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How to Find Pluto in the Night Sky: July 8
By Geoff Gaherty 2015-07-08T15:07:04Z Skywatching
This chart shows the positions of Pluto and New Horizons this week as seen at 1 a.m. EDT in a high power eyepiece.
(Image: © Starry Night Software)
On July 14, a NASA spacecraft will make a close flyby of Pluto, sending back the first up-close images of the dwarf planet's surface.
In anticipation of the New Horizons flyby, this sky chart can help you find Pluto in the night sky (with the assistance of a high-power telescope).
The chart shows the positions of Pluto and New Horizons as seen through a high-power telescope eyepiece with a field of view of 15 arc minutes. Both are moving from left to right. The leftmost dots (labeled "Pluto" and "New Horizons") show their positions at 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) on Thursday (July 9), and the remaining dots show their positions at the same time through the morning of July 16.
Notice that the paths cross between the positions for July 14 and July 15, the exact time that New Horizons flies by Pluto. Of course, New Horizons is too small and far away to be visible even in the largest telescopes, but it's interesting to see its position relative to Pluto.
New Horizons is the first probe to study Pluto up close, and no telescopes currently in operation can resolve the dim, distant dwarf planet well enough to get a good look at its surface features and composition.
New Horizons' most recent images of Pluto and its five moons are already beginning to reveal never-before-seen details of this strange system.
After New Horizons passes by Pluto, it will travel deeper into the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, where it may study study another object (if NASA approves a proposed mission extension). Only four other space probes have ever traveled into that distant region.
This article was provided to Space.com by Simulation Curriculum, the leader in space science curriculum solutions and the makers of Starry Night and SkySafari. Follow Starry Night on Twitter @StarryNightEdu. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
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The Yellowstone Affair
By John Fishwick
& Lisa Wroble
A cataclysmic event is set to happen in Yellowstone National Park, and the government is silencing anyone who knows too much. Can Jeremy Rowlands and his wife Stephanie expose the truth in time while keeping their families safe? More
In their first adventure, A Flight to Romance, sweethearts Jeremy Rowlands and Stephanie Marks proved that no one is too old for a second chance at love. In The Yellowstone Affair, the intrepid pair prove that they aren’t too old for action, adventure, and danger either.
The nightmare begins on the couple’s first anniversary. While they’re dining at a lake-side restaurant, Stephanie notices a briefcase someone has left behind. Taking a look inside the attaché case--to find a way to contact the owner--Jeremy finds ominous research related to the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park. After lying dormant for so long, the volcano is due for an eruption. If the report is true, people need to be warned.
Before they can decide what to do about the report, a body is found in the woods near the restaurant, and Jeremy and Stephanie’s house goes up in flames. They realize that their knowledge of the volcano is putting them—and their friends and family—in profound danger. The two decide to inform the public about the impending eruption, but to protect those they love from the violent government agents now after them, they will have to flee. What follows is a wild cross-country journey that will test their relationship—and their luck.
Jeremy and Stephanie may be celebrating their first anniversary, but will they live to see their second?
Category: Fiction » Adventure » Action
Category: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Tags: problem solving government conspiracy astronomy game theory baby boomers geology supervolcano natural disaster yellowstone park sedona arizona
About John Fishwick
John Fishwick grew up on the Isle of Man—home of the Minx cat and the first country in the world to give the vote to women. He earned a degree in chemistry and geology from England’s Liverpool University then promptly joined the British Army to study Russian with British Intelligence. After two years in Canada as a field geologist, he emigrated to the US where he worked on a top secret project for the government and then became a citizen.
The founder and principal operator of a high-tech materials company that has been in business for over forty years, John also holds various patents and enjoys lecturing on various subjects such as astronomy, geology, evolution theory, and logic, critical thinking, climate change, energy sources, and the relation of art and science to universities, colleges, and world-wide on cruise ships. He is a longtime member of Mensa.
Previous publishing projects include over fifty technical articles, as well as a nonfiction book entitled The Applications of Lithium in Ceramics. His current writing focuses on fiction with the recent release of a novel A Flight to Romance. Other titles will follow.
John is married to Nancy. They spend their time between Southwest Florida and the mountains of North Carolina where they enjoy playing golf and bridge. John is proud to have a son who is a professor of computer science at UT in Dallas and a granddaughter who recently graduated from Harvard Law School.
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Bangladesh court sentences 22 to death
April 17, 2005 — 4.04pm
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 22 people to death and six to life imprisonment for the murder of an opposition MP last year, a report said.
Ahsanullah Master, an MP from the main opposition party, the Awami League, was slain by gunmen at a party rally in Tongi, near Dhaka, on May 7. Violent opposition protests erupted across Bangladesh after the attack, in which three party workers were also killed.
After a six-month trial, Judge Shahed Nooruddin delivered the verdict on Saturday in a crowded courtroom amid tight security, the United News of Bangladesh reported.
The Awami League blamed the attack on Ahsanullah's political rivals.
Tongi police charged 30 people - including several supporters of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party - with suspected involvement.
Two suspects were acquitted.
Those convicted would appeal to a higher court, their lawyers said. Death sentences are carried out by hanging in Bangladesh.
Only 12 of those convicted are in custody. The other 16 are fugitives and were tried in absentia.
In his judgment, Nooruddin called the attack a "pre-planned murder".
"This was a brutal murder. So, there is no scope for taking a lenient view," Nooruddin said.
The court heard from 34 witnesses during the trial.
The slain MP's son, Zahid Ahsan, was satisfied by the judgment. "I would request the authorities to execute the verdict immediately," said Ahsan, who has been elected to his father's parliamentary seat.
Prosecutors said about 20 gunmen attacked the opposition rally at a Tongi high school, killing Ahsanullah and the three others.
After his arrest, Mahbubur Rahman, one of the accused sentenced to death, confessed to the crime and named the other suspects, who included a local leader of the ruling party. He also helped police recover the guns used in the attack.
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Spirits high, says Stephen
Stephen McGinn says spirits are high ahead of Tuesday night's trip to Peterborough United, following Saturday's vital 2-1 success over Port Vale at Bramall Lane.
"It was a massive relief to get that result," McGinn said. "That was the over-riding feeling in the dressing room afterwards.
"It's really tough when you are on a bad run because every time you come into work on a Monday morning, it's another post-mortem. Another round of looking at what happened and what went wrong.
"Fortunately, we haven't had to do that this week. The mood has been pretty different."
The Scottish midfielder regained his place in the starting line-up against the Valiants, another pleasing aspect for McGinn during the recent turnaround in fortunes under interim boss Chris Morgan.
"It's great to be back involved again," he added. "It's not nice at the best of times to be out of the team but it's even worse when they results aren't coming and points are being dropped."
Concluding by looking ahead to the clash with the in-form Posh, the former Watford man added: "Peterborough are a good team and we will show them the respect they deserve. But we won't be showing them too much respect because we've got good players too.
"I played with Britt (Assombalonga) at Watford; he is such a raw talent, so quick and strong, with a real eye for goal.
"We have to defend excellently as a team for 90 minutes because they have several attacking options, but we will be organised and resolute and there is no reason why we can hurt Peterborough at the other end of the pitch."
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Read the Sun Sentinel's award-winning journalism
Trade possible if deal is right
MIKE BERARDINO Staff writerSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel
Marlins President David Samson was at Wrigley Field after spending much of the past two weeks in Miami-Dade Circuit Court due to Norman Braman's lawsuit.
While a resolution isn't expected until mid-September, a delay that endangers the club's plans to open a new stadium by April 2011, this setback will have "no impact" on the Marlins' ability to make a key addition before the non-waiver trade deadline, Samson said Thursday.
"We're always going to do what we can with revenues and match payroll to revenue in a current year," Samson said of a team that had baseball's lowest Opening Day payroll at $22 million.
Despite published reports linking the Marlins to Rockies reliever Brian Fuentes and Reds catcher David Ross, among others, President of Baseball Operations Larry Beinfest has yet to bring a potential deal to Samson and owner Jeffrey Loria for approval. Samson, however, said there was "plenty of time" to get something done before 4 p.m. on July 31.
"We will not make a trade that is not good because we value our players," Samson said. "What we value is the way Larry does business, which is making good trades. I think his track record speaks for itself, so we're not going to do something that we don't think makes sense."
Among the factors the team must weigh, Samson said, is the potential impact on the field as well as at the gate, where the Marlins again rank 30th and last in major league attendance.
"Larry has to start that ball rolling," Samson said. "What we don't do is go to Larry and say, 'Hey, you've got X million. Go find a player.' That's never how it's happened."
As for the stadium, Samson said it would take at least 29 months to go from groundbreaking to completion, a schedule that would require construction to start by early November in order to be ready for the start of the 2011 season.
"And that comes with a lot of risk that I'm not sure we're willing to take," he said. "We are covering every penny of cost overruns and we do not want mistakes."
Uggla sits
Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla, stuck in a 1-for-25 tailspin that includes 11 strikeouts, was not in Thursday's starting lineup. Alfredo Amezaga took his place.
Uggla said his left ankle was fine but admitted his timing hasn't returned since he missed 11 days just before the All-Star break.
"I feel like I'm seeing the ball all right," Uggla said. "Obviously my at-bats haven't been very good, and that will frustrate you. It's always a little different when you're out ... and you have an injury that [afterward] you don't quite feel exactly the same."
Uggla said his downturn had "nothing to do" with his participation in the Home Run Derby on July 14.
Equipment change
Jorge Cantu was in the lineup and singled sharply his first two trips despite hobbling around with a bag of ice on his leg before the game.
Cantu said he fouled a pitch off his lower leg on consecutive days against the Braves' Jorge Campillo and Charlie Morton. As a result, Cantu will start wearing a shinguard as a regular precaution.
The last time he did that was 2006, when he missed 39 games with a broken left foot suffered the same way.
The Marlins have signed former big-league outfielder Michael Ryan out of the independent Atlantic League and sent him to Triple-A Albuquerque.
Ryan, 31, spent parts of four seasons with the Twins from 2002-05, hitting a combined .265 with seven homers in 260 at-bats. He was in the minor league systems of the Braves and Pirates, respectively, the past two years before hooking on with the Somerset (N.J.) Patriots.
A left-handed batter, Ryan hit .282 with 15 homers in 65 games for Somerset.
Mike Berardino can be reached at mberardino@sun-sentinel.com
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Quantum Physics Neil Degrasse
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Jenny Lau Buong Bee made Singapore legal history in 1966 when she became the first woman to be appointed a district judge. Earlier, in 1960, she had made Malayan legal history by becoming the first magistrate in Malaya.
The third of seven sisters, she was born to a principal who became Chief Inspector of Schools and a teacher. The siblings all became professionals – three doctors, two lawyers and two educators.
Jenny received her legal training at Lincoln’s Inn in London, returning to Singapore in 1957. She was briefly in a private law firm before being appointed as a magistrate in the Juvenile and Family Courts. She also sat on the Singapore Cinematographic Films Committee of Appeal (an old name for the Film Censorship Board) as well as the Eugenics Board. She served in the Subordinate Courts until 1975 when she joined the Shaw Organization as a legal advisor. She eventually retired in 1988 but continued to help in her sister May’s law firm.
Being on the leading edge of the legal profession in the 1960s was challenging for a woman. Jenny found support in her sisters, whom she met up with on weekends.
Jenny was an understated but determined champion of the underdog and common man. This was reflected in the thoughtful judgments she made while serving on the bench, the reminiscences of junior lawyers to whom she dispensed career advice, and unrecorded acts of kindness to common folk that were sometimes unexpectedly revealed.
One day well into her retirement, two men approached her as she was sitting in a cafe. They had appeared before her in court when they were young and foolhardy. She had listened to their appeal against being sent to prison and agreed to give them a second chance. It was the turning point they needed. They stayed out of any further trouble and eventually made good of their lives. Recognising her at the café, they wanted to thank her for giving them that second chance.
In private, Jenny was a devoted mother who constantly kept her children’s interests close to heart. In her later years, she doted on her granddaughters, entertaining them with her phenomenal memory for social networks in Singapore society.
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Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist activist in early 20th-century Berlin, murdered by her political enemies after World War I. She’s the topic of the debut edition of “Long Story Short,” a new podcast on people and ideas in Jewish life.
By Long Story Short
July 28, 2011 • 7:00 AM
Rosa Luxemburg.(Wikimedia Commons)
Rosa Luxemburg was always an anomaly. One of the fiercest thinkers of the early 20th century, this Marxist philosopher and firebrand activist led masses of rebels during a time when politics was governed entirely by men. Living in Berlin, she was of Polish Jewish descent but not at all concerned with the plight of Jews. Unlike her male, dogmatic, and dull peers, she believed in love and passion and life’s small but great joys. In 1919, when she was just 47 years old, she was brutally murdered by her opponents. Long after many of her colleagues have been reclassified as tyrants by history’s unremitting hand, Luxemburg’s popularity is greater than ever; each year, thousands of young activists flock to her grave for inspiration.
But how is Luxemburg relevant to Jewish history? And what, if anything, would she have to say to Sarah Palin and her Tea Party supporters? The critic and essayist Vivian Gornick joined Long Story Short host Liel Leibovitz to discuss these questions in the first installment of Long Story Short, a new monthly podcast about the people, places, and ideas that have shaped Jewish life and history. Each installment will focus on a different subject—from the 17th-century false messiah Shabbatai Tzvi to the 20th century’s princes of punk, the Ramones—and will feature a wide array of thinkers, artists, historians, and intellectuals.
The conversations, leisurely and long, are recorded in Leibovitz’s living room over a bottle of wine and are designed as the antithesis to haste, hype, and the other vulgarities that plague our popular culture. The podcast owes a great debt to the BBC’s long-running show In Our Time, with which it shares the belief that ideas matter, and that rather than be marketed, condensed, tweaked, trivialized, or bowdlerized, they should be passionately discussed. [Running time: 42:27.]
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MonkFish says:
This new podcast is nothing short of inspired! BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, a programme of which I have been an avid listener for eight years, has but two lacunae: first, that its host, Melvynn Bragg, can be a bit of a opinionated prig, second, that, with the exception of a single edition on the Rambam this year, he has avoided jewish topics entirely. My hope is that “Long Story Short” will act as a much needed jewish complement to Bragg.
S M says:
If this is a podcast, how do we subscribe? You don’t provide a link, nor do you show up in the iTunes store.
jacob arnon says:
“Rosa Luxemburg was always an anomaly.”
Was she? In Eastern Europe, which is from where she hails from, there were lots of Jewish women leftist revolutionaries drawn to violence. Fanya Kaplan, who shot Lenin, for example, also came from a Jewish family.
They are relevant to us only as cautionary tales.
We hope to appear in the iTunes story shortly, we will keep you posted! you can subscribe via our RSS feed using the link below the podcast. Thanks.
Well done!!! I truly enjoyed it and am looking forward to the upcoming podcasts!!!
Alas, the link below the podcast failed….is there another method?
I hope there is one done on Walter Rathenau. 50 years before Henry Kissinger became the first Jewish Secretary of State in the US, Rathenau held a similar position in Germany before being gunned down by disgruntled members of a paramilitary organization at the age of 54.
Dani ben Leb says:
Yes, I had asked for a feature on Walther Rathenau before! Excellent idea.
Aslo while we are in Berlin around that time. Helmut Newton ( real name Hoffman ) the photographer, was a Berlin Jew who grew up close to Rathenau. Newton went on to become one of the most famous photographers of the 20th century often playing with his Prussian heritage in his work over the decades. His father was a button manufacturer and they belonged to that well to do, assimilated German-Jewish world. Newton was taught by Yva, photographer to the Berlin creatives in the 20s. Yva was murdered in a death camp in ’42.
There was also Gershom Sholem around Rosa’s time in Berlin. But I assume ( guessing here ) Communism was a joke to Gershom who’s Communist brother was murdered by the Nazi’s.
Gershom and Martin would of course later kick-it in J-town.
Dani: Do you mean Helmut Neustaedter who was born in 1920? He changed his name to Newton while living in Australia. Yes, he did have a very interesting life, although I must confess I had never heard of him before your post.
Another interesting Jewish personality in the arts is actor Kurt Gerron, who, during the 1920’s and early 1930’s, was a famous actor of the stage and screen in Berlin. He left Germany in 1933, moving first to Paris and then to Amsterdam. He turned down various offers of employment from the German-American community in Hollywood, was arrested by the Nazis after they occupied Holland and eventually ended up in Theresienstadt. At the camp, he ran a cabaret for the inmates and later co-operated with the Nazis in directing a propaganda documentary, “Hitler Gives the Jews a City”, hoping it might save his life. In the end, he was deported to Auschwitz.
During the interview, Gornick said that Walter Benjamin didn’t go to Palestine because he was “devoted to German literature.”
This isn’t factually true. He stayed on France. He was already in exile from German literature and was doing brilliant work on French literature. He needed to stay there to complete his literary project (Bataille, the French writer and critic who worked as a librarian, saved his papers from destruction.)
Consequently he left only after the German invasion.
He took refuge in a hard nosed form of Communism which was severely criticized by Adorno. He may also have been depressed at the time.
Benjamin, then, like many other Jewish European intellectuals made a number of wrong decisions and ended up dead.
Still, Benjamin, unlike Rosa Luxemburg, cared about his Jewish heritage and would never have disavowed it.
my mistake, Thank you for pointing this out. Newton wrote a hilarious autobiography, great read.
Tommie T says:
Both Lenin and Trotsky were very disappointed that so many of the post World War Communist revolutions in Eastern Europe ended in failure. So they only got to kill a few million people. And did not get the opportunity to work the killing machine on the heart of Europe. And only managed to kill a few million people prior to Stalin’s takeover.
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Clothing and footwear: weekly UK household expenditure 2018, by gross income
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group (in GBP)*
by Tugba Sabanoglu, last edited May 2, 2019
This statistic shows the average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group. Households in the middle fifth decile group spent on average 19.60 British pounds (GBP) a week on clothing and footwear. The highest ten percent decile group spent nearly seven times more than those who were in the lowest ten percent decile group.
Average weekly household expenditure in GBP
5,410 households
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Apparel market in the UK
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Apparel and footwear market value in the United Kingdom 2013-2020
Clothing and accessories market value in the UK 2013-2017, by category
Fashion industry value to the economy in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2014
Apparel market in the United Kingdom (UK)
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Market value of apparel and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2020 (in million euros)**Apparel and footwear market value in the United Kingdom 2013-2020
Value of the clothing and accessories market in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013 and 2017, by category (in billion GBP)Clothing and accessories market value in the UK 2013-2017, by category
Value of the fashion industry in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2009 and 2014, by direct and indirect economic contribution* (in billion GBP)Fashion industry value to the economy in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2014
Employment in the clothing and footwear industries in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sector* (in 1,000s)Employment in the clothing industry in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by sector
Annual turnover of wearing apparel manufacturers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)Manufacturing turnover of wearing apparel in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Sales value of wearing apparel manufactured in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by clothing type* (in 1,000 GBP)Clothing manufacturers' sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by category
Sales from the manufacture of wearing apparel in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017 (in million GBP)Wearing apparel manufacturers' sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2017
Gross value added (GVA) of wearing apparel manufacturing in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)Gross value added (GVA) of wearing apparel manufacturing in the UK 2008-2017
Number of enterprises for the manufacture of wearing apparel in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017Number of clothing manufacturers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Import value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017, by EU and non-EU trade (in million GBP)Clothing and accessories total import value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Import value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by continent of origin (in million GBP)Clothing and accessories import value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by continent
Value of apparel and footwear imports in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by category** (in million GBP)United Kingdom (UK): clothing and footwear import value 2018, by category
Export value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017, by EU and non-EU trade (in million GBP)Clothing and accessories total export value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Export value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by trade continent (in million GBP)Clothing and accessories export value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by continent
Value of apparel and footwear exports from the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by category** (in million GBP)United Kingdom (UK): clothing and footwear export value 2018, by category
Annual turnover of clothing and footwear wholesalers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017 (in million GBP)Wholesale turnover of clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Gross value added (GVA) of clothing and footwear wholesale trade in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)Gross value added (GVA) of clothing and footwear wholesale trade in the UK 2008-2017
Number of enterprises for the wholesale of clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017Number of clothing and footwear wholesalers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Retail sales in textile, clothing and footwear stores in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)Clothing, footwear and textiles retail store sales in Great Britain 2005-2018
Retail sales value monthly in textile, clothing and footwear stores in Great Britain from January 2016 to March 2019 (in billion GBP)Clothing and textiles retail store sales value in Great Britain (UK) 2016-2019
Retail sales of clothing in Great Britain from February 2016 to March 2019 (in 1,000 GBP)Clothing retail sales value in Great Britain 2016-2019
Average weekly retail sales of clothing in Great Britain from January 2016 to March 2019* (in 1,000 GBP)Clothing average weekly retail spend in Great Britain 2016-2019
Sales value of clothing in Great Britain from 2010 to 2019, based on index number of sales per week*Clothing retail sales value index in Great Britain 2010-2019
Percentage change in sales value of clothing in Great Britain from 2008 to 2018Clothing retail sales value percentage change in Great Britain 2008-2018
Sales volume of clothing in Great Britain from 2008 to 2018, as index number of sales per weekClothing retail sales volume annual index in Great Britain 2008-2018
Percentage change in sales volume of clothing in Great Britain from 2010 to 2018*Clothing retail sales volume percentage change in Great Britain 2010-2018
Turnover of specialized clothing retail stores in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017 (in million GBP)Turnover of clothing retail stores in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Number of specialized stores for the retail sale of clothing in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017Number of clothing retail stores in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Ladies' clothes stores ranked by number of customers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in 1,000)Leading ladies clothes stores in the UK 2017, by number of customers
Men's clothes stores ranked by number of customers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in 1,000)Leading men's clothes stores in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by number of customers
Consumer spending on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018 (in million GBP)*Consumer expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2018
Annual expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)Clothing and footwear purchase trend in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2018
Consumer spending on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by product type (in million GBP)*Consumer expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018 by type
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2006 to 2018* (in GBP)Clothing and footwear: weekly household expenditure in the UK 2006-2018
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age of household reference person* (in GBP)Clothing and footwear: Weekly UK household expenditure 2018, by age
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group (in GBP)*Clothing and footwear: weekly UK household expenditure 2018, by gross income
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2018, by place of purchase (in GBP)Clothing and footwear: weekly UK household expenditure by place of purchase 2015-2018
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by garment type (in GBP)Clothing: weekly household expenditure in the UK 2018, by garment type
Value of monthly internet clothing and footwear retail sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from January 2013 to May 2019, based on sales per week index*Internet clothing and footwear retail sales value: monthly index in the UK 2013-2019
Percentage change in annual internet textile, clothing and footwear retail sales value in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018Internet clothing and footwear retail sales trend annual in the UK 2010-2018
Share of individuals who purchased clothing and sports goods online in Great Britain from 2011 to 2018Purchasing clothing and sports goods online in Great Britain 2011-2018
Share of individuals who purchased clothes and sports goods online in Great Britain in 2018, by age and genderClothes and sports goods: online purchasing in Great Britain 2018, by demographic
Clothing and footwear expenditure per capita in Europe 2015, by country
Weekly household expenditure on clothing in the UK 2018, by gross income
Family apparel stores monthly sales U.S. 2017-2019
Retail sales of apparel and footwear in China by month May 2019
Apparel and apparel accessories stores monthly sales U.S. 2017-2019
Export value of footwear, gaiters and the like articles in Poland 2007-2017
Geox: worldwide net sales share 2018, by product category
Quarterly retail sales of clothing, footwear and accessories in Canada 2013-2016
Footwear share of household spending in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by income group
Purchasing clothing in China in 2012, by income group
Supermarket unit sales of clothing in Great Britain 2018
Clothing share of household spending in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by income group
Supermarket value sales of clothing in Great Britain 2018
Consumer expenditure on clothing and footwear in Sweden 2007-2017
Clothing and footwear: Pre-purchase behaviour in the United Kingdom (UK) 2014
Annual household spending on clothing in Canada by province 2017
Import value of selected garments to China 2017, by category
Industry revenue of »repair of footwear and leather goods« in Bulgaria 2011-2023
Textile manufacturing sector: personnel costs in Romania 2008-2016
Textile manufacturing sector: personnel costs in Italy 2008-2016
Apparel Market in the U.S.
Apparel and footwear markets in Russia
Clothing and apparel market in Europe
Apparel market in Italy
Textiles and clothing industry in Turkey
Apparel and footwear resale market in the U.S.
Apparel and footwear in Brazil
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Footwear market in the U.S.
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Footwear market in Canada
Footwear in the United Kingdom (UK)
Apparel market in India
Women's plus size apparel market in the U.S.
Apparel market in Canada
Apparel market in Poland
Footwear market in Russia
Apparel market worldwide
Market value of apparel and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2020 (in million euros)**
Value of the clothing and accessories market in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013 and 2017, by category (in billion GBP)
Value of the fashion industry in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2009 and 2014, by direct and indirect economic contribution* (in billion GBP)
Employment in the clothing and footwear industries in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by sector* (in 1,000s)
Annual turnover of wearing apparel manufacturers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Sales value of wearing apparel manufactured in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by clothing type* (in 1,000 GBP)
Sales from the manufacture of wearing apparel in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Gross value added (GVA) of wearing apparel manufacturing in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Number of enterprises for the manufacture of wearing apparel in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017
Import value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017, by EU and non-EU trade (in million GBP)
Import value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by continent of origin (in million GBP)
Value of apparel and footwear imports in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by category** (in million GBP)
Export value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017, by EU and non-EU trade (in million GBP)
Export value of apparel and clothing accessories in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by trade continent (in million GBP)
Value of apparel and footwear exports from the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by category** (in million GBP)
Annual turnover of clothing and footwear wholesalers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Gross value added (GVA) of clothing and footwear wholesale trade in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Number of enterprises for the wholesale of clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017
Retail sales in textile, clothing and footwear stores in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Retail sales value monthly in textile, clothing and footwear stores in Great Britain from January 2016 to March 2019 (in billion GBP)
Retail sales of clothing in Great Britain from February 2016 to March 2019 (in 1,000 GBP)
Average weekly retail sales of clothing in Great Britain from January 2016 to March 2019* (in 1,000 GBP)
Sales value of clothing in Great Britain from 2010 to 2019, based on index number of sales per week*
Percentage change in sales value of clothing in Great Britain from 2008 to 2018
Sales volume of clothing in Great Britain from 2008 to 2018, as index number of sales per week
Percentage change in sales volume of clothing in Great Britain from 2010 to 2018*
Consumer price index (CPI) of clothing annually in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2018
Turnover of specialized clothing retail stores in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Number of specialized stores for the retail sale of clothing in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017
Ladies' clothes stores ranked by number of customers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in 1,000)
Men's clothes stores ranked by number of customers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in 1,000)
Consumer spending on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018 (in million GBP)*
Annual expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Consumer spending on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by product type (in million GBP)*
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2006 to 2018* (in GBP)
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age of household reference person* (in GBP)
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2018, by place of purchase (in GBP)
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by garment type (in GBP)
Percentage of weekly household expenditure going on clothing and footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by disposable income decile group
Value of monthly internet clothing and footwear retail sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from January 2013 to May 2019, based on sales per week index*
Percentage change in annual internet textile, clothing and footwear retail sales value in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018
Share of individuals who purchased clothing and sports goods online in Great Britain from 2011 to 2018
Share of individuals who purchased clothes and sports goods online in Great Britain in 2018, by age and gender
Household expenditure per capita on clothing and footwear in selected Central and Eastern European countries in 2015 (in euros*)
Average weekly household expenditure on clothing in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group (in GBP)*
Monthly retail sales of family clothing stores in the United States from January 2017 to April 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)*
Retail trade revenue of clothing, shoes, hats and knitwear in China from May 2018 to May 2019 (in billion yuan)
Monthly retail sales of clothing and clothing accessories stores in the United States from January 2017 to April 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)*
Export value of footwear, gaiters and the like articles in Poland from 2007 to 2017* (in million euros)
Worldwide net sales share of the Italian fashion company Geox S.p.A. in 2018, by product category
Quarterly retail sales of clothing, footwear and accessories in Canada from 2013 to 2016 (in billion Canadian dollars)
Percentage of weekly household expenditure going on footwear in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by disposable income decile group
Supermarket unit sales of clothing in Great Britain in 2018 (in million units)
Percentage of weekly household expenditure going on clothing in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by disposable income decile group
Supermarket value sales of clothing in Great Britain in 2018 (in million GBP)
Consumer expenditure on clothing and footwear in Sweden from 2007 to 2017 (in million SEK)
Pre-purchase activities of clothing and footwear consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014
Average annual household expenditure on clothing in Canada in 2017, by province (in Canadian dollars)*
Import value of selected garments to China in 2017, by category (in million U.S. dollars)*
Industry revenue of »repair of footwear and leather goods« in Bulgaria from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Annual personnel costs of the textile manufacturing sector in Romania from 2008 to 2016 (in million euros)
Annual personnel costs of the textile manufacturing sector in Italy from 2008 to 2016 (in million euros)
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DOOH media spend growth in the U.S. 2014-2016
Change in digital out-of-home media spending in the United States from 2014 to 2016
by Statista Research Department, last edited Aug 5, 2016
The statistic presents the change in digital out-of-home media spending in the United States in 2014 and 2015, as well as a forecast thereof for 2016. In 2014, the spending increased by 3.1 percent on 2013. It is expected to grow by 9.3 percent annually between 2016 and 2020.
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Out-of-home ad spend in the U.S. 2018-2022
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Global out-of-home advertising expenditure from 2010 to 2020 (in billion U.S. dollars)Global OOH ad expenditure 2010-2020
Out-of-home revenue worldwide from 2015 to 2020, by platform (in billion U.S. dollars)Global digital & physical OOH revenue 2015-2020
Share of out-of-home in advertising spending in selected countries worldwide in 2016Share of OOH in ad spend 2016, by country
Compound annual growth rate of out-of-home advertising spending in select markets worldwide between 2014 and 2019Growth of out-of-home advertising in select countries 2014-2019
Change of advertising spending in 2016 and 2017, by mediumGlobal advertising spending growth 2016-2017, by medium
Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising market size worldwide from 2017 to 2027 (in million U.S. dollars)Global DOOH ad spend 2017-2027
Share of digital in out-of-home advertising sales worldwide in 2010 and 2018Share of digital in OOH ad sales worldwide 2010-2018
Value of the digital signage market worldwide in 2016 and 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)Global digital signage market value 2016-2023
Largest outdoor advertising companies worldwide in 2018, by revenue (in million U.S. dollars)Revenue of outdoor advertising companies 2018
Revenue generated by JCDecaux from 2011 to 2018 (in billion euros)JCDecaux revenue 2011-2018
Share of digital in total revenue of JCDecaux from 2012 to 2018JCDecaux digital revenue share 2012-2018
JCDecaux net income from 2011 to 2018 (in million euros)JCDecaux net income 2011-2018
Outdoor advertising revenue generated by iHeartMedia, Inc. from 2014 to 2017, by segment (in billion U.S. dollars)iHeartMedia outdoor advertising revenue 2014-2017
Revenue generated by Outfront Media from 2011 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)Outfront Media revenue 2011-2017
Revenue generated by Outfront Media with digital billboards from 2013 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)Outfront Media DOOH revenue 2013-2017
Outfront Media net income/loss from 2011 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)Outfront Media net income 2011-2017
Out-of-home advertising spending in the United States in 2018 and 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)Out-of-home ad spend in the U.S. 2018-2022
Outdoor advertising revenue in the United States from 2009 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)Annual outdoor advertising revenue in the U.S. 2009-2017
Change in advertising spending in the United States in 2017, by mediumAdvertising revenue growth in the U.S. 2017, by medium
Out-of-home advertising revenue in the United States in 2018, by format (in million U.S. dollars)OOH advertising revenue in the U.S. 2018, by format
Number of establishments in the advertising and related services industry in the United States from 2007 to 2016, by sector Number of establishments in U.S. advertising industry 2007-2016, by sector
Number of out-of-home displays of selected types in the United States in 2019Number of OOH displays in the U.S. 2019, by format
Marketing implementation of out-of-home advertising among small to medium sized enterprise (SME) owners in the United States as of November 2016Outdoor advertising adoption among SMEs in the U.S. 2016
Fastest growing out-of-home categories in the United States in 2017Fastest growing OOH categories in the U.S. 2017
Digital out-of-home advertising spending in the United States from 2014 to 2019 (in billion U.S. dollars)DOOH ad spend in the U.S. 2014-2019
Change in digital out-of-home media spending in the United States from 2014 to 2016DOOH media spend growth in the U.S. 2014-2016
Change in digital out-of-home advertising spending in the United States from 2014 to 2019DOOH ad spend growth in the U.S. 2014-2019
Share of digital in out-of-home advertising spending in the United States from 2014 to 2019Digital share in OOH ad spend in the U.S. 2014-2019
Local video advertising revenue in the United States in 2018 and 2022, by medium (in billion U.S. dollars)Local video ad revenue in the U.S. 2018-2022, by medium
Distribution of local video advertising revenue in the United States in 2015 and 2016, by mediaLocal video ad revenue in the U.S. 2015-2016, by media
Number of digital billboards in the United States from 2016 to 2019Number of digital billboards in the U.S. 2016-2019
Digital out-of-home media revenue in the United States in 2015, by type (in million U.S. dollars)DOOH media revenue in the U.S. 2015, by type
Out-of-home (OOH) advertising spending in Canada from 2010 to 2019 (in million Canadian dollars)Out-of-home ad spend in Canada 2010-2019
Out-of-home advertising spending in Canada from 2010 to 2019, by format (in million Canadian dollars)Out-of-home ad spend in Canada 2010-2019, by format
Penetration rate of advertising on selected traditional and digital media in Canada as of 1st quarter 2016Share of marketers using selected media for advertising in Canada 2016
Digital out of home (DOOH) advertising spending in Canada from 2014 to 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)Digital outdoor ad spend in Canada 2014-2019
Outdoor advertising expenditure share in Canada from 2008 to 2015Outdoor advertising spending share in Canada 2008-2015
Outdoor advertising expenditure growth in Canada from 2008 to 2015 Outdoor advertising spending change in Canada 2008-2015
Number of out-of-home (OOH) advertising displays in selected markets in Canada in 2016, by formatNumber of outdoor ad displays in selected Canadian cities 2016, by format
Percentage of internet users who viewed out-of-home (OOH) advertising in Canada as of January 2016, by format and age groupShare of Canadian internet users who viewed OOH ads 2016, by format and age
Most disliked types of ads in the United States as of October 2016Most disliked ads in the U.S. 2016
Per capita weekly exposure to out-of-home media worldwide from 2014 to 2016 (in minutes)Exposure to OOH media worldwide 2014-2016
Out-of-home advertising reach in the United States as of April 2019, by typeOut-of-home ad reach in the U.S. 2019, by type
Share of consumers who noticed poster advertising in the United States as of November 2016, by age groupU.S. consumer awareness of poster advertising 2016, by age
Share of consumers who agreed that poster advertising stands out more than selected media ads in the United States as of November 2016U.S. consumers who agreed that poster ads are more visible than other ads 2016
Share of consumers who felt annoyed by poster advertising in the United States as of May 2017U.S. consumers who find poster advertising annoying 2017
Consumer actions taken after seeing poster advertisements in the United States as of November 2016U.S. consumer actions influenced by poster ads 2016
Consumer digital actions taken after seeing poster advertisements in the United States as of November 2016U.S. consumer digital actions influenced by poster ads 2016
OOH ad revenue growth worldwide 2015-2017
DOOH media revenue growth in the U.S. 2015, by type
Lamar Advertising number of displays 2018, by type
Advertising spending in the out-of-home market in Austria in 2017, by segment
Growth of the global out-of-home advertising spending 2013-2018, by platform
DOOH media revenue in the U.S. 2010-2017
Peru: digital share in OOH ad spend 2021
Ranking of out-of-home advertisers in Sweden 2016, by ad spending
Out-of-home advertising spending in Australia 2013-2022
Outdoor advertising year-on-year growth in France 2008-2015
Total out of home (OOH) advertising spending forecast in Malaysia 2014-2019
Outdoor advertising spending year-on-year growth in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2015
Leading advertisers ranked by out of home (OOH) advertising spend in Spain 2013
Share of OOH advertising spending in Spain 2012/13, by sector
Leading advertisers ranked by out of home (OOH) advertising spend in France 2013
Annual change in advertising expenditure in Spain 2005-2017
Advertising expenditure for toys in Germany 2000-2017
U.S. meat packing plants ad spend 2010-2016
Cinema advertising spending share in South Africa 2008-2015
Largest baby & toddler food advertising brands in the U.S. 2015
Advertising industry in the U.S.
Global Advertising Market
Advertising industry in Canada
Digital advertising in Canada
Advertising market in the U.S.
Advertising in the United Kingdom (UK)
TV advertising in the U.S.
Digital advertising in Europe
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Advertising in the Netherlands
Political advertising in the U.S.
Advertising in Japan
Advertising in Italy
Advertising in North America
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Global out-of-home advertising expenditure from 2010 to 2020 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Out-of-home revenue worldwide from 2015 to 2020, by platform (in billion U.S. dollars)
Share of out-of-home in advertising spending in selected countries worldwide in 2016
Compound annual growth rate of out-of-home advertising spending in select markets worldwide between 2014 and 2019
Change of advertising spending in 2016 and 2017, by medium
Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising market size worldwide from 2017 to 2027 (in million U.S. dollars)
Share of digital in out-of-home advertising sales worldwide in 2010 and 2018
Value of the digital signage market worldwide in 2016 and 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Share of digital in out-of-home advertising revenue in selected markets worldwide in 2019
Share of digital in out-of-home advertising worldwide in 2016, by format
Digital out-of-home advertising revenue worldwide in 2016, by platform (in billion U.S. dollars)
Largest outdoor advertising companies worldwide in 2018, by revenue (in million U.S. dollars)
Revenue generated by JCDecaux from 2011 to 2018 (in billion euros)
Share of digital in total revenue of JCDecaux from 2012 to 2018
JCDecaux net income from 2011 to 2018 (in million euros)
Outdoor advertising revenue generated by iHeartMedia, Inc. from 2014 to 2017, by segment (in billion U.S. dollars)
Revenue generated by Outfront Media from 2011 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Revenue generated by Outfront Media with digital billboards from 2013 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Outfront Media net income/loss from 2011 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Revenue generated by Lamar Advertising from 2011 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Revenue generated by Lamar Advertising in 2018, by display ad type (in million U.S dollars)
Lamar Advertising net income from 2011 to 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
Revenue generated by Ströer SE & Co. KGaA in 2018, by segment (in million euros)
Revenue generated by Ströer SE & Co. KGaA in 2018, by product group (in million euros)
Profit/loss generated by Ströer SE & Co. KGaA from 2010 to 2018 (in million euros)
Out-of-home advertising spending in the United States in 2018 and 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Outdoor advertising revenue in the United States from 2009 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Change in advertising spending in the United States in 2017, by medium
Out-of-home advertising revenue in the United States in 2018, by format (in million U.S. dollars)
Number of establishments in the advertising and related services industry in the United States from 2007 to 2016, by sector
Number of out-of-home displays of selected types in the United States in 2019
Marketing implementation of out-of-home advertising among small to medium sized enterprise (SME) owners in the United States as of November 2016
Fastest growing out-of-home categories in the United States in 2017
Leading outdoor advertising categories in the United States in 2018, by ad spending (in million U.S. dollars)
Leading out-of-home advertising markets in the United States in 2015, by ad spend (in million U.S. dollars)
Leading out-of-home (OOH) advertisers in the United States in 2017, by ad spend (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)
Digital out-of-home advertising spending in the United States from 2014 to 2019 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Change in digital out-of-home advertising spending in the United States from 2014 to 2019
Share of digital in out-of-home advertising spending in the United States from 2014 to 2019
Local video advertising revenue in the United States in 2018 and 2022, by medium (in billion U.S. dollars)
Distribution of local video advertising revenue in the United States in 2015 and 2016, by media
Number of digital billboards in the United States from 2016 to 2019
Digital out-of-home media revenue in the United States in 2015, by type (in million U.S. dollars)
Per capita weekly exposure to digital out-of-home media in the United States from 2014 to 2017 (in minutes)
Importance of various screen types in video everywhere advertising in the United States in 2016 and 2019
Reasons for including digital place-based (DPB) media and digital out-of-home (DOOH) media in media plans in the United States as of August 2016
Out-of-home (OOH) advertising spending in Canada from 2010 to 2019 (in million Canadian dollars)
Out-of-home advertising spending in Canada from 2010 to 2019, by format (in million Canadian dollars)
Penetration rate of advertising on selected traditional and digital media in Canada as of 1st quarter 2016
Digital out of home (DOOH) advertising spending in Canada from 2014 to 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)
Outdoor advertising expenditure share in Canada from 2008 to 2015
Outdoor advertising expenditure growth in Canada from 2008 to 2015
Number of out-of-home (OOH) advertising displays in selected markets in Canada in 2016, by format
Percentage of internet users who viewed out-of-home (OOH) advertising in Canada as of January 2016, by format and age group
Percentage of consumers who felt comfortable with levels of truth and accuracy in selected advertising formats in Canada in 2018
Most disliked types of ads in the United States as of October 2016
Per capita weekly exposure to out-of-home media worldwide from 2014 to 2016 (in minutes)
Out-of-home advertising reach in the United States as of April 2019, by type
Share of consumers who noticed poster advertising in the United States as of November 2016, by age group
Share of consumers who agreed that poster advertising stands out more than selected media ads in the United States as of November 2016
Share of consumers who felt annoyed by poster advertising in the United States as of May 2017
Consumer actions taken after seeing poster advertisements in the United States as of November 2016
Consumer digital actions taken after seeing poster advertisements in the United States as of November 2016
Change in out-of-home advertising revenue worldwide from 2015 to 2017
Change in digital out-of-home media revenue in the United States in 2015, by type (in million U.S. dollars)
Number of Lamar Advertising displays in 2018, by type
Advertising spending in the out-of-home market in Austria in 2017, by segment (in million euros)
Compound annual growth rate of global out-of-home advertising spending between 2013 and 2018, by platform
Digital out-of-home media revenue in the United States from 2010 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Distribution of out-of-home advertising spending in Peru in 2021, by type
Ranking of out-of-home advertisers in Sweden in 2016, by ad spending (in 1,000 SEK)
Out-of-home advertising spending in Australia from 2013 to 2017, with forecasts until 2022 (in million Australian dollars)
Outdoor advertising expenditure year-on-year growth in France from 2008 to 2015
Forecasted total out of home (OOH) advertising spending in Malaysia between 2014 to 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)*
Outdoor advertising expenditure year-on-year growth in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2015
Leading advertisers ranked by out of home (OOH) advertising spending in Spain in 2013 (in million euros)
Share of out of home (OOH) advertising expenditure in Spain in 2012/13, by sector
Leading advertisers ranked by out of home (OOH) advertising spending in France in 2013 (in million euros)
Interannual variation in the advertising expenditure in media platforms in Spain between 2005 and 2017
Advertising expenditure for toys in Germany from 2000 to 2017 (in million euros)
Advertising spending in the meat packing plants industry in the United States from 2010 to 2016 (in million U.S. dollars)
Cinema advertising expenditure share in South Africa from 2008 to 2015
Leading baby and toddler food and drink brands in the United States in 2015, by advertising spending (in thousand U.S. dollars)
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Number of people employed in the agriculture industry in Malaysia 2010-2018
Number of people employed in the agriculture industry in Malaysia from 2010 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
by R. Hirschmann, last edited Feb 28, 2019
This statistic depicts the number of people employed in the agriculture industry in Malaysia from 2010 to 2018. Around 1.835 million people were employed in the agriculture industry in Malaysia in 2018.
Number of employees in thousands
**Preliminary.
Cities with lowest rate of employment in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017/18
Workforce jobs in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016-2018, by industry
Employment rate in the United Kingdom 2000-2018
Self-employment in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by industry section
Statistics on "UK employment"
Rates and figures
Zero hours contracts
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Employment rate in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2018Employment rate in the United Kingdom 2000-2018
Employment figures of the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2018 (in million people)Employment figures of the United Kingdom 2000-2018
Monthly employment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) from April 2017 to April 2019Monthly employment rate in the United Kingdom 2017-2019
Monthly employment figures in the United Kingdom (UK) from April 2017 to April 2019 (in million people)United Kingdom (UK): Monthly employment figures 2017-2019
Employment rate in the United Kingdom from December 2018 to February 2019, by regionRegional employment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) 2019
Predicted employment levels in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2023, in millionsAutumn Statement: employment forecast United Kingdom 2017-2023
Number of workforce jobs in the United Kingdom (UK) from March 2016 to March 2018, by industry (in 1,000s)Workforce jobs in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016-2018, by industry
Public sector employment in the United Kingdom (UK) as of June 2018, by industry (in thousand individuals employed)Public sector employment in the UK in 2018, by industry
Number of those self-employed in the United Kingdom (UK) between January to December 2018, by industry (in 1,000)*Self-employment in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by industry section
Number of those self-employed in the United Kingdom (UK) from January to September 2018, by major occupational group (1,000s)Self-employment occupation groups in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018
Number of self-employed people in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2000 to 2017, by gender (in 1,000)Gender split of those self-employed in the United Kingdom (UK) 2000 to 2017
Percentage of employees and those self-employed working more than 45 hours per week in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018United Kingdom (UK): Share of people working more than 45 hours per week 2000-2018
Share of all employees working on a zero-hours contract in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2018*Share of employees on zero-hours contracts in the United Kingdom 2000-2018
Share of employees on a zero hours contract in United Kingdom (UK) from April to June 2018, by regionZero hours contracts: share of employed population, by region 2018
Share of employees on a zero hours contract in the United Kingdom from April 2018 to June 2018, by age groupShare of employees on zero-hours contracts in the United Kingdom, by age 2018
Share of employees on zero hours contracts who did not work any hours in reference week in the United Kingdom (UK) from October 2015 to June 2018Zero hours contracts: share of employees with no hours previous week UK 2018
Number of employees on zero-hours contracts who did not work any hours in reference week in the United Kingdom from April 2014 to June 2017 (in 1,000s)Zero-hours contract: employees with no hours in previous week UK 2014-2017
Employment rates in London (UK) in 2018, by age groupEmployment rates in London (UK) 2018, by age
Employment rates in London (UK) from April 2015 to June 2018, by genderEmployment rates in London (UK) 2015-2018 by gender
Employment rate of 18 to 24 year olds in London (UK) from April 2012 to March 2018Youth employment rate (18 to 24) in London (UK) 2012-2018
Average (mean) actual weekly hours of part-time work in London in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2017*Average weekly hours of part-time work in London (UK) 2012 to 2017
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Number of non-citizens employed in the agriculture industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of people employed in the crops and livestock industry in Malaysia 2010-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the administrative industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the human health industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the manufacturing industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in households industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the transportation industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the construction industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the information industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the hospitality industry in Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of non-citizens employed in the wholesale and retail trade Malaysia 2013-2017
Number of U.S. financial specialists 2018, by occupation
Number of gardeners & landscape gardeners in the United Kingdom (UK) 2011-2018
Employment in automotive fuel retailers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2016
Share of active population with a second job in Belgium 2018, by level of education
Services employment as a share of total employment in Denmark 2000-2017
Number of employees in accommodation and food services New Zealand 2009-2018
Population in China
Transport infrastructure for passengers in China
Migrant workers in China
Social Insurance in China
Employment by occupation in the UK 2018
Philippines decent work statistics (DeWS) 2017
The impact of Brexit on the UK agricultural workforce
Logistics industry employment in the United Kingdom (UK)
Job market in Belgium
Labor market in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Gender inequality in Italy
Financial sector employment in the United Kingdom (UK)
ICT labor market in Italy
Job market in the Netherlands
Employment rate in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2018
Employment figures of the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2018 (in million people)
Monthly employment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) from April 2017 to April 2019
Monthly employment figures in the United Kingdom (UK) from April 2017 to April 2019 (in million people)
Employment rate in the United Kingdom from December 2018 to February 2019, by region
Predicted employment levels in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2023, in millions
Number of workforce jobs in the United Kingdom (UK) from March 2016 to March 2018, by industry (in 1,000s)
Public sector employment in the United Kingdom (UK) as of June 2018, by industry (in thousand individuals employed)
Cities with lowest rate of employment in the United Kingdom (UK) from July 2017 to June 2018
Number of people in employment who work from home in the United Kingdom in 2017, by country/region (in thousands)
Percentage of people in employment who work from home in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by country/region
Number of those self-employed in the United Kingdom (UK) between January to December 2018, by industry (in 1,000)*
Number of those self-employed in the United Kingdom (UK) from January to September 2018, by major occupational group (1,000s)
Number of self-employed people in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2000 to 2017, by gender (in 1,000)
Percentage of employees and those self-employed working more than 45 hours per week in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018
Share of all employees working on a zero-hours contract in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2018*
Share of employees on a zero hours contract in United Kingdom (UK) from April to June 2018, by region
Share of employees on a zero hours contract in the United Kingdom from April 2018 to June 2018, by age group
Share of employees on zero hours contracts who did not work any hours in reference week in the United Kingdom (UK) from October 2015 to June 2018
Number of employees on zero-hours contracts who did not work any hours in reference week in the United Kingdom from April 2014 to June 2017 (in 1,000s)
Employment rates in London (UK) in 2018, by age group
Employment rates in London (UK) from April 2015 to June 2018, by gender
Employment rate of 18 to 24 year olds in London (UK) from April 2012 to March 2018
Average (mean) actual weekly hours of part-time work in London in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2017*
Average (mean) actual weekly hours of part-time work in London (UK) from 2012 to 2017, by gender*
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the agriculture, forestry or fishing industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of people employed in the crops and livestock industry in Malaysia from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the administrative and support service industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the Human health and social work industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the manufacturing industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in private households in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the transportation and storage industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the construction industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the information and communication industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the accommodation and food and beverage service industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of non-Malaysian citizens employed in the wholesale and retail trade industry in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of financial specialists in the United States as of May 2018, by occupation
Total number of gardeners and landscape gardeners in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
Average number of employees in specialised stores for the retail sale of automotive fuel in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2016 (in 1,000s)
Share of the active population with a second job in Belgium in 2018, by level of education
Employment in services as total employment share in Denmark from 2000 to 2017
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Danielle Kaheaku, Executive Editor
An award-winning ghostwriter and editor, Danielle has worked in the entertainment industry for the past eleven years on movie sets, in publishing, and as a freelancer. She has active memberships in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the international Horror Writers Association, and the Romance Writers Association Professional Author Network. She is the founder and Training Director for the San Diego HWA Chapter, and volunteers as a mentor within the HWA providing individualized instruction and group workshops for new writers.
She has a BA in English and MA in English and Creative Writing with a concentration in Fiction. She has published several short stories, four anthologies, four novels, two produced screenplays, and her projects have won multiple screen and literary awards including two Foreword Book of the Years (2009, 2008), Gold at the California Film Awards (2017), Silver in the International Independent Film Awards (2016), Award of Merit at the New Renaissance Film Festival in London (2016), Hollywood Screenings Film Festival Semi-Finalist (2016), and Best Experimental Short at the Chandler International Film Festival (2016).
Prior to working freelance, she worked as an editor for an independent publisher and a technical editor for an architecture and environmental consulting firm, with past experience editing and reporting in a daily newsroom.
Suzanne Baldwin, Editor
Suz Baldwin has written and edited professionally for over a decade.
After receiving her BA in History, she spent several years in the magazine industry before moving into digital marketing. She has also edited for small presses and indie authors in a variety of genres, including horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. She has been with the Word Wraith since 2011.
Shannon O. Sawyer, Assistant Editor
Shannon O. Sawyer graduated from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2016 with her BFA in Creative Writing. She has publications in The Asexual, Quail Bell Magazine, Cartoons Underground, and The Fem. She currently works as a scriptwriter at Crossroad Stations on the audio drama podcasts, Jim Robbie and the Wanderers, and OTHERVERSE. Shannon has been with the Word Wraith since the beginning of 2018.
Joe Guinto, Designer/Illustrator
Illustrator and graphic designer Joe Guinto began his career at his college newspaper. He worked for the Honolulu Advertiser and was transitioned during the merger of Hawaii's two major newspapers, now working for the Star-Advertiser. He has been in the newspaper industry for 10 years, designing weekly covers for their A1 front page, Local, and TGIF.
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The Best In The Business...
We bring you spotting scopes and other optics solutions from the best and biggest names in the sports optics industry. Read a little about them below (in their own words) and click to browse their products. Stop by our store today or reach out to us with any questions!
Celestron has been an optics industry leader for decades, ever since Tom Johnson unveiled the game-changing C8. We strive to continue his legacy by continually developing exciting products with revolutionary technologies. Here, you can learn all about our patented, one-of-a-kind innovations.
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Kowa American offers an extensive line of binoculars, spotting scopes, telephoto lenses, and digiscoping equipment that excels in even the most rugged conditions. Kowa scopes and binoculars are available in a wide range of magnifications and sizes thus ensuring there is a Kowa product perfectly designed for every user’s needs in any kind of activity. Kowa American is particularly proud of the craftsmanship it takes to create the custom PROMINAR fluorite crystal lenses offered in our high performance models. The crystal is grown from scratch and then handcrafted to ensure the lenses provide the highest level of optical performance.
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Leica Camera AG is an internationally operating, premium-segment manufacturer of cameras and sport optics products. The legendary status of the Leica brand is founded on a long tradition of excellence in the construction of lenses and optical devices. And today, in combination with innovative technologies, Leica products continue to guarantee better pictures in all situations in the worlds of visualization and perception. Innovative products have been the driving force behind the company’s positive development in recent years.
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Leupold & Stevens, Inc., is an American, family-owned, fifth-generation company that has been designing, machining, and assembling precision optical instruments and other products for 100 years. Founded in 1907, Leupold’s success has been built on our commitment to our customers’ absolute satisfaction, and our commitment to building the best optics for the shooting sports, general and wildlife observation, and the military and law enforcement communities.
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For over 90 years, Nikon has been making premium quality optical products for all types of outdoor pursuits. Nikon offers a full line of quality binoculars, riflescopes, rangefinders, spotting scopes and fieldscopes designed to meet the demands of our customers worldwide. Whether the requirement is for entry-level, advanced, mid-priced or high-end optics, Nikon remains committed to offering the discriminating user the finest selection of high quality optics available.
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Founded in the UK in 1970, Opticron is a family-owned business with over forty years experience in consumer optics. In that time we have met and exceeded the demands of tens of thousands of enthusiasts and occasional users looking for a pair of high quality affordable binoculars, a telescope or an accessory to help them pursue their pastime, hobby or obsession!
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Introducing STYRKA, a new line of optics dedicated to providing hunters with outstanding products. Why enter such a crowded market, you ask? We’ve learned a few things from over a century of experience in the optics industry and have applied this knowledge and experience to STYRKA products. We also feel like there’s a place for a hunting optics company to illuminate the science of optics for the hunter. No spin or embellishment. Just the facts. That’s our ongoing goal. We also think it’s time for a hunting optics company to really stand behind their product. To make a commitment of excellence to you, the customer.
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SWAROVSKI OPTIK manufactures products that encourage people to experience nature, to appreciate its value, to commune with it, and to ensure its continuity. In other words, our company’s business is about the long-term vision in every respect. This is because we operate with a sense of responsibility now and will continue to do so in the future, in every enterprising endeavor and area of activity we are involved in.
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Founded in 1986, Vanguard World began as a single manufacturing facility and has since grown into an industry-leading global corporation. Vanguard World manufactures high-quality photo-video accessories (tripods, monopods, tripod heads, camera bags and cases), sporting optics (riflescopes, binoculars and spotting scopes), and sporting accessories (gun cases and gun pods/shooting sticks).
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Since 1986 we have been and remain an American Owned, Veteran Owned, Family owned and operated business of hard-working folks located here in south central Wisconsin. Dan and Margie Hamilton, the original and current owners, moved to Middleton, WI in 1986 and started a small outdoor retail store. The business was started on the belief that if you focused on the customers and helped them achieve their goals with fast, friendly, personalized service that the bottom line would take care of itself. The business grew and evolved over time and in 2002 Vortex Optics was established. Starting with Dan and Margie and now over 200 American team members strong, we work diligently day in and day out to give you the best products and service in the optics industry.
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To truly experience nature, you need to take inspiration from it. This is a concept which has been reflected in every single idea of Carl Zeiss’ products and services for over 165 years. Just as nature never comes to a standstill and constantly changes, Carl Zeiss is always striving with a tireless curiosity and relentless passion to question the status quo and set new standards with technical innovations. Since 1846 this enthusiasm has enabled us to continue perfecting the performance and quality of our products as well as our customer service. Take, for example, the world’s first roof prism binoculars, the first riflescope with a prism erector system, our application-oriented product design or the construction of optics with ever better transmission values. Time and time again, we’ve impressed even the most demanding of hunters, bird watchers and nature lovers with our new innovations.
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Kipnis homers twice in Indians' 10-4 win over Rangers
ARLINGTON, Texas Jason Kipnis hit two home runs, going back-to-back with Roberto Pérez during a five-run first inning, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers 10-4 on Wednesday night.
The Indians have won 10 of their last 14 games. They have hit nine home runs in winning two of the first three games of a four-game series.
Kipnis pulled a three-run homer that cleared the Texas bullpen in right-center and gave Cleveland a 4-0 lead in the top of the first. Pérez followed by slicing an opposite-field homer that landed just inside the right-field foul pole.
Kipnis also homered down the right-field line in the fifth with two outs for his second two-homer game of the season and sixth of his career. He has three homers in his last four games after a 24-game drought.
Indians starter Adam Plutko, staked to a 7-1 lead in the third inning, lasted only 4 1/3 innings and gave up three runs, two earned, on seven hits. Oliver Perez (2-1) pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief for the win.
Joe Palumbo (0-1), who was recalled from Double-A Frisco earlier in the day to make his second major league start, was pulled after allowing the first four batters to reach base in the third inning. Palumbo gave up seven runs and six hits, with three walks and one hit batter. He lasted four innings against the Oakland Athletics on June 8.
Palumbo pitched in the rotation spot that belonged until last week to left-hander Drew Smyly, who gave up three consecutive home runs to Cleveland in relief on Tuesday.
Asdrúbal Cabrera and ninth-inning pinch-hitter Danny Santana hit solo home runs for Texas.
Indians RF Jordan Luplow had two hits and three RBIs. ... All 11 of Cabrera's home runs this season have come at home. ... Rangers RF Shin-Soo Choo extended his home on-base streak to 32 games, second longest in the major leagues this season, with a first-inning single. ... Texas LF Willie Calhoun, who singled in the fourth, has reached in all nine of his games this season.
Indians: Manager Terry Francona said he was pleased with the Wednesday workout of RHP Mike Clevenger, who turned his left ankle during his start Monday. Clevenger's side throwing day was pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday.
Rangers: LHP Jeffrey Springs (bicep tendinitis) was placed on the 10-day injured list retroactive to Monday. ... OF Scott Heineman (shoulder) was sent to the team's spring training complex in Arizona to begin a rehab assignment.
Indians RHP Shane Bieber (6-2, 3.92) will close out the series on Thursday afternoon. Bieber is 4-1 on the road in seven appearances, six starts.
Rangers LHP Mike Minor (6-4, 2.63) ranks fifth in the American League in ERA but is only 1-1 in his last five starts with only nine runs of support.
More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/APSports
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Costume and Fashion History
This new from the World of Art series includes chapters on the increasingly diverse styles that characterize the new millennium, from radical reinventions at major fashion houses to affordable and disposable ‘fast fashion’.
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312 pages, 348 black and white and colour illustrations
From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today – here is a matchless guide to the landmarks of costume history and the forms and materials used through the ages, as well as to the underlying motives of fashion and the ways in which clothes have been used to protect, to express identity, and to attract or to influence others. This fifth edition features a new chapter by Professor Amy de la Haye, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History and Curatorship at London College of Fashion, charting the increasingly diverse styles that characterize the new millennium, from radical reinventions at major fashion houses to affordable and disposable ‘fast fashion’. Woven in with the latest looks are explorations of recent developments in fashion media: influential blogs, online shopping and celebrity trendsetters, which together form a fascinating picture of how we dress in the 21st century. Contents List: 1. How it all began • 2. Greeks and Romans • 3. Early Europe • 4. The Renaissance and the sixteenth century • 5. The seventeenth century • 6. The eighteenth century • 7. From 1800 to 1850 • 8. From 1850 to 1900 • 9. From 1900 to 1939 • 10. Rationed fashion to pluralistic style • 11. Fashion in the twenty-first century
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Bobby Shmurda Hot 97.1 Interview Suggests Police Corruption?
Bobby Shmurda Says an NYPD Cop Told Him 'I Don't Want My Kids Listening to Your Music'
This morning, Ebro over at Hot 97 called up Ackquille Pollard — a/k/a Bobby Shmurda — who was incarcerated in the wake of a drug trafficking sting in Times Square on December 17. Shmurda is currently awaiting trial, and the young rapper, along with several members of Brooklyn's GS9 crew, faces charges for weapons possession, conspiracy, reckless endangerment, and a number of other offenses. Shmurda, who was being held at Rikers following the arraignment and placed under protective custody, has since been moved to the Manhattan Detention Complex, or the Tombs, along with fellow GS9 crew member Chad Marshall, a/k/a Rowdy Rebel.
Shmurda's been outspoken about the proceedings following his arrest: In multiple interviews with Billboard, he called them "bullshit" and clarified that, no, he wasn't stabbed in jail; he also told the New York Times that he thought his label, Epic Records, would come for him and support him in his time of need, "but they never came." He's been able to keep the press abreast of how things are going on the inside — or at least he was, as Shmurda was cut off in the middle of his latest interview with Hot 97.
"They listenin' to me, they watchin' me — they watchin' my every move, man," he told Ebro.
Shmurda's conversation with Ebro and the morning crew was cut short, but he was in high spirits and candid and down to answer the questions. He said that he and Rowdy were placed in court-ordered "PC," and that Rowdy has since been moved to "the Box" (solitary confinement) at the Tombs: "Me and him had a little altercation with somebody. You know how that goes."
Ebro then asked him about December 17, and whether or not the events really went down the way they've been presented in the coverage of his arrest and forthcoming trial. "What they're hearing about that night, that shit is not true," he says. "The cops have been out for me for forever, man. They've been trying to slay me for forever, but they never catch me or nothin'. It might [have been] four, five cops that night, they just grabbed me up. They told me, 'I don't want my kids listening to your music.' "
And that's when Shmurda got disconnected.
Rosenberg and Laura Stylez were clearly stunned, but Ebro was less surprised:
"I have firsthand accounts of people who were there when the whole thing went down with GS9 at the studio that said to me — and these aren't Bobby's friends, these are people that work at the studio, and it was more than one person that literally said [the police said,] 'I can't believe you guys are supporting this kid and helping him make music. People like him should be locked behind bars.' "
At the outset, Ebro was careful to mention that the conversation had been cleared prior to calling in, saying that they'd "made sure that this phone call wouldn't get Shmurda in any more trouble." Some Hot 97 listeners didn't see the conversation that way.
Listen to the Hot 97 interview and Ebro's thoughts in full below.
Bobby Shmurda checks in from Jail with Ebro in the Morning...
Labels: Bobby Shmurda, Bobby Shmurda Hot 97.1 Interview Suggests Police Corruption?, Ebro, GS9, Hip-Hop, HOT 97.1 FM, MUSIC, NYPD, Rap, Rowdy Rebel
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The Scooter Economy
Mobile. Digital. Personalized. Accessible. Ease of use. Low cost.
Sound familiar? JL
Ben Thompson comments in Stratechery:
In a world where everything is a service, companies may have to adapt shallower moats. That is hardly the dominance that accrues to digital-only aggregators like Facebook or Google, or even Netflix; the physical world is harder to monopolize. That everything will be a service means a massive increase in efficiency for society — more products will be available to more people for lower overall costs (and) most of that efficiency becomes consumer surplus. As long as venture capitalists are willing to foot the bill, cities should take advantage.
As I understand it, the proper way to open an article about electric scooters is to first state one’s priors, explain the circumstances of how one came to try scooters, and then deliver a verdict. Unfortunately, that means mine is a bit boring: while most employing this format wanted to hate them. I was pretty sure scooters would be awesome - and they were.
For me the circumstances were a trip to San Francisco; I purposely stayed at a hotel relatively far from where most of my meetings were, giving me no choice but to rely on some combination of scooters, e-bikes, and ride-sharing services. The scooters were a clear winner: fast, fun, and convenient — as long as you could find one near you. The city needs five times as many.
So, naturally, San Francisco banned them, at least temporarily: companies will be able to apply for their share of a pool of a mere 1,250 permits; that number may double in six months, but for now the scooter-riding experience will probably be more of a novelty, not something you can rely on. In fact, by the end of my trip, if I were actually in a rush, I knew to use a ride-sharing service.
It’s no surprise that ride-sharing services have higher liquidity: San Francisco is a car-friendly town. The city has a population of 884,363 humans and 496,843 vehicles, mostly in the city’s 275,000 on-street parking spaces. Granted, most of the Uber and Lyft drivers come from outside the city, but there is no congestion tax to deter them.
The result is an urban area stuck on a bizarre local maxima: most households have cars, but rarely use them, particularly in the city, because traffic is bad and parking is — relative to the number of cars — sparse; the alternative is ride-sharing, which incurs the same traffic costs but at least doesn’t require parking. And yet, San Francisco, for now anyways, will only allow about 60 parking spaces-worth of scooters onto the streets.
This is hardly the forum to discuss the oft-head-scratching politics of tech’s de facto capital city, and I can certainly see the downside of scooters, particularly the haphazard way with which they are being deployed; in an environment built for cars scooters get in the way.
It’s worth considering, though, just how much sense dockless scooters make: the concept is one of the purest manifestations of what I referred to in 2016 as Everything as a Service:
What happens, though, if we apply the services business model to hardware? Consider an airplane: I fly thousands of miles a year, but while Stratechery is doing well, I certainly don’t own my own plane! Rather, I fly on an airplane that is owned by an airline that is paid for in part through some percentage of my ticket cost. I am, effectively, “renting” a seat on that airplane, and once that flight is gone I own nothing other than new GPS coordinates on my phone.
Now the process of buying an airplane ticket, identifying who I am, etc. is far more cumbersome than simply hopping in my car — there are significant transaction costs — but given that I can’t afford an airplane it’s worth putting up with when I have to travel long distances. What happens, though, when those transaction costs are removed? Well, then you get Uber or its competitors: simply touch a button and a car that would have otherwise been unused will pick you up and take you where you want to go, for a price that is a tiny fraction of what the car cost to buy in the first place. The same model applies to hotels — instead of buying a house in every city you visit, simply rent a room — and Airbnb has taken the concept to a new level by leveraging unused space.
The enabling factor for both Uber and Airbnb applying a services business model to physical goods is your smartphone and the Internet: it enables distribution and transactions costs to be zero, making it infinitely more convenient to simply rent the physical goods you need instead of acquiring them outright.
What is striking about dockless scooters — at least when one is parked outside your door! — is that they make ride-sharing services feel like half-measures: why even wait five minutes, when you can just scan-and-go? Steve Jobs described computers as bicycles of the mind; now that computers are smartphones and connected to the Internet they can conjure up the physical equivalent as well!
Indeed, the only thing that could make the experience better — for riders and for everyone else — would be dedicated lanes, like, for example, the 900 miles worth of parking spaces in San Francisco. To be sure, the city isn’t going to make the conversion overnight, or, given the degree to which San Francisco is in thrall to homeowners, probably ever, but that is particularly a shame in 2018: venture capitalists are willing to fund the entire thing, and I’m not entirely sure why.
Missing Moats
Late last month came word that Sequoia Capital was leading a $150 million funding round for Bird, one of the electric scooter companies, valuing the company at $1 billion; a week later came reports that GV was leading a $250 million investment in rival Lime.
One of the interesting tidbits in Axios’s reporting on the latter was that each Lime scooter is used on average between 8 and 12 times a day; plugging that number into this very useful analysis of scooter-sharing unit costs suggests that the economics of both startups are very strong (certainly the size of the investments — and the quality of the investors — suggests the same).
The key word in that sentence, though, is “both”: what, precisely, might make Bird and Lime, or any of their competitors, unique? Or, to put it in business parlance, where is the moat? This is where the comparison to ride-sharing services is particularly instructive; I explained back in 2014 why there was more of a moat to be had in ride-sharing than most people thought:
There is a two-sided network between drivers and riders
As one service gains share, its increased utility of drivers will restrict liquidity on the other service, favoring the larger player
Riders will, all things being equal, use one service habitually
This leads to winner-take-all dynamics in a particular geographic area; then, when it comes times to launch in new areas, travelers and brand will give the larger service a head start.
To be sure, these interactions are complicated, and not everything is equal (see, for example, the huge amounts of share Lyft took last year thanks to Uber’s self-inflicted crises). It is that complication, though, and the fact it is exponentially more difficult to build a two-sided network (instead of, say, plopping a bunch of scooters on the street), that creates the conditions for a moat: the entire point of a moat is that it is hard to build.
Uber’s Self-Driving Mistake
This is why I have long maintained that the second-biggest mistake former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick made was the company’s head-first plunge into self-driving cars. On a surface level, the logic is obvious: Uber’s biggest cost is the driver, which means getting rid of them is an easy route to profitability — or, should someone else deploy self-driving cars first, then Uber could be undercut in price.
The mistake in Kalanick’s thinking is two-fold:
First, up-and-until the point that self-driving cars are widely available — that is, not simply invented, but built-and-deployed at scale — Uber’s drivers are its biggest competitive advantage. Kalanick’s public statements on the matter hardly evinced understanding on this point.
Second, bringing self-driving cars to market would entail huge amounts of capital investment. For one, this means it would be unlikely that Google, a company that rushes to reassure investors when it loses tens of basis points in margin, would do so by itself, and for another, whatever companies did make such an investment would be highly incentivized to maximize utilization of said investment as soon as possible. That means plugging into the dominant transportation-as-a-service network, which means partnering with Uber.
My contention is that Uber would have been best-served concentrating all of its resources on its driver-centric model, even as it built relationships with everyone in the self-driving space, positioning itself to be the best route to customers for whoever wins the self-driving technology battle.
Uber’s Second Chance
Interestingly, scooters and their closely-related cousin, e-bikes, may give Uber a second chance to get this right. Absent two-sided network effects, the potential moats for, well, self-riding scooters and e-bikes are relatively weak: proprietary technology is likely to provide short-lived advantages at best, and Bird and Lime have plenty of access to capital. Both are experimenting with “charging-sharing”, wherein they pay people to charge the scooters in their homes, but both augment that with their own contractors to both charge vehicles and move them to areas with high demand.
What remains under-appreciated is habit: your typical tech first-adopter may have no problem checking multiple apps to catch a quick ride, but I suspect most riders would prefer to use the same app they already have on their phone. To that end, there is certainly a strong impetus for Bird and Lime to spread to new cities, simply to get that first-app-installed advantage, but this is where Uber has the biggest advantage of all: the millions of people who already have the Uber app.
To that end, I thought Uber’s acquisition of Jump Bikes was a good idea, and scooters should be next (an acquisition of Bird or Lime may already be too pricey, but Jump has a strong technical team that should be able to get an Uber-equivalent out the door soon). The Uber app already handles multiple kinds of rides; it is a small step to handling multiple kinds of transportation — a smaller step than installing yet another app.
More Tech Surplus
More generally, in a world where everything is a service, companies may have to adapt to shallower moats than they may like. If you squint, what I am recommending for Uber looks a bit like a traditional consumer packaged goods (CPG) strategy: control distribution (shelf-space | screen-space) with a few dominant products (e.g. TIDE | UberX) that provide leverage for new offerings (e.g. Swiffer | Jump Bikes). The model isn’t nearly as strong, but there may be other potential lock-ins, particularly in terms of exclusive contracts with cities and universities.
Still, that is hardly the sort of dominance that accrues to digital-only aggregators like Facebook or Google, or even Netflix; the physical world is much harder to monopolize. That everything will be available as a service means a massive increase in efficiency for society broadly — more products will be available to more people for lower overall costs — even as the difficulty in digging moats means most of that efficiency becomes consumer surplus. And, as long as venture capitalists are willing to foot the bill, cities like San Francisco should take advantage.
