The HVA is dedicated to preserving and sharing America's automotive heritage. In 2014, the HVA established the National Historic Vehicle Register in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Heritage Documentation Programs and Library of Congress to document historically significant automobiles in America's past. The HVA is supported by over 400,000 individual historic vehicle owners, key stakeholders, corporations and benefactors. Please visit: historicvehicle.org
The term 'Shell Lubricants' collectively refers to the companies of Royal Dutch Shell plc that are engaged in the lubricants business. Shell Lubricants companies lead the lubricants industry, supplying more than 11 percent of global lubricants volume.* The companies manufacture and blend products for use in consumer, heavy industrial and commercial transport applications. The Shell Lubricants portfolio of top-quality brands includes Pennzoil®, Quaker State®, FormulaShell®, Shell TELLUS®, Shell RIMULA®, Shell ROTELLA® T, Shell SPIRAX® and Jiffy Lube®. http://www.shell.com/
*Kline & Company, "Global Lubricants Industry November 2017: Market Analysis and Assessment."
BULLITT and all related characters and elements © and ™ Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. (s18)
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The Benedictines in China
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Srs Baulu Kuan, OSB, Katherine Kraft, OSB, Rita Budig, OSB, Monastery of St Benedict, Minnesota, USA
The Benedictine Commission for China (BCC) was established in 1996 on the occasion of the Congress of Abbots. Its three objectives are:
• To encourage understanding of China
• To be a resource for finding ways in which Benedictine monasteries can serve the Church inside and outside China
• To find funds to support the Church in China.
I am the only Benedictine sister of the United States informally attending these meetings. I represent religious sisters. The sisters of Tutzing are also represented. I have been the link between China and the West. Every year for the last ten years I have organized a studytrip to further these three objectives. During these journeys we visit historic, religious and educational sites relating to the Benedictines and to the Church in China. We need to improve our knowledge of the past and present of China; we need also to the establish links with the rich Chinese culture.
Since 1993 the Abbey of St John’s Collegeville, Minnesota, together with the Maryknoll missionaries, has contributed in their school of theology for seminarians to initiating Chinese priests and sisters who also take part in monastic life. In the same way, this abbey has sent monks to give courses and organize workshops in some of the major seminaries of China. The office for Catholic China in the United States has received, through St John’s Abbey, a contribution from the AIM to begin the process of translation into Mandarin of basic theological texts and commentaries written in western languages. The team for this project consists of a monk of St John’s, a theologian who teaches at the school of theology and the editor of the Liturgical Press. This action answers a strong desire to help in the translation of theological manuals for sisters, seminarians and priests. Also the Abbey of St Vincent’s, Latrobe, in Pennsylvania, welcomes Chinese priests and seminarians for their studies and sends monks to teach in China.
The German Abbey of St Ottilien has sponsored study-trips for Chinese bishops and priests to the Benedictine monasteries of Europe. It has organized each year discussions on theology and formation and retreats for Chinese leaders of seminaries. It has organized and financed a study-trip to the Holy Land for Chinese spiritual directors of seminaries. A certain number of Camaldolese monasteries of Europe and the United States regularly send monks to China to organize retreats and help in spiritual direction.
A limited help is given to Chinese sisters who of course have the same needs. The community of Benedictine sisters of Taiwan has supported the sisters in China. In the same way, for the last sixteen years Maryknoll has sent a certain number of Chinese religious sisters to the theology school of St John’s. The Chinese sisters are women of deep faith. Although there is an important number of vocations, unfortunately there are few possibilities for teaching and spiritual formation. Let us hope that the communities of Benedictine nuns in Europe will follow the example of the monks and come to the help of religious women in China. Certain communities in China would very willingly welcome a Benedictine sister to teach theology and spirituality. Language is not a problem, for a certain number of sisters in China know English and are capable of translating.
The purpose of this document is to give information on the Church of China and to see what some religious communities are doing to support the Chinese Church, and to ask members of the Conference of Benedictine Superiors to envisage seriously sharing their resources with religious women in China. ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few.’
China is an ancient country with a long history, a country originally governed by various dynasties. The era of the dynasties stretched from the Xia Dynasty (2100BC) to the Ch’ing Dynasty (1911). China became a republic with the Nationalist Party Kuomintang. In 1949 a civil war gave birth to the People’s Republic of China, marking the beginning of communism. The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) concluded some thirty years of isolationist policy in China, during which China had been cut off from the rest of the world.
Today China is a country of more than a thousand million inhabitants. It is a country where millions of innocent people have suffered. It is also a land where the people has been able to overcome unimaginable obstacles to prosper and expand, thanks to their hard work, perseverance and wisdom. Today China is also a complex nation. Recent economic and social developments have come rapidly, and the Chinese people is justly proud of their achievement. In China foreign visitors need to pay particular attention to cultural and political differences.
The more Benedictines attempt to make contact with Chinese religious women, the more we discover elements in the teachings of Confucius similar to our Rule. The most important thing in each of our meetings with these women is to listen to them, without prejudice, about everything they have to tell us about their lives and their hopes. We must resist the temptation to identify their needs and propose solutions. On the contrary, we want to enter into dialogue, respecting individualities, ideas and cultural differences. Only with such respectful listening can mutual understanding and appreciation of differences be won. Only in this way can we discover a process of reaching out and of mutual support.
The current situation of religious women in China
The present situation of communities of religious women in China can be understood only if one keeps in mind the complex history and the current situation of the Church in China. It is a Church divided between the official Catholic Church and the clandestine Catholic Church. The communities of religious women are either communities recently established or communities re-founded after being forbidden during the Cultural Revolution. The communities are composed of novices in the religious life, eager to serve the Church, but lacking points of reference in religious life and the patronage of more experienced religious. Nevertheless there remain a few older sisters who had belonged to communities founded by the Franciscans or other international Congregations who had missions in China before the Cultural Revolution. These communities are diocesan, in the care of the local bishop, and were founded or re-founded to respond to local needs.
The work of the sisters is varied: catechism, house-visits, dispensaries, centres for the economically underprivileged, care of the elderly and of orphans, Kindergarten, religious art, vestment-making, publishing, administrative work for bishops or parishes. The resources of the sisters are often limited to subsidies from parishes or dioceses, and sometimes revenues of dispensaries, craftshops and vestment-making. Chinese religious women may have limited resources, but their faith is unshakable. Some of them express a wish to receive more instruction (theological studies, study of the documents of Vatican II, religious and spiritual formation, community life, Canon Law). Certain communities which have the resources send sisters abroad to obtain the degrees of Master or Doctor of Theology or Canon Law. Nevertheless, Chinese sisters have less resources and less chance of formation than Chinese seminarians and priests.