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Two New Exhibits Open at Tsereteli Arts Gallery
By Jennifer Monaghan
French sculptor Mateo Mornar?€™s bronze works differ widely in content. Vladimir Filonov
Speaking Friday at the opening night of "20 x 1," or "Venti Per Una" to use its Italian name, artistic director Martina Corgnati said she wanted to teach the audience to understand "the language of modern art."
In truth, the exhibition is perhaps a little heavy for visitors uninitated in modern art, though with some reflection it is possible to discern larger social commentaries swirling beneath the surface of several of the pieces in this collection.
Venti Per Una, which is running as part of the 5th Moscow Biennale, is located in two rooms at the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery and comprises of photographs, videos and sculptures by different artists, each hailing from one of different regions in Italy.
One of the most resonant pieces in the collection is Danilo Correale's "The Surface of my Eye is Deeper than the Ocean": a video installation, in which anonymous gamblers (we only ever see their hands) scratch away at pot-luck cards. The monotony of this action, accompanied by the gentle lull of the scratching, is surprisingly reassuring, and it is easy to see how this action could become a source of comfort for the gamers, even superseding the ultimate goal itself — winning big. More widely, the piece highlights the relationship between the larger social constructions that shape our world — be it wealth, consumerism or addiction — and their realities in the present.
Emilio Isgro's "Russland" is a play on this same idea — the interplay between the micro and the macro — and finds expression in an old German map of northern Russia with all possible references to scale, author or place names blacked out. In Isgro's piece, Russland is instead returned to a more primitive state of being and reminds us that this land existed — and will continue to exist — regardless of human attempts to label, measure and claim it as our own.
"The Cow Lola" by Stefano Cagol, poses further questions about the relationship between the macro and the micro. The installation consists of a number of different animal hides, all of which are branded with the same name, "Lola," a often used in Italy to call in the cows. A plaque next to Cargol's piece draws attention to the "hypocritical" behaviour of humans toward animals, which he believes can lead to a "cancellation" of other species.
While "20 x 1" is a small exhibition, several of its pieces convey messages that resonate beyond the boundaries of Italy's national borders. That said, the jury remains out on whether this exhibition can — as Corgnati hopes — really help its audience to understand the "language of modern art."
Downstairs at the same gallery, and displayed as part of an official visit by Prince Albert II of Monaco to Moscow, the Croatian-born French artist Mateo Mornar is showing 100 of his works in the exhibition "Sculpture; Life; Passion."
Monar is known for his work with the female body form, which is evidently a source of much inspiration for the artist, but in his latest offering he has incorporated a new theme into the mix: predators.
On one side of the room, full-bodied women cast out of bronze take on a variety of different poses. By employing rounded edges, and working the smoothness of the bronze to create sensual objects of art, Mornar only heightens the juxtaposition with the predators sculptures that stand on the other side of the room.
In contrast, works such as "Rhinoceros" and "Tiger," employ jagged cuts and sharp geometrical angles to create powerful representations of their namesakes, and it is a testament to Mornar's abilities to work with this media that two such differing "passions" can be captured in the same show.
At the back of the room, and drawing the immediate eye of visitors, "Eagle" almost acts as a mediator between the women and the beasts. The only white sculpture in the room, "Eagle" — with its wings spread and talons ready to strike — displays all the signs of a classic predator, yet still manages to say something of the purity and beauty of nature. It is a striking piece.
Outside, visitors can see four of Mornar's larger predator pieces, including a 5-1/2-meter winged horse and an almost 3-1/2-meter-high polar bear. Similar to "Eagle," these pieces manage to capture both the strength and the beauty of these creatures, while also allowing their perceived personalities to shine through.
"20 x 1" runs until October 20 and "Sculpture. Life. Passion" runs until Oct. 13 at the Zurab Tsereteli Arts Gallery, 19 Prechistenka. Metro Kropotkinskaya, 495-637-2569. For more information, visit rah.ru.
Contact the author at j.monaghan@imedia.ru
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Silence marks Ebola milestone, but scars remain
Sierra Leone commemorates the victims
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فريتاون، 8 نوفمبر 2016
Ingrid Gercama
Is a freelance journalist based in Freetown
It was an unusual day in Freetown, a West African city that loves to be loud. For three long minutes yesterday, it was eerily quiet.
At 11 o’clock at the Lumley roundabout, one of the busiest areas in town, taxis were stationary and vendors halted their hustling. Dollar boys stopped shouting their rates and, for once, the stereos blasting Nigerian Afrobeat music were switched off.
The reason was a commemoration. A year ago, on 7 November, Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free. The virus had killed 3,580 people and terrorised the nation for 18 months. The three-minute silence was organised by the government to remember those who lost their lives.
It had never been done before. Not even to mark the end of the brutal civil war against the hand-chopping RUF rebels that killed some 50,000 people.
But Ebola is different. Despite the relatively small number of deaths, the trauma – the intimate impact of the virus on families – magnified the fear and the wrenching suffering.
Remembering the dead
For Ishmael Jalloh, who works as a driver for the UN Development Programme in Freetown, yesterday was a difficult day. In September 2014, he had received a devastating phone call: “Ishmael, your younger brother – Opoto – is not feeling well.”
One year after the eradication of Ebola in Sierra Leone
John Heine/IRIN
Jalloh, who was not able to leave Freetown because of a national lockdown enforced by the government, asked what was wrong. Nobody knew. After three or four days, Opoto died.
“They hid that information from my mother. She kept asking ‘where is my Opoto, you people?’. But by that time he was already dead.”
His mother also fell ill but never spoke to anyone about her sickness. “After three days she was also gone. Then my uncle Abu fell sick. After a few days, he was gone.”
Next followed his younger sister, several of his friends, and most of the family of his mother. Jalloh lost 18 family members in the early stages of the outbreak.
Alaji Samura, a commercial ‘Okada’ motorbike rider from Bottom Mango Tree in Freetown, lost his wife, children, and sister to the disease. He still misses his wife terribly. “I don’t feel good, because since I grew up, that one took care of me. We were together since then. When I see the three of them (his surviving children), I really don’t feel good.”
It was with people like Jalloh and Samura in mind that Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the head of the President's Delivery Team for Transition and Recovery – came up with the idea of organising a national ceremony. She felt it was important for the country to grieve in a formal way.
“I was in church when someone was asked to pray about the Ebola outbreak. And this lady began to make reference to the death of her family members,” Aki-Sawyerr recalled. “She was really emotional about the fact that she had not been able to say goodbye; that they had not been able to remember the death with honour, with dignity.
“It really struck a chord in me. All over the country there are people with the same situation. They have not had closure.”
Organising a commemoration day
When presidential approval was given, Aki-Sawyerr’s team only had a few days to organise a national ceremony.
Alaji Samura
It would be a challenge anywhere – but a much bigger challenge here in Sierra Leone. Newspaper readership is tiny, transport links are poor, and very few people have access to a television, so most information is spread either through local radio or word of mouth.
“Everyone dropped what they were doing to get the word out there,” said Aki-Sawyerr.
Mobile phone companies agreed to send out text messages, radio stations from Freetown to Makeni in the north aired radio jingles and government WhatsApp groups went into overdrive. Last weekend, both imams and pastors talked about the importance of the commemoration with their congregations.
“It is not going to be perfect,” said Aki-Sawyerr, when IRIN spoke with her the night before the ceremony. “I live under no illusion.”
Moses, a traffic warden stationed at Congo Cross saw little chance of success: “No way I will be able to stop the taxis if they don’t want to stop.”
But against all expectations, Aki-Sawyerr’s team managed to pull it off. At 11am sharp, in the heart of Freetown and on the main beach road, people stopped whatever they were doing and the city fell silent.
What was achieved?
For Samura, the three-minute silence was a challenge on many levels. He doesn’t like to think about his loss, preferring to focus on the present. “I can’t stop running [my bike] at that time [of the silence],” he said, “it won’t help me.”
Aurelie Marrier d'Unienville/IRIN
Sierra Leone has come a long way
“I am an ‘Okada’ driver, and all I make on the streets is going to my children,” he explained. “I face a lot of constraints … Only God helps me.”
He gets out the burial certificates of his wife and sister, given to him by the hospital. “Since that day, all the people abandon me. Even the toilet we use, they [shun it].”
Jalloh was also slightly dismissive. “I thank God that all of us are going to reflect on Monday. But what will the three minutes do for me really? Nothing.”
After the death of his family members, he was left to care for the children of those who passed away. “My problem is not sitting down and thinking about what happened, but how to take care of these children. It is what happens after the three minutes that worries me.”
Some services, albeit limited, are available. Under the President’s Post-Ebola Recovery Priorities, the government is working to provide survivors with free healthcare, and other development agencies are providing cash transfers for Ebola survivors.
But most of these services are focused on providing care for survivors of the disease, not for surviving family members, even if they are now looking after those that lost all.
The living
The obvious signs of the Ebola outbreak have disappeared. The buckets of chlorinated water used to disinfect hands have gone from the streets of Freetown; the emergency treatment centres have been dismantled.
The National Ebola Recovery Strategy is trying to improve Sierra Leone’s health services by establishing new facilities, training personnel, and ensuring compliance with infection protection and control standards – although it is a long road to travel.
Sierra Leone is moving on. Yesterday, Jalloh and Samura did observe the silence, but then went home to be with their families.
“We called our people. We sat together. We asked God, ‘come eat’,” Jalloh told IRIN. “That’s the way we remember our people today.”
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As we approach this year’s climate summit, the Tears for Fears song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” keeps running through my head.
Welcome to your life.
There’s no turning back.
When it comes to climate change, we are now moving on a linear path. No looking back, as painful as it is. While scientists have been warning us for decades — bordering half a century of ‘red flags’ in both evidence and advocacy — here is where we now sit. In the midst of a massive climate breakdown which will change the world as we know it.
The headlines read: Climate emergency. Climate breakdown. Climate crisis. Global heating, not global warming. It took a young girl, Greta Thunberg, to push governments — the rulers of our world — to take notice. It took an older gent, David Attenborough to scare the hell out of all of us. Fish stocks and biodiversity collapse, wildlife extinction, and with that, human extinction not being far behind.
But is anyone listening? Is there anyone out there? It seems rulers just want to keep ruling their kingdoms, playing that fiddle while Rome burns. Literally.
“All for freedom and for pleasure.
Nothing ever lasts forever.
Everybody wants to rule the world.”
Top on the list of Nero-like impersonators is Donald Trump. A buffoon, but a dangerous one. He has completely ignored the science, and refuses to cooperate with other nations by not ratifying the COP Paris agreement in which the the United States signed in 2015. By signing onto the COP, each country has in principle, agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, use green energy sources and keep the world well below 1.5 degrees. This signing was an “intent.” But ratification is key. Since 2015, there are still some countries who have not legally ratified their agreement and they include Angola, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Russia, South Sudan, Suriname, Turkey, and Yemen. Trump is wanting to completely pull out let alone ratify. His next opportunity to do so will be in November 2020. Interesting timing yes?
This is all sad nonetheless. It would be one thing if the United States solely suffered from their silly political choices, but that is just not the case with climate (among other things). Everyone suffers from decisions of powerful rulers who just don’t give a shit.
The UN Secretary General’s remarks at the Climate Summit Preparatory Meeting said:
“It is plain to me that we have no time to lose. Sadly, it is not yet plain to all the decision makers that run our world. On the plus side, we have the Paris Agreement on climate change and a work programme agreed last year in Katowice. But we know that even if the promises of Paris are fully met, we still face at least a 3-degree temperature rise by the end of the century – a catastrophe for life as we know it. Even more worrying is that many countries are not even keeping pace with their promises under the Paris Agreement.”
The UN SG has reason to worry if one were to actually look historically at the data and trends. And the science holds up. Twenty-five years ago in 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists comprised of 1700 independent scientists, wrote a canary in the coal mine (excuse the analogy…) piece entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” This group called on our global society to stop the environmental destruction being witnessed back then if we are to ensure that “vast human misery is to be avoided.” They expressed concern about past and future damage to the planet and outlined areas of concern involving ozone depletion, freshwater availability, marine life depletion, ocean dead zones, forest loss, biodiversity destruction, climate change, and continued human population growth. These scientists argued that we are fast approaching the limits of the biosphere and we may not be able to reverse the damage done.
Source: Ripple, W.J., Wolf, C., Newsome, T.M., Galetti, M., Alamgir, M., Crist, E., Mahmoud, M.I., Laurance, W.F. and 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries, 2017. World scientists’ warning to humanity: a second notice. BioScience, 67(12), pp.1026-1028.
Fast forward to 2017, another group of scientists looked back at their warning and evaluated the human response since that time by exploring available time-series data across a series of environmental indicators. Since 1992, with the exception of stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, humanity has failed to make sufficient progress on almost all of the environmental challenges outlined in the Warning paper, and in most cases, the situation has become much worse. The figure to the left shows the different trends tracked before and after 1992 in gray and black lines, respectively. Pretty dismal and downright scary to see the the massive deforestation, declines in species, increases in dead zones, and the steep rises in greenhouse gases and temperature.
How did our world get to this state? We are in the middle of a new experiment -- a democracy free fall in which global freedom, open political systems and free societies are threatened. The world experiences ebbs and flows in the history of time, and let us hope that the decisions of rulers, the political institutions that provide the checks and balances on these rulers, and our planet survive this ebb. As the UN SG said, we have to. We are in a battle for our lives.
In Climate Change Tags climate change, tears for fears, climate crisis, climate breakdown, global heating, climate emergency, trump, UN SG, Union of Concerned Scientists
After all the chaos of the Mueller report and sanctuary cities here in the U.S., I found much joy in tuning out, and instead reading about our fellow friend, the coyote’s diet. Turns out, they eat a lot of cats. Not so much roadrunner. Talk about the new urban hunter! The researchers who investigated the scat of these stealthy creatures also found that their diets consisted of “baseballs, shoes, furniture, and bedazzled jewels.” Hide your pets…
National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report: Sustainable Diets, Food and Nutrition
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine held a a public workshop in Washington, DC, in mid 2018 on sustainable diets, food, and nutrition. Workshop participants reviewed current and emerging knowledge on the concept of sustainable diets within the field of food and nutrition; explored sustainable diets and relevant impacts for cross-sector partnerships, policy, and research; and discussed how sustainable diets influence dietary patterns, the food system, and population and public health. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
This week, climate change was on the minds of many, with young people marching in the streets and young, but wise Greta Thunberg showing her courage in the fight, hence being honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people.
We at Johns Hopkins hosted an event on food and water security in the era of climate change. We had some really fantastic experts speaking at the event. I was hoping for a sold out house, but no such luck. We had good attendance but I guess people don’t care that much about the changing climate. I have no other explanation. Here is what the event was about:
The media headlines in the last two weeks showing Nebraska and Mozambique underwater are tragic glimpses of a new era - the era of climate-related natural disasters. Climate change is and will continue to impact the lives of everyone, and will have significant ramifications on both water and food security globally. Climate-related impacts affect water availability in regions that are already water-stressed, as well as the productivity of both irrigated and rain-fed agriculture. Rising temperatures translate into increased crop water demand and have consequences for food availability, and potentially, the nutritional content and quality of crops. Likewise, insufficient and compromised food access and utilization influence households and individuals ability to access healthy diets and drinking water, which can have detrimental health outcomes. No one is immune — both the livelihoods of rural communities and food security of urban populations are at risk of water insecurity linked to climate variability. The rural poor, in particular, are disproportionately affected by climate effects. It is likely that climate variability and change will continue to exacerbate food insecurity in areas currently vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition. There is an immediate need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward “climate-smart agriculture, water and food systems” that are resilient to climate-related shocks. This seminar will delve into water and food security in the midst of a changing climate and what we can do as a global community to adapt and mitigate.
Speaking of climate change, I really liked this piece by Richard Waite and Janet Ranganathan of the World Resources Institute (a speaker at our event) on beef and climate. They unpack 6 common questions about the contentious topic of the sustainability of beef production systems and climate change. Here they are:
Q: How does beef production cause greenhouse gas emissions? A: Through the agricultural production process and through land-use change.
Q: Is beef more resource-intensive than other foods? A:Yes.
Q: Why are some people saying beef production is only a small contributor to emissions? A: Such estimates commonly leave out land-use impacts, such as cutting down forests to establish new pastureland. I think it is politics and some denial there too…
Q: Can beef be produced more sustainably? A: Yes, although beef will always be resource-intensive to produce.
Q: Do we all need to stop eating beef in order to curb climate change? A: No.
Q: Would eating less beef be bad for jobs in the food and agriculture sector? A: Not necessarily
If you want to read their long responses, check out the article! They also have a ton of solutions in their Creating Sustainable Food Futures report and in the figure below.
World Resources Institute’s Menu of Options from their most recent report: Creating Sustainable Food Futures
And climate change is definitely real. Farmers are feeling the effects. A NYT article looked at Honduran coffee farmers are being hit hard. Estimates suggest that least 1.4 million people will flee their homes in Mexico and Central America and migrate during the next three decades. But if Trump has his way, they will be met with a Game of Throne like wall…
Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program newsletter
Last but not least, there is a lot of talk about cultural appropriation around food these days. A restaurant opened in New York called “Lucky Lee's”, a new Chinese restaurant, not run by Chinese but a Jewish American couple who wanted to have a Chinese restaurant that served “clean” food that was healthy. Not sure what the hell they were thinking. You can’t really mess with food particularly because it is so deep rooted in people’s culture and tradition. It holds a special place in society and it gets quickly politicized when you remove it from its core identity.
And last, last but not least, the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at the Johns Hopkins University puts out a weekly newsletter on interesting articles in the food space, much like this one. It is curated by Claire Davis at the Berman, and I find it to be a rich source of information on ethics and politics of food and nutrition. I encourage you to sign up for it. It is also in the Food Archive resources section.
In Culture, Planetary Health Tags cultural appropriation, beef, climate change, coyotes, cats, mozambique, nebraska, drought, flood
I had the pleasure of doing a keynote talk at the “Ending Global Hunger Conference” at the Center for Global Food Security of Purdue University . My talk was entitled “Why Hunger Amidst Plenty?” My slides are here.
The punchline of the talk was this: We are living in a complex world made up of multiple burdens of malnutrition. While the obstacles to address the burden are daunting for citizens, there are tools to solve it. We just need political will, global cooperation, and immediate action.
The malnutrition burden is massive. But the story is mixed - there is the good, the bad, and the ugly. Let’s start with the good. Stunting is coming down - in some places quite fast - like Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Also, the risk of dying from a famine has become much, much smaller than at any time in history. Then there is the bad. For the third year in a row, there has been a rise in world hunger. The absolute number of undernourished people has increased to nearly 821 million in 2017, from around 804 million in 2016. These are levels from almost a decade ago. Further, “hidden” hunger remains significant but is shrouded in mystery. We don’t know the state of micronutrient deficiencies, particularly among the nutritionally vulnerable populations, such as children under five years of age, women and adolescent girls. And now the ugly. Overweight and obesity is rising everywhere and among every stage of life. No country has stopped the trends we are witnessing.
The question remains why?
Why do we still have hunger & undernutrition?
Why are we not seeing improvements? And in some cases reversals of progress?
How did we get to this place of paradox: hunger & obesity?
What can we do about it?
I argue that hunger is still rampant because of poverty, conflict change, conflict, poor infrastructure, unstable markets, food loss and waste, and periods of seasonal hunger in rural places.
But how did we get to this place of paradox? That is complex but in a nutshell, our lives and lifestyles are transforming as are our diets and food systems. Many in the world are now consuming sub-optimal diets, exercising less and hence are more sedentary, and these contribute to the risk of disease and death. At the same time, healthy diets are not accessible to all.
As a result, many people are now affected by both food insecurity and obesity at the same time. Food-insecure populations, really no matter where they live, are subject to the same, but unique influences in trying to consume a healthful diet:
Limited resources and lack of access to healthy, affordable foods
Cycles of food deprivation and overeating
High levels of stress, anxiety and depression
Limited access to health care
Fewer opportunities for physical activity
Greater exposure to marketing of obesity-promoting products
The question remains, what to do? There is no one simple measure that can successfully shift the burden at the national or global scale. Rather, a constellation of different approaches and strategies, operating across scales and supply chains, and targeted at different people and organizations will be required. I argue for 10 actions:
Care. We need governments, industry and citizens to care about their diets and their nutrition, climate change and food systems.
Push for countries to develop a food systems policy. No country has implemented a full range of updated, comprehensive, and evidence informed strategies to encourage a healthier and more equitable food system.
Consider the situation a “Syndemic” and take on triple duty actions.
Consider options for keeping the food system within environmental limits. Dietary, technological change on farms, and reductions in food loss and waste are critical to reduce environmental impacts of our food system on the planet.
Don’t forget about who will continue to feed the world. As Ruth DeFries eloquently wrote: “Now we are transforming from farmers to urbanites. Our newest experiment-to feed massive numbers of people from the work of a few-is just beginning. The outcome is yet to be seen.” Who will feed us when the average age of the world’s farmer is 60?
Invest in small and medium holder farmers. Smallholder farmers have more diversified landscapes, making important contributions to the overall dietary diversity for the world’s population. 53-81% of micronutrients in the food supply are produced by small and medium farms. These farms make up 84% of all farms and 33% of the land areas globally and are more predominant in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Maximize net increases of nutrition along value chains. Identify points in the chain that can be “leveraged for change.” Leverage points can cause nutrients to be lost or exit the value chain as well as enhance the nutritional value of select nutrient-rich foods.
Engage and empower women in on- and off-farm opportunities. Women need social capital including information and access to new technologies and farming practices and tapping into social networks that may assist in times of hardship. Women need access to credit with greater ability to invest in infrastructure and to smooth consumption or production shocks. And last, we need to improve their human human capital and agency - give them opportunities for education, and increase their ability to get health and nutrition services.
Help consumers navigate this complex web. Give them the information and knowledge the make healthy choices. Make them affordable, accessible and culturally appropriate. But consumers are super, duper confused…
Dig deeper. We must address the underlying social determinants that impact malnutrition. Every country is impacted by poverty but its determinants may be different, or the same…
In Diets, Food environment, Hunger, Nutrition, Obesity, Rural development Tags the good the bad the ugly, ending hunger, Purdue University, climate change, markets, infrastructure, seasonal hunger, hidden hunger, rural places, smallholder farmers, women in agriculture, diets
Food Bytes: Nibbles from the end of 2018
GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT
The Global Nutrition Report was released this November. The news is not great. The report revealed that the global burden of malnutrition is unacceptably high and now affects every country in the world. But it also highlighted that if we act now, it is not too late to end malnutrition in all its forms. In fact, we have an unprecedented opportunity to do so. Steps have been taken in understanding and addressing malnutrition in all its forms, yet, the uncomfortable question is not so much why are things so bad, but why are things not better when we know so much more than before? Check it out and read all the deets.
CAN OUR DIETS SAVE THE PLANET?
There is much more to discuss than just a “byte” but we published a Nature article showing that what you eat does matter if you want to save the planet. Beef is the big outlier. Those people or in aggregate, countries who eat a lot of red meat (hello the lovely US of A), could dramatically reduce green house gas emissions stemming from agriculture. Refute the science all you want livestock industry, but the science is pretty clear. A lot of press was written up on the paper, and the Guardian does a nice summary.
Netflix released a food docuseries last year entitled Rotten, and I finally got around to watching all 6 episodes. It is actually quite good, and I think, quite unbiased (as opposed to many food documentaries). It delves into aspects of different food supply chains and presents a slighly terrifying picture. Like how must honey we buy is adulterated and not really honey at all, food allergies that kill, the collapsing/ed cod industry, the underworld of garlic and big corporations out to squeeze the smallholder, and it goes on and on. The show exposes the complex, corrupt nature of our global food system and the many industries feeding that, leaving you questioning where your food comes and who controls it. Good stuff. Hope there is a season 2.
In Food Bytes Tags climate change, beef, greenhouse gases, netflix, food supply chain, honey, garlic, cod, malnutrition, nutrition
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Majority of Torontonians favour bike lanes, new survey suggests
By Alina BykovaStaff Reporter
Wed., Oct. 5, 2016timer2 min. read
Seven in 10 Torontonians support bike lanes generally and a majority approve of the new lanes on Bloor St. W., according to a new Forum Research poll revealed this week.
The survey showed widespread support for bike lanes from multiple demographics that were surveyed, including people who drive, take public transit, bike and walk to work or school, those in different income and age brackets, and men and women alike.
Downtown Toronto and East York, where most bike lanes are located, had the highest approval rates, at 79 per cent in each region. North York’s approval rating was the lowest of all the regions surveyed, at 61 per cent.
“These lanes have obviously been something of a success, and even the majority of drivers favour them. This bodes well for more bicycle infrastructure if as ambitious a project as this can meet with so little opposition,” said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff.
Fifty-six per cent of those polled approved of the new bike lanes on Bloor between Shaw St. and Avenue Rd., a pilot project installed in August. The approval rating was slightly higher in the case of those surveyed in downtown Toronto, who were 63 per cent in favour of the bike lanes, and in East York, where 72 per cent were supportive.
The poll revealed that more women surveyed approved of the Bloor bike lanes (62 per cent) than men (49 per cent). Out of all the age groups, people aged 18 to 34 approved of the bike lanes the most, at 67 per cent.
Not surprisingly, bike riders approved of the new lanes the most, at 92 per cent, while responses from drivers of cars and other vehicles were split quite equally — 45 per cent approved, 46 per cent disapproved.
The poll found that 52 per cent of respondents are in favour of expanding the bike lanes east, past Yonge St. to the Don Valley.
Who you supported in the 2014 mayoral election seems to offer a clue as your opinion of the Bloor experiment — 77 per cent of respondents who voted for Olivia Chow approved of the Bloor bike lanes, while only 38 per cent of Doug Ford supporters were in favour. (John Tory’s voters gave 53 per cent approval to the lanes.)
However, for many it’s a theoretical question: less than one-fifth of those surveyed (17 per cent) have ridden in the new bike lanes, and about half of respondents (52 per cent) have driven along Bloor the bike lanes have been installed.
About a quarter (26 per cent) of those surveyed said that traffic now moves slower along this stretch of Bloor, though this view is upheld more strongly by those who drive cars or other private vehicles (36 per cent), and those who voted for Doug Ford (38 per cent).
The poll was conducted on Sept. 30 by an interactive voice response telephone survey of 882 randomly selected Toronto adults. Results based on the total sample are considered accurate within three percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Where appropriate, the data has been statistically weighted by age, region and other variables to ensure the sample reflects the actual population according to the latest census data.
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New spot in Bradford as Rabbit Hole Bar & Club opens its doors
By Felicity Macnamara @FelicityM_TandA Reporter
THE Rabbit Hole Bar & Club has now opened its doors in the heart of Bradford city centre.
Work began in October last year to bring a new lease of life to the former Perfect Home unit in the Kirkgate Shopping Centre.
The space, on the corner of Westgate and Godwin Street, had been empty for a year, but has now been given a completely new look.
The need for the Kirkgate Shopping Centre to diversify its offering was laid bare last year.
A planning application submitted by the centre said it was facing a “number of challenges” and the change of use would help the unit make a more “meaningful contribution to the vitality and viability of the city centre”.
Now eight months on, the space is filled and open for business.
It officially launched last Thursday, marking a new spot for the city.
It’s the brainchild of Jason Avgousti, who owned Bentley’s Live Lounge on Westgate.
The bar opened a week later than expected due to plumbing problems, but Mr Avgousti said the opening had gone well.
“We got a good reception,” he said. “Bradford was quiet, but we were quite busy, so that’s good. Everything went really smoothly.
“For me, it’s kind of breaking the mould a little bit.
“I think you have to do, because there’s no point having the same things over and over again, because you’re not attracting new people back to Bradford.
“In the majority, people really liked it.”
While the bar is open, Mr Avgousti said there are still some finishing touches to make and he has plans for the upper levels of the building, which has five floors.
“It’s still a work in progress. The amount of floors we’ve got, it’ll take time.”
Plans for the upper levels include a VIP lounge and an American pool space.
“The main thing for me is, because I’m from Bradford and I remember the likes of Maestro’s, Dukes and Silks, Dollars and Dimes, Millionaires, people from all over would come to Bradford,” Mr Avgousti said.
“The whole point is trying create something where people can have a choice in Bradford. It’s not going to be for everybody, but it’s a choice for people to be able to say ‘you know what, let’s go to Rabbit Hole tonight, after we’ve been everywhere else’.”
The club is among a number of new openings in the city centre, including Al’s Juke Bar on Darley Street and the Drum Winder in the old Poundworld unit at the bottom of Ivegate.
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U.S. Women Set for Worlds Opener vs Azerbaijan
By Bill Kauffman (bill.kauffman@usav.org) | Sept. 28, 2018, 11:28 a.m. (ET)
(L-R): Megan Courtney, Foluke Akinradewo, Jordan Larson and Rachael Adams during the national anthem
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 28, 2018) – The U.S. Women’s National Team, ranked second in the world, opens its 2018 FIVB World Championship slate against Azerbaijan on Saturday at 3:10 a.m. ET in Kobe, Japan, with a target on its back.
Team USA is the defending world champions having captured gold in 2014 during the most recent edition. Earlier this year the Americans won the inaugural FIVB Volleyball Nations League, a grueling competition that included five weekends of pool play before the Final Six round. Overall, the U.S. finished 17-2 in VNL and are 26-4 in 2018.
There are not too many unknowns about the U.S. Women. The same cannot be said for their opening match opponent.
Related: U.S. Women’s National Team Home Page | Team USA World Championship Press Kit | 2018 U.S. Women’s Schedule/Results | 2018 U.S. Women’s Season Stats
Azerbaijan, ranked 24th in the world, is the only first round opponent the U.S. has not faced in 2018 as it did not compete in the Volleyball Nations League. And Team USA has not faced Azerbaijan since the 2006 FIVB World Championship. Overall, the two teams have faced each other only three times – twice in the Yeltsin Cup in 2003 and 2004 – and Azerbaijan has won all three meetings.
Azerbaijan is making its fourth appearance in the FIVB World Championship, having qualified by placing first in European Confederation (CEV) Pool E2 at home in a tournament held May 23-June 4, 2017. The squad finished ninth in its 1994 debut, then 13th in 2006 and 15th in 2014.
Azerbaijan has a 14-player roster with only four players with national team appearances, highlighted by outside hitter Natalya Mammadova’s 95 matches. She has played in 17 World Championship contests. She is known as a scoring machine with a wicked serve having picked up consecutive Best Scorer honors in the CEV Champions League’s League round back in 2004-05 and 2005-06. More recently, Mammadova helped Volero Zurich win bronze in the 2017 FIVB World Club Championship. She, along with middle Aynur Imanova and opposite Polina Rahimova, are the only players with World Championship experience.
Azerbaijan’s best success to date was gold at the 2016 European League after home-and-away wins over Slovakia in the final, 3-1 in Nitra and 3-0 in Baku. They came close to another medal last year, when they hosted the 2017 European Championship, reaching the semifinals before losing to the Netherlands in five sets and then defeated by Turkey in the bronze-medal match.
In the week leading up to the World Championship, Azerbaijan lost two friendly exhibition matches to Italy. Italy won the first match 25-21, 25-19, 25-20 on Sept. 25. In the rematch on Wednesday, Italy won again 26-24, 25-22, 25-22.
In contrast, the U.S. making its 16th World Championship appearance and is the defending champions. Team USA has eight players accounting for 10 Olympic Games medals. Middles Rachael Adams (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Foluke Akinradewo (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), outsides Kim Hill (Portland, Oregon) and Jordan Larson (Hooper, Nebraska), opposites Karsta Lowe (Rancho Santa Fe, California) and Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Illinois), setter Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, California) and libero Kelsey Robinson (Manhattan Beach, California) were part of the 2016 Olympic Games roster. Further, outside hitter Michelle Bartsch-Hackley (Champaign, Illinois) won the 2018 VNL most valuable player honor and middle Tori Dixon (Burnsville, Minnesota) picked up the tournament’s best blocker award.
The U.S. has medaled in each of the last three Olympic Games, winning silver in 2008 and 2012 before finishing with bronze in 2016. The Americans are the only women’s indoor volleyball team to have reached the podium in each of the last three Olympic Games.
After facing Azerbaijan, Team USA’s first-round opponents will be more familiar to them having played each team at least once in 2018. The Americans challenge Trinidad & Tobago on Sept. 30 at 12:40 a.m. ET. After a day off from Pool C action, the U.S. returns to action on Oct. 2 against Korea at 6:20 a.m. ET followed by Thailand on Oct. 3 at 6:20 a.m. ET. The U.S. concludes pool play against Russia on Oct. 4 at 6:10 a.m. ET.
The top four teams in Pool C advance to the second round (Oct. 7-11) in Osaka and will face the top four teams from Pool B. All eight teams in the cross-over pool will begin the second round with all their wins and points accumulated from the first round. The top three teams from the two second round pools move on to the third round where the final six teams will battle it out Oct. 14-16 in Nagoya in two pools of three. The semifinals and medal matches are set for on Oct. 19-20 in Yokohama.
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U.S. Women's National Team Roster for FIVB World Championship
# - Player (Position, Height, College, Hometown)
1 – Micha Hancock (S, 5-11, Penn State, Edmond, Oklahoma)
3 – Carli Lloyd (S, 5-11, California, Bonsall, California)
5 – Rachael Adams (M, 6-2, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio)
6 – Tori Dixon (M, 6-3, Minnesota, Burnsville, Minnesota)
8 – Lauren Gibbemeyer (M, 6-2, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota)
10 – Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Nebraska, Hooper, Nebraska)
12 – Kelly Murphy (OPP, 6-2, Florida, Wilmington, Illinois)
13 – Sarah Wilhite Parsons (OH, 6-2, Minnesota, Eden Prairie, Minnesota)
14 – Michelle Bartsch-Hackley (OH, 6-3, Illinois, Champaign, Illinois)
15 – Kim Hill (OH, 6-4, Pepperdine, Portland, Oregon)
16 – Foluke Akinradewo (M, 6-3, Stanford, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
17 – Megan Courtney (L, 6-1, Penn State, Dayton, Ohio)
23 – Kelsey Robinson (L, 6-2, Nebraska, Manhattan Beach, California)
24 – Karsta Lowe (OPP, 6-4, UCLA, Rancho Santa Fe, California)
Head Coach: Karch Kiraly
Assistant Coaches: Luka Slabe, Tama Miyashiro
Technical Coordinator: Jeff Liu
Physiotherapist: Kara Kessans
Team Manager: Jimmy Stitz
Doctors: Dr. Christopher Lee and Lori Boyajian-O’Neill
Consultant Coaches: Marv Dunphy
Scout Coach: Giuseppe Vinci
Mental Performance Coach: Traci Statler
2018 FIVB World Championship Schedule for Team USA
First-Round Pool C at Kobe, Japan (All Time Eastern)
Sept. 29: USA vs. Azerbaijan, 3:10 a.m.
Sept. 30: USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 12:40 a.m.
Oct. 2: USA vs. Korea, 6:20 a.m.
Oct. 3: USA vs. Thailand, 6:20 a.m.
Oct. 4: USA vs. Russia, 6:10 a.m.
Second Round at Osaka, Japan (Must finish top 4 in Pool C to advance)
Oct. 7-11
Third Round at Nagoya, Japan (Must finish top 3 in Second Round to advance)
Oct. 14-16 (two pools of three teams)
Semifinals and Medal Rounds in Yokohama, Japan (top two finishes in both Third Round Pools)
U.S. Women Announce Final Roster for Worlds Sept. 21, 2018
U.S. Women's Press Kit for World Championship Sept. 21, 2018
U.S. Women's Opponent Capsules for Worlds Sept. 17, 2018
Rachael Adams
Foluke Akinradewo
Michelle Bartsch-Hackley
Megan Courtney
Tori Dixon
Lauren Gibbemeyer
Micha Hancock
Jordan Larson
Karsta Lowe
Kelly Murphy
Kelsey Robinson
Sarah Wilhite Parsons
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Think Labour looks out of touch now? Wait until the EU referendum campaign starts...
In arguing against Brexit, Labour will alienate precisely the same Eurosceptic working class voters it desperately needs to win back
Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party need to work hard to reconnect with voters
By Matthew Goodwin
12:10PM GMT 06 Jan 2016
Britain’s referendum on its continuing EU membership is likely to be the major event of 2016. The result will not only determine the country’s place in the world but could also generate some big and long-lasting effects in domestic politics.
Among other things, it will decide David Cameron’s future, and whether the Conservative’s can finally move on from a civil war that has been raging for more than twenty years. It will also decide the fate of the UK Independence Party, turning British Euroscepticism into a mainstream force or relegating it to a fringe obsession. But Britain’s EU referendum could also have a major impact on the Labour Party – and in a way that few people currently realise.
While Jeremy Corbyn has voiced some ambivalence toward the EU, Labour will inevitably set out to make a strong and loud case for Remain. Labour In For Britain, led by Alan Johnson, is already putting forward the traditional case for European integration, claiming that Brexit would put millions of jobs at risk, threaten an export market that is worth a few hundred billion each year, and jeopardise rights for workers that are guaranteed through EU law. One by one, over the coming months, Labour politicians will take to the airwaves to relentlessly voice the cosmopolitan case for why Britain should stay in the club.
But over the long term this could also prove to be a turning point in the life story of the Labour Party, a highly significant and damaging moment for a party that is increasingly struggling to reassert its relevance.
Collectively, Labour MPs and campaigners are about to send a powerful signal to the electorate: that Labour believes in the EU, thinks positively about all that comes with the EU, and views those who think otherwise as Little Englanders, racists, ignorant or wrong. Herein lies the problem for Labour.
"Public opinion toward the EU cuts across traditional divides, disconnecting the established parties and their voters"
Europe – like immigration – is an unusual issue. It is not like traditional Left-Right issues that used to neatly organise voters into one of two camps. Public opinion toward the EU cuts across these traditional divides, fuelling a disconnect between the established parties and their voters. Conservative voters are split on the issue while Labour supporters are also divided, albeit to a lesser extent.
The problem for Labour politicians is that while they almost unanimously push a pro-EU position, many of the voters who they have been losing since the late 1990s, and who the party needs if it is ever to return to power, think fundamentally differently about this issue. The problem is not immediately obvious. Over the past three months when YouGov asked people how they plan to vote at the referendum, those who voted Labour last May break decisively for Remain. Typically, 55 per cent back Remain while only 26 per cent want to Leave, with the remainder undecided or not planning to vote at all. Only the more thoughtful Labour politician might conclude that the fact that one in four Labour voters want to leave the EU, as do around one in three SNP voters, hints at a deeper problem.
You can see the challenge for Labour by taking a step back. Contrary to what many claim, Labour voters do not represent a large block of people who feel content with Britain’s EU membership. Far from it. When pollsters recently probed the views of Labour voters toward the EU in more detail they found that only 15 per cent think all is well and there is no need to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership. In contrast, more than 70 per cent want to see Britain’s relationship with the EU change – either by changing rules to protect national interests, pursuing substantial change and further opt-outs, or delivering fundamental reform. If pro-EU Labour elites spend the next few months talking over these concerns then they may find themselves risking a backlash from a decent chunk of people who just voted for them. But that’s not all.
It is not only the one in four Labour voters from 2015 who the party risks alienating during the referendum and, possibly, losing to apathy or Ukip. There is also a much larger number of economically disaffected, working-class and left behind voters in Britain who might otherwise be within Labour’s grasp at future elections but who are consistently the most likely to back Brexit. This is the bigger problem.
"For Labour, reconnecting with these voters and not alienating them further will be difficult."
Among Britain’s skilled and semi-skilled working-classes, as well as the unemployed and those on welfare, nearly one in two voters plan to vote for Brexit. Many of these voters come from the same groups that failed to turnout for Labour in sufficient number last May. Labour’s dwindling appeal among the financially disaffected, older working class was an important factor behind its failure.
For Labour, reconnecting with these voters and not alienating them further will be difficult. Many of these voters think fundamentally differently about the EU than the professional and university-educated middle classes, from which many Labour MPs are now drawn. On Europe, these voters often have more in common with the Conservatives or Ukip. Talking repeatedly about the benefits of EU membership may entrench Labour’s support in Islington but it will be a major turn-off for blue-collar Britain. And Labour cannot simply trade the former for the latter, especially in an era when it has lost any image of economic competence. It will need to hold on to its core voters for some time yet.
Many Labour voters find they have more in common with the Conservatives when it comes to EU membership
And this also rings true on the free movement of EU workers. Ask Labour voters what they most want to see changed in Britain’s relationship with the EU and they line-up solidly behind immigration. On this issue Labour voters are like the average voter. Their priority, by a large margin, is to control Britain’s borders and curb welfare benefits for EU migrants.
The problem for Labour is that between now and the referendum pretty much everybody who is anybody in the party will send these voters a big fat signal that Labour holds a very different outlook than theirs: that it thinks about the EU in terms of how it generates jobs and wealth rather than how it might challenge national identity and ways of life; that it views the EU as a source of protection for workers whereas many workers see it as a source of unlimited competition; and that the party feels at ease with the principle of free movement whereas many of these voters feel the complete opposite.
That immigration and Europe hold the potential to undermine Labour’s prospects has, in fact, already been demonstrated. A few years ago Geoffrey Evans at the University of Oxford showed how New Labour’s embrace of a pro-EU and pro-immigration position was a big reason why, from the late 1990s onward, economically disaffected and working-class Britons began to abandon the party in large numbers. This was the root of a disconnect that has subsequently caused Labour significant pain, and which many of its advisers were too slow to identify. It pushed the white working-class into apathy or the short-lived British National Party, led others to cross the floor to David Cameron in 2010 and then, from 2013, fuelled the rise of Ukip that ultimately played a key role in stalling Labour’s comeback.
During the 2000s Labour lost a significant chunk of its traditional, working-class voters by failing to understand and speak to their concerns over identity. It could now find itself replicating that mistake, ignoring or dismissing voters who never fell in love with the EU and now want their anxieties discussed and taken seriously.
This is why Britain’s EU referendum and the surrounding campaign could play a decisive part in the life story of the Labour Party. For Jeremy Corbyn and his team there is a very real risk that Britain’s EU referendum will further erode their appeal among the very groups in society that the party desperately needs to win back if it is ever to return to power.
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Marlins complete sweep of Cubs
Jeff Vorva
The North Siders (83-76), a team hoping to win the National League Central crown, were swept three games by the National League East basement-dwelling Marlins, were 0-6 against them on the season, and have lost 10 in a row to them dating back to April 26, 2006.
Comic actor Bill Murray has been hanging around the playoff-hopeful Cubs the past few days and it appears he’s filming “Groundhog Day II.”
The Cubs wake up in Hollywood, Fla., play baseball at Pro Player Stadium and lose.
The Cubs wake up in ... well, you get the idea of the script.
Despite pregame pep talks from Murray to some of the troops, the Cubs dropped a 6-4 decision to the Florida Marlins in front of a crowd of 24,809 on Thursday afternoon.
Dejected outfielder Cliff Floyd had some advice for fans before the Cubs finish the regular season with a three-game set in Cincinnati starting tonight.
“Keep prayin’,” Floyd said. “Keep watching and hopefully we’ll do it. They’ve been with us this far. Might as well ride it out. Everybody knew this was going to go down to the end. Here we are.”
A few hours after Floyd’s words, some prayers were answered. San Diego knocked off Milwaukee 9-5. The Cubs still own a two-game lead over the Brewers with three games to go and could clinch a playoff berth tonight if the Cubs beat the Reds and Milwaukee loses again to the Padres.
If the Cubs suffer a collapse, the three-game sweep by the Marlins will loom large. The Cubs were hoping to salvage at least Thursday's game, and manager Lou Piniella predicted the Cubs would win Thursday’s game on Wednesday night.
Despite Aramis Ramirez’s four-hit performance, the Cubs left 10 on base, including four in the first two innings when they had Marlins left-hander Scott Olsen on the ropes.
“We squandered a lot of opportunities and had a chance to score a hell of a lot more than four runs,” Piniella said. “We haven’t figured out how to beat them.”
“They played the role of spoiler and they played it really well,” Cubs closer Ryan Dempster said.
Cubs starter Steve Trachsel, who hadn’t pitched in a game since Sept. 13, gave up five runs in 4 1/3 innings to fall to 1-3. He bristled when asked what went wrong.
“What went wrong? Hmm,” he said. “My stuff was pretty good. They manufactured some runs. A couple sacrifice flies. A solo home run. I gave up a foul ball that went for a double and it cost us a run.”
Piniella got into an argument about Miguel Cabrera’s double down the right-field line in the fifth.
“We didn’t catch any breaks – this was a frustrating series. We just got swept,” Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee said. “And we just swept a team (Pittsburgh over the weekend at Wrigley Field). We can turn it back around and win that series in Cincinnati. We’re still in the driver’s seat.”
After close to 100 years without a title and all the strange things that have happened to the franchise, Cubs fans are probably getting a little anxious right now.
“I understand the history,” Lee said. “But I promise you that between the white lines, we’re not thinking about the history of the Cubs. We’re playing hard and trying to win games.”
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Ursula Biemann (b. 1955, Zurich) is an artist, writer and video essayist. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil, ice and water. Her new video-work, Acoustic Ocean, commissioned by The Atlantic Project, was filmed on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway and sets out to explore the sonic ecology of marine life in the cold North Atlantic. Biemann says, “The scientist as an explorer and important mediator of the contemporary understanding of our planetary ecosystems is a central figure. She makes her appearance in the person of a Sami (indigenous to Scandinavia) biologist-diver who is using a submersible vehicle equipped with hydrophones and recording devices. Her task is to sense the submarine space for acoustic and other biological forms of expression. It is a science fictional quest into an amphibian life.”
National Marine Aquarium Opened in May 1998, with the charitable aims of research, education and conservation, NMA is the largest aquarium in the UK, driving marine conservation through engagement. Built on reclaimed land in Sutton Harbour, next to the barbican and Plymouth’s historic fish market, the Aquarium is divided into four main zones: Plymouth Sound, British Coasts, Atlantic Ocean and Blue Planet. A visit to the aquarium goes from the local waters of Plymouth to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
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Mary Lynn is also an accomplished film actress, and was featured in Julie & Julia, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Dude Where's My Car?, Man on the Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, The Anniversary Party, Firewall, and Little Miss Sunshine.
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School of Seven Bells unveil video for 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)', announce fourth album
A video to accompany Curtis' final recording, a cover of Joey Ramone's 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)', has been unveiled alongside the announcement.
Jake Green26 Jun, 2014
Following the release of School of Seven Bells' Ghostory in 2012, the band began work on their next album. Shortly after, guitarist Benjamin Curtis was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Although he passed last December, he managed to complete all his parts for the follow-up between treatments.
His recording partner Alejandra Deheza has now revealed plans to complete work on what will be the band's fourth LP. She's entering the studio with hopes of releasing the collection later this year.
A video to accompany Curtis' final recording, a cover of Joey Ramone's 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)', has been unveiled alongside the announcement. More information regarding the LP is expected in the coming weeks. In the meantime you can watch the beautifully shot video, directed by Toby Halbrooks and Alan Del Rio Ortiz, here.
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Pacers' Victor Oladipo gifts new car to domestic violence survivor
Victor Oladipo of the Indiana Pacers, appears on the Red Carpet before the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 27 in Indianapolis, Ind. Photo by Edwin Locke/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Victor Oladipo won a car for winning the NBA's Most Improved Player Award. He gifted it to a domestic violence survivor during the Indiana Pacers' latest win.
The Pacers superstar averaged a career-best 23.1 points per game last season. He also posted 5.2 rebounds, 4.3 assists and a league-high 2.4 steals per bout during his 2017 campaign. The All-Star outburst led to Oladipo being handed the hardware, as well as the keys to a silver Kia Sportage.
Oladipo handed the keys over to Renita Hills on Sunday during an intermission before the Pacers beat the Washington Wizards 105-89 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The car has a base price of about $24,000.
Hills also works with the Julian Center, an Indianapolis organization supporting domestic violence survivors.
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Oladipo broke the news from the big screen at the arena, while Hills was on the court. Pacers mascot Boomer the Panther put the keys in her hand after Oladipo's short message.
"I've heard part of your story and I think you are an inspiration to so many people," Oladipo said. "And you're a survivor. I love giving back to the community of Indianapolis, so surprise! This car is actually for you."
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Oladipo also met up with Hills after the game.
Hills was crying tears of joy after receiving the early Christmas gift from Oladipo and Boomer, who was dressed in a Santa Claus suit.
Oladipo, 26, is averaging 20.2 points, 5.3 assists and 6.4 rebounds per game this season for Indiana. The sixth-year guard scored 12 points and had nine assists, six rebounds and three steals against the Wizards. Oladipo is under contract through the 2020-21 season at $21 million annually.
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Idris Elba’s Ex-Girlfriend K. Michelle Raves About His Skills in the Bedroom: ‘He’s Very Passionate’
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Good memories. Idris Elba’s ex-girlfriend K. Michelle reflected on their past relationship and raved about many of the actor’s skills — including those that took place in the bedroom.
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The Love & Hop Hop: Hollywood star appeared on BET’s Raq Rants with host Raquel Harper on Tuesday, December 18, and had nothing but good things to say about the Luther actor, 46, whom she dated for eight months in 2014. “That was the one person who I learned the most from … about business,” the 33-year-old said.
The conversation quickly turned X-rated as Harper brought up Elba’s oral sex skills, to which Michelle replied, “He’s very passionate. That was so good. It was just passion.”
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The “Crazy Like You” singer previously gushed about her ex in an August interview with Hollywood Unlocked. “Out of every relationship I’ve been in or [men] I’ve dated, I learned the most from him,” she said. “It wasn’t volatile or angry. He didn’t bring out [me] cursing him out. He was a gentleman … [and gave] amazing head, I remember that.”
She continued: “He told me he would never be committed to one woman. He said I would be taken care of [and] I would be fine, but he would never commit to one woman.”
The Thor: Ragnarok star has committed in the past, however, as he was married to Hanne Norgaard — with whom he shares 16-year-old daughter Isan — from 1993 to 2003, and Sonya Nicole Hamlin for three months in 2006. Elba also has a 4-year-old son, Winston, with his ex Naiyana Garth.
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Elba told Essence magazine in July 2017 that he didn’t think he would get married again. “Marriage is an institution of sorts. And I’ve done it,” he said at the time. “It’s not for everybody. It’s not my life’s calling.”
He went back on his word less than a year later when he proposed to his model girlfriend, Sabrina Dhowre, in February at the screening of his movie Yardie.
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Improved Patent Appeal Process Will Save Patent Applicants $30 Million Annually
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The Department of Commerce's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that patent applicants can now request an appeal conference and learn its results before incurring the costs of drafting and filing an appeal brief. This change is expected to save patent applicants at least $30 million annually.
"This simple reform saves applicants a significant amount of money and reflects the mandate of the President's Management Agenda for citizen-centered and results-oriented government," noted Jon Dudas, under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.
Previously, when an applicant wished to appeal a patent examiner's rejection of his/her patent application to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), the applicant was required to file a notice of appeal and an appeal brief before the appeal to the BPAI. Depending on the complexity of the invention, appeal briefs cost between $5,000 and $20,000 to prepare.
Before the appeal goes to the BPAI docket, however, the agency holds an appeal conference with the examiner handling the application and two other experienced examiners. The purpose of the conference is to determine if the application is ready for appeal. Under the new procedures, an appeal brief isn't filed until the outcome of the conference is known. If the case is not ready for appeal, applicants will no longer incur the costs associated with needlessly preparing and filing the brief.
For more information on appeal brief procedures, go to: www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week28/OG/TOC.htm#ref12 .
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NASA Orbiter Views Sites of Fiction Film's Mars Landings
This May 2015 image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a location on Mars associated with the best-selling novel and Hollywood movie, "The Martian." Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
This image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a location associated with the novel and movie, "The Martian." Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
In the novel and movie "The Martian," an astronaut's adventures take him to the rim of Mawrth Crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Images from a NASA Mars orbiter's telescopic camera reveal details of real regions on Mars where a new Hollywood movie, "The Martian," places future astronaut adventures.
The novel of the same name used actual locations on Mars for the landing sites for its "Ares 3" and "Ares 4" missions. The landing sites for "Ares 3" is on a Martian plain named Acidalia Planitia. The base for the "Ares 4" mission was set inside a crater named Schiaparelli.
Views of these two sites, and other locations pertinent to the fictional story, are in the latest weekly release of images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. They are available online at:
http://uahirise.org/martian
Each observation by HiRISE covers an area of several square miles and shows details as small as a desk. More than 39,000 of them have been taken since the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reached Mars in 2006. They are available online for anyone to explore, from the comfort of home, at:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu
The HiRISE team has an online process through which anyone can register to submit suggestions for sites to be imaged on Mars, at:
http://www.uahirise.org/hiwish
HiRISE has provided important information used in selection landing sites for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and other robotic missions. Its observations will be used during an Oct. 27-30 workshop in Houston for consideration of landing areas for real future human missions. More information about the workshop is online at:
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/explorationzone2015
HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
For more information about the MRO, which has been studying Mars from orbit since 2006, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mro
Source: NASA JPL press release
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Plankton Communities Discovery could play role in slowing climate change
A vast interconnected community of tiny organisms play a role in stopping global warming - Image Credit: G. Bounaud, C. Sardet-Soixanteseize — Tara Expeditions
The ocean’s power to rein in carbon and protect the environment is vast but not well-understood.
But now, an international team of scientists has begun to illuminate how the ocean plucks carbon from the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming, and shuttles it to the bottom of the sea.
The new study establishes the important role of plankton networks in removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it deep in the ocean. And it opens up opportunities for caring for the ocean in ways that encourage it to absorb more carbon.
The knowledge comes out of the unprecedented three-year Tara Oceans Expedition, in which a team of more than 200 experts took to the sea to catalog and better understand the unseen inhabitants of the ocean, from tiny animals to viruses and bacteria.
The latest in a series of studies from the project appears in today’s issue of the journal Nature and includes work by Matthew Sullivan, an assistant professor of microbiology at The Ohio State University, and Jennifer Brum and Simon Roux, postdoctoral researchers in Sullivan’s lab.
“We’re trying to understand, ‘Does carbon in the surface ocean sink to the deep ocean and, if so, how?’” Sullivan said.
“The reason that’s important is the oceans help mitigate our carbon footprint on this planet.”
The Tara team used advanced genetic sequencing to survey tiny ocean dwellers and, through a complex analytical approach, was able to identify those clusters of ocean inhabitants most linked to depositing carbon in the deep ocean.
“It’s the first community-wide look at what organisms are good predictors of how carbon moves in the ocean,” Sullivan said.
For decades, scientists have sought a way to look at a community such as the ocean on a genetic level and to use that information to make larger measurements of complex communities and predict how the ecosystem works.
This study measured abundances of microbes (viruses, bacteria, archaea and small eukaryotes) and then used statistical approaches and computer modeling to determine which microbes are most closely linked with the downward movement of carbon in the ocean.
Phytoplankton, or the plants in the sea, are known to be able to take carbon from the atmosphere and carry it deep into the ocean. However, few of the thousands of phytoplankton species have been studied in this way.
This new work employed cameras to capture images of organisms at different depths of the ocean to better identify sinking patterns for all plankton. These measurements, combined with new knowledge about the interplay between organisms and advanced analyses, enabled the researchers to determine which phytoplankton best predict the movement of carbon from the ocean’s surface to the deep sea. And the strongest predictors were surprises.
Sullivan’s team played a key role in better understanding the role of viruses in this process, by providing a global map of virus abundances. After the numbers were crunched, it appears that the abundance of relatively few bacterial and viral genes can predict variation in sinking carbon. The most important viruses appear to infect cells called cyanobacteria.
The Tara project’s approach (fishing with a very large net rather than studying a limited number of organisms) allowed the team to establish a relationship between tiny viruses and carbon export in the phytoplankton community, Roux said.
“What was really surprising was that only a handful – less than 10 out of more than 5,000 – viruses seem to be specifically linked to carbon export. This means that we can now go after these key players specifically and try to characterize their impact on the ecosystem,” he said.
The Tara work could also help scientists understand how high carbon levels in the atmosphere are affecting the ocean, Sullivan said.
More carbon entering oceans acidifies the waters, which stresses marine organisms and alters marine life. Ultimately, this could mean the difference between whether there’s enough tuna for your sushi dinner, Sullivan said.
The study also included first-of-its-kind computer modeling that helps the team identify hotspots in the ocean where more carbon movement is happening, based on the microorganisms that are present.
“These findings help us better understand how the ocean works, but these new approaches can be used by anyone studying microbial processes in any ecosystem,” he said.
The Tara project included thousands of samples of ocean life collected at hundreds of sites in the Indian, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, South Pacific and Southern oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea. It has allowed for a better understanding of the interplay of organisms in the ocean and of their role in the health of the planet.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supported Sullivan’s part of the work.
Source: Ohio State University press release
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Merit-Based Immigration
Merit-Based Immigration, also known as the Points-Based Immigration, is a system wherein immigrants are given points or merits that will determine whether or not they will be qualified to migrate to a particular country. This system has several factors, though these factors will differ when implemented on a different country. Among those factors that are regularly used in a merit-based immigration system are wealth, education level, fluency in language, existing job opportunity.
Merit-Based Immigration system is one of the most popular systems used in many countries. These countries that implement this system have, most of the time, different or alternative options given to potential immigrants in order to boost their points. Although these options are not necessarily given to all applicants. Among the options regularly used are immediate family status and for refugees. Potential immigrants also have to clear some additional criteria in order to satisfy their applications. Some of these criteria are criminal records and affiliation with terrorist organizations.
Countries that use Merit-Based Immigration system are Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Australia and Canada are considered as two of the most experienced nations when it comes to implementation of this system.
Canada was the first to adopt the Merit-Based Immigration System. It implemented it way back in 1967. Canada adopted the system as part of its effort to distance itself from the widely adopted immigration system which focuses on the immigrant’s race and country of origin.
Rather than putting more emphasis on race, Canada’s new system instead focused on education, youth, experience, and fluency in English and French. Subsequent studies have revealed that the system is one of the major factors that leveled the field of immigration in the country. Before the adoption of this new system, 85 percent of all Canadian immigrants are European. After the adoption, this percentage dropped to just 15 percent as the country welcomes a more diverse set of immigrants in. Canada is held widely in regard as a prime example of a successful Merit-Based Immigration policy.
Australia adopted the Merit-Based Immigration policy in 1972. During this period, Australia’s Labor Government decided that migrants will be admitted into the country based on personal attributes and their capabilities to contribute to the overall welfare of the Australian society. The country transitioned into the system in 1989.
Just like Canada, Australia decided to shift out of the race-based immigration system and adopted the Merit-Based Immigration system. Prior to the adoption of this new system, Australia implements a strict immigration policy that favors British, white immigrants into the country. Over the years, the country devised and implemented countless revisions to the policy in order to attract more talented and skilled individuals. Australia’s immigration system is widely held as an inspiration as to what a sane and humane policy should be.
As some parts of the world continue to experience economic inequality and trepidation, the number of immigrants grow by the day. Despite this, some of the world’s most progressive countries are starting to ease up on immigration in order to accommodate immigrants who are fleeing from their countries.
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Trump Ready to Ease Rules on Coal-fired Power Plants
FILE - Smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal-burning power plant in Colstrip, Mont., July 1, 2013.
The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
A plan to be announced Tuesday would give states broad authority to determine how to restrict carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. The Environmental Protect Agency announced late Monday that acting administrator Andrew Wheeler planned to brief the news media by telephone Tuesday on what the administration is calling the "Affordable Clean Energy" rule — greenhouse guidelines for states to set performance standards for existing coal-fired power plants.
President Donald Trump is expected to promote the new plan at an appearance in West Virginia on Tuesday.
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FILE - Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a coal mining roundtable at Fitzgerald Peterbilt in Glade Spring, Va., Aug. 10, 2016.
The plan is also expected to let states relax pollution rules for power plants that need upgrades, according to a summary of the plan and several people familiar with the full proposal who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the plan publicly.
Combined with a planned rollback of car-mileage standards, the plan represents a significant retreat from Obama-era efforts to fight climate change and would stall an Obama-era push to shift away from coal and toward less-polluting energy sources such as natural gas, wind and solar power. Trump has already vowed to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement as he pushes to revive the coal industry.
Trump also has directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take steps to bolster struggling coal-fired and nuclear power plants to keep them open, warning that impending retirements of "fuel-secure" power plants that rely on coal and nuclear power are harming the nation's power grid and reducing its resilience.
Summary: Emissions to fall
A three-page summary being circulated at the White House focuses on boosting efficiency at coal-fired power plants and allowing states to reduce "wasteful compliance costs" while focusing on improved environmental outcomes. Critics say focusing on improved efficiency would allow utilities to run older, dirtier power plants more often, undercutting potential environmental benefits.
The White House rejects that criticism.
"Carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector will continue to fall under this rule, but this will happen legally and with proper respect for the states, unlike" the Clean Power Plan, the summary says. The AP obtained a copy of the summary, which asserts that the Obama-era plan exceeds the EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act.
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FILE - U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the Clean Power Plan at the White House in Washington, Aug. 3, 2015.
Obama's plan was designed to cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The rule dictated specific emission targets for states based on power-plant emissions and gave officials broad latitude to decide how to achieve reductions.
The Supreme Court put the plan on hold in 2016 following a legal challenge by industry and coal-friendly states, an order that remains in effect.
Even so, the Obama plan has been a factor in a wave of retirements of coal-fired plants, which also are being squeezed by lower costs for natural gas and renewable power and state mandates that promote energy conservation.
Coal: For and against
Trump has vowed to end what Republicans call a "war on coal" waged by Obama.
"This is really a plan to prop up coal plants — or try to," said David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.
The Trump plan "will make no meaningful reductions" in greenhouse gas emissions "and it probably will make emissions worse," Doniger said.
Gina McCarthy, who served as EPA administrator when the Clean Power Plan was created in 2015, said that based on draft proposals and news reports, she expects the plan will not set specific federal targets for reducing emissions from coal-fired plants. The plan is expected to address power plants individually rather than across the electric grid as the EPA proposed under Obama. The new plan would give utilities and states more flexibility in achieving emissions reductions, but critics say it could harm public health.
"They are continuing to play to their base and following industry's lead," McCarthy said of the Trump administration and its new acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist. "This is all about coal at all costs."
Michelle Bloodworth, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a trade group that represents coal producers, called the new rule a marked departure from the "gross overreach" of the Obama administration and said it should prevent a host of premature coal-plant retirements.
"We agree with those policymakers who have become increasingly concerned that coal retirements are a threat to grid resilience and national security," she said.
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Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Terminology and Abbreviations
W3C Working Draft 21 July 2000
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http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-CCPP-ta-20000721/
http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-ta/
Mikael Nilsson, mikael.nilsson@ks.ericsson.se, Ericsson
Copyright © 2000 W3C ® (MIT, INRIA, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
This document contains terminology and abbreviations that are used in other CC/PP documents. For a detailed description of CC/PP, please see [CC/PP].
Status of this document
This document is a working draft made available by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for discussion only. This indicates no endorsement of its content. This is the first public working draft, and work in progress, representing the current consensus of the working group, and future updates and changes are likely.
The working group is part of the W3C Mobile Access activity. Continued status of the work is reported on the CC/PP Working Group Home Page (Member-only link).
It incorporates suggestions resulting from reviews and active participation by members of the IETF CONNEG working group and the WAP Forum UAprof drafting committee.
Please send comments and feedback to www-mobile@w3.org.
A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/.
1. Terminology
2. Abbreviations
The key words "MUST," "MUST NOT," "SHOULD," "SHOULD NOT," "MAY," and "MAY NOT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
The following terms are used in this document.
Hiding the identity of the user as a security precaution.
Assurance of origin
Information provided to the receiver of a message that allows it to be certain of the origin of the message. (This assurance may not be sufficient to convince any other party about the origin of the message.)
Assurance of receipt
Information provided to the sender of a message that allows it to be certain that the message was delivered to its intended recipient. This is not necessarily a proof of receipt.
A CC/PP attribute refers to the data elements describing the profile and is denoted as an RDF property. Each CC/PP attribute is associated with a value or a list of values or resources.
Some communication process that provides definite and tamper-proof information about the identity of a communicating party.
Permission to view or modify a data resource, or to perform some other action. Authorization is usually granted to an identified entity, and thus depends on authentication of the party performing the action.
CC/PP Repository
A server that stores the user agent profile or profile segments persistently in a form that may be referenced by and incorporated into a profile. A CC/PP repository is typically a Web server that provides CC/PP profiles or profile segments in response to HTTP requests.
Cacheable
A data resource is said to be "cacheable" if the data resource contains a property that allows a sever to determine whether the cached resource matches a request for a similar resource.
A storage area used by a server or proxy to store data resources that have been retrieved or created in response to a request. When a new request for a "cached" data resource is received, the server or proxy can respond with the cached version instead of retrieving or creating a new copy.
An attribute of a sender or receiver (often the receiver) which indicates an ability to generate or process a particular type of message content. See also "Attributes".
Channel security
A form of security (authentication and/or confidentiality) that operates on a given communication channel, regardless of the information that is transferred over that channel. The security thus provided is between the end-points of the channel only.
An entity that is the original compositor of a CC/PP profile.
Protecting the content of a message from unauthorized disclosure.
For the purpose of this specification, "content generation" refers to generating content appropriate to the user agent profile of the request by using the user agent profile as input to a dynamic content generation engine. The XSL and style sheets of the document are used to tailor the document to the user agent profile of the request.
The mechanism for selecting the appropriate representation when servicing a request. The representation of entities in any response can be negotiated (including error responses).
Content Selection
For the purpose of this specification, "content selection" refers to selecting an appropriate document from a list of possible choices or variants by matching the document profile with the user agent profile of the request.
A server that originates content in response to a request.
A data object that can be transferred across a network. Data resources may be available in multiple representations (e.g. multiple languages, data formats, size, resolutions) or vary in other ways.
For the purpose of this specification, "document" refers to content supplied in response to a request. Using this definition, a "document" may be a collection of smaller "documents", which in turn is a part of a greater "document".
Document Profile
Document profiles offer a means to characterize the features appropriate to given categories of user agents. For instance, one profile might include support for style sheets, vector graphics and scripting, while another might be restricted to the tags in HTML 3.2. Document profiles can be used by servers to select between document variants developed for different user agent categories. They can be used to determine what transformations to apply when such variants are not available. Content developers can use document profiles to ensure that their web sites will be rendered as intended.
Content that is generated in response to a request. This may be used for content that depends on changing environmental factors such as time (e.g., stock quotes) or place (e.g., nearby gas stations)
Functional property of a device or entity.
Software that is capable of bridging disparate network protocols. For the purposes of this specification, "gateway" refers to protocol bridging functionality, which may exist in a stand-alone gateway or may be co-located with a proxy or origin server.
A suggestion or preference for a particular option. While this option is strongly recommended, its use is not required.
Procedures applied to ensure that information is not corrupted in transit. Different integrity procedures may protect against accidental or intentional corruption of data.
Machine Understandable
Data that is described with tags that associate a meaning to the data (i.e., an "author" tag would describe the author of the document), allowing data to be searched or combined and not just displayed.
A qualifier added to an XML tag to ensure uniqueness among XML elements.
Negotiate Content
Message content that has been selected by content negotiation.
Negotiation Metadata
Information which is exchanged between the sender and the receiver of a message by content negotiation in order to determine the variant which should be transferred.
Non-repudiation
This term has been the subject of much dispute. Broadly speaking, it is a process that prevents a party to a communication from subsequently denying that the communication took place, or from denying the content of the communication. Sometimes this term is used in a purely technical sense (e.g. generation of data that is dependent on the communication and its content) and sometimes in a legal sense (i.e. evidence that could be sustained in a court of law).
Non-Repudiation of Origin
The ability of the receiver to verify the source of the information.
Non-Repudiation of Receipt
The ability of the sender to verify that the intended recipient received the information.
Non-variant Content
When the form/format of the content being sent does not depend on receiver's capabilities and/or preferences
Object security
A form of security (authentication and/or confidentiality) that operates on an item of data (a object), regardless of the communication channel over which it is passed. Object security can apply to data that is passed over several different data channels in succession, but cannot be used to protect message addressing and other transfer-related information.
Origin Server
Software that can respond to requests by delivering appropriate content or error messages. The origin server may receive requests via either WSP or HTTP. Application programs executing on the origin server deliver content that is tailored in accordance with the CC/PP that can be found within the provided profile. For the purpose of this specification, "origin server" refers to content generation capabilities, which may physically exist in a stand-alone Web server or may be co-located with a proxy or gateway.
An attribute of a sender or receiver (often the receiver) which indicates a preference to generate or process one particular type of message content over another, even if both are possible.
Preventing the unintended or unauthorized disclosure of information about a person. Such information may be contained within a message, but may also be inferred from patterns of communication; e.g. when communications happen, the types of resource accessed, the parties withwhom communication occurs, etc.
An instance of the schema that describe capabilities for a specific device and network. A profile need not have all the attributes identified in the vocabulary/schema.
Proof of receipt, or Proof of delivery
Information provided to the sender of a message that allows them to prove subsequently to a third party that the message was delivered to its intended recipient. (This proof may not necessarily be legally sustainable.)
Software that receives HTTP requests and forwards that request toward the origin server (possibly by way of an upstream proxy) using HTTP. The proxy receives the response from the origin server and forwards it to the requesting client. In providing its forwarding functions, the proxy may modify either the request or response or provide other value-added functions. For the purposes of this specification, "proxy" refers to request/response forwarding functionality, which may exist in a stand-alone HTTP proxy or may be co-located with a gateway or origin server.
RDF Resource
An object or element being described by RDF expressions is a resource. An RDF resource is identified by a URI.
A system component (device or program) which receives a message.
Receiver-initiated Transmission
A message transmission which is requested by the eventual receiver of the message. Sometimes described as "pull" messaging. E.g. an HTTP GET operation.
An RDF schema denotes resources which constitute the particular unchanging versions of an RDF vocabulary at any point in time. It is used to provide semantic information (such as organization and relationship) about the interpretation of the statements in an RDF data model. It does not include the values associated with the attributes.
Describes a set of procedures applied to data communications to ensure that information is transferred exactly as the sender and receiver intend, and in no other way. Security generally breaks down into integrity, authentication, confidentiality and Privacy.
A system component (device or program) which transmits a message.
Sender-initiated transmission
A message transmission which is invoked by the sender of the message. Sometimes described as "push" messaging. E.g. sending an email.
An individual or group of individuals acting as a single entity. The user is further qualified as an entity who uses a device to request content and/or resource from a server.
A program, such as a browser, running on the device that acts on a user's behalf. Users may use different user agents at different times.
User Agent Profile
Capabilities and preference Information pertaining to the capabilities of the device, the operating and network environment, and users personal preferences for receiving content and/or resource.
One of several possible representations of a data resource.
Variant Content
When the form/format of the content being sent depends on receiver's capabilities and/or preferences
A collection of attributes that adequately describe the CC/PP. A vocabulary is associated with a schema.
CC/PP
Composite Capabilities/Preferences Profile
CC/PPex
CC/PP Exchange Protocol
CONNEG
Content Negotiation Working Group in the IETF
Entity-Relationship
Hyper Text Markup Language
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPex
HTTP Extension Framework
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IOTP
Internet Open Trading Protocol
Over The Air, i.e. in the radio network
Project for Platform for Privacy Preferences
Resource Description Framework
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
UAProf
World Wide Web Consortium
Wireless Application Protocol
WBXML
WAP Binary XML
WML
Wireless Markup Language
Wireless Session Protocol
Extensible Hyper-Text Markup Language
Extensible Style Language
[CC/PP] Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): A user side framework for content negotiation
[RDF] Resource Description Framework, (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification
[RFC2119] RFC 2119 : Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
[XML] Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
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© Francisco Nogueira
Interventions:
Frederico Valsassina Arquitectos
(2016 reabilitação)
The former Barão de Quintela palace now provides gastronomic delights over roughly 1000 sq. m. Visitors can dine or snack in an ambience of decorated ceilings, murals, stained glass windows and grand marble staircases – reflecting the fact that this 18th-century palace was once home to prominent figures of the Portuguese aristocracy and served as a residence for General Junot during the French invasion in the Napoleonic wars. The new intervention added new flooring which conceals all the infrastructures, leaving the magnificent walls and ceilings untouched. Solid and effective, the intervention is also reversible in the sense that the palace can be returned to its original form.
Rua do Alecrim, 70
Palaces and Convents, Commerce and Services
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Home » A Brief History of Hot Air Ballooning
A Brief History of Hot Air Ballooning
When you go ballooning, you are embarking on an
adventure that traces man’s earliest attempts to fly!
As balloonists, we are always proud to remind people that hot air balloons were man’s first taste of flight.
Everything else followed: airships, gliders, aeroplanes, helicopters, and even the space shuttle!
Just as in space travel, the earliest balloon passengers were not even human, but were three farmyard animals – a sheep, a duck and a rooster! Centuries later, in the decades of the space race, the Russians and Americans used similar tactics, sending dogs and chimpanzees to test the possibilities of safe space flight for humans. Some things never change, it would seem!
The First ‘Passenger’ Flight In 1783
The reactions of the famous sheep, duck and rooster are not recorded, but they clearly survived the experience which took place on the 19th of September 1783. I love to imagine the double-take of locals as this balloon descended from the sky, landed, and then three farmyard animals casually hopped out!
Having proven the principle, Pilatre de Rozier, the designer of this first balloon (called ‘Aerostat Reveillon’) decided to have a man-carrying version built by the Montgolfier brothers. Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier were paper-makers, and considering that these early balloons were made of paper, the two brothers were the ideal contractors to employ.
So it was that on the 21st of November 1783 the very first manned flight took place in Paris, France. The pilots were Pilatre De Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes. These two brave men flew for about 20 minutes and travelled some 5 miles, landing safely and receiving medals and awards for their efforts.
And brave they were! Remember that this balloon was basically made of paper, whilst the air inside was heated by an open fire burning straw! Not a great combination. Hot embers were floating up into the balloon and scorching the paper as it flew over Paris, threatening to set the whole contraption alight. Eventually, afraid of the risk, the two men extinguished the fire and thus the balloon descended, landing between two windmills on the outskirts of the city.
Today, you’ll be pleased to learn that we have advanced the design of those early hot air balloons to a point where the craft are incredibly safe and efficient. Lightweight nylon fabrics, powerful and controllable propane burners, responsive designs that allow the balloon to rise and descend at the pilot’s command, and comfortable baskets to carry the passengers have all refined that original Montgolfier Aerostat.
Of course, some things haven’t changed: we still can’t steer at all! The balloon floats along with the breeze at exactly the same speed as the wind. Consequently, every flight is still a little adventure, and is certainly never a routine experience. We hardly ever land in the same place twice!
See below a timeline of notable events in the history of ballooning.
1783 November 21 – first manned flight of any kind of aircraft. On board: Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis de Arlandes, launching from Paris and travelling about 5 miles.
1783 December 1 – first flight by a GAS balloon, as distinct from a HOT AIR balloon. The GAS balloon was lifted by hydrogen (which is lighter than air) in a sealed bag, and of course did not need any heat (in fact, the last thing you want in a hydrogen balloon is fire!)
1785 June – Pilatre de Rozier and Pierre Romain become the first fatalities in an air accident when their balloon crashes at the Pas de Calais. They were trying to make a flight across the English Channel, but failed to even make the coast.
1804 – Joseph Gay-Lussac flies to 20,000ft in a GAS balloon. The GAS balloon becomes much more popular than the HOT AIR balloon because it can be kept airborne for many hours, or even days!
GAS balloons are used in the American civil war for observing troop movements and guiding artillery, in an eerie precursor to the barrage balloons (again hydrogen gas filled) used by observers above the trenches of the Great War.
1870 – During the Prussian siege of Paris, about 100 people and 2 million items of mail escape the city in a selection of GAS balloons! Their flights were often at night in dangerous conditions, and covered terrific distances to find safe havens.
1931 – Auguste Piccard sets an altitude record of 52,000 ft in a GAS balloon. Auguste travelled inside a pressurised capsule whilst carrying out various scientific experiments – just like modern astronauts in the International Space Station.
1960 October 10 – American, Ed Yost, heralds the beginning of modern hot air ballooning when he flies a balloon using nylon fabrics and propane burners. The modern balloon is born!
1978 – Double Eagle II, a helium filled balloon, makes the first successful balloon crossing of the Atlantic, taking 137 hours. Helium was much safer than using hydrogen because it is a non-flammable gas.
1987 – Per Lindstrand & Richard Branson fly a HOT AIR balloon across the Atlantic in just 33 hours, eventually crashing into the Irish Sea and being rescued by the Royal Navy.
1999 – Bertrand Piccard (descendant of Auguste) and Brian Jones make the first circumnavigation of the globe, without landing, of any aircraft! The balloon is a combination of helium and hot air cells, and takes almost 22 days to make the journey.
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Courtesy Photo Former Mingo Central star and current West Virginia Mountaineer Daniel Buchanan goes through a workout at the Steve Antoline Family Football Practice Field earlier this spring.
Courtesy Photo WVU's Daniel Buchanan goes through weight training inside the Puskar Center Weight Room to get ready for the 2019 season. The Mingo Central alum is practicing at left tackle for the Mountaineers this spring.
Catching up with Mingo Central football alum Daniel Buchanan
By JARRID McCORMICK
MORGANTOWN - Former Mingo Central Miner Daniel Buchanan is entering his third season for the West Virginia Mountaineer football program, and even though it feels like he has been there forever, he has his best football ahead of him.
The 6'4" 304 pound preferred walk-on came to Morgantown as a defensive end but he has made the transition over to the offensive line last season.
"I'm still over on the offensive side this year, I'm working at left tackle, "Buchanan said. "Right now I know it seems like I've been here a while myself, but I'm still considered a young guy. I'm just going to be a redshirt-sophomore this season and a most of the guys in front of me are NFL bound. We have a lot of older guys starting on the line this year."
"I've been blessed honestly, because I get to learn from those guys, I get to be around those guys, and see how they do things so I can mimic that. Just learn to work how they work so that I can get to where they are right now. "
Buchanan and the rest of the Mountaineers have went through a big change this offseason as head coach Neal Brown has taken over for former head man Dana Holgorsen and is looking to change the entire culture in Morgantown.
"It's day and night different from what we were experiencing just a few months ago, it's almost like an overhaul of the old traditions and the old way we did things to what's going on now, especially with the playbook and the style of play" Buchanan said. "Everybody has been trying to make that transition and trying to learn as quickly and as effectively as they can."
The Gilbert native said that the Mountaineers and athletic director Shane Lyons found a diamond in the rough when they grabbed coach Brown from Troy, but sees a bright future for the Big 12 power.
"It's going to take some time; you can't achieve greatness in a short amount of time. But as time goes on coach Brown and his staff are going to instill the traditions and the things they expect of the program and attract kids to come here that want to buy into that. I think we have a very bright future, I hope our fans know it may take a little time but I really think we got a good one in coach Brown and the rest of the staff."
The Mountaineers lost a handful of starters from the 8-4 squad a season ago including QB Will Grier, wide receivers David Sills and Gary Jennings, offensive lineman Yodny Cajuste, tight end Travon Wesco, and linebacker David Long to the NFL Draft as well as wide out Marcus Simms, and defensive backs Kenny Robinson and Derrek Pitts to transfer.
Buchanan described the atmosphere around the program as being much more family oriented and said he along with the other players have one-on-one meetings with coach Brown and other members of the staff every 2-3 weeks.
"We're all working hard, not only on the field but off the field with academics," Buchanan said. "Not only that. We are doing a lot more work out in the community now. Coach has really instilled that he wants us to be one with the community; he wants us to give back. We went and visited the kids at Ruby Memorial Hospital, we picked up some trash along the roads, and it just seems like every other week we are out trying to have an impact on the community. "
The 2017 Mingo Central graduate was a part of the Miners only state championship in school history back in 2016 when they went 14-0 and won the Class AA State Title with a 32-7 win over Fairmont Senior.
He spent the early part of his high school career at Man playing for the Hillbillies and says he still receives tons of support from down in the southern coalfields.
"When you come from a small town like I do you receive a lot of support, I get messages all the time from people from southern West Virginia and even central West Virginia that want me to do good just because I'm an in-state kid. That really means a lot to me and I want to thank those people for always supporting me and wishing me the best."
Buchanan and the Mountaineers will play the first game of the Neal Brown era on August 31 at home against James Madison.
Jarrid McCormick is a sports reporter for the Williamson Daily News. He can be reached by email at jmccormick@HDMediaLLC.com.
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filed: August 15, 2006 • Pennsylvania
Wind farm rejection appealed
http://www.sungazette.com
By DAVID THOMPSON – dthompson@sungazette.com
Vermont-based Laurel Hill Wind Energy Co. has appealed the county Zoning Hearing Board’s decision to deny the company a special exception to build a wind farm in northern Lycoming County.
On July 14, the board voted three to two to deny the exception after a hearing that spanned nearly a year-and-a-half and included the testimony of dozens of people.
The appeal, which was filed on Thursday by attorney Thomas C. Marshall of the law firm McNerney, Page, Vanderlin and Hall, claims the board committed legal errors and based its decision on findings supported by little or no evidence.
“Furthermore, the board based its decision on factors it was not permitted to consider,and based some of its findings on evidence that was never introduced,” Marshall wrote in the appeal.
The company filed an application for the special exception to build 47 388-foot-tall wind turbines on a mountain ridge in Jackson and McIntyre townships zoned either for agriculture or resource protection.
Laurel Hill later reduced the project scope to 35 larger turbines and relocated some of the turbines in an effort to reduce its impact on the area.
It also agreed to a list of mitigation measures approved by the county Planning Commission that commission executive director Jerry S. Walls said would lessen the project’s impact and make it conform more to the county zoning ordinance and Comprehensive Plan.
The board initially determined – and a Court of Common Pleas judge later agreed – that the project qualified as a public service, which is allowable “by right” in an agriculture zone and by special exception in a resource protection zone.
The board’s decision on whether to grant the special exception permit had to be based on county zoning-ordinance guidelines for evaluating special exceptions, according to the appeal.
The project must be consistent with the county Comprehensive Plan and county zoning ordinance regarding resource-protection zones, according to those guidelines. It also cannot adversely affect neighboring property or the environment, or burden public utilities, facilities or services.
According to the board’s written decision, the project was inconsistent with the county Comprehensive Plan and zoning ordinance, and would adversely affect neighboring property and the environment.
The board also determined that measures set forth by the Planning Commission and the company were insufficient to adequately lessen those effects.
The appeal argues that the board’s assertion that the project would adversely affect wildlife was not based on substantial evidence, and was, in fact, overwhelmingly contradicted by evidence presented at the hearing.
Those objecting to the project did not present “competent” testimony regarding visibility and noise affects, even though the board cited those factors in its decision, according to the appeal.
The appeal also called the board’s ruling that the project could adversely affect public water supplies and fisheries “speculative” and “not supported by any evidence whatsoever.”
“The board made numerous other findings of fact that are not supported by substantial evidence, and, in some cases that are not supported by any evidence whatsoever,” it said.
“Not only did we submit experts, no one refuted our facts,” said Robert Charlebois, managing director of Catamount Energy Corp., parent company of Laurel Hill.
Charlebois agreed that factual and legal errors were made when the board handed down its decision.
“We look forward to proving our case in court,” Charlebois said.
Zoning Hearing Board solicitor Karl K. Baldys did not return a call seeking comment.
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Edison's non-toxic nickel-iron battery revived in ultrafast form
By Ian Steadman
A team of chemists at Stanford have created a nickel-iron battery prototype that can charge and discharge in seconds using carbon nanostructures.
Usually, a nickel-iron battery is simply two electrodes -- of iron oxide and nickel(III)oxide -- suspended in potassium hydroxide solution. In a paper published in Nature Communications, the Stanford team (led by chemist Hongjie Dai) improved the nickel-iron battery's performance by growing nanocrystals of iron oxide on thin sheets of carbon, and nickel nanocrystals on carbon nanotubes. The result is a vastly increased surface area -- and a vastly increased charge rate.
Nickel-iron batteries were first invented and patented by Swedish inventor Waldemar Jungner in 1899, and his design was improved upon by Thomas Edison in 1901. Edison's batteries were huge and clunky, but that didn't matter since their main use was in many of the first electric cars. However, as gasoline engines became cheaper, and more reliable, the batteries fell out of favour -- much to Edison's regret. That's because they can't store as much as other battery types of the same size, and the nickel-iron design charges and discharges very slowly (often taking many hours at a time). By the 1970s nickel-iron batteries were so unpopular in the US that the one company left manufacturing them shut down production.
On the plus side, nickel and iron are both cheaper and less toxic than the chemicals found in acid-based batteries. The batteries also last a long time (as long as 20 years when regularly charged and discharged), because nickel and iron dissolve very poorly in potassium hydroxide. This has left them popular as a backup power source for sites disconnected from main electricity grids (such as construction sites), or with companies who need to store excess energy generated by wind and solar power.
So the development of a fast-charging, non-toxic battery with a huge lifespan (20 years relative to roughly five for a standard lithium ion battery) sounds like a big breakthrough. But it's not quite that fantastic yet, unfortunately, since its capacity per kg is still far below that of the lithium-ion batteries that power most electric vehicles -- and the new batteries now lose charge at about the same rate, meaning lifespan is no longer an advantage.
This opens the possibility of electric cars using a mix of battery types, with the faster charging nickel-iron batteries allowing faster acceleration and acting as an aid to regenerative braking, while the bulk of the car's fuel is kept in the larger capacity lithium-ion batteries. In other situations -- especially in a world with so many rechargable devices -- a non-toxic alternative to lithium-ion batteries holds much promise.
However, it will have to compete with the team from Northwestern University, who in November 2011 claimed that they had managed to redesign the lithium-ion battery to charge ten times faster and last ten times longer.
One year on, Uber's new boss is slowly reviving its toxic image
By Chris Stokel-Walker
Refugee Open Ware, real-life Iron Man, Improbable join WIRED Live 2017
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Wednesday briefing: US blocks Arctic Council climate change statement and applauds melting sea ice
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Bernie Sanders releases tax returns, which show how he became a millionaire
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday released a decade of tax returns, providing new insight into how the Democratic socialist senator from Vermont became a millionaire between his two presidential runs.
According to returns provided by his campaign, Sanders and wife Jane's bottom line jumped from $240,622 in 2015, the year he launched his first White House bid, to $1,073,333 a year later, as the once obscure lawmaker became a political sensation on the left and a bestselling author with royalties pouring in.
Since that first run, Sanders and his wife made a total of more than $2.79 million, putting them in the category of the super-rich.
Sanders in a statement said the returns "show that our family has been very fortunate."
"I consider paying more in taxes as my income rose to be both an obligation and an investment in our country," he added. "I will continue to fight to make our tax system more progressive so that our country has the resources to guarantee the American Dream to all people."
The records show Sanders' growing income and confirmed his status as a millionaire, largely on the strength of proceeds from book sales, including the bestselling "Where We Go From Here," published with Macmillan in 2018.
Sanders reported a total 2018 family income of $566,421 -- $382,920 of which came from writing and royalties. The documents showed he paid $137,573 in federal taxes in 2018 and owed $8,267 in taxes for the year. Sanders reported paying a 26% effective tax rate on his adjusted gross income. The couple reported donating $18,950 to charity.
Sanders last year made $110 in music royalties, presumably for his 1987 folk album, "We Shall Overcome," and an additional $1,810 from his 1997 memoir, "Outsider in the House," which was published by Verso. He was paid and additional $391,000 for his books.
Sanders had come under increasing pressure to make the tax disclosures as his primary rivals rolled out their own returns and critics -- along with some allies -- began to agitate for a more complete, public look inside the candidate's pocketbook. The issue had become even more politically heated with Democrats continuing to demand President Donald Trump's tax returns.
The Vermont independent made his records public on this year's tax filing deadline, just ahead of an appearance at a Fox News town hall where he is expected to call on Trump to do the same.
The revelation that Sanders is now a millionaire had, in some quarters, surfaced doubts over his ability to effectively deliver the progressive populist message that made him a political star.
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir brushed off those suggestions, telling CNN the candidate's personal wealth had "zero impact" on his policies.
"If the ultimate question is, will he credibly push special interests and the billionaire class and the wealthy in this country to do the things that need to be done, like Medicare for All, like a climate jobs plan, the answer is yes," Shakir said. "He could earn another million dollars and it would still wouldn't matter."
In 2016, during his first presidential campaign, Sanders released only one year of records -- from 2014. Sanders recently revealed that his income from book sales in the aftermath of that race had made him a millionaire. Still, he remains one of the least wealthy members of the US Senate.
"Bernie Sanders paid his fair share of taxes," Shakir said, adding that he hoped the returns would quiet the "hubbub and kerfuffle" that had grown in anticipation of its release. He also conceded that vague promises from Sanders and the campaign about their plans had contributed to the speculation. In multiple forums, including a CNN town hall shortly after he entered the race in February, Sanders pledge to share them "soon.
"I think there was some interpretation left to 'soon,' which I, in retrospect, would've loved to have alleviated by being a little bit more clear about when it was coming," Shakir said. "We wanted to do 10 years and so we had (an internal) conversation saying, 'let's just do it all at once so we have the most recent one.'"
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Washington DC Train Accident: NTSB Cites Systemic Problems Even Before the Metrorail Crash that Killed 9 People
July 27, 2010 | Lebowitz & Mzhen
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, Metro was experiencing systemic issues even before the June 2009 Washington DC train crash that left 9 people dead and injured at least 70 others. The Red Line collision, called the worst in Metrorail’s 34-year history, involved one transit train rear-ending another during rush hour. One train ended up jackknifing and falling on top of the other train.
The Metro’s tracks were not working properly at the time and did not automatically slow down the approaching train. This means that the train operator of that train was getting messages telling her that she could keep going at a speed of 55 mph. She applied the emergency brakes three seconds after seeing the other train. Although the brakes worked, this only gave the train enough time to slow down to 44mph by the time of impact. Now, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah A.P. Hersman is saying that Metro was on a collision course long before this train accident and that its safety system had already been compromised.
Prior to the June 2009 DC Metrorail accident, there had been other fatal crashes that had killed employees. Unfortunately, according to Hersman, Metro failed to implement the needed prevented measures after they happened.
Metro says that it now assesses track circuit performance two times a day, has put into place a new test to find circuits that may be prone to problems, and is no longer mixing train control parts from different makers. Its trains are now being operated manually instead of automatically.
Meantime, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is trying to get the Washington DC wrongful death lawsuit, filed by the families of the victims that were killed in the train crash, dismissed on the grounds that the defendant is a “quasi-government entity” that therefore has “sovereign immunity” from such complaints. The families Washington DC wrongful death lawyers are fighting this request.
NTSB: Metro had systemic problems before crash, AP/Google, July 27, 2010
Where crash report leaves Metro riders, Washington Post, July 27, 2010
One Year After Deadliest Metro Train Crash, Families of Victims Oppose WMATA’s Motion to Dismiss Washington DC Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Washington DC Injury Lawyer Blog, June 26, 2010
At Least 9 Dead After D.C. Metro Trains Crash, Fox News, June 23, 2009
National Transportation Safety Board
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Deep State Wiretapping: NBC Reports White House Call Intercepted by Feds
By Ben Marquis
Published May 3, 2018 at 11:53am
UPDATE: NBC News has since retracted their statement that President Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was wiretapped. Instead, they say that the phone calls were “monitored” by logging the calls known as a pen register.
Following the early April raids on the office, home and hotel room of longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump caustically remarked that attorney-client privilege was dead in the eyes of his detractors.
That assertion could very well have just been bolstered if an anonymously-sourced report by NBC News turns out to be true, as it would indicate a rather blatant violation of that privilege on the part of federal investigators looking into various allegations involving Cohen.
According to two unnamed individuals “with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen,” federal investigators obtained wiretaps on Cohen’s phone lines. The attorney is being investigated for a payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, allegedly to buy her silence after an alleged affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
One unnamed source with “direct knowledge” of the wiretaps claimed they had been in place in the weeks prior to the raids, though it is unclear how long ago those wiretaps were authorized.
This is the first that has been heard of wiretaps being utilized in this investigation, as New York prosecutors involved in the case had previously admitted in court filings only to having used covert searches of Cohen’s multiple email accounts to obtain information.
It’s noteworthy that neither the FBI nor the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York offered any sort of official comment to NBC for this report.
Two other anonymous sources described as being “close” to Rudy Giuliani, the newest member of Trump’s legal team, alleged that Giuliani had learned that Trump had made a phone call to Cohen shortly after the raids had occurred and cautioned him never to make such a call again as prosecutors could be recording the calls.
Those sources, said to have “direct knowledge of the conversations,” also alleged that Giuliani warned Trump that Cohen might “flip” on him but that Trump insisted Cohen would remain loyal.
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Neither Giuliani nor a lawyer for Cohen, Stephen Ryan, responded to requests for comment on the allegations by NBC. Furthermore, the White House merely shifted such inquiries to outside counsel.
With zero on-the-record confirmation and only the word of anonymous sources to go on, NBC speculated wildly about what sort of “incriminating information” Cohen might deliver to prosecutors if he did indeed “flip” against Trump.
Considering that Cohen worked with the Trump Organization for nearly two decades, they surmised that any information provided by Cohen could prove relevant to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.
NBC further speculated that investigators were not only looking into the payoff of Stormy Daniels by Cohen, but also an alleged payoff of a former Playboy Playmate alleged to have had an affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
On top of that, investigators are supposedly also looking for any information related to the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape that was leaked a month prior to the election in which Trump bragged about how some women would let him do whatever he wanted with them because of his fame.
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It remains to be seen how any of that is relevant to Mueller’s investigation. Cohen and Trump have insisted that the vast majority of the materials seized from Cohen should be protected by attorney-client privilege.
Attorney-client privilege has long been understood to protect the private conversations between an attorney and their client from the prying eyes — and listening ears — of government prosecutors. But that long-standing protection seems to have been tossed by the wayside in the Age of Trump.
It would appear that in their zeal to “get Trump,” some “deep state” actors seem willing to use any means necessary to attain that goal, no matter the legality or traditional limits.
As for the anonymous reports of wiretaps on Cohen, we’ll have to wait and see if they are ever confirmed or this is just the latest “fake news” smoking gun to blow up in the anti-Trump media’s hands.
Ben Marquis
Ben Marquis is a writer who identifies as a constitutional conservative/libertarian. He has covered current events and politics for Conservative Tribune since 2014. His focus is on protecting the First and Second Amendments.
Ben Marquis has covered current events and politics for Conservative Tribune since 2014. He reads voraciously and writes about the news of the day from a conservative-libertarian perspective. He is an advocate for a more constitutional government and a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, which protects the rest of our natural rights. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the love of his life as well as four dogs and four cats.
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Tags: Donald Trump, FBI, investigation, law, New York, White House
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Trump Sends NRA Crowd into Frenzy with 4 Words ‘That Echo Through the Ages’
Published May 5, 2018 at 6:54am
Speaking to a crowd at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump sent attendees wild with four words every Second Amendment-loving Texan knows by heart.
During the speech, the president referenced the Lone Star State’s fight for independence from Mexico, telling the audience that the crowd wouldn’t be there “if not for a handful of determined and defiant Texans who refused to surrender their rights nearly two centuries ago.”
Trump referenced the 1835 Battle of Gonzales, the first skirmish of the Texas Revolution, which was precipitated by Mexican military marching into the small settlement of Gonzales to demand that the villagers surrender their cannon.
That small cannon, Trump said, is all they had “to protect their lives and protect their homes.”
“They were not about to give up their only means of self-defense,” Trump said. “In response, (Mexican President) Santa Anna’s army returned with a large group of additional people.
“They had men all over the place, this army was big. This time they were met by dozens of Texans, soldiers, settlers and ordinary citizens, who had rushed to Gonzalez to defend their rights and their freedom as Santa Anna’s men watched from a distance, those brave Texans raised the flag for all to see.
“On the banner, they painted a cannon along with four words that echo through the ages,” Trump continued. “Come and take it.“
The crowd responded by cheering, followed by a chant of “USA! USA!”
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“Like those early Texans, Americans will never surrender, ever, ever, ever,” the president continued. “We will never ever surrender. We will never give up our freedom. Americans are born free. We will live free and we will die free.”
“Come and Take It” — along with its ancient Greek twin, “Molon Labe,” which was popularized by the movie “300” — has become a sort of unofficial slogan of Second Amendment defenders, mostly for its association with the Battle of Gonzales.
In the end, the battle was a relatively minor skirmish; the Mexicans only lost one soldier and the sum total of injuries suffered by the Texan villagers was one, a broken nose when a man fell off a horse. In the end, however, the villagers kept their cannon and Texans eventually had their independence.
The president’s speech before the NRA’s national convention isn’t his first, but it is Trump’s first appearance before the group since a political rift opened between the NRA and the administration over the president’s apparent support of gun control measures in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
“Instead of punishing law-abiding gun owners for the acts of a deranged lunatic our leaders should pass meaningful reforms that would actually prevent future tragedies,” NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said after a February “listening session” by the president in which he seemed to express support for a multitude of gun control measures, including firearm seizures from persons deemed to be dangerous in which due process would be considered a secondary concern.
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If those measures were still being supported by the president — or if there was any lingering animosity from NRA members over the adumbrated proposals for them — there was little evidence for it during Friday’s speech.
“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege,” Trump told the audience. “But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I am your president.”
Unambiguous language like that in support of the Second Amendment — along with the additional presence of Vice President Pence — was a definite signal of support on the part of the administration to the tens of thousands of NRA members gathered in Dallas, and the reaction of the crowd seemed to indicate that support was reciprocal.
Of course, it also probably didn’t hurt that he decided to put the spotlight on four words that reside in the heart of every gun-loving Texan.
Tags: Donald Trump, gun control, guns, Mexico, National Rifle Association NRA, Second Amendment, Texas
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Bridleway to Rylstone Church
Copyright Phil Catterall and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Rylstone's main claim to fame is the fact that it was the inspiration of William Wordworth's 1808 poem 'The White Doe of Rylstone', but it has gained its fair share of publicity in recent years.
The poem is set during the Rising of the North between 1569 and 1570, which saw northern catholic earls attempt to end the rule of Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots. Wordsworth believed it to be one of his finest works, yet it remains largely in the shadow of poems such as Daffodils.
The village's recent fame comes from the fact that a number of its female residents along with some from nearby Cracoe were the inspiration for the Helen Mirren movie Calendar Girls.
During the late 1990s members of the local Woman's Institute decided to raise money for leukaemia research by producing a tasteful nude calendar. To the surprise of those involved, the calendar sold more than 200,000 copies and soon the national press were covering the story.
They have made a calendar almost every year since and a dedication to their hard work has been placed outside the new lymphoma and leukaemia laboratories at the University of Leeds.
One of the Rylstone's most iconic buildings is St Peter's Church. Designated as Grade II listed by English Heritage, it was constructed between 1852 and 1853 and has a gritstone exterior in a style known as 'churchwarden gothic'.
As well as inside the church, religious symbolism can be seen on the fell overlooking the parish as there stands a large stone cross. Originally the hill was home to a stone figure known as the 'Rylstone Man', but it was changed to a wooden crucifix to commemorate the 'Peace of Paris' in 1814. Weather conditions took their toll on the Rylstone Cross in the decades that followed and it had to be replaced several times until the wooden structure was changed to a stone one in 1997.
A popular local walk passes the church in Rylstone Centre before turning up a track that leads through a narrow pasture to Rylstone Cross before heading east to the Cracoe Memorial, a stone obelisk built to remember those that lost their lives in the First World War. The walk loops back down the fell to Rylstone and covers six miles in total.
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Here you’ll find information on:
What a clinical trial is
Safety of clinical trials
List of current cosmetic surgery clinical trials
What Is a Clinical Trial?
Clinical trials are research studies in which people agree to undergo new therapies (under careful supervision) to help identify the best treatments with the fewest side effects. Such trials often help change and shape the landscape of medical care.
There are several types of clinical trials, including treatment trials, prevention (risk reduction) trials, diagnostic trials and quality-of-life trials (which explore ways to improve quality of life for individuals with a chronic illness).
In cosmetic surgery, clinical trials are usually treatment-oriented. For example, many surgeons are now looking at cohesive gel breast implants, which have the positive attributes of the silicone gel implant, but do not pose the risk of gel migration. Another clinical trial is looking at the safety and effectiveness of so-called fat-melting technology, known as mesotherapy or lipodissolve. In reconstructive surgery, clinical trials may tackle the issue of delayed versus immediate breast reconstruction in women with breast cancer.
People who participate in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new treatments before they are widely available and help others by contributing to medical research. They typically will get excellent care from the doctors during the course of the study. This care also may be free.
All clinical trials have guidelines about who can participate (inclusion criteria), as well as guidelines that prevent someone from participating (exclusion criteria).
Are Clinical Trials Safe?
Clinical trials have risks. They can include unpleasant, serious or even life-threatening side effects that may be different from the side effects of currently available treatments. What’s more, the treatment may or may not be effective, and the design may require more time than traditional care.
Safeguards are in place to protect participants. Every clinical trial in the United States for a new therapy or type of device must be approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition, an institutional review board (IRB) approval is also required. These safeguards help make sure the risks of the clinical trial are as low as possible and are worth any potential benefits. If you do decide a clinical trial is the route you’d like to take, informed consent (the process of learning the key facts about a clinical trial before deciding whether to participate) is required.
According to the Office for Human Research Protections, here are some questions to ask if you are considering joining a clinical trial:
Why is the research being done?
Is the trial FDA-approved?
Is the trial IRB-approved?
What will be done to me as part of the research?
How will I benefit from the research?
Could the research hurt me?
What will the researcher do with my information?
Will the research cost me anything?
Who pays if there is a complication?
How long will the study last?
What happens if I decide to leave the study early?
Who should I call if I have a question about the research?
Want to Participate in a Cosmetic Surgery Clinical Trial?
As a service to our readers, we provide access below to the clinical trials database of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Library of Medicine, located at ClinicalTrials.gov. To participate in a clinical trial, please read the information and get in touch with the contact person directly. Consumer Guide to Plastic Surgery has no connection with the people and organizations who run these trials.
Below are listed the current clinical trials in cosmetic surgery.
To search for clinical trials in specific areas of cosmetic surgery, click on these links:
Breast implant clinical trials
Breast reconstruction clinical trials
Facelift clinical trials
Liposuction clinical trials
About the Reviewer of This Article
Peter Bela Fodor, MD, FACS, of Los Angeles, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of aesthetic plastic surgery and is highly respected by the profession as a surgeon, teacher and author. Dr. Fodor is associate clinical professor of plastic surgery at UCLA Medical Center. He lectures and performs live surgical demonstrations nationally and internationally.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Dr. Peter Fodor completed his general surgery residency at New York’s Columbia University and his plastic surgery residency at St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital. Dr. Fodor maintains hospital staff privileges at UCLA Medical Center, Century City Doctors Hospital and Olympia Hospital, all in Los Angeles, as well as at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He is board-certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Understanding Clinical Trials. National Institutes of Health website.
Questions to Ask Before Participating in a Research Study. Office for Human Research Protections section of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.
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Texans climb to No. 11 in latest NABC rankings
TSU ATHLETICS
Dec 27, 2016 at 2:57 PM Dec 27, 2016 at 2:58 PM
STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton men's basketball moved up four spots to No. 11 in the nation in the latest National Association of Basketball Coaches poll.
The Texans (11-1, 4-0) have won eight straight games and are the only Lone Star Conference team with a 4-0 record. The Texans recently swept the Holiday Hoops Classic in Las Vegas by defeating Simon Fraser and then-No. 12 Western Washington.
This marks the 119th week the Texans have been ranked by the NABC in program history. Tarleton is one of three teams ranked in the NABC poll, with Angelo State at No. 7 and West Texas A&M at 14. Western Washington fell to No. 19 after its loss to Tarleton. UT-Permian Basin is the only other LSC team to receive votes in the poll.
Tarleton will take on Ouachita Baptist on Saturday, Dec. 31 at 4 p.m. in Wisdom Gym before returning to LSC play on the road against No. 7 Angelo State on Jan. 5.
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For 90 years, the YWCA Niagara Region has been providing essential programs and service to women and their families in the Niagara Region. Through the years the YW has worn many hats and provided many different services.
To read our history booklet in full, please click here!
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In 1927 Mrs. Kate Leonard, a woman of substantial wealth, dared to dream… and identified the need to address the welfare, safety and advocacy of all of this community’s women, young women and their children.
On November 22, 1927, 300 local women from various churches and women’s organizations throughout the city gathered to discuss the ‘founding of the St. Catharines YWCA’ and to elect a provisional board whose main focus would be finding a suitable building to house the YW and those that we would serve.
And so began what became an over fifty year relationship and joint venture between the local and established YMCA of St. Catharines and the newly formed YWCA.
With the support of the community and the incredible generosity of Col. R.W. Leonard (Kate Leonard’s husband), and the YMCA President Mr. David Mills who together donated $350,000, the YMCA-YWCA building was built at 56 Queen Street in St. Catharines. Though both organizations shared concerns over sharing a space, they were able to draw up a workable basis of co-operation and respect for each organization’s very different history, but common ideals.
On Saturday, January 19, 1929, Mrs. Kate Leonard officially laid the cornerstone for the new building. The official opening of the ‘Y’ building was on Monday, October 27, 1929. It was a day that went down in the history of both associations, as the general public expressed their delight in the great new structure and its potential. A special edition of the St. Catharines Standard was published in honour of the event.
Within a few months the entire ‘Y’ building was being used to capacity. There were activities in both gymnasiums and better recreation programming for boys, girls, men and women. People of all ages flocked to the swimming pool, with the ‘Y’ becoming the focal point for St. Catharines’ young people. Clubs were organized to suit the varied interests of the different groups within the community. Each organization was serving the recreational, social and educational needs of the community.
During the Second World War the YWCA of St. Catharines played a significant role to the war effort. We were assigned three main tasks as ‘war jobs’ by the government; the most significant being the Rooms Registry Service. Along with hospitality and entertainment spots for groups of young service men, the YW coordinated hostess houses for the visitation of wives and relatives of the men in service.
The duties of the room registry service consisted of interviewing applicants and inspecting prospective rooms, as well as answering the calls of those willing to rent or offer their available rooms.
By the 1950s the work of the YW was very broad in its scope. Camp Wa-Sa-Ah-Bun was running strong. We offered fellowship through the Y-Teen Club for Girls, the Young Adult Co-Ed Clubs including So-Ed, the Saturday Nite Club and a Bridge Club. We also provided a counselling service to help girls with their personal problems, a Travellers Aid Service, a residence for working girls or for travelers and a reasonably priced cafeteria along with their recreational and physical activities.
In November of 1954 the YW celebrated 25 years of operation by hosting an annual membership tea with a fashion show highlighting clothing from the 1920’s era.
THE 1960s and 1970s
During the 1960’s recreational programs such as swimming and the reintroduction of synchronized swimming classes were becoming popular again. The ‘Y’ pool, being one of the only public swimming pools around, was still a highly attractive feature. However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, faced with declining participation and the increasing development of government services and private enterprise in the recreational and social services fields, each organization began to face a survival crisis. The YMCA movement in Canada began programs for women and girls, and allowed women to become members. The YWCA began to offer programs for boys and men. Naturally, the two organizations began to look at amalgamation with a decision not to merge being made in 1972.
The YWCA was the first to start this separation process in the mid-seventies, a difficult process which lasted almost five years and touched almost every aspect of the Association: organizational development, financial development, and future relationships with the YMCA.
In August of 1980, a decision was made to leave Queen Street and negotiations commenced with the YMCA for the sale of the building. The St. Catharines joint operation had survived longer than any other YW/YM by the time this decision had been made.
Housing for women in transition was identified as the number one priority and in order to deal with the financial survival mode we were facing, the YW decided to continue offering only those recreational, social and fitness programs which attracted high participation levels and were profitable. Financial responsibility was an underlying priority of all actions.
As the YW began to develop action plans during the spring of 1981, two opportunities presented themselves. First, the YWCA had the opportunity to acquire a property on Court Street for a new women’s residence- a building containing 17 apartment units.
The residence opened its doors on October 3, 1981 with the goal of serving women with special housing needs. The guidelines followed were respect for ourselves and for others. In keeping with the philosophy of the YW, we aimed to provide opportunities for personal growth, to deepen concern for human needs and to act responsibly in the community.
That same year the YWCA Board approved the plan to acquire Pen Racquets and consequently decided to locate its administrative offices and other program space adjacent to the building.
Pen Racquets Fitness Centre faced serious difficulty through the 80s as more fitness centres opened up throughout the community and competition became an issue.
The YWCA embarked on a Capital Campaign which, along with the funds from a major Wintario Capital Grant, was to reduce the capital costs of acquiring the lease holds of Pen Racquets, thus producing a great decrease in operating expenses which in time would produce operating profits, from which new programs would be funded.
However, in February 1986, the YWCA turned Pen Racquets over to the Credit Union and issued a bankruptcy proposal to our outstanding creditors. In September 1987, the YWCA relocated to the Ridley Heights Plaza with all of our social services programs intact.
The 1990’s saw the YW focused on the social service needs of the St. Catharines community. We offered many programs such as parenting classes, child care, drop in groups, parenting support groups, babysitters training courses, Niagara Youth Training in Empowerment, sports, Go Girls Go, Clubhouse for winter and March break, and counselors in training, as well as still offering our camps.
As well, the YWCA’s Pre-Employment Program was established in the early 1990’s (which became the Women’s Resource Centre in the later 1990’s) through the funding from Human Resources Skills Development Canada. The programs function was to provide information on employment, education, health care, community resources and referrals. Later to become the ‘Job Route for Women’ program, it was the only pre-employment program in the Region that was offered exclusively to women.
The new millennium saw a time of challenges, choices and opportunities for the YW, and resulted in a stronger, more focused organization. Having long advocated for women and children, the organization returned to that focus by purchasing and restoring our current location at 183 King Street in April 2000. In July of 2001 we opened our doors as a 20-bed Emergency Shelter Crisis Housing Facility experiencing 100% occupancy most of the time.
Expanding horizons took on a special meaning in the second half of 2004, with the effort to restore services to the City of Niagara Falls, through the acquisition of the abandoned YWCA building on Culp Street. The Niagara Falls location had been founded in 1913, and also had a very long-standing history of serving women and children, but when massive debt and organizational problems forced the residence to close, a huge gap in services was created. With no emergency shelter beds and nowhere to turn in Niagara Falls, local women and their children in need had to travel out of town or hope to find temporary accommodation.
Behind the scenes, homelessness advocates across Niagara, and the YW St. Catharines were quietly trying to get the organization up and running again. In January of 2004 we began conversations with key stakeholders in the Niagara Falls community, including the United Way and Project Share, and with their support and that of all four levels of government and other partners the YWCA Culp Street shelter was officially re-opened on June 24 and 25, 2005.
In April of 2005, we received funding from the Federal Government’s Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative (SCPI) to provide Off Site Transitional Housing in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. Having recognized the difficulty for single women or women with a child to find affordable housing with limited income, the program was created to help alleviate the rent costs for these women. These women would then receive additional support by accessing the YWCA Epworth Terrace Supportive Housing Program, the YWCA Job Route for Women Employment Services and community partnerships.
During this time the YW was still offering programs for children. In 2006, the YW began holding the Power of Being a Girl Conference in conjunction with the YWCA’s national signature event ‘Week Without Violence’. The yearly conference is geared for high school girls from all over the region and has had many different topics over the years such as safe practices, internet safety, overcoming road blocks, violence in relationships, dating safety, and positive thinking just to name a few, with a usual crowd of approximately 300 girls.
Over the next few years, the YW would begin to implement and expand on girls centred programming to address identified needs that were being brought to our attention. Having established a partnership with local youth shelters offering programming to their clients, we began to see that supporting and teaching girls the skills they need to manoeuver from adolescence into adulthood would increase their likeliness of success and help break the cycle of poverty. We began offering girls centred summer camp, teen life skills programming, a lunch school program, and in 2008 opened a Youth Transitional Housing program in our Culp Street Shelter. The program housed up to six girls between the ages of 16 and 24 years old who were in crisis and homeless. The youth were able to stay for up to one year while receiving counselling, taking part in workshops and life skills programming, and attending school.
In 2010, government funding priorities shifted and forced the closure of our long-standing women’s only employment program ‘Job Route for Women’. In re-evaluating how to maintain the clients and crucial programming the program offered, we continued on with the Skills Development component; which absorbed some of the impact of losing the employment program.
In 2011 we launched our first Family Emergency Homeless Shelter initiative. The shelter accommodates homeless families, mothers with boys older than 16 and single fathers who are raising their children and are in need of stable, affordable housing. 2011 also brought an end to the Youth Transitional Housing program. We look to the future and see a more sustainable youth program that will provide similar services and a much larger capacity.
Today the YWCA Niagara Region is a recognized leader in providing housing programs for homeless women and their families in our community. We offer two Emergency Women’s Homeless Shelters, an Emergency Family Shelter, an Emergency Men’s Shelter, two On Site Transitional Housing Programs, a Supported Transitional Housing Program and an Off Site Transitional Housing Program consisting of apartments all throughout the Niagara Region. Along with these essential housing services, the YW offers Skill Development Programming, including Women’s Addiction Recovery Meditation and Sex Trade On My Terms. Additional empowerment programs for young boys and girls are also available within the school system.
Since 2015, the YW is also running several Housing First units to be able to serve those individuals, who struggle with chronic homelessness and face multiple barriers to accessing permanent housing.
If you are interested in learning more about the history of the YWCA Niagara Region, the St. Catharines Public Library has historical items available for viewing in their special collections.
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Education in Zambia
Education in Zambia is free through the 7th grade. However, many children live in remote areas where there are no schools within walking distance. Almost all schools in Zambia require uniforms, including acceptable shoes. For families living in extreme poverty, the resources for this expense are not available.
After grade seven, students must pay fees in order to go to school. Fees for high school (grades 10 – 12) are significantly higher, forcing many capable students to end their education before graduation. According to the CIA Fact book, the average child’s education lasts just seven years.
Schools at Namwianga
Namwianga Mission schools began in the 1930s as an effort to promote the Christian faith and to teach Zambians to read the Bible. Eventually the system expanded to include a high school. In the early 1990s, Namwianga Mission partnered with the University of Zambia to establish George Benson Christian College.
These schools are located on the Namwianga campus at Kalomo
George Benson Christian College of Education trains secondary teachers in the areas of English, history, mathematics, religious education, civics, and computer technology. There are 325 students. The University of Zambia oversees the curriculum and graduation requirements.
The Christian Leadership Development is a one-year program to train high school graduates for ministry and evangelism. Most students who go through Christian Leadership Development go on to George Benson Christian College to become teachers. 35 students are enrolled in the CLD.
Namwianga Christian Secondary School is a boarding school for grades 8 – 12 and has 425 pupils. In addition to the academic program, students also attend chapel and Bible classes and participate in ministry and outreach activities.
Other schools are part of a satellite network that provides Christian education in villages within a 3-hour radius of Namwianga. These schools provide Bible classes as part of the curriculum.
Namwianga Christian Basic School serves pupils in
grades 1-9 and has 600 enrolled.
Kabanga Christian Secondary School and Kabanga Christian Basic School have 600 students in
grades 1-12.
Simpweze Christian Basic School has 550 students in grades 1-9.
Zyangale Christian Basic School has 400 students in grades 1-9.
Sinde Christian Basic School has 400 students in
grades 1-9.
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Posts Tagged ‘French-Eversole’
Some of the Famous Vendettas of the Feud States
THE killing of James B. Marcum, the prominent young lawyer and politician of Breathitt county, Ky., has once more focused attention on the “feud states” of the Union. Whatever the reason, the fact remains that in the border counties of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia men are today to be found imbued with the same spirit that prompted the Scotch border raids, the spurt of repaying real or fancied wrongs by declaring war to the death upon all connected in any way with those who they deem have injured them and of bequeathing to their sons generation after generation a hereditary animosity which can only be appeased by the extermination of their enemies.
The story of the feudists is a ghastly narrative of murder and rapine, of arson and ambuscades, of cruelty beyond description. As in the Marcum case, assassination by the bullet is the feudists’ favorite method of procedure. So widely recognized is this that when a feud county factionist is riding through a piece of woods or a mountain d???? he will drop the reins and with a revolver in each hand be on the alert for a possible attack.
Undoubtedly the most sensational feud in the history of the country has been that of the McCoys and the Hatfields, an interstate affair involving Kentucky and West Virginia. Like most feuds it originated in a very trivial dispute, a quarrel between old Randall McCoy and Anse Hatfield, better known as “Devil Anse,” over the ownership of a pair of razorback hogs that could not have brought $3 in the open market. The dispute finally got into the courts and after the trial a Hatfield witness was mysteriously slain, presumably by one of the McCoy boys. Three of them were arrested, tried and acquitted.
War then began at a rate that promised the speedy extermination of both families. From 1882 to 1887, when the two states were aroused to a realization of the situation, killing and mourning went on unchecked.
The culminating outrages were two raids on McCoy’s home by parties of Hatfield henchmen. In the first raid McCoy’s son Calvin and his daughter Alifair were killed, and in the second McCoy’s wife and five of their children met death. On both occasions the house was set on fire and the inmates slaughtered as they fled from the flames. After the last raid McCoy started on the warpath, and as a result of his efforts a number of the Hatfields were captured and sent to state prison for terms varying from eight to ten years. During that period there was comparative peace in the mountains. In 1897, however when the convicts times was up “Devil Anse,” who had been in hiding, reappeared and once more placed himself at their head. It was not long before he fell into the hands of the authorities and was clapped into jail, with three indictments for murder pending against him. He managed to cut his way to freedom and took to the cave that had been his refuge during the preceding nine years. Randall McCoy learned where this hole in the mountains was located and led the pursuers to it. The place was a natural fortress and was not stormed until a liberal supply of dynamite had been used. In the confusion old Anse escaped once more. By this time he had had enough of feud fighting, but no one suspected it until last year when he sent a message to Randall McCoy expressing his desire for peace. Jim McCoy, answering for his father, replied that there could be no compromise between the Hatfields and the McCoys. It is thus evident that the end is not yet.
One of the curious features of the feuds is the way in which one family after another is drawn into the trouble until a man may ultimately have five or feuds on his hands at the same time. “Blood is thicker than water” is a popular cry in the mountains, and the feudists consequently take up the vendettas of their relatives and friends with the ardor they display in settling personal accounts. The natural results of this multifarious feudism are pitched battles in the mountains and terrorizing out of state troops, with Gatling guns and loaded rifles, to restore order. The celebrated Baker-Howard feud is a case in point, because though of independent origin it was fomented and intensified by the participation of its principals in the White-Garrard affair, which raged for over sixty years. The latter trouble was caused by the ambition of the White and Garrard families to surpass each other in wealth and political power, and it was the bitterness of their struggle and its subsequent complications that earned for Clay county the sobriquet “Bloody Clay.” Of late years the most sensational episode in this feud was the killing of Tom Baker, a Garrard sympathizer, while awaiting trial for the murder of Will White.
Baker had been captured in the mountains by a squad of militiamen and taken under guard to Manchester, where he was confined in a tent in the courthouse yard, surrounded by troops. Half an hour before his case was to be called he stepped to the tent entrance, a shot rang out from the house of Sheriff White, across the way, and Baker fell back dead in the arms of his wife, who, before his body was cold, gathered her ten children about it and made them swear to avenge their father’s death. Since then the feud has been raging intermittently, the latest incident being the killing of Sid Baker a little over a month ago in a roadside battle with William McCollum. At one time the various factions hired a number of men to fight for them, paying each man $1 a day and supplying him with food and ammunition. One of the leaders in this notorious imbroglio was Jim Howard, now under sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of Governor William Goebel. The Howards have always supported the Whites, while the Bakers have been identified with the Garrards.
Probably the most expensive feud Kentucky has ever known was the French-Eversole affair, another instance of a feud within a feud. It began with the killing of the head of the Confederate family of Gambrills by the Union Eversoles during the civil war, and fighting went on in a desultory way until 1884, when Fulton French came from Virginia to Hazard, Ky., and opened a store in opposition to Joseph C. Eversole. Trouble soon followed. The Gambrills sided with French, and the feud was on again in deadly earnest. It is said that French and Eversole have spent about $150,000 to carry on their warfare, thirty-eight lives being the cost in human blood. One of the feud’s many brutal features was the unprovoked killing in 1894 of aged Judge Joshua Combs, who was shot from behind a fence. His only connection with the trouble, it is said, was that he was the father-in-law of an Eversole.
The French-Eversole dispute was largely tinged with politics, and it was owing to a political feud that Lawyer Marcum lost his life. In fact, politics has always played a prominent part in the Kentucky vendettas. Marcum, a member of the Cockrill faction of the Hargis-Cockrill feud, was shot down while standing in the doorway of the Breathitt county courthouse at Jackson, Ky. He had filed a motion for the reopening of certain contested election cases in which the Hargises were vitally interested, and it is asserted that this was the direct cause of his assassination. Although a number of men were near him at the time of the killing the slayer had little difficulty in escaping.
A practical joke was responsible for another feud of long standing — the Howard-Turner — when a lighted match held to the face of a sleeping man started an enmity which stirred up all Harlan county, Ky., and resulted in the loss of at least fifty lives. Yet another sanguinary feud in the Blue Grass State was started last year between the Bentleys and the Rameys, two large and influential families. Politics, moonshine whisky and women were mixed up in this feud as they have been in so many others. The Martin-Tolliver feud, with its death roll of twenty-three, was chiefly remarkable because one of its chiefs, Craig Tolliver, was undoubtedly the most desperate man who ever led feudists. Also worthy of mention as being the first feud of importance in the state was the Hill-Evans vendetta, which began in 1829 as the result of a dispute over the ownership of some slaves. This lasted for twenty years.
Some notorious feuds of other states have been the Chadwell-Morgan in Tennessee, the Malone-Tyler in Georgia, and the Barnard-Sutton in Tennessee. The first two were strikingly similar in that both were accompanied by murders committed in churches. In the Chadwell-Morgan trouble forty Chadwells and thirty Morgans have been killed, the crowning horror occurring in 1901, when a Chadwell party attacked the Union Baptist church at Big Springs, Tenn., where the Morgans were attending services. In the pitched battle that followed both sides lost heavily.
WALTER Q. TAVISTOCK.
Mansfield News (Mansfield, Ohio) May 29, 1903
Tags:1903, Baker-Howard, Chadwell-Morgan, Feuds, French-Eversole, Gambrill, Hargis-Cockrill, Hatfield-McCoy, Howard-Turner, Kentucky, Kentucky Feuds, Martin-Tolliver, Tennessee, Tennessee Feuds, White-Garrard
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Pilobolus
Pilobolus is a rebellious dance company. For 45 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. They continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through our post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. Now, in our digitally driven and increasingly fractured landscape, they also reach beyond performance to teach people how to physically connect through group movement and designed live experiences. They bring decades of expertise telling stories with the human form to show diverse communities, brands, and organizations how to maximize group creativity, solve problems, create surprise, and generate joy through the power of nonverbal communication.
Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries. They currently perform for over 300,000 people across the U.S. and around the world each year. In the last year, Pilobolus was featured on NBC’s TODAY Show, MTV’s Video Music Awards, ABC’s The Chew, and the CW Network’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Pilobolus has been recognized with many prestigious honors, including a TED Fellowship, a 2012 Grammy® Award Nomination, and several Cannes Lion Awards at the International Festival of Creativity. In 2015, Pilobolus was named one of Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures”.
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Kubi AckermanArchitect
Kubi Ackerman is the Director of the Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York. Ackerman has been conducting design-based research in New York City since 2004. His work focuses on urban design strategies for resilience, with a particular focus on urban food systems, green infrastructure, transportation, and energy.
Amir AczelMathematician, Science Writer
Recognized mathematician and science writer Amir D. Aczel is the author of numerous books that have appeared on various bestseller lists in the United States and abroad, with translations into 22 languages. Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider is his most recent literary contribution.
Dany Spencer AdamsDevelopmental Biologist, Author
Dany Spencer Adams explores how ions moving among cells act as signals during regeneration, development, and cancer. She has uncovered evidence that bioelectric signals can trigger and regulate diverse complex processes that include gene expression changes.
Apoorv AgarwalDoctoral Student
Apoorv Agarwal is a fourth year doctoral student in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, New York City. His areas of interest and specialization are Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Vimla AggarwalGeneticist
Dr. Vimla Aggarwal is the Director of Diagnostic Genomics at the Columbia University Medical Center Institute for Genomic Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Mumbai.
Bhavna AgrawalComputer Engineer, AI Researcher
Dr. Bhavna Agrawal, a leading researcher at IBM, is bringing education and artificial intelligence technology together to help solve various problems in elementary and higher education. Some of her latest work involved working with automatic recognition of children’s speech.
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Southern Asia: Southern India into the island of Sri Lanka
The Deccan Thorn Scrub Forests [IM1301] harbor the last populations of the globally threatened Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus), rediscovered recently, eighty-six years since it was last recorded in 1900. Otherwise, the ecoregion is neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in endemism. Many ecologists believe that the thorn scrub vegetation represents a degraded stage of the tropical dry forests, modified by human and livestock use over hundreds of years (Puri et al. 1989).
131,400 square miles
The ecoregion represents the thorn scrub vegetation in the arid parts of the Deccan Plateau. It sprawls across the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra and also includes part of northern Sri Lanka.
The Deccan Plateau itself was part of the ancient southern continent, Gondwanaland, that disintegrated during the Cretaceous to give rise to the Indian Subcontinent as well as Africa, Madagascar, Australia, South America, and New Guinea and some of the smaller islands such as New Caledonia and Tasmania. After the Deccan Plateau drifted northward to collide with the Eurasian continent about 50 million years ago, geological uplift gave rise to the Western Ghats Mountains along the western coast of the peninsula. This mountain range then intercepted the moisture-laden southwest monsoons and created a dry rainshadow in the vast plateau, affecting its vegetation. But in the more recent past, human influences have altered the vegetation to create vast areas of thorn scrub from what was believed to be tropical dry forests.
Annual rainfall in the ecoregion is less than 750 mm. All rain is received during the brief wet season, and there is practically no rainfall from November to April. Ambient temperatures can exceed a sweltering 40(C during the hotter months of the year.
The forest type in this ecoregion is mostly southern tropical thorn scrub, as defined by Champion and Seth (1968), but includes patches of tropical dry deciduous forests, which are believed to be the original vegetation. The former consists of open, low vegetation characterized by thorny trees with short trunks and low, branching crowns that rarely meet to form a closed canopy. The trees attain heights of 6-9 m. The second story is poorly developed and consists of spiny and xerophytic species, mostly shrubs. During the brief wet season an ill-defined lower story can be discerned. The dominant vegetation is Acacia species, with Balanites roxburghii, Cordia myxa, Capparis spp., Prosopis spp., Azadirachta indica, Cassia fistula, Diospyros chloroxylon, Carrisa carandas, and Phoenix sylvestris.
Champion and Seth (1968) have also identified several habitat types within this vast thorn scrub ecoregion. In areas of particularly low rainfall and rocky soils, the thorn scrub transitions into a Euphorbia-dominated scrub (i.e., the southern Euphorbia scrub). Here the soil usually is bare, although some grassy growth may appear during the short monsoon season.
In parts of Tamil Nadu, where rainfall is even less, the vegetation is made up of open thorny forests with scattered Acacia planifrons that are characterized by umbrella-shaped crowns. This vegetation is described as Carnatic umbrella thorn forests by Champion and Seth (1968).
Scattered amid the thorn scrub are patches of dry grasslands that provide habitat for the native fauna. For example, the grasslands of southern Andhra Pradesh support a good population of the Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). The typical grasses in this habitat include Chrysopogon fulvus, Heteropogon contortus, Eremopogon foveolatus, Aristida setacea, and Dactyloctenium spp. (Rawat and Babu 1995).
Patches of dry deciduous forests, especially along the Tirupathi Hill Ranges, are known for a large number of medicinal plants and various other species of botanical interest, among which are the rare endemic cycad (Cycas beddomei) and Psilotum nudum. The latter usually is found along steep escarpments. A small patch of the dipterocarp Shorea talura exists within the Chittoor forest division, part of which is being maintained as a preservation plot by the Forest Department of Andhra Pradesh.
The Srilankamalleswara Sanctuary between the Nallamalais and Sechachalam hill ranges is known for a rare, endemic tree species, red sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus). This area is also the southern distributional limit of the nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) in the Indian Peninsula.
Until the recent past, this ecoregion provided important habitat for the tiger (Panthera tigris) (in the Indian sector) and Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). But over the years, their populations have dwindled and even become locally extinct because of the adverse influences from the dense human population.
The mammal fauna in the ecoregion includes ninety-six species, including two endemic rodents and an endemic bat (table 1).
Table 1. Endemic Mammal Species.
Family Species
Rhinolophidae Hipposideros schistaceus*
Muridae Millardia kondana*
Muridae Cremnomys elvira*
An asterisk signifies that the species' range is limited to this ecoregion.
The endemic rodents are threatened (IUCN 2000). Other threatened species in the ecoregion include tiger, gaur (Bos gaurus), wild dog (Cuon alpinus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) (IUCN 2000). The important elephant populations are now only marginally included within this ecoregion. Small wolf populations may still be left, although most have been eliminated by a combination of loss of prey and poisoning by people as retribution for livestock predation.
The ecoregion's bird fauna consists of almost 350 species, of which three are near-endemics (table 2).
Table 2. Endemic and Near-Endemic Bird Species.
Family Common Name Species
Glareolidae Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii
Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons
The Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus) is a globally threatened species that was rediscovered in this ecoregion in 1986, after the last record in 1900 (Grimmet et al. 1998). The known population of this species is limited to a small area in this and the neighboring Central Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests [IM0201]. The Ceylon junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii) is limited to the ecoregion's area in northern Sri Lanka. The globally threatened lesser florican (Eupodotis indica) and Indian bustard are other birds of conservation importance in this ecoregion.
More than 90 percent of the ecoregion's natural habitat has been degraded or cleared, but one large block of habitat remains in southern Andhra Pradesh. The eleven protected areas cover more than 4,000 km2, but this represents just about 1 percent of the ecoregion area (table 23.3). The Great Indian Bustard reserve accounts for most of the protected areas system.
Chandikulam 120 IV
Vettangudi [IM0204] 20 IV
Srivenkateswara 500 IV
Nandur Madmesh War 80 IV
Jaikwadi 230 IV
Great Indian Bustard 2,600 IV
Great Indian Bustart (extension) 250 PRO
Sagareshwar 50 IV
Ghataprapha 110 IV
Tungabadra 90 DE
Ranebennur 60 IV
The forests in this ecoregion have been degraded to thorn scrub solely as a result of these human activities (Puri et al. 1989). Among the more serious sources of degradation is pastoralism, both from heavy cattle grazing and from forest produce extracted by the pastoralists. Several village pastures have been taken over by an exotic thorny shrub, Prosopis juliflora, resulting in the loss of grazing areas for the cattle and encroachment into the reserved forests or protected areas for grazing (Rawat and Babu 1995). The conservation status of the ecoregion was changed from endangered to critical after the analysis of projected threats from the human population. There is a common perception that these dry forests are not important for conservation. Therefore, grazing and forest clearing, especially for fuelwood, are rampant.
In a previous analysis of conservation units, Rodgers and Panwar (1988), and subsequently MacKinnon (1997), divided the Deccan Peninsula into five biotic provinces.
This ecoregion includes Rodgers and Panwar's Central Plateau North (6B) biotic province and partially includes the Deccan Plateau South (6A) biotic province.
In keeping with our definition of an ecoregion (i.e., an ecosystem of regional extent) and following our rules for ecoregion delineation (represent distinct vegetation types of regional extent in separate ecoregions), we placed the thorn scrub, as mapped by MacKinnon (1997), that extends across these two biotic provinces within the Deccan Thorn Scrub Forests [IM1301].
Prepared by: Gopal S. Rawat, Ajay Desai, Hema Somanathan, and Eric D. Wikramanayake
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Georgia House gives jet fuel tax break another chance
Posted: Nov 15, 2018 / 08:34 PM EST / Updated: Nov 15, 2018 / 08:34 PM EST
FILE- In this May 24, 2018, file photo a Delta Air Lines passenger jet plane, a Boeing 717-200 model, approaches Logan Airport in Boston. Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, reported third-quarter earnings of $1.31 billion. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
A $40 million tax break on jet fuel is getting a second chance in the Georgia legislature, having easily passed the state House.
The House voted 141-18 on Thursday to approve the tax exemption. It now goes to the state Senate, which led efforts to defeat the measure in February. Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and GOP senators said they were punishing Delta Air Lines for ending fare discounts for members of the National Rifle Association.
Gov. Nathan Deal salvaged the tax exemption over the summer with an executive order. The law requires legislators to ratify that order now that the governor has called them back for a special session.
The version now before the legislature would expire when the fiscal year ends June 30.
More Georgia News Stories
by WSAV Staff / Jul 16, 2019
ATLANTA, Ga. (WSAV) - Protesters gathered outside of an immigration and customs office in Downtown Atlanta Monday calling for an end to planned immigration raids.
The demonstration was organized by a group of Jewish Americans who equate what is happening at the southern U.S. border detention centers with the encampment of Jews during World War II.
Georgia Southern University to host a Summer Celebration this week
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) - Georgia Southern University President Kyle Merrero and First Lady Jane Merrero hosted a summer celebration for the Eagle Nation on the Armstrong campus Monday.
As part of a longstanding tradition, dating back to 1948, attendees enjoyed freshly cut watermelon, other fruits and ice cream. The university said the event is a way to provide cool treats to students, faculty and staff who are still on campus during hot, summer months.
More units from 48th Brigade return home from deployment
by Danni Dikes / Jul 16, 2019
FORT STEWART, Ga (WSAV) - It is a heartwarming week for dozens of families whose loved ones are returning home from deployment.
A ceremony was held Monday night at Fort Stewart for the soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and their families. They were returning home from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.
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Episode 01: J.B.. as in Jailbird
Episode 02: A Little Night Work
Episode 03: Mr. Penroy's Vacation
Episode 04: Snow White, Blood Red
Episode 05: Coal Miner's Slaughter
Episode 06: Wearing of the Green
Episode 07: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
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Murder, She Wrote - Season 5, Episode 10: Weave a Tangled Web
Jessica Fletcher returns in a new season with new exciting cases that she tries to solve. The opening of the fifth season comes with a mysterious case about murdering an important Bulgarian diplomat. Jessica tries to do her best to discover the perpetrator.
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Actors Of "Murder, She Wrote - Season 5"
16 October 1925, Regent's Park, London, England, UK
28 September 1923, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Ron Masak
1 July 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 July 1956, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
1 October 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Will Nye
1 September 1953, USA
Ken Swofford
25 July 1933, Du Quoin, Illinois, USA
Julie Adams
17 October 1926, Waterloo, Iowa, USA
Herb Edelman
5 November 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Keith Michell
14 April 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
Richard Paul
6 June 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
Len Cariou
30 September 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gregg Henry
6 May 1952, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
James Sloyan
24 February 1940, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Rosanna Huffman
12 August 1938, Timblane, Pennsylvania, USA
Hallie Todd
7 January 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
Alexander Folk
30 May 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
Richard Beymer
20 February 1938, Avoca, Iowa, USA
George DiCenzo
21 April 1940, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
28 March 1944, El Centro, California, USA
Joe Dorsey
20 October 1935, New York City, New York, USA
Gregory Sierra
25 January 1941, New York City, New York, USA
Richardson Morse
Stephen Macht
1 May 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Barbara Babcock
27 February 1937, Fort Riley, Kansas, USA
John Astin
30 March 1930, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Mark Lindsay Chapman
8 September 1954, London, England, UK
29 September 1925, Huntsville, Texas, USA
Alan Fudge
27 February 1944, Wichita, Kansas, USA
William Lucking
17 June 1941, Vicksburg, Michigan, USA
Martin Milner
28 December 1931, Detroit, Michigan, USA
29 January 1947, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ian Ogilvy
30 September 1943, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
21 December 1928, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
James Sutorius
14 December 1944, Euclid, Ohio, USA
Allan Miller
14 February 1929, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 July 1941, New York City, New York, USA
Tricia O'Neil
11 March 1945, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Bruce Gray
7 September 1936, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wayne Rogers
7 April 1933, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Madlyn Rhue
3 October 1935, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Felicia Lansbury
Debbie Zipp
Lee Purcell
15 June 1947, Cherry Point, North Carolina, USA
Leonard Lightfoot
John Petlock
26 August 1934, Hammond, Indiana, USA
Robin Bach
28 December 1947, New Jersey, USA
Vince Howard
25 May 1926, Nelson, Georgia, USA
2 April 1947, South Dakota, USA
6 September 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Christine Belford
14 January 1949, Amityville, New York, USA
2 May 1924, Vienna, Austria
Susan Blakely
7 September 1948, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Frederick Coffin
16 January 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
5 October 1950, New York City, New York, USA
David Birney
23 April 1939, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Wings Hauser
12 December 1947, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 June 1937, South Bend, Indiana, USA
22 November 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Pat Harrington Jr.
13 August 1929, New York City, New York, USA
Robert Desiderio
9 September 1951, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1941, Dublin, Ireland
29 July 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
Harry Guardino
23 December 1925, New York City, New York, USA
Shea Farrell
21 October 1957, Cornwall, New York, USA
31 July 1935, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Laurence Luckinbill
21 November 1934, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
John McMartin
21 August 1929, Warsaw, Indiana, USA
John Karlen
28 May 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lenore Kasdorf
27 July 1948, Queens, New York, USA
14 February 1936, Jennings, Florida, USA
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Carol Lawrence
5 September 1932, Melrose Park, Illinois, USA
Michael McGrady
James Carroll Jordan
13 January 1950, Okinawa, Japan
21 February 1937, Van Nuys, California, USA
Monte Markham
21 June 1935, Manatee, Florida, USA
Taylor Nichols
3 March 1959, Lansing, Michigan, USA
18 May 1951, Mt Kisco, New York, USA
Mitchell Ryan
11 January 1928, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Eugene Roche
22 September 1928, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kristoffer Tabori
4 August 1952, Malibu, California, USA
31 January 1941, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
7 December 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Hubert Minnis addressing the contract signing ceremony between the Ministry of National Security and ShotSpotter Technology, a US -based company known for its technology in detecting gunshots being fired, almost immediately, in criminal activities. The ceremony was held at the SLS Baha Mar, Wednesday, January 23, 2019. (BIS Photo/Yontalay Bowe)
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Hubert Minnis said his Government will be relentless in its efforts in reducing crime for a safer and secure Bahamas. He was addressing the contract signing ceremony between the Ministry of National Security and ShotSpotter Technology, a US -based company known for its technology in detecting gunshots being fired, almost immediately, in criminal activities. The aim is to put a dent in criminal activities in The Bahamas involving illegal guns. The technology, which cost an estimated $1.9 million, is expected to come on stream before the end of this quarter. “In addition to such advanced gun-detection technology, we will employ other cutting-edge and effective technological and scientific advances to make our people and our country safer and more secure,” the Prime Minister said.
The ceremony took place at the SLS Baha Mar, Wednesday, January 23, 2019. Also present were the Minister of National Security the Hon. Marvin Dames; Stephanie Bowers, Charge d’Affaires of the US Embassy, Nassau; members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force; other Government officials and representatives from ShotSpotter Technology. The Prime Minister deemed the contract signing as another critical initiative in the Government’s strategy to making The Bahamas safer. “I am pleased that today we are fulfilling another promise to the Bahamian people of introducing gun detection technology to our crime- fighting arsenal,” he said.
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Hubert Minnis at the contract signing ceremony between the Ministry of National Security and ShotSpotter Technology, a US -based company known for its technology in detecting gunshots being fired, almost immediately, in criminal activities. The ceremony was held Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at the SLS Baha Mar on Cable Beach. He is pictured with the Hon. Marvin Dames, Minister of National Security. (BIS Photo/Yontalay Bowe)
ShotSpotter Technology is expected to come on stream before the end of this first quarter. This project will cost $1.9 million over a three-year period. It is anticipated that the technology may help to significantly reduce crime across the country. “I am very pleased that we will implement this innovative and highly-successful technology, the Prime Minister said. This advanced technology is also expected to aid in further decreasing gun violence and homicides. ShotSpotter has the capacity to increase gun-fire awareness by 500 per cent. The ShotSpotter Technology is known to utilize acoustic technology to identify when and where a gunshot is fired. This will lead to the more precise detection and location of incidents.
“Along with job creation, economic growth and our opportunity agenda, the safety and the security of citizens, residents and guests, is among the highest priorities of our government,” the Prime Minister said. The Police Force has recorded that last year the country experienced a 25 per cent decrease in homicides, the first time in nearly a decade. Plus, there was an overall decrease in crime of eight per cent. “These decreases are the result of very hard work, better policing and leadership, and a more comprehensive strategy to reduce crime,” the Prime Minister said. “This includes the use of advanced technology to prevent and to detect crime, and to apprehend and monitor criminals, and those who want to do harm and to commit crime.”
In this vein, he thanked the Minister of National Security, the Commissioner of Police and his leadership team, as well as the members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, for their “unyielding efforts in combating crime and protecting Bahamians, residents and visitors.” The Prime Minister said that while this is pleasing, there is still much work to be done to make the Bahamian people feel safer and more secure. “We must continue to work aggressively to reduce other crimes on people and property. We can never rest on our laurels in fighting crime and protecting the Bahamian people from criminal violence. We must do everything we can to protect Bahamians, residents and visitors,” he said.
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Article about Who Really Calls the Shots
Student Mon, 11/02/2009 - 6:34pm
covert criminal activity
I (Student) found this at Truthout. It speaks of 'deep' politics -- even if in a mild way -- more clearly than usual whether in mainstream or more alternative news.
What Obama Is Up Against
by: Russ Baker, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some areas than others. But one essential question goes unasked: How much can any president accomplish against the wishes of recalcitrant power centers within his own government?
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. Like an orchestra conductor or perhaps a football coach, he can inspire or bludgeon and get what he wants. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned. The Pentagon and CIA are powerful and independent fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. They are full of lifers, who see an elected president largely as an annoyance, and have ways of dealing with those who won't come to heel.
Compound that with the Bush-Cheney administration's aggressive seeding of its staunch loyalists throughout the bureaucracy, and you have a pretty tough situation. Obama, then, has to contend not only with the big donors and corporate lobbies. His biggest problem resides right inside his "team."
The internal battles between American presidents and their national security establishments are not much reported. But if it is an invisible game, it is also a devious and even deadly one. Our civilian leaders end up mirroring the chronically nervous chiefs of state of the fragile democracies to our south.
Those who do not kowtow to the spies and generals have had a bumpy ride. FDR and Truman both faced insubordination. Dwight Eisenhower, who had served as chief of staff of the US Army, left the White House warning darkly about the "military industrial complex." (He of all presidents had reasons to know.) John Kennedy was repeatedly countermanded and double-crossed by his own supposed subordinates. The Joint Chiefs baited him; Allen Dulles despised him (more so after JFK fired him over the Bay of Pigs fiasco), and Henry Cabot Lodge, his ambassador to South Vietnam, deliberately undermined Kennedy's agenda. Kennedy called the trigger-happy generals "mad" and spoke angrily to aides of "scattering the CIA to the wind." The evidence is growing that he suffered the consequences.
In the 1950s, the late Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, a high-ranking Pentagon official, was assigned by CIA Director Allen Dulles to help place Dulles's officers under military cover throughout the federal government. As a result, Dulles not only knew what was happening before the president did, but had essentially infiltrated every corner of the president's domain. One Nixon-era Republican Party official told me that in the early 1970s, there were intelligence officers everywhere, including the White House. Nixon was unaware of the true background of many of his trusted aides, particularly those who helped drive him from office. Remember Alexander Butterfield, the so-called "military liaison," who told Congress about the White House taping system? Years later, Butterfield admitted to CIA connections.
In December 1971, Nixon learned of a military spy ring, the so-called Moorer-Radford operation, that was piping White House documents back to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs were wary of secret negotiations the president and Henry Kissinger were conducting with America's enemies, including North Vietnam, China and the USSR, and decided to keep tabs on this intrusion upon their domain. Jimmy Carter came into office as revelations of CIA abuses made headlines. He tried to dismantle the agency's dirty tricks office, but wound up instead a victim of it - and a one-term president.
Those who avoided problems - Johnson, Reagan, Bush Sr. and Jr. - were chief executives that made no problems for the Pentagon and intelligence chiefs. All embraced military and covert operations, expanded wars or launched their own. The agile Bill Clinton was a special case - no babe in the woods, he focused on domestic gains and pretty much steered clear of the hornets' nest.
As for the Bushes, their ascension represented a seizure of power by the national security state itself. Their family had profited from arms manufacturing for decades. The patriarch, Prescott Bush, monitored US assassination plots against foreign leaders as a senator; and records indicate that the elder George Bush had been a secret agency operative for decades before he became CIA director - and then, 12 years later, president.