The position of the Catholic Church in China is relatively complex, so that everything said needs to be nuanced and reflected upon. What is the case in one region is not necessarily the case in another. There are sectors where the Church has a certain liberty, and others where it is closely controlled by the government. There are prosperous urban parishes and rural parishes in difficulties, religious and priests well instructed and others who have little access to any instruction. Some seminaries are relatively well provided for in buildings, resources and formation; others have more limited resources. Nevertheless, there is an urgent need in all sectors for books in Chinese, theology, spirituality, biblical studies, Church history, ethics, dogmatic theology, religious life and formation – and qualified professors. In certain cases skill in information technology and access to the internet is also lacking.
There is a feeling that the bishops and priests of the Church in China are walking a tight-rope, calculating the limits while still maintaining dialogue. The Church in China has had to learn to live under a government which feared its power and influence; this is not an easy way to live. It is always impressive to meet people whose faith has remained solid in spite of persecutions, suffering, censure and even attempts at suppression. We cannot but admire such faith and such determination to ‘be the Church’ in such circumstances.
Fundamental Elements of the Religious Life
Note: Some of the tasks habitually done by religious communities are listed below. An examination of them may be a way of entering into dialogue with Chinese religious.
A. History of the community: establishment, origin, charism
• Write or study the history of the beginning of the community and its evolution.
• Identify the women who were present at the foundation and give their story. Interview the elderly sisters on the history of the community.
• Identify the charism of the community in the spirit of Vatican II and later documents relating to religious life: Perfectae Caritatis (1965), Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes (1990) and Vita Consecrata (1996), especially on the consecrated life as a commitment to the message of Christ and the spiritual values of the Gospel.
B. Rule of life and documents of the community
• Study the Rule of life of the community and adapt it in accordance with Perfectae Caritatis, and other Vatican documents on religious life.
• Identify the theological and spiritual foundations of the community rule of life.
• Work out a document describing how the specific elements of the rule should be lived according to its charism and tradition.
• Put in place norms to guide the community in its organization and daily activities.
C. Initial and continuous formation
• Develop a programme of initial and continuous formation, and form sisters responsible for maintaining this programme.
• Maintain a continuous formation in fundamental theology, study of the documents of Vatican II, spirituality, religious life and vows, spiritual direction, community life.
• Form a library for the community (reference and current theology).
• Form the sisters, both in theology and on the professional level, so that they can respond to the needs of their ministry and those of the community.
D. Government of the community, direction and decision-making
• Put in place arrangements for the nomination/election of Superiors of the community.
• Describe the functions and role of people who govern.
• How to arrive at a decision – the roles of Superiors and members of the community.
• Describe the relationship between the community and the local bishop.
E. Finance
• Set up a provisional programme to ensure the financial stability of the community.
• Establish a budget, drawing in the sisters to the planning and responsibility for this budget.
F. Organisation and work
• Identify the main tasks of the community.
• Define, by dialogue, the function and work of each member of the community.
G. Possible means of supporting Chinese religious women
• Propose to send a sister who speaks Chinese and is conversant with the position of the Catholic Church in China to teach or give a formation in various domains. Alternatively, she could also organise retreats for Chinese religious.
• Propose a sister who could perform these tasks with the help of an interpreter.
• Teach Chinese sisters theology through the programmes of formation already in use in China (probably in Chinese seminaries).
• Take part in the teaching of Chinese sisters in the United States or Canada to gain them degrees of Master or Doctor.
• Propose to one Chinese sister (or several) to live in a monastery in the United States or Canada in order to have the experience of life and organisation in community, prayer, liturgy, initial and continuous formation, keeping archives, library, care of the elderly, etc.
• Remain in contact and co-operation with the Benedictine Commission for China, the AIM, Maryknoll and other organisations which have some experience in supporting monasteries and who take part in teaching, formation and also the selection of potential candidates for studying abroad.
• Contact the Conference of Benedictine Sisters of the United States or Canada about helping.
Supplementary Documents
Report on the 2006 Study-Trip to China
After only twenty days in China it is difficult to speak authoritatively about China and the Catholic Church in China. These are the impressions of a foreigner who has had the chance to visit China for twenty days and to enter into dialogue with bishops, priest, seminarians and religious. The journey was made by Sr Baula Kuan, OSB, a member of the Benedictine Commission for China.
The stages of the journey had been carefully planned to appreciate the rich culture of ancient China and its rapid development today. The juxtaposition of the past with the present is all-embracing and sometimes discordant. For example, modern sky-scrapers beside ancient Buddhist temples, the 49,000 taxis of Shanghai jostling rusty rickshaws, five-star hotels up against crumbling shacks, modern shopping-malls next to street-sellers, sophisticated banquets and famished beggars, great universities and lack of basic education, the latest technology and laborious manual work. China is a land of strong and spectacular contrasts. There is not one China but many.
The main purpose of this study-trip was to deepen our knowledge of the Catholic Church in contemporary China by visiting seminaries, convents, seminarians and religious. We met two bishops, Aloysius Jin, SJ, diocesan Bishop of Shanghai, and Mgr Martin Wu, recently nominated diocesan Bishop of Zhou-Zhi. We were invited to four seminaries: the National Catholic seminary of Peking, the Catholic seminary of Jilin, the Catholic seminary of Hebei and the Catholic seminary of She-Shuan at Shanghai. In each seminary we had discussions with the directors and with the seminarians.
For me the high point was my meeting with religious women at Peking, Jilin, Meihekou, Xi’an, Shanghai and Qi-bao. All these sisters belong to diocesan religious communities. A few sisters, more elderly, had belonged to communities founded by the Franciscans or other international Congregations which had had missions in China before the Cultural Revolution. I would like to mention particularly two groups of religious. In one rural area of China five Benedictine sisters, members of the Tutzing Congregation, worked in a hospital, where their activity was limited and controlled. Despite major obstacles they were eager to remain, for they were worried about the poor who had no access to medical care. Each week they drove their mobile medical unit from the city to rural areas to provide free medical care [The sisters left Meihekou in the summer of 2009]. In the team the physiotherapist sister worked out special equipment for handicapped children and children born with cerebral paralysis, the medical sister examined the patients, the assistant medical sister looked after the laboratory, the pharmacist sister handed out medicines and the fifth sister was responsible for the hospital.
In a large urban centre another group of Chinese sisters has recently shown great courage in resisting the local government which wanted to take their property away. One night they were attacked because they had made a public demonstration to protest against this government action. This act of violence was reported in the local and international press, thus putting an end, for the moment, to the confiscation of their property.
All of them expressed the desire and the need to receive more instruction, especially in theology, religious and spiritual formation, as well as in community living. I was able to make a presentation on prayer to the sisters of Peking, but only after receiving authorisation.
The mix of visits to historic sites of the first presence of the church in China and dialogues with members of the contemporary Chinese Church in active parishes helped us to understand what we had seen and heard. Our contacts were limited. Unfortunately we were not able to have contact with the ordinary parishioners although we assisted at the Sunday liturgy in several churches.
Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, SJ, of Shanghai captivated us when he said, ‘I have lived in China for 91 years, and I still do not know China. China is changing. Do not believe everything you hear about the Church in China, for example that the National Church is unfaithful to the Vatican and the clandestine Church is faithful. Much better, look, listen and dialogue with the members of the Chinese Church. You will know nothing of China if you visit only the great urban centres. Go into the rural areas, where most of the Chinese population live. There life is visibly different from that of Peking, Shanghai and Xian. To be a bishop in China you must be cunning as a snake and simple as a dove’. I well understood that he meant that it was not easy to gain a precise understanding of the Church in China. Rapid generalizations and facile judgments must be avoided. The situation of the Church in China is highly complex. Everything one says must be nuanced and made provisional.
To resume, China and the Church in China are changing rapidly. When we asked the people we met what their aspirations were for the Church, some said they yearned for a Church united and reconciled with the National Church. Others described the longing of many Chinese, particularly among the young, for a deeper understanding of life, combined with a growing interest in religion and spirituality. Still others expressed their disquiet at the rise of consumerism and materialism. Their hopes and preoccupations seemed to be similar to the hopes and preoccupations of the Catholic Church the world over.
We must pray for the Church of China and seriously think of things we could do, teaching philosophy, theology or spirituality in a school or convent, helping in religious formation, organizing a retreat, helping a sister or seminarist to obtain a higher degree, inviting a Chinese sister to live in our community for a prolonged period, translating books into Chinese, working in a hospital or dispensary. We must make use of every chance to get to know China and the Church of China. There is so much richness over there!
Sr Katherine Kraft, OSB
Benedictines in China – a summary
China is an ancient land with a history and civilisation of more than 3,500 years. The ‘Silk Route’ was the first axis of international trade, stretching from the east to the west; it was already functioning in the second century before Christ. Religions played a crucial role on the ‘Silk Route’, centred on the old capital of Xi’an/Chang’an, which means ‘Eternal Peace’. During the golden period of the T’ang Dynasty (618-906) Xi’an/Chang’an was the intellectual and religious centre of China and the home of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam. From 638 onwards missionaries from Assyria brought Christianity to China. In this period the pagoda of Dagin, the first Chinese Christian church, built like a Buddhist pagoda, was constructed. A commemorative pillar stands in front of this building.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century the Franciscans and Dominicans took part in the evangelization of China. A diocese was established in the province of Fujian. The Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrived in Macao in 1582, and established houses in Peking, Shanghai, Nanking and elsewhere.
Members of the Society of the Divine Word arrived at Shantung in the south in 1882, followed by the Maryknoll missionaries, who established themselves in Guangdong, in the south of China, at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the request of Chinese Catholic intellectuals, Pope Pius IX invited the American Benedictines to establish the first Catholic university at Peking in 1922. The monastery of St Vincent’s, Latrobe, responded to the Pope’s request in 1924, setting up a university and a monastic community at Peking. In 1929 the Abbey of St John’s Collegeville, in Minnesota, sent three monks to teach there. Other American abbeys did the same. In 1930 the monastery of St Benedict, at St Joseph in Minnesota, was invited to found a university for women at Peking, the University of Fu Yen; six sisters were designated. Two years later they opened the first Catholic university for women in China. Several Benedictine abbeys and convents contributed financially and spiritually to the development of this enterprise.
In 1883 the Trappists of the Abbey of Tamié in France arrived at Yang Kai Ping in the Chaher (Inner Mongolia) to found the monastery of Our Lady of Consolation. In 1928 they founded another monastery, Our Lady of Joy, at Tchengtingfu, near the town of Shijiazhuang, the capital of the province of Hebei. When the building of the monastery was complete, with the help of workers from the village, the monastery gave to these workers a nearby plot of land so that they would be able to build their own houses. They called the village St Benedict (Bendu Chun). Most of them became Catholics and have remained attached to Benedictine values to this day.
The Abbey of St Ottilien in Bavaria began a mission in the north-east of China at the beginning of the 1920s. An abbey and a diocese were established at Yenki/Yenji in the province of Jilin. In the mid 1990s a hospital at the service of the destitute was opened at Meihekou in Jilin. The international Congregation of the Sisters of Tutzing in Germany provided personnel and later created a country hospital to provide medical care for people in distant rural areas. In the same region, in the little agricultural sector of Kouquian, the church of the Holy Cross was built. Recently the construction of a school for professional formation and a house for the elderly have been begun, at the same time as a little church at Meihekou for the local parish community. In 1926 the Abbey of Saint-André in Belgium opened the seminary in the quarter of Xi Shan (Mountain of the West) at Nanchong in the province of Sichuan; later it was to be moved to Chengdu. The Benedictines used to teach at Sichuan at the University and at the Academy of Fine Art.
The annual study-trip of Benedictines in China has been organized by the Benedictine Commission for China to encourage a better understanding of China, to be a support for the Church in China and to raise funds for China. In this way China and the countries of the West co-operate for the mission of the Church in China. The main purpose of the study-trip, which is an integral part of the BCC, is to inform the participants about ancient Chinese culture and the role of the Benedictines during this period. The journey makes visits to historical, religious and educational sites linked to the Benedictines and the Church of China. It is the best way to understand the past and the present of China, and to set up channels for the comprehension and appreciation of the rich Chinese culture. The visits have led to the discovery in big cities and a few distant villages of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhist temples and monasteries and museums. Monasticism in China is not something new!
The annual trip is now in its tenth year. Normally 10-15 participants from all over the world are invited. It includes monks, sisters, seminarians, oblates and teachers. The sites of the trip are selected in function of the purpose and the chosen subjects of the BCC. The trip occurs at the beginning of summer, and lasts, depending on the sites and activities, two or three weeks. On this tenth trip we were able to visit:
• Peking, the capital of China, where we had the chance to visit the University of Fu Yen and the Prince’s Garden, accompanied by those responsible for the Association of Past Students of that university. They expressed their gratitude for the Catholic teaching they had received from the monks at Fu Yen.
• The town of Jilin. Located in the north-east of China, it is known for its dockyards and aeronautical building. The study-group admired the gothic cathedral built by the Dutch missionaries. At the seminary of Jilin we had an exchange about the Church with the priests and seminarians, who were avid for knowledge. Near the cathedral the Sisters of the Holy Family run a house for the elderly and a traditional Chinese dispensary. We were impressed by the sisters’ gift for traditional Chinese painting and embroidery of ceremonial silk vestments, activities which attract many buyers.
• Meihekou: snuggled into a small town south of Jilin we found the emergency hospital of Meihekou. It is staffed by the Tutzing Sisters in co-operation with the administration of the town. We were especially impressed by their efforts and their commitment to serving the needy in a rural area by means of the weekly tour of their mobile clinic. Since they arrived the town has significantly developed, with paved streets, the construction of hotels and a business centre.
• At Kouqian we celebrated the Eucharist with the parishioners in the fine church built in the Bauhaus style. In the courtyard there is a statute of St Benedict carved by local artists.
• Shijiazhuang is the capital of the province of Lui-Bei, and the place of an old Trappist monastery. At the present time there is a newly-built church, surrounded by the Catholic seminary of Lui- Bei, founded in 1984. It is one of the very first seminaries of China, where there is a very great number of vocations. A few cells of the old Trappist monastery are still preserved, and the Latin inscriptions on the tombs of the first monks are still visible. One of the most interesting encounters we had at Shijiazhuang was our visit to the little village of St Benedict or Benu Chun. The Benedictines were delighted to see us, and took us into their chapel to thank God and to bless us.
• At Hengshui, a small town near Shijiazhuang, the bishop, Mgr Peter Feng, who had studied at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, invited us to visit the town. Before arriving at the cathedral precincts we were able to hear the distant sound of drums and cymbals. The welcoming villagers surrounded us and conducted us dancing to the cathedral. Recently the Benedictine sisters of Taiwan have helped to found a small retreat-centre in a nearby rural area.
• X’ian is the ancient capital of the T’ang Dynasty in central China. The study-trip regularly visits the celebrated seventh-century Nestorian Pagoda of the Temple Lo-Guan-Tai, located on the mountain. There Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, is thought to have learnt the Tao, the ‘Way of Life’, in the fifth century before Christ. We visited a certain number of holy places and observed the monks and nuns praying in these places of pilgrimage and tourism.
• Nanchong, Xi-Shan (Western Mountain), near Chengdu: the superior of the church and the choirs of the cathedral welcomed us with joy. The monastery and the seminary built in traditional Chinese architectural style are opposite and below the city. The story of the Benedictines of Belgium and the United States is described in a little commemorative gallery. In the front courtyard stands a colossal stone statue of St Benedict. All along the mountain, carved in relief, the work of local artists is to be seen. The sisters and the monks have depicted the life of Christ from his birth to his resurrection. There are also the fourteen Stations of the Way of the Cross. The two Benedictine foundersuperiors, who arrived in 1927, are buried there, with large commemorative tombstones. The last of the Belgian Benedictine monks, P. Eleutherius Winance, OSB, founder member of the Chinese monastery, died at the age of 100 on the 15th August, 2009, at the Abbey of St Andrew of Valyermo in California, to which the community had been transferred from China.
• Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan is a university centre of arts, literature and history. The study-group visited the recently-renovated cathedral. The Benedictine monks of St Andrew of Xi-Shan have there built a new monastery/seminary near the cathedral. At the moment the government of the province is in the course of making administrative arrangements. The university has an exceptional museum including an exhibition of Christian, Buddhist and Taoist art.
• Shanghai is the financial hub of commerce. The former Jesuit centre was in the cathedral of Xujiahui. We made a special visit to the bishop, Mgr Aloysius Jin Luxian. At the beginning of the 1980s Shanghai had no single church open for worship, but today there are 145 Catholic churches open for prayer. The seminary is at the foot of the hill Sheshan. The basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan is on the top of the hill, and is a popular pilgrimage-destination for the whole of Asia.
The Catholic Church in China
Since the beginning of the 1980s the People’s Republic of China has continued to forge contacts and respond to overtures made by the international community in political, social, cultural, economic and other sectors, including the religious milieu. Many sectors of society in the United States have been newly engaged with China and the Chinese people, who are facing the challenges of modernisation in the third Christian millennium.
Since the end of the 1980s the enormous increase, both of institutions and of communities in the Christian Churches has been, for most, a surprising discovery. The Chinese Catholic Church, having been cut off from all relations with the universal Church for fifty years, was not able to receive exact or reliable information. Since 1949 the Catholic Church, while continuing to struggle on its own with its internal divisions caused by political governmental pressure, has seen the number of its faithful triple. In the last fifteen years a great interest has been felt in vocations to religious life and to the priesthood. In intellectual circles interest in Christianity is expanding, as is shown by the establishment of Departments of Religious Studies in many of the large Chinese universities.
In spite of the harassment of believers of every culture – which varies according to the date and the region – statistics for the Chinese Catholic Church showed in 2004 the courageous efforts of Chinese Catholics to reconstitute and renew their Church, both as an institution and as a community of faith. In the tradition of a long missionary relationship between Chinese and American Catholics, it is important that the Church of the United States be made aware of the events. It is important also that it grasp the new missionary opportunity to work with China as sister- Churches to witness to the gospel in the 21st century.
Statistics for Catholic China
Number of churches: more than 5,000
Number of diocese: 138
Bishops:
Official Church: 70
Clandestine Church: 50
Priests:
Official Church: 1,400
Clandestine Church: 1,100
Religious Sisters:
Seminaries:
Seminarians:
Clandestine Church: 800
Novitiates of Religious Sisters:
Novices of religious Sisters:
The Catholic Church in China (American Bureau for Catholic China, 1999).
Fox, Thomas C. Chinese Catholics search for their identity in troubled times (National Catholic Reporter, 29th January, 1999, p. 11).
Charbonnier, Jean (ed.) Guide to the Catholic Church in China (Singapore, Bestprint, Co., 1997).
Centre of the Holy Spirit, Hong-Kong, 1999.
Tang, Edmond and Wiest, Jean Paul The Catholic Church in Modern China (Maryknoll, N.Y., Orbis Books, 1993).
Interviews with Chinese sisters of the convents of Beijing, Xian, Nanchun, Wuhan, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai, by Sr Baulu Kuan, OSB, 1999-2000.
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BNP Paribas in Hungary News & Press
You are here: Home › News & Press › All Our News › On Wednesday 14 April 2010, 15 students from six different nationalities will meet in Paris to contest the final of ‘Ace Manager – The Second Set’, the second edition of BNP Paribas’ online game
March 25, 2010 - Group, Human Resources, Press Release, Regional News
On Wednesday 14 April 2010, 15 students from six different nationalities will meet in Paris to contest the final of ‘Ace Manager – The Second Set’, the second edition of BNP Paribas’ online game
Michel Pébereau, Chairman of BNP Paribas, will host the prize-giving
The final of Ace Manager – The Second Set, the second edition of BNP Paribas’ online game, will take place at the bank in Paris on Wednesday 14 April 2010. The five teams that made it through to the final bring together students from six different nationalities. They are the winners of the first round of the game, which took place online between 17 February and 17 March, and attracted 8,133 students from 98 countries.
Michel Pébereau, Chairman of BNP Paribas, will host the prize-giving ceremony after the students have battled it out one last time.
On the day, the five teams – each comprising three students – will face a final challenge before a jury made up of experts from the BNP Paribas group and Jean-Michel Carlo, Head of the Communications Department at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po). The students will be presented with three mini-case studies relating directly to the ones they had to solve during the first round of the game.
The finalists are as follows:
1. ‘Mgimogination’, 140,080 points: three Russian students from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and Moscow MGIMO.