Obama seems to understand his narrow range of movement, and to be carefully picking his fights. He retained many of Bush's top military brass, and even Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who himself had served as a CIA director for Bush's father. He has trod very carefully with the spy agency, and has declined to aggressively investigate Bush administration wrongdoing on torture and wiretapping. Obama's campaign rhetoric about disengaging from Iraq seems a long time ago, and the war in Afghanistan is taking on the hues of permanency.
The old boys' network is very much in place, and it is hard at work to force Obama's hand, A la Vietnam. Witness the leaking of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's supposedly "confidential report" calling for escalation in Afghanistan. The leak was, not surprisingly, to the reliable Bob Woodward. The reporter was himself in Naval Intelligence shortly before he went to work at the Washington Post, where he soon built a career around leaks from the military and spy establishment. The White House was furious at the McChrystal release. But what could it do? Presidents come and go, and the security folks have ways to hasten the latter.
Covert alliances and payments to corrupt foreign allies continue, making creative diplomacy more difficult. In late October came a front-page story that the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, suspected of being a major figure in that country's opium trade, has been on the CIA's payroll for eight years. Anyone who finds this shocking should go back and read about the CIA and the drug trade in Southeast Asia.
Throughout its six-decade history, the CIA has resisted accountability, with even some of its own nonspook directors kept in the dark about the agency's most troubling activities. As for the public's elected representatives, Nancy Pelosi is the most recent in a long line of legislators to accuse the CIA of deliberately misleading Congressional overseers.
None of this is likely to change soon, and not without a huge fight. Half a century after Ike's famous admonition, conflict and intrigue remain the engine of our economy, and everyone from private equity firms to missile makers to car and truck manufacturers count on that to continue. The homeland security industry, the most recent head to grow on this hydra, is now seeking permanency.
So Barack Obama is boxed in. But so are the American people, and so, really, is democracy itself. Bringing this inconvenient truth out in the open is the essential first step toward taking back control of our government - and our future. For all the reasons laid out here, Obama will need help. He may, in the rote formulation, hold "the most powerful office in the world." However, the extent to which he controls the government he heads, is another matter.
Russ Baker is an investigative journalist and founder of the nonprofit reporting web site whowhatwhy.com. His latest book, "Family of Secrets: the Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years," now available in hardcover, will be published in paperback this fall. Gore Vidal calls it "one of the most important books of the past ten years."
http://www.truthout.org/11020910
Family of Secrets.
I just finished reading the book "Family of Secrets". I say it needs to be on the desks of students and teachers in every educational establishment.
Well done Russ Baker.
jduddy on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 10:13pm.
Getting his book in high schools
& colleges should be fun.
The writer seems very clued in & precise.
truthoverprofit on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 10:20pm.
Great book; very precise, very enlightening.
Mokeyboy on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:26am.
Must be better than...
Family of Secrets must be way better that House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. I read that about a year ago and I was pretty disappointed. For every connection he makes between Bush and the Royals, he has an apology for. Many along the lines that they were "indirect" connections through "third parties" that aren't as close to the Bush family as many would think. He completely downplays the role the Saudi money played in Arbusto Energy and how it was obtained and many more. There is still some good information in the book, so I recommend having it on hand.
I think I'll give Family of Secrets a try next.
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dtg86 on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 7:17am.
Student, thanks for this great post.
While knowing this is all true, it's good for me to be reminded regularly. I waffle between impatience that Obama just "make things right" while also knowing that if he tried they'd off him.
The shadow (i.e., real) government will allow him to change a few things - enough to fool and pacify but nothing that even threatens to rock the boat.
Student on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:06pm.
But it's not like he didn't know what he was getting into
In broad outline, I can't disagree with Baker's depiction of the state of the US government. However, I have to pause when I read him say, 'Obama will need help.' And I am reminded of how I felt about Obama supporters a year ago--that they were like young children lost in fantasy, projecting onto him whatever they wanted to see. Baker seems to want readers to see Obama as wanting what they themselves want. But I beg to differ. If free to maneuver, a president might well turn out to pursue better policies than those desired by entrenched national security bureaucrats. But how much better? Do they really seek a world that isn't managed by wealthy elites? Does Baker honestly think that Obama (and the powerful donors to his campaign) at any point wanted to end US militariazation of the Middle East and Central Asia? To repeal the Patriot Act or do away with the homeland security apparatus? Damned if I've seen any evidence of this, and it's not logical at all to suppose, 'Oh, he seems so nice, I'm sure he wants to change all of these things, he just can't.' To me, Obama's supporters represent a line of thought according to which we, the masses, should opt for one type of elite governance over another type. But what we should have learned is that the only antidote when a country is descending into fascism is democracy. Yet democracy--government that truly takes its marching orders from the mass of average citizens--is precisely what Washington doesn't want--ALL of them. And so, they continue to hope that the more extreme elements among them can be reined in without cuing the people into what's really going on, continuing to keep us in the dark.
Obama sought the job with a pretty good idea that he was going to be working for some big players. His job is to sell whatever Washington and Wall Street have to offer to the American people, and try to pass it off as somehow representing the people's will. And if he 'needs help' in doing so, he won't get any from me.
(Also, to say that Clinton 'opted for domestic gains and pretty much steered clear of the hornets' nest' is a copout, in my view, and, I suspect, a sop to Truthout's Democrat readership. He did the bidding of banking interests where Haiti and former Yugoslavia were concerned, and sustained murderous sanctions over Iraq.)
rm on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:56am.
Articles like this make me very concerned.
I believe those who supported Obama need to find an excuse for his actions. However Obama is a sociopath, like the majority of American presidents. That's why he seems 'nice'. The way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid them, or at least judge them by their actions. They are very good at manipulating people as they have practised it their whole life. They literally have no conscience. Other people are like pawns in life's great chess game. See Brzezinski, Obama's foreign policy adviser, here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperativ...
Sociopaths rise to the top of institutions because they can lie and manipulate emotions without fear of guilt.
There is no evidence to suggest Robert Gates was kept on because Obama was blackmailed. Likewise, it should not be seen as evidence of blackmail when the 'white house' is upset because pro-war documents are leaked.
At any point in time Obama could address the nation, describe the situation, and stop the war. He would find huge support from the public if he did this. He does not, and will not, because he doesn't want to.
I would have thought people like Russ Baker would know better..
influence device on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 6:19am.
"Change we can deceive in"
A listing of parallels
http://www.911blogger.com/node/19498
Obama has CIA connections?
THE STRANGE RISE OF OBAMA
http://prorev.com/2009/01/strange-rise-of-obama.html
His rise to power made clear he knew the rules of the Establishment's game and was a willing player- his cabinet picks and actions in office made it even clearer
Obama Mania by Stephen Lendman
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10876
Obama's Kettle of Hawks by Jeremy Scahill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/01/barack-ob...
http://911reports.com
http://www.historycommons.org
loose nuke on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 9:25am.
Guardian of lies
Thanks. After reading the Scahill piece, I found an adverticle posted today by William Leith in promotion of the sinister Mr. Ronsons' Hollywood goat fiasco:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/03/goats-in-literature
"When George Bush first heard the news about the 9/11 terrorist attack, he was reading a book TO a group of schoolchildren." (emphasis mine)
But that's not really true, he was staring into space like a gormless buffoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_rFXXz_44
Some interesting comments on the tube there. Note that when the footage ends, Bush is still sat down. He would go on to do a press conference in the school.
For what it's worth, Bush says he saw the plane hit before going into the classroom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZBmfRBv-Go
influence device on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:45pm.
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Why do you brand Ronson as "sinster"? I know he bags on the truth movement, but I find it far more likely that he is just mislead into doing so rather than intently working to mislead others. Having seen his "Crazy Rulers of the World" documentary, he seems like a well meaning, albeit gullible, guy. I highly recommend the documentary, both for insight into Ronson as well as the workings of our military.
KyleBisMe
Pavlovian Dogcatcher on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:25pm.
A dangerous fool
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Ronson is really sinister (I didn't know, but that apparently means evil). Maybe I should have called him 'mysterious'. I was actually trying to make him more amusing.
But I wouldn't trust anyone who had walked into Bohemian Grove and came out thinking there wasn't anything particularly sinister about that. Or who had courted 911 truth but now attacks the movement, for whatever reason.
Or, to some degree, who makes stupid movies about the CIA and goats.
The goats mentioned in the new film were part of a 'psychology experiment'. Could it be said that Pavlov is the father of this kind of pointless animal testing?
Ronson was chosen as he is arrogant but has a weedy little voice to make up for it. So he manages to sound meak yet condescending.
He has parodied truth at the Guardian for a long time.
I would recommend watching instead his visit to Randy Newman, which goes quite well considering.
influence device on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 10:34pm.
The goat experiments were done by the Army rather than the CIA, and is only a tiny fraction of what Ronson uncovered in his investigation. Again, he did good work with that, and it's well worth watching the documentary, and I'm guessing the book would be worth the read too. The Hollywood movie coming out soon is simply based on Ronson's work, and I doubt it will do it justice, though I'm still interested to see. As for not noticing the sinister nature of Bohemian Grove, I doubt most of the participants do, as it is entrenched in a "fun and games" type atmosphere that hides the ugly reality, much like the 19 hijackers is a more comforting explanation for what happened on 9/11 than whatever actually did. Such naivety is dangerous, but it doesn't prevent individuals from making helpful contributions to our society too, and Rosen's "Crazy Rulers of the World" has a lot of valuable information in it which I think everyone should take the time to digest. It was on Google video at one point, but I can only find torrent links now.
Pavlovian Dogcatcher on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 4:54pm.
Frankly I don't care which subsector of the MIC was involved. The point of Ronson is to mask the insanity. He is not explaining the working of the military to you. And the US military does far, far worse than indiscriminately kill animals. Hunters do that. You may argue that some people find this more indefensible than killing humans, but they are wrong. The point of covering the 'battlefield earth' research or whatever it was called (really, I don't care about the details) was to imply they have everyones best interests at heart (minimising casualties through unorthodox 'weapons'). Maybe watch 'goats' again with this in mind.
Furthermore, the military, political and business leaders at The Grove do not consider it 'Fun and Games' (however psychic you may feel). Nor do they have Jello and Ice cream after presents from Poppy Bush. In the day they discuss 'serious' matters like the next President. At night, they dress up as the KKK, perform mock(?) human sacrifice rituals, and celebrate the 'cremation of care'. They thus ritualise the theatre of death they create every day in the real world. That's right folks, the 'cremation of care' - note 911 Joe's perceptive comment below regarding empathy. For that matter, see my 'Doublethink' post above.
influence device on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 9:00am.
-1 vote
You are so wrong
Your assumptions about the Ronson's documentary make it flagrantly obvious that you've never seen it, yet you nonsensically spout on about it as if you had, and you completely ignore my point in regard to BG too. Put simply, you argue like a falser.
Pavlovian Dogcatcher on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 1:52pm.
Actually I've seen all the Ronson's films, at least twice. Why do you think he annoys me so much?
Here's the first Google link from 'jon ronson stare at goats':
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1934343,00.html
Yep, that's what I remember. The last paragraph is worth quoting in full..
Time: How do you think the military's strategy has changed in the five years since this book came out?
JR: I have no doubt that research in this field is still going on. Someone sent me this quote from General Stanley McChrystal about how we have to show the enemy our good side, and it seems very similar to passages in Channon's manual about sparkly eyes and baby lambs. I think it's rather nice the military would try out all this crazy stuff, because if the U.S. Army doesn't try this stuff, nobody's going to — and maybe something wonderful could come from of it. I don't want to sound all massively promilitary, but Jim always said that some of the most loving, kind people in the world are military people because they've seen how bad things can get.
I was attempting to address your BG point in my second paragraph. You believe the grove members are more comfortable seeing pseudo-satanic rituals as 'fun and games', and so they do.
You could use this argument *whatever* was taking place at the grove. The worse it was, the more convincing your argument might sound. But, you don't know what they are thinking, and if they are truly more comfortable with 'fun and games', why not stay home and play twister with the kids?
The OT believing public is bombarded with pro OT propaganda. Do you have any evidence of 'fun and games' propaganda at the grove that might work to offset that of hooded sacrificial ceremonies etc.?
influence device on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 5:18pm.
Obama is a sociopath
My God are you right id. They all are. None of them know the meaning of empathy.
9-11 Joe on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 10:33am.
Psychologist Martha Stout at Harvard seems to be heading in a productive direction on this issue.
Here is some criticism (and agreement) from Salon's letters page, regarding an interview about her second book, 'The Sociopath Next Door':
http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/letters/2005/03/28/speedsocio_letters/ind...
Her latest book is called 'The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage'. A comment on her only Huffington Post article chides her for not speaking out on 911 as being 'planned':
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-martha-stout/george-bushs-paranoia-war_...
There was a book written on how some serious mental problems shape history, that defined evil as a natural (as opposed to supernatural) phenomena.
http://www.ponerology.com
Indeed, our own David Ray Griffin has tackled the problem of evil in the past. He says this, along with studying logic and the history of science, may have been what allowed him to see 911 for what it was.
Yikes. Probably best to just kick back and relax, maybe watch an old classic :)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9005367754264973286#
Haven't seen that movie for years but....
Pass the sunglasses
Binkster on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 7:36pm.
Thank you student...
...and Thank You Russ Baker. This the grandfather of all "inconvenient truths". The overriding truth of our times that must be published as much as humanly possible. This "invisible government" is not so invisible if you just know where to look. I see it at work every day. It is the only logical explanation for so much of what Mr. Obama does and says, as well as for the behavior of most all of our "elected representatives". They all act like they are being blackmailed. Obama acts like a man who has been threatened with his life if he doesn't behave and follow orders. He has seen the Zapruder film. He has a loving wife and two beautiful girls. He likes to go home to them each evening. I just feel so doomed these days. Viet-Nam, Kennedy Assassination, Iran-Contra, Murrah Building, WTC 1993, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan.
Coming soon to a failed state near you, ---Iran, Syria, North Korea, Argentina--did I miss anything?
keymanwst on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:57am.
Thanks for the comment, KMW. For me it is like an unpleasant awakening, to see how little it matters who is in the White House. If it's any consolation, I also suspect it has never been otherwise in this nation.
I wonder what M.K. Gandhi would do in this situation? How do we face this particular beast? Some mass movement might do it, but what I wonder? Probably what we are doing, namely spreading 9-11 truth awareness.
Unpleasant awakening indeed...
...but but this is just what is needed. The more Americans that experience this unpleasant awakening, the better, assuming that you still believe that light still has the power to dispel darkness.
It is true that generally it matters little who occupies the Presidency, unless you get a real human being with innate virtue (and a sense of what this life is all about) with the courage to speak and act without fear. A JFK perhaps? An MLK? A Mohandas Gandhi? And what do they have in common?
McChrystal is testing, probing this Obama fellow to determine the best way to "handle" him. He has passed the smell test with the finance oligarchs in Wall Street (just look at his team!), but the military junta is still sniffing. They believe they can make him do most of the right tricks with the Endless War Program, but if he won't, they have a big problem (what with Michelle and the girls). It's so grim.
What would Gandhi do? I believe he would be talking truth like so many of us are attempting to do here on this blog. The power of knowledge and truth will eventually defeat The Beast (I keep telling myself). I do believe that 9/11 is the signature issue of our times. It gives us the most bang-for-the-buck. When you see the staunch determination not to investigate, ---witness the recent experience of NYCCAN, and the immense effort at disinformation and COINTELPRO, you know you are in the right place. If you pull on just one small thread of 9/11, the whole bloody sweater will unravel.
...and I stumbled upon this interesting news of Arun Gandhi.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/worldly_boston/2009/11/gandhis_grandson...
keymanwst on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:38pm.
I don't think Venezuela is a failed state, but they could be next.
Permaculturist on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:57pm.
Yes, actually I meant Venezuela.
I do mix those two occasionally. The Empire has Hugo Chavez in in the crosshairs but on the back burner for now--I believe.
Put very nicely.
peacefulwarrior on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 7:40am.
Russ Baker Will be Speaking-JFK Lancer Nov Dallas
http://www.jfklancer.com/dallas09/speakers.html
N Texas 9/11 Truth will have a table at this convention.
I'll give Baker a DELUXE collection of DVDs.
I've already presented DVD collections to:
Cindy Sheehan
Col Ann Wright
James Douglass
John Perkins
plus many others less notable
Joe on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 6:11am.
obama had to know - and avoidance of 9/11
that russ baker.. knowing what he knows about the family history of secrets.. could examine 9/11 for what it is.. especially because of 9/11 scientific research and what that shows.. and the history of steel-frame buildings that cannot descend at free fall speeds in the path of greatest resistance, straight down.. for this article not to mention what is used as the justification of why we are in afghanistan.. 9/11.. is somehow staying pigeon hold in our separate compartments..
in my opinion.. which we all do.. since we don't want to be told we are losing our focus in our area of specialized expertise.. but that is used to the advantage of the puppeteers, the shadow government.. as they pull this virus string, war strings, financial strings.. and say that none of it is inter-connected.. but it all is.
News fit to transmit in post Cassini flyby era
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jonathan mark on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 8:27am.
9/11/2001 not too surprising at all...
These are "the big boys" that we are up against.
So, is it really very surprising that events like 9/11 happen?
The gaggle of the powerful which Baker IDs wanted to take Brezinski's lead and get military outposts in the middle east-eastern europe...and they figured out a way to do it. Boldly.
So, when we keep peeling the 9/11 onion, we will end up with the powerbrokers that Baker has exposed.
Ironically, these power brokers would have no trouble executing another type of major psy-op event if they want to and I bet Obombya is reminded of this all the time.
Cheney is out being Cheney and getting away with the likes of "treason in the White House" over the Plame affair, and to me, gets face time on TV to remind us that they are still in control.
Refurbishing democracy and seeking peace seem our only tools to get back into the game...hence:
PUBLICALLY FUNDED ELECTIONS using HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS on a NEW PAID FEDERAL VOTING HOLIDAY...
9/11 TRUTH for World PEACE
Its either our world or theirs...we should continue to stand up for ourselves...
love, peace and progress...
Robin Hordon
Kingston, WA
Robin Hordon on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 9:13am.
Baker is just telling it like it is:
Family of secrets is a great book and the section about Bush I and the JFK connection was exceptional. I think he outlines exactly how any president can be cornered in his office. Obama is a salesman selling hope to the herd. He may turn out to have some latent humanitarian tendencies but I am not counting on it. It's a bad man's world and it's getting worse. I would say that Obama already has been compromised to some extent and I don't have too much faith that he will avoid the deep traps that will be set in his path along the road.
As the situation in the U.S. deteriorates he was picked to soft sell hope and try to maintain calm while the machine keeps running. Kind of like good cop bad cop.
peacefulwarrior on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 9:46am.
French tv debate
Off-topic: is there any news yet about last week's 9/11 truth debate on French national television ("France 2")?
VAB on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 1:49pm.
TV France debate
I was just viewing the debate at
http://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/medias/article/intox-sur-france-2-biga...
I've only seen the first few minutes so far, but according to a partial transcript on the site, when the topic of Harrit et al's nanothermite paper came up, the journalist Gattegno told a bit of a whopper. He claimed that the dust analyzed in the study was collected (preleve) between 2006 and 2008, many years after the event. How bold is that!! Too bad Harrit himself was uninvited ...
richardjohns on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 3:18pm.
I interviewed Russ on his excellent book, and highly recommend everyone read it. YOu can always come to my site, support the show, and listen to his and many other fabulous interviews. I recently loaned the book to a neighbor and she was FLOORED by what she read, and she WAS a Bush fan!
Meria
Producer/Host
The Meria Show
www.Meria.net
Meria on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 12:48pm.
MERIA! It is GREAT to have you posting here.
If Not Me? Who? If Not Now? When?
http://www.northtexas911truth.com/
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Weezer covers "No Scrubs" with Chilli, "Everybody Wants to Rule with World" with Tears for Fears at Coachella
ABC/Paula Lobo
Weezer performed a guest-filled set at Coachella on Saturday.
While playing their cover of TLC's "No Scrubs," Rivers Cuomo and company were joined by the girl group's Chilli on stage to sing alongside them. Additionally, Tears for Fears showed up for the Weeze's rendition of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
After their set, Weezer tweeted thank-yous to both Chilli and Tears for Fears.
"Thank you Chilli from @officialtlc for gracing our @coachella stage last night for 'No Scrubs!' Such an honor!," the band wrote, adding #Classof1995MTVAwards.
To Tears for Fears, Weezer wrote, "It was an honor and privilege to rock out 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' with @tearsforfearsmusic last night at @coachella!!"
Weezer's versions of "No Scrubs" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" both appear on the band's new covers album, the Teal Album, their surprise release from earlier this year.
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A Chorus in Miracles
Special Guest Host
Meet the "Double Dose Sisters"
DeeJazz and Hattie Mae
“DeeJazz”, born Dolores Justianian Jackson in Detroit, Michigan grew up in the glorious Motown era said, “Music was always present in our home. Mom was either playing the piano or playing records by Dinah Washington, The Drifters, Jr. Walker & the All Stars and other Motown greats. I was greatly influenced by my late Uncle Charles Victor Moore, who bought me my first piano. He was a renowned trumpet player and bandleader playing to crowds in Detroit, Canada and elsewhere. In fact he graced his musical presence with Count Basie and his band.”
Dolores began writing poetry in the second grade and was soon plucking the piano with songs she heard on the radio. She started creating melodies and wrote her first song at the age of 13 by combining her poems and her melodies.
When she was twelve years old her mom introduced her to metaphysics through a book titled “The Game of Life and How to Play It” by Florence Scovell Shinn. This was the beginning of her quest for spiritual knowledge. Seeing her interest, her sister Hattie began sharing her vast library of self-help and inspirational books with Dolores.
She honed her lyrical and composing skills over the next three decades, ultimately creating her internationally acclaimed CD "A Musical Messenger" in 2003. She received an endorsement from the esteemed Dr. Maya Angelou. After hearing her CD, Dr. Angelou invited DeeJazz to sing at Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar in New York City where Dr. Angelou stated, "DeeJazz is Unique and Impressive."
DeeJazz tells us that her goal in life is to achieve her highest potential by accomplishing what she was born to do: Sing, Write, Compose and Perform. She continues to share her inspirational messages on her sophomore CD “Music of Life” just released April 2009
For more than three decades Hattie Pembrook has facilitated classes and presented ideas that encourage, strengthen and inspire. At a low point in her career she found herself on welfare where she was required to take a motivational/self-help class geared toward employment. In one semester she went from a student in the class to being the teacher!
Using stories from her own life and the lives of her family, she authored the books “Messages to Awaken yourSelf’ and “Awaken to the Music of Life.” Both are companion texts to the powerful, inspirational CDs “A Musical Messenger” and “Music of Life” composed, produced and performed by her sister DeeJazz. In these insightful books Hattie expounds on the life lessons of the CDs.
Les Brown says, "Hattie Pembrook is one of the most insightful, provocative and talented facilitators in the field of Spiritual Consciousness Growth, teaching people methods that enrich and empower their personal lives."
Hattie is a contributing author to the book, “Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul” where she reveals the personal story of their interracial mother and the trials and triumphs she faced growing up mulatto in the 40’s and 50’s in Detroit.
DeeJazz says, “Hattie is a way-shower. Her love and understanding of spiritual ideas is an illuminating doorway on the journey of awakening.”
Hattie is a sought after speaker and can be reached at: aChorusinMiracles@gmail.com
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AgustaWestland's AW189 helicopter Search and Rescue variant achieves EASA certification
Saab wins logistic support contract for Brazil's future Gripen NG fighter aircraft
Posted On Friday, 19 December 2014 11:51
World Defense & Security Industry News - Saab
Defence and security company Saab and the Brazilian Ministry of Defence, through the Air Force Aeronautics Command (COMAER), have signed a contract for Gripen NG contractor logistics support (CLS). The total order value is SEK 548 million ($71 mn). The order is expected to be booked by Saab in 2021.
Brazil's future JAS 39 Gripen NG fighter aircraft
(Computer picture)
The CLS contract includes continuous maintenance and support services for the Gripen NG aircraft, and their associated equipment, that will be delivered to Brazil during the five years between 2021 and 2026. The CLS services will be provided to COMAER by Saab and its Brazilian partners.
”This contract secures the Gripen NG logistics support solution for Brazil. It is also an important part of Saab's commitment to deliver the Gripen NG system to the Brazilian Air Force,” says Ulf Nilsson, Head of business unit Gripen within Saab’s business area Aeronautics.
The CLS contract is supplementary to the main contract with Brazil covering development and production of 36 Gripen NG aircraft, which was announced on 27 October 2014. The CLS contract will come into effect once certain conditions linked to the main contract – such as the delivery of aircraft - have been fulfilled.
This improved version following on from the Gripen Demo technology demonstrator. Changes from the JAS 39C/D include the more powerful F414G engine, Raven ES-05 AESA radar, increased fuel capacity and payload, two additional hardpoints, and other improvements.
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JGCalendar
File photos New Haven Canal Days continues today and Saturday.
Germanfest continues this weekend at Headwaters Park, featuring the wiener dog races, grape stomp and polka dancing on Saturday.
Little River Wetlands will have its Urban Turtle Festival on Sunday, featuring family activities to learn about the marsh’s turtles.
Friday, June 07, 2019 1:00 am
Ride Around the Lakes – Registration at 10:30 a.m., ride begins at 11:30 a.m.; motorcycle ride around Gage, James, Crooked and Jimmerson lakes; benefits Charis House; $20 per bike, $25 with passenger; 50/50 raffle; starts at Meijer, 2990 N. Wayne St., Angola.
R.C. Sproul Jr. – Author of “Growing Up with R.C.”; 1 to 4 p.m.; Barnes & Noble, Jefferson Pointe, 4140 W. Jefferson Blvd.
The Comedy Magic Show with Jamahl Keys – Fort Wayne Comedy Club, 2104 S. Calhoun St.; 7:15 p.m. show, $15 advance, $20 day of show; 9:45 p.m. show, $20 advance, $25 day of show; www.fortwaynecomedyclub.com.
Legion Dance – Melvin Mullins; 7 p.m.; American Legion Post 296, 130 W. Tillman Road; $5; open to public; 456-2988.
Dance with Dave Cowdrey – 8 p.m.; lesson, 7:30 p.m.; Anchor Room Dance Studio, 7145 Indiana 1 N., Ossian; $10 a person; 260-622-6644.
Singles Dance – 6 to 9:30 p.m.; American Legion Post 47, 601 Reed Road; $8; DJ, cash bar, potluck.
ALL WEEKEND
Germanfest – 10:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. today and Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday; Headwaters Park pavilion; 2 p.m. Saturday, Weinerdog Nationals, 6 p.m. Trauben Tromp (grape stomp) and 7 p.m. polka; free admission before 2 p.m.; after 5 p.m. $5, $2 for ages 2 to 5; for other events and activities, go to germanfest.org.
TODAY AND SATURDAY
New Haven Canal Days – Downtown New Haven; also, Arts and Crafts Show from 4 to 9 p.m. today and Saturday at Schnelker Park; for more information on events and times, go to newhavencanaldays.org.
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum – Classic, antique and special-interest cars; 1600 S. Wayne St., Auburn; hours and cost, 260-925-1444 or www.automobilemuseum.org.
Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory – “Migrations” live butterfly exhibit, ends July 7; 1100 S. Calhoun St.; $5 adults, $3 ages 3-17, free ages 2 and younger; hours, 427-6440 or www.fortwayneparks.org. Bonsai Show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The History Center – 302 E. Berry St.; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and first Sunday of the month; 426-2882 or www.fwhistorycenter.com.
Science Central – 1950 N. Clinton St.; $9 ages 3-64, $8 ages 65 and older, free members 2 and younger; hours, 424-2400 or www.sciencecentral.org.
Veterans National Memorial Shrine and Museum – “The Great War: From Ration Lines to the Front Lines,” Indiana Historical Society traveling exhibit; 2122 O'Day Road; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; exhibit ends June 13.
National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States – “Cars and Trucks Like You Used to Own”; adjacent to Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum; hours and cost, 260-925-9100, www.natmus.org.
National Military History Center – Batmobile items, “Dukes of Hazzard” car General Lee, two “Knight Rider” cars, World's Monster Truck Hall of Fame, a Dale Earnhardt car; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; 5634 County Road 11-A, Auburn; $10, free ages 6 and younger; 260-927-9144 or www.nationalmilitaryhistorycenter.org.
Northeastern Indiana Racing Museum – Inside National Military History Center and Kruse Automotive Museum, Auburn; open daily, hours and cost, 316-0966 or ksplace1@frontier.com.
Sauder Village – 22611 Ohio 2, Archbold, Ohio; $18 adults, $12 ages 6-16, free ages 5 and younger; hours, 800-590-9755 or www.saudervillage.org; through Oct. 27.
The Old Jail Museum – World War II exhibit through November; 121 N. Indiana St., Warsaw; hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; free admission; www.kosciuskohistory.com.
Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum – On display, 1932 Ford chassis, donated Lincoln-Zephyr Continental Cabriolet; 2181 General Doolittle Drive, Auburn; hours, 260-927-8022 or www.fordv8foundation.org.
“Celebration of the Arts and Artists” – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; John Paulding Historical Society Museum, 600 Fairground Drive, Paulding, Ohio; ends June 15.
Little River Ramblers Nature Hike – Sponsored by Little River Wetlands Project; 9 to 11 a.m.; meet at Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road; free; 478-2515 or info@lrwp.org.
Trek the Trails – 6 p.m.; 8-mile bike ride; Tillman Park trailhead, parking lot near the softball diamonds, 7500 S. Hanna St.; free.
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo – Shark conservation area, stingray touch pool, giraffes and lions; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; 3411 Sherman Blvd.; $15 ages 19-61, $10 ages 2-18, $12 ages 62 and older, free ages 1 and younger; 427-6800 or www.kidszoo.org.
Historic West Main Street Farmers Market – 3 to 8 p.m.; 1936 W. Main St.; operated by the Nebraska Neighborhood Association; through Oct. 11.
South Side Farmers Market – 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 3300 block of Warsaw Street, between Oxford and Pontiac streets; www.southsidefarmersmarket.com; ends Dec. 21.
Fort Wayne Food Tours – 3 p.m.; downtown food and history walking tours; $60; www.fortwaynefoodtours.com; ends Sept. 30.
YLNI Farmers Market – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; corner of Barr and Wayne streets; ends Sept. 28.
Fort Wayne's Farmers Market – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; corner of Wayne and Barr streets.
Fort Wayne Air Show – Flying begins at noon; features U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds; 122nd Fighter Wing Air National Guard, 3005 W. Ferguson Road; free; for schedule, go to fwairshow.com.
Living History: Siege of Fort Wayne – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday; Old Fort, 1201 Spy Run Ave.; free, but donations accepted; www.oldfortwayne.org.
Buster Keaton silent black-and-white film series – Features organist Cletus Goens on the Grand Page Pipe Organ; “The General”; 3 p.m.; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; $10.
Urban Turtle Festival – Hosted by Little River Wetlands Project; 1 to 5 p.m.; family festival to learn about marsh turtles; Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road; free.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Shipshewana Flea Market – 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; 345 S. Van Buren St., Shipshewana; Shipshewanafleamarket.com; ends Sept. 25.
Nature Play Days – 1 to 5 p.m.; Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, Wolf Lake; explore ponds, create nature crafts, hike; free; www.goshen.edu/merrylea.
Decatur Farmers Market – 4 to 7 p.m.; along First Street in downtown Decatur; events on Facebook page.
Hot Rod Power Tour – Noon to 7 p.m.; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; free admission.
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Go to deviantart
Search for your favorite book
Bring back something to share with the class
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>thundersqueak, my blunder squeak, my give in but don't go under squeak
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Better than expected.
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So /lit/, what is the greatest poem, play, and novel of all time.
The big three.
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Novel: Ulysses
Poem: The Waste Land
Play: Volpone
poem - le bateau ivre
play - romeo and juliet
novel - moby dick
Hamlet for all three
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how many hours a day do you think good authors spend writing
i'm a good writer
As much as needed.
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are there any books where there are tons of non sequitur and it almost feels like looking inside the mind of a schizo?
Diary desu my
Henri Michaux very much. But it seems that "A Certain Plume" is not even available in English. Very unfortunate.
Daniil Kharms is similar.
ps: What the hell is that in the upper right corner of OP pic?
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Everyone except for Pierre and Boris are blowhards.
Fight me
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Mary is best character
Sonya second best
Mary x Sonya slashfiction when
>Mary is best character
>Sonya second best
Mary was annoying
>She's ugly but when she gets sad she's beautiful and by the end of the book she is Natasha tier beautiful.
andre is pretty much /lit/, except /lit/ has no war to go and try to lose their anomie in
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Is Atlas Shrugged a good read?
>muh objectivism
No. I read only it so I could understand references to it.
Noodle Bro 2016-03-26 22:42:30 Post No.7854838
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I am reading it rn. I dont understand why people think of of it as a meme book. Its quite a read holding my attention so far. At least much better than my two previous reads which was the Republic and the War of The Worlds.
Read it desu, you will read it sooner or later, so do it sooner
I hear the 50 page John galt speech was a bit much.
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You are locked in a padded cell with an author of your choice for a week
Who is it and what things do you do together
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I pick Sadie and we'd have sex for a week straight
I pick Angela Carter and we'd have sex and write erotic fiction for a week straight.
Laurie Penny and I would just constantly harass and cajole her until she let me eat her giant fat ass.
Why do /lit/ hate this novel so much? 2016-03-26 04:48:31 Post No.7852620
Why do /lit/ hate this novel so much? Anonymous 2016-03-26 04:48:31 Post No. 7852620 [Report] [View thread]
I'm half way in and I'm loving it.
because americunt education system forces them to read it.
because it's extremely popular, iconic, and actually has significant literary merit
Fuck off, faggot.
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I'm trying not to be an MRA and understand where liberals/social marxists are coming from.
Are there any good feminist books? I'm trying to seriously challenge my beliefs.
Modern feminists don't read or right just like modern reactionaries.
Since liberals dominate the academic community, surely they have some good literature to explain their viewpoints.
You can't tell me they all get their information from tumblr and Laci Green.
The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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Any English majors here
what are you doing career wise?
Subway Sandwich Artist
I'm the guy who wraps little pieces of tape around shoelaces
Man, every time I read something by Bertcuck Rustled, it's just a comedy goldmine.
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Why doesn't he branch out of YA?
Because he can't...
For one, YA is extraordinarily profitable. John Green probably has an eight figure net worth, at least, thanks to all the YA he's written.
Second, what >>7857904 said. He's fairly limited. He writes good teenagers, but he can't fathom adults. He can't fathom actual children, either. Notice how all the children in John Greene books are unbearable. All he can write is smarter-than-average teenagers. This is because Greene himself essentially has the mind and the makeup of a smarter-than-average teenager. He's very clever and witty, but he's not really an adult. He can only write what he knows, and he doesn't really know anything more than YA. When I say 'know,' I'm using it in a very fundamental way.
Do we have a chart for essential texts (books, essays) for climate change? If not, can we make one? I have legitimately no idea where to start.
that is tin foil hat shit, and you know it.
This site is right winged. Climate change is not a topic discussed here very often.
Also, Spotted the redditor
Changing of the Seasons
Now that'd be a theme worth charting.
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>Not taking notes
>the Iliad is the hot new young adult book of this season
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>taking basic shit level notes
>acting like this is something you invented
>kys
>implying anybody else on /lit/ bothers with notes
How to adapt a midwestern accent /lit/?
I'm tired of sounding like a retard when speaking english with my awful euro accent
okay thanks for the thread you can go now.
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You should be trying for based transatlantic, fuck midwestern, its boring.
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Is military history literature's comfiest and most hidden treasure?
So hidden nobody wants to reply to this thread
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SGM Eric Haney wrote a book about his time in a counter-terror unit that while being alternating flavors of hilarious and sad, remains through and through 'comfy'.
are all I have read. the naked and the dead sucked harddd
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Williamson Named President for Arvest Bank in Springdale, Ark.
Thursday, May 19 at 06:15 AM
Kent Williamson succeeds Lisa Ray who was recently promoted.
SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Arvest Bank has announced that Kent Williamson was named president and chief executive officer of Arvest Bank in Springdale starting on May 1, 2016. His promotion follows Lisa Ray's move to regional executive for Arvest Bank Group.
Williamson has served as the loan manager for Arvest Bank in Springdale since 1999. He joined Arvest as a commercial banker in 1992 after working as a bank examiner for the Arkansas Bank Department since 1989.
"Kent's proven leadership skills, strong community service, broad knowledge and experience in banking, and his commitment to offering exceptional customer service have served Arvest and the community well during his 24 years at Arvest in Springdale" said Lisa Ray, regional executive for Arvest. "Kent is well-respected by co-workers and customers, and his track record of overseeing the Springdale bank's loan staff while maintaining asset quality made him the natural choice for the president position."
Ray's promotion from Arvest Springdale's president to regional executive was prompted by the April 30 retirement of 30-year Arvest executive, Cliff Gibbs.
“The Springdale Arvest family has great leadership at every level and truly cares about our customers. I am grateful for the opportunity to help lead our bank as we continue to help our customers find their financial solutions for life,” Williamson said.
Williamson is a Paragould native who earned his Bachelor of Science in finance and banking at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1988. He has also graduated from National Commercial Lending School at the University of Oklahoma in Norman in 1994 and the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1997.
He was a member of the Army National Guard’s 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, rising to operations sergeant, from 1984 to 1991. He served with the brigade as operations sergeant during Operations Desert Storm from 1990 to 1991.
Williamson has extensive community service, including current service on the board for the United Way of Northwest Arkansas. He previously served on the boards of the Springdale Kiwanis, where he was president in 2002, and received the George F. Hixson Award in 2007; Springdale Public Schools Education Foundation; Partners in Education; Springdale Chamber of Commerce; Arkansas Aviation Technology Center where he also served as chairman; and the Washington County Library Board. He is a graduate of Leadership Springdale, Class III.
Williamson is married to Kelley Williamson, a business teacher at Springdale High School. They have a son, Paul, and a daughter, Anna. The family attends Cross Church in Springdale.
Tim Beaver on 5/27/2016 at 9:54 PM
Congratulations Kent!! Really happy for you buddy! Wish you continued success!!
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Argentina Boxing Promotions WBO Latino Promoter of the Year
Home / Featured / Argentina Boxing Promotions WBO Latino Promoter of the Year
November306/06/2019
After a year of intense work, Argentina Boxing Promotions, from Mario Margossian, once again received the price of Latino Promoter of the Year by the World Boxing Organization (WBO), honour obtained for the eight time, during the 31st WBO Anual Convention that took place at El Panamá Hotel, Convention and Casino in Panama City, Panama.
During a gala dinner held on Thursday night at the Bella Vista Saloon, led by the president of the organization, the Puerto Rican Francisco “Paco” Valcárcel, along with the WBO Latino president, the Argentinean Jorge Molina, and the rest of the entity’s Executive Committee, Margossian was once again recognized with the award. In addition to the intense work carried out with the entity, the company was the one taht promoted the largest number of Latino titles, with a total of ten bouts, during the annual period between the last two conventions. Thus, the company was recognized once again with the same award that was distinguished in the conventions held by the WBO in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, in addition to receiving the distinction of Female Latino Promoter of the Year in 2011 and 2013, among other recognitions, in an environment surrounded by the main figures of the pugilistic universe.
In this way, the company that holds the second position as a current promoter with more boxing events produced worldwide (only behind the American Top Rank) according to the specialized site BoxRec.com, promotes and manages a great deal of fighters who conquered the Latino titles and are ranked world lists of the WBO, and who dream of having a world title opportunity.
“I have always said the WBO is our home, because that is the way they make us feel. We work hard day by day with the aim of continue promoting stars and new world champions. With the permanent support of the WBO, everything becomes much easier”, stated Margossian, who added: “I deeply thank ‘Paco’ for his support, as well as Jorge Molina and the WBO as a whole. Working with this organization has always been a pleasure. It is an honor to have received the awards they have given us, which symbolize the effort and dedication of our company, but above all things are another motivation to continue going day after day for more “.
Also, Argentina Boxing Promotions’ head continued: “Together with the WBO we have obtained the greatest results. The awards are an incentive to continue the daily work, as we have done for over seventeen years. The WBO knows the enormous pleasure that we get from working with them. But the main important are our fighters, who are the true stars of our success”.
The company led by Margossian represents the following boxers currently listed in the WBO world rankings:
Luis Verón (16-0, 8 KOs): WBO Latino welterweight champion and #7 WBO.
Marcelo Cóceres (25-0-1, 13 KOs): WBO Latino middleweight champion and #14 WBO.
Wenceslao Mansilla (14-5-1, 6 KOs): WBO Latino supper middleweight champion and #11 WBO.
Sebastián Aguirre (16-3, 10 KOs): WBO Latino junior welterweight champion and #15 WBO.
The close relationship between the World Boxing Organization and Argentina Boxing Promotions goes back to a vast joint history in which the company has taken fighters to conquer the WBO world titles to boxers such as Omar Narváez, Fernanda Alegre, Maria Elena Maderna, among others, as well as countless fighters who have won the WBO Latino belts, as well as have received the awards for Latino Boxer of the Year, and who have grown in their careers together with both.
Even more, before the end of the year, the company will promote a number of WBO titles, to end another great season of this consolidated and united relationship, which in the following years promises to go further more.
Sequeira defeated Galovar in a war in Mar del PlataArgentina Boxing Promotions launches new website
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Prince Threatens to Leave ‘Divided’ CNRP
Thread: Prince Threatens to Leave ‘Divided’ CNRP
Prince Sisowath Thomico, a prominent CNRP official and the only member of the royal family openly aligned with the opposition, threatened on Friday to leave the party if fundamental changes were not made in the coming months.
“I’m threatening to leave the CNRP if there are not reforms of the way it is run and organized,” Prince Thomico said.
“There are a number of issues that nobody dares to cope with,” he added. “The main issue is division. Behind the unity of Kem So*kha and Sam Rainsy, everything else is divided and this is not acceptable. We need to find a way to unite if we are going to win the coming elections.”
The comments come after Kem Monivithya, a senior party official and the daughter of Mr. Sokha, the CNRP’s acting president, publicly mocked party leader Sam Rainsy for not returning to the country in a series of tweets over the past two weeks.
“It’s just a symbol of the lack of communication within the party,” Prince Thomico said of the public squabbling. “We are not working as a party. We are working as individuals, which is not the way to run a party, especially if we want to rule the country.”
Prince Thomico said he would raise his concerns at a CNRP steering committee next week, and hoped that others in the party would be receptive. If the issues were not addressed, he said the party had no chance at the 2018 national election.
“As long as it remains as it is, there is no chance for the CNRP to win the next election,” the prince said, adding that the structure of the party was fine, but that effective organizing continued to be stifled by division and the pursuit of personal interests.
“If there is no reform, I see there is no reason to stay in the party. The decision will come in the next few months,” he said.
The CNRP was formed in 2012 with the merger of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party and Human Rights Party, founded and led by Mr. Sokha. However, the pair is now physically separated, with Mr. Rainsy officially exiled from the country earlier this month, and Mr. Sokha barred from leaving Cambodia due to a court case widely seen as being politically motivated.
Yim Sovann, the head of the CNRP’s executive committee and a party spokesman, said that there were naturally disagreements among opposition officials, but that the party remained united by common interests.
“It is like having a family dinner,” he said of disputes within the party. “The mother wants to go to suki soup, the father wants to go to a beer garden, the children want to go somewhere else, but they all go to the same place in the end. That is called democracy.”
Mr. Sovann said he did not understand where Prince Thomico’s criticism was coming from.
“I think the unity is still there—the common objective, the common political will, the common interests of the people,” he said. “There are some differences that can be solved peacefully.”
The spokesman said that as a symbol of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk and King Norodom Sihamoni, the prince was an important figure in the party, and that the party would be receptive to his concerns.
“We all welcome advice and recommendation to be raised in the meetings,” he said. “But if nobody supports you, accept that. Finally you have to respect the majority.”
Ou Virak, head of the Future Forum public policy think tank, said there was no doubt that the opposition party needed to be more professional from the top down.
“I think Prince Thomico is right in pointing out that some personalities tend to dominate the opposition,” he said. “If you look at the party, you see a party of strong men but not strong institutions.”
Mr. Virak said the opposition needed to improve its ability to put forth strong policy proposals, make strategic decisions and, most importantly, both raise funds and spend them effectively.
Still, he said, the CNRP was in a strong position ahead of the 2018 election due to the same thing that drove its success in 2013—dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Hun Sen and the ruling party.
“They can still run on frustration and problems in society that are made much more obvious with the spread of smartphones, the internet, social media and all that,” he said. “That reality is still there and will only be more so in 2018.”
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Biography – INGERSOLL, LAURA (Secord) – Volume IX (1861-1870) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
INGERSOLL, LAURA (Secord), heroine; b. 13 Sept. 1775 in Great Barrington, Mass., eldest daughter of Thomas Ingersoll and Elizabeth Dewey; d. 17 Oct. 1868, at Chippawa (Niagara Falls, Ont.).
When Laura Ingersoll was eight, her mother died, leaving four little girls. Her father remarried twice and had a large family by his third wife. In the American War of Independence, Ingersoll fought on the rebel side, but in 1795 he immigrated to Upper Canada where he had obtained a township grant for settlement. His farm became the site of the modern town of Ingersoll. He ran a tavern at Queenston until his township (Oxford-upon-the-Thames) was surveyed. Within two years, about 1797, Laura married James Secord, a young merchant of Queenston. He was the youngest son of a loyalist officer of Butler’s Rangers, who had brought his family to Niagara in 1778. James and Laura Secord were to have six daughters and one son.
They lived first at St Davids but soon settled in Queenston. Early in the War of 1812, James, a sergeant in the 1st Lincoln militia, was wounded in the battle of Queenston Heights and was rescued from the battlefield by his wife. The following summer, when neither side had a firm hold of the Niagara peninsula, Laura heard on 21 June 1813, probably by listening to the conversation of some American officers dining at her house, that the Americans intended to surprise the British outpost at Beaver Dams and capture the officer in charge, Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. It was urgent that someone warn FitzGibbon and, since James was disabled, Laura resolved to take the message herself early the next morning.
The distance to the outpost by direct road was 12 miles but Laura feared she would encounter American guards that way and chose a roundabout route. She went first to St Davids where she was joined by her niece, Elizabeth Secord, and then to Shipman’s Corners (St Catharines). Elizabeth became exhausted and Laura continued alone, uncertain of the way but following the general direction of Twelve Mile Creek through fields and woods. That evening, after crossing the creek on a fallen tree, Laura came unexpectedly on an Indian encampment. She was frightened, but after she explained her mission to the chief he took her to FitzGibbon. Two days later, on 24 June 1813, an American force under Colonel Charles Boerstler was ambushed near Beaver Dams by some 400 Indians led by Dominique Ducharme* and William Johnson Kerr*. FitzGibbon then persuaded Boerstler to surrender with 462 men to his own 50 men. In the official reports of the victory no mention was made of Laura Secord.
The Secords lived in poverty in the postwar years until 1828 when James, who had received a small pension because of his war wound, was appointed registrar, then judge (in 1833), of the Niagara Surrogate Court. In 1835 he became collector of customs at Chippawa. He died in 1841 leaving Laura without financial resources. She ran a school for children in her Chippawa cottage for a brief period. Petitions to the government for a pension and other favours were unsuccessful.
Laura Secord was 85 before she achieved wide public recognition for her heroic deed. While visiting Canada in 1860, the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) learned of Laura’s 20-mile walk. She had prepared a memorial for the prince describing her war-time service, and she also had placed her signature among those War of 1812 veterans who presented an address to him. After Albert Edward returned to England, he sent Mrs Secord a reward of £100. She died in 1868, at the age of 93, and was buried beside her husband in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls.
Laura Secord became celebrated as a heroine in history, poetry, and drama, after 1860. Legends grew; the favourite was that she had taken a cow with her on her walk, for camouflage, and that she had milked it in the presence of American sentries before leaving it behind in the woods. In fact, Mrs Secord never mentioned a cow and it is unlikely that she encountered an American sentry. William F. Coffin* apparently invented the episode for his book 1812, the war and its moral (1864). According to another story, Laura had walked through the woods at night, on her bare feet. But she herself said, “I left early in the morning,” and though she may have lost a slipper in the woods or fields, she was far too sensible to have started out barefoot. Her popular fame was such that two monuments were erected in her honour, one at Lundy’s Lane in 1901, the other on Queenston Heights in 1910. Her portrait was hung in the parliament buildings at Toronto, and a memorial hall was established in the Laura Secord School at Queenston.
Some 20th century historians, however, have questioned her place in history. For example, W. Stewart Wallace* in The story of Laura Secord: a study in historical evidence (1932) concluded from the available documents that Mrs Secord had undoubtedly taken a message to FitzGibbon, probably on 23 June, but that she had arrived too late for her information to be of value. Lieutenant FitzGibbon had said in his report on the battle of Beaver Dams: “At [John] De Cou’s this morning, about seven o’clock, I received information that . . . the Enemy . . . was advancing towards me . . . .” It was argued that this information, brought by Indian scouts, was Fitzgibbon’s first warning. Wallace also cited a certificate written by FitzGibbon in 1837 testifying that Mrs Secord had brought warning of an American attack; unfortunately FitzGibbon gave no specific date, and he wrote, he said, “in a moment of much hurry and from memory.”
The puzzle of the chronology and of Laura’s role in the events was solved when two earlier testimonials came to light, both written by FitzGibbon, in 1820 and 1827, to support petitions the Secords had made to the government. In the 1827 certificate, FitzGibbon said that Mrs Secord had come “on the 22d day of June 1813,” and that “in consequence of this information” he had placed the Indians in a position to intercept the Americans. Thus he made it clear that Laura’s warning had indeed made the victory possible at Beaver Dams. It was a significant victory, and for her part in it Laura Secord became justly known as the heroine of the War of 1812.
Laura Secord typified pioneer women in her courage, endurance, and resolution in the face of adversity. FitzGibbon remembered her as a person of “slender frame and delicate appearance,” but underneath was a strong and persistent will.
Ruth McKenzie
[The main documentary evidence of Laura Secord’s heroic deed is found in the petitions she and her husband made to the government and in three certificates by James FitzGibbon, all now at the PAC. The petitions are in MG 24, 175 (n.d.); RG 5, A1, 46, pp.22844–45; 108, pp.61567–68; C1, 52, no. 3157; 59, no. 222; and the FitzGibbon certificates are in RG 5, A1, 46, p.22487 (1820); 84, pp.45661–63 (1827); C1, 82, no.2880 (which encloses the 1837 certificate). Laura Secord’s memorial to the Prince of Wales in 1860 is in RG 7, G23, 1, file 2. Official reports of the battle of Beaver Dams are in RG 8, I (C series), 679, pp.132–41. In PAO, Misc. 1933, is “The story of Laura Ingersoll Secord, wife of Captain James Secord, as related by Laura Secord Clark, grand-daughter of Laura Secord to Mrs. George S. Henry.”
Laura Ingersoll’s birth and marriage records are missing but the approximate date of her marriage is known from circumstantial evidence. Two birth dates appear in biographies and family histories – 13 Sept. and 19 Dec. 1775. The former was confirmed as correct by Mrs Secord’s granddaughter, Laura Louise Smith, in E. J. Thompson, “Laura Ingersoll Secord,” Niagara Hist. Soc., [Pubs.], no.25 (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., 1913), 10.
Among the published material are two letters Laura Secord wrote about her walk to Beaver Dams, the first for Gilbert Auchinleck, in “A history of the war between Great Britain and the United States of America, during the years 1812, 1813, & 1814,” Anglo-American Magazine (Toronto), III (1853), 467n (the series of articles appeared as a book under the same title (Toronto, 1862; repr. London, 1972); and the second for B. J. Lossing, now in PAC, MG 24, K2, 13, pp.396–98, an edited version of which is in B. J. Lossing, The pictorial field-book of the War of 1812 . . . (New York, 1869), 621n. Charles B. Secord related his mother’s deed in a letter to the Church, 18 April 1845. W. F. Coffin, 1812, the war and its moral; a Canadian chronicle (Montreal, 1864), 146–53, first introduced Laura Secord as a heroine. The Niagara Mail (Niagara, Ont.) reported on the prince’s gift to Mrs Secord, 27 March, 3 April 1861, and on her death, 17 Oct. 1868. The best of the early biographies is E. A. [Harvey] Currie, The story of Laura Secord, and Canadian reminiscences (Toronto, 1900; St Catharines, Ont., 1913). W. S. Wallace, The story of Laura Secord: a study in historical evidence (Toronto, 1932), raises questions about Mrs Secord’s contribution. Ruth McKenzie, Laura Secord, the legend and the lady (Toronto and Montreal, 1971), reassesses the evidence and Laura Secord’s place in history. r.m.]
COFFIN, WILLIAM FOSTER (Vol. 10)DUCHARME, DOMINIQUE (Vol. 8)FitzGIBBON, JAMES (Vol. 9)KERR, WILLIAM JOHNSON (Vol. 7)BISSHOPP, CECIL (Vol. 5)CARNOCHAN, JANET (Vol. 15)CARTWRIGHT, RICHARD (Vol. 5)DeCOW, JOHN (Vol. 8)More
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Ruth McKenzie, “INGERSOLL, LAURA (Secord),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ingersoll_laura_9E.html.
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Goa | The Traveler’s Nest
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State Animal: Gaur
Population: 3.34952 Million
Official Languages: Konkani and Marathi
Area: 3,702 km2
Sun, sea, sand, seafood, spices and spirituality; Goa is the kaleidoscopic mixture of all these along with Indian and Portuguese culture. The smallest state of India is like a powerhouse of everything that a traveler wishes for, with its exotic beaches, trance parties, cultural heritages, rocky hills, old buildings, thriving nightlife, casinos and adventure sports. Goa became the 25th state in 1987 after the official declaration by PM Rajiv Gandhi.
Being one of the major trading centres in India, Goa attracted powerful traders, merchants, seafarers, dynasties, monks and missionaries. Brahmins called Saraswats are believed to be the 1st settlers. Being part of the Mauryan Empire in the 3rd century BC, it was dominated by the Satavahanas of Kolhapur at first and then handed over to the Chalukyas of Badami.
With a motive of controlling the spice route of the East, the seafaring Portuguese arrived at Goa in 1510. The geography of Goa with wide rivers, natural harbours and ready connections with several other nations was perfect for them to settle. They were defeated by the Marathas in the late 18th century. Goa became a site that portrays mixed cultures and a very scenic layout to the travelers.
Basilica of Bom Jesus: Here lies the incorruptible body of St. Francis Xavier who is also called the Apostle of the Indies. It is a late-renaissance structure built in 1605 where the Apostle’s body was moved in 1622 by Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany who engaged the Florentine sculptor Giovanni Batista Foggini to work on the three-tiered mausoleum, constructed of jasper and marble. The casket was designed by Italian Jesuit Marcelo Mastrili and constructed by local silversmiths in 1659.
Sé Cathedral: Sé Cathedral is the largest church in Asia with grand measurements of 76m in length and 55m width. It was started building on the orders of King Dom Sebastiao of Portugal and portrays elaborate Tuscan architecture. The famous Sino de Ouro (Golden Bell) housed in the church is the largest in Asia. The Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament and the Chapel of the Cross of Miracles are truly outstanding examples of architectural workmanship.
Dudhsagar Falls: In the southeastern corner of the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary lies Goa’s most impressive waterfall at 603m. It is the 2nd highest in India after Jog Falls, 45-minutes away from the village of Colem through scenic jungles and a beautiful gorge called Devil’s Canyon.
In 1956, the first printing press of Asia was installed at St. Paul’s College in Goa.
Only Goan people can apply and avail a Portuguese passport along with the Indian one.
Classified as Trondjemeitic Gneiss, Goa has some of the oldest rocks in India which are almost 3,600 million years old.
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Posted on April 6, 2015 May 11, 2015 by lightsong
Afterlife Connections by Jan Engels-Smith
I have written two other articles on the topic of death and dying—“Death and Dying from a Shamanic Perspective” and “Psychopomp.” This third article describes contacting those in the afterlife. Afterlife contact is common amongst mediums as well as shamans. The contact involves a connection to and a conversation with someone who has crossed over into the light. In shamanism this is usually done for closure and is initiated by request from a client to make contact with someone on the other side. The shaman travels into the light calling the name of the deceased. It is important for the shaman to intend for the highest version of the deceased to appear. The spirits have repeatedly told me that time is not linear, but holographic, meaning that all things happen at the same moment but in different realities. This makes shamanic journeying to visit different dimensions of life possible. The person doing the journey travels into a particular time dimension, which in these types of journeys is into the light.
A soul that is in the light is enlightened and this guarantees that the soul is only capable of expressing love, no matter what the circumstances were at their time of death or what type of relationship they had with the client. When a soul is enlightened there is a new perspective available to the deceased. In this perspective the deceased understands the trials and tribulations of life without judgment. An enlightened soul also can express a perception of life purpose often not available in a normal human awareness.
When contact is made by the shaman there is often a loving exchange, which in turn brings great healing and closure for the client. No matter what age the deceased was at the time of passing, the greatest and most radiant self usually appears. This includes those that died at birth, were aborted, or died very young. The soul will appear in its greatest version even if that was never expressed on the earth. For clients that struggled with a parent or loved one that was abusive or authoritative, this radiant version of the deceased can bring a complete transformation in the earthly relationship. In this contact with the deceased, I have witnessed miracles including an exchange of information that lifts pain out of a client’s body.
I would share these two very different examples to show the diverse ways journeys to the afterlife can help with difficult situations:
Jim, a client of mine, was struggling with a career decision. Jim’s current career had started with the death of John Lennon. Jim was about 18 years old at the time of Lennon’s death, but he had had a powerful experience, which changed the course of his life. When Lennon died, Jim felt John contact him. This contact was so powerful that Jim committed himself to John’s spirit and became obsessed with learning all of his music. Jim is a talented musician and developed a very successful band, which played Beatle standards. This supported Jim, both financially and soulfully. Jim felt that he was keeping John’s spirit alive through this commitment and dedication to his music. But after many years, Jim felt as if he were becoming lost as an individual. He wanted to develop his own style of music and be recognized for himself. There came a time when Jim was ready to hang up his Sergeant Pepper’s suit, but he had much indecision and remorse about this career change. He felt as though he were breaking his commitment to keep John and his music alive. He asked me to journey to John’s spirit in the light for closure.
My spirit helpers almost always show me things metaphorically during a journey, somewhat like a dream. Luckily for me, my spirit helpers also usually explain the metaphors to me, unlike a dream where you must figure out the symbolism for yourself. I contacted John in the afterlife. John said, “Let me show you some things.” The first scene that came to me was Jim lying on the floor sobbing into his hands. John walked up and pulled Jim to his knees. He then embraced him tightly. Jim continued to sob on John’s shoulder with John supporting and consoling him. The scene then changed to Jim and John flying through the air. Their bodies were actually blended, as if they were superimposed on each other. Each of them had one arm and leg free and off to the side, but their inside arms and legs were superimposed. John was about a head’s length in front of Jim. After several moments of this, the scene changed to Jim and John curling up into a ball, or sphere, that appeared like rolling light. I then saw the Earth off in the distance as if I was viewing the planet from a space capsule.
I asked for an explanation of the metaphors and I received the following understanding. The first scene, where John was consoling Jim, had a real twist in it for my client. Jim had been a drug addict, and his involvement with John’s music actually was part of his own healing. The Beatle tribute band had kept Jim productive, responsible, and clean. In order to be a success, he had to take care of himself. John was actually keeping Jim alive, not the other way around.
The second scene, with them flying through the air superimposed, was explained as Jim and John actually being the same soul expressed in two different incarnations at the same time! Absolutely amazing! John’s head was shown a head’s length in front of Jim because he was about 20 years older than Jim and further along in the expression of his life. I marveled at the meaning contained in such a simple image. I found it incredible.
The spirits then went on to explain the imagery of the spherical ball of light that Jim and John became. They stressed again through this imagery that time is not linear; it is holographic. There really is no such thing as past or future lives. Everything is happening simultaneously in different dimensions of time. The Earth was used to illustrate that we can look at all individuals and see different incarnations of our soul being lived out. We’ve got a whole planet of people who are different expressions of us. John Lennon’s words from “I Am the Walrus” are interestingly appropriate to Jim’s experience, like a message to him across time:
I am he,
and he is me,
and we are all together.
With this information and closure to his Beatle band career Jim started a new music career. John in his enlightened self was able to explain these greater life perceptions in such a fascinating way that it not only helped and healed my client Jim but also brought me into a state of awe, propelling me into many more exploratory journeys about incarnation.
March 6, 2015 marked the two-year anniversary of my mom’s passing. It is strange for someone such as myself, who teaches death and dying, has a large clientele of those that want to communicate with their deceased loved ones, and am presenting at the National Afterlife Conference this spring, to state that I had not made contact with my mom since she had passed. We had done numerous “pre-crossing” journeys together and she had a stellar death process. To me everything was and is in divine order.
But on March 6, as I gazed upon the beautiful blooming star gazer magnolia tree that a couple of students/friends had given me to acknowledge her death, I knew that this was the day to make contact with her in the afterlife.
I had a quiet space and my husband was at the park with our 18-month-old grandson so I had a couple hours to myself. I began my connection journey and found myself sobbing within minutes. A floodgate of emotion swept through me. I had not realized how much I had pent up inside myself the feelings of missing my mom.
My mom appeared in all her radiance. The love emanating from her was spellbinding. We greeted, hugged, kissed, and wrapped ourselves together. I was overwhelmed with recall of special intimate moments. My life flashed before me with magical instances with my mom. It was holographic in nature. All my senses where activated: smell, touch, sight and sound. I was reliving my life with my mom much as I would image a life review but everything happened simultaneously and holistically instead of in chronological order. I fully embodied our life together from my birth to her death. I basked in this love fest for several minutes.
As our time progressed and I gained my composure, I asked her what she wished to share with me. She said: Life is all about relationships. Love is just another word for relationships. All relationships need to eventually be unconditional. What you don’t bring into alignment in this lifetime you will repeat until you get it right. (I was thinking ground hog day on steroids!) Time passes on earth like a flash, enjoy and foster good relationships. Make that happen for yourself. Do whatever you can to make that happen, always. Share this information with your children, your grandchildren, your friends and all that you know. Relationships are the foundation of love. I contemplated her statements. My mom never taught with words, always through example. Her relationships were exemplary. Of course this would carry over to the afterlife. Had she discovered the truth about love while living? My heart was bursting.
I asked her, what she would like me to do with her ashes. She laughed and said, “Put me in your garden. I will help your flowers grow.”
She exited with a wave, a laugh and a wink. “See you soon!” I laughed.
As we have heard over and over again from sage, prophet, scholar, and saint, life is short, enjoy each moment, and enjoy each other!
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s(S)peculative r(R)ealism & philosophy-as-life
February 27, 2011 by Adrian J Ivakhiv
It’s nice to see Speculative Realism capturing the attention of SF writer and all-round idea impresario Bruce Sterling – see his Speculative Realism as “philosophy fiction.” As a long-time SF lover, the idea of “philosophy fiction” has always appealed to me. Some of the best writing in the genre has been profoundly metaphysical, which is to say speculatively realist.
One little point: Process-relational philosophies have long been speculative and realist. And many of these (along with a lot of ecophilosophy of the last 25 years) reject the centrality of the human-world “correlation,” just as Quentin Meillassoux did in his 2006 book that has been so influential for the Speculative Realists (caps intended).* Whitehead’s Process and Reality is perhaps the most obvious modern example of a speculative metaphysic that is realist through and through, but there have been plenty of others.
Perhaps what we need is for sociologists of philosophy (like Randall Collins) to tell us why the idea of “speculative realism” hasn’t taken off until now… and why it seems to be doing that now. But the actual practice of it — speculative realism in lower-case — isn’t that new or that unpopular: witness Whitehead’s popularity in theological circles, Deleuze and Guattari’s in artistic and political circles (though it’s not always the realism that gets picked up), ecophilosophy’s among environmentalists, and scientific speculative realism’s popularity all over the place (from Bohm and Prigogine and Hawking to the pop-science literature on string theory, chaos, and the “tao of physics”). Philosophy of a sort (organized, academic) is catching up to all of that, which is nice.
As an aside: The other kind of philosophy that has been taking off for a while now, as any browser of bookstores knows, is pop-philosophy along the lines of “X… and Philosophy,” where the “X” is The Simpsons, The Matrix, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Atkins Diet (no kidding), or whatever else. A few more titles I’d like to see in this vein: “Captain Beefheart and Philosophy,” “Lady Gaga and Philosophy,” “Gong and Philosophy” (that’s the Franco-British psychedelic rock band), or at least “The Soft Machine and Philosophy” (1960s-70s bands are in now, aren’t they?)… If I had anything useful to award, I would give it to the reader who came up with the most original idea here…
Fortunately, the older style of philosophy-as-way-of-life books (I’m thinking of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and others in that vein) hasn’t faded out completely either, as the initial responses to James Miller’s (The Passion of Michel Foucault) new Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche might suggest. The proof of philosophy is always in the living, but whether the living results from the philosophy or the philosopher is always a little difficult to determine.
Which brings me to my main point: Process-relational themes lend themselves extremely well to philosophy-as-life; it’s one of their key ideas. Does that mean that a quick glance at the philosophies of, say, Peirce or James or Whitehead will reveal to us their political commitments or their social activism (or lack thereof)? It’s not that clear. Add Deleuze, Spinoza, and the Buddhists to the picture and it’s probably even less clear.
But it’s worth asking: what, if anything, is the common denominator, when it comes to living one’s philosophy, among the long list of names that fit into the process-relational tradition?
My first guess would be that some combination of the following two traits, or shared intuitions, would be fairly common: (1) a trust in life process, or as Deleuze calls it, a “belief in this world,” and (2) a willingness to experiment — an openness and even eagerness to engage in things decisively so as to see where they will go, and a willingness to change directions when it becomes evident that they aren’t going where they ought to be (or to go along gleefully for the experience, if it’s a good one). (Buddhists don’t necessarily follow the first, which is why it’s useful to distinguish between life-affirming and life-escaping strains of that tradition.)
The second point sounds a little like what one might expect from Speculative Realism, and from “philosophy fiction” — except that process-relationalism insists on not just speculating, or fictionalizing, but living it. If we enter into our relations fully, then those relations count. There’s no safe haven to which our deepest essence can withdraw. Actions cannot be taken back. The doing changes the array of potentialities for the next set of possible doings.
Those two intuitions, incidentally, parallel the two key ideas I expressed in this earlier post, between which process-relational philosophies dance like a high-wire walker:
(1) Dependent origination, i.e., an ontology of interdependence: Nothing exists on its own, everything passes into something else. This is the Nagarjunian, Heraclitean point […]
(2) This-momentness: The core of our being is the ethical call in this very moment to engage with that which we find ourselves interacting with, and to do it in a way that recognizes our responsibility for what emerges from it. This is the Whiteheadian point, and the Deleuzian (and Bergsonian) one: we are, in this moment, becoming, actualizing; we draw out and in, folding over from one enfoldment to the next. The same is true for all things.
Call these the anti-essentialist and the existentialist halves of the process-relational walnut. The first without the second would result in the kind of relationalist wash the OOO-ists have critiqued. The second without the first is existentialism without the bearings of the universe, Sartrean nausée without any sense for doing anything, Nietzschean will to power without the eternal return of the same.
The first is what tells us who we are (where we come from, what we’re indebted and related to, and what’s worth keeping from that legacy). The second is what makes us play for keeps.
*Note: The date originally given was a mistake. Après la finitude: Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence was released in French in 2006, and in Ray Brassier’s English translation in 2008.
More on Harman, or what’s outside the system of relations?
still process-relations all the way down
still processing
SR, Whitehead, etc.
Process-relational theory primer
Progress (toward Ω?)
On theism/nihilism & other things
Whitehead’s return, ecology’s boon
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on February 27, 2011 at 6:04 am | Reply Christian Evensen
I believe we have to see this in the context of postmodernism, as both a tendency in philosophy and as a historical reality up until the late 90s and early 00s. The new realism and speculative metaphysics in philosophy today is not just a break from that postmodern era; it’s not just something new in a linear history of thought. I believe it’s also a turn, both a turn around postmodernism and a turn away from it. It’s both progressive and it’s a synthesis in some way, between earlier speculative metaphysics (Whitehead) and postmodern thought (Deleuze). I tend to look towards the art world when trying to understand our own time. The 90s, in the art world, was all about relational aesthetics, conceptualized by Nicolas Burriaud in his book from 1998. But recent years there’s been a new interest in things, objects, in art as something that affects, but also as something being affected by it’s environment (that being us visiting an exhibition, the location of the exhibition, etc.). I’m too young to know this, but I’m told that in the 90s you never got to touch the art objects. It was strictly forbidden. Often there wasn’t any objects at all (objects in the normal sense). It could only be an empty room. The art work was the people inside that room, the ones visiting the exhibition. That was relational aesthetics, and it didn’t even have to be any objects exhibited. Recent years, though, there’s been more talking about something called thing aesthetics and thing theory (here’s a reading list as an example: http://objectresearchlab.wordpress.com/object-reading-list/). Why this is happening in the art world as well, it’s not easy to say.
on February 27, 2011 at 9:30 am | Reply Thomas
I too would like to see a sociological explanation for why SR and why now. We need a bright sociology student of Collin’s to write up SR as a case study. It seems like a unique opportunity.
From what I can see there appears to be a few factors at work:
1) Americans a groping about for the next -ism after Derrida’s death. At first people landed on older thinkers who hadn’t been translated (Badiou) but wanted to find the next generation too.
2) a healthy dose of “kill your masters” from the younger generation [this includes throwing the baby out with the bathwater from the previous generation. if we can predict the next mutation to happen it might be rehabilitating the dead masters to critique and extend SR]
3) just like New York stole the art world during WWII it’s looking like England and the US are stealing continental philosophy right now. After you baptise the continental tradition in the anglo-american psyche maybe you end up with a variety of weird realisms.
4) of course there is the Internet/blogs mixing grad students and amateurs into the conversation, hivemind doing theory.
5) different aesthetic sensibilities, drawing from sci-fi, horror, fantasy (this is one of the odder aspects of SR to me personally since I don’t share this sensibility).
6) the return of the repressed in the continental tradition (math, science, logic).
7) the academic industry cranking out more and more PhD’s full of weird influences. How many people were doing theory when Foucault was a student in the early 50’s vs. how many are doing theory today? The shear volume changes things dramatically.
8) speed from thought to print, rapid dissemination of ideas. This is another thing I wonder about, will SR be challenged and replaced quickly by several other self-defined ‘movements’? Hard to say, but things happen so quickly now.
I tend to think the pop-culture and philosophy books have more to do with the particulars of the publishing industry.
on February 27, 2011 at 2:45 pm | Reply Adrian J Ivakhiv
Christian – Yes, that’s a good insight about postmodernism, and an interesting thought about art. I think that a variant on the sociological question could be ‘why did postmodernism take the form that it did?’ (i.e. the kind described by Fred Jameson, et al) rather than other potential forms (e.g., the Whiteheadian ‘constructive postmodernism’ as David Ray Griffin called it)? It’s tied up with the deeper history of philosophy, including the linguistic turn and all that (discourse, social constructivism)…
But looking to art can remind us that there’ve been interesting art movements all along… There’s been a long emphasis on materiality going back through the performance art and feminist art genres, land and environmental art (and more recent ecological art), to Arte Povera and even the Dadaist found-object tradition. This hasn’t necessarily all been about objects, but it’s been about things, or processes, or actions, taking place in real environments. Very different from the discursive/idealist conceptual art tradition.
Thomas – You point out a lot of the relevant factors, and I think I agree with all of them to some extent. The confluence of 1-2 (groping around for a new -ism, and killing your masters while you’re at it) and 4-5-7 (internet/blogging, associated aesthetic sensibilities, academic productivity/theory, etc.) account for a good part of it, I’m sure.