2. ‘Queen’s Homies’, 139,740 points: two Germans studying in the Netherlands (Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the University of Maastricht) and one Swede (Stockholm School of Economics).
3. ‘DIMS’, 139,720 points: three Russian students from the Finance Academy in Moscow.
4. ‘ch’seim bell’, 139,200 points: three Italian students from the universities of Pennsylvania and Bocconi.
5. ‘DSJ Company’, 138,190 points: three Polish students from the Cracow University of economics.
All the finalists will take away a prize, with the first, second and third-placed teams receiving 9,000, 3,000 and 1,500 euros respectively. All the competitors will also receive tickets for tennis matches.
‘Ace Manager – The Second Set’ was designed in consultation with BNP Paribas bankers and is part of the strategy to raise awareness and the appeal of BNP Paribas among young people. The game is especially useful outside France, where the brand is already well known to business and – in certain countries – retail customers, but not yet sufficiently to students.
BNP Paribas’ ambition is to become a preferred employer for students throughout the world.
The game showcases in a light-hearted way the central role that bankers play in financing their customers’ plans in the real economy. To raise awareness and hence the appeal of BNP Paribas among students at the world’s top universities and schools, the bank has capitalised on the world of tennis, with which its brand is already firmly associated, thanks to 37 years of worldwide sponsorship, and on its powerful capacity to recruit and offer attractive career prospects. Some 68% of BNP Paribas’ employees and customers are now located outside France, the bank recruits a wide variety of profiles all over the world, and it currently offers a range of over 300 different skills.
‘Ace Manager – The Second Set’ in figures
8,133 entrants (2,711 teams of three students) in the online round of the game.
98 countries represented
The best-represented countries in the game (with more than 200 entrants each) were: India, Turkey, Italy, China, Russia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Egypt, Belgium and France.
The websitewww.acemanager.bnpparibas.com has received 225,000 visits since going live on 20 October 2009. 1,300,000 pages have been viewed.
The Facebook page currently has over 2,090 fans
Around 1,000,000 students from all over the world have been in contact with the BNP Paribas brand during the campus tour and the promotion of the game.
BNP Paribas has worked closely with TBWACorporate on this global-scale project.
BNP Paribas and employment
BNP Paribas recruits many talented people every year. In 2010, BNP Paribas is planning to take on around 15 000 people in the world, including 3 000 in France.
The recruitment principle at BNP Paribas is based on integration in the long term. To achieve this, BNP Paribas provides individual career management, with dedicated teams who assist each member of staff with their career, their mobility and their choices. The group also has in-depth talent and skill development programmes.
Given the very wide variety in the group, carers are developed with regular mobility within a single business line, between business lines, in other geographic locations, etc.
BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the six strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor’s* and the largest bank in the eurozone by deposits. With a presence in more than 80 countries and more than 200,000 employees, including 160,000 in Europe, BNP Paribas is a leading European provider of financial services on a worldwide scale. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Retail Banking, the Group has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated model across the Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the United States. BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending in Europe. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia.
*Within its peer group
BNP Paribas press contact
Alia Ouabdesselam - +33 1 40 14 66 28 – alia.ouabdesselam@bnpparibas.com
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Most Admired Retail Companies 2010
Fortune Magazine has long been making lists of companies who are either liked the most or the least in certain industries. And just recently, they have come up with another list of most admired companies for 2010. Here are some of the companies in the retail industry that were included in the list.
Apple has taken the top spot as this year’s most admired company overall. It is a distinction that is not entirely new for the company. Apple has held on to the number one spot for the third year in a row. One of the main points why Apple has been chosen as the most admired company is because of their products. Apple has launched a number of innovative products that has somehow changed the way people do things. Along with strong consumer loyalty and mutual respect from other businesses, Apple does have a lot of strong points that makes them worthy to get such a distinction.
Internet retailer Amazon gets into the list of most admired companies for the first time by taking the number 5 spot. Its strong points included strong sales and growth despite the recession, its own successful product line with the likes of the Kindle e-book reader as just among other things.
Toyota Motors
Toyota ranked number 7 on the list and is the third among four companies categorized as belonging to the retailing industry. Its place in the list was due to the company’s strong leadership quality and growth for the year. But then Toyota also has been experiencing certain setbacks due to product recalls which has happened after the surveys that Fortune magazine made have already been collected and listed. If the surveys would have been summarized after instead of before the recall incidents, Toyota Motors may have not made it into the said list.
Wal-Mart Stores
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retail store chain takes the 9th spot in the ten most admired companies. It is the last of the four companies in the retail industry that was included in the top ten. One of its strong areas remain in its effective management of a huge number of discount stores all over the world. It also employs millions of people in the retail industry as well as having a similar number of customers who seek low prices especially in a tough economy.
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“Dan Rather Reports” Investigates the Down Side of For-Profit Colleges
Colette Carey
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With sky high loan rates and even higher drop-out rates, do these colleges educate students or bankrupt them? – Tomorrow Night, Tuesday, June 4 at 8:00pm ET
DALLAS -June 3, 2013 This week on “Dan Rather Reports” we take an in-depth look at the business of for-profit colleges. Schools like ITT Technical Institute, DeVry University and University of Phoenix differ from schools such as Penn State or USC because they actually treat education as a business – teaching students while still turning a profit. And, while most people may be aware that these colleges are for-profit, what they probably don’t know is that most of these profits come from the federal government. In fact, in 2012 ITT Tech reported revenue of 1.3 billion dollars – more than 1 billion of that came from the taxpayers.
This taxpayer money comes in the form of Pell Grants, money that the Government gives to low income students to help fund a college education, and federal student loans.
“I always said they had a bad business model and the business model was, go out and recruit the poor students. Why? They get the most Pell grants and they get the most loans,” Iowa Senator Tom Harkin told Dan Rather.
Harkin lead a Washington investigation into for-profit colleges and how students, who drop out, or who have to take on high interest personal loans in order to bridge financial gaps, are affected by the expense of a for-profit education.
In the case of ITT Tech, Harkin’s investigation uncovered a huge disparity in costs.
“The cost for the associate degree was $48,000. Two years.” Harkin told Rather. “Not too far away is Des Moines Community College. Exact same degree, $9,000.”
And, students at for-profit colleges default on the Federal loans at twice the rate of those attending traditional colleges. They are responsible for half the Federal loan defaults while only making up 10% of the student body.
And while these numbers look to stack up against for-profit colleges, those in the industry say that they are offering an important service to high risk students.
Steve Gunderson, President of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (the organization that lobbies on behalf of the industry) tells Rather, “92% of the students who enroll in our schools are non-traditional students. Almost every student has multiple barriers to academic success.”
But when questioned about high interest rates on the loans that these students must obtain to pay tuition, and whether or not the schools could charge less money, Gunderson says, “What’s the school to do? I think you and I would both criticize the school more if they abandoned the student at the 96th percentile of their academic journey.”