“After you baptise the continental tradition in the anglo-american psyche maybe you end up with a variety of weird realisms.” I wonder if “anglo-american psyche” isn’t too broad a term here, since that psyche can be dry & analytical as well (as analytical philosophy shows). Perhaps the (post-)postmodern (or hypermodern) anglo-american psyche, the youthful one that’s already been baptised in a thorough immersion within a hyper-productive commodity capitalism, and that wants to regurgitate (vomit) it all up into artistic/philosophical expression…
I also agree that the speeding up of philosophical (and literary) production will likely mean that SR is only a moment, to be replaced by the next thing. That happens a lot in the social sciences – discourse, identity, embodiment, materiality, etc etc etc. But I also think that there’s an ineradicable pluralism within philosophy (and social theory, etc) that hasn’t been well recognized in some of the grander proclamations about SR – it’s hardly ascended to any kind of paradigmatic status. It’s a movement among movements, a node among nodes – a very interesting one, but hardly the new paradigm.
And I think you’re right about the pop-philosophy genre being an artifact of the publishing industry.
on February 27, 2011 at 3:36 pm | Reply Thomas Gokey
I’m not sure if SR will only be a moment or if it will end up absorbing new developments and lasting for roughly a generation of thinkers. Both seem plausible to me.
In a certain way I think SR was lucky in terms of timing. The thinkers are all relatively young and will likely have long and productive publishing careers. Just like many people tried to pronounce the death of deconstruction Derrida kept on publishing and kept on being very relevant, sometimes absorbing critiques and sometimes brushing them off.
A few fun counterfactuals to day dream about:
#1 What if Derrida were still alive today? Would SR have had a harder time establishing itself? Would Derrida be writing books about why SR is all wrong, or about why he was SR avant la lettre? (my vote is that he would be writing something telling us how he is neither a realist nor an idealist, I’d love to read it).
#2 What if an atomic bomb and landed on Paris around 1975 wiping out the last great generation of thinkers? Would Peirce and Whitehead have taken over? Would German thought have been stronger? Would Eastern philosophy gotten more attention? It seems like something would have taken over from the younger generation and that in that case SR might be very unlucky in its timing, the ground was not prepared and its rivals would be too dominant.
The other fun thing to think about is what kinds of ideas SR might suppress if it starts to function as a kind of new dogma? What kind of philosophy would go neglected but secretly doing really incredible stuff waiting for the next generation to find it? It doesn’t seem like idealism is really the right answer to this, nor outright relationalism. Both are already to big to really stop. Who’s name is mud under SR’s reign. Husserl? Schopenhauer? Hegel? Not quite right either, it needs to be someone a little smaller, awesome but not so big that they will always be revered. Bergson? Or maybe someone more contemporary.
I love SR, I think it is the most stimulating thing going on right now and what Collins would call a “hot center” but when push comes to shove I’m probably some kind of idealist of the Lacanian variety (not that I’m an expert on Lacan or anything).
on March 4, 2011 at 8:31 pm | Reply James
I am trying to follow this deep conversation. What is the common philosophy on the blog? Christian or Eastern thinking?
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The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service
St. James Barracks in the 1850s. M.J. Cazabon
The Trinidad & Tobago Police Service is the oldest public institution in Trinidad & Tobago.
The Spanish presence in Trinidad
was to last from 1498 to 1797
Founded in 1592 under the Spanish government, it has served this country for some four hundred and twenty-five years. Except for a brief three-year period between 1839 to 1841, when it was disbanded so as to be re-organised, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has been on continuous duty.
Its origins date from the time of the third Spanish Governor of Trinidad, the conquistador, Don Antonio de Berrio y Oruña (1592-1597), who founded San José de Oruña, the first capital of Trinidad. He appointed Senor Josef Nunez Brito to the office of Alguacil Mayor, he was the first Chief of Police. This was a very long time ago: this was when Sir Walter Raleigh visited the Pitch Lake, 1592 was the birth year of Shah Jahan, the 5th Mughal Emperor of India, famous for the building of the Taj Mahal, and when Queen Elizabeth I reigned in England.
The Police Service has served faithfully three countries and three governments: the Spanish, the British and that of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It has functioned under The Spanish Colonial Code, called The Laws of the Indies, whose various codes were the laws of Trinidad up to 1849, under British Martial Law during the British military administrations of Colonel Picton and Generals Hislop and Munro, 1797–1813,
The Spanish fleet on fire,
blockaded by the British Fleet
in Chaguaramas Bay in 1797.
and during the period when Trinidad was placed under the control of commissioners, Colonel Fullarton, Colonel Picton and Commodore Samuel Hood R. N., 1803–1804. And presently, under the laws of the Republic Trinidad and Tobago.
For the majority of the Spanish period, 1492 – 1797, Trinidad was a virtual desert island, in that it was slowly depopulated of its original native inhabitants while never actually developed by its coloniser, Spain.
Tobago during this period, the late 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century, was an often fought-over territory that was controlled by local militias and troops stationed there to protect the property and interest of the various European governments who, at one time or the other, controlled the island.
In spite of having a very small population, Trinidad never lost its Spanish presence. There was always a Spanish governor, as it formed a part of the Vice-Royalty of New Granada. There were thirty-seven Spanish governors from 1530 to 1797. There was as well a civil administration, who were in charge of the police. This was the Illustrious Cabildo, a form of town council, in place at the island’s capital San José de Oruña and in later years in Port-of-Spain. We are told by historian Carlton Ottley that during this period there were never more than six policemen in Trinidad. The fundamental change that took place in Spanish Trinidad was the promulgation of the Cedula for Population of 1783. This saw the arrival of colonists, mostly from the French islands of the Caribbean, who introduced chattel slavery to Trinidad on an industrial scale.
Trinidad, from the start of the French Revolution of 1789 to the conquest of the island by the English in 1797, experienced a period of civil upheaval, public disorder verging on anarchy and the threat of foreign invasion.
The Spanish governors of the day, Dons Martin de Salaverria and José María Chacón, controlled just a few soldiers along with the handful of policemen under an Alguacil Mayor. Carlton Ottley tells us in his ‘A Historical Account of the Trinidad & Tobago Police Service 1592–1972,’ that to deal with violent crime and civil disorder, “. . .the Spanish Governor Don José María Chacón appointed a number of influential planters as honorary commissioners or corregidors (A corregidor was a local administrative and judicial official in Spain and in its overseas empire. They were the representatives of the royal jurisdiction over a town and its district.) As administrators of local government, these corregidors were charged with the duties of policing their respective districts, being specifically instructed ‘to take cognizance of all robberies, quarrels and disorders which may be caused, by prosecuting and apprehending vagabonds, as well as those who seduce the slaves and hid fugitives by finding work for them on their estates.’’’
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Picton,
governor of Trinidad 1797 – 1803
With the English conquest of Trinidad in 1797 and the appointment of Colonel Thomas Picton, a Welshman, as governor, the nature of policing in Trinidad changed again, this time radically.
Military historian, Lieutenant Commander Gaylord Kelshall, in whose memory this article is writen, tells us in his captions to the Police Museum on St. Vincent Street, “When the invading British troops of Sir Ralph Abercromby departed Trinidad in 1797, they left Colonel Thomas Picton with very few regular soldiers with whom to defend the island. Picton decided on an offensive/defense strategy to hold the island against the dissident Spanish residents, Spanish troops who collected in Caracas, Cumana, Guiria and Angostura, and French Republicans who were supported by a fleet of privateers operating in the Gulf of Paria under the command of the mulatto ship’s captain Jean Bedeau.”
Because of his soldiers’ predilection to tropical diseases and rum, Picton put his few European troops into garrison and relied on black troopers seconded from Colonel Drualt’s Guadeloupe Rangers, the 9th West India Regiment, who had been fighting Victor Hugues in Guadeloupe, and from Lieutenant-Colonel Gaudin de Soter’s Royal Island Rangers, the 10th West India Regiment, to form the core of Picton’s Royal Trinidad Rangers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gaudin de Soter “A company was raised by my son under the direction of general Abercrombie, and left to the order of general Picton, for the purpose of aiding in the preservation of tranquility in the colony”. (From de Soter’s testimony at Picton’s trial.) Gaudin de Soter was a French Royalist officer who had joined the British in the fight against French revolutionary forces in the Caribbean.
His Royal Island Rangers, later the 10th West India Regiment, comprised of Free Black and Coloured men, were placed under the command of Governor Thomas Picton by General Abercromby. This contingent became the core of what would evolve to be the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force.
Historian, Roger N. Buckley, in his ‘Early History of the West India Regiments’ tells us that “Apparently most of the first recruits for these corps were free blacks and free mulattoes. Many of the officers were French and the pay of these corps was the same as for British regiments. Among these corps were Soter’s Royal Island Rangers, which was raised in Martinique, and Drualt’s Guadeloupe Rangers.’” Thus the precedent for the recruitment of West India Regiment soldiers into the Trinidad Police Force was set.
The six-pointed star was appropriated
by the Trinidad Police Force
and the Trinidad Militia in 1802
These recruits also operated his sloop of war, the H.M.S. Barbara, as Picton’s Marine Police Force. Picton’s police, the Royal Trinidad Rangers, a composite of the above, comprised a uniformed element who patrolled the town of Port-of-Spain and paid particular attention to the waterfront, as well as a secret service, who operated in Trinidad and Venezuela. These early irregular troops, navy, and police were paid out of Picton’s private funds until 1802, when they were granted official recognition. During this period, Picton’s Royal Trinidad Rangers took to wearing, as a badge, a six-pointed star which they identified with Picton’s patron saint, St. David of Wales, as their own emblem. In 1802, the six pointed star became the official badge for both the Militia and Police, which is still used today. Shako plates and gorgets, once part of the uniform of the Militia, dating from 1802 to 1842, exist in the Military Museum in Chaguaramas.
The police under Picton enforced British martial law supported by the Spanish Laws of the Indies with draconian effect. There were public executions, torture in the Royal Gaol, public floggings and mutilations inflicted on criminals and on those suspected of sabotage.
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Picton, as he was to become, was the founder of the modern Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. The use of the six-pointed star as a cap badge for locally commissioned officers only, was continued in the First Division until 1938-39, when under the command of Colonel Walter Angus Muller, the first Commissioner of Police, it was introduced to all ranks as a cap badge. British officers who were assigned to the Trinidad Police used the cap badge and other insignia of their regiments.
Picton’s successors, Brigadier-General Sir Thomas Hislop, 1804-1811 and Major-General William Monro, 1811-1813, imposed law and order to control the still unruly populace. Their most constant preoccupation, apart from invasion by Republican France, was the possibility of slave uprisings on the estates, as resistance, by the enslaved had been the trigger for rebellion in other islands.
This was a genuine concern, because with the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the planters, fearing that their supply of free labour was going to end sooner rather than later, worked the chattel slaves cruelly and in many instances to death in an attempt to recoup their investment and make a profit.
The Orange Grove Barracks on Charlotte Street
was built in 1804; it is now the General Hospital in Port-of-Spain.
The Orange Grove Barracks, now the General Hospital, and Fort George were built during the tenure of Governor Hislop in 1804–11. Fort George to defend the harbour and to offer safe haven to the citizens and Orange Grove Barracks to house regiments stationed here during the period of the Napoleonic wars (1803–1815).
A census published in Lionel Fraser’s ‘History of Trinidad’, taken in 1803, shows that the enslaved population stood at twenty-eight thousand men, women and children. There were six hundred and sixty-three English persons, five hundred and five Spaniards, and one thousand and ninety-three French persons. There were five hundred and ninety-nine English-speaking Free Blacks and People of Colour, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one free Spanish persons of mixed heritage, and two thousand nine hundred and twenty-five mulattoes of French origin who were Free Blacks and People of Colour. (This was a legal definition under the Cedula for Population of 1783.)
This made up a free population of seven thousand five hundred and thirty-six, with the Free Black and People of Colour being in the majority.
Sir Ralph Woodford Bart.
Governor Sir Ralph Woodford, 1813-1829, was the colony’s first civil governor. In much the same manner that Woodford brought out from England civil engineers, botanists, architects and other professionals to create the foundations for the institutions that we know today, he also recruited a cadre of men who would form the nucleus of the new British police establishment in Trinidad. Woodford’s Chief of Police, his Alguacil Mayor, appointed in 1823, was James Meany, his Assistant Chief was H.G. Peak. Alexander Sandy, corporal, John McCarthy, B. Vazquez, Peter Stevens, Michael Christie, James Stephens, and Peter McDonald, constables. To these were added, as historian Carlton Ottley tells us, “The handful of policemen, recruited for the most part from Barbados.”
With the emancipation of the enslaved throughout the British Empire in 1838 a new dispensation for the civil society of Trinidad and Tobago commenced. This necessitated the disbanding of the previous policing regime, ending the authority of the corregidors, and a reorganisation of the police establishment in the colony. On the 13th of August, 1838, an ordinance to establish a rural system of police was proclaimed. This new ordinance created new police districts, excluding Port-of-Spain. They were St. Joseph, Eastern district, Carapichaima district, Naparima district and a Southern district.
The reorganisation of the police, by the end of 1842 saw the creation of the posts of inspector, two sub-inspectors, one in Port-of-Spain and another in San Fernando, ten sergeants and seventy-two constables. There were now twelve police stations. Reflecting the society, indeed the western world at the time, that was convinced of the superiority of the Europeans, all commissioned officers were British.
The West India Regiments formed on the 24 April 1795
became an integral part of the regular British Army.
In 1856, the West India Regiment of the British army switched
its attire to a uniform modelled on that of the French Zouaves.
An event that would change the make up of the population of the colony was the arrival of indentured East Indians. The newcomers, arriving from 1845 to 1917 to work on the sugarcane estates, were at first hardly noticed, but would become an object of interest to the commanders of the Force in the years following the Indian Army Mutiny of 1857 that was made infamous by stories of massacres of English people and the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta. It was believed by the authorities that the East Indians, who were almost entirely sequestered on the cane estates, could somehow become aroused and moved to violence on a mass scale.
Recruitment for the police was a pressing problem in the 1840s. There was a reluctance in the local population to enlisting in the Force. This may have dated from Spanish times, there was, as well, the living memory of Picton’s police methods, and a lack of prestige associated with the job itself. This stemmed from the low pay that attracted ne’er-do-wells and the nature of the duties policemen were called upon to perform by the authorities. These ranged from dog and rat catcher to sanitary inspector, to turnkey, postman and fireman and a range of other duties, some of which were considered by the Creole population in general to be demeaning. Beyond that there was the problem of language: the vast majority of local men in the 1840s-70s were French Patois-speaking, while the officers were English, and quite apart from that, there was the difficulty that many locals experienced with enforced discipline. They were simply not accustomed to it. Governor Sir Henry McLeod wrote, “It has been thought that we might procure men from England or Ireland at a cheaper rate, but my experience tells me that any attempt of that kind would be unsuccessful, as, if a number of men were brought out for the purpose, more than half would be in hospital with delirium tremens within six months.”
Cheap rum and tropical diseases did take a toll on the inexperienced. In the end, several members of the Metropolitan police were brought to Trinidad, along with two constables, and eventually, as Ottley records, “more Barbadians were recruited”, the thinking being that they were mostly taller and were Protestant, they spoke and understood English, as did the British officers and Regimental Sergent Majors who drilled and trained them.”
Rioting outside the forerunner of the Red House in 1849.
The fear of the inability of the police to control and contain social upheavals that could readily become riotous and destructive was brought home to the authorities on the 1st of October 1849 when, as reported in the Port-of-Spain Gazette, that on that day “a considerable crowd of Trinidadians, composing people of the lowest order, assembled in front of the Government Buildings (later the Red House). They were there to resist the introduction of an obnoxious clause in the gaol regulations recently introduced, which had been passed by the Legislative Council; and which, among other things, provided that debtors committed under the petty civil courts ordinance should have their hair cropped close, and wear a prison dress,
Police Headquarters, also referred to as the Depot,
St Vincent St., Port-of-Spain, built 1876.
and assist in gaol work.” This was a time of considerable poverty and indebtedness in the colony as a result of the end of slavery. This proposed ordinance resulted in some three thousand people converging on the Government Buildings. It soon became apparent that the police on duty, in and around the building, could not possibly control the crowd that was becoming hostile. Their demands that the obnoxious clause be repealed, it was felt by them, was being deliberately ignored by an unfeeling authority. Soon stones were hurled at the building and a crowd of “mischievous persons started to annoy the police, and pelt them with stones. The Riot Act was read, the order to fire was given, four of the five muskets were discharged, and four persons fell wounded, three women and a lad; the latter and one of the former subsequently died.” The Port-of-Spain Gazette described that in spite of the police opening fire, the crowd
A police sabre that carries V.R. on the guard
and the police star commemorating
Governor Picton’s patron saint St David of Wales
on the blade indicates that during the reign
of Queen Victoria 1838–1901
the police stare was in use in Trinidad.
continued to attack the police. During the night other buildings were attacked and buildings on sugar estates in the environs of the town set ablaze. The governor, Lord Harris, understanding that the police could not deal with the escalating situation, called in the 88th Regiment, and a company of the 2nd West India Regiment from Barbados and with the aid of some six hundred special constables, sworn in, and a volunteer horse patrol, of seventy strong were assembled to patrol the streets of the town.
Irish Non-Commissioned Officers and Constables.
The need for another “remodelling the Force” became urgent after the events of October 1849. The population had expanded to include West Indians coming from the other islands as well as people from various parts of Europe who were fleeing war and starvation, many of whom did succumb to drink and riotous behaviour. There was as well a growing and marked sense of individualism that expressed itself in an expanding community of people who lived mostly in east Port-of-Spain, who saw themselves as belonging to a parallel society, ‘a hoodlum element’, with gangs that engaged in brawls, stick fighting, cockfighting, drumming, prostitution, the creation of ribald songs, and vulgar, outrageous and at times dangerous behavior. This was the crucible of the Jamette class that would keep the carnival spirit alive, in spite of the opprobrium that was heaped upon it by polite society and express it in Cannes Brulées carnival at a later date as a form of resistance to authority. With the growing industrialisation of agriculture, an expanding railway, a prosperous commercial sector, imposing government buildings and an increasing middle-class, there was more valuable property and important persons to safeguard and protect. As a result, this period saw the Force being manned increasingly by ex-service men from the West India Regiments that had been raised in West Africa as well as men from British regiments who had been discharged in the region after their tours of duty had expired. The look of the rank and file of the Trinidad Police Force towards the end of the 19th century was multi-racial.
Captain Arthur Baker 1877–1889
The Ashanti type pith helmet was introduced
in 1890 to the Trinidad Constabulary.
It had become popular after the Anglo-Zulu War.
Originally made of pith with small peaks or “bills”
at the front and back, the helmet was covered
by white cloth, often with a cloth band (or puggaree)
around it, and small holes for ventilation.
Military versions often had metal insignia
on the front and could be decorated with
a brass spike or ball-shaped finial.
The chinstrap would be either leather or
brass chain, depending on the occasion.
Carlton Ottley informs us that “In the 1840s Police Headquarters was housed in a building at the corner of Abercromby and Hart Streets, it would later be converted into the Fire Brigade Station. From 1859 to 1865 Henry Grattan Bushe commanded the Force, he was succeeded by Lionel Mordrent Fraser who served from 1865 to 1889. It was during his tenure that the Police Headquarters, the Port-of-Spain Depot, was built, this was in 1876.
Remarkable for its time, it was the tallest building in Trinidad and featured the novelty of a ball on the top of the flag-post which fell, to the sound of a bugle call, precisely at mid-day G.M.T.”
Lieutenant Commander Kelshall tells us that “In 1879, the Royal Commission on Defense decided that regular British troops could be withdrawn from Trinidad and replaced by a Volunteer Military force, who in the event of trouble would hold the island until the Royal Navy could arrive with reinforcements.”
“In 1889,” we learn from historian Olga Mavrogordato, “the St James Barracks, which was built in 1827, was handed over to the Trinidad Government with an understanding that, should the British Army ever wish to return, they should have it. A decision had been taken whereby a body of police were to be trained in the proper use of arms at St. James Barracks to provide protection for the colony when necessary. It is as a result of this decision that St. James Barracks became a training school for the police. In 1906, forty-two men of the Mounted Branch were transferred to St. James where they were trained in the art of horsemanship.”
A detachment of police in the 1890s
drawn up outside the Princes Building.
This marked another change, perhaps the most significant change in the police since the time of Colonel Picton. Kelshall writes, “Thus was formed the Trinidad Volunteer Infantry Regiment, later supported by the Trinidad Artillery and the cavalry of the Trinidad Light Horse. The Volunteers formed the 1st Battalion of Light Infantry, but they were not numerous enough to hold the line and the Trinidad Police Force with a strength of four hundred and thirty-eight men with fifty-four horses became the 2nd Battalion of Light Infantry with Captain Arthur Baker the first Inspector-General in charge. They were modeled after the Royal Irish Constabulary and adopted Light Infantry uniforms and accoutrements, including the issue of weapons. They were inspected each year by a British general both in barracks, on parade and carrying out military maneuvres alongside the soldiers of the Volunteers, usually on the Port-of-Spain Savannah. Around the time of the First World War, they ceased training as light infantry, but retained the name Constabulary up to 1939. They retained the Light Infantry uniforms along with many items, such as Moroccan belts, swords and rifles. The chain of command and drill are still basically in use today and form a proud tradition of a distinguished past.”
The Trinidad Artillery at practice
at St James Barracks in the 1900s.
In 1884, Inspector-General Baker described the Force as being composed of 436 men of all ranks, including 30 additional in that year. His staff consisted of two inspectors, both Englishmen, one posted in Port of Spain, the other in San Fernando. A sergeant major from the Irish constabulary for each division, five sergeant superintendents, one a black man, the others former soldiers from the Irish constabulary, 21 sergeants, white and coloured, 26 corporals of mixed ancestry, three grades of constables, full strength 350, some of whom were European, the others mostly from Barbados “and two or three natives of Trinidad in the whole force, who are usually worthless from stupidity. Besides this stupidity, there is a great dislike to enter the Force amongst the natives and the dislike has existed for years.” (J. N. Brierley, ‘Trinidad Then and Now’)
Members of the Trinidad Light Artillery, photographed in England wearing the Diamond Jubilee medal. They were a part of the Trinidad Jubilee Contingent for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in England in 1897. The officers seated are Captain A.C. Rooks (left) and Lieutenant Mzumbo Emmanuel Lazare.
The Police Hospital.
Inspector John N. Brierley 1871
Inspector Brierley came to Trinidad in 1874 to join the Police Force. Making a name for himself as a detective, he became senior inspector and was instrumental in laying out San Fernando and Port of Spain into beats. Historian Fr. Anthony de Verteuil recounts that he traveled extensively to all parts of the island on horseback, giving lectures and instructions. Amongst those Irishmen who settled here at this time were Farrell, Darcy, Costelloe, Fahay, Flynn, Murphy, and Fraser.
The reorganising, retraining and rearming of the Trinidad Constabulary as a Battalion of Light
A detachment in ‘Marching Order’ kit in barracks, note mascot.
Infantry was seen as justified by what became known as the Cannes Brulées riots of the 1880s, the Hosay riot of 1884 and the Arouca riot of 1891. These disturbances, at which, after the Riot Act was read, the Constabulary either charged with fixed bayonets and or opened fire on the rioters, were an indication of not simply elements of a population behaving in a disorderly manner, but rather were indicative of a deep general dissatisfaction with crown colony rule. The resistance to slavery had been carried into resistance to Colonial Rule. There was a sense of alienation which was expressed as resistance to law and order in a wide cross-section of the colony’s population. People had grown to
In ‘Marching Order’ kit, note Lewis machine gun at left.
become resentful of the institutionalised racism and the inequality, the lack of opportunity that pervaded every aspect of life, and for not only the poor in Trinidad and Tobago.
The authorities, mindful of the fears of the ‘respectable persons of all classes’ of a general uprising of the blacks, which had been inherited as a memory of slavery, now became alarmed by a section of the East Indian community who produced the Hosay festival annually. The authorities believed that there was cause for a strong, armed and disciplined force to guard against what was thought to be dangerous elements within the Indian community on the cane estates, as well as the blacks in the overall urban society.
Trinidad & Tobago Constabulary on parade.
This period of insecurity in the colony saw the commanding officers, Inspectors-General of the Trinidad Constabulary, drawn from the Irish Constabulary that had been created expressly for the suppression of the Irish nationalists and from military men with distinguished careers. Captain Arthur Baker, 1877–1889, Captain Edmund Fortescue, 1889–1898, and Major-General Sir Francis Scott, 1898–1902, were Inspectors-General of the Trinidad Constabulary.
The Port-of-Spain Gazette of October 1898 reported that “That the new military program is beginning to take shape. A new body of fifty armed police is to be added to the Police Force and to be permanently stationed at St. James’ Barracks under the command of Supt. Sergent Shelston. One of the several sergeants from the Irish Constabulary has already arrived and will replace Sergeant Shelston at the Police Station (Police Headquarters). His name is Dennis Cassidy. It appears that there is to be in future a regular interchange of men between the Police Station and the barracks, which will ensure the efficient training of the whole Force as an armed body whilst providing an ever-ready body for any military emergency.” The Police Hospital on Charlotte Street was opened in 1894. Also in that year the Fire Brigade was made a separate unit of the Force.
A report from an Inspector who was a serving Major General in the British Army stated: “Inspection of Trinidad Armed Police, December 7 and 8, 1904 Turn-out. - Very fair. The Inspector-General reported that gaiters (Army pattern) has been provided and that water-bottles were ordered. Arms. - Martini-Enfield. Long bayonet. The Inspector-General states that no change in the arms is contemplated at present, as the Colony possesses a large number of rifles of the above description. Although the Martini-Enfield rifle is in itself a very good weapon, troops armed with it are naturally at a disadvantage when opposed to others armed with a magazine rifle of any description. Drill. - Several movements in Part V, Infantry Training, were executed very creditably under the Deputy-Inspector General, Mr. Swain. Skirmishing. - A simple tactical exercise involving an attack was very intelligently carried out under Inspectors Greig and Brierly. Street Fighting. - Very practical method of blocking and patrolling streets with a section of men was illustrated - special means were taken for searching houses. Ride by Mounted Police. - 7 mounted police executed a ride very creditably. Musketry. - On the 8th I witnessed a few men firing on the range. The shooting was moderate, and I have little doubt it will improve with more practice. Barracks. - On the 10th instant I visited the headquarters. The barracks are in good order. The dormitories still are very crowded. This, however, will be remedied when the Depot is opened. Hospital. - I visited the police hospital on the 13th. It appeared to be well found and adequate in size to the requirements of the Force.”
The idea of forming a permanent body of armed men trained to handle civil disturbances was born out of the police maintaining a close scrutiny of the changing political and evolving social tensions that were unfolding in a society that was becoming increasingly conscious and restive of the limitations of crown colony rule. This body of policemen, the first Riot Squad, was brought into action on the 23rd of March 1903 for an incident known as the Water Riot, when, as historian Angelo Bissessarsingh informs us, “Governor Maloney, perhaps expecting public unrest, ordered the Inspector-General of the Trinidad and Tobago Constabulary, Colonel Hubert Brake, to have 35 armed policemen sequestered within the Red House in addition to several dozen outside. In an attempt to limit access to the Public Gallery it was proclaimed that access would only be granted by a system of allotted tickets. The Ratepayers resisted and deemed this action to be illegal and attempted to storm the Gallery at 10.30 am but were repelled by Brake and his officers.” The ensuing riot caused the Government Buildings, the Red House, where the Legislative Council was in session to catch on fire triggering the reading of the riot act resulting in the Constabulary opening fire on the crowd resulting in eighteen people being shot and killed and fifty-one wounded.
Local Commissioned officers wore the six-pointed star which had been identified with Picton's patron saint, St. David of Wales. Foreign Commissioned officers, at right, wore their Regiment badges.
Sergeant-Superintendents wore a crown on each sleeve. Cap badge bore a crown and the monogram G.R.I., George King & Emperor. Station Sergeants wore four stripes on the lower sleeve. Cap badge bore a crown and the monogram G.R.I., George, King & Emperor.
Before 1938 a crown & three stripes formed the cap badge for Sergeants. A crown with two stripes for Corporals, the regimental number for Constables and Lance-Corporals, with a crown.
The Mounted Branch would demonstrate their skill at horsemanship with gymkhanas at St. James Barracks on occasion.
The Police band in the 1890s.
The guard house at the entrance to Government House.
The winners of the police annual marksmanship competition.
The Belmont police station.
The St. Joseph police station.
Elements of the 3rd West India Regiment, the Zouaves, stationed at St. James Barracks during the riots of the late 19th century.
The foundation for discipline, the maintenance of high morale, an esprit de corps, and a military tradition that persisted for a great many years in Trinidad and Tobago’s police establishment, had its origins in the 1900s.
At St. James Barracks, Police Headquarters in Port-of-Spain and in San Fernando and in Police
The Cenotaph at the Memorial Park
was inaugurated on 28th June 1924.
Stations throughout the country discipline and order was maintained at a level that could be compared to anywhere in the British Empire, as is shown in the record of regular inspections.
There were, in the ranks in the 1900s, men who had served in India with the British army and with the West India Regiments. The West India Regiments were raised in the West Indies during the French Revolution as Ranger Companies and also in Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa. They had seen active service in the wars in the Gambia and in the Anglo-Ashanti Wars of the 1880s. Individuals had been recognised for their gallantry, receiving Britain’s highest awards. For example, Sergent Samuel Hodge V.C., of the 3rd West India Regiment, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers.
What is of significance is that the police in Trinidad were almost all, not Trinidadian-born. Its officer corps was comprised mostly of British officers, with perhaps one or two local whites; the Drill Instructors were seconded from British Regiments and the main body of men were made up of West Indians and men who had originally enlisted in West Africa in
Trumpeters of the Police Band sound the Last Post
for the honoured dead. Lest We Forget.
the West India Regiments. Inspector Brierley, writing at the turn of the century, speaks in his book ‘Trinidad, Then and Now’, of his pride in the “unstilted loyalty and strict devotion to duty.” He also points out that in a total company of five hundred rank and file, four hundred were natives of Barbados, St. Vincent and Grenada. It would appear that Trinidadians still had an aversion to join the Force, but, as we will discover, not Tobagonians.
The Memorial Park in Port of Spain honours the memory of those Trinidadians and Tobagonians who served in the armed forces of the Empire, and remembers those who fell in its defense in two world wars.
Erected in the 1920, the cenotaph (from the Greek kenotaphion: kenos, empty + taphos, tomb, a monument for people who are buried elsewhere) is topped by Nike, the winged goddess of victory, with one foot placed upon the globe. In her left hand, held high, is the victor’s wreath of laurel, in her right, an acacia branch for the honoured dead. The obelisk itself rises out of a barque, symbolizing that which takes the souls of the departed across the river Styx. In bow and stern sit the figures Pathos and Grief. Grief bends her head to look at a scroll unrolled upon her knees, and Pathos in the bow holds a funerary wreath.
Above the inscription which reads “In honour of those who served, in memory of those who fell” stands a soldier, rifle at the ready, astride a fallen, wounded comrade. The brass plaques list the names of some 170 Trinidadians and Tobagonians who died in the First and Second World Wars.
In the First World War, Trinidadians served with valour. Fifty-five silver war medals were awarded. In one engagement in Palestine’s Jordan valley, one Distinguished Service Order, two Military Crosses and one Distinguished Conduct Medal were won by members of the First Battalion. Dozens of Trinidadians distinguished themselves in the defense of freedom. To name two: Air Vice Marshall Claude Vincent, who became one of the highest-ranking officers of the Royal Air Force, and General Sir Frank Messervy, who commanded the Fourth Army Corps and the Seventh Indian Division in Burma. He received the surrender of the Japanese forces there, when General Itaguki handed over his sword and the one hundred thousand men under his command in Rangoon in 1945.
Colonel Herbert Brake assumed command in 1902, he was succeeded by Colonel George Swain in 1907. The military tradition was further enhanced with the start of the first Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This saw men from the Trinidad Constabulary volunteer for service with British regiments. Streets in Woodbrook were named by the colonial government for the British generals of the African wars who had commanded these men; Roberts, Buller, Gatacre, Kelly-Kenny, Baden-Powell, Kitchener and others.
Very much the same spirit was to prevail with the advent of the First World War that according to Carlton Ottley, “no fewer than three officers, ten non-commissioned officers and twenty-one men joined the West India Regiment.” Policemen, trained at St. James Barracks, would perform their duty with loyalty and gallantry on the battle-field, with some upon returning home rejoining the Force. They strengthened the military traditions of discipline, loyalty and duty. This also served to entrench an enduring family tradition within the Force that would pass from father to son.
This was reflected in the composition of the Force with the increase of Trinidadians serving. Ottley writes, “ . . . by 1922 the strength had grown to seven hundred and thirty-nine men, of whom four hundred and twenty-seven were Trinidadians, one hundred and twenty-three were Tobagonians and one hundred and eighty-nine were Barbadians.”
Colonel George Herbert May succeeded Colonel Swain in 1916 and was to serve as Inspector-
Colonel George May,Inspector-General of Constabulary
General until 1930. At the time of his appointment, the strength of the Force stood at eight hundred and ninety-six, of which no fewer than seven hundred and fourteen were natives of Trinidad and Tobago.
In May’s day, the Constabulary on parade was a formidable sight and an important element in the display of imperial power. It was a demonstration of the order, discipline and loyalty of colonial forces to the crown. Carlton Ottley points out, “Daily parades were held on the compounds at Police Headquarters in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando, and regular parades of battalion drill were carried out at Shine’s Pasture, now Victoria Square, or on the Queen’s Park Savannah.” There were regular route marches through towns and across the countryside accompanied by the Police Band and demonstrations of horsemanship with gymkhanas held regularly at the St. James Barracks. Important parades such as King’s Birthday Parade, Empire Day, Memorial Day and parades for the arrival or departure of governors and visiting dignitaries were occasions that drew large admiring crowds with, at times, contingents of two hundred or more policemen on parade. Police Band concerts at the band stand in the Royal Botanical Gardens as well as at other venues, became for many years an important cultural feature in
Colonel George May, center, with officers of the First Division.
Second from the left is Sub-Inspector Carr, father of
Commissioner of Police “Sonny” Carr.
the social life of Port-of-Spain.
There were now six police divisions throughout the country, including Tobago, each with several stations that were at all times fully manned. These stations were equipped with stables, barracks to house the men and with accommodations for officers. The starting salary in the Force was $24.00 a month. This was regarded as very good, at the time when store clerks made $5.00 or less, per fortnight.
Colonel Arthur Mavrogordato
Inspector-General of Constabulary and
Commandant of Local Forces 1931–1938.
Colonel Arthur Stephen Mavrogordato, prior to his posting to Trinidad, was Inspector-General of the Palestinian Police Force. He assumed command of the Trinidad Police Force with the rank of Inspector-General of Constabulary and Commandant of Local Forces in 1931. His appointment to Trinidad, having served in the highly volatile Middle East command, coincided with developments in a secret experimental laboratory at Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. where 100 high octane aviation fuel was being developed for use in the R.A.F. His job here was to ensure that it was not sabotaged.
Lieutenant Colonel Harragin D.S.O.
Sub-Inspector Harragin joined the Police Constabulary on 1st February, 1905. He left the colony in 1915, with the first battalion of the B.W.I. Regiment to serve in the Great War, in which he and his battalion distinguished themselves against the Turks in the charge on the Damieh Bridgehead in the Jordan Valley, Palestine. Harragin was awarded the D.S.O. as a direct result. Also seeing action with the first battalion of the B.W.I. Regiment in the Jordan valley that day was Lance-Corporal Julien, also a Policeman. He received the D.C.M. for valourious service.
The D.S.O & D.C.M are the second highest awards for gallantry in action after the Victoria Cross.
On their return to Trinidad, Lieutenant Colonel Harragin and Sergeant Julien took up their regular duties in the Trinidad & Tobago Police Force.
Lance-Corporal Julien D.C.M.
The strength of the Force in 1934 stood at about two thousand men. Contrary to popular belief, Colonel Mavrogordato did not ‘give’ the police star to the Trinidad & Tobago Police Force because he had served in Palestine, he was not Jewish and the state of Israel had not yet come into existence.
The years between the World Wars, the 1920s-30s, was a time of very great poverty in Trinidad and Tobago. The failure of the world’s monetary order, known as the Great Depression, as well as the aftermath of the war had caused the markets for the island’s agricultural produce, mainly sugar and cocoa, to collapse. There was not just poverty on a very wide scale, along with the deprivations caused by the inequalities of colonial life, but many people faced actual starvation.
One of the important, perhaps the most important after-effect of the First World War was the change in the colony’s society. Men who, in their hundreds, had gone abroad to serve ‘King and Country’ returned to these islands greatly changed. The myth of the superiority of the white race had ended on the battlefields of Europe, the Middle East and East Africa where the West India Regiments had served. Trinidadians had seen white men, for the first time, in roles that were not managerial, that did not convey superiority, who, in the terror of the trenches demonstrated the same fear, the same cowardice, or for that matter, the same gallantry, that they themselves possessed. War is the great equaliser. Beyond that, men heard for the first time the call for organised labour and the subtle arguments that sought to describe what would be called a ‘just’ society. The Russian revolution and the rise of bolshevism, communism, socialist politics and trade unionism had entered Trinidad and Tobago’s political discourse with the returning troops, where it would find fertile soil prepared with the already established Trinidad Workingman’s Association. There was as well a growing nationalistic impulse founded in the established resistance to Crown Colony rule that formed itself around ideas of black consciousness. An awareness of ones self as a whole person, increasingly expressed with ideas couched in a political philosophy known as Garveyism, named for the Jamaican thinker, Marcus Garvey.
Militant trade unionism in Trinidad and Tobago was to grow and take root in all of the above and express itself in the canefields and in the oilbelt of Trinidad.
The Reserve Platoon in 1937
under the command of Inspector Ogier.
June 19th, 1937 marked the beginning of yet another testing period for the Force, as it was the start of what became known as the Butler Riots. We are fortunate to have the personal recollections of former Commissioner of Police, Eustace Bernard, who in his book, ‘Against the Odds’ gives us the only first hand account ever published of the events at Fyzabad. “Around 7.00 p.m. on the evening of the 19th, the bugle sounded the assembly at Police Headquarters. On falling in on the Barracks Square, we were instructed to return to our quarters, get dressed in ‘Marching Order’ (blue tunic, blue long trousers, haversack, with cape rolled and strapped to the waist, belt at the back, pouch, helmet, rifle and bayonet), and to re-assemble in twenty minutes.”
Corporal Charles King
Along with three bus-loads of policemen he was transported to San Fernando and thence to Fyzabad. He had heard, through the grapevine, that their was rioting in the oilbelt. The officers in charge were Major’s Liddlelow and Power, with Power as Senior Inspector of Police and in command of the southern division. He relates that at the time of his platoon’s arrival at Fyzabad on the 15th of June, 1937, there were already several detectives from San Fernando gathering information on developments taking place in the oilbelt. Among them were Belfon, Charles King, Hunte, Lashley, and others. Orders had been given by the Inspector General of Constabulary Mavrogordato to arrest Uriah Butler, the union leader. “At the time of the arrival of Major Power and his party, Butler was addressing a crowd of about three hundred persons. Power handed the warrant to Sergeant Price and told him to read it. Price began to do so but soon became incoherent. Butler said: ‘I
Sub-Inspector Bradburn
can’t understand what he is saying.’
Power took the warrant from Price, gave it to Belfon and said; ‘You read it.’ Belfon read it and Power then told him to arrest Butler.
“Butler then said to the crowd; ‘Are you going to allow them to carry me down like this?’
“The crowd replied with a resounding ‘No.’
“Bottles and stones were then pelted at the police from all sides. Power and party retreated from the fusillade of missiles, walking backwards to the vehicles. The crowd then began to throw missiles at the vehicles, some of which narrowly missed Constables Callender and Ashmead . . . Callender drew his revolver and stood in a threatening manner outside the car. Hunte and Price ran past the car, one of them was bleeding from a cut on his forehead. Liddlelow also had his revolver drawn; Power, who was unarmed, was calling on the crowd to behave themselves and instructed the police not to shoot. He then got alongside the driver, who in the meantime had
managed to get behind the wheel. Power was struck with a large stone on the left side of his head, just below the neck. He dropped to the ground like a log. Liddlelow, with help from other policemen, put Power in the car while the others climbed in the jitney. Liddlelow stood on the running board of the car with his revolver drawn and both car and jitney retreated somewhat ingloriously.”
The wound received by Major Power was to take him out of the action of the day and ultimately led
Major Wilfred Power
to his death. Meanwhile Callender had driven Liddlelow and party to the Fyzabad Police Station. There the men were mustered, ammunition checked and recorded in the station diary. “It was only then discovered that Charles King, a detective corporal from CID, Port-of-Spain was missing,” writes Bernard. “The Information available indicated that King was last seen running towards a Chinese shop at the Fyzabad junction. . . . About 5.30 p.m. that evening, a maid employed by a junior staff member of Apex Oilfields told Sergeant Lashley that a policeman had been burnt to death at Fyzabad. . . . Later that afternoon, the Reserve Platoon from St. James Barracks under Inspector Ogier and Sub-Inspector Bradburn arrived. Major Liddlelow decided to check out the
information concerning Corporal King. He mustered eighty policemen and left with a bus and two cars for Fyzabad junction.
“As the party of policemen proceeded on its way, several stones and bottles were thrown at them. Suddenly, a shot rang out and Bradburn, who had just walked past the car driven by Callender, cried out as he fell to the ground clutching at his chest.”
The funeral of Sub-Inspector William Bradburn at the Military cemetery in St. James
where the remains of Major Wilfred Power are also interred.
Sub-Inspector Bradburn later died of gunshot wounds.
The grave of Detective Corporal
Carl, alias ‘Charles or Charlie’ King.
“On the morning of Sunday 20th June, 1937, a strong armed party of policemen was sent out to collect the remains of Corporal Charles King at Fyzabad. It had been confirmed that he had been burnt to death. His charred remains were found at the back of the Chinese shop to which he was last seen running. Apparently King was recognised by an angry mob who chased him through one of the rear windows and he fell thirty feet to the ground. King must have broken one of his legs when he fell, as he was seen crawling towards a fence. The entrance to the shop was on the same level as the road and King obviously thought that the ground at the back was also on the same level. At the spot to which he had crawled, kerosene was poured on him and he was set alight. A number of persons were subsequently arrested and charged with his murder, but they were all acquitted.”
Lieutenant Commander Kelshall, who was in charge of the political prisoners detained on Nelson Island in 1970, sums up the Butler riots in his book, ‘The Great War’ thus, “Butler was the first of a long line of rebel leaders whom Trinidad idealised in preference to the men who stood for law and order. Men who created conditions of anarchy, who created the opportunity for hooligans to work their evil on innocent citizens. They themselves were seldom involved in the unlawful acts, but who by their conduct and oratory sanctioned them. Everyone remembers Butler, but few remember Corporal Charles King, or have ever heard the names Bradburn or Power.”
Uriah Butler was eventually arrested. When he was released from jail in 1939, he was welcomed back in the oilbelt with ‘warmth and adulation’, as historian Michael Anthony writes in his book ‘The Making of Port of Spain Vol 1’. As Anthony writes further:“His old and tried companion, Trade Unionist Cola Rienzi, was overjoyed. Rienzi showed his feeling at a Legislative Council meeting on June 16, 1939, during a debate on public holidays. Rienzi called on Government to declare the date of the oilfield riots a public holiday in place of Empire Day. Turning to the Attoney-General, Rienzi said:’June the 19th, Sir, is a day which in the minds of the workers marks a landmark in the history of the working class movement.’ Cipriani retorted:’All those who have the best interests of the working classes at heart would like to forget forever June 19 and are not asking for the making of a day for the adulation of false heroes.’”
This holiday was not granted until 1973.
King’s birthday celebration at Government House,
St. Ann’s, in 1936 (note black armbands in mourning for King George V).
Assembled are officers of the Trinidad & Tobago Police Force
and the Trinidad Volunteers. Inspector-General of Police
and Commandant of Local Forces
Colonel A.S. Mavrogordato is seated third from the left.
In 1938 the nomenclature of the Force was changed from the Trinidad and Tobago Constabulary to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force in the new Ordinance No. 5 of 1938, under which the Inspector General of Constabulary became the Commissioner of Police. New posts of Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent were created. The title Superintendent Sergeant, the ‘Super Sergeant’, gave way to Station Sergeant. Also in that year, Colonel Walter Angus Muller became the first Commissioner of Police. It was during his tenure that the emblem of the Force, the six pointed star, which was previously worn only by local gazetted officers, in remembrance of Colonel Picton’s patron saint, St. David of Wales, was allowed to all ranks as a cap badge.
The Mounted Branch on parade with drawn sabres.
1943 witnessed the elevation of Arthur Johnson to the post of Assistant Superintendent. He became the first gazetted officer to be promoted from the ranks. He was also the first man of colour to achieve such a rank in the Police Force. His appointment was the first of several that would gradually alter the nature of the composition of the officer corps of the Force. It is of interest to note that in the Trinidad Militia and later in the Trinidad Volunteers, persons of colour had held commissioned rank from the early 19th century.
The Second World War also saw policemen depart for active service overseas. No actual figures
Colonel Walter Angus Muller,
have come to hand on the quantity of enlistments. This period was one of heightened readiness for the Force as there was an ever present threat of alien infiltration and sabotage. The oil refineries were particularly vulnerable because of the secret development of 100 high octane aviation fuel underway at Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. There was as well, as Ottley reports, “the arrival of thousands of immigrants from the other West Indian islands. Their coming posed a great strain on the social services and on the enforcement of law and order.” Other difficulties, many new and complex, were generated by the American military and naval forces stationed in considerable quantities at various points of the island.
This tended to generate tensions that had to be handled with discretion, as there were confrontations between police and servicemen.
A police corporal wearing the police star
introduced as a cap badge in 1945
for the first time for all ranks.
The secret war: Lieutenant Commander Kelshall tells us that “Trinidad, because of its strategic location with regard to South America and the Panama Canal, both its own oil reserves and those of Venezuela, became an object of German interest before and during the Second World War. When the Gulf of Paria became a rendezvous for convoys and the significant US naval base was established, Trinidad drew a lot of attention from German submarines. To counter the German threat, the British MI 5 under Major Badenough and MI 6 under Major Wren set up their secret service headquarters at the Bretton Hall Hotel. They virtually took over the Police Special Branch, which at that time was based on Frederick Street, as their front line unit in counter espionage, the secret war. The police were also
In 1943 Assistant Superintendent Arthur Johnson
became the first black Gazetted Officer
promoted from the ranks.
represented in the Censorship Unit run by first Mr J. K. Thompson and later by Captain Daniel, with their carefully chosen 700 censors.
As soon as the war in the Caribbean escalated in 1942, the secret war in the island became intense, with constant hunts for spies and double agents, many of whom were caught and shipped off to Canada for further interrogation. Trinidad was declared the international inspection port for all air and sea travel to and from South America, and Special Branch carried out searches, inspections and counter intelligence operations. On occasion, they were required to use selected applications of deadly force in this dangerous clandestine world of counter intelligence. They were assisted in some of their operations by specially selected and trained members of both the Customs Division and the Boy Scouts. Most of what the Special Branch accomplished in their numerous undercover operations must remain secret, but under the direction of MI 5 and MI 6, they played a major role in keeping South America either neutral or in the Allied camp, despite the wishes of the German-speaking South Americans and the aspirations of some of the Dictators on the continent. At the same time, they helped to cut down on the losses in the Battle of the Atlantic.
“At the start of the Second World War, the Local Forces consisted of one regular and one part-time battalion of infantry. This was inadequate to handle the defense of the island and secure the oilbelt and refineries, as well as handle marine patrol. Thus the Police Force was required as a mobile light infantry reserve, although they had ceased infantry training some time before.
A detachment of police as a mobile light infantry platoon.
Initially before the Trinidad Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve built up its strength, policemen were required to do harbour patrols off Port-of-Spain, Point-a-Pierre, San Fernando and Point Fortin. In this they were assisted by Rover Sea Scouts. They also were required to be part of the Civil Defense Force, and indeed, the Commander of the Police Force was the island’s Civil Defense commander. In this role they acted as Air Raid Wardens and for whatever other duties were required from time to time.
Under the threat of a dramatic German naval presence in the Atlantic Ocean, for example the German battleship “Graf Spee” with its accompanying flotilla breaking out into the shipping lanes in 1939, virtually the whole Force was withdrawn from all other duties and deployed to the south coast alongside the soldiers. Their job in the cities and towns was taken over by the Special Reserve constables, the rural constables and precepted Boy Scouts. This established a working relationship that existed for the rest of the war, because when the Graf Spee crisis was over they found that the reserves had done a creditable job.
A Boy Scout troop from Queen’s Royal College.
In addition to their normal police functions, the constables were also required to enforce the special wartime regulations, including zoning and rationing; function as coast watchers, survivor camp guards, railway escorts, auxiliary firemen, stores-men for the tons of Civil Defense equipment, and work with the British secret service. Throughout the conflict the police were never found wanting in all the many varied functions that they were called in to perform.”
The Marine Branch on harbour patrol
was trained in the use of depth charges,
and in heavy machine gunnery (Source: Imperial War Museum)
The immediate post-war period, 1945, saw strike action taken on the waterfront, and in 1946 strikes and arson recurred in the oilbelt. This was also a time when sensational murder trials became all the news and people became familiar with the names Boysie Singh, Bumper, and Thelma Haynes. The first serious steelband riots began in 1947, with Casablanca fighting All Stars, Invaders and Rising Sun. In the years between 1947 and 1951 there were numerous clashes between bands like Invaders and Tokyo, Tokyo and Casablanca. Many steelbandsmen were given long prison sentences for crimes of wounding and rioting. These clashes continued until the main band, Casablanca, which was the band that fought everyone except Desperadoes, along with All Stars, Invaders, Tokyo, Rising Sun, and Desperadoes were invited to a “Peace Settlement” at St. Paul Street Quarry in 1951. Clashes were to continue, the most spectacular taking place in the carnival of 1965 between Fascinators and Highlanders on Charlotte Street, directly in front of the General Hospital.
Commissioner of Police,
Colonel Eric Beadon, 1949–1962.
Colonel Eric Beadon relieved Walter Muller as Commissioner of Police in 1949. He would be the last foreign-born head of the Force. Former Commissioner Eustace Bernard writes that, “The Trinidad and Tobago Police Force was at that time, according to one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors General of Colonial Police Forces, the best in the Colonial Police Service”.
An early innovation under Beadon’s watch was the introduction, in 1950, of the 999 emergency call number. Also in that year the colonial Government, by Ordinance No. 14, created the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Social and Welfare Association. Carlton Ottley writes, “The new institution, dedicated to the welfare of its members, for the first time allowed policemen to have a direct say in the conditions under which they would work. In the future, as a consequence, they would not merely have to do and die. They would be free, as they are today, to decide where both the interest of the country and that of themselves and their families rest. The formation of the Association was in fact a most revolutionary turn in the affairs of the Force, one which over the years has produced inestimable benefits both to police and public.” This was, as we shall see, not the view of the officers who led the Force.
Colonel Eric Beadon, centre, on his left,
Assistant Superintendent Clive Sealy, with Superintendents,
Inspectors, Sergeants and men who made up
the Depot (Headquarters) company.
In 1951 the Fire Brigade by Ordinance No. 12 of that year established its existence separate from the Police Force. Previously it had been under the command of the Commissioner of Police.
This period also saw the creation of the canine division with the introduction of four Alsatian dogs to help in the detection of crime. The mid-fifties witnessed the introduction of a new aspect of the Force, the policewoman. This was seen as such a novelty that calypsos were composed, the singer wanting the policewoman to not just arrest him, but to hold him ‘tight, tight, tight.’
Commissioner of Police Colonel Eric Beadon
presenting ‘Best Stick” to a W.P.C.
The first Women Police Squad was commissioned in 1955.
In 1955 it was reported that the Force detected and brought to trial suspects in every single murder committed in the country, numbering thirty-two. This was the smallest number in six years. The control of immigrants into the colony had been in the hands of the police. In 1957 a Department of Immigration was created to deal with the vexing question of illegal immigrants, since then it has been argued that
illegal immigrants, particularly from the other islands, have become such a scourge that the calypsonians have made many a song about.
Governor-General Sir Solomon Hochoy inspects the Guard of Honour
at the opening of Parliament in the late 1950s in company with
Senior Superintendent Dennis Ramdwar.
In 1958 Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret,
visited Trinidad for the inauguration of the West Indies
Federation. She is greeted at Piarco Airport
by the Commissioner of Police, Colonel Eric Beadon.
She inspects a guard of honour drawn up by the Police Force and the West India Regiment.
The band of the West India Regiment on parade in Port-of-Spain.
Sir Joseph Mathieu Perez, Kt., Q.C., LL.B., Chief Justice, inspects the Guard of Honour
drawn up outside of the Red House at the Opening of the law term in the mid-1950s.
A fresh political climate was inaugurated in 1956 by Dr. Eric Williams with the formation of the People’s National Movement. Ottley tells us that 1959, under Colonel Beadon, who served as Commissioner from 1949 to 1962, the Special Branch was created. This was also a time when several local men were gazetted to replace returning expatriate officers. When asked, by the head of a Commonwealth Commission inspecting the Police Force in 1964, about East Indians entering the Force, Commissioner of Police G.T. Carr responded that the selection board had been trying everything possible to increase the number of East Indians in the Force, because he was of the opinion that the Force should be the representative of the population. (Daily Mirror, 1964)
The First Division dining at Police Headquarters in 1968.
Assistant Commissioner Eustace Bernard is at the head of his table.
As the colony moved towards Independence, the Force was again re-organised. Bernard writes that “All the expatriate officers were of the opinion that they could not entrust their futures to local politicians, George ‘Sonny’ Carr, James ‘Jimmy’ Reid and I, who were the seniors of the local officers and were of the opinion that Trinidad and Tobago was our country and our loyalty and trust had to be to her and no other. All expatriate officers left the service before or after Independence.”
The political atmosphere, in the lead-up to Independence, proved to be divisive on many levels. The most obvious differences were racial, as tensions grew not just between the two largest racial segments in the country, that represented the political divide, the Africans and the Indians, but overtly, and for the first time, between the blacks and the whites.
Commissioner of Police, George Carr, left, and Superintendent Clive Sealy, right, testifying before the Commonwealth Commission of Inquiry into the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force. On the question of training recruits, Mr. Justice Darby, the head of the Commission, said he had sent for a syllabus from the Canadian police authorities, and that out of a total of 1,122 hours of training, only 287 hours of drill were used for Canadian policemen. In contrast, the Trinidad recruits underwent 960 hours of training during their six month course and did 470 hours of drill work. Mr. Carr maintained that this amount of drill was necessary because the Force was considered a military unit. Chairman Judge Walter Derby did not agree.
George “Sonny” Carr, 1962–1966
There were other divisions of opinion; these concerned the veracity of populist politicians with regard to the prosecution of law and order. It was a matter of trust. The people trusted the Police Force. As a paramilitary force they had served the country faithfully, they were, for all intent and purpose, the army.
It would appear that they were expected to give up that role at Independence with the creation of a Defense Force. In 1961 there were public misgivings voiced in the press concerning any changes, with particular regard to placing the Police Force under ministerial (political) control. In the year after that, 1962, the appointment, dismissal and promotion of members of the Force were taken out of the hands of the Commissioner of Police with the setting up of a new Police Service Commission that would take over all responsibility for the recruitment, promotion, discipline and retirement of members of the Police Force. During his time as Commissioner, Trinidad and Tobago was host to the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and his Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. This state visit lasted from February 7th to the 10th. In April of that year the country played host to His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie. These state occasions necessitated police work on several levels, from ceremonial parades, to the actual organising of events, to security, to crowd control. Assistant Commissioner Eustace Bernard was in charge of the organising and implementation of these state occasions.
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness, Prince Phillip
on a visit to Trinidad and Tobago in 1966. Standing behind Her Majesty,
Commissioner of Police George Carr, His Royal Highness, Prince Phillip
and His Excellency, Sir Solomon Hochoy, Governor General of Trinidad and Tobago.
Her Majesty enters the Red House to open to open Parliament.
She is accompanied by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate.
A woman police corporal (left) in the new uniform issued for W.P.C.’s in 1965.
A Police Guard of Honour drawn up outside of the Red House
on the occasion of a visit of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor,
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia in 1965.
His Imperial Highness, accompanied by His Excellency
Sir Solomon Hochoy paid an official visit to the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament
in company with the Speaker of the House of Representatives
and the President of the Senate.
Prime Minister Dr. Eric Williams as a guest of
Commissioner of Police “Sonny” Carr at the Commissioner’s
residence at St. James Barracks.
Sir Edward Betham Beetham, right,
and Commissioner of Police ‘Sonny’ Carr.
Sir Edward was Governor of Trinidad and Tobago
1955–60, where he presided over the transition
to elected internal self-government.
Beetham was the last British colonial governor of
Trinidad and Tobago of British descent.
As Kelshall was to remark in his book, ‘A Close Run Thing’, “What everyone (in government) overlooked, either deliberately or simply because no one in the hierarchy realised it, was that from the end of the Second World War to the week before Independence, the Police Force had been the army, and that they had a tradition of being the army for more than a century.
It was unrealistic to ask the police to overnight become a civil organisation.
In a token gesture, the name Police Force was changed to Police Service (in 1966) and they were now supposed to be a civil organisation.” In actual fact, the standing orders remained fundamentally in place as were the men who commanded the Police Force.
Three cheers for the Right Honourable Prime Minister
Dr. Eric Williams and for the Minister of Home Affairs,
the Honourable Gerard Montano at a Passing Out Parade.
At left of the Prime Minister is Commissioner Carr,
behind Gerard Montano is Deputy Commissioner James Reid.
The new Commissioner of Police was George Thomas Witmore “Sonny” Carr. He was a son of a gazetted police officer who had come to Trinidad in the 1900s and had married a local lady. “Sonny” Carr had, in a manner of speaking, grown up at the St. James Barracks and as such was known to the rank and file.
The year of our Independence, 1962, also saw Dr. Eric Williams become the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Independence marked the end of an era in the affairs of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force. They were no longer responsible to the British Government, but to the people of Trinidad and Tobago. In Kelshall’s opinion, Dr. Williams was “an autocratic leader and as such he must take much responsibility for what took place immediately after Independence.” Kelshall believed that Williams started with a serious disadvantage. “He was a social historian. . . he knew very little of military affairs. . . The fact that he annually laid a wreath at the Cenotaph where there were one hundred and eighty names inscribed never seemed to reach him. Unfortunately, his influence was so strong that his view of military affairs was widely copied and contributed in no small measure to the lack of a military tradition in Trinidad and Tobago in the post-war years.
“He was put out by the British insistence that to become independent Trinidad and Tobago would have to have a military force. He did not want the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment that was fostered on him.”
Commissioner of Police ‘Sonny’ Carr, third from left,
with Commissioners of Police in waiting, from left
Mr. Eustace Bernard and Mr. James Reid, on the right of
Commissioner Carr are Mr. Tony May and Mr. James Rodriguez.
This was a time of fundamental changes affecting not only the institutions of the state but the entire society, as adjustments were made psychologically and materially to the Independence of Trinidad and Tobago from Great Britain. One such change was the nature of the Press and its relationship with the police. At the 1964 Commonwealth Commission of inquiry into the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force. Commissioner Carr stated “The main reason that our efforts have not been very successful, regrettably is a most important medium for promoting public relations, the Press, is by no means co-operative.” He charged the newsmen with misconstruing, distorting and fabricating news and said it has had adverse effect on the Force. He said that news that would give the Force credit was seldom given prominence.
The Prime Minister Dr. Eric Williams accompanied
by Deputy Commissioner of Police, then Acting Commissioner
Tony May, on a tour of police stations during the Black Power
demonstrations of 1970. Deputy Commissioner of Police
Tony May was appointed Acting Commissioner.
Previous Commissioner of Police James Reid had retired at
the beginning of April, and the new Commissioner of Police
Eustace Bernard, whose appointment was to
commence in June, was still overseas.
Another change in the society that coincided with the period of Independence was appearance of a variety of illicit drugs on the local scene for the first time and in such quantity. Under Carr’s watch, to deal with this alarming problem, the Narcotic Squad was established in 1964, because according to Carlton Ottley, “Drug addiction among young people had reached such proportions, and the use of marijuana become so widespread.”
The decades of the 1960s–70s, in the world over, was a time of social upheaval and revolutionary changes, caused in part by the coming of age of a generation that sought to define itself by being against the established norms. It was characterised here in T&T by the spread and the easy availability of marijuana, cocaine, methaqualone (mandrax) and a variety of hallucinogenics. In a publication entitled ‘Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean’, social scientist Daurius Figueira writes, “Commencing in the late 1960s to the present, Trinbago has been constantly awash in illicit drugs imported into Trinbago from primarily Venezuela. In the late 1960s compressed Columbian ganja and mandrax, manufactured in Columbia, were landed at various points on the coastline and marketed primarily in the East-West corridor of northern Trinidad.”
Commissioner of Police James Reid, right, and
Deputy Commissioner of Police Eustace Bernard
as guest of honour at the 25th anniversary parade of the
Special Reserve Police, in 1967. His Excellency,
Sir Solomon Hochoy, Governor General of Trinidad,
center, at far left, Senior Superintendent Gionetti,
head of the S.R.P.
During Carr’s tenure Ottley tells us that “in that year, 1964, thirty-nine members of the Police Marine Branch, under Superintendent David Bloom, an Englishman, were transferred to form the nucleus of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard.”
He goes on to say, “By far the most revolutionary measure undertaken by Government, however, was the introduction of the Police Service Act No. 30 of 1965. Among other changes, the First Division Officers would henceforth come under the general regulations of the Civil Service in regard to certain appointments.” Carr was to serve as Commissioner until 1966, when he would be succeeded by James Porter Reid; he too had been born in Trinidad of an English father and a Trinidadian mother and would serve as Commissioner from 1966 to 1970.
Commissioner of Police
James Porter Reid, 1966–1970.
The Black Power demonstrations of 1970, eight years after Independence, were born out the
frustrations felt by a generation of young black people, who in the aftermath of Independence, could not foresee how their hopes and ambitions, that had been inspired by the independence movement, could possible be realised.
The Black Power uprising took place in the wake of labour unrest and strikes during the1960s and events at a Canadian University and were formulated and expressed in the habitual rhetoric of resistance. This language and behavior had its origins in resistance to slavery and later resistance to colonial rule and worker repression, and was seen by many as unfounded because by all intent and purpose the government of the country was a black one. These demonstrations also took shape against the backdrop of world events, not the least of which was the rise of black awareness and the struggle for freedom from tyranny in the United States, South Africa and in other parts of the world where colonial rule, although in the process of passing away, sill lingered, rooted, as it were, in the vested interest of those who still held power.
1970 was a testing year for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, with large Black Power street demonstrations, at times numbering some ten to twenty thousand people, on the streets of Port-of-Spain during the months of February, March and April of that year. There was as well a mutiny of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment at their base at Teteron Bay in Chaguaramas.
Commissioner James Reid’s term of office was due to come to a close at the end of May of that year.
Commissioner of Police ‘Sonny’ Carr being
dined out at Police headquarters in 1966. Standing at left
is His Excellency, Sir Solomon Hochoy,
Governor General of Trinidad and incoming
Commissioner James Reid, sitting is outgoing
Commissioner Carr and standing
at Carr’s right, Sir Werner Boos, Colonial Secretary.
His successor, Deputy Commissioner Eustace Bernard, whose appointment was to be effective from June 4th 1970, was abroad in England sitting his final Bar exams. Bernard, in being appointed Commissioner, had broken the proverbial glass ceiling. He was the first man of African descent to be appointed Commissioner of Police, serving from 1970 to 1973.
During this period of social upheaval in the black community the post of Commissioner would be filled by Deputy Commissioner of Police Claude Anthony “Tony” May. May, the son of former Inspector-General, Colonel George May, had, like former Commissioner Carr, grown up at St. James Barracks.
Under May’s command, Port-of-Spain, where the marches and the picketing of business places had commenced in February of 1970, was spared rioting and looting. . . “only
In a tradition dating back to the middle
of the 19th century, the 1850s, the outgoing
Commissioner of Police, after being dined out
at Headquarters, would be led, by his successor
and his deputy, on horseback, out of the parade
ground and around Woodford Square and
back to Headquarters.
because of the heavy police presence and personal leadership of Senior Superintendent Ken Duff who was in charge of the Riot Squad,” wrote former Commissioner Bernard. “The Police Special Branch kept the government fully aware of the situation, in particular of the fact that the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment appeared to be in open sympathy with the demonstrators. Junior officers were known to have closed-door sessions with the Black Power leaders; the rank and file responded overtly and enthusiastically to the raised fists of the Black Power salute. The head of the Special Branch, Mr. Ernest Pierre had no doubt that an attempt was in the making to seize the country by force. He so informed the Prime Minister.”
The Special Branch had penetrated the Black Power movement and the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment.
The leading personalties of the Black Power movement were Geddes Granger and Dave Darbeau.
Eustace Bernard, 1970–1973.
Granger had commenced his revolutionary career at the University of the West Indies, where he was enrolled in 1966. In February of 1969, Granger and some members of the Guild of Undergraduates formed an organisation called The National Joint Action Committee, N.J.A.C., which was to become for the next two years a name on the lips of every citizen, as its members and affiliates sought to overthrow the legitimate government of Trinidad and Tobago. Bernard in his publication ‘The Freedom Fighters’ explains that “N.J.A.C. was an umbrella body covering many organisations, not in any way depriving them of their autonomy, but ensuring that they adhere to the fixed goals of Black people dominance in Trinidad and Tobago and the fall of Dr. Eric Williams, the then Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the organisations were the Black Panthers, Young Power, the O.W.T.U., the T.I.W.U., the Union of Revolutionary Organisations and U.W.I. Undergraduates.” He goes on to describe that, “Throughout the months of demonstrations, speeches and marches, the police presence was much in evidence. In fact many police officers who were ill at the Police Hospital at St. James Barracks discharged themselves, though not fully recovered, to join their brothers on the line. Granger and most of his speakers sought to subvert the loyalty of the police by appealing to them as ‘Black Brothers’ who came from the same background; that the struggle of N.J.A.C was also their struggle: thus they must not allow themselves to be used against their brothers. N.J.A.C. failed in this objective. The same cannot be said of the Regiment. Soldiers were seen carrying Black Power banners, giving the Black Power salute, i.e. the raised, clenched fist, taking part in marches and demonstrations and in an overt manner being part of N.J.A.C. The Regiment lost the trust of the Government.”
Standing: l to r. Asst. Com. Gladstone Roach,
Senior Superintendent Ken Duff, Dep. Com. Ernest Pierre,
Asst. Com. Clive Sealy. Sitting: Dep. Com. Anthony May,
Commissioner of Police Eustace Bernard,
Assistant Commissioner Dennis Ramdwar.
The Government, Prime Minister Dr. Eric Williams, had not lost trust in the Police Service, which was loyal to a man. The Government was also aware that the Coast Guard, with its large composition of members of the former Police Marine Branch, was dependable and that its officer rank was loyal.
The Black Power marches and speeches continued to April 20th, 1970. The declaration of a State of Emergency on 21st April, when Granger and some of his lieutenants in N.J.A.C. were detained, brought to an end what was obviously a lawless state of affairs. These detentions marked the end of that phase of N.J.A.C.’s strategy; their objective to bring down the Government of Trinidad and Tobago had failed. Bernard had knowledge that “N.J.A.C. was dominated by people with communist ideas and ideology.” The Police Service had, without a doubt, saved Trinidad and Tobago from what could have amounted to be a foreign power intervention, very likely, according to Kelshall, from Venezuela, or a civil war with all the attendant miseries and violent deaths.
Commissioner of Police Eustace Bernard receives the Medal of Merit
from His Excellency, Sir Solomon Hochoy, Governor General of Trinidad.
Commissioner of Police Eustace Bernard, center,
with Superintendents, Inspectors, Sergeants,
Instructors and newly graduated constables.
Writing about what in his opinion was the start of the collapse of police discipline in his book, ‘Against the Odds’, former Commissioner of Police Eustace Bernard states, “In the Police Service, unlike other sections of the Public Service, there was prior to 1971, no limit to the hours of duty a policeman was required to work. A policeman was available for duty once he was in the station, and he was required to be there unless he was given leave, which was granted only when there was an adequate reserve. So, it was not unusual, even as late as the time of my assumption of duty as Commissioner of Police, that the Abstract of Duty, kept at each station, averaged a sixty-eight hour week.” Meaning that the average on-duty hours for a policeman was sixty-eight hours. “The Police Association, in an effort to equate the police work-week with those of public servants, got cabinet approval for the reduction of the number of hours of worked per week. The publication in the ‘Gazette’ giving effect to this was No. 44 of 1971 with a forty hour work week, proposed from 1st January, 1972.”
Claude Anthony May, 1973–1978.
Eustace Bernard plainly states, “The numerical strength of the Service was clearly not sufficient to enable it to work a forty four hour week and to render an efficient 24 hour service to the public. To reduce police working hours to forty per week was, therefore, looking for even greater chaos. The Commissioner of Police was not consulted before the agreement with the Police Association led by its general secretary, Inspector Rupert Arneaud was reached. However, before publication of the relevant regulations, the Minister of National Security, Mr. George Chambers, discussed the matter with me. I strenuously objected to the forty-four hour week, pointing out the detrimental effect it would have on the availability of policemen at stations, their presence on the streets and the capability of the police to respond to calls.” Bernard was supported in his views by members of the First Division as well as by past Commissioners James Reid and George Carr, and significantly the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Mr. Teasly Taitt, to whom he wrote a report five months later, drawing to his attention the detrimental effect which the change to a forty-four hour week was having on efficiency, morale, discipline and ‘esprit de corps’ of the Service, the four essentials as he termed them.
It was also made clear to the government that this change would eventually cause a backlog in the
Commissioner of Police Tony May with Senior Superintendents,
Sergeants and Instructors at the Police Barracks.
courts. Commissioner Bernard was to report, “There has been a marked falling off in the attendance of court cases, in that court attendance interfered not only with the two compulsory days off, but also with time off in the eight hour day. I believe this reduction in police working hours has been the root cause of police inefficiency,” Bernard reported. He argued that the authorised strength of the Service was two thousand eight hundred and eighty six in 1971. “If one were to divide this number into four shifts, each shift would be made up of seven hundred and twenty one men, thus the new regulations have placed into actual service, at any one time, only seven hundred and twenty one men to carry out all the functions of the Police Service.” And this was not taking into account officers and men who could be on leave, abroad or ill, thus reducing the quantum of on duty police by a considerable amount. “I told him if we were to take fifteen percent of the seven hundred and twenty one men as being on leave in any one year and another five per cent as being sick, there will only be five hundred and seventy seven men to run the entire Trinidad and Tobago Police Service at any one time in any one year.
In 1987 Clive Sealy was Deputy Commissioner of Police
when on the recommendation of the Police Service
Commission he was appointed to the post of Special Advisor
(Protective Services) in the Ministry of National Security.
In 1983 Clive Sealy was Acting Commissioner of Police,
the incumbent, Commissioner of Police Randolph Burroughs,
being away from the country.
Sealy had been Deputy Commissioner
in 1973, Assistant Commissioner in 1967,
Senior Superintendent in 1966, and Assistant
Superintendent in 1960.
He goes on to describe what was already happening and predicted what would be the future experiences of the public for several years. “This reduction has had a tremendous detrimental effect on the entire Service. There was no one at stations for considerable periods, either by day or by night, other than the sentry. Reports of accidents, burglaries and serious crimes could not be investigated until some days later. In some instances, the inspectors have had to go out to investigate traffic accidents.
“In so far as security was concerned, having regard to the few men at stations, I have had to withdraw rifles from several stations in Port-of-Spain and place them in central repositories. In several divisions I have had to do the same thing. However, I have not found it prudent to do this with respect to all stations.”
Without the appropriate increase in trained personnel in all ranks, this was a very serious blow to the effectiveness of the Police Service, made critical, by the evidence being collected by Special Branch on the increase of illicit drugs and guns entering the country and, the extent of subversive activities being conducted by persons of interest to the police.
It seems inconceivable that after such a serious social upheaval as N.J.A.C.’s attempt to overthrow
Randolph Burroughs.
the elected government, as well as an attempted mutiny of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment, that the very same government that had been saved by the Police Service, would countenance an act that would effectively undermine the discipline and weaken the effectiveness of the very Police Service that had saved it, as well as the country, from anarchy.