“Dan Rather Reports: For-Profit Colleges” airs Tuesday, June 4 at 8:00pm ET/5:00 p.m. PT only on AXS TV.
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Lindsay Ohse, soprano
With a voice described as “dazzling and crystal clear”, soprano Lindsay Ohse is making a name for herself in both operatic and concert repertoire. She began the 2015/2016 season with a role debut of Tiresias in “Les Mamelles des Tiresias” with Brava Opera, and a much-acclaimed performance of Magnolia Hawks in “Show Boat” at Portland Opera. Prior engagements include the Governess in Britten’s "The Turn of the Screw", the soprano soloist in Mozart’s "Requiem" with Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers, and a return to Santa Fe Opera as a second year apprentice, where she covered the role of Lu Mu-zhen in the American premiere of Huang Ryo's "Sun Yat-Sen." She also performed Adina in "L'elisir d'amore" with Pittsburgh's Resonance Opera Works Company and Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni" at Opera Southwest. Her performance was praised by the critics, who remarked that “Ohse’s singing carries an ardent sensuality, even turning vocal ornamentation into characterization.”
Following her success in Albuquerque, she starred in the east coast premiere of Kirk Mechem’s "The Rivals" as Lydia Larkspur with Bronx Opera where “her voice soared over the orchestra” and she “inhabited her role with charm and gusto.” Previous performances include Armida in Handel’s "Rinaldo" who “steals the show” and the leading role of Marie Celeste in Philip Glass’ "Galileo Galilei" with Portland Opera, Marie in "La Fille du Regiment" at Wichita Grand Opera, Constance in "Dialogues of the Carmelites" at Des Moines Metro Opera, Queen of the Night at both Sarasota Opera and Santa Fe Opera, Viclinda in Verdi’s "I Lombardi" and Ann Putnam in "The Crucible", also at Sarasota Opera.
Winner of the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Oregon District Auditions, Lindsay has also completed residencies with Portland Opera and Santa Fe Opera, where she was received the Agnes M. Canning award for being an outstanding apprentice artist singer. Upcoming engagements include a return to Opera Southwest to sing Amenaide in Rossini’s “Tancredi” and Resonance Opera Works to perform the role of Fairy Godmother in “Cendrillon.” Lindsay currently lives in New York City. More information can be found at her website, www.lindsayohse.com
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Once known as the lumber capital of the world, Bangor's mills shipped more than 246 million feet of lumber a year in the late 1800s.Dozens of sawmills lined the Penobscot River, and Kenduskeag Stream sent processed lumber to nearby Winterport, Searsport, and Belfast to build ships. The historic mansions located near the downtown are evidence of this affluent period in the city's history.
Sports are very popular in Bangor. Many residents attend games at the University of Maine. Many of the city's youth also participate in softball, baseball, basketball and soccer leagues. The town hosts many events, such as a Winter Carnival, cross-country ski races, garden shows, dog shows, Halloween haunted houses and Christmas craft fairs.
Bangor's most famous resident is popular writer Stephen King. Several movies based on his books have been filmed in and around Bangor, including "Pet Sematary," "The Langoliers," and "Creepshow II."
Aside from rooting for athletic teams of the University of Maine, the university provides area residents with many good facilities. Its Fogler Library is the state's largest library. The university also houses the Jordan Planetarium, the Maine Center for the Arts, and the Hudson Museum - which specializes in American Indian artifacts. The Maine Center for the Arts hosts national and international performances and shows, such as world-class theater - including the acclaimed musical CATS - ballets, concerts and operas, all of which helping to enrich the cultural and intellectual life of the community.
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Pre-Raphaelites at Delaware Art Museum
Post #1106 • January 2, 2008, 12:57 PM • 22 Comments
Wilmington, DE - Delaware is an important landmark for American illustration. Howard Pyle was born in Wilmington, and the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania saw nearly every major American illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries come through either as a teacher or a student. It seems fitting that Wilmington is also home to a major collection of works by one of the most illustrative movements of fine art, Pre-Raphaelitism. In 1935 a local textile magnate bequeathed his considerable Pre-Raphaelite holdings to an early incarnation of the Delaware Art Museum. These objects and ones acquired since then just returned home from a nine-city tour last September, where they have been opulently and permanently installed.
The ingredients that went into Pre-Raphaelitism ought to have cancelled each other out. Such pairings include narrative and Art for Art's Sake, Medieval faith and Renaissance empiricism, religiosity and lust, and diverse ranks in the Brotherhood (including a Greek woman and a Jew) coupled with a fetish for a particular copper-headed type with skin as white as fired porcelain. Throw in, for good measure, the notion that art had been going downhill since the cinquecento, and the whole project looks positively nutty.
And yet it all works in its way. Despite the numbing detail and cornball theatricality, great art gets through here and there, evidence that art doesn't care what artists get excited about as long as they get excited about something. This movement was the last to attempt aesthetic heights through illusionist realism until the Photorealists, and where the compositions as a whole don't get sucked down by the effort, they succeed. Rossetti, especially, gives one the impression of bathing in jewels, rather than being pelted by them. The exhibition does fine work presenting a range of objects, including the books so important to the movement, and makes the Delaware Art Museum a required destination for those of us who enjoy this work in the way that we enjoy occasional listenings of heavy metal, and for largely the same reasons. See more at the website.
Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927): Love's Messenger, 1885, watercolor, tempera, and gold paint on paper mounted on wood, 32 x 26 inches, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft, Memorial, 1935
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): Veronica Veronese, 1872, oil on canvas, 43 x 35 inches. Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): Lady Lilith, 1866-68 (altered 1872-73), oil on canvas, 38 x 33 1/2 inches, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898): The Prioress' Tale, 1865-98, gouache on paper on linen support, 47 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
William Holman Hunt (1827-1910): Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 23 inches, Special Purchase Fund, 1947
Frederick Sandys (1829-1904): May Margaret, 1865-6, oil on canvas, 26 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893): Romeo and Juliet, 1870, oil on canvas, 53 3/8 x 37 inches. Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
William Morris (1834-1898); Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): The Arming of a Knight, 1856-57, painted deal, leather, and nails, 55 5/8 x 18 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches, acquired through the bequest of Doris Wright Anderson and the F. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1997
Simeon Solomon (1840-1905): The Mother of Moses, 1860, oil on canvas, 24 x 19 7/8 inches, bequest of Robert Louis Isaacson, 1999
Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898): The Council Chamber, 1872-92, oil on canvas, 49 x 104 inches, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
January 2, 2008, 2:14 PM
Well, I don't like heavy metal, not even in minute doses, and I find Preraphaelite painting turgid, arty and depressing, but they did know how to paint, for sure.