The effect of the forty hour work week introduced to the Service by the government brought the now increasingly “at home policeman” into close and personal contact with the expanding drug trade. In the late 1960s–70s, according to Darius Figueira, “Trinidad and Tobago was fully integrated into the drug trafficking economy of Venezuela.” Bernard claims that the new Regulations “. . . did not permit the policeman to be available at stations for lectures and instructions which, by standing order, are to be given. Since the coming into being of these regulations, there was no one at stations to either to give or to receive
Superintendent Randolph Burroughs with members
of the “Flying Squad” who are receiving instructions
on the use of metal detectors.
lectures. Thus the men were uninformed about matters affecting the Service or pertinent to the discharge of their duties.”
The change in working hours had created circumstances that could only be described as very serious with regard to conflicts of interest. Loyalty to the Service and performance of duty were conflicted with the appearance of illicit drugs, with personal, family and community concerns. The forty hour work week especially affected the probationer and those who had recently joined the Service: compromised in their loyalty, they were often forced to turn a blind eye to what they saw taking place in their homes, amongst their friends and in the community that they grew up in. Ironically the number of arrest for possession of marijuana increased dramatically generating long trial delays and overcrowding in the Remand Yard.
As marijuana became the popular drug for recreation and anti-social behaviour, it was only a matter of time before the real purpose of its introduction began to manifest, which was to facilitate the importation and transshipment cocaine, accommodate money laundering and the introduction of guns and ammunition. White-collar crime would take root in certain businesses and in several government departments so as to facilitate the drug trade.
The forty hour work week, introduced by the Welfare Association and accepted and implemented by the government, as sudden as it was, served to create a breakdown in discipline and compromised loyalty to the Service. It generated, in the long run, the backlog of cases in the courts and eventually the overcrowding and near collapse of the prison system where, in the remand yards, a university for criminals was created.
These events were further exacerbated by the emigration of some one hundred and ten thousand people who left Trinidad and Tobago from 1960 to 1970; about one tenth of the population. In the previous period, 1950 to 1960, just four thousand people had emigrated. This emigration left many children and young people without parents, exemplars and proper guidance. Without a doubt the society was undergoing a fundamental change, an exodus, in fact, as in the following twenty years, over one hundred seventy thousand persons would leave Trinidad and Tobago to seek their fortunes abroad, producing a generation of the so called “barrel children”. Children whose only contact with their parents were the barrels of gifts received by them from time to time. To have an idea of what segment of the population that was in the majority of this exodus is to note that carnivals appeared in Brooklyn, London, and in Toronto, as well as in other places.
The corollary to the emigration phenomenon was immigration. This saw about the same amount of people, mostly from the other islands, come to this country, as those who had left it. These lived increasingly in scattered squatter communes along the east-west corridor and in the older neglected and impoverished areas, both in the east and to the north-west of the city of Port-of-Spain.
Randolph Burroughs, 1978–1987.
In 1971, in the aftermath of the failed N.J.A.C./Black Power uprising that had attempted to overthrow the government and the mutiny of the Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force, a group of N.J.A.C. followers continued to meet so as to arrive at a new strategy that would achieve their original goals.
Former Commissioner of Police Bernard in his book ‘The Freedom Fighters’ relates, “Many of them would meet regularly at the corner of Panker St. and Bay Road in St James.” It would appear that these meetings, monitored by Special Branch, attracted a following that included former soldiers, petty criminals, weed pushers, and ex Queen’s Royal College students, some of whom had failed in their scholastic endeavours. Bernard describes them as coming from the surrounding areas of Woodbrook, Khandahar St., Bellevue, Diego Martin, Belmont, Debe and Boissiere Village. An influential personality in these meetings was a young man by the name of John Bedeau. (A coincidence of history gives him the same name as the mulatto ship’s captain, Jean Bedeau, of the French Revolutionary period that Colonel Picton fought against.)
Bernard writes, “He, Bedeau, unlike the non-achievers was, by comparison, well qualified having got his ‘A’ levels and was employed. He was their age, articulate, persuasive, mild of temperament, but a born revolutionary.” He provided the group with books and instructions on revolutionary tactics. The other influential members of this core group was Guy Harewood, who came from an upper-middle-class background, and Brian Jeffers, a drug pusher and petty criminal. It was agreed that N.J.A.C.had failed because of the absence of military muscle. The ‘Brothers’, as they called themselves, decided to create an organisation that would seize the country by force of arms, a notion that was fortified by the number of former regiment men who were in sympathy with their ideals. They would call the organisation the National United Freedom Fighters, N.U.F.F.
Commissioner of Police, Randolph Burroughs,
in consultation with former Commissioner of Police,
Mr. Tony May during the N.U.F.F. insurgency.
From 1971 to 1975 the Police, first under the command of Commissioner Bernard and from 1973 to 1978 under the command of Commissioner May, engaged the island’s first and to this day only guerrilla fighter force.
The National United Freedom Fighters, N.U.F.F., evolved into a highly organised and very motivated band of young men and women who staged several bank robberies and holdups, executed acts of sabotage against vital installations, bombed homes of Regiment Officers, ambushed police patrols, shot and killed civilians, destroyed police stations, attempted the murder of Captain David Bloom, and killed four policemen, wounding several others in the course of their duties.
Those murdered were: Constable McDonald Pritchard, Constable Austin Sankar, Corporal Bascombe, and Corporal Andrew Britto.
In the face of almost daily assassination attempts and brazen robberies, all coming in the wake of the harrowing period of the N.J.A.C./Black Power uprising and attempted mutiny by elements of the Defense Force, it became clear that a new and challenging period was upon the Service.
Commissioner of Police Randolph Burroughs inspects
a detachment of Women Police Constables at the
passing out parade, St James Barracks.
Because the earliest actions undertaken by the group were burglaries and break-ins and a daring bank robbery, Superintendent Randolph Burroughs, of the Robbery Squad, was put on full time investigation of these reports by Commissioner Bernard and Special Branch was asked to assist.
Bernard informs us that Randolph Burroughs was an indefatigable worker. He was “most loyal to his seniors and his country, and most importantly, the best informed man of his time on criminals and their activities. He had enlisted in the Service in 1950. He had served most of his service in the Criminal Investigation Department and was cited for outstanding work on twenty three occasions.”
In 1972 after a shootout with Police and a party of well armed and obviously motivated men on the Blanchisseuse Road, Commissioner Bernard relieved Superintendent Burroughs of all other duties and directed that he concentrate on the apprehension of those responsible for what was feared to be an incipient guerrilla movement that was being motivated and guided by outside interest that had as their intention the overthrow of the Government. It was feared that this situation could grow and evolve into a full scale conflict, that in the worsening financial state of the country (this was before the oil boom of 1973) would tend to attract those who had been motivated by the Black Power movement, dissidents, Cuba inspired trade unionists, former members of the Regiment, criminals, the generally disaffected, the impoverished, the desperate and even the idealist.
Commissioner of Police Randolph Burroughs was awarded the Trinity Cross.
He seen here with Commodore Mervyn Williams also a recipient.
“Burroughs was allowed to select the men he wanted,” Bernard informs us and, because of the investigative work done by Special Branch, “he chose several of those policemen who were students at the Queen’s Royal College during the time that Harewood attended.” Commissioner Bernard directed the head of the C.I.D., Assistant Commissioner Russell Toppin and all Divisional Superintendents, to give Burroughs all assistance required and that Superintendent Burroughs report to him personally at least every twenty-four hours. Thus was created the “Flying Squad”. It was to be comprised, to some extent, from men drawn from the Robbery Squad that Burroughs had commanded. Bernard writes, “The Squad was divided into three units: the Combat, which Burroughs personally led, the Undercover and the Surveillance.”
During the following three to four years, the Flying Squad was engaged in running battles with the N.U.F.F. that took place in forested areas of the northern range, in towns and in fact across the country. The robberies of banks and other places provided the N.U.F.F. with cash, but it became obvious to the police that they were being guided and supplied increasingly with sophisticated weapons, cocaine and marijuana.
Randolph Burroughs as opening batsman.
Bernard tells us that following the shooting deaths of four members of the N.U.F.F. by police, widespread condemnation for the police action was evoked by the press and, as he writes, also by “the Pulpit”, thus giving the impression that police life was expendable and that of the bandit was sacrosanct. In all, some eighteen N.U.F.F. members were shot and killed by the Flying Squad, and once again the country was rescued from what could have been a disaster by a loyal Police Service. The swift elevation of Superintendent Randolph Burroughs to the post of Commissioner of Police in 1978 was to affect the advancement of several senior officers, notably of Deputy Commissioner of Police Clive Sealy. Some have argued that the chain of command had been irretrievably broken and a new and destructive element had entered the Service, while others contend that in the days of Burroughs “no dog dared bark.”
Commissioner of Police Randolph Burroughs’ term of office came to an end in 1987. He was succeeded by Commissioner Louis Jim Rodriguez.
Louis Jim Rodriguez, 1987–1990.
In 1990, partly as a result of political indecisiveness, a breakdown in communications and against a protracted downturn in the economy, yet another insurgent group arose. Its alleged purpose was to resist political chicanery, wanton social injustice and exploitation of the disadvantaged. Muslim extremists were able to train and indoctrinate a membership, evade detection and import a quantity of explosives, arms and ammunition. They destroyed by fire the Police Headquarters on St. Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain, murdering the sentry on duty, while holding the members of the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago hostage and causing multiple deaths in another attempt to overthrow an elected government. These events took place in the first year of Commissioner of Police Jules Bernard taking office.
A tense moment as Commissioner of Police Rodriguez makes his way
to attend a funeral for a fallen comrade. Note the police officer
standing behind the irate civilian.
Commissioner of Police, Louis Rodriguez, middle with uncrossed legs,
with First Division officers. On his left is Deputy Commissioner
of Police Jules Bernard, his successor.
In 2004, we designed and built the Museum of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service in Port of Spain. Click here to look at pictures of the exhibit.
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Cole Beadon said...
I also grew up in St.James' Barracks, and thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and seeing so many familiar names and faces. Cole "Buster" Beadon, son of Lt. Col. Eric Beadon Beadon, Commissioner 1949 - 62.
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First published in 1982, Ellery Eells' original work on rational decision making had extensive implications for probability theorists, economists, statisticians and psychologists concerned with decision making and the employment of Bayesian principles. His analysis of the philosophical and psychological significance of Bayesian decision theories, causal decision theories and Newcomb's paradox continues to be influential in philosophy of science. His book is now revived for a new generation of readers and presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, including a specially commissioned preface written by Brian Skyrms, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry.
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Edited by Michael E. Schlesinger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Haroon S. Kheshgi, Joel Smith, Francisco C. de la Chesnaye, John M. Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tom Wilson, Charles Kolstad, University of California, Santa Barbara
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22 - Past, present, and future of non-CO2 gas mitigation analysis
from Part III - Mitigation of greenhouse gases
By Francisco C. de la Chesnaye, Climate Change Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, US Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (6207J) Washington, DC 20460, USA, Casey Delhotal, Climate Change Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, US Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.; NW (6207J), Washington, DC 20460, USA, Benjamin DeAngelo, Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory Starr Building, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA, Deborah Ottinger-Schaefer, Climate Change Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, US Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (6207J) Washington, DC 20460, USA, Dave Godwin, Stratospheric Protection Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, US Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (6205J) Washington, DC 20460 USA
“Other greenhouse gases” (OGHGs) and “non-CO2 greenhouse gases” (NCGGs): these are terms that are now much more familiar to the climate modeling community than they were a decade ago. Much of the increased analytical relevance of these gases, which include methane, nitrous oxide, and a group of fluorinated compounds, is due to work conducted under the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) and facilitated by meetings at Snowmass, Colorado, going back to 1998.
The two principal insights from over five years of analysis on NCGGs are (1) the range of economic sectors from which these emissions originate is far larger and more diverse than for carbon dioxide (CO2); and (2) the mitigation costs for these sectors and their associated gases can be lower than for energy-related CO2. Taken together, these two factors result in a larger portfolio of potential mitigation options, and thus more potential for reduced costs, for a given climate policy objective. This is especially important where carbon dioxide is not the dominant gas, on a percentage basis, for a particular economic sector and even for a particular region.
This paper provides an analytical history of non-CO2 work and also lays out promising new areas of further research. There are five sections following this introduction. Section 22.2 provides a summary of non-CO2 gases and important economic sectors. Section 22.3 covers early efforts to estimate non-CO2 emissions and mitigation potential. Section 22.5 covers recent work focusing on mitigation.
Human-Induced Climate Change
An Interdisciplinary Assessment
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Bringing together many of the world's leading experts, this volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of climate change science, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and policy. It provides an integrated assessment of research on the key topics that underlie current controversial policy questions. The first part of the book addresses recent topics and findings related to the physical-biological earth system. The next part of the book surveys estimates of the impacts of climate change for different sectors and regions. The third part examines current topics related to mitigation of greenhouse gases and explores the potential roles of various technological options. The last part focuses on policy design under uncertainty. Dealing with the scientific, economic and policy questions at the forefront of the climate change issue, this book will be invaluable for graduate students, researchers and policymakers interested in all aspects of climate change and the issues that surround it.
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It is a commonplace of art history these days to reduce the role of the artist in his/her own work, to discuss the artist as if he/she were but the passive and transparent vessel of larger structural forces that shape their art. Indeed, it seems at times that academics deny the artist agency all together these days. What was once a necessary correction to the 19th century Great Man view of history has gone the other extreme into a Michel Foucault inspired dystopia where no one acts, but people only behave according to predetermined patterns. Our understanding of our own time colors our view of the past, as is true of every period and culture that ever looked back. Perhaps we project our own immensely expanded and interconnected world governed by large impersonal economic and political forces back into a much smaller and more local world of the past. In our world, the individual is both an insignificant cipher and an almost mythically inflated figure. The individual in a Renaissance city state like Nuremberg certainly had a very different meaning.
We assume that artists before the advent of the Modern Era were largely integrated into their societies and played their roles without question or self-consciousness. We presume that the popular conception of the artist as a visionary set in opposition to his/her own society is entirely a creation of early 19th century Romanticism that has no relevance to earlier art. I think it is possible to question this conventional academic presumption without trying to make Donatello into Van Gogh's twin brother. Sketchy and fragmentary historical records suggest that the reality of artists' lives was much more complex and richer than the current anthropological model would indicate, that artists sometimes did indeed consciously try to make or break their assigned roles and conventional aesthetics long before Romanticism made that part of the job description.
One such artist was the great Nuremberg sculptor Veit Stoss, an artist praised internationally, even by that great Italo-centric writer Giorgio Vasari (though he misattributes Stoss' sculpture of Saint Roch in the church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence to a French sculptor). Veit Stoss was the most famous sculptor to come out of Nuremberg, and yet the details of his life are sketchy and fragmentary. Little is known for certain about his origins, including the exact year and place of his birth. Veit Stoss bursts into the historical record with a major masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, a huge altarpiece for Saint Mary's Church in Cracow, Poland, the church of the German mercantile community in the Polish royal city. It was the largest and most ambitious such altarpiece in Europe at the time, and still celebrated as Stoss's masterpiece. He employed scores of specialists -- woodcarvers, painters, gilders, etc. -- to help him make this altarpiece. It took Stoss about a dozen years to complete this work, during which time he renounced his citizenship in Nuremberg. Some kind of fame or reputation must have preceded Stoss to Cracow for him to have gained so important (and probably much sought after) a commission, though this is lost in the surviving records.
Veit Stoss returned to Nuremberg in 1496 an internationally celebrated sculptor and regained his citizenship. Ever after, the records indicate a very troubled relationship with his home city. Soon after he returned, he lost his savings through fraud. In 1503, Stoss was arrested for forging an official seal used by the man who swindled him in a attempt to recover his money. Stoss was sentenced to be branded on both cheeks and prohibited from leaving Nuremberg without official permission. The Emperor Maximilian I pardoned him three years later and restored his civil rights. The whole episode -- and Stoss' permanently branded cheeks -- embittered his relations with his fellow citizens in Nuremberg. That alienation only deepened when Nuremberg's city council voted to join the Reformation in 1525 while Stoss decided to remain Catholic. The commissions for large work stopped coming, partly because of his strained relations with the city, and also partly because the Reformation dried up demand for the large-scale public religious work that were the bread and butter of artists of that time, even of those who supported the Reformation (such as that other great Nuremberg artist Albrecht Dürer). Veit Stoss died in 1533 and is buried in the Johannesfriedhof in Nuremberg not far from Dürer's grave.
These biographical fragments suggest a proud, very difficult, and temperamental man jealous for his independence. Today, and in his lifetime, Stoss' work is celebrated for its virtuosity, its drama, and for its originality. I certainly would never make Stoss into some kind of modern revolutionary out to fight for a new way of seeing the world. But, I would make him into that kind of independent and original artist that the literature of the Renaissance and ever after describes, an artist who defies convention and completely remakes it; as did the pioneering Italians of the 15th century such as Donatello and Masaccio; a conception largely rejected by academics these days, but that I would argue is still true to experience, our experience of the artist's work and to the artist's experience of making it.
Pardon my inner socialist, but I always suspect these academic models denying agency to the artist as being another plot by management to keep labor costs down.
While Veit Stoss' greatest work remains on the high altar of Saint Mary's in Cracow, there is still a lot of his work to be seen in Nuremberg, including major projects.
Pardon me for returning from a second trip to Nuremberg smitten with this artist's work.
Unless otherwise noted, all of the photographs in this post are mine and are freely available, especially to educators.
Veit Stoss' Work in Sankt Lorenz in Nuremberg
The great church of Sankt Lorenz is always worth another visit and another.
The west front of Sankt Lorenz
The main portal on the west front where tourists and locals together like to rest their tired feet by sitting on the steps. In Stoss' day, those steps were probably occupied by beggars and vendors.
The 14th century tympanum sculpture of the whole scheme of salvation from The Incarnation through the Passion to the Last Judgement.
The view east through the 14th century nave to the 15th century choir.
Sankt Lorenz was never a cathedral church. Like the Marienkirche in Lübeck, it was the church of the ruling mercantile oligarchy. Nuremberg, like Hanseatic Lübeck, grew rich off foreign trade; in this case by overland trade between Italy and Flanders, and cross continental trade routes from east to west. A large splendid church like Sankt Lorenz proclaimed the power and success of the ruling mercantile oligarchy as well as glorified God.
Looking west back though the 14th century nave
The 14th century rose window
Looking east to the choir.
The 15th century choir designed by Mathes Roriczer with vault tracery designed by Jacob Grimm.
Christ Crucified on the Tree of Life on the rood beam.
This may well be a post War reconstruction of Grimm's tracery, but it is still amazing.
Hanging from that reconstructed tracery vault is one of Veit Stoss' most celebrated works, The Annunciation.
This hanging sculpture is huge. The figures of Mary and Gabriel are life sized. The whole thing is made from polychromed limewood.
This huge sculpture was commissioned by the wealthy merchant and city councilor Anton Tucher in 1517 to be a focus for Marian devotions centering on the rosary (and yet Tucher voted with the rest of the city council in 1525 to join the Reformation).
A woodcut from about 1510 by Wolf Taub of the Rosary with the Joyful and Sorrowful Mysteries of the Virgin Mary. Scanned from my copy of Michael Baxandall's The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany.
This great sculpture is a very original conception based on popular woodcuts of the rosary. It was a real stroke of imagination to recreate a flat graphic conception in three dimensional sculpture using the actual space of the church as the background. The hanging sculpture floats in the middle of the air like an apparition, a kind of miraculous visionary experience for all who look at it. As in the prints, the Annunciation is framed by a garland of golden roses that represent the beads on the rosary. Five Medallions between the golden roses show the Joyful Mysteries of the Virgin Mary (The Visitation, The Nativity, The Adoration of the Magi, The Resurrection, and Pentecost). The Annunciation is one of those Joyful Mysteries and is the centerpiece, probably because it is most appropriate for altars ("the word became flesh;" the Real Presence of Christ invoked on the altar in the choir during Mass).
Veit Stoss added two more medallions at the top showing the Dormition and Coronation of the Virgin Mary; Mary as the First Christian whose reward in Heaven is promised to every believer in the next life.
This great work was completed on the eve of the Reformation, and post-Reformation Nuremberg had difficulty with this large prominent work proclaiming Marian devotion in the middle of one of their greatest churches. For a long time, it was grist for preachers assailing popery and the expenditures "wasted" on maintaining this sculpture instead of being spent on charity. As late as the 18th century, this sculpture still incurred the wrath of preachers like Andreas Osiander who referred to the Virgin Mary as looking like a "golden milkmaid."
Gabriel greets Mary as the small prayer book drops from her hand. The Dove of the Holy Spirit lands upon her head. Small angels surround them ringing handbells.
Veit Stoss used drapery in his sculptures very expressively in a way that went beyond his contemporaries and anticipated Baroque art (especially Bernini). The little angel ringing a bell on the right holds up part of her drapery. As Peter Meyer points out, that drapery takes on the shape of an ear, a shape echoed throughout the folds of the drapery. Mary hears the Word that becomes flesh in her womb. This sculpture is full of the noise of ringing bells and musical instruments. It is all about hearing and listening.
The top of the rosary showing the Resurrection of Christ, and the Coronation of the Virgin.
The medallion showing The Nativity.
A photo that I took in 2014 of the present high altar with a crucifix by Veit Stoss
Another photo from 2014
My photo from this year of the Veit Stoss Crucifix.
Standing behind the altar of Sankt Lorenz is a life sized crucifix that is in the unpainted style made popular by the sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider.
Veit Stoss's Work in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
A stone Virgin and Child on the crescent moon. As in the best of Veit Stoss' work, the flowing drapery forms a counterpoint that complements the pose of the body. The mantle seems to rise up in an arc from her feet to help support the Child.
Tobias and the Angel done in the unpainted manner. The angel's swirling drapery is a triumph of virtuosity and form.
Veit Stoss' Work in Sankt Sebaldus, Nuremberg
Veit Stoss carved the Crucifixion group that dominates the terminus of the choir of Sankt Sebaldus.
In Veit Stoss' work, the crucified Christ is always tightly stretched out and pinned to the cross like a frog on a dissecting plate. That effect is always enhanced by the contrasting liveliness of the drapery of the loincloth. The great painter Roger Van Der Weyden created the Crucifix with the tightly stretched out body and windblown loincloth. Stoss' created his crucifixions to be his own variation of that suffering Christ on the Cross that is a German invention. The image of the crucifixion emerges suddenly and fully formed in Germany in the 10th century in one of the enduring mysteries of art history; a decisive break with the triumphalism of early Christian art that minimized the shame and suffering of the Cross.
Only Christ's head seems to move in Veit Stoss' crucifixions. The windblown drapery against the immobile body becomes a specialty for Stoss. In this case, the loincloth blowing in the wind is its own amazing work of sculpture, as free and lively as Christ's body is bound and motionless.
The Virgin Mother by Stoss, one of the few from the Renaissance to show her as age appropriate to be the mother of a 30 to 33 year old son. As in the best of Stoss' work, the drapery forms its own drama, a counterpoint to the still or slowly moving figure who wears it. The swirling dark blue mantle with flickers of gold leaf seems to express her inner turmoil.
The figure of John from the Crucifixion group.
As always, the hands and feet on Veit Stoss' Crucifixions are amazing and painful to look at.
The agonized face of Christ with a shank of sweat-soaked hair hanging down to the left of his face.
These polychromed figures made the Crucified Christ seem vividly real and present to worshippers. Like most Renaissance religious art in Northern Europe and in Italy, the convincing verisimilitude is meant to appeal to our sense of empathy and to our sympathies.
I have a special fondness for Veit Stoss' Crucifixes. They have all the tragic grandeur and suffering of Grünewald's famous Isenheim Altarpiece without the lurid sensationalism.
The Volckamer Monument, 1499, commissioned by the prominent merchant Thomas Volckamer.
I've never seen another version of the Last Supper quite like this. Instead of a solemn dignified First Mass, this is a crowded chaotic drunken boys' night out. The figures barely fit into this square format. Instead of playing the role of First Celebrant in the center as is customary, Christ sits down on the lower left with a drunken Peter almost audibly saying in Christ's ear, "You know I love you man." John doesn't so much faint in grief and horror as sleep it off on Christ's arm. Judas with his money bag recoils from the gathering in disgust as much as in remorse. Another apostle on the right cheerfully offers us a mug of ale from the tankard he holds loosely in his left hand. There is a lot of pouring and drinking going on throughout this Last Supper set in a Nuremberg tavern.
Peter drunkenly assuring Christ of his fidelity echoes Judas' kiss in the last panel.
John is still fast asleep as his Master prays for his life in the Garden of Gethsemane.
In the last panel, the violence of Christ's arrest replaces the drunken gemütlichkeit of the Last Supper. Instead of fellowship, there is anger, fear, and hatred as Judas plants the most famous kiss of death on Christ's cheek. Here, the rope used to bind Christ is held above His head in a premonition of the Crown of Thorns.
More of Veit Stoss' Work in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Another remarkable Crucifix by Veit Stoss in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg that partially occupies the remains of a Carthusian monastery.
I have no idea where this life sized Crucifix is from. I can't find any information along those lines on the Germanisches Nationalmuseum website. It is an amazing example of Stoss' stretched out and immobile figure of Christ beautifully polychromed.
According to Gerrit, this crucifix is from the Heiliggeist Spital (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Nuremberg, and has been officially on loan to the museum since the 19th century. The fervent prayers of desperate people would probably explain the paint loss on the shins of this sculpture.
Splendid dying head and gaping wound in the side.
Amazing and convincing hands.
The feet with the hands are always the most remarkable and expressive parts of Veit Stoss' Crucifixions. On this one, the color on the shins has worn away, I presume from generations of being touched and venerated.
One final elegant Virgin and Child in unpainted wood.
Posted by Counterlight at Saturday, August 20, 2016
Gerrit said...
Excellent work, Doug, as usual. Or ever.
The Crucifix in the Germanisches Reichsmuseum (that sounds like the Führer himself opened it in 1936) was donated by the city council in the 1890's as a permanent loan. Before that it was comforting the old and sick in the Heiliggeist Spital or Hospital of the Holy Ghost. No surprise that it suffered heavily in WW II, but it was reconstructed in the early '50s. The crypt of the Imperial Chapel in Nürnberg houses another Veit Stoss Crucifix, that is quite comparable.
Thanks Gerrit.
I'm familiar with the Heiliggeist Spital (is that the one that spans the Pegnitz River?), though I've never visited there. I'm very gratified to hear that the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Crucifix is from there. That would explain the worn off pigment on the shins.
Nuremberg in Light and Dark
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Sankt Sebaldus and Peter Vischer the Elder
The Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Don't Blame Me, Blame David Hellgermann
Organ Recital in Hamburg
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“Baby, look at me, and tell me what you see? Fame, we’re going to live forever.”
July 9th, 2015 10:11 am| by Ella Navarro
If I could go back 20 years, I would beg my mother to send me to Scene Kunst Skoler, a group of performance schools in Zealand that focuses on the three key components of musicals: dancing, singing and acting.
It’s the dream school every child wants to attend when they are young – particularly if you were the type that dressed up in the mirror pretending to be Mary Poppins – and the length of the waiting list for some of its 16 schools underlines how popular it is.
Last week I visited one of Scene Kunst Skoler’s summer camps at a lovely location in Holmen just around the corner from Christiania, where the enthusiasm of the children in attendance spoke volumes about their enjoyment and fulfillment. Their happiness shone through their words.
The camp allows them to fully immerse into the three disciplines for a full week (with a little free time for trips to the beach) – a step up from the normal three hours of hard work they do every week.
And it’s all goal-orientated. Most of the training will ultimately lead to a performance, either in June or December, which is often at a fancy theatre (this year’s Christmas show is at Det Ny Teater). It’s a great day out for proud family to see the results of their endeavour.
“Many parents have told us after seeing our plays that they forget they are watching children because of the professionalism the kids show, which is an honour to hear,” enthused its British co-founder Russell Collins.
16 schools and counting
Collins and his Danish wife Christina Anthony saw a huge gap in the market when they came up with the idea, as their expansion has been meteoritic since they opened their first school in Køge in 2008.
“We were unsure about how the school would be received in Denmark,” said Collins. “Especially since every Dane we knew was telling us it would never work.”
Scene Kunst Skoler hasn’t stopped growing since. Today, in total, they have 16 schools: 13 in Danish and three international,
But don’t worry readers, as they will soon be opening another international school at Copenhagen International School in Hellerup. So for those who have been waiting for a spot, this is your moment!
Children as young as four attend the mini schools (4-6 years old), after which they graduate to the main school that welcomes youngsters up to the age of 18, normally split into three age brackets for learning purposes.
Welcomes all abilities
I spoke to several children who have been attending the school for seven years now, and their joy when they describe how much they’ve learned and all the progress they have made was wonderful.
Progress is a key word here, as children of all abilities attend the school, and all of them get a part in the biannual productions. But hidden talents are there to be uncovered, and the staff of highly experienced professionals Collins has assembled are adept at getting the best out of each and every student.
“Ultimately, it’s all about the positive experience we can give them,” said Collins, who is himself an actor and trained director, as is his wife.
“Each student is equally important to us. It is not only about teaching them skills in acting, dancing or singing, but about improving the child’s self-confidence, making friends and teamwork. And, of course, having fun.”
Scene Kunst Skoler
– Two shows a year: one demo (December), one musical (June)
– Three hours a week: one hour each spent on dancing, singing and acting
– Summer camps in weeks 27 and 31 – a week away from the parents
– When: Saturday August 22
– Where: Hellerup International at CIS, Hellerupvej 22-26, Cph Ø
– Time: 09:30-12:30 (7 to 18-year-olds)
– Book a space: 5128 3717 or russell@scenekunstskoler.dk
Summer Kids: Yoga for the young
Kids Corner: Forming figurines, friends and a frightful mess
Hellerup upper-secondary teachers replacing iPads with pen and pad
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Tulip Festival in Skagit Valley, April 2013 with Timna and boys
On on overcast April 19 Timna, Jonah, Zekey and I went to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, about an hour north of Seattle. We also went two years ago, which was the first time I had gone. Timna was the impetus for our going and it was BEAUTIFUL. The festival goes on for all of April and two places, Tulip Town and the more spectacular Roozegaarde at www.tulips.com, have tours with a $5 charge for adults. Just before arriving at the tulip area, we stopped for ice cream. Jonah got licorice ice cream, and the kiddie portions were humungous. He finished it all and had a "Haman" mustache afterwards. Zekey had bubble gum ice cream. He had had cotton candy ice cream at Baskin and R the day before and it was surprisingly good, not as sweet at the bubble gum ice cream in the photos below.
I am not going to write much more. Just enjoy the photos!
Cherry blossoms in the parking lot
One of my favorites
Part of indoor display area at Tulip Town
Fields of color
Weird color mix!
Looks like a painting, doesn't it?
double tulips
Oops. I forgot to post this! I have printed a bunch of pictures and put them on my wall.
Here are a few more pictures.
I love the colors on the ones above and below
There were also a few daffodils, hyacinths, and other flowers on display.
The festival is held annually in April about an hour's drive north of Seattle. Check out the website at:
http://www.tulipfestival.org/
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Chihuly Museum, Seattle
The new Chihuly museum in the Seattle Center opened in May, 2012 where many of the rides, etc. had been. I went there last week, early August, 2013, with my cousins from Israel, Arnold (Aharon), Nachum, and Malka. I had seen the Chihuly works in Tacoma several times before (the pedestrian bridge, the art in the tavern, the chandelier in the UW center, and the glass in the former RR station. I had also seen an amazing exhibit in the Phoenix botanical gardens a few years ago. I really was blown away at the Seattle center museum as so much is concentrated in a small space. I can see why people on Trip Advisor rate it as the #1 attraction in Seattle.
The normal rate for people is $17 to enter, but King County residents can enter for $15. That is a nice perk.
The entry hall has a brief summary of Dale Chihuly and his art growth during the decades from the 1960s to the present. Here is the summary from 1960. (Chihuly grew up in the Tacoma, WA area.)
"Seeking new experiences and challenges, Chihuly interrupts his studies and travels to Italy and the Middle East. After working on a kibbutz in Israel's Negev Desert, he returns to the University of Washington, newly invigorated. Following graduation, he is captivated by glassblowing while experimenting in his basement studio. He earns graduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the Rhode Island School of design (RISD) in Providence. Some of his early artworks include neon, argon, and ice as well as blown glass. Traveling on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1968, he is the first American glassblower invited to work at the Venini factory in Venice. Upon his return to the United States, Chihuly establishes the glass program at RISD, where he teaches full time for the next decade."
I was amazed to read about his kibbutz experience. Here he is blowing glass at the Belle Arts Festival in 1968 in Israel.
Here is the summary for the 1970s.
Example of Native basket somewhat collapsing
In the 1980s, Chihuly began the seafoam forms, which evolved from the baskets.
The Persian windows below also evolved from this.
In the 1990s, he goes large scale, with chandeliers, and other large object. At the end of the 90s, he has a huge exhibit at the Tower of David (Migdal David) in Jerusalem. At the museum, there are five short movies (each under ten minutes) telling about key issues. One covers his creation of the exibit in Jerusalem.
In the first decade of the 21st century, Chihuly designed and dedicated the pedestrian bridge in Tacoma, an amazing work of art with the Persian glass ceiling and vases in the walls. I never tire of visiting it. . Jerusalem and the bridge were his start of putting art in natural places.
This decade he has expanded even more. Chihuly was born in 1941. His accident when he was young has limited some of what he can physically do but his creativity has continued to expand, bringing ever new ideas to his art.
There are several chandeliers on exhibit at the Chihuly Seattle museum. This picture below does not give the blue chandelier justice. It is brilliant.
After passing through the historical introduction and getting our tickets checked, we passed by the stunning Glass Forest. It is one of his earlier pieces made at the Rhode Island School of Design where he was an instructor. James Carpenter, an illustration major specializing in botanical drawings, approached Chihuly in 1971 to experiment with blowing botanical forms. "The Glass Forest came out of their work together and explored the common ground between natural forms and organic appearance of blown glass."
An orange chandelier--color is more spectacular than myphoto
The 15' - tall stunning Sea Life tower is in the same room:
A close-up of the Sea Life Tower
In the room explaining the Northwest influences, there were objects made of several materials including the octopus on glass below--see the sketch too:
"Chihuly began the Macchia (Forest) series in 1981 with the desire to use all 300 colors available to him in the hotshop, and named it such after asking his friend Italo Scanga the word for "spot" in Italian. Thinking about the colors and intensity of stained glass windows, Chihuly realized that the glass panes looked more clear and vibrant against a cloudy sky than a blue one. This idea inspired his experimenmtation to separate the interior and exterior colors by adding a white layer in between, a 'cloud,' and as he mastered the technical complexities, pushed the scale up to four feet in diameter.
Each work is speckled with color, which comes from rolling the molten glass in small shards of colored glass during the blowing process. To complete the piece, he adds a lip wrap of a contrasting color."
Although I prefer the Persian ceiling on the pedestrian bridge in Tacoma, this one too was awesome: It was very hard to get a good photo. I had to sit on the floor and not let the artificial light get in the way.
Some of these posters were from shows and some were drawing walls. "After losing sight in his left eye and dislocating his shoulder, Chihuly relinquished the gaffer position and began drawing as a way to communicate his vision and designs to his team. The drawings evolved beyond a communication tool to become an important part of his expression. With his burned Drawings, Chihuly explores color and texture in new ways. he draws on neavyweight watercolor paper with acrylics, dry metallic pigment, charcoal and graphite, and even burns the paper surface with an acetylene torch. These drawings are gestural and full of energy with subtle colors and rich texture. Chihuly's first Dreawing Wall was presented to the public in 1992 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Chihula has explained, 'Drawing really helps me to think about things. I'm able to draw and work with a lot of color and that inspires me.'"
Chihuly Creating
I took the picture above from a short film we saw. There are 5 films that are shown, each about 6 minutes long. We saw one on the exhibit in Jerusalem and how it was created. Another is about chandeliers. I'll go back and see more another time.
We saw two fantastic boats with glass in them. The one below was my favorite. The reflection was also pretty striking.
This huge room "The Glass Forest" was amazing. Close ups of pictures in the room follow.
We found out that the think vertical or angled pieces were held up by small metal tubes inside them.
We then passed through the greenhouse.
"The Glasshouse is the centerpiece of Chihuly Garden and Glass. Throughout his career, Chihuly dreamed of working on the design for a glasshouse and the artwork within it. This is the first opportunity he has had to realize that dream. The design draws inspiration from two of his favorite buildings: Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and the Crystal Palace in London. Chihuly signed a beam during the dedication ceremony on May 21, 2012.
The Glasshouse Sculpture is an expansive 100-foot-long installation in a palette of reds, oranges, yellows, and amber. Made of many individual elements, it is one of Chihuly's largest suspended sculptures. Chihuly calls the intensely colored blown-glass forms of this monumental work Persians. The perception of the artwork varies greatly with natural light and as the day fades into night."
Then we walked outside. After talking to a guard, we found out that the pieces outside were thicker to withstand the Seattle weather and also were built to withstand up to pea-sized hail. I loved the way that the plants and flowers went so well with the glass in the garden.
Orange Flowers in front of orange glass
A row of chandeliers were near one outside wall.
Sunset Chandelier
While much of the glass art was similar to other pieces I had seen in Phoenix and in Tacoma, there were different. Chihuly has many warehouses were his pieces of art are stored.
One last photo--and I do hope those of you near Seattle get a chance to go to this museum. It is spectacular!
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I aquired this Standard Treasury on eBay, and had it restored by the late Jytte Beatty who lived in Felton, California. She was a real artist. We selected a vinyl, cloth-backed, leather-like binding material that matched the color of the original cheap paper. She added a small thickness of padding under the new material to provide a luxurious feel. Then carefully cut out the top and spine portion of the original, and used hide glue to adhere it to new cardboard front and back boards. I asked her if she had real hand-dipped French endpapers; and lo and behold!, she pulled out four large ones that were perfect matches to the colors of the album (expensive, but worth it). Afterwards, I gave the front, back, and spine of the album a couple of light coats of gloss acrylic spray. And it looks like real leather!
For a Good Introduction to Classical Music:
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Late summer, early Autumn leaves blowing on trees. This scene represents the transition from Summer to Autumn. The four movements in a classical symphony can be compared to the four seasons of the year; the best example being Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”, which is really an orchestral suite in 4 movements (or concertos). The scene, therefore, specifically represents the ending of the 2nd season of the year (Summer), which corresponds to the ending of the 2nd, and final movement, of Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony”, featured on this record.
Another is Alexander Glazunov's music for the ballet, "The Seasons", with four dance tableau's (scenes), each representing a season; although in the ballet, the first season is Winter.
We know that Schubert wrote sketches for the beginning of a 3rd movement; but we don't know if he intended a 4th movement. Music scholars differ in opinions on this. Incredibly, this symphony was lost for 37 years after Schubert's death. It was not generally known that it even existed.
This is not the Aya (Saint) Sophia Mosque in Istanbul, but rather is the newer Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque). Although I consider the area of Baghdad and Basra to be the heart of the locality of the Arabian Nights stories, Istanbul is definitely a good second choice, and is also a Muslim city, although back around 400 A.D. the Emperor Constantine made this whole area Christian until the 19th century. Muslim minarets were added then. It certainly looks like a scene from the Arabian Nights with the minaret towers. “Scheherazade” is a feature work on this record; and it is a four-movement tone poem, or orchestral suite in four movements that illustrated, musically, four of the tales of the Arabian Nights as told by Scheherazade, the newest wife of the Sultan.
Autumn/early Winter scene in a corn field with harvested stalks gathered into bundles, or "shocks". This scene is reminiscent of the James Whitcomb Riley poem, “When the frost is on the pumpkin, and the fodder's in the shock”. A shock is a vertical bundle of corn stalks, tied together for ease of pickup in a wagon. Fodder is animal food given to the animals. The stalks are good feed for hogs.
Dvorak’s 9th Symphony ("from the New World") is featured on this record. This symphony is intended to represent the spirit of the American people as observed by the composer during his time, with his family, living and teaching in America. The first industry in America was agriculture. Our Thanksgiving Holiday represents the thankfulness of the people for potential abundance of food in the “New World”. Therefore, the scene represents this abundance, and the hard work required in the farming communities of America.
Around 1958, four earlier symphonies of Dvorak were discovered and it was decided to renumber them, so the 5th became the 9th, etc. This record set used the old numbering system.
A still life with two rose blossoms against a background of a wooden vanity top with a necklace of pearls on a velvet fabric. The image represents the music of Bizet’s “Carmen Suite”, with the Habanera aria and dance with the rose.
Photo of barren, ice-covered tree branches against the dark blue evening winter sky. This record contains Richard Strauss’s “Death and Transfiguration” tone poem. Just as the music details the thoughts of a dying man reviewing the joys and sorrows of his life, the photo represents the winter season; which is a season of death (trees and plants dying or hibernating and losing their leaves, fruit, and blossoms) leading to the following Spring of re-birth and renewal, a metaphor of re-incarnation of the human soul.
Violent crashing of waves against the rocks of a rather barren coastline. This record contains Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, which was originally supposed to be dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, who became Emperor as Beethoven was finishing his work. Initially, highly moved by Napoleon’s conquests, he was angry that Napoleon desired to be Emperor. “Eroica” mean “heroic”; but Beethoven’s hero had become evil in his mind. So, Beethoven angrily scratched out the original dedication and changed it to being dedicated to all heroes. So, does the picture represent this anger; or just violent heroics?
Flames and burning sticks in a bonfire. This record contains Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite”, chronicling the story of an evil magician, a prince, and maiden, and the Phoenix bird that helps them defeat the magician, and brings them together. The flames represent the Firebird (Phoenix).
A photo of blossom-covered branches against a beautiful blue summer sky. This represents the atmosphere of Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” tone poem, based upon a poem about a mythical Faun running after Nymphs and Naiads in the "heat" of the afternoon, and then succumbs to intoxicating sleep.
A spooky late-fall evening scene with grotesque craggy trees against the setting sun and a red dark cloudy sky. This record contains Duka’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, and this photo could also be used for Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” (not in this record set), which is about a demonic celebration that takes place on All Hollow’s Eve (Halloween). The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is about the calamity that takes place when a sorcerer’s apprentice tries ineptly to use his master’s spells to complete his task of carrying several buckets of water for the sorcerer. The apprentice loses control of the spell and floods the rooms. The sorcerer comes in and sees the mayhem, and fixes the spell. The apprentice is embarrassed, and the sorcerer is seemingly angry, but really amused by the whole situation. The photo scene evokes the feelings of a sorcery, witches, and black Sabbath of our Halloween or Europe's "All Saints Day" night. A holiday where only half of Europe's trains run, as I found out the hard way.
Also on this disc is Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite #1, written to accompany Ibsen's play, which I have read. The play is quite modern, and even mentions the slave trade from Africa to the US. Not the pleasantest thing to bring up.
This scene shows rocky snow-covered mountains behind a body of water that could be a lake or river. The record contains Smetana’s “The Moldau”, a nationalistic tone poem about the river that flows through the city of Prague. Although the scene does not evoke Bohemia, and may have been taken in one of our Western national parks, it does evoke the feelings of strength and grandeur that Smetana was trying to evoke in this music.
This photo is of a barren, rocky, but still green coast that could easily be that of Scotland. This record contains Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony, inspired by the young Felix's three week trip to Scotland. Also, inspired was the "Hebrides Overture", containing the famous and catchy "Fingal's Cave" music. This cave is still a popular tourist attraction. The acoustics in the cave are unusual, and although I have not been there, they may be such that this music, if played in the cave, would have overlapping harmonies due to long echos, or maybe that's just a romantic fancy of mine. Also, it is not correct to label it the "Scotch" symphony, which is a whiskey from Scotland!
This scene shows two Swans floating on the water in a pond or lake that could very well be part of palace gardens that Mozart lived in for part of his life, as the darling musical prodigy of the Royal Hapsburgs of Austria. King Ludwig II of Bavaria, related to the Hapsburgs, used swans as decorative motifs in his palaces. This record contains Mozart’s Symphony #40.
This photo shows a night scene of Herrenchiemsee Palace and fountains, built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was built to replicate the main part of the palace at Versailles. This photo “could” be of the French Versailles Palace, but I believe that it is Herrenchiemsee Palace, which was built much more recently on the island of Herreninsel in the Chiemsee (KEEM-zay), Bavaria’s largest lake, southeast of Munich on the way to Salzburg. You can take a ferry to the island from the town of Prien-am-Chiemsee. This record contains Haydn’s “London” Symphony. Michael Haydn, the younger brother of the more famous Haydn, wrote a musical piece, “Missa in Honorem Sanctae Ursulae” written for a Benedictine Abbey (Frauenwörth) on another island in the Chiemsee. I haven’t found a closer connection. I have been to Herrenchiemsee Palace, and Versailles.
This scene represents Handel’s “Water Music” suite written for newly-crowned King George I of England.
George Frederick Handel was employed by another "George" (pronounced 'Gay-org' in German) who was the ruler of an area of what is now Germany, but what was then part of the Holy Roman Empire. Handel was invited to visit England, and he received permission from his employer to visit there. But Handel was treated so lavishly by the London music scene, that he decided not to return home. This angered George, which was okay because Handel was in England and George was in Germany. Then his employer became George I of England, and also moved to England. George realized that he needed to re-ingratiate himself to the King, so he came up with a plan. On a day of celebration, George I was floating down the Thames in a royal Barge, along with other barges containing important partying personages. The king found himself being followed by Handel and an Orchestra on their own barge playing "Water Music" that Handel had composed to impress the new King. It worked, George I was flattered and impressed, and Handel was in his good graces again.
The Thames River, packed with celebratory barges that day, was not unlike the closely clustered lily pads shown in the water.
This is a photo of Olavinlinna (St. Olaf’s Castle) in Savonlinna, Finland; site of the city’s annual opera festival. This record contains the Finnish composer Sibelius’s nationalistic tone poem, “Finlandia”, that earned him a personal income from the government.
This photo of dramatic clouds in a blue sky is a little vague to explain. But the lofty reaches of Heaven, and “Air on a G String”, by Bach may be hinted at. Wagner composed and wrote his “Ring” cycle of operas about the Gods that lived in Walhalla, a lofty perch in the sky, with horse-mounted, female, warrior Valkyries flying in the air. Or perhaps this photo for the final record in the series symbolizes the heavenly-inspired music composed by all of the composers in this set.
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Trap club expands just in time for competition
Posted on July 2, 2019 in News
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By Duffy Hayes
Hundreds of people are clustered with shotguns high atop East Orchard Mesa this week and weekend, and they’re right on time.
They’re taking part in the prestigious Colorado State Shoot at the Grand Junction Trap Club — the second year in a row that the club has hosted the competition — and they’re on time, in a sense, because the club is undergoing expansion just to bring competitors like them to the Western Slope.
Three years ago, Colorado Parks and Wildlife gave the club $60,000 to help fund needed repairs and upgrades of the shooting grounds, and those new fields shimmered crack-less in the beating sun during the competition this week.
“At the time, we only had eight fields and now we have expanded with that grant to 12 full fields, and two combination trap and skeet fields,” club member Charlie Costello described.
“What enabled us to get that grant was what we’re doing this weekend,” he said, motioning to the long line of shooters — all ages, men and women, most wearing shiny eyewear and serious stares, some with smiles after hits or cringes after misses, always in good nature, it seemed.
In competitive trap shooting, deadeyes shoot from five positions along a semicircular field during 100- and 200-target events, using split-second timing to blast 4¼-inch discs hurled at random angles by oscillating machines housed in front of them. The top shooters rarely miss.
“So you call, and you never know the angle that it’s going to come out,” Costello explained. “That’s the complexity of trap shooting.”
From the astounding perspective of the club’s fields, a trap shot to the right is set against the backdrop of a sprawling Grand Mesa and the shot to the left is backed by a showy Mount Garfield and the Bookcliffs.
The lofty 100-or-so-mile view from the club wasn’t lost on many of the competitive shooters, who arrived from more than 20 states, some from back East where trap ranges are often crammed into confined spaces.
Also right on time, the day before the big competition began CPW announced another grant was headed the trap club’s way — $39,500 for needed roof and facilities repairs.
Most of the phase two grant money will go to repair the about-30-year-old trap club’s roof, but a substantial amount will go to upgrading the restrooms.
Costello, like all club members, volunteers his time. He wrote the applications for both winning grants and said the second grant might not be as exciting as the first “but it’s just as critical.”
The timing of the grants is probably not coincidental with CPW’s current development of the Cameo Shooting and Education Complex, close to Interstate 70 above the town of Palisade.
Costello said that Cameo has turned away from trap and skeet in their plans, focusing more on sporting clays — “golf with a shotgun,” as Costello calls it — in addition to the world-class rifle and pistol ranges planned for the complex. That decision was likely based on topography, Costello said.
While preliminary events have been going on this week, championships are being held both Saturday and Sunday at the club, 116 32 Road, just past the dragway.
There’s plenty of shady seating for spectators. Don’t mind the scattered shells.
Announcing The 2019 Fall League!
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Miller, Tiffany Lin was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 661 Drake ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 655225.
Miller, Tiffany Lynn was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 341 W Vallecito Creek RD, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600130875.
Miller, Tiffany Lynn Dawn was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3063 S Ursula CIR # 202, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600513108.
Miller, Tiffany Mae was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3256 S Forest ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601701694.
Miller, Tiffany Marie was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4651 Newton DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600366989.
Miller, Tiffany Marie was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11464 Claude CT, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6828707.
Miller, Tiffany Melissa was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 707 N Corona ST APT 1, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601786080.
Miller, Tiffany Michelle was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1130 E 89Th AVE, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3037378.
Miller, Tiffany Momilani was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 211 Indiangrass LOOP, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3558432.
Miller, Tiffany Nicole was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3475 Silverstone DR, WHITEWATER, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601468712.
Miller, Tiffany Renee was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8469 W Vassar DR, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4218826.
Miller, Tiffany Rhea was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2771 S Ceylon ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6928253.
Miller, Tiffany Veronica was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1551 Beacon Hill DR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601235807.
Miller, Tilford Wesley was born in 1942 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3755 Tutt BLVD APT 112, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 435515.
Miller, Tim Alan was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2139 Genoa CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1647535.
Miller, Tim Allen Jr was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 338 E First ST # 2, OAK CREEK, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 601451319.
Miller, Timberly Guin was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3211 D 3/4 RD, CLIFTON, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2376123.
Miller, Tim I Jr was born in 1937 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8393 Flower CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4065944.
Miller, Tim Isaac was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3109 Allison DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1631785.
Miller, Timothy A was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 985 Emerald ST, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 3924044.
Miller, Timothy A was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5407 Cherokee RD, INDIAN HILLS, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4159524.
Miller, Timothy A was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3607 Wescott CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 6375848.
Miller, Timothy Abraham was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10161 W Burgundy DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4124331.
Miller, Timothy Albright was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2008 Alpine AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223138.
Miller, Timothy Allen was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8717 Chase DR # 234, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 2735353.
Miller, Timothy Allen was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7356 W 84Th WAY # 1111, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3986320.
Miller, Timothy Allen was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13022 W 74Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4253356.
Miller, Timothy Andrew was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4160 S Logan ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 868318.
Miller, Timothy Brian was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6506 Spring Gulch ST, FREDERICK, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 7004944.
Miller, Timothy Bryan was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1620 Jolene DR, DENVER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601524974.
Miller, Timothy C was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1131 N Monroe ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 5959442.
Miller, Timothy C was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10589 Woodrock DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 699547.
Miller, Timothy C was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 520 E Costilla AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 839212.
Miller, Timothy C was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 20205 Sheriffs CV, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 92298.
Miller, Timothy Charles was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2332 Thoreau DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601954205.
Miller, Timothy Crisman was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5955 S Winnipeg ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 916304.
Miller, Timothy D was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15682 Lacuna DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 100829.
Miller, Timothy D was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2650 N Colorado BLVD, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2524101.
Miller, Timothy Dale was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 31365 County Road 53, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600950650.
Miller, Timothy David was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 76 Mockingbird PL, PAGOSA SPRINGS, Archuleta County, CO. His voter ID number is 4758782.
Miller, Timothy David was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 820 Waterfall LN, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4958943.
Miller, Timothy David was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 532 Oak ST, STERLING, Logan County, CO. His voter ID number is 600168829.
Miller, Timothy E was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1225 W 28Th ST, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3065858.
Miller, Timothy E was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1021 Deer Trail RD, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4948707.
Miller, Timothy Edward was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1621 S Pennsylvania ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2645898.
Miller, Timothy Edward was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2543 Raywood VW APT 1131, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601117786.
Miller, Timothy Eugene was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 513 Cheyenne AVE, SIMLA, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 5656946.
Miller, Timothy F was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1561 E 130Th CT, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6809238.
Miller, Timothy Glenn was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1523 N Willow ST APT 2, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2912404.
Miller, Timothy Howell was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5714 S Killarney WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 750633.
Miller, Timothy Isaak was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6449 Miller ST # 107, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3936300.
Miller, Timothy J was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 44 Cinnamon Mountain RD, MT CRESTED BUTTE, Gunnison County, CO. His voter ID number is 200292686.
Miller, Timothy James was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5872 Walsh PT APT 203, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 147331.
Miller, Timothy James was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3043 Pony Tracks DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 1651238.
Miller, Timothy James was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 251 E Ridge DR, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 601210177.
Miller, Timothy James was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5920 S Rock Creek DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601749250.
Miller, Timothy James was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5320 W 26Th AVE, EDGEWATER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 668044.
Miller, Timothy Jay was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6439 S Jericho WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2494442.
Miller, Timothy Jay was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1199 Green Oaks DR, GREENWOOD VLG, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 782824.
Miller, Timothy John was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 455 Strathmore LN APT 208, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 3937389.
Miller, Timothy John was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 449 Wright ST # 4, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4014915.
Miller, Timothy John was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4667 S Monaco ST APT 302, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601296028.
Miller, Timothy John was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1627 Mountain DR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223144.
Miller, Timothy John was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10033 Heywood ST, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 837935.
Miller, Timothy John was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 707 N Washington ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 849969.
Miller, Timothy Joseph was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 806 Kandle CT, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 600288019.
Miller, Timothy Joseph was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 520 W Main ST, ASPEN, Pitkin County, CO. His voter ID number is 601071726.
Miller, Timothy Justin was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 201 E Elizabeth ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600524746.
Miller, Timothy Keith was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 112 North Fork AVE, PAONIA, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 3561806.
Miller, Timothy Kirk was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10839 Bonnebelle CIR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600065903.
Miller, Timothy Lee was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1111/2 N Colorado AVE, STRATTON, Kit Carson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3188776.
Miller, Timothy Lee was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2260 Lansing ST, AURORA, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600437256.
Miller, Timothy Lee was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3800 Pike RD APT 15-202, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223145.
Miller, Timothy Leigh was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22198 Amethyst RD, DEER TRAIL, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 585896.
Miller, Timothy Lyle was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1835 Mildred ST, BURLINGTON, Kit Carson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3189711.
Miller, Timothy Mark was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6312 Buchanan ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 4106088.
Miller, Timothy Mark was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 455 Long Hollow CIR, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4917145.
Miller, Timothy Martin was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1639 N Grape ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2962132.
Miller, Timothy Mikisew was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 772 Long Timber LN, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600914393.
Miller, Timothy P was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5925 Breeze CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 145422.
Miller, Timothy Paul was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1161 Nova PL, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200059042.
Miller, Timothy Paul was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3646 S Depew ST # 5, DENVER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 2340167.
Miller, Timothy Paul was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 908 7Th ST, PIERCE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6410040.
Miller, Timothy Paul was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13463 Lafayette CT, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7024924.
Miller, Timothy Quentin was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 779 29Th LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3053955.
Miller, Timothy Randall was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 342 Window Lake TRL, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 600781673.
Miller, Timothy Ray was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 151 Misty Creek DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 98548.
Miller, Timothy Reynolds was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6772 Poppy CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4196694.
Miller, Timothy Richard was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3315 W Chenango AVE, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601905925.
Miller, Timothy Richard was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 211 County Rd 565, GRANBY, Grand County, CO. His voter ID number is 8515803.
Miller, Timothy Richard Claus was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5100 Ronald Reagan BLVD # A105, JOHNSTOWN, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601122329.
Miller, Timothy Robert was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 670 Moki AVE, RIFLE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 5541347.
Miller, Timothy Ronald was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2120 Timber Creek DR # I3, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600971086.
Miller, Timothy Ryan was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2201 N Cherry ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601185698.
Miller, Timothy Ryan was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2416 Lark DR APT 8, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601398018.
Miller, Timothy Scott was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 420 E 57Th ST # 276, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1619531.
Miller, Timothy Scott was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3544 Elk Run DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 4002391.
Miller, Timothy Scott was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3648 Christy Ridge RD, SEDALIA, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5639839.
Miller, Timothy Scott Jr was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10571 Colorado BLVD UNIT D202, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601556187.
Miller, Timothy Shawn was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3372 Ghost Dance DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 4104921.
Miller, Timothy Stephen was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 114 Hoedown CIR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 5584124.
Miller, Timothy Sung was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19081 Cottonwood DR # 612, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601704116.
Miller, Timothy T was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19360 Robin Hood WAY, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 88665.
Miller, Timothy Todd was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4747 S Taft ST, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4380575.
Miller, Timothy W was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5185 Hunters Run, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 458888.
Miller, Timothy William was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1580 Colt CIR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5791708.
Miller, Timothy William was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7127 E Wyoming PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601923839.
Miller, Timothy Wood was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4412 Creekwood DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 200297779.
Miller, Tim Ralph was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15987 Bridle Ridge DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601398016.
Miller, Tina Denise was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5705 1245 RD, DELTA, Delta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600090195.
Miller, Tina J was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 200 Yucca AVE, HASTY, Bent County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3402875.
Miller, Tina J was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 435 E Moffat AVE, HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS, Grand County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601605069.
Miller, Tina Jo was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 105 Cradle Lake DR, DIVIDE, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3830089.
Miller, Tina Layne was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 37 Becerro DR, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2245833.
Miller, Tina Louise was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2752 Iowa DR # 101, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1450840.
Miller, Tina Louise was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10610 Via Vaquaro PT, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200048418.
Miller, Tina Louise was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7773 S Ames WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2840480.
Miller, Tina M was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12465 E 14Th AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 664827.
Miller, Tina Marie was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9796 Teller CT, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200155503.
Miller, Tina Marie was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7010 W Alaska DR, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3905633.
Miller, Tina Marie was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9816 S Holland ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4135081.
Miller, Tina Marie was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11464 Claude CT, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7121378.
Miller, Tina Marie was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7440 E 8Th AVE APT 27, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 842102.
Miller, Tina Michelle was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8303 W 1St ST, WELLINGTON, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1589872.
Miller, Tina Michelle was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 435 W Archer DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3685967.
Miller, Tirrel Rose was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2400 W Prospect RD, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 354527.
Miller, Tisha Lyn was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 110 Kitty Hawk DR, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6363302.
Miller, Tisha Lynn was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 493 Harris RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2357247.
Miller, Tisha Marie was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2817 Cumbres CT, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2331829.
Miller, Tisha Marie was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1673 W El Charro DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601019585.
Miller, Tishey Lee was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1570 Blakcomb CT, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601058881.
Miller, Tobe Nichole was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 54 Cedar CT, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223410.
Miller, Tobey Josef was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4485 Georgetown DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601037580.
Miller, Tobias Shane was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 560 Lakewood CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601064996.
Miller, Tobie Gail was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5559 E Lehigh AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2781573.
Miller, Toby Allen was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 209 Meadow DR, PARACHUTE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 600134304.
Miller, Todd was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 562 Spur CT, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601488635.
Miller, Todd was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11420 County Road 14.5, FT LUPTON, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6323670.
Miller, Todd A was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 361 Amber DR, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200050740.
Miller, Todd A was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1060 N Irving ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2514310.
Miller, Todd Alan was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13494 Marion ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6871766.
Miller, Todd Alexander was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 48155 E 56Th AVE, BENNETT, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 748867.
Miller, Todd Allen was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8067 Mockorange HTS, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600777843.
Miller, Todd Anderson was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 31332 Island DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4165654.
Miller, Todd Andrew was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5621 Rock Bed CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 161537.
Miller, Todd Andrew was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1334 Virginia ST, IDAHO SPRINGS, Clear Creek County, CO. His voter ID number is 601727114.
Miller, Todd Anthony was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3350 N Baggett RD, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200015936.
Miller, Todd Anthony was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12186 Melody DR # 304, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7070751.
Miller, Todd B was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 143 Woodchuck CT, SILVERTHORNE, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 7210501.
Miller, Todd Campbell was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2711 S Cole CT, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3995812.
Miller, Todd Cochran was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1890 Tansy PL, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600802069.
Miller, Todd Duane was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 701 W 6Th AVE UNIT A, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601174747.
Miller, Todd E was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5532 W Prentice CIR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2424946.
Miller, Todd E was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15640 Agate Creek DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 98971.
Miller, Todd Eugene was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2343 Dogwood DR, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600146086.
Miller, Todd Geoffrey was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3423 W 30Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223413.
Miller, Todd Hutton was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 565 East ST, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601101339.
Miller, Todd Jeffrey was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2300 S Monroe ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601711977.
Miller, Todd L was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 38 N Belmont ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200009646.
Miller, Todd Matthew was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22635 E Riverchase WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5745025.
Miller, Todd Michael was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4490 N Uravan ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600977765.
Miller, Todd Owen was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4032 Mighty Oaks ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 7138685.
Miller, Todd R was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13164 W Auburn PL, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3995127.
Miller, Todd Reuben was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7424 Cameron CIR, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5773146.
Miller, Todd Robert was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1527 Hearthfire DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1414089.
Miller, Todd Ryan was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5052 S Wenatchee CIR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200175903.
Miller, Todd Stephen was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9439 Palladium HTS APT D209, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 538837.
Miller, Todd William was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11959 Riverstone CIR UNIT F, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600625181.
Miller, Todd Witham was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 419 Ridge RD, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 139127.
Miller, Tod William was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 271 E Orchard ST, HOTCHKISS, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 601250811.
Miller, Toller Converse was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14966 Lyons Ridge DR, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3974690.
Miller, Tomasita Iguacia was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1019 Ponderosa CIR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8049286.
Miller, Tomaso Lorenzo was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1713 Cameo AVE, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 200025029.
Miller, Tom B was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5620 St Vrain RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223417.
Miller, Tommie Henry was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 119 Bierstadt CT, LIVERMORE, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600416792.
Miller, Tommy Dale was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1860 August LN, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 919726.
Miller, Tommy Glynn was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1427 Atchison AVE # 2, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601672193.
Miller, Tommy Lee was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 312 N Roosevelt AVE, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600951151.
Miller, Tommy Roger was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 509 N Shields ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1425345.
Miller, Tommy Theodore was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 269 Sherri DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601020903.
Miller, Tom Paul was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8601 Zuni ST # 102, DENVER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600694806.
Miller, Tom Ryan was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 502 Polar CT, SILVERTHORNE, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 600097517.
Miller, Tonia Leigh was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7144 S Syracuse ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 888661.
Miller, Toni Ann was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3124 Rob Ren CT, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2298798.
Miller, Toni Ann was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9 Mcburney BLVD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 459654.
Miller, Toni Celeste was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11630 Josephine ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4298897.
Miller, Tonie S was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7630 Delmonico DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 204437.
Miller, Toni Jean was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2119 Eagle View DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600712794.
Miller, Toni L was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11259 Madison ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6933243.
Miller, Toni Lei was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 980 S Emporia ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2571843.
Miller, Toni Marie was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1017 Meng DR, FORT MORGAN, Morgan County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3565517.
Miller, Toni Rae was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2025 Elmwood ST, BERTHOUD, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1578316.
Miller, Tonisha Renee was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4410 N Elizabeth ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600975309.
Miller, Tony was born in 1989 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1979 S Broadway ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Miller voter ID number is 601322033.
Miller, Tonya Haynes was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 42052 Colonial TRL, ELIZABETH, Elbert County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601754708.
Miller, Tonya Jo was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4736 Shadowglen DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 173757.
Miller, Tony Allen was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11 Spruce CT, PARACHUTE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 200150996.
Miller, Tony Allen was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22588 Willets AVE, CONIFER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4162682.
Miller, Tonya Marie was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 652 E 23Rd ST # 18, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601179201.
Miller, Tonya S was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10759 Steele ST, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7095769.
Miller, Tony Dale was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5025 Ramblewood DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 198267.
Miller, Tony Leblanc was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 17204 E Baltic PL # 2B, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2840581.
Miller, Tony Mark was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4293 Prairie Rose CIR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601011572.
Miller, Tony R was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 320 Glacier AVE, BRUSH, Morgan County, CO. His voter ID number is 6353107.
Miller, Torey Nicholas was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13989 E Maplewood PL, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200268542.
Miller, Tori Ann was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2731 Dunbar AVE, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1537501.
Miller, Tori L was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2360 Margaux Valley WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 216290.
Miller, Tori Lynn was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3620 Teller ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2829525.
Miller, Tori Mae was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4788 S Norfolk ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601586921.
Miller, Tori Marie was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4380 Pebble Ridge CIR APT 193, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601214038.
Miller, Toronda Latrice was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 19541 E Brown DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 915600.
Miller, Tory Ellen was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10591 E Asbury AVE # 523, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601699661.
Miller, Tory Lea was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1010 Arcturus DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600360568.
Miller, Tosha Christine was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 457 Jones AVE, LAS ANIMAS, Bent County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600282514.
Miller, Tracey L was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 916 W Virginia AVE, GUNNISON, Gunnison County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5958051.
Miller, Tracey Marie was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 674 Polaris CT, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6923004.
Miller, Tracey Nicole was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11758 Xavier CT, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6948165.
Miller, Traci Ann was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8228 S Ammons CT, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4115320.
Miller, Traci Anne was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 19002 E Linvale PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 862702.
Miller, Tracie Leigh was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13808 Adams CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6842626.
Miller, Tracie Sachimi was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3608 Dalton DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1607489.
Miller, Traci Lynn was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3170 F 1/4 RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2348608.
Miller, Traci Lynn was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1746 Geneva ST, AURORA, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600216794.
Miller, Traci Maxine was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4788 S Norfolk ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600204166.
Miller, Tracy was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 557 Pine ST, COMO, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 563522.
Miller, Tracy A was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 118 Tanager CIR, EAGLE, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6700033.
Miller, Tracy Allyson was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 124 Coyote TRL, ROCKVALE, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3689668.
Miller, Tracy Ann was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 711 Independence Valley DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2351616.
Miller, Tracy Anne was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 690 E Marigold DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3045734.
Miller, Tracy Diane was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 64 Rose CT, RIDGWAY, Ouray County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6027542.
Miller, Tracy Dianne was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1401 Anvil View AVE, RIFLE, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601384514.
Miller, Tracy Ellen was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1270 Allegheny DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 494014.
Miller, Tracy L was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4925 S Carefree CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 256634.
Miller, Tracy L was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15550 Holbein DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 86635.
Miller, Tracy Lee was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6439 S Jericho WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2912550.
Miller, Tracy Lee was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11 Spruce CT, PARACHUTE, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5543380.
Miller, Tracy Leigh was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2241 Dogwood DR, ERIE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600583693.
Miller, Tracy Lynn was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5503 Fairmount DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200281668.
Miller, Tracy Marie was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8380 Briar Trace DR, CASTLE PINES, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5838741.
Miller, Tracy Rene was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3297 N Elm ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600613308.
Miller, Trae William was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 120 Ponderosa DR, STERLING, Logan County, CO. His voter ID number is 2248995.
Miller, Traver was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 74 Cedar AVE, AKRON, Washington County, CO. His voter ID number is 600634860.
Miller, Travis was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1212 Raintree DR # C65, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601429798.
Miller, Travis Allen was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 42499 County Hwy 109, HUGO, Lincoln County, CO. His voter ID number is 3846593.
Miller, Travis Andrew was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2810 Shady DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601725406.
Miller, Travis Brent was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1678 Cherokee Mountain CIR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601587235.
Miller, Travis Earl was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15800 E 121St AVE UNIT I-4, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601012047.
Miller, Travis Elliott was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 31011 County Road 380, KERSEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6329198.
Miller, Travis Glen was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5013 W 22Nd Street RD, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601233660.
Miller, Travis Glen was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 17447 E Belleview PL, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 762415.
Miller, Travis Gregory was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 24422 E Frost DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200163697.
Miller, Travis J was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 720 Teocalli AVE, CRESTED BUTTE, Gunnison County, CO. His voter ID number is 5962274.
Miller, Travis James was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12977 Grizzly DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600553913.
Miller, Travis James was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4115 N Navajo ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601752064.
Miller, Travis John was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1622 11 8/10 RD, LOMA, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2367322.
Miller, Travis John was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2114 Summitview DR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600275065.
Miller, Travis Kyle was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3155 E 104Th AVE APT 10E, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600616392.
Miller, Travis Lee was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12700 Chamisa TRL, ALAMOSA, Alamosa County, CO. His voter ID number is 620032.
Miller, Travis Melvin was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3746 S Bannock ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 8519048.
Miller, Travis Renz was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4333 Jellison ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600094948.
Miller, Travis Ryan was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 127 N Union BLVD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600404302.
Miller, Travis Sean was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5551 E Costilla DR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 918460.
Miller, Travis Shane was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1123 E Sequoya DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601499508.
Miller, Travis U was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 689 Highway 50 # 4, DELTA, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 3548125.
Miller, Travis W was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1155 Raindrop WAY, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601326403.
Miller, Travis Wayne was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 419 E Petain AVE, YUMA, Yuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 601282541.
Miller, Travis White was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30737 County Road 356-6, BUENA VISTA, Chaffee County, CO. His voter ID number is 200281345.
Miller, Treava L was born in 1926 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6555 Schneider WAY # 518, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4078416.
Miller, Treena Lee was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6560 Glade Park DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600214083.
Miller, Trent was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4965 Granby CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600001885.
Miller, Trent A was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3935 Douglas Mountain DR, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4157244.
Miller, Trent Alan was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 696 Fulton AVE, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6923493.
Miller, Trent Daniel was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9431 Tammy LN, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601175594.
Miller, Trent Douglas was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 415 Mountain Village BLVD UNIT 1111, MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, San Miguel County, CO. His voter ID number is 601342404.
Miller, Trent Matthew was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 424 Idalia DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601744118.
Miller, Trenton Andrew was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6415 Delmonico DR APT 113, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 204102.
Miller, Trenton Clarence Lee was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 588 Ronlin ST, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 3677500.
Miller, Trenton Ray was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9221 Jackson ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601360036.
Miller, Trenton Scott was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1100 E 17Th AVE APT H203, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601677197.
Miller, Trent Sheridan was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2623 E Caramillo ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600440309.
Miller, Tresa Ann was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4087 S Logan ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 847339.
Miller, Treva Mae was born in 1930 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1145 Finch PL # 106, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1654055.
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Mitchell, Cherri Allison was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7358 S Xenia CIR # B, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 889169.
Mitchell, Cheryl Ann was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1191 Clinton ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 668883.
Mitchell, Cheryl L was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11287 W Dumbarton DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4155706.
Mitchell, Cheryl Lynn was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3291 Lombardy LN UNIT 7, CLIFTON, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600521840.
Mitchell, Cheryl Theresa was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17407 E Kenyon DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 920211.
Mitchell, Chester Checko Iii was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3105 E Dale ST # 209, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 392570.
Mitchell, Chester William Iv was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10910 Turner BLVD LOT 6, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601141089.
Mitchell, Cheyanne Kirstin was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 316 Colorado APT A, WALSENBURG, Huerfano County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601268204.
Mitchell, Chlorus Lee Jr was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11650 Logan ST, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6827191.
Mitchell, Chris Allen was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2650 County Road 220, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 601749350.
Mitchell, Chris James was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8955 W Teton CIR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4260055.
Mitchell, Chris L was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19219 E Carolina DR # 103, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200140253.
Mitchell, Christabelle Marie was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5940 Fergus DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601215837.
Mitchell, Christen Danielle was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14381 E Olmsted DR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1229205.
Mitchell, Christian Jacob was born in 1996 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2905 Aurora AVE UNIT 209, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601418109.
Mitchell, Christian Thomas was born in 1999 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2280 1St AVE # 22, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601309911.
Mitchell, Christina Dyan was born in 1984 and registered to vote, giving the address as 7430 Dakin ST UNIT BI0I, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601436346.
Mitchell, Christina E was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 808 Glenwood DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223531.
Mitchell, Christina Elizabeth was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2790 Telluride DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200143598.
Mitchell, Christina Marie was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 412 14Th ST, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6353388.
Mitchell, Christina Nicole was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2253 S Pinon CT, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 456084.