There are good Pre-Raphaelite pictures, especially if one can take them on their own terms, such as the early work of Millais, some Rossetti, some Holman Hunt, a few things by lesser names like Arthur Hughes and even by the later Pre-Raphaelites, notably Waterhouse (who, as OP says, could paint for sure; his Ophelia is delicious--like very fine white chocolate).
But yes, there is more chaff than wheat. These were, after all, Victorian British painters. It is also worth noting that the movement's great early champion was Ruskin, generally considered the most important English critic of the 19th century. He was also, and rather more to his credit, a great admirer and promoter of Turner. Go figure.
the second 2 give you and idea of where maybe renoir got his poses and some of his color from. even so renoir would look better for it with his hazy flatish painterly technique.
the frederick sandy's looks best to me.
I would go for the Rossettis, probably, of what is pictured here, but I like Millais & Hunt better, as I recall.
Of the images posted by Franklin, the Sandys does indeed come off best, in part because it is the simplest and least "loaded," and in effect the most suggestive (the technique, especially the handling of the skin, is not exactly shabby, either). This is, of course, the classic Pre-Raphaelite red-haired "stunner" type Franklin mentioned.
My vote is for the second Rossetti, and after it, the Burne-Jones gouache. The neck in the Sandys is just ridiculous and the head looks oversized and vacant.
The Rossettis here, at least as reproduced, are a little too much like Hollywood glamour shots from the 1930s or 40s, impressive as artificial perfection but ultimately a little too slick and plastic. In person, however, they may be warmer or more sensual than these photos appear (though the dark green velvet on Veronica is terrific).
this whole group is quite a collection of necks. it most have been a pre-raph trait. as well as that come hither blank stare.
Franklin, a goddess can have as long a neck as she damn well pleases. This is, after all, a male fantasy figure. I agree she doesn't look like Marie Curie, but the impassive self-absorption is part of the "stunner" ethos.
Hunt and Burne-Jones have always been my favorites among the Pre-Raphaelites, but I should emphasize that I do not think this is saying much. Raphael makes me feel happy and satisfied and awe-struck, so why bother with the Prees.
I also admire William Morris' tapestries and his utopian novel "News From Nowhere".
Are shallow, stage-like spaces part of the PRB MO too? Or, is it just a coincident feature of this selection? Any relation to this observation, and modern painting's direction towards increased flatness...?
Marc, "stage-like spaces" are definitely part of their M.O. I consider their paintings of women to be very nicely painted, masturbatory arrangements, done with a Victorian and therefore repressed sensibility. Just imagine the metaphysical and profound stage like settings of Quattrocento paintings, done by a bunch of horny and repressed Englishmen, who painted more realistically, but still let their fetishes dictate how they composed the female figure. There is something perverted about their images of women, and this contradicts the idyllic flora and fauna they cram into each image. The saccharine quality of the work sours pretty quickly for me. I am not enchanted, but as Jack notes, there are some really nicely painted passages.
January 3, 2008, 4:58 AM
... art doesn't care what artists get excited about as long as they get excited by something.
That's a great way to put the general principle, Franklin, and it rings true loudly. But great art gets through here and there ...?
I have found over the years that many who like the Pre-Raphaelites REALLY like them. They have something that inspires a special kind of devoted admiration, certainly. But "greatness" goes too far. Eric nailed that aspect in #10.
And Marc also nailed the illusionist issue in #12: "realism" as we understand it since the camera, does not seem to apply with much consistency. That said, whether the Pre-Rs were realists or not doesn't bear on how good they were. Nor did I sense that Marc was saying that.
I think the biggest contribution of the Pre-Ralphs to the modernist movement is their fetishization of historical content, their realism (albeit a heavily qualified one [see neck comments above]) and their theatricality (which can be attributed to Renaissance and pre-Renaissance Italian and German art). Their references to the history of painting are very self conscious as well, and of course this sort of thing (not due to the Pre-Ralphs necessarily) has all but submerged contemporary painting into an airless, ironic vat.
Critics and curators go batty over any painter who comes along and paints as well the weakest of the Pre-Ralphs (Currin, et. al). Their biggest contribution to art history overall, when looked at from a contemporary vantage point, is there obsessive qualities, their show-offy technique. It is sad how the Pre-Ralphs reaped a lot of scorn from the art establishment in the past, but now general audiences are hungry for their capable technique and lush realism.
Clearly they were dedicated, I think in an obsessive, occasionally tender, and often perverse manner. Sex and death drove their art. That is why it is appropriate that opie brought up heavy metal music in this context. Obviously some of them were talented painters, able to capture textures and exacting tonal values with their brushes. To me their hopeless pining for the past, their transforming every woman they painted into a symbol of death or something else slightly less morose, is rather thin gruel.
Like I said I would take the Quattrocento and Renaissance masters any day of the week over them. However, their Romanticism, their passion and drive for the ineffable is definitely needed in the present in some form or other (of course the Pre-Ralphs world view is gone forever). There is definitely a longing for the pre-industrial world present in almost all of their paintings, a longing for the clarity of Medieval hierarchy and its code of ethics.
But "greatness" goes too far.
Sometimes it's just the expanse of one sleeve or one flower or one lock of hair, but that one expanse wants for nothing. That's more or less the upper limit of PRB greatness. And of course, great parts do not sum up to great wholes in art.
That is why it is appropriate that opie brought up heavy metal music in this context.
Hey, I'm the one who brought up metal. I want credit for that. :) These paintings are marked by superlative technique, overwrought feeling, and theatrics. I can almost hear Crüe playing behind them.
That's right, Franklin. I was responding to something you said in the post.
Eric, you repeat the term "Pre-Ralph". Is this a given term of some kind? Sounds sort of like a way to describe business before Nader, or literature before Emerson.
Marc's observation about flatness is an excellent observation. Could almost be a PhD dissertation. I think the staginess and the little "windows into distance" comes about through their literally referring back to painting before Raphael, when painting was doing its damndest to establish convincing illusion. Same problem; different response.
it is amazing that everyone pretty much or more sees these the same way. where's george?
Sorry I must have been thinking about the Honeymooners or something. I think I am being more generous than I would normally be towards these painters because it is the topic at hand, what we are all currently discussing. I really have no interest in this particular school of painting. And in response to opie's comment: "...their literally referring back to painting before Raphael..." is partially true. I think they refer to Renaissance painting just as much as to pre-Renaissance painting. As for English painters with superlative technique, I will take Constable, Turner, Gainsborough, and Reynolds over the Pre-Raph dudes any day.
The Pre-Raphaelites dismissively referred to Sir Joshua Reynolds as "Sir Sloshua."
That showed him!
It's good that these images of the work have been republished here because the little zoomable window at the DAM site makes them all but unviewable.
I'm having trouble categorizing these images all under Pre-Raphaelism. Paying no attention to captions, their most unifying characteristic seems to be the blending of a spate of different eras and places, ancient to modern spanning continents.
But the ones I like I can point to: Rosetti's Veronica Veronese (which seems to me something of a Dutch Baroque Nouveau mashup), and Hunt's Isabella and the [Basin of Pot] (with its Romantic Michaelangelesque figure in the Flemish style).
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More free cash machines in low-income areas
By HM Treasury
Issued 17 July 2008
Over one million people are benefiting from 419 new non-charging cash machines installed in low-income areas throughout the UK in the last 18 months, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Kitty Ussher MP and Treasury Select Committee Chairman, John McFall MP announced today.
This substantial progress is the result of a joint initiative between HM Treasury and the ATM working group, chaired by John McFall.
Kitty Ussher and John McFall announced that:
419 new free access cash machines are now operating in low income areas;
A further 143 locations for free access cash machines have been identified and are planned for end- 2008;
These 562 free cash machines will benefit around 1.3m residents who as a result will not have to pay charges or to travel outside their community to withdraw cash; and
Work continues to ensure there is a free access cash machine in every identified target area.
Kitty Ussher said:
"This initiative means that over one million people in low income areas no longer have to pay to get hold of their money. This is real progress in our campaign for access to free cash machines in neighbourhoods up and down the country and a step forward for financial inclusion.
When people have to pay to get their hands on their own money it excludes them from the financial system and these real costs are often borne by those who can least afford it. These new cash machines will help individuals on low incomes to access financial services as easily and cheaply as possible.
I am also pleased that the ATM industry had made real steps to improve its signs on cash machines so that it is absolutely clear at a glance whether the machine is free or charging.
When this initiative is completed and all of the free-to-use machines are in place, around two million low-income Britons will benefit - a fantastic result and I would like to thank all the parties involved for their efforts in make sure this happened."
John McFall said:
"In today's society, financial exclusion can lead to social exclusion, as it makes worse the problems that people in low-income areas face. It is vital that every family can access the basic financial services, such as bank accounts and cash machines, which many of us take for granted. This free-to-access ATMs initiative has allowed 1.3 million people in low-income areas to benefit - an outstanding achievement.
A number of the new cash machines have proven so popular that they now no longer require funding from the scheme -- proof that these machines were much needed, and are making a real difference to the communities in which they are located.
The efforts put in by all those involved in the initiative -- in particular, LINK and the cash machine operators -- have been commendable. The Treasury Select Committee has worked hard to keep financial inclusion on the agenda for many years now, and I am delighted that, with the help of the Government and the financial services industry, this hard work is paying off."
LINK, the operator of the UK cash machine network, has been coordinating efforts to place the cash machines in low-income areas, and enforcing the rules on cash machine charging and signage.
Kitty Ussher and John McFall also praised the work of LINK to update screen information and make changes to external signage at the majority of pay-to-use cash machines. This ensures that charging machines meet good practice standards for "at a glance" signage, enabling customers to quickly and easily distinguish between charging and non-charging machines.
1. Following concerns raised by the Treasury Select Committee in March 2005 about the impact of ATM charges on lower-income groups and the transparency of charges at ATMs, the Parliamentary Working Group on ATMs was established at the instigation of HM Treasury under the chairmanship of John McFall.
The Group´s report, ´Cash machines - meeting consumer needs
2. All major cash machine operators in the UK - including banks, building societies and independent cash machine operators are part of the LINK ATM network. About 37,500 free ATMs currently account for 96% of cash withdrawals, with the remaining 4% of withdrawals made at some 27,000 charging machines across the UK. Banks and building societies currently pay an 'interchange fee' when machines operated by other companies are used to access their accounts. As part of this initiative to locate free ATMs in low income areas a financial inclusion premium, a 30-50% premium per transaction, is paid to cash machine operators establishing ATMs at sites with lower customer-use.
3. The then Economic Secretary, Ed Balls and John McFall wrote to Members of Parliament and local authorities in December 2006 with a further update in March 2007 asking where to places free ATMs, with a significant number of suggestions received.
4. Four hundred and nineteen non-charging bank machines are now in operation, and LINK is continuing to work to realise identified potential ATM sites, especially those within outstanding target areas. Full details on progress made to date, can be found on the LINK website; including a breakdown for every constituency: www.link.co.uk
5. As part of the Government's commitment to ensuring that everyone has access to financial services, 'The Action Plan for Financial Inclusion for 2008-11', launched by Economic Secretary Kitty Ussher in December 2007, announced Government funding of £135 million for initiatives to promote financial inclusion, including increasing the availability and awareness of home contents insurance for low-income people and free face-to-face money advice.
6. As an incentive for operators to set up and maintain cash machines free-of-charge, a 'financial inclusion premium' compensates cash machine operators for the expected lower cash machine-use in these areas. This is funded by the cardholders' banks and building societies. Nine of the new cash machines proved popular enough that they now no longer require funding from the scheme.
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Article Published/Sorted/Amended on Scopulus 2008-07-24 07:51:07 in Economic Articles
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The Silk (Rail) Road on track, directly from Wuhan to Lyon
After 16 days and 11,300 km, the first freight train reached France after crossing six time zones through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Germany, taking half the time of sea shipping. Xi’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ is back in the spotlight, to trade with Europe, bypassing the United States.
Beijing (AsiaNews) – An intercontinental freight train that left Wuhan city in China arrived in Lyon, France, after travelling 11,300 km to Lyon, France, crossing seven countries and six time zones. A new ‘Silk Road’ thus begins.
The train arrived at its destination after 16 days, half the time it would take by sea, which tends to be dominated by US exports. The convoy carried a cargo of mechanical, electrical, and chemical products. The same train is expected to leave in a few days loaded with French wine and produce.
After receiving the iron horse with great fanfare, France announced plans to introduce three links a week between Wuhan and Lyon in the near future.
On its website, Chinese freight company Trans Eurasia Logistics (TEL) already advertises regular rail links between 16 Chinese cities and European cities – including Barcelona, Bologna, Rotterdam, and Kotka, in Finland.
In March 2015, China and a number of European nations agreed to a ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’, an initiative designed to open up new trade routes.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has backed this dream, which he had dubbed ‘One Belt, One Road’, and is part of a broad geopolitical project with many implications.
On the one hand, the ‘New Silk Road’ embodies a desire to bypass the war-torn Middle East and Africa’s pirate-infested seas. On the other, Beijing wants to become the most competitive possible to marginalise US exports in Europe.
China also has to contend with India, which launched its own maritime trade initiative, called the ‘Cotton Road’ to link the nations of South Asia and South-East Asia.
For Alice Ekman, a research fellow and head of China research at the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), China’s project “goes off in all directions".
"In the beginning, China announced a possible 60 partner countries – Eurasian countries. Now we're seeing that the project also includes Africa, and Beijing has also said that 'all countries across the world are welcome’.”
The ‘Belt’ initiative is backed by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which China controls. Yet, “it won't be easy for China's institutions to implement the government's program," said Ekman.
22/04/2016 18:52:00 - East Asia China Europe
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