Mitchell, Christina Nicole was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4532 Prestige PT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601677266.
Mitchell, Christina Noelle was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 396 Monument RD UNIT 2, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600311661.
Mitchell, Christin Ashley was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3046 S Valentia ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2929175.
Mitchell, Christine was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2060 E 95Th AVE, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601795334.
Mitchell, Christine A was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15585 E 115Th AVE, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 738595.
Mitchell, Christine Ann was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 25480 E Hinsdale PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600025680.
Mitchell, Christine Ann was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 452 Main ST, MINTURN, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6698950.
Mitchell, Christine Chen was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 724 Juniper Hill DR, ASPEN, Pitkin County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600394151.
Mitchell, Christine E was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 100 Abrams Creek DR, EAGLE, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6688689.
Mitchell, Christine Elaine was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 301 S 4Th ST, WESTCLIFFE, Custer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601698356.
Mitchell, Christine Elizabeth was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 215 E 4Th AVE, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4939312.
Mitchell, Christine Gaul was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1490 Promontory Bluff VW, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 218066.
Mitchell, Christine Lee was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8611 Corona ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7080300.
Mitchell, Christine Marie was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1076 Fruit Park RD, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5361478.
Mitchell, Christine Marie was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18356 E Mansfield AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 954182.
Mitchell, Christine Mink was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1111 N Ash ST APT 206, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1557966.
Mitchell, Christine N was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 701 E Nichols DR, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200099612.
Mitchell, Christine Shea was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12015 W Virginia PL, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4217245.
Mitchell, Christopher was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 942 S Walden ST # 9-107, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200138730.
Mitchell, Christopher Jr was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3045 E 2Nd AVE APT 2, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 601980304.
Mitchell, Christopher Alan was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1272 Cumberland DR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 200254480.
Mitchell, Christopher Anthony was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10754 Belle Creek BLVD APT 308, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601206747.
Mitchell, Christopher Benson was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13650 E Colfax AVE # 2521, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601831733.
Mitchell, Christopher Brian was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4865 N Shoshone ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600197085.
Mitchell, Christopher Carl was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1001 Strachan DR # 8, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 602015932.
Mitchell, Christopher Claborn was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 760 High ST, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200366393.
Mitchell, Christopher Clark was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5291 N Boston ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200372851.
Mitchell, Christopher Curtis was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2700 S Holly ST APT 229, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600167690.
Mitchell, Christopher D was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2812 Shoshone TRL, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223534.
Mitchell, Christopher Damien was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 755 S Dexter ST APT 126, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600347070.
Mitchell, Christopher Daniel was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8070 W 64Th AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200218907.
Mitchell, Christopher Douglas was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6558 Foxdale CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 400849.
Mitchell, Christopher Drumm was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 110 Fairway LN, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600789081.
Mitchell, Christopher E was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1975 S Downing ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223536.
Mitchell, Christopher Edward was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10552 Antler Creek DR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 334056.
Mitchell, Christopher Everett was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7165 W 66Th AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4036678.
Mitchell, Christopher James was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2929 Tremont ST APT B13, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601067154.
Mitchell, Christopher Jay was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10084 W Geddes CIR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600045594.
Mitchell, Christopher John was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8362 Quay DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601572495.
Mitchell, Christopher John was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 108 E Williams ST, OAK CREEK, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6578089.
Mitchell, Christopher Keith was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 0 Fort Carson, FT CARSON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601124727.
Mitchell, Christopher Lee was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1541 S Estes ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 2895701.
Mitchell, Christopher Lee was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2815 Saddle Creek DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601660229.
Mitchell, Christopher Lloyd was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 375 Hidden Creek DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601053741.
Mitchell, Christopher Michael was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2961 N Jasmine ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601942286.
Mitchell, Christopher Paul was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 18380 Hwy 145 SPACE 8, DOLORES, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 600252736.
Mitchell, Christopher Robert was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2282 County Rd 87, JAMESTOWN, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601999789.
Mitchell, Christopher Todd was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22714 Hwy 6, DILLON, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 601687947.
Mitchell, Christopher William was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1820 Franklin AVE, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 200169695.
Mitchell, Christopher William was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4147 Crystal Bridge DR, CARBONDALE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 601807048.
Mitchell, Christy Cathleen was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11653 Settlers DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5866626.
Mitchell, Christy Kay was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 103 Fawn ST, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4245149.
Mitchell, Christy Michelle was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14345 Glenayre CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601120766.
Mitchell, Chrystal Brishawn was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10766 E Virginia AVE # 101, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600768669.
Mitchell, Cian Joseph was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10979 Murray DR, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601584946.
Mitchell, Ciara Reve was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2330 N Broadway ST APT 732, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2893087.
Mitchell, Cindy Florence was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4670 Anille WAY APT 289, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 369929.
Mitchell, Cindy Kay was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 27185 Grey Moose TRL, CONIFER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5820020.
Mitchell, Cindy Louise was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1700 Stardust DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 334431.
Mitchell, Cindy O was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7863 S Logan DR, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 884910.
Mitchell, Cinniceon Sinknycun was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4112 S Eliot ST, SHERIDAN, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600671881.
Mitchell, Clair was born in 1935 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5051 S Olive RD, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601857530.
Mitchell, Claire E was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 83 Brookhaven DR, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 818982.
Mitchell, Claire Elizabeth was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 178 S Grove ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600695404.
Mitchell, Claire Isabel was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5909 S Steele ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600973262.
Mitchell, Claire Louise was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1908 Carr DR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601507595.
Mitchell, Claire Monica was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1002 N Mason ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601363150.
Mitchell, Clara May was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as , ALAMOSA, Alamosa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 617908.
Mitchell, Clarence Barton Iv was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10717 Sundial Rim RD, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200345510.
Mitchell, Clarence Edward Jr was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 945 N Ogden ST APT 301, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601066058.
Mitchell, Clark Collins Schneid was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 318 Oak PL, MANITOU SPGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601729147.
Mitchell, Claudia Arlene was born in 1934 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 19175 Doewood DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 87664.
Mitchell, Clay Christopher was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 90 N Corona ST UNIT 807, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601187097.
Mitchell, Clay Grant was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1475 Delgany ST APT 604, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2909575.
Mitchell, Claymon Duncan was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1086 S Dahlia ST # I-215, GLENDALE, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600615650.
Mitchell, Clayton was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 45642 Coal Creek DR, PARKER, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 7051258.
Mitchell, Clayton George was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6678 W 62Nd AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601620512.
Mitchell, Clayton Karl was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 0 Fort Carson, FT CARSON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601567567.
Mitchell, Clayton M was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4083 N County Rd 5 E, MONTE VISTA, Rio Grande County, CO. His voter ID number is 4767108.
Mitchell, Clayton Olen Jr was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3329 E Bayaud AVE APT 1107, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601263853.
Mitchell, Clement D was born in 1932 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 53375 2Nd ST, ARAPAHOE, Cheyenne County, CO. His voter ID number is 2191320.
Mitchell, Clifford Ray was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2352 E Long AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 835790.
Mitchell, Clint Ashley was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2561 Gold Rush DR APT 7, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601583412.
Mitchell, Clint James was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 347 Cerillos ST, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6943847.
Mitchell, Clinton Edward Jr was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7471 S Clinton ST # 1523, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 4097782.
Mitchell, Clinton Michael was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6740 Ingalls ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4080504.
Mitchell, Clinton Wayne was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19215 H H Ranch, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 337395.
Mitchell, Clint William was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4661 Kipling ST # 39, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4011494.
Mitchell, Clyde E was born in 1925 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 825 Macon ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 665325.
Mitchell, C Michelle was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1129 Bennett AVE APT 203, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 295666.
Mitchell, Cody was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 27790 Cumbres DR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601430326.
Mitchell, Cody Charles was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 27500 E 160Th AVE, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7071008.
Mitchell, Cody James was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7370 County Road 1, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601794566.
Mitchell, Cody Matthew was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 41190 Round Hill CIR, PARKER, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 601561833.
Mitchell, Cody Mcbain was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8362 Erickson BLVD # 9307, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601975063.
Mitchell, Cody Ryan was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12320 E 116Th CIR, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601518433.
Mitchell, Cody Stan was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6691 Julian ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 522610.
Mitchell, Colby Crews was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1289 Laurenwood WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601742180.
Mitchell, Colen Devaughn was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14364 E Hawaii CIR # B, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 1204372.
Mitchell, Cole Orin was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30625 County Rd 86, SIMLA, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 601841032.
Mitchell, Cole Wayne was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 350 13Th ST APT 1, BURLINGTON, Kit Carson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601600004.
Mitchell, Colin Gary was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5063 Farris Creek CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601909330.
Mitchell, Colin Jon was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2995 Glenwood DR APT 409, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223542.
Mitchell, Colin M was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1320 Reese ST, SILVERTON, San Juan County, CO. His voter ID number is 609795.
Mitchell, Colleen Marie was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13777 County Road 261B, NATHROP, Chaffee County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200367440.
Mitchell, Colleen Patricia was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11376 Last Dollar Pass, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4115540.
Mitchell, Collette Michelle was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5125 Horned Owl WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2608479.
Mitchell, Collin Patrick was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2232 W 45Th ST, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600736880.
Mitchell, Collin Stewart was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2250 W Elizabeth ST # 831, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601005065.
Mitchell, Colton Robert was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5194 Fallgold DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600984480.
Mitchell, Colton Thomas was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9582 Witherbee DR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601130429.
Mitchell, Connie A was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2405 Glendale DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1622091.
Mitchell, Connie E was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 330 Oxbow DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 97947.
Mitchell, Connie Jo was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 150 49Th Avenue PL, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6372217.
Mitchell, Connie Louise was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6125 Chase ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 861305.
Mitchell, Connie Lynn was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1375 Raven CIR, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1566210.
Mitchell, Connie Maude was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 730 Fulton ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 666167.
Mitchell, Connie Reames was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3041 Pear ST, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 589546.
Mitchell, Connor Anthony Cam was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4115 Park Haven VW, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601668825.
Mitchell, Connor Philip was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 260 Daphne WAY, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 200044475.
Mitchell, Constance Helen was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16012 County Rd W, FORT MORGAN, Morgan County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3581825.
Mitchell, Constance Jean was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12489 Motley RD, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601781160.
Mitchell, Constance Mae was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10532 Hyacinth ST, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600738905.
Mitchell, Constance Susan was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8428 Chase DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4060112.
Mitchell, Conyce Howard was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 66 Caledonia RD, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3013195.
Mitchell, Cora L was born in 1935 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1525 Yakima DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 240397.
Mitchell, Corbett Daniel was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8350 E Yale AVE # D308, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2960629.
Mitchell, Corby Lee was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1107 N Pennsylvania ST APT 27, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600873958.
Mitchell, Cordell Jr was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 960 E Saxony DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3105057.
Mitchell, Corenthon James was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1475 Reed ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601842883.
Mitchell, Corey Robert was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11403 W Capri PL, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601212195.
Mitchell, Cori Anne was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7468 W Roxbury PL, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601519153.
Mitchell, Corina Nikole was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2595 S Danube WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7088017.
Mitchell, Corinne Ann was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1629 N Gilpin ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601752997.
Mitchell, Corinne Theresa was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2730 W 86Th AVE APT 45, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8225137.
Mitchell, Cornelia Eerenvelt was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8325 Clifton DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 163660.
Mitchell, Cornelia M was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 524 N Main ST, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 473822.
Mitchell, Corrie Anne was born in 1983 and registered to vote, giving the address as 9464 E 108Th PL, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601381916.
Mitchell, Cory Michael was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 27185 E Ottawa DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5903451.
Mitchell, Cory Otis was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 272 Harvest DR, HAYDEN, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 5590160.
Mitchell, Cory William was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 530 Cherryridge DR, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200124609.
Mitchell, Courtney Bowles was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3000 Rock Point DR, EVANS, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601124347.
Mitchell, Courtney Dawn was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8565 W Dartmouth PL, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200198073.
Mitchell, Courtney Elizabeth was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3045 N Franklin ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2932033.
Mitchell, Courtney Elizabeth was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 73 S Devinney ST, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4045981.
Mitchell, Courtney Elizabeth was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7471 S Clinton ST # 1407, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601385034.
Mitchell, Craig Dale was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1634 County Rd 40, COALDALE, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 3691122.
Mitchell, Craig Russell was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11046 Oakland DR, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6392491.
Mitchell, Craig Steven was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4315 N Eagle ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2805824.
Mitchell, Crheston Daniel was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4859 S Picadilly CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2416951.
Mitchell, Cristina Lee was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 85 Crystal Park RD UNIT D, MANITOU SPGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601072305.
Mitchell, Cristine Aldasoro was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 105 Miguel RD, TELLURIDE, San Miguel County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4994748.
Mitchell, Crystal was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3889 Beasley DR, ERIE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601352241.
Mitchell, Crystal Lynn was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2409 Robinson ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200066235.
Mitchell, Crystal Renee was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 615 S Ivy ST # 113, YUMA, Yuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600042837.
Mitchell, Curlie Earl was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7475 E Harvard AVE # A, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 7124800.
Mitchell, Curran James was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6583 Rustic DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600238170.
Mitchell, Curtis Alan was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1700 Stardust DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 333496.
Mitchell, Curtis Duane was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6780 S Penrose CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 4005346.
Mitchell, Curtis Ray was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2561 S Fundy CIR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 764308.
Mitchell, Curtis Ryan was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5747 W 81St PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4234019.
Mitchell, Curtis Taylor was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7375 Oasis DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601218860.
Mitchell, Cyle Jorge was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2735 N Adams ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 4113021.
Mitchell, Cynthia Ann was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 639 N Wahsatch AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 390653.
Mitchell, Cynthia Anne was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2608 S Dunkirk CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 758534.
Mitchell, Cynthia Anne was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6029 Indian RD, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223550.
Mitchell, Cynthia Bisio was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 39 Oxbow CIR, PAGOSA SPRINGS, Archuleta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4750493.
Mitchell, Cynthia Brit was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1910 81St Avenue CT, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600829586.
Mitchell, Cynthia Denise was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7349 S Kit Carson ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 826083.
Mitchell, Cynthia Jean was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 918 Akin AVE, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1519870.
Mitchell, Cynthia Jo was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 517 E White AVE, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200126824.
Mitchell, Cynthia Loughery was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4608 Dusty Sage DR # 3, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601780517.
Mitchell, Cynthia Louise was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4801 S Wadsworth BLVD UNIT 13-105, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2954647.
Mitchell, Cynthia Lynn was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 420 Lincoln ST, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3038148.
Mitchell, Cynthia Lynn was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17916 E Berry AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 722489.
Mitchell, Cynthia S was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7582 County Road 501, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200132631.
Mitchell, Cynthia Shinneman was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10120 Charissglen LN, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601028563.
Mitchell, Cynthia Sue was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2056 Ridge West DR, WINDSOR, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1610720.
Mitchell, Dakota Hahn was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3285 Yukon CT, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600765965.
Mitchell, Dale Blaine was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 29975 Harrisville RD, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 323583.
Mitchell, Dale Calvin was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7430 Primavera LN, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600261270.
Mitchell, Dale E was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2019 Linda LN, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2270277.
Mitchell, Dale Robert was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3225 66Th AVE, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6337896.
Mitchell, Dale Thomas was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4248 S Acoma ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2741371.
Mitchell, Dale William was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1703 County Road 207, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 1468193.
Mitchell, Dallas Warren was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4601 W Union AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2960907.
Mitchell, Damara E was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1930 S Youngfield ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3966015.
Mitchell, Damiane Vamel was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3528 N Grape ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2774633.
Mitchell, Damien A was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1102 Elm AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2363863.
Mitchell, Damion Paullete was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1007 S Uravan CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200165751.
Mitchell, Damion Zachary was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 700 Oak ST # B, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4220573.
Mitchell, Damon Eugene was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 803 S Gay ST, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 908031.
Mitchell, Damon Nicholas was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3430 Hazelwood CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601695824.
Mitchell, Dana Alexander was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7757 Gerry HTS APT 202, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601026260.
Mitchell, Danae Nachele was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1570 S Albion ST APT 102, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600947787.
Mitchell, Dana Kay was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3037 Fall LN, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2883227.
Mitchell, Dana Lynn was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2473 S Xanadu WAY # D, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 692845.
Mitchell, Danare Andrew was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8460 Decatur ST APT 139, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601108382.
Mitchell, Danella Rose was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1322 Florida RD # 23, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600641926.
Mitchell, Dane Matthew was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3501 Stover ST # 1, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600225623.
Mitchell, Danette L was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14802 E Randolph PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2814670.
Mitchell, D Angelo Lee was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2243 Shady Aspen DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601107638.
Mitchell, Daniel Aaron was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3104 Fireweed DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601289198.
Mitchell, Daniel Alden was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13580 E Albrook DR APT B405, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601812606.
Mitchell, Daniel Allen was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3694 Reindeer CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 106709.
Mitchell, Daniel Brady was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 303 Pine ST, RED CLIFF, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 6684808.
Mitchell, Daniel C was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 529 County Rd 8307, FRASER, Grand County, CO. His voter ID number is 396024.
Mitchell, Daniel George was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9404 Bakersfield PT, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601622648.
Mitchell, Daniel James was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3260 E Oak Creek DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 526412.
Mitchell, Daniel James was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3850 N Bryant ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600068605.
Mitchell, Daniel James was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 307 Inverness WAY S # 306, ENGLEWOOD, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 778240.
Mitchell, Daniel Jay was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3806 Deer Valley DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600717674.
Mitchell, Daniel Jeffrey was born in 1995 and registered to vote, giving the address as 5280 Paradox DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601466014.
Mitchell, Daniel Joseph was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2880 Island DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223554.
Mitchell, Daniel Kenneth was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12530 Newton ST, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 600130869.
Mitchell, Daniel L was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9775 W Powers CIR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4150320.
Mitchell, Danielle Elizabeth was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7553 S Holland ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600453534.
Mitchell, Danielle Janean was born in 1976 and registered to vote, giving the address as 11119 Blackwolf DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601824690.
Mitchell, Danielle Marie was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18821 E Chenango PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601568036.
Mitchell, Danielle Marie was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1030 N Pearl ST APT 5, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601780389.
Mitchell, Danielle Marie was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11845 Ridge PKWY, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601872150.
Mitchell, Daniel Paul was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8623 Candleflower CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601987369.
Mitchell, Daniel Paul was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 449 Kings Crossing RD, WINTER PARK, Grand County, CO. His voter ID number is 8523828.
Mitchell, Daniel R was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8623 Candleflower CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 201167.
Mitchell, Daniel Ray Jr was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 0 Fort Carson, FT CARSON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600579908.
Mitchell, Daniel Rodrigo was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5492 S Jericho WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601745406.
Mitchell, Daniel Thomas was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 20935 Omaha AVE, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601078523.
Mitchell, Danny Gene Jr was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 626 Mineral CT, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2308959.
Mitchell, Danny Royce was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 965 Crestview DR, WETMORE, Custer County, CO. His voter ID number is 3028237.
Mitchell, Dan Sester was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1121 Spring Park RD, CARBONDALE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 600994716.
Mitchell, Dan Walden was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1580 Honeysuckle CT, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 4197010.
Mitchell, Dara Jean was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2438 S Victor ST # E, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 687667.
Mitchell, Darcie Lynn was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9431 Southern Hills CIR, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5718014.
Mitchell, Daren Ray was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 223 S 21St AVE, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601040747.
Mitchell, Darin K was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13780 W 67Th CIR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4081807.
Mitchell, Darlene Empeza was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4500 19Th ST APT 215, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223816.
Mitchell, Darlene Marie was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1978 Fernwood DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 380736.
Mitchell, Darlene Sue was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17010 E Prentice AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 721632.
Mitchell, Darrell Diamond was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15641 E 52Nd AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601447156.
Mitchell, Darrell S was born in 1984 and registered to vote, giving the address as 6165 E Iliff AVE APT 402D, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601430423.
Mitchell, Darren Edward was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 20942 E Girard DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 737250.
Mitchell, Darrin Earl was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3914 N County Rd 5 E, MONTE VISTA, Rio Grande County, CO. His voter ID number is 4766923.
Mitchell, Darrin Patrick was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 160 Mt Massive WAY, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223819.
Mitchell, Darryl Vaughn was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5180 N Troy ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2880679.
Mitchell, Darwin Avan Jr was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3460 N Grape ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200145838.
Mitchell, Dasha Renee was born in 1995 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1502 S Titan CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601340167.
Mitchell, Dave L was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1166 County Rd 20, GUNNISON, Gunnison County, CO. His voter ID number is 5960458.
Mitchell, David was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1899 N Gaylord ST APT 301, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601937321.
Mitchell, David A was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8330 E Quincy AVE APT C203, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600597189.
Mitchell, David Aaron was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13204 E Asbury DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601528613.
Mitchell, David Allen was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 499 W Progress AVE # 105, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2637285.
Mitchell, David Andrew was born in 1977 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1811 S Lafayette ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601874963.
Mitchell, David Anthony was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5836 W 94Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4179881.
Mitchell, David Arthur was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1311 Clemson DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 317564.
Mitchell, David B was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 236 Spring DR, PINE, Park County, CO. His voter ID number is 557109.
Mitchell, David Bruce was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 28610 Yellow Jacket DR, OAK CREEK, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6579616.
Mitchell, David C was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13160 Road 27.6, DOLORES, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 4878738.
Mitchell, David C was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6869 S Foresthill ST, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 809428.
Mitchell, David Cameron was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8161 Field CIR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3927402.
Mitchell, David Charles Iii was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1126 W Enclave CIR, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223821.
Mitchell, David Chris was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3313 W 4Th Street RD, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200310897.
Mitchell, David Clayton was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6820 S Gilpin CIR W, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 802579.
Mitchell, David Craig was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4778 Skywriter CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200321353.
Mitchell, David Crosby was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 449 Mtn Laurel DR # 4, ASPEN, Pitkin County, CO. His voter ID number is 600965629.
Mitchell, David E was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 604 S 9Th ST, BERTHOUD, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1588657.
Mitchell, David Edward was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 132 N Thirteenth ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601679062.
Mitchell, David Edward was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13992 E Marina DR # 405, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 808025.
Mitchell, David Eric was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 724 Juniper Hill DR, ASPEN, Pitkin County, CO. His voter ID number is 600395495.
Mitchell, David Eugene was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 32799 County Road 27, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6374887.
Mitchell, David Ferrier was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12643 Eagle River RD, FIRESTONE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600329849.
Mitchell, David Gregory was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1034 Spruce ST APT 3, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601266735.
Mitchell, David Hope Sr was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13420 W Warren AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4219995.
Mitchell, David Hope Jr was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10278 Quivas ST # 3, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601439802.
Mitchell, David Ira was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 777 County Rd 87J, JAMESTOWN, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223823.
Mitchell, David J was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15216 S Elk Creek RD, PINE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4135920.
Mitchell, David J was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10570 Sundial Rim RD, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5859219.
Mitchell, David J was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8321 S County Road 3, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 6352626.
Mitchell, David Jacob was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13400 W 135Th PL, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 601166225.
Mitchell, David James was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1663 Brookside DR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5808345.
Mitchell, David James was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2008 Calico CT, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223825.
Mitchell, David Joseph was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 29975 Harrisville RD, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 320348.
Mitchell, David Joseph was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6921 Brook Forest DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600912626.
Mitchell, David Julian was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30999 County Rd 15, LAS ANIMAS, Bent County, CO. His voter ID number is 200319846.
Mitchell, David Justin was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5891 S Lisbon WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600148534.
Mitchell, David K was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3958 Platte AVE, SEDALIA, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5711470.
Mitchell, David Kent was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 116 N Elm ST, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 601971759.
Mitchell, David Kjell was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 215 Dolores CIR, GLENWOOD SPGS, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 5526406.
Mitchell, David L was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3803 W Quigley DR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2485413.
Mitchell, David L was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10255 W 72Nd AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4072200.
Mitchell, David Lee was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 846 E 18Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 602006196.
Mitchell, David Lincoln was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5256 Pierce ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4064297.
Mitchell, David Lloyd was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2319 Montadale CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1512272.
Mitchell, David Louis was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4460 N Tennyson ST UNIT 5, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 492815.
Mitchell, David Lowell was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1105 Hover ST, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223826.
Mitchell, David Lynn was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4803 S Gibraltar LN, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601220253.
Mitchell, David M was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3145 E 132Nd CT, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6844276.
Mitchell, David Michael was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4472 4 Mile Canyon DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600453949.
Mitchell, David N was born in 1939 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1000 W Ridge RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 808258.
Mitchell, David Nash Jr was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 98 S Garland ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600458663.
Mitchell, David Oden was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8631 E 33Rd AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2586929.
Mitchell, David Parker was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2595 S Dahlia ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 670499.
Mitchell, David Patrick was born in 1996 and registered to vote, giving the address as 755 Belfry CT, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601315843.
Mitchell, David Paulette was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1007 S Uravan CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 938475.
Mitchell, David Robert was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16511 E Powers PL, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 1040523.
Mitchell, David Robert was born in 1985 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2033 Falcon Ridge DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601626614.
Mitchell, David Robert Carl was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6280 W 74Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4290277.
Mitchell, David Rose was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10255 W 72Nd AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601401161.
Mitchell, David Scott was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2507 Shavano CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1604118.
Mitchell, David Scott was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7763 Cornwall CIR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223828.
Mitchell, David Stephen was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14998 Clayton ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6827776.
Mitchell, David Sun Puhwal was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4778 Skywriter CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601011247.
Mitchell, David T was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1101 E Main ST APT G4, FLORENCE, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 3655652.
Mitchell, David W was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11964 Bonifay LOOP, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 340648.
Mitchell, David W was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6001 W Alder AVE, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4098223.
Mitchell, David Wayne was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7370 County Road 1, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 1648503.
Mitchell, David Wayne was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2495 Kerk AVE UNIT B, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 601587863.
Mitchell, David Wendell was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10014 Quintero ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601237269.
Mitchell, David William Sr was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 103 Fawn ST, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4244612.
Mitchell, David William was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9958 Dodge DR, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223832.
Mitchell, David Young was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15835 Diamond PT, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 8223834.
Mitchell, Dawn was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1615 9Th AVE, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223835.
Mitchell, Dawn Ann was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 56440 E 37Th CT, STRASBURG, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6894072.
Mitchell, Dawnde Caree was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11422 Canterberry LN, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5856264.
Mitchell, Dawn Elaine was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 607 Highway 340, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 656309.
Mitchell, Dawn Hideko was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8334 Deframe CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4180620.
Mitchell, Dawn M was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5774 Sunnybrook CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200104307.
Mitchell, Dawn Michelle was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 865 Urban ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600411283.
Mitchell, Dawn Nicole was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2295 Joliet ST, AURORA, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 945200.
Mitchell, Dawn Rene was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 426 Illinois AVE, STRATTON, Kit Carson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3190690.
Mitchell, Daya Devi was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1520 Dean DR, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2933100.
Mitchell, Dayleen Marie was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 136 Paynter PL, FORT MORGAN, Morgan County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600539226.
Mitchell, Deakan Arthur was born in 1975 and registered to vote, giving the address as 7582 County Road 501, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. Mitchell voter ID number is 601498367.
Mitchell, Deana Brown was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 295 E Speer BLVD APT 515, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8460513.
Mitchell, Dean Everett was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 34480 Pine Ridge CIR, ELIZABETH, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 570335.
Mitchell, Dean Harold was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5060 Snow Mesa DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1549487.
Mitchell, Deanna B was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10183 E Aberdeen AVE, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 773121.
Mitchell, Deanna Kela was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13346 W Progress CIR # 004, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600569632.
Mitchell, Deanna Lee was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6500 E 88Th AVE LOT 169, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7113823.
Mitchell, Deanna Roxanne was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9775 W Powers CIR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4150170.
Mitchell, Deanne Michelle was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 908 W Chestnut CIR, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223837.
Mitchell, Dean Philip was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8157 S Little River WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2594772.
Mitchell, Dean R was born in 1931 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11475 Pearl ST APT 123, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601409826.
Mitchell, Debbie Lynn was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10063 Park Meadows DR # 101, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200364184.
Mitchell, Debora Ann was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2118 W 28Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2966288.
Mitchell, Debora Ann was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1188 Hawk Ridge RD, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8223839.
Mitchell, Deborah Ann was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2575 N Locust ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2457032.
Mitchell, Deborah Ann was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 31697 Acoma RD, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3058230.
Mitchell, Deborah Ann was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4 Cobble CT, WILLIAMSBURG, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3674544.
Mitchell, Deborah Ann was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10985 W 45Th AVE, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4028746.
Mitchell, Deborah Ann was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10227 Charissglen CIR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5722360.
Mitchell, Deborah Ann was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 100 Ely ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601841825.
Mitchell, Deborah Candis was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 176 Sand Cherry ST, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600921167.
Mitchell, Deborah Gale was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10660 W 20Th AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200145273.
Mitchell, Deborah J was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8630 E Cornell DR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2585569.
Mitchell, Deborah Jean was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3151 Chestnut LN, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4166454.
Mitchell, Deborah Jeanette was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6280 W 74Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4174560.
Mitchell, Deborah Jean Keller was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3918 Kings Island PT APT 202, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601402855.
Mitchell, Deborah K was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 410 Zang ST # 2-201, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4014329.
Mitchell, Deborah K was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11613 W Coal Mine DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4277064.
Mitchell, Deborah K was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3762 Cedar Mountain RD, DIVIDE, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600345721.
Mitchell, Deborah Sue was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18837 Fox Haven CT, BRIGHTON, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6300305.
Mitchell, Debra was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 116 N Elm ST, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601971747.
Mitchell, Debra A was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2019 Linda LN, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2254369.
Mitchell, Debra Ann was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2745 E Peakview CIR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600732726.
Mitchell, Debra Ann was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10811 Blue Jay LN, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7138964.
Mitchell, Debra Dee was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4220 Buffalo TRL, EVANS, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6346901.
Mitchell, Debra Diane was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1501 Bluebird TRL, ELIZABETH, Elbert County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5944502.
Mitchell, Debra J was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7125 N Gladiola ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4067494.
Mitchell, Debra Jean was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15422 E Evans AVE # 207, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 296914.
Mitchell, Debra Karen was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 158 Wagner WAY, DILLON, Summit County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7187630.
Mitchell, Debra P was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10255 W 72Nd AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4070301.
Mitchell, Debra S was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1122 Florence AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 414232.
Mitchell, Deeja Louise was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4369 S Quebec ST APT 6220, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 792029.
Mitchell, Dee Oleen was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2306 42Nd Avenue CT, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600728411.
Mitchell, Della Mae was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1455 Alvarado DR APT 112, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200328899.
Mitchell, Deloras Ann was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9765 Fairwood ST, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600823902.
Mitchell, Delphia Christine was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7895 Fedora LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 294495.
Mitchell, Demitrius Lee was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1955 Arapahoe ST APT 1005, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2577385.
Mitchell, Denise A was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16 Scutti DR, WILLIAMSBURG, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3683752.
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Energy And Place
During this project, we were tasked with describing our environmental ethic and our sense of place. Basically, we took our connection to a specific place and connected this with an environmental perspective. Personally, I chose a less concrete place. For my project, I chose to discuss my connection with the internet and online community, as I don't feel a particularly strong connection with any specific place.
Overall, I don't feel there was a very large amount of writing growth that occurred during this project. This is mainly due to two reasons. First, my original draft was only two paragraphs long, when I decided to scrap it and start over as it felt inauthentic. Also, my second draft felt almost equally inauthentic. I don't know that there's a reasonable way to express what I was attempting to say without using cliches or assuming prior understanding most audiences won't have. My first draft can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W2OZRlPOjZMfEOtpc_-qBvz8jjnravqKArzrwSTBr60/edit
and the second draft is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylg7Ruag4DDIN2hzAee5VR8Hbeq1XXpqYg7icWrG_g4/
In terms of personal growth, I feel that there was an important realization I had. I realized that I don't really feel rooted in the real world. I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing, but I think it may be the cause of a lot of my problems. I often have a very difficult time relating to other people and places, and this may very well be why. This is difficult for me to say definitively, but perhaps finding somewhere I feel at home would be worthwhile.
The Morality And Politics of Justice
Cyber vigilantism should be allowed as long as it leads to the arrest of another, and doesn't harm the innocent.
For this project, we began with learning about justice from the perspectives of different philosophers. We began with Henry David Thoreau, and then progressed onto the works of other philosophers such as John Rawls or Immanuel Kant. We looked at various moral dilemmas through the lenses of various philosophies. After this, we began researching a topic. For instance, my topic was internet vigilantism. We were then tasked with writing an op-ed taking a stance on this issue, and designing an art piece to represent our perspective.
Before revision, my op-ed was lacking in several places. Specifically, I used a massive amount of passive or nonspecific language, My hook was also weak, and in the end I rewrote a large amount of my op-ed. My hook and thesis are now far stronger, and I improved passive/nonspecific language usage.
My poster utilizes several important pieces of symbolism. The shadow hands represent evil, reaching for the innocent. Protecting the child, a symbol of innocence, stands a lone hero, who represents vigilantes. However, Uncle Sam, representing the US government, is pointing an accusing finger at our hero, perhaps in an attempt to poke him out of the way, allowing evil to reach the innocent child. This poster utilizes pathos and logos primarily, but also touches on ethos. The pathos is the image of a child in danger. Logically speaking, it makes no sense to remove the hero protecting the child. Though it's somewhat minor, I think the bash terminal in the background adds credibility to the poster. Anyone with knowledge of the programming world is likely to recognize the syntax used in the background, and perhaps it's validity will add to the impact of the poster. I chose to arrange the poster as such to create a creepy atmosphere. The vignette around the edge of the poster creates the illusion that darkness is closing in, while also highlighting the main characters in this piece. Overall, I was fairly content with this poster, but I was very disappointed with how Uncle Sam's hand turned out. It looked somewhat tacky and thrown together to me.
I thought it was interesting working through this project, but what I felt really taught me more was looking at other people's projects. There's students that took stances I would never have expected on their issue. This has really opened my mind to the possibility that others don't think the way that I think they do. I don't generally consider that, but now that it has been introduced to me, I feel more open to the concept and more accepting of my classmates.
Voices from the Animas
Storycorps Interview
Seminar pre-write:
How was our community affected economically by the spill?
I would say that the economic impact of the spill has been immense. In a Durango Herald article, Jack Llewellyn was cited as saying, “just the other day, a woman bringing 20 senior citizens to the area called ahead to ask if the water was safe to drink, and it’s that skepticism he fears might influence other visitors to choose a different destination when making vacation plans.” This highlights the issue very well. There is so much misconception regarding the incident, mainly due to media blowing things out of proportion. From concerns ranging from radioactivity to toxic fumes, this issue has a very strong economic impact. On top of this, the spill occurred during the middle of prime rafting and summer tourism season.
What, if any, future economic impacts will there be?
This is difficult to say. Essentially, given the circumstances, many companies have lost quite a bit of potential profit this year. This could potentially require employees to be fired, or even put local companies out of business. That being said, as of now, there’s no obvious long-term economic effects.
Could the spill have been prevented and if so how?
From the information we collected in Silverton, I think it’s safe to say that this spill could not have been prevented unless mining never occurred in Silverton.
In what ways did the the EPA benefit and lose from the spill? (Was the spill an accident?)
This incident was most likely an accident. The EPA was forced to issue tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of aid money and supplies. They’ve most likely received cuts in funding, and have been humiliated on public media.
Seminar Self-Assessment:
For the perspective category, I feel like I met all of the requirements, and offered interesting perspectives to the conversation. It is because of these reasons that I’m going to give myself a 3/4 for that category. However, I had a lot less evidence than I could have had. I only cited one piece of evidence during the seminar, but I did cite it multiple times for various scenarios and used hypothetical situations. An excellent example of this was when I mentioned that frogs could be a good indicator that the water was poisoned. Because of this, I feel I deserve a 2.5/4 for the evidence category. I also feel that I exhibited strong communication skills, invited others into the conversation, and attempted to return to the original question several times. I believe I deserve a 4/4 for the communication portion of the rubric. I also made several fairly abstract connections during the seminar. Due to this, I give myself a 4/4 in the connections category. Finally, I posed several original questions to the group, pulled others into the conversation, and attempted to help others understand points made by various students. It is because of this that I’m giving myself a 4/4 in the leadership category.
Overall scores:
Perspective: 3/4
Evidence: 2.5/4
Communication: 4/4
Connections: 4/4
Leadership: 4/4
I feel like I did a good job of stepping down for today’s seminar. That’s something I usually have a lot of difficulty dealing with. As someone with extremely strong opinions, it’s often very difficult to let others speak. I find myself talking at people, not with people. This is a skill I hope to continue improving in the coming months.
Project Reflection:
The interview was by far the easiest part of this project. However, it was also the most enjoyable part. I really feel like I got a lot of insight from my interview, and it was a great way to wrap up the project. I actually wasn’t aware that there were alternative programs to superfund until my interview. I think that overall, this process has really helped my listening skills. I often find myself dominating conversation and talking at people, but this has noticeably decreased during the Animas River Spill project.
I think that we need to cease the pointing of fingers and begin fixing the problem. As Ashley Trusler so well stated, “The river is my heart”. The Animas River is the heart and soul of our community, and anything that can ensure it’s safety is essential. For me, this could be the superfund and similar programs, or the Animas Stakeholder’s Group. However, the Stakeholder’s Group seems to be the most probable entity to provide solutions.
The concept of a superfund seems unlikely. As we were told many times during our trip to Silverton, the superfund was never officially proposed to the Silverton Board. It’s due to this that I feel that the most appropriate solution would be the continued effort of the Animas Stakeholder’s Group, potentially expedited with external funding. Without this funding, the Stakeholder’s Group has made immense progress, but they’ve taken thirty years to do it. I believe that with more resources, the Stakeholder’s Group would be able to make immediate impact on the issue.
I think that the most interesting part of this project was learning how passionate people are about something we often take for granted. Because the river has always been there, we don’t really think about it much until it’s bright orange. It’s really amazing to see how during dramatic events such as the river spill, people are no longer individuals, and begin to work as a community. It always amazes me how humans can adapt and collaborate to achieve a greater goal.
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken · Penguin Books
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer...
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind · Little, Brown
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize...
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco
New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016MPR Best Books of 2016Chicago...
Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun
Marcus Chown · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
Based on the latest ebook sensation developed by Theodore Gray and his company Touch Press, this beautiful print book presents a new and fascinating way to experience the wonders of the solar systemFollowing the stunning success of both the print edition and the app of The Elements, Black...
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
CHARLES C MANN · Knopf
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first...
Fisherman's Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Angling Reference
Jay Cassell · Skyhorse Publishing
This is the must-have reference book for anglers and fishing fanatics of all ages. In the tradition of the bestselling Shooters Bible, Skyhorse Publishing presents the Fishermans Bible, the most complete reference guide for new fishing equipment and their specifications. Now, anglers will...
Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World
Stephen Post (Foreword by) · New Harbinger Publications
It's time for a kindness revolution. In The Kindness Cure, psychologist Tara Cousineau draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show how simple practices of kindness--for ourselves, for others, and for our world--can dissolve our feelings of fear and indifference,...
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
SAM KEAN · Little, Brown and Company
The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances...
Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World
B Brett Finlay · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS · Random House
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard...
The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Vint Virga D.V.M. · Crown; 1 edition
As profiled in the New York Times MagazineBased on the authors twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats and explores...
Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Michael E Bakich · Springer
In this book Astronomy Magazine editor Michael Bakich presents all the information you'll need to be ready for the total solar eclipse that will cross the United States on August 21, 2017. In this one resource you'll find out where the eclipse will occur, how to observe it safely, what...
How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe. How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core...
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Overseas Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what cross-party discussions have taken place on preparations for the UK leaving the EU on WTO terms.
<p>The Government has consulted with Members from all sides of the House on a range of issues relating to the UK’s withdrawal from, and future relationship with the EU.</p><p>If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the UK would implement a temporary tariff regime that takes a balanced approach to support the UK economy as a whole. It will maintain open trade on the majority of UK imports, to support consumers and business supply chains, but retain necessary tariff protection for particular sectors of the UK economy. This would apply for up to 12 months while a full consultation, and review on a permanent approach, is undertaken.</p><p>As a responsible government we’ve been preparing to minimise any disruption in the event of no deal for over three years. We remain focused on ensuring our smooth and orderly withdrawal from the EU.</p>
Biography information for James Cleverly
Professions: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will list the professional qualifications which will no longer be automatically recognised in the EU in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
<p>Currently, UK professionals benefit from automatic recognition of their professional qualifications by EU member states for seven professions: nurses, midwives, doctors, dentists, pharmacists, architects and veterinary surgeons. All other qualifications are only recognised if they are deemed to be of an equivalent standard to the EU Member State’s own standards. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, UK nationals will no longer have access to the EU’s reciprocal system of automatic professional qualification recognition.</p><p>UK nationals seeking recognition to practice regulated professions in the EU after a no deal exit would have to check the national policies and rules of the relevant Member State in which they intend to practice. The Government has published advice for UK professionals seeking to have their qualifications recognised in EU member states in the event of ‘no deal’ on Gov.uk.</p><p> </p>
Mr Robin Walker
Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
Schengen Agreement
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the number of UK nationals who (a) work in the Schengen area and (b) live in the Schengen area and have less than five years' residency.
<p>We estimate that there are around 1 million UK nationals living in the EU. We do not at present hold data on the number of UK nationals who work in the Schengen area, nor the number of those who live in the Schengen area with less than five years’ residency.</p><p>The deal we’ve reached will provide EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU with certainty about their rights going forward. Indeed, the Government has been clear that in any scenario, including no deal, EU citizens and their family members living here by exit day will be able to stay. EU citizens resident in the UK by exit day are able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to secure their status. The scheme fully opened on 30 March and over 800,000 applicants have applied. Applications to the scheme are free.</p><p>In a no deal, following extensive engagement by the Government, we are pleased that all Member States have now made commitments to protect the rights of UK nationals in the EU and have guaranteed that UK nationals legally resident by exit day will be able to stay. We continue to encourage Member States to fully reciprocate our offer and communicate plans as soon as possible.</p><p> </p>
Brexit: Parliamentary Scrutiny
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) Statutory Instruments and (b) Bills on leaving the EU that (i) have not yet be approved by Parliament and (ii) the Government plans to bring forward before 31 October 2019.
Cardiff Central
Jo Stevens
<p>The Government has made over 530 exit-related statutory instruments. The necessary preparations are in place to ensure a functioning statute book for exit day, as they were before 12 April. There will be a number of additional statutory instruments laid over the coming months to account for any new updates to EU regulations during the extension period.</p><p>The progress of all bills currently before Parliament can be tracked on parliament.uk. We will need to introduce a bill to implement the Withdrawal Agreement if a deal is approved by Parliament.</p><p>The Government is confident that we will have all the necessary legislation in place by exit day.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Jo Stevens
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the oral evidence from the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the European Union to the Committee on Exiting the European Union of 4 September 2018, if he will publish the 300 cross-government workstreams on no deal; and what the (a) red, (b) amber and (c) green status is for each of those workstreams.
<p>The Government has over 300 work streams looking at specific no deal plans across a range of sectors and these are well advanced. There is still some work to be done but departments are making sensible decisions about prioritisation.</p><p>The underlying detail for each workstream, including any assessment of those programmes, is exceptionally sensitive. If workstreams - or the underlying data - were made public, both our negotiating position and our ability to manage delivery across the programme would be significantly damaged.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to paragraph 8 of the February 2019 report Implications for Business and Trade of a No Deal Exit on 29 March 2019, what proportion of (a) all and (b) the most critical no deal projects are on track.
<p>The Government has over 300 work streams looking at specific no deal plans across a range of sectors and these are well advanced. There is still some work to be done but departments are making sensible decisions about prioritisation.</p><p>The underlying detail for each workstream, including any assessment of progress, is exceptionally sensitive. If workstreams - or the underlying data - were made public, both our negotiating position and our ability to manage delivery across the programme would be significantly damaged.</p><p> </p>
Department for Exiting the European Union: Overtime
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the total amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in his Department in the last 24 months.
Jon Trickett
<p>The Department for Exiting the European Union is committed to the wellbeing of its staff and ensuring that staff maintain a work-life balance. The Department has a range of flexible working policies in place to avoid excess working hours and complies with the EU Working Time Directive. If there are occasions when staff have to work extra hours, they may be able to claim overtime or time off in lieu for the additional hours worked.</p><p>Working hours are managed locally with line managers and no central records are held of excess working hours that are not paid as overtime.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Jon Trickett
Department for Exiting the European Union: Brexit
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what preparations his Department is making for the UK leaving the EU without an agreement; and how much funding has been allocated to those preparations.
Carshalton and Wallington
Tom Brake
<p>As a responsible Government, we’ve been preparing to leave the EU for nearly three years. We are putting in place a range of preparations for all scenarios and the Department for Exiting the European Union’s role is in part to deliver and legislate for the UK’s smooth and orderly exit from the EU.</p><p>The Treasury has allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This funding is to cover all exit scenarios and is in addition to departmental efforts to reprioritise from business as usual toward preparations for the UK’s departure from the EU. Work on no-deal exit preparations cannot be readily separated from other EU exit work, given the significant overlap in plans in many cases.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Tom Brake
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to oral Answer of 27 June 2019 on the EU Settlement Scheme, if he will place a copy in the Library of his correspondence with the Department for Education and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on the matter of applying for settled status for children in care of local authorities.
<p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Home Office and the Department for Education work collaboratively across departments to support children in care who need to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme. Officials have been in contact with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and I have written to Ministers Nokes and Minister Zahawi whose departments work together to support children in care to apply for settled status.</p><p>Copies of both these letters and the responses from Minister Zahawi and Minister Nokes will be deposited in the House library.</p><p>The Home Office is running a series of MP Parliamentary Caseworker events to inform MPs about the EU Settlement Scheme; we would recommend that MPs who want more information about the scheme attend these sessions.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Afzal Khan
Department for Exiting the European Union: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>I can confirm my department currently does not have the facility to allow staff to join a credit union through payroll deductions. Staff can still make arrangements to contribute to a credit union via direct debit.</p><p> </p>
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The Great Gay Novel Is Never Going to Happen
Books | By Tyler Coates | August 1, 2013
Yesterday at Salon, Daniel D’Addario raised an important question: when will there be a buzzed-about novel that finally gets the gay experience right? D’Addario mentions Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings, a big novel with a rainbow-colored cover that follows a group of friends in the late ’70s and early ’80s; one of them is a gay man. And, of course, Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, the popular novel from 2011 about the interpersonal relationships of collegiate baseball players and the middle-aged college president who, despite his lifelong heterosexuality, falls head-over-heels in love with the sole gay player. Both books, along with Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children, feature fairly limited views of the gay experience, as their homosexual characters are more symbolic than fully realized. All three of these authors are straight, but would their characters feel more real if they were written by non-heterosexuals?
The fact of the matter is, a popular, talked-about novel featuring realistic characters that fall within the LGBT umbrella is not likely to be published any time soon. This is a notion that D’Addario admits in his piece. “Publishing is not a charitable endeavor devoted to equal reception for all,” he writes. “It’s a business catering to the interests of an audience comfortable with gay people but not necessarily comfortable with stories that don’t cohere with a mold recognizable from, say, the most recent Michael Cunningham novel, about a bougie, respectable art dealer.” It’s a non-homosexual world, and the majority of those who are buying, selling, and reading literature are non-homosexual. When a marginalized group of people are being packaged for a larger, mainstream audience, the representation is never truly going to be honest or believable to LGBT readers.
A lot of it is marketing, yes, and that is problematic. Take Choire Sicha’s soon-to-be-released non-fiction book, Very Recent History as one major example of its publisher’s attempt to avoid its placement in the Gay Ghetto. “Well, it’s funny, you wouldn’t know that it was about gay people, because the word ‘gay’ isn’t on it or in it,” Sicha tells D’Addario. “I don’t think the word ‘gay’ is used even once in the whole book, which is hilarious and weird.” (One hilarious comment on Goodreads is a testament to the “surprising” bait-and-switch of Sicha’s book: “I found the book jacket summary of this book very misleading. It does not adequately describe the unusual writing style, nor does it reveal that John and all of the men mentioned are gay.”)
It’s admirable for non-homosexual writers to attempt realistic depictions of LGBT characters. As I have argued for more positive (and just plain more) LGBT characters in Hollywood films, it’s worth commending the publishing industry — a much broader, more diverse industry, for sure — for promoting works with gay characters. But as in Hollywood, the representation is still very limited, particularly because “LGBT” is seen as a genre and a convenient umbrella under which to place all non-heterosexual people. Until those in the publishing industry stop marketing its products according to the lowest common denominator and instead recognize that not every book will be relatable and well-liked by the average reader, there’s little progress we can expect. And, let’s be honest, the bottom line will always be more important than providing a niche audience and marginalized group with relatable books with fully formed characters that seem as real as the readers.
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Ligue 1 Preview: Week 3 (2014/15)
Your weekly guide to the weekend’s Ligue 1 action is here:
Friday: Evian (20th) vs PSG (3rd) (19:30 GMT)
The Ligue 1 action starts on Friday evening at the Parc des Sports, as Evian take on champions PSG. It will be another tough match for the hosts but manager Pascal Dupraz will be hoping for a better performance than the one he saw during last week’s 6-2 defeat to Rennes. However, Evian did manage to win this fixture 2-0 last season, becoming the first team to defeat PSG in the league in 2013/14.
PSG will be without both captain Thiago Silva and star man Zlatan Ibrahimovic due to injury, but Laurent Blanc’s side will still be expected to take all three points here. The champions have taken four points from six so far this campaign and a win will take them to their usual spot at the top of the league, for 24 hours at least.
Saturday: Guingamp (13th) vs Marseille (15th) (16:00 GMT)
The first match on Saturday sees Marseille travel to the Stade du Roudourou to face Guingamp. The home side have responded well after losing to PSG in the Trophee des Champions and St Etienne in Week 1; they managed a 1-0 victory away at Lens last week and Jocelyn Gourvennec will be hoping to make it two wins in a row this weekend.
Marseille, meanwhile, are still searching for their first league win of the season and the first league victory of Marcelo Bielsa’s reign. The new man in charge has so far seen his team throw away a 3-1 lead to draw with Bastia in Week 1 and lose 2-0 at home to Montpellier the following Saturday. The Argentinean will no doubt be looking for an improvement, starting this weekend with victory away at Guingamp.
Saturday: Lille (7th) vs Lorient (6th) (19:00 GMT)
Lille will be looking to respond to their mid-week Champions League qualifier defeat to FC Porto with a victory over league opponents Lorient this weekend. With a trip to Portugal to contend with next week, Lille will be hoping this game turns out to be a comfortable victory, but Rene Girard’s team have struggled to score so far this season, netting just once in their two league matches.
Lorient, however, will be looking to create their second upset in the league this season. They managed to defeat Monaco 2-0 away from home in Week 1 and with Lille possibly concentrating more on Europe right now than Ligue 1, Sylvain Ripoll will be hoping for another result similar to that achieved at the Stade Louis II.
Saturday: Bastia (17th) vs Toulouse (12th) (19:00 GMT)
Bastia take on Toulouse at the Stade Armand Cesari with Claude Makelele searching for his first league win as a manager. Makelele will be looking for his team to respond to last week’s unsavoury events with actions on the pitch (rather than in the tunnel), in a game that Bastia fans hope will result in some much needed positive headlines for the club.
Toulouse head into this match on the back of an impressive 2-1 win against Lyon last weekend and manager Alain Casanova will be looking for a repeat of that performance rather than the one from the campaign’s opening fixture which saw Toulouse go down 3-2 at Nice.
Saturday: Nice (4th) vs Bordeaux (1st) (19:00 GMT)
Nice welcome Bordeaux to the Allianz Riviera with both sides looking to maintain their impressive starts to the season. The home side defeated Toulouse on the opening day and held Lorient to a goalless draw at the Stade du Moustoir last week, but face a tough task this weekend against a Bordeaux side with a 100% record.
Willy Sagnol has overseen a 1-0 win away at Montpellier as well as last week’s surprise 4-1 victory over last season’s runners up Monaco. He will be hoping the spectacular start to his Ligue 1 managerial career continues with all three points this weekend against Les Aiglons and that his team maintain their position at the summit of the league table.
Saturday: Montpellier (11th) vs Metz (14th) (19:00 GMT)
Newly-promoted Metz travel to the Stade de la Mosson on Saturday to take on Montpellier. The hosts responded positively to their opening day defeat against Bordeaux by winning 2-0 away at Marseille last week and manager Rolland Courbis will be looking for his side to produce a similarly good result in front of an expectant home crowd this weekend.
Metz, meanwhile, have drawn both of their matches since returning to the top flight, impressively holding Lille to a 0-0 draw on the opening day before sharing the points with Nantes after a 1-1 scoreline at home last week. Albert Cartier will be hoping his side’s first win of the campaign comes sooner rather than later, but Montpellier will be favourites heading into this match.
Saturday: Reims (16th) vs Caen (9th) (19:00 GMT)
Caen are the visitors to the Stade Auguste Delaune this week as they take on 16th placed Reims. The hosts have had a tough start to the season with opening matches against PSG and St Etienne, but manager Jean-Luc Vasseur will be looking for his side to record their first league win of 2014/15 at home against newly-promoted side Caen.
Caen, however, have been impressive so far this season, comfortably defeating Evian 3-0 away on the opening day before only narrowly losing 1-0 against Lille last week. Patrice Garande will be hoping that his side’s good performances continue this weekend with a victory over Reims.
Sunday: Lyon (10th) vs Lens (18th) (13:00 GMT)
Sunday’s matches start with Lyon taking on Lens at the Stade de Gerland. This match is sandwiched in between the two legs of Lyon’s Europa League qualifier against Romanian side Astra Giurgiu and after losing the home tie 2-1, Hubert Fournier will be looking for his side to get back on track with a victory in the league this weekend.
Lens, though, will be looking to put their own season on track after losing their both of their first two games back in the top flight. Last season’s Ligue 2 runners up lost 1-0 away at Nantes on the opening day before submitting at home to Guingamp last week by the same scoreline. This will be a tough match for Antoine Kombouare’s men, but with Lyon focussing on European commitments, this may be the ideal time for Lens to face them.
Sunday: St Etienne (2nd) vs Rennes (8th) (16:00 GMT)
St Etienne will look to extend their perfect start to the season when they welcome Rennes to the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on Sunday afternoon. Les Verts have so far despatched of Guingamp and Reims in Ligue 1 and have the exact same record as league leaders Bordeaux. The hosts will undoubtedly be favourites heading into this match and manager Christophe Galtier will also be expecting nothing less than all three points.
Rennes, though, will be full of confidence after last week’s 6-2 trouncing of Evian. St Etienne will provide a much harder task than their previous opponents, but if they play as well as they did last week, manager Philippe Montanier will be hopeful that his side may just be able to nick something from this match.
Sunday: Nantes (5th) vs Monaco (19th) (20:00 GMT)
The final game of the weekend sees Nantes host Monaco at the Stade de la Beaujoire. The home side have made a decent start to the season, taking four points from a possible six after defeating Lens on the opening day and drawing 1-1 to Metz last week. With Monaco being in poor form at the moment, Michel Der Zakarian will be hoping his men take full advantage and snatch all three points from this game.
Monaco boss Leonardo Jardim is under huge pressure to get a result this weekend. Two losses in Monaco’s first two games have left them second from bottom in the league and six points off the top of the table already. Last week’s 4-1 defeat to Bordeaux showed just how vulnerable Jardim’s side are right now and he will be desperate to turn things around with a victory in this match.
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Veritas Capital Completes Acquisition of Cambium Learning Group
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2018-- Cambium Learning® Group, Inc. (“Cambium” or the “Company”), a leading educational technology solutions company committed to helping all students reach their full potential, announced today that it has completed its previously announced sale to certain affiliates of Veritas Capital, a leading private equity investment firm.
The Company also completed its previously announced acquisition of VKIDZ Holdings Inc. (“VKidz”), an award winning edtech company dedicated to helping deliver the best education to students using digital solutions.
“We are excited to welcome the Cambium management team and employees and look forward to supporting their many growth opportunities ahead,” said Ramzi Musallam, CEO and Managing Partner of Veritas Capital. “The education technology space is a key focus area for Veritas, and we believe our partnership with Cambium will accelerate the company’s mission of improving outcomes for districts, educators, students and parents.”
John Campbell, Chief Executive Officer of the Company commented, “We are thrilled to partner with Veritas Capital as we embark on the next chapter of our long-term growth. I am proud of the transformation we have accomplished at Cambium as we continue to improve our product suite in terms of technology, efficacy, and engagement. We look forward to helping even more students with the addition of VKidz.”
“It has been our pleasure to work with John and the world-class team at Cambium,” said David Bainbridge, Managing Director of Veronis Suhler Stevenson (“VSS”), an affiliate of the former majority stockholder of the Company. “Since our investment, we have partnered with management to invest in new technology, execute strategic acquisitions, and implement initiatives to accelerate the Company’s growth, and are proud of the progress the Company has made in transitioning to a digital subscription business. We thank Cambium’s leadership and employees for their tremendous efforts and collaboration over the years and wish them well in their next phase of growth.”
Cambium Learning® Group’s stock will cease trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ABCD effective today.
Macquarie Capital acted as the Company’s financial advisor and Lowenstein Sandler LLP acted as the Company’s legal counsel in connection with the transactions.
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP acted as Veritas Capital’s legal counsel in connection with the transactions.
About Cambium Learning Group
Cambium Learning® Group, Inc. is an award-winning educational technology solutions leader dedicated to helping all students reach their potential through individualized and differentiated instruction. Using a research-based, personalized approach, Cambium Learning Group, Inc. delivers SaaS resources and instructional products that engage students and support teachers in fun, positive, safe and scalable environments. These solutions are provided through Learning A-Z® (online differentiated instruction for elementary school reading, writing and science), ExploreLearning® (online interactive math and science simulations and a math fact fluency solution) and Voyager Sopris Learning® (blended solutions that accelerate struggling learners to achieve in literacy and math and professional development for teachers). We believe that every student has unlimited potential, that teachers matter, and that data, instruction, and practice are the keys to success in the classroom and beyond. Come learn with us at www.cambiumlearning.com.
About Veritas Capital
Veritas Capital is a leading private equity firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services, primarily technology and technology-enabled solutions, to government and commercial customers worldwide, including those operating in the aerospace & defense, healthcare, technology, national security, communications, energy, government services and education industries. Veritas seeks to create value by strategically transforming the companies in which it invests through organic and inorganic means. For more information on Veritas Capital and its current and past investments, visit www.veritascapital.com.
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (www.vss.com) is a private investment firm that invests in the information, education, healthcare, and tech-enabled business services industries.VSS provides capital for growth financings, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions and buyouts to lower middle market companies and management teams with the goal of building companies organically as well as through a focused add-on acquisition program.VSS makes privately-negotiated investments across the capital structure and invests in situations requiring control or non-control equity, mezzanine securities and structured equity securities.
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July 2, 2019 The Editor
There are plenty of great Canadian movies to see, and they certainly shouldn’t be missed. But our current Golden Age of Television has produced some incredible TV shows, from dramas like The Sopranos and The Wire, to sitcoms like The Office and Modern Family. And streaming services like Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu, and Amazon have made it easier than ever to check out all of these shows — and binge watch them.
But what are some of the best Canadian TV shows of the new Golden Age? Below are just a few of the shows you must check out.
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Created by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy, the show stars Eugene Levy as the father, Catherine O’Hara as the mother, Daniel Levy as the son, and Annie Murphy as the daughter. It just finished season five earlier this year, and season six is set to be its final season. The sitcom is about a wealthy family that winds up losing all of their money and property. With nothing left to their name, they’re forced to relocate to a small town they own called Schitt’s Creek — the one thing they have left — which they had purchased decades prior as a joke. The show then follows the family as they get used to their new lifestyles.
If you’re a fan of ultra-competitive, eviction-based reality TV shows, then you’ll be a fan of Big Brother Canada. The show premiered in 2013 and is currently on season seven. It’s a part of the Big Brother TV franchise, which is a long-running, massively popular reality TV show that has aired versions in more than 50 countries, including Canada. In case you’re wondering, the name was inspired by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four — Big Brother is always watching!
In the show, more than a dozen strangers share a house together. They are cut off from the outside world: They cannot leave the house or contact family and friends. One house guest serves as the Head of Household, and the house guests will periodically vote to evict other house guests throughout the run of the show until one house guest remains and prizes are awarded. There are also several twists that occur in the show: the Power of Veto competition, the reveal of a secret room, and a “Secret Assassin” power, among others.
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Kim’s Convenience
Based on Ins Choi’s play of the same name, Kim’s Convenience premiered in 2016. There are currently three seasons available, and the show has been renewed for a fourth season. The sitcom focuses on a Korean Canadian family and the convenience store they own in downtown Toronto. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee stars as the father, Jean Yoon as the mother, Andrea Bang as their daughter, and Simu Liu as their son. The show has been praised for its clever writing and screwball comedy, and its portrayal of immigrants on television.
This thrilling science fiction series ran from 2013 to 2017 for a total of five seasons. Its success has led to the creation of a comic book series, an audio series, and an upcoming spin-off series, which is in early development. The show centers around a female con artist, Sarah Manning, who’s played by Tatiana Maslany. Early on, Manning assumes the identity of a woman after she dies, a woman who appears to be her doppelganger. But it’s soon revealed that Manning is actually a clone, and that there are several clones that look exactly like her around the world. What will happen next?
This Canadian mockumentary series first ran from 2001 to 2007. In 2014 the show returned, eventually partnering with Netflix for the release of future seasons. The show now has 12 seasons, several movies, and dozens of webisodes, specials, and mini-seasons. And earlier this year, a spin-off animated version of the show was released.
Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay, and Mike Smith play the lead characters in the show, which follows the lives and antics of several men who live in Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia. They’re fond of petty crime and crazy schemes that never work, and they often run into trouble with the park’s supervisor.
Not sure what show to binge next? Try out one of the above for a dose of thrills or laughter!
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Posted on 31 December, 2012 by Stuart Wilson — 3 Comments ↓
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I hated the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings. Loathed them, in fact. In every single instance, I could see exactly why the deleted scenes were originally excised. Shoving such redundant scenes back into the movies made long stretches of the originally great films feel tiresome. Despite many vocal fans that claimed that it was impossible to have too much Middle Earth, I was always of the opinion that the theatrical cuts were the best.
So it was with some trepidation that I approached the first Hobbit movie. The knowledge that the book was originally being split into two films made me apprehensive, and the last minute decision to change it to three had me quaking in my boots. Peter Jackson had made it clear that he was going to dip into the appendices from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ but, nevertheless, would The Hobbit films be the equivalent of the LOTR extended editions? I needn’t have worried. For me, An Unexpected Journey flew by, and I loved just about every minute of it.
For those who don’t know, The Hobbit is set 60 years before The Lord of the Rings and concerns the halfling Bilbo Baggins, who is press ganged into helping a group of dwarfs reclaim their home and their treasure from the great dragon Smaug. Gandalf’s along for the ride, and several other characters who popped up in LOTR appear here also. Being a children’s book, it’s a smaller tale, but it’s also one that constantly hints at events just out of the novel’s reach. Peter Jackson, of course, willingly dives head first into such events, and this is what prevents the film from feeling like a small story stretched into three hours.
Jackson has made it clear that Martin Freeman was the only person he ever wanted to play Bilbo, and he is indeed perfect in the role. At first, I found his performance off-putting because it felt too much like Freeman on autopilot (especially in comparison his brilliant turn as Watson in the modern day ‘Sherlock’) but he soon showed a depth of character that was only ever hinted at in the book. The returning performers are of course great, and whilst there are too many people playing dwarfs for me to list them all, special reference should be made of Richard Armitage, who manages convey a sense of gravitas as Thorin Oakenshield.
For those who care about the cinematic technology on display, I saw the 48 frames per second version in 3D. For the first 15 minutes or so, like many other viewers, I was horrified. The image is indeed reminiscent of low budget television at first glance, and to my eyes that are used to 24 fps, it felt like everyone was moving slightly too quickly. But then, gloriously, I warmed to it. The almost complete lack of motion blur was wondrous, particularly in the wide shots. For years now, it’s annoyed me when a camera pan across a digital matte painting led to a blurred image, a flaw that was even more apparent in 3D. With the 48 fps version of An Unexpected Journey, this is a problem no longer. By the time we’d reached the climax, I was well and truly in love with the image.
The same goes for the overall tone of the film. It does sit awkwardly between children’s pantomime and dark fantasy, but I came to love the fact that it wasn’t afraid to be a little silly every now and again. Jackson’s sense of the ridiculous hasn’t lessened, so whilst proceedings don’t get as OTT as, say, the dinosaur stampede in King Kong, there are some pretty outlandish moments. The only drawback is that at times it’s hard to believe that our heroes are ever really in that much danger.
I was really genuinely surprised how much I enjoyed this film. In the final analysis, it does have its flaws, but I thought it was much more entertaining than The Two Towers, which has always been a struggle for me to get through. We will never know what An Unexpected Journey would have been had Guillermo del Toro remained at the helm, but it’s safe to say that the franchise is in good hands with Jackson.
Review by Stuart Wilson, 31st December 2012
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When your last series of films was as critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences as Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy from the start of the last decade, there is very litle room for misstep in returning to the tale – just ask George Lucas. It is this situation that faces Jackson with the first of a planned trilogy of film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’. While he doesn’t quite hit his target, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is about as good as one could hope for it to be.
Sixty years before Sauron’s One Ring came to Frodo Baggins and he set off to save Middle Earth, his uncle Bilbo lives a quiet life at Bag End in Hobbiton, The Shire. His idyllic life of pipe smoking and frequent gustation is interrupted one day by the return of Gandalf the Grey, a wizard of whom Bilbo can only recall is capable of wonderful fireworks displays. The further arrival of twelve dwarves on his doorstep – right in the middle of his evening meal, no less – will mean Bilbo has a hard decision to make: will he stay at home enjoying his comfortable lifestyle, or take up the company of dwarves on their offer of an adventure?
There are many, many things that Jackson and his incredible production team get right in this instalment, not least of which is the casting. Of course, they had an advantage in that many of the performers are inherited from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the new characters in this series are brought to life by an assortment of actors who never miss their mark. Martin Freeman is the obvious stand-out: he is the focus for almost the entire running time, and is perfect for this role.
Freeman is ably supported by Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the dwarven company, Ken Stott as Balin, James Nesbitt as Bofur, and Aidan Turner as Kili. The remaining dwarves are often difficult to differentiate, and this is perhaps the first of the flaws that beset the film. Fourteen members of the company is an awfully large number of characters for their audience to keep clear, and many are given so little time on screen as to be indistinguishable.
The abovementioned technical points are well-made, although there are problems with both the standard 2D version as well as the 3D 48fps version being shown at selected cinemas. The 2D version suffers from occasional blurred backgrounds that mean this visit to Middle Earth might not be as effective at generating business for Tourism New Zealand as its predecessors. The 3D 48fps edition looks amazing in steady close-ups of faces, for example, but has the negative effect of accentuating the worst of Jackson’s decisions: the use of rapid-fire editing and unsteady camerawork for his action sequences. Both editions have action sequences that are an incomprehensible mess, but this problem is amplified in 3D 48fps. Those hoping The Hobbit trilogy will sell resistant audiences on the merits of 3D might be sorely disappointed.
Jackson also seems to have been unable to resist his darker urges, and there are several scenes that move beyond exciting, past exhilarating and into the ridiculous. The goblin escape is the worst example of this, with one part of the sequence so utterly absurd as to be laughable. Radagast the Brown’s rabbit sled brings to mind the awful Quidditch scenes in the early Harry Potter films. The final scene, meanwhile, is an unfortunate smack in the face for anyone who has ever seen a monster film before, with Jackson choosing to end his film with a shot that has been repeated so many times as to be a cliché.
Finally, in his attempt to be ‘true to the novel’ Jackson is burdened by its worst flaws, a fate shared by many filmmakers before him and a constant risk when producing films based on other media. His most crucial sequence is resolved by a deus ex machina that won’t surprise anyone who has seen the same trick being pulled in The Return of the King. Had this been an original screenplay one imagines there would have been fewer dwarves, and their constant escapes from danger unscathed would have been rewritten to kill off at least some of the lesser of the bunch.
There is much to be enjoyed in this big screen adaptation of Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’, but there are problems that mean it can’t claim the same stature as The Fellowship of the Ring or The Return of the King. A cracking good time is on offer, however, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is – despite some caveats – recommended.
Review by Mark Lavercombe, 9th January 2013
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By Christian, April 2, 2015 in Comics
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Shit. Where Monsters Dwell came out? I fucking missed it.
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There'll probably be a collection of that one, chaps.
I need those floppies. I roll them up and inject them straight to the vein.
Location:Brigadoon
X-Tinction Agenda #1-I'm not sure that the writer understands the point of Secret Wars. It reads like he's writing a sequel to the original X-Tinction Agenda cross-over. It reads more like a What If? issue than an alternate reality based around the original story-arc. It takes place on Genosha, but the plot is basically to follow the events at the end of the original cross-over, as to what would have happened had later writers decided to revisit those plot-threads. The population is being slowly wiped out by the Legacy Virus. It's not that bad as a sequel to the original cross-over, if anyone actually wanted to see that (it wasn't the best story to start with), but it's even more tangential to the Secret Wars event than most of these books.
Future Imperfect #1-This is decent. It reads like the original Future Imperfect, at least. David does a better job with that than he did with the 2099 title. But, you read it, and wonder what the point is. The original Future Imperfect was a classic, and was self-contained. This just reads like an exercise in nostalgia with absolutely no purpose.
Armor Wars #1-I liked this one. It takes place in a world run by Tony Stark and his corporation. The world is one big industrial city and has become so polluted that people are forced to wear armour technology in order to survive. Not a bad dark future type story, written by James Robinson. I'll check out the second issue of this.
Years of Future Past #1-I loved this! It was great! This is the best X-Men comic I've read, probably since Morrison left the book. Sure, it's just taking up the original Claremont story-line, but it's very well done. It sort of hones down the X-Men books to the core of what they're supposed to be about, and fleshes out the original story-line even more than Claremont's first story.
It's really more like a sequel to Days of Future Past, and I know I critiqued "X-Tinction Agenda" on those grounds, but at least Days of Future Past was an alternate time-line of the Marvel multiverse. There was a reason it would survive the end of everything, as part of Battleworld. X-Tinction Agenda was never a different universe. Plus, who wants to read more of the X-Tinction Agenda story-line, like I said, while Claremont's Days of Future Past is the best X-story ever told.
The Battleworlds story featuring Blade hunting for Dracula in Duckworld was ok. There wasn't much to it, as the issue included two stories, so it was short. The other story was really bad.
So, there's occasionally a bright spot amidst all the muck that Marvel is publishing to tie in with Secret Wars.
Weirdworld #1-I have a new favourite Secret Wars title. I love how Aaron seems to have dug through a lot of obscure 1970s Marvel comics....Arkon, Weirdworld, Skull the Slayer, Planet of the Apes....to cobble together this crazy fantasy world.
I mean, we have superior Apes living underwater fishing in to the sky for dragons! That's genius right there, is what that is.
1602:Witch Hunter Angela #1-I also enjoyed this. It's Gillen at Marvel, so I had little doubts, as Gillen has managed to surprise me time and again by making me enjoy a book that I figured would be a huge failure. It definitely has the sense of Neil Gaiman's original 1602 series. Hell, I might as well admit that I like the book simply due to the fact that Christopher Marlowe is one of the characters!
Squadron Sinister #1-It's not great. It's what you'd expect in a Squadron Sinister story, so it's been done to death (including the Injustice League* DCstories too). The Squadron Sinister world has conquered the New Universe world.
I liked the cover. I didn't like that they used the Marvel MAX versions of the Squadron Supreme at the start of the story...but, I guess they had to differentiate between the Supreme and the Sinister versions.
*I think I meant Crime Syndicate here, not Injustice League. Whatever.
Thors #1-I liked this It was pretty crazy. Pretty fun. It's a detective story featuring every incarnation of Thor, ever. It's certainly different for a Thor comic. There's not a lot to it, but it's still worth a read. Easily one of the strongest of the Secret Wars titles, but not the best.
Loved Weirdworld!
Have yet to read Thors.
Thors was (were?) pretty good! Antime you get to see Beta Ray Bill it's a plus. Also had a chuckle at Thor the Unworthy.
Yeah. Frog Thor and Groot Thor were pretty funny too.
I've always liked Beta Ray Bill, myself. There was that great line from him, "He seems to like me more than the other Thors. He says I remind him of a horse, rather than a horse's ass like the rest of you."
^ fuck yeah !!
I AM THOR with the cape of leaves
E is for Extinction #1-This is actually really good. The writing and art do a good job at making this feel like it actually is a continuation of Grant Morrison's New X-Men.
It takes place a number of years after the end of Morrison's run on X-Men, and continues on the premise that mutants have learned to market themselves, so that mutants are now considered cool.
Professor X has died. Magneto has taken over the school. The students from Morrison's run are now grown up and the de-facto X-Men.
Magneto has learned that his way was all wrong. Since mutants are the next stage in evolution and are superior to humans, it's best to play the human's own game. Instead of fearing humanity, mutants should try to compete with humans, now that mutants are accepted. Mutants are smarter, stronger, better than mere humans, so it's impossible for humans to actually compete with mutants. Thus, Magneto's dreams of a world where mutant's are on top and Professor X's dream of a world where mutants and humans can live together are totally compatible. Both dreams lead to the same end, which is Magneto's world.
Meanwhile, the old X-Men are unable to change and grow up. They're bitter that Magneto has managed to do more for mutant/human relations than they ever did. They can't get beyond the whole idea of fighting with other mutants for a better tomorrow. They can't deal with the fact that their way didn't work, while Magneto is now leading mutants in to the future.
It's pretty damn cool. In many ways, this is certainly where X-Men should have went after Morrison's run ended, rather than immediately hitting the re-set button. I'm not saying that every detail of this book would work as part of an on-going series...in many ways, it's dead end for the X-Men franchise. Elements of it should have been pursued by later writers though. In the end, this is a nice "what might have been" for fans of the X-Men who realize how tired the books have been since Morrison left.
Korvac Saga #1-This series has more of a relationship with Secret Wars, proper, than most of the tie-in books. It's the story about people remembering that things weren't always like they are on Battleworld. Doom considered any one speaking about a "time before Battleworld" as heresy. The Guardians' job is to hunt down these people experiencing time anomalies and eliminate them, as they're a threat to the peaceful existence of Doom's Battleworld.
The art is bad. I like the book well enough, because having characters remember a time when "there used to be stars" is a concept I wanted to see explored in Secret Wars. Not every one can have forgotten that there were other universes that existed before "everything ended".
Age of Apocalypse #1-It reads just like a story taken from the original Age of Apocalypse cross-over. Age of Apocalypse wasn't bad by early-'90s standards. An alternate time-line event taking place in an alternate time-line world.
1872 #1-This was quite good. Roxxon Mining Company has bought the state government. Kingpin is the corrupt mayor of the town of Timely, taking bribes from Roxxon. Roxxon has built a dam on the river flowing through Timely for its mines. The Native American tribe (led by Red Wolf) is very upset that their water source has dried up. Steve Rogers is the honest sheriff. Tony Stark is a town drunk. I'll keep reading this book.
I'm getting pretty burned out on Secret Wars by this point. The event has been extended another month now, due to delays. Many series have had to add on another issue to keep September filled with more Secret Wars titles.
The Secret Wars, proper, title is so delayed that Hickman admits he's not even sure when the final issue is going to ship.
Not really comicy but...
The line "I am Groot!" appears in Michael Moorcock's 1981 novel The War Hound And The World's Pain (delivered by a man called Groot, obvs.) I don't think Groot had even appeared in Thor by then, never mind receiving a distinctive catchphrase from Abnett and Lanning...
Oh, wow. I don't remember that from the novel. Probably because I read it before Abnett's Guardians.
Groot would have existed at Marvel at the time. He was introduced in a 1950s horror story.
He was pretty much forgotten, except Claremont used him alongside a bunch of other 1950s monsters in a Hulk Annual, circa 1970s.
When Groot first appeared, he was the ruler of an alien planet who could speak perfect English.
I highly doubt Moorcock picked up the name from Marvel, but Abnett and Lanning probably were influenced by Moorcock with his new catch phrase.
I suspect that, like all British genre writers who are worth a shit, A&L will have read some Moorcock at some point. I wouldn't think the whole thing with WATWP is anything other than a coincidence, myself, but it's still an amusing one.
(I had no idea that Groot's appearance went that far back, though: I'd always thought he was one of the '70s/early '80s space operaish guys Marvel were spraying about the place when Jim Starlin had become a role model...)
If you were reading Silver Surfer but stopped because of the cross-over, do not! It's not over yet.
This is the build-up to Secret Wars that should have been.
This is the type of mind-bending cosmic story you want to see in a story that bills itself as the "end of everything".
It's setting up a very important role for the Silver Surfer in the next Marvel Universe.
Yes, it deals with Secret Wars...but, all you need to know is that "everything has ended". Now, you can just read this as another issue in the on-going wild ideas that has characterized this series all along. It's better to think of this story as something you would have seen in a Dr. Strange comics from the 1960s.
Trust me, you won't be disappointed if you pick up "Last Days of the Silver Surfer".
Hail Hydra #1-I liked this one. What If Hydra had founded the United States? America is a fascist police State. Arnim Zola is Big Brother. People who refuse to conform are sent to the death camps. Nice dystopian setting.
I guess since Steve Rogers' son is from an alternate dimension, he remembers events from before Secret Wars.
Guardians if Knowhere #1-This deals with what happened to all the alien races after the Multiverse ended. Since there are no planets or stars left besides Battleworld, the remaining alien races dwell on Knowhere, which is the head of a dead Celestial, used as the Moon for Battleworld. OK, nothing to see here...moving on.
Siege #1-A rare misfire from Gillen it seems. I wanted to like the book, but couldn't get much of a feel for it.
Gillen revisits his SWORD series and combines it with Hickman's SHIELD series.
They guard Battleworld against menaces like Henry Pym giving his Pym particles to ants, in order to create monster ants.
At the end of the issue, they're beginning a countdown to the end of Battleworld, just like we saw with "time runs out" for the Marvel Universe....
Captain Britain and the Defenders #1-Now, here's a good book. One of those few gems from Secret Wars.
It involves an alternate Earth, where Tony Stark gave his life so that Professor Yinsen could survive with the Iron Man armour. Stark devides the world needs a man of peace, not a weapon's manufacturer.
Yinsen uses his genius, power, and wealth to create an utopian society.
Across the wall from this utopia is a dystopian world run by the Punisher and financed by the Hellfire Club. It's set up based on the principles of "safety", with constant warfare, tough on crime, lots of cops.
The series also deals with what happens to the Captain Britain Corps with Secret Wars. The Captain Britain Corps werw the guardians of the Multiverse, but there's only one world now.
As a kid form the 80s with a huge toy collection let me just say that WeirdWorld #2 blew my fucking hair back. What a fun title this is.
Yep, never expected to see Marvel using those particular characters again. I never had any of those toys though.
If Aaron breaks out the Micronauts I might just shit myself.
That would be far more awesome, because I loved the Micronauts comic book.
But, Marvel doesn't own the rights to any Micronauts characters, except Bug. So, there's pretty much no chance.
Mind you, Bug was in the GOG under Abnett and Lanning, so maybe he's in with a shot at being revived given the huge fuss there's been about the raccoon and tree that Giffen also stuck in the Starlord miniseries...
I don't know how well Bug would do on his own. The Raccoon was at least in his own mini-series in the 1980s. But, based on where Marvel's GotG is at right now, if it happens, it'll probably be under Bendis' direction, so it's not like we'd want to read it anyway.
Just think, Bill Mantlo created both Rocket and Bug.
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Profile: “Israeli art students”
“Israeli art students” was a participant or observer in the following events:
January 2000: Israeli Spy Ring Begins Penetrating US
A DEA government document later leaked to the press [Drug Enforcement Agency, 6/2001] suggests that a large Israeli spy ring starts penetrating the US from at least this time, if not earlier. This ring, which will later become popularly known as the “art student spy ring,” is later shown to have unusual connections to the events of 9/11. [Insight, 3/11/2002]
Entity Tags: United States, “Israeli art students”, Drug Enforcement Administration
April 19, 2000: Reports Indicate Israeli Organized Crime Units Dominate Ecstasy Distribution
USA Today reports that “Israeli crime groups… dominate distribution” of the drug Ecstasy. [USA Today, 4/19/2000] The DEA also states that most of the Ecstasy sold in the US is “controlled by organized crime figures in Western Europe, Russia, and Israel.” [United Press International, 10/25/2001] According to DEA documents, the Israeli “art student spy ring” “has been linked to several ongoing DEA [Ecstasy] investigations in Florida, California, Texas, and New York now being closely coordinated by DEA headquarters.” [Insight, 3/11/2002]
Entity Tags: Drug Enforcement Administration, “Israeli art students”
March 23, 2001: DEA Issues Alert to Look Out for Israeli Spies in US
The cover of the DEA report, as depicted on television. [Source: Fox News]The Office of National Drug Control Policy issues a National Security Alert describing “apparent attempts by Israeli nationals to learn about government personnel and office layouts.” This later becomes known through a leaked DEA document called “Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities.” A crackdown ensues and by June, around 120 Israelis are apprehended. More are apprehended later. [Drug Enforcement Agency, 6/2001]
Entity Tags: “Israeli art students”, Office of National Drug Control Policy
June 2001: DEA Draws Up Report on Israeli Spies
States the Israeli spy ring were known to have operated in, according to a June 2001 Drug Enforcement Administration report (this Fox news graphic was based on information from that report). [Source: Fox News]The DEA’s Office of Security Programs prepares a 60-page internal memo on the Israeli “art student spy ring.” [Drug Enforcement Agency, 6/2001] The Memo is a compilation of dozens of field reports, and was meant only for the eyes of senior officials at the Justice Department (of which the DEA is adjunct), but it is leaked to the press around December 2001. The report connects the spies to efforts to foil investigations into Israeli organized crime activity involving the importation of the drug Ecstasy. The spies also appear to be snooping on top-secret military bases. For instance, on April 30, 2001, an Air Force alert was issued from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City concerning “possible intelligence collection being conducted by Israeli art students.” Tinker AFB houses AWACS surveillance craft and Stealth bombers. By the time of the report, the US has “apprehended or expelled close to 120 Israeli nationals” but many remain at large. [Le Monde (Paris), 3/5/2002; Salon, 5/7/2002] An additional 20 or so Israeli spies are apprehended between June and 9/11. [Fox News, 12/12/2001]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, “Israeli art students”, Office of Security Programs
August 23, 2001: Mossad Reportedly Gives CIA List of Terrorists Living in US; at Least Four 9/11 Hijackers Named
According to German newspapers, the Mossad gives the CIA a list of 19 terrorists living in the US and say that they appear to be planning to carry out an attack in the near future. It is unknown if these are the 19 9/11 hijackers or if the number is a coincidence. However, four names on the list are known, and these four will be 9/11 hijackers: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. [Die Zeit (Hamburg), 10/1/2002; Der Spiegel (Hamburg), 10/1/2002; BBC, 10/2/2002; Ha'aretz, 10/3/2002] The Mossad appears to have learned about this through its “art student spy ring.” Yet apparently, this warning and list are not treated as particularly urgent by the CIA and the information is not passed on to the FBI. It is unclear whether this warning influenced the decision to add Alhazmi and Almihdhar to a terrorism watch list on this same day, and if so, why only those two. [Der Spiegel (Hamburg), 10/1/2002] Israel has denied that there were any Mossad agents in the US. [Ha'aretz, 10/3/2002]
Entity Tags: Nawaf Alhazmi, Mohamed Atta, Marwan Alshehhi, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, “Israeli art students”, Khalid Almihdhar, Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks (Mossad)
December 16, 2001: Fox News Removes Controversial Story from Website, but Story Nonetheless Makes an Impact
Fox News removes its series on the “art student spy ring” from its website after only two days, in response to pressure from The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and others. CAMERA suggests the reporter “has something, personally, about Israel.… Maybe he’s very sympathetic to the Arab side.” [Salon, 5/7/2002] The head of the ADL calls the report “sinister dangerous innuendo which fuels anti-Semitism.” [Forward, 12/21/2001] Yet there does not appear to be any substance to these personal attacks (and Forward magazine later reverses its stance on the spy ring (see March 15, 2002)). Fox News also never makes a formal repudiation or correction about the series. The contents of the series continues to be generally ignored by the mainstream media, but it makes a big impact inside the US government: An internal DEA communiqué from December 18 mentions the Fox report by name, and warns of security breaches in telecommunications as described in the Fox report. [Salon, 5/7/2002]
Entity Tags: Fox News, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, Drug Enforcement Administration, “Israeli art students”, Anti-Defamation League, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
March 6, 2002: US Officials Deny and Media Downplay Existence of Israeli Spy Ring
A Washington Post article, relying on US officials, denies the existence of any Israeli spy ring. A “wide array of US officials” supposedly deny it, and Justice Department spokeswoman Susan Dryden says: “This seems to be an urban myth that has been circulating for months. The department has no information at this time to substantiate these widespread reports about Israeli art students involved in espionage.” [Washington Post, 3/6/2002] The New York Times fails to cover the story at all, even months later. [Salon, 5/7/2002] By mid-March, Jane’s Intelligence Digest, the respected British intelligence and military analysis service, notes: “It is rather strange that the US media seems to be ignoring what may well be the most explosive story since the 11 September attacks—the alleged breakup of a major Israeli espionage operation in the USA.” [Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/15/2002]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, Susan Dryden, “Israeli art students”
March 11, 2002: Suspected Israeli Students Reportedly Served in Military
A newspaper reports that the DEA study on Israeli “art students” determined the “students” all had “recently served in the Israeli military, the majority in intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordnance units.” [Palm Beach Post, 3/11/2002]
Entity Tags: “Israeli art students”, Drug Enforcement Administration
March 15, 2002: Jewish Magazine Says Israelis Spied in US on Radical Muslims
Forward, a US publication with a large Jewish audience, admits that there has been an Israeli spy ring in the US. [Forward, 3/15/2002] This is a reversal of their earlier stance. [Forward, 12/21/2001] But, “far from pointing to Israeli spying against US government and military facilities, as reported in Europe last week, the incidents in question appear to represent a case of Israelis in the United States spying on a common enemy, radical Islamic networks suspected of links to Middle East terrorism.” [Forward, 3/15/2002]
Entity Tags: “Israeli art students”
May 7, 2002: Sloppy Israeli Spy Ring Could Have Been Smoke Screen
Salon reports on the Israeli “art student spy ring.” All the “students” claim to have come from either Bezalel Academy or the University of Jerusalem. An examination of the Bezalel database shows that not a single “art student” appears to have attended school there. There is no such thing as the University of Jerusalem. In fact, the article points out that the sheer sloppiness and brazenness of the spy operation appears to be a great mystery, especially since the Mossad is renowned as one of the best spy agencies in the world. One government source suggests a theory to Salon that the “art students” were actually a smoke screen. They were meant to be caught and connected to DEA surveillance so that a smaller number of spies also posing as art students could complete other missions. One such mission could have been the monitoring of al-Qaeda operatives. [Salon, 5/7/2002] Shortly afterwards, a major Israeli newspaper publishes a story about the spy ring, but does not come to any conclusions. [Ha'aretz, 5/14/2002]
Entity Tags: Al-Qaeda, “Israeli art students”, Drug Enforcement Administration, Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks (Mossad)
September 16, 2004: Israelis Arrested on 9/11 Sue the US, Claiming Mistreatment and Torture; Lawsuit Never Happens
Omer Marmari. [Source: Public domain via Israeli TV]Four of the five Israelis arrested on 9/11 (see 3:56 p.m. September 11, 2001), Paul and Sivan Kurzberg, Omer Marmari, and Yaron Shmuel, file a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the US Justice Department. They claim they were arrested illegally, then held without charge and interrogated and tortured for months. Their lawyer claims the case will serve as a venue to debunk theories that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks. [Ha'aretz, 9/16/2004; Jerusalem Post, 9/16/2004] Forward, a publication geared towards the Jewish population in the US, reported in 2002 that the FBI concluded at least two of the five were Mossad agents and that all were on a Mossad surveillance mission. [Forward, 3/15/2002] As of early 2011, there have been no further media reports about this lawsuit.
Entity Tags: Sivan Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks (Mossad), Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Israeli art students”, Paul Kurzberg, Omer Marmari
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SFC "TCOB"
Just like this Industry Insights, a Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") 2018 year end litigation report might well be (sub-)titled "Taking Care Of Business". The expression might resonate with some of the higher-ups in the SFC's enforcement division.
There were a number of year end "highlights".
In the landmark judgment of the Court of Final Appeal ("CFA") in SFC v Lee & Ors [2018] HKCFA 45, the CFA considered the ambit of s. 300 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571); in short, transactions involving securities or other regulated trades using allegedly fraudulent or deceptive conduct.
The CFA held that the word “transaction” should be given a wide meaning given the context and purpose of s. 300. It is a general provision that makes it an offence to engage in fraudulent conduct in securities transactions. The word "transaction" includes steps taken with a view to profit or to avoid loss by misusing inside information; for example, such as opening a securities trading account and giving instructions for the purpose of trading in securities.
While the appellants' conduct in issue in the appeal did not contravene s. 291 of the Ordinance (insider dealing), because the shares in question were not listed in Hong Kong, the impugned transactions were carried out through means of fraud or deception.
Therefore, where a person plays a part in any transaction involving securities or regulated trades and the disclosure or misuse of inside information occurs in Hong Kong (whether with respect to securities listed in Hong Kong or on an overseas stock exchange) that person risks: (i) criminal prosecution in Hong Kong; (ii) civil proceedings brought by the SFC, pursuant to s. 213; or (iii) both.
In SFC v Yiu & Ors [2018] HKCFA 44, the main issue for the CFA was whether, on the findings of the Market Misconduct Tribunal, it was correct as a matter of law to hold that the two principal respondents were entitled to rely on a section 271(3) defence; namely, the "innocent purpose" defence. In allowing the SFC's appeal against the decisions of the MMT and the Court of Appeal, the CFA (among other things) disapproved of the argument that a so-called "behind closed doors" justification provided a basis for exoneration under s. 271(3) – thereby, limiting an "innocent purpose" defence.
In SFC v Cheng [2018] HKCA 590, the Court of Appeal allowed the SFC's appeal and remitted the matter back to the MMT for a determination of whether the respondent had "dealt" with the shares in question. The case is an example of circumstantial evidence that might give rise to an inference of an alleged "dealing". The appeal judgment also reiterates the inquisitorial nature of a MMT inquiry, where the focus is not on a burden of proof but on the SFC presenting its case and the MMT determining issues based on a civil standard of proof.
These cases represent significant successes for the SFC. They also help illustrate the SFC's enforcement priorities. The market regulator has proven true to its word a few years back that it intends to pursue alleged wrongdoers "wherever in the world they may lurk". As some might say in the trade – "taking care of business".
Editorial Note – Also see Moody's Investors Service Hong Kong Ltd v SFC [2018] HKCFA 42; another overall success for the SFC.
The information provided here is intended to give general information only. It is not a complete statement of the law. It is not intended to be relied upon or to be a substitute for legal advice in relation to particular circumstances.
Warren Ganesh
Senior Consultant, RPC
David Smyth
IPO Sponsor Duties and the SFC’s Recent Disciplinary Actions
Economic Substance Require-ments in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands (summary)
Regulatory Update – All Change
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Climate Change & Clean Energy
Melting at One End, Bleeding at the Other
Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Amazon UK
This unique and powerful novel brings our contemporary world into the classroom.
It is not Science Fiction Fantasy, and it is not a Thriller; no violence, no sex.
Just the real world.
The story opens with Rashida, a 16-year-old Syrian girl, who speaks to us from her dusty tent in a refugee camp in Turkey. Bright and motivated, she becomes an Arabic/English translator for a team of doctors in the camp. A Norwegian surgeon enables Rashida and her mother and younger brother to become refugees in Henningsvær, a fishing village above the Arctic Circle in Norway. Rashida’s dream is to continue her education and eventually to return to Syria as a doctor.
She meets Johan Erik, a 16-year-old Norwegian boy who has grown up on his grandfather’s fishing boat. Johan Erik knows that the polar ice cap is melting, and that the weather and seasons have already begun to change in his northern seas. Combining his first-hand experience with research online, he fully understands the threat of climate change to the sea that he loves, and to his people and their culture.
As Johan Erik is passionate about clean energy—he and his grandfather install the first electric engine in a fishing boat in Henningsvær harbor—so Rashida is passionate about ending not only the war in Syria, but all wars. A friendship based on respect slowly builds between these young people of entirely different cultures.
On a class trip, they visit a wind turbine company in Denmark. Johan Erik admires the clean energy, while Rashida discovers a Renaissance that could bring peace.
They organize a new course in their small school, which leads to a vibrant conference in which students speak to the members of their community about climate change, clean energy, and the future of their fragile northern world.
The story reaches into the future: to a wedding in 2050, and a celebration banquet in 2079. We see reality, we see hope.
Melting at One End, Bleeding at the Other provides students with an enormous amount of information on climate change and clean energy. It also encourages them to think about, and to discuss in class, the major issues in their lives today. Like the characters in the story, students will grow in their thinking . . . until they become motivated and hopeful Citizens of the World.
This ebook contains an abundance of gorgeous photographs—of the Henningsvær harbor, fishermen during the winter cod season, the mountains, the northern lights, the return of the sun—which follow the story chapter by chapter.
These pictures make the novel, and its themes, absolutely real.
Book categories: Climate Change and Clean Energy
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All The Secrets Of The Universe
by Janet Frishberg
edited by Lisa Locascio
Before I believed Sam could change my life with his hands and attention, before Aunt Linda’s funeral, before any of it, I was technically just his employee. At work, I stood by the microwave in the yellow kitchenette, waiting for my oatmeal to be hot enough to eat. He leaned against the counter near me, eating a banana and peanut butter. When there was a minute left on the microwave, he kicked my dusty boot with his clean black Converse. His shoes were either brand new or regularly washed. I wondered how to make fun of him in just the right way. I’d known him for almost three months. We only talked at work.
“Those your camping boots?” Sam asked, nodding his chin toward my feet.
I watched the linoleum floor, slightly dirtier now. “Yep.” The microwave beeped. There was nothing else to say, or that’s how it seemed to me, back when I first liked him and was trying not to let him know. Walking around that office, I wondered often if I’d be stuck in this sludgy inaction forever.
The first time we slept together, months after I left that job, I learned exactly how much older than me he was and thought it meant something. Five years.
He was hard with me that time. The times after too. Just as hard as he needed to be for me to be happy and no more, which made him different than a lot of the men who'd been inside me before him, who were either too gentle in a way I despised or needlessly forceful. The only way I used my voice that first time was to ask him to put on a condom. I was surprised he didn't just know; what was his plan? I wasn’t upset with him. In the moment, I took it as a sign of intimacy, his trust in my body and his own. Besides the condom, he did everything else exactly the way I wanted. It was what he wanted too, I guess, or maybe he could read my mind.
We fucked twice within two hours. I was surprised this was possible. I came first both times and was also surprised this was possible. When he went to put his face between my legs, I pulled him back up. What I didn’t say was: “This will make me love you too much too quickly.” Not that night but soon after, I let him. I can't say I regretted it but I also didn't not-regret it when it was 3:17 am and I hadn't heard from him all night.
In my final interview with Sam, before the first time, before I realized he’d be my manager, he asked what scared me. It didn’t strike me as a strange question. “Maybe…people I love dying slowly,” I told him. “Or quickly.”
The job was to provide administrative support for a team of account managers for a mid-sized company “in the healthcare space,” as I told people at bars. What mattered to me about it was that it paid four dollars an hour more than my current job at the front desk of a dentist’s office.
In the interview, Sam didn’t ask why that was my fear, so I didn’t tell him my father had been dead for almost three years. Instead, I said, “What about you? What scares you?”
“Flying,” he said after a few moments. “Just the takeoff and the landing.”
“Why just those?”
“Good question,” he said, nodding. The non-answer to the question; I loved it until I hated it but I always knew that if, when, he died, I’d love it again. I did that all the time then—categorized traits and actions into “if he died tomorrow.”
Once I began seeing Sam every day, I noticed the crinkles by his eyes. The way his stubble grew in patchy. The little kid grin that spread across his face when we saw each other from opposite ends of the hallway. The way, when we spoke, even for just a few minutes in the morning, it felt like there was nothing he cared more about than hearing my answers to his questions. Everything new I learned about Sam I made into reasons to like him: that he sometimes DJed at a friend’s house during parties, that he felt at home in California sunshine, that everyone at work knew who he was and, somehow, liked him. You work with Sam? they’d say when we met. Literally the best. I imagined what it would be like to be chosen by him.
When I told my best friend Lacie about my growing crush on him, and that he was also technically my manager, and that I also didn’t know for sure if he was single, she said, “Elena, you’re in love with potential. My brother says women need to stop being in love with potential and start just being in love with people.”
Eleven months in, I left that job for a new one at a different health care company, a startup. Another small hourly raise, still admin, but they’d pay overtime, and they said I’d be working plenty of it.
He gave me a goodbye hug in the hallway on my last day at my old job. Our clothed pelvises didn’t touch. In another version of the story of us, he could have faded out into the history of people who meant nothing to me. A LinkedIn recommendation would have been how I remembered him after I forgot the intensity of my crush, the way I used to analyze every interaction at work—an errant smiley face, an extra-strong interest in my weekend, a hand on the shoulder—and text my friends about signs.
Instead, we ran into each other in the park a few months later. His eyebrows: two short straight lines. The tuft of hair on the top of his head standing at attention. It was Rosh Hashanah week and I was making Lacie come with me to a New Year’s party. A quick conversation in the park, each of us en route to different parties, his hand resting on my hip for longer than felt normal when we said goodbye. Once he was safely out of earshot I said it was so awkward but Lacie said he just seemed stoned.
After that came a Facebook message, how was the new year’ s party? any resolutions? A few more messages, Lacie on a camping trip with her family without cell service, empty space in my Google calendar, a drink and another and another, a walk through a bookstore, a walk at Land’s End, a walk through the park, a sitting in the sun with beers and sandwiches watching other people’s dogs play on the grass, our bodies inside each other at the end every time, a reward for all the calories we consumed in public and then burned together in private.
Those first weeks of seeing each other were exactly what I’d imagined during the months when we worked in the same office. I wanted to be around and inside his body in a way I’d never felt before. I knew how to tolerate someone, but he was like an essential nutrient I needed to consume. “This is so simple,” I said to his bicep one night before we fell asleep, and his murmured response sounded like a question mark. I didn’t say anything else, scared that more words would mess it up, not wanting to jinx it. I had been chosen, and I didn’t want to stop being chosen.
There was a predictability to what would happen after we had sex. He’d throw the condom away in the bathroom and run the water in the sink for a few minutes, I assume washing himself and his hands. Then he went to the kitchen to get us a glass of water. I’d jump out of bed and pee so I didn't get a UTI, unless I was too lazy or tired and risked it. Then he came back to the bedroom and, once I was lying down, arranged the covers perfectly so that they covered every corner and up to our shoulders, and climbed back in bed. And then there was no question about it, he grabbed whatever parts of my body were accessible and wrapped his appendages around mine, legs covering each of my legs, one hand holding my head so I didn't have to hold it all by myself. This felt exactly the way I wanted it to, and I wondered often if maybe this was what I'd been in pursuit of all night. I was accustomed to men who turned away after, their backs to me, claiming tiredness or hotness or inability to sleep, or, even worse, sat up in bed, checking their phones, and then asked me how I was getting home. It meant something to me, this pressing of hands against my chestbone, and my cold upper arms, and my cheek skin where it was red and irritated from the day-old stubble on his face. I also liked the marks he left that needed healing, small bruises on the insides of my thighs I admired later in the shower and sometimes showed him with something like pride. I didn't talk about it to Lacie or my sister or anyone.
Once we began sleeping together I quickly loved the way he kicked his toes up in the middle of every step. His mouth tasting of lemon cough drops, which he sucked on near constantly, a habit he said he’d picked up after quitting smoking a few years before. “Holy shit,” I would say sometimes after we both finished, and he would grin and pinch whatever part of me he could grab, and I would feel it like an electric current running through my skin.
I also loved the ways I’d never seen him in real life but which were displayed in his apartment. The photos of him in a suit as the best man at his brother’s wedding in Cabo, or naked on grass as a toddler amongst sprinklers. Medals for completed marathons hung on his bathroom wall; he’d stopped running after tearing his meniscus, he told me. I imagined things we had never done together but that seemed possible. Building sandcastles in Half Moon Bay. Sam holding my hand hard as an airplane took off, bound for somewhere tropical or a family affair.
Five months in was my aunt Linda’s memorial service in Minneapolis. A stroke. Linda was my father’s sister, the Christian side of the family. My mom and my sister Felicia didn’t fly out for the service.
I didn’t tell Sam why I was flying across the country for the weekend because he didn’t ask. I wanted him to ask; I also wanted him to want to ask. He was supposed to be the one to make my existence make sense. I had a steady job. I had friends and a room in an apartment in a pretty good neighborhood, but nothing felt right. A boyfriend was the missing piece. He was supposed to love my sticky loss away.
Minneapolis in the beginning of winter meant the local cafes were coming out with special winter drinks full of lavender and nutmeg and sea salt and caramel. That weekend my cousin Jenna and I went to get coffee several times a day just to have something else to do. Jenna was six years older than me and worked as a phlebotomist. I envied the concrete nature of her days in a way that I’m sure she wouldn’t have liked. On Sunday before the service, we stood in line together once again for lattes. We were three people away from the counter. She stared up at the menu of options and said, “God, I can’t imagine being twenty and going through this.” I tried to remember who was twenty, then I realized she was talking about me, past me, although she’d gotten the age wrong by a few months.
“Nineteen,” I said on impulse, and checked my phone, where there was nothing from Sam. I was trying to pay enough attention to her but I also knew no amount of my attention was going to make this better.
In the church that afternoon, my jaw was buckled seatbelt-tight. I felt all the muscles along the back of my head, behind my ears, clenching and unclenching as if they were dancing to some terrible house beat. The pain felt familiar but I couldn’t remember noticing it before. I wondered if my ears were wiggling visibly, if this was how to do that trick, if everyone who knew the trick had once learned it at a funeral.
Some of the family who hugged Jenna and me at the reception after were the same ones who had hugged me at my father’s funeral. I hadn’t seen or heard from them since then. Aunt Linda and I hadn’t spent much time together the last few years either. My father was the connector Lego piece to his side of the family—without him alive, I didn’t know what we were to each other.
By the time I had decided I was going to Minneapolis and booked my flight, in on Friday night and out on Monday morning, the beds in the houses of all the family members I liked most from childhood summers were full. They offered me the couch and I said I didn’t want to bother them and booked a hotel. I wanted a door to close. I wondered how many conversations about my California salary had happened behind my back, but Jenna didn’t say anything when she picked me up at the airport to drive me to the hotel, and I didn’t tell her I was romanticizing the physicality of her job. Because we didn’t acknowledge it, it seemed not to have to matter.
Sunday night after the service, I was supine and awake in the hotel room at 2:48 a.m. We’d eaten crumbly cookies, crackers, so many dry foods brought by kind people, and five different kinds of homemade mac and cheese at their house. The friends of the family trying to fatten us all up in our grief, like that wouldn’t happen naturally with despair and winter.
I listened to the heater in the hotel room shhhhing dry air into the room, remembering when I began college and first visited home. The drive from Logan out to our house, me saying to my mother, “The trees are bare early this year,” and her saying nothing but nodding, tugging on her dyed caramel hair with her free hand while she drove towards Waltham, towards home.
My father in the work shed in the backyard that fall, his body full of cancer but not yet diagnosed, his Premier rolling tobacco sitting on the edge of his work table. Something he only did in the shed. Telling me, with a brief glance up from his handsaw, “Elena, just promise me you’ll never work somewhere so quiet you can hear the air conditioning.”
“Okay,” I said, and then graduated early, into the recession, with a newly dead father, and took any job I could find. I signed the contract confirming my temporary, at-will employment and moved to San Francisco, while my mother sold the house we grew up in and said nothing to me about it except to ask if I wanted her to send me my old sheets and comforter.
When he was first dead, I felt the absence of my father like some sort of black hole inside me. I thought, especially those early years, that the solution was to find another love outside of my body. Someone who would stabilize whatever magnetic force had been created inside me that was sucking everything good inside it and turning it into negative space. And I can't say quite how I knew Sam was supposed to be that love but I knew it like I know when I need water in the morning, and I knew also I would do whatever was within my power to help him know that too.
Seven months into it, not that we were counting, I saw Sam outside a bar in Hayes Valley, down the block from where I sat with Lacie at a café. He stood like a cliché of a jeans model, one foot propped up on the brick wall he leaned on, making a triangle shape with his kneecap. I could see his mouth, pursed, working a coughdrop. With his left hand only, he checked his phone. Mine had been museum quiet all afternoon.
Lacie followed my gaze but didn’t notice him—she was always squinting across the street and I was always telling her to go get glasses. I didn’t feel like telling her that the guy across the street was Sam. “Sam Sam?” she’d have said. He and I pretty much never hung out with my friends but of course she knew his face. Sometimes we hung out with his friends, or at least his roommates, if they were already in the living room when we got back to his place late.
“What?” Lacie asked, looking down the street. Her long brown hair was piled sideways on her head like a stack of pancakes about to topple over.
“I have to pee,” I lied and went inside. When I sat down on the toilet I did have to pee. I wondered how long I’d been ignoring that feeling. Lately I had the sense that all my stories, about Sam, about work, about my jaw, were boring the people who were supposed to be my best friends. I wasn’t sure if this was a flaw in the friendships or my stories or my life.
When I got back from the bathroom, he was gone, as if I had imagined him.
Lying next to each other in the mornings, we'd often speak of his unhappiness, which descended on him immediately upon waking up. More precisely, the fact that he didn't know what he wanted to do for work. He knew wasn’t satisfied where he worked, where I used to work, but he didn't want to leave until he found something he wanted to do more.
“Well, what do you care about?" I asked.
"I don't think that's a good place to start. It's not like everyone gets to work on what they care about.”
"It's a nice idea, E.” He pressed his nose into my neck. "But I need to be practical. I’m not young and carefree like you.” He pinched the fat above my hipbone.
“Well, what do you want from a job that you don't have right now?”
"If I just stay for maybe another year, they'll promote me. I think they will.” He said all of this towards my neck, although he didn’t say it like he was saying it to me specifically, but still, I thought it meant something that he was bringing it up at all. “And maybe they’d let me transfer to the San Diego office." Closer to where his mom lived. I knew little about her. Her name was Gloria; she drank enough brandy that he didn’t like the smell of it.
He reached to his bedside table and checked his phone. “You hungry?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
“You think so? What do you want to eat? I don’t think I have anything here but I’d be down to go get something. Something fast, I have a lot I should do today.”
I paused, to make it seem like I was really considering it. Around him, I had no idea what I wanted to eat, or watch, or do. “I don’t know, I guess I’m not that hungry. What were you thinking?”
“Breakfast burritos maybe? Or, yeah, something easy.”
“Terrific,” I said, smoothing out his eyebrow with my thumb. This was okay, I told myself, because agreeable meant chill, and chill was better.
But, on the other hand, having preferences about media and food and activities seemed superior from a long-game perspective. The men he hung out with, I noticed, ultimately committed to women who had preferences. Chill girls were longterm hookups, much beloved by roommates, but picky women became girlfriends.
One night when I’d texted asking him what he was up to and had not heard back, I woke up to the sound of breaking glass. I checked the time on my phone, 1:46 a.m. There was no message from him; this gave me a pulse of stomach pain. Lacie had texted after I'd fallen asleep, sweet dreams lady love with a head massage emoji. I went to the living room. I sat on the comfy chair and watched from the second story window as a pale man with a wooden stick shaped kind of like a lightsaber smashed the back windows of every third car on my block.
Two times I almost called 911 but didn't. Instead, I watched the man in action, swinging and quickly making fractured what was whole, until he disappeared, running up the block towards the water, and I checked my phone one more time—nothing, the bars were closing—and went back to bed.
After it was over, I wanted to see if I could piece together evidence from our text messages because I could remember so little of what we said to each other in person, but my phone had erased our message history when I upgraded my operating system a few weeks before. I was furious when I saw that—you were supposed to be my external memory—but later I thought maybe it was for the best.
One time Sam said he could try to massage the tension out of my jaw from the inside. He washed his hands in the bathroom, preparing; I laid on his bed, face up with all my clothes on, opening and closing my mouth, trying to get my jaw muscles to relax.
“How do you know how to do this?” I yelled towards the bathroom.
“I took massage classes a couple years ago. I thought maybe I’d want to do something more physical for work.” He walked back into his room. “I quit, though, before we moved on from the face and the head.”
“They start with that?”
“No, they don’t start with that, but those are just the classes I ended up taking first. And then I didn’t finish the course.”
“Why’d you quit?”
“That’s a good question.”
When he used to do this in our one-on-ones, like I was so smart, I’d blush and feel proud, and only an hour later realize he’d never answered my question. Now it was annoying but then he had his hands in my mouth, pressing down on a joint I didn’t even know was there. “That it,” I said, like at the dentist. “That the ‘pot.”
“Let’s see,” he said. Like he knew exactly what he was doing. Like he had all the time in the world. And my eyes were closed and my mouth was open and for a moment I didn’t care who was right or what the answer was.
I wanted to ask my father what to do when my new manager asked me to please not log any hours I worked on the weekend.
I wanted to ask my father what to do each morning when my temples ached.
I wanted to ask my father what to do.
I wanted to ask my father.
I wanted.
When it came, the end came fast. I’d fantasized about broken dishes and screaming from the back of my throat, the kind that left me hoarse the next day, but instead I just found myself wanting to cry on a walk through the park after Sam texted me saying he couldn’t make it to Lacie’s dinner party on Monday, something about performance review season at work. I never invited him to things with my friends because I didn’t want to pressure him or stress him out, but I had this time. Lacie was having a housewarming, and everyone was bringing the people they were dating.
I sat down on a bench in the park and texted my sister. When does it just get easy? She was engaged so maybe she’d know. A few weeks before, we’d been FaceTiming and she’d said to me, “You know, El, charming is also a verb.”
And in the five minutes while I waited for Felicia to respond with all the secrets of the universe, the way I'd been waiting for my whole life, I knew, or thought I knew: it would never get easier with him. I didn’t know how to make a person change. I could try to learn how to leave.
I turned my phone face down on my lap and I sat. The trees turned from green to black and the bushes rustled with the sounds of I wasn’t sure what animal. I tried to remember what it was like before I tied my hope to someone else’s thumbs moving across a screen. What it was like before I forgot the answer to what a person should do.
It was still light out. Two young girls slid down a hill in a red wagon. I wanted to record them screaming happily down the grass, but I pictured them toppling and me catching it on video, one of those awful complicit bystanders, so I didn’t unlock my phone and tried to stare just a normal amount, not wanting to curse them with my attention.
Things that never happened, that I wanted to happen, but which I have imagined so many times they probably sit as next door neighbors to the real memories:
Sam takes me to a museum. Later, we sit in the museum café and drink lattes until the light hits through the glass roof of the building. Then he looks at me with his eye crinkles and says, “What do you think about being my girlfriend?”
We stand in the shower together. Sam takes my hand and kisses my fingertips, sliding each one into his mouth a little. Then he looks at the ends of them and says, “Would you let me clip your fingernails sometime?” And I laugh and laugh, breathing in steam until I have to stop, from coughing and smiling.
Sam flies back to Massachusetts with me for the holidays. My mom never sold the house and Felicia doesn’t just stay in Seattle with her new future family. It’s snowing and we both have all the days we want off work. We walk through the woods behind the house, the same woods I walked as a child. In a voice made from seventy-eight degrees and highways filled with cars that don’t even know what rust is, he says, “I can’t believe you grew up in all this.”
About four months after Sam stuck his amateur masseur hands in my mouth, trying to ease the pain in my temporomandibular joint, we sat on his back outside stairs. I wore a wool sweater; the fibers itched my arms. The wind was doing its Sunday too-much-ness like it always does at the end of the weekend, kicking us out of ease and rest. Sam said, “I think maybe you’ve been more excited about the idea of me than about actual me.”
I swallowed and tried to see if this was true, if it felt true. What does true feel like? I wanted to ask. A velvet covered chair, the wood bark of a tree that’s still alive, the plink of water dripping on marble. “I tried to be honest with you from the start,” he said. “About what I was available for.”
Later, I wasn’t sure if he’d said this at the beginning, after that first night together, but I hadn’t heard it. I said: “I don’t get why this has to be so complicated. Don’t we care about each other?”
“There’s just always this feeling that it isn’t enough for you. It’s exhausting. I’m exhausted, Elena.”
I left through the side door of his yard. On my way out, in one hand I grabbed petals from what I imagined to be some exotic California flower, growing along his wooden fence. They were dark red like a cabernet, and I held them in my sweaty palm carefully, trying to keep them intact, trying to keep from crushing them.
On a Friday morning a few weeks later I read about the challenge. It was supposed to take a year; it required giving away one thing a day. I wanted to do even better and get rid of 400 things in just twenty-four hours. I’d stayed home from work to finally go to a doctor’s appointment in the afternoon, so I had the time.
“What do you regret?” Sam asked me once, over mimosas in a window seat. I once told Lacie, when she asked what he was like, that he was the kind of person who was full of the right questions at the wrong times.
I texted Felicia, saying: I’m doing a 400 less challenge and my sister wrote back: what do you mean and I wrote back: where do all the things come from??? and her … bubble popped up and then disappeared. I waited for three minutes but she said nothing. The only way I could be in action since he stopped wanting to see me and stopped responding to my text messages was furiously. I had no space for unread novels, for unused pale blue pillowcases. I did not need unworn silver necklaces, or olive green pleather ballet flats, holiday cards with puppies on them or three unopened flavors of exfoliating scrub. With each item thrown into a paper grocery bag, I rid myself of another should in my life.
I put the items onto the sidewalk, along with all my uncomfortable underwear and a stepstool I made with my father that always wobbled. I wanted to tell someone what I was doing so they’d know I was mighty and fierce and pure now but I couldn’t think who would get it, not the way I wanted someone to get it. I was throwing away my mistakes, I was moving forward from imperfect, I was more than the physical objects of my existence.
After, I strode up the street towards the bus to my doctor’s appointment, trying to walk the way a person with a singular purpose might.
At the doctor they took all kinds of scans of my jaw and said they’d email within ten business days with what they found.
“Who looks at the X-rays?” I asked.
The physician’s assistant whispered, “Oh, we have an international team of doctors who view them online, it’s all done online now.” She winked at me.
When I got home, I found not a single item where I’d left it on the sidewalk. Everything was gone, including the wobbly stool.
This was what I’d wanted earlier when I was just a person whose jaw hurt. Now I was a person with unknown problems whose insides were going to be viewed by strangers in other countries. All that was left on the gum-splattered sidewalk was a tiny paper bag that used to hold bracelets and extra hair ties, drifting swiftly towards the gutter and probably, eventually, the bay.
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MarkWest and The Energy & Minerals Group Announce Definitive Agreements with Gulfport Energy for the Development of Comprehensive Condensate Solutions in the Utica Shale and the Formation of a New Joint Venture
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2013-- MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MWE) (“MarkWest”) and The Energy & Minerals Group (“EMG”), announced today the execution of definitive agreements with Gulfport Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: GPOR) (Gulfport) to provide stabilization services and potential gathering services for condensate produced within an area that includes Belmont, Harrison, Guernsey, Noble, and Monroe counties, Ohio. Gulfport is rapidly developing their acreage within the wet gas, retrograde condensate and oil windows of the emerging Utica Shale and currently has over 147,000 net acres under lease. In conjunction with these agreements, MarkWest and EMG will form Ohio Condensate Company, LLC, a new joint venture related to the development of industry-leading facilities and services to support the rapid growth of condensate production occurring in the liquids-rich areas of the Utica Shale. Discussions regarding the joint venture’s condensate solutions are also underway with numerous other Utica producers.
Initial infrastructure development will consist of a new condensate stabilization facility, with associated logistics and storage terminal capabilities to be constructed in Harrison County, Ohio and placed in service by the third quarter of 2014. The facility will have initial stabilization capacity of 23,000 barrels per day (Bbl/d) and an immediate 30,000 Bbl/d expansion is anticipated. The facility will be co-located and fully integrated with condensate storage, and a truck and rail loading terminal that will be constructed and operated by a subsidiary of Toledo, Ohio-based Midwest Terminals and will exclusively serve the joint venture. Raw condensate will be delivered by truck and stabilized at the facility. Once stabilized, the condensate will be transported by truck and rail to local refinery markets and Canadian export markets. In the future, a condensate gathering system and regional pipelines may be constructed to support additional deliveries to the facility. Furthermore, the facility will serve as the origin for MPLX LP’s (NYSE: MPLX) previously announced Cornerstone Pipeline, a condensate pipeline project that will terminate near Canton, OH and is scheduled to become operational by late 2016.
MarkWest and EMG are currently developing the largest fully integrated midstream solution in the Utica Shale, which includes hundreds of miles of gas and natural gas liquids gathering pipeline, up to three large-scale complexes totaling more than 1 billion cubic feet of processing capacity and 138,000 Bbl/d of ethane and heavier fractionation capacity.
“We are very excited to continue expanding our relationship with Gulfport Energy and provide a critical new service offering for the stabilization and marketing of condensate. Together with EMG, the formation of an integrated condensate solution is a significant milestone in our ongoing development of full-service midstream infrastructure in the Utica Shale and will provide producers with the ability to capture additional uplift from their growing liquids production,” stated Frank Semple, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of MarkWest. “We believe the increased use of condensate as a feedstock for refineries, and the growing demand from Canada for diluent, will support local, regional and international consumption of Utica condensate.”
MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. is a master limited partnership engaged in the gathering, processing and transportation of natural gas; the gathering, transportation, fractionation, storage and marketing of natural gas liquids; and the gathering and transportation of crude oil. MarkWest has a leading presence in many unconventional gas plays including the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, Huron/Berea Shale, Haynesville Shale, Woodford Shale and Granite Wash formation.
This press release includes “forward-looking statements.” All statements other than statements of historical facts included or incorporated herein may constitute forward-looking statements. Actual results could vary significantly from those expressed or implied in such statements and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Although MarkWest believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, MarkWest can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that affect operations, financial performance, and other factors as discussed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Among the factors that could cause results to differ materially are those risks discussed in the periodic reports filed with the SEC, including MarkWest’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. You are urged to carefully review and consider the cautionary statements and other disclosures made in those filings, specifically those under the heading “Risk Factors.” MarkWest does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.
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The Music Diaries | Nat King Cole - Behind the voice
Published:Sunday | March 24, 2019 | 12:12 AMRoy Black
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Singer Nat King Cole (centre) with singers Frank Sinatra (left) and Dean Martin.
Last Sunday, March 17, marked 100 years since the birth of Nathaniel Adams Coles, better known as Nat King Cole, in 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. It is an important milestone that conjures up memories of a man who many thought was the best voice of the 20th century.
But Cole’s achievements go beyond his vocals. At one point during the 1940s, Cole was regarded as the best jazz pianist in America. And that was his main ambition ever since he set his eyes on the entertainment business while still a teenager attending the Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago. But ironically, Cole’s success came in the field of music that he tried most to avoid – singing.
Cole’s first effort at starting a jazz group began at the Wendell Phillips High School, where he joined with schoolmates to form the Rouges of Rhythms and performed for a minimal fee in and around Chicago. So obsessed was the youngster that he soon dropped out of high school to pursue his musical dream. In 1937, he made a bold attempt to fulfil his dream by joining with bassist Wesley Prince and guitarist Oscar Moore to form the King Cole Trio. The group’s popularity soared to unprecedented heights when they began to have regular booking engagements in California, New York and Hollywood, in addition to Chicago. In virtually no time, they attracted a legion of fans.
Singing had never been a part of the group’s repertoire. But one night, an inebriated customer at a nightclub hollered, “Sing!” After the customer’s persistent urgings and the proprietor’s intervention, the would-be singer broke into a vocal rendition of the song Sweet Lorraine. The smooth delivery left patrons in shock.
It was at one of those nightclub performances that talent scouts from the well-established Atlantic Recording Company heard Cole and offered him a recording contract in 1943. His first recording with the entity – Straighten Up and Fly Right, seemed like a self-inspired ode, urging himself on with his jazz-oriented dream. Co-written by Cole a few years before, it was based on a sermon his father had preached. The moral behind it was – not to give up on your dreams. Cole was forthright as he sang along with the trio:
“A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
The monkey grabbed his neck and said, now listen Jack
Straighten up and fly right.”
It was the trio’s most popular single, reaching No.1 on the Harlem hit parade. But the forces around him (music moguls) still thought that his romantic voice in front of an orchestra would be in greater demand and would earn for him and them more money than his delightful artistry at the piano. It was true. Cole realised and relented. And the rest is history.
Cole’s transition from pianist to vocalist was marked by the recording The Christmas Song in the summer of 1946, backed by the trio surrounded by a string section. The following year, Nature Boy became Cole’s first recording backed by a full orchestra. His recordings continued unabated with the chart-topping Too Young (1951), Unforgettable (1952), Ramblin Rose, and the erotic Dear Lonely Hearts (1962). His traditional pop recording of Mona Lisa won an academy award for best original song in 1952, while the soundtrack version spent eight weeks at No.1 on the Billboard singles chart.
But if Cole’s achievements were measured solely on his vocal and piano skills, we certainly would be doing him an injustice. He had starring roles in the movies Istanbul, China Gate (1957), Night Of The Quarter Moon (1959) and St Louis Blues (1958).
Cole believed that music and the arts could be strong, magical bridges between people of all colours, nationalities and religions. To this end, he performed for both black and white audiences in racially segregated states, much to the disgust of diehard black dissidents. He was once attacked on stage in Alabama, sustaining serious back injuries. He further tried to break down real estate barriers by purchasing a home in an upscale white neighbourhood of California, becoming the first African-American to do so.
Cole also broke through language barriers by doing recordings in several languages, including Spanish, French and Italian, while covering a myriad of music genres, including jazz, swing, blues, rock n’ roll, traditional pop, ballads, and Latin-flavoured songs.
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Publication: Changing Jewish Communities
No. 33,
The Salute to Israel Parade officially began in 1965. Several thousand people participated. A wide range of Jewish participants attended the first parade. Also invited were various representatives of non-Jewish communities.
Nowadays the parade draws over one hundred thousand marchers, with an additional million supporters watching from the sidelines. Parade organizers use outreach methods, in addition to the publicity the parade receives, to ensure that all sectors of the Jewish community are represented.
The presence of politicians has significantly increased since the parade’s founding, when only the Israeli ambassador and a few American politicians appeared. Elected officials, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have appeared at the parade, including governors of New York, mayors and former mayors of New York City, senators, and congressmen. Israeli dignitaries attend as well.
The parade is a barometer for the community and its trends. The attendance of the parade also suggests American Jews’ sense of comfort and security in the United States. The participants, the themes that are chosen, and the dynamics of the parade itself reflect how American Jews relate to Israel and to themselves.
1. History of the Parade
The Salute to Israel Parade, originally named the Youth Salute to Israel Parade, was developed in 1964 by a team of American and Israeli Jews. At the forefront of this project were Haim Zohar, Charles Bick, and Ted Comet, who collaborated with Dr. Alvin Schiff and Dr. Dan Ronen to create this demonstration of American Jewish solidarity with Israel. These individuals had all been working separately on projects to infuse Israeli and Jewish culture into the communal life of American Jewry. Several of them had also been looking for a context in which to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day among American Jews.[1]
The Parade Is Born
In 1964, Haim Zohar was working at the Israeli consulate in New York. Born in Poland, Zohar moved to the prestate Yishuv at the age of 10. Sent to New York as a liaison to the American Jewish community, he had developed ties with the various sectors of American Jewry.
Zohar tried to bring the American Jewish community closer to Israel. He showed them what Israel had to offer in terms of literature, culture, history, and the Hebrew language. He wanted to convey that every Jew could experience Israel whether in a professional, academic, or tourism context. He worked in schools, youth movements, and adult community organizations.
Then as now, Jews constituted a large percentage of the New York population. They were active in many contexts in the city, in addition to building their own distinctive community. Yet, unlike other ethnic groups such as the Irish, Italians, Germans, Poles, and Puerto Ricans, the Jews did not assemble for public displays of ethnic pride. Working on the East Side, Zohar would often see other ethnic-pride parades and wondered why the Jews did not follow suit. A parade seemed to be a way not only to unite American Jews but also to bring Israel into their lives and let them show support for it. Zohar believed such events would strengthen Jewish identity and create solidarity among klal Yisrael (the nation of Israel). As an Israeli, he also sought to strengthen bonds between Israel and the United States as a whole.
Backing for the parade was initially difficult to attain. Zohar contacted the Israeli foreign minister, the Zionist organizations in America, and other Jewish organizations. He encountered skepticism and the general response that he should not bother because it would not succeed. But Abe Harman, then Israeli ambassador to the United States, encouraged Zohar to continue. As a foreign agent, he knew that he needed American leaders to officially organize the parade. He successfully approached the American Zionist Youth Foundation headed by Chairman Charles Bick and Director Ted Comet.[2]
The Deep Value of the Parade
Comet was very receptive upon hearing the idea. A parade would be the sort of event he had been looking for to influence the larger spectrum of American Jewry. He had attempted to instill Zionist ideology among the youth movements and enhance Jewish identity among the general Jewish population. Previously there had been no pattern of large solidarity demonstrations for Israel. The parade, he thought, could be an ideal opportunity for this.
Comet also thought the parade would enable American Jews to publicly express their Jewishness. Similar to the lack of pro-Israeli rallies, there was a shortage of public Jewish activities at that time. Indeed, many Jewish organizations initially objected to the parade because they were apprehensive of demonstrating their Jewishness in the streets. Many American Jews were plagued by fears of dual-loyalty accusations. Comet, however, viewed public Jewish expression positively and thought working together on the parade could unite the large, fragmented New York Jewish community.
The parade also had educational value. Originally it was to be directed at youth and called the Youth Salute to Israel Parade. From the parade’s beginnings, an annual theme was incorporated that schools and youth movements were encouraged to use when designing their floats and costumes. Thus, involvement in the parade could provide Jewish youth with greater connection to Israel and knowledge of its culture and history.
The yearly theme also served to educate the non-Jewish public. Before the founding of the parade, the greater American public associated Israel with battles and conflict. The original parade organizers wanted to use these themes to focus on the Jewish values and ideals on whose basis Israel was established. Non-Jews would thus see a dimension of Israel that was not portrayed in the news or in their history textbooks.[3]
Initial Problems
After receiving support from Comet and Bick, Zohar began to assemble a team to implement their vision. Comet was appointed chairman of the parade and Dan Ronen was named its director. Ronen was then a representative of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) from Israel, who had come to promote JNF’s activities throughout the country. Dr. Alvin Schiff, then director of the Day School Department of the Board of Jewish Education in New York, also worked with the group by encouraging schools to participate.
Recruiting participants for the parade was sometimes a trying task. The youth movements and schools all responded positively to the idea, and Schiff played an important part here because of his connections through the Board of Jewish Education.[4] Ronen also had contacts via the JNF.[5] Additionally, Zohar’s role as liaison to the Jewish communities at the Israeli consulate allowed him to persuade people to join. He also worked to get additional funding for the parade both from private donors and Jewish organizations.[6]
Among the adult communities, however, there was hesitation about the idea. People thought it did not fit the New York Jewish intellectual tradition, or that a parade was not a “Jewish” activity. Others were still reluctant about showing their Jewishness publicly. Hence it was difficult to obtain initial funding.[7]
Some Orthodox Jews also saw the parade as problematic. Certain Orthodox groups objected to boys and girls marching together, or to the participation of non-Jewish marching bands with members wearing crosses on their uniforms. Choosing a day for the parade was also an issue.[8] A major aim was for the day to occur during the same time span as Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. It was also important for it to fall on a Sunday so as to obtain permission from the City of New York to march on Fifth Avenue. Yom Haatzmaut, however, falls during a period known as sfirah on the Jewish calendar, a time of mourning when it is customary to avoid major celebrations. There are certain days when celebrations are allowed, but they would not usually coincide with Sunday.
Comet and Bick, however, were able to get permission from rabbis to have the parade during this period, as well as solutions to the other problems.
The Shaping of the Parade
Deciding on the format of the parade also took time. Some suggested a rally, whereas Ronen proposed a folkdance procession similar to those that occurred in Haifa on the original Yom Haatzmaut. As the former assistant to the minister of education and culture serving on the International Board of Directors of the Festivals of Folklore, Ronen had seen many parades and had organized two of them in 1958 and 1959. Ronen was inspired by these Israeli folkdance parades where participants would dance down the streets, followed by more elaborate two- to three-minute performances.
Other inspirations included the Ad Lo Yada parade on the Purim holiday in Israel and other parades by Israeli youth movements. Israel had always used festivals and parades to express its cultural and national identity. These took motifs from Jewish religious holidays and shaped them into national affirmations.
Ronen and the American Jews with whom he collaborated amplified this concept when designing the parade. American Jews perceived themselves and had been viewed as a religious group. The parade helped them see and present themselves also as part of a larger nation. In other words, it helped American Jews transform a religious culture into a national one, a complex task with which even Israel was having difficulty.
To present Israel’s national culture, Israeli folkdancers and singers were brought for the parade. National, cultural, and religious symbols were interwoven to show different dimensions of the country. The Israeli embassy supplied pictures and arts-and-crafts models of Israel. In this way the parade offered a focus of national pride for all Jews. Most of the marchers belonged to religious denominations, and they worked together to merge their religious and national identities. This helped attract people from across the religious and cultural spectrum to the parade.[9]
The First Parade
The first mini-parade took place in 1964 when Zohar marched with the Manhattan Day School and their principal from the school to a theater on Broadway holding the Israeli flag. Smaller parades that year featured schools in Queens. The Salute to Israel Parade officially began in 1965.[10]
Deciding its route was another issue that resulted in compromise between the parade officials and the Israeli consulate. In keeping with the standard set by the other ethnic groups, the parade committee wanted everyone to march down Fifth Avenue. However, the consulate was not sure that there would be a large-enough turnout to cover the entire route, and that a low turnout would be a greater loss than gain. The final route that was chosen stretched from 72nd Street and First Avenue to 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, with the parade then turning onto Fifth Avenue and continuing until 59th Street.[11]
On 2 May 1965, Zohar awoke to see gray skies and rain clouds. He feared that all the hard work would go to waste. Around 10 a.m., however, the sun came out. The weather was excellent the rest of the day, and the parade occurred as planned.[12]
A wide range of Jewish participants, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform as well as the youth movements, attended the first parade. Also invited were representatives of the Irish and Italian communities of the New York City public schools that had large Jewish populations. Catholic bands, as well as bands from the police and the firefighters, marched alongside the Jewish youth. All told, several thousand people participated and crowds covered the sidewalk for the entire route of the parade.
At 59th Street the marchers and the bystanders all gathered into Central Park for a pro-Israeli rally. It was designed to have both an Israeli and an American flavor and featured many prominent figures including Fiddler on the Roof star Zero Mostel, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter, and the head of the New York Police Department (who was Jewish). Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner of New York of New York spoke and was followed by both American and Israeli folkdancers, singers, and an orchestral performance. Everyone viewed the parade as a huge success, so much so that it moved entirely to Fifth Avenue the following year.[13]
2. The Parade Today
Dynamics of the Parade
Since its initiation in 1965, the Salute to Israel Parade has undergone many changes. Nowadays it draws over one 100,000 marchers, with an additional million supporters watching from the sidelines. Beginning at 12:00 noon and lasting until 4:30 p.m., the participants proceed along Fifth Avenue from 57th Street to 79th Street. The parade is always colorful and festive with numerous floats, children holding banners, and marching bands. Prizes are awarded for the best floats, clowns entertain the spectators, and Israeli folkdancers create a unique atmosphere.[14]
Every year the parade coordinators choose a specific theme expressing the American Jewish connection to Israel. Examples include “We Are All One People” in 1999 and “Saluting Israel, Celebrating America…Two Golden Lands” in 2005, honoring the 350th anniversary of Jewish life in America. The themes offer an educational opportunity for the marchers to explore their relationship to Israel. Each group of marchers selects a topic within the theme and develops this topic into a colorful presentation. This also gives each community more individuality in the parade.
The 2008 parade presents the theme of Israel at Sixty echoing the festive celebrations that occurred in Israel for the occasion. New to the parade is “a human ribbon of color and movement;” international dance troupes ranging from Israeli folk dancers, Russian Ballet, Bukharian and Georgian dancers dressed in traditional costume. One hundred thousands participants are expected and one million spectators. Through the planning process for the event, the organizers hope the participants gain an increased Jewish identity and pride while learning about the accomplishments of Israel and Jews and showing support for the state.[15]
The Jewish Leadership Council of the United Kingdom has announced that it will host a Salute to Israel day parade projected to take place simultaneously in London and Manchester. Many Jewish communal organizations have gotten involved to plan the event and they expect a large turnout. A large number of sectors of the British Jewish community will be represented and the hope is to project an expression of solidarity with Israel as well as unity within the community itself. The parade is scheduled for 29 June 2008.[16]
Finances and Control
Following the dismantling of the American Zionist Youth Foundation in 1996, the Salute to Israel Parade became a project of a new, independent, nonprofit organization. Under the auspices of the Israel Tribute Committee, the parade has greater autonomy. Most of its funding still comes from private donors, although for the last few years it has received a significant grant from the UJA-Federation of New York. Additional funds are raised through participation fees and float advertisers.
The Israel Tribute Committee oversees the running of the entire operation. These are communal leaders who have taken it upon themselves to ensure the continuation of the parade. Their involvement is crucial not only to the parade’s functioning but to its very existence. Additionally, they are constantly looking to include the new generation of leadership and expand the parade in many ways, such as including new groups and a longer route.[17] The parade is currently housed at the Jewish Community Relations Council which is working with the organizers in their outreach efforts and specifically expanding to the Russian speaking communities of New York.
Communities Involved
To demonstrate that solidarity with Israel comes from the entire American Jewish community, Jews of all religious affiliations take part in the parade. Marchers come from day schools, yeshivas, and synagogues. College Hillels, youth movements, and civic organizations also send representatives. The Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements are all represented in some form, from floats to congregational banners. Unaffiliated and nondenominational Jews participate through their federations and Jewish community centers.
Although the event mostly attracts people from the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, groups from California, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Florida have also taken part. Parade organizers use outreach methods, in addition to the publicity the parade receives, to ensure that all sectors of the Jewish community are represented.[18] These include Jews of Russian, Yemenite, and Sephardic ethnicities. The parade is filmed by several American news agencies to be shown across the United States, as well as for Russian TV to be broadcast to Israel, Canada, Europe, and parts of Russia.[19]
The parade offers an important opportunity to learn about Israel, the American Jewish community, and Jewish culture in general. Several non-Jewish groups also take part. Marching bands from public high schools, bugle corps, and even the New York City Police Department prepare music for the parade. Fire departments also participate, and there are floats for companies such as ShopRite and the New York Sun.[20]
Among the non-Jewish participants are a group of American Indians and the Guardian Angels of New York. Since its founding in 1978, the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit organization that works to ensure public safety, has been committed to appearing in the parade. Members say that marching in it is their opportunity to support the Jewish people and Israel.[21]
Elected officials, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have appeared at the parade, including governors of New York, mayors and former mayors of New York City, senators, and congressmen. Israeli dignitaries attend as well. Before the official step-off, there is a press conference in which politicians sometimes state their positions regarding Israel. Before the 2006 parade, several American dignitaries expressed dismay about a cut in New York City’s counter-terrorism budget by the Department of Homeland Security.[22]
Indeed, the parade often becomes an arena for political campaigns. For example, in 1989 all the candidates for New York City mayor participated.[23] The presence of politicians has significantly increased since the parade’s founding, when only the Israeli ambassador and a few American politicians appeared. The increase has to do with recognizing the importance of media coverage. The American Jewish community and Israel also benefit from the publicized statements of support by U.S. officials.
Every year since the parade’s inception it has not been without a small group of protesters. They are a heterogeneous group who try to dampen the spirits of the parade. Neturei Karta and Satmar Hasidim shout and carry signs declaring that Zionism goes against Judaism and the Torah. Alongside them anti-Israeli Arabs and Americans decry the “Israeli occupation of Palestine,” “Israeli brutality,” and the Zionist state as a whole. People have been known to yell “Am Yisrael die (People of Israel die)” and compare Israeli actions to those of the Nazis.
Standing close by, but not with these protesters, are those carrying signs such as “Pro-Israeli, Pro-Palestinian.” They come from left-wing Jewish groups such as Women in Black and Tikkun Community. Although they try not to associate themselves with the anti-Israeli contingent, they still position themselves on the outskirts of the parade and express dissent against Israel.[24] All these protesters together number no more than one or two hundred, but they often hijack the media’s coverage of the parade.
No Politics Involved?
Since it seeks to unite all factions of the American Jewish community, the parade takes an apolitical stance. Upon registering for the parade, groups must discuss their participation with its committee and are advised how best to present their message. All banners and floats must be approved beforehand.[25] Groups and attendees often feel that putting politics aside, and focusing on Jewish unity and support for Israel, is the most important aspect of the parade.[26]
Although the parade mostly succeeds in achieving this goal, it is unable to exclude politics completely. The parade committee’s official position is that they take no stance vis-à-vis the Israeli or the U.S. government. They do not see the parade as a rally but as an opportunity to display Israel as a beautiful, normal country. Nevertheless, each time many of the marchers and spectators flaunt their own political views about Israel. As former parade director Ruth Kastner noted, many claim that anything involving Israel inevitably becomes political.[27]
3. Case Studies within the Parade
The Rise of Ethnic Consciousness
Developments in the United States during the 1960s created an environment that made the Salute to Israel Parade possible. Known as a decade of liberalism, social disruption, and cultural revolution, the 1960s was also a period when various groups experienced rising ethnic consciousness. This was fostered by several conditions existing at that time.
Affecting the status of all ethnic groups in the United States was the Civil Rights Movement. In an effort to obtain racial equality, African Americans fought local, state, and federal governments. Through a combination of civil disobedience and violent measures, disenfranchised black men and women eventually won the right to vote – in practice and not only in theory – and receive the same education, employment, and respect as white Americans. This success inspired other minorities to assert themselves and strive for equality. American Indians, Asian Americans, and Latinos worked to eliminate what they perceived as barriers to just treatment.
Another outcome of the Civil Rights Movement was the Black Power movement. Many interpreted Black Power as a sort of counterforce to segregation, rejecting the mainstream vision of those such as Martin Luther King and using violence in an attempt to self-segregate. However, the lasting impact of this movement was to enhance racial pride. Black Power drew many African Americans back to their African roots and impelled black literary, artistic, and intellectual trends.[28]
Overall, the Civil Rights Movement encouraged minority groups to assert their own cultural identity. Its impact was widespread and lasting.
Another cause of increased ethnic consciousness in the 1960s was the general atmosphere of individualism. Rejecting the 1950s trend of conformity and consumerism, people stressed their uniqueness. Instead of viewing America as a “melting pot,” intellectuals and diverse groups advocated cultural pluralism.[29] Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan characterized ethnic groups as “unmeltable” and pluralism, rather than assimilation, as the new model for American society.[30] This outlook spread throughout the United States and was incorporated both into law and societal norms, enabling the greater acceptance of ethnic diversity in the country.
This new era in American history had major repercussions for the American Jewish community. The celebration of ethnic roots inspired many Jewish communities to reintroduce traditional practices.[31] Jewish writers and filmmakers incorporated Jewish themes into their works and no longer shied away from featuring stereotypical Jews as protagonists.[32] And in the new environment, Jews could openly support Israel without fear of dual-loyalty accusations. These conditions also enabled the emergence of the Salute to Israel Parade.
Large Turnout during Times of Trouble
In the true spirit of the parade, the number of participants greatly increases during times of war or trouble for Israel. This was first seen in the 1967 parade, which took place on the Sunday before the Six Days War when Israel’s Arab neighbors were already mobilizing for the conflict. Egypt had already remilitarized the Sinai and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
The previous year, because of a small turnout, the parade had been moved from Fifth Avenue to Riverside Drive, which remained the venue for 1967. The 1967 event, however, saw a resurgence of participants who, fearful of the existential threat that Israel faced, viewed it as their duty to support the country in any way they could.[33]
That year the parade had the character of a solidarity demonstration. About 250,000 people marched, thereby giving the broader community a chance to express itself.[34] Hundreds of thousands of Jews poured into the park in a moving act of sympathy with Israel. Because of the attendance, the parade was returned to Fifth Avenue in 1968.[35] It also received increased funding both from organizations and private donors.[36]
In the 1980s, however, both the turnout and the support for the parade began to decline again. Many influential American Jews said the parade was important for its time, but that time had passed. Israel was no longer seen as so inspirational and many in the United States believed that because of its military power, the existential threat had passed. The American Jewish community began to turn inward to address its own problems. Yet with the outbreak of the First Intifada late in 1987, American Jews realized that Israel still faced threats and the parade was once again revitalized.[37]
More recently, during the years of the Second Intifada, the numbers of marchers and spectators have been the largest ever. In Israel’s trying times it was seen as even more important that Jews show their solidarity.[38] When asked, participants attributed their attendance to sympathy for terror victims and support for Israel’s fight against terror.[39]
In 2002, the parade organizers decided to change the atmosphere in light of the new situation that both the United States and Israel faced. This parade was the first following 9/11 and occurred during the height of the Second Intifada. It did not have the traditional marching bands and balloons. Instead of clowns entertaining the crowds, there were Uncle Sam and Statue of Liberty characters, reflecting the patriotic theme.[40] American and Israeli flags and patriotic songs were seen and heard throughout the streets and there were more signs with statements such as “Our Hope Will Not Be Lost” and “Pray for Peace.” Even the Reconstructionist movement, which had been absent in part because of the decision of parade officials to deny entry to a gay synagogue in 1993, participated and rented a float in support of Israel.[41]
Many felt that the parades in that period evolved into both a pride parade and a demonstration of persistent Jewish support for Israel. Despite the parade officials’ position that it is apolitical, many believed it had assumed a political bent. In the 2002 parade, a float that was sponsored by VIM Jeans read “Boycott France and French Products.”[42]
Many spectators held up signs vilifying Yasser Arafat and praising Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League who urged the deportation of West Bank and Gaza Arabs. After 9/11, the fight against terrorism became more significant for New Yorkers. Many participated in the parade to decry both the attacks on Americans and Israelis. New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg declared at the start of the 2002 event: “Between last year’s parade and this year’s parade we had the terrible tragedy of 9/11 and if New Yorkers don’t stand up today, I don’t know when you would. This is the time to say to the world terrorists cannot beat us. We will not tolerate it-period.”[43]
A Shift in the Jewish Community Regarding Homosexuality
For over twenty years, homosexuality in Judaism has been a major topic of discussion for American Jews. From the controversy within the Conservative movement today about the ordaining of openly gay rabbis to the limited acceptance of gay Jews in the greater community, this issue is continually being debated.
In 1993, the Salute to Israel Parade had to take a stance on this matter when they received a request by Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a New York City synagogue for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jewish community, to take part in the event. The American Zionist Youth Foundation (AZYF) and the synagogue reached a compromise to allow the congregation to march under a banner that included the congregation’s name but made no reference to its gay and lesbian affiliation.[44] However, before the parade, the AZYF banned the congregation because they had discussed the compromise in public.[45] According to Rabbi Joseph Sternstein, AZYF chair, the compromise was contingent on the synagogue members’ agreement that they would not openly discuss the situation.[46]
The major Orthodox organizations had protested allowing the congregation to march and stated that they could not participate if it did. For them, marching together with the congregation entailed giving approval to the violation of Halakhah (Jewish law).[47] Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Beth Simchat Torah said she believed her congregation was being barred from the parade because of the Orthodox community’s opposition.[48] “Elements of the Jewish community want us to remain hidden,” she said. “Neither anti-Semitism nor anti-gay attitudes will render invisible our support for the State of Israel.”[49]
In 1993 and in subsequent parades, representatives of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah attended so as to protest their exclusion. Congregation members expressed dismay at being barred from an event that was supposed to unite American Jewry in support of Israel. They said the parade should not be about internal Jewish politics. In solidarity with the congregation, other Manhattan synagogues refused to march.[50]
Again in 1999, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah submitted a request to participate to the parade committee. A compromise was agreed: creating a Manhattan Cluster of Synagogues for synagogues that had after-school programs. The rule that participating schools had to have a minimum of 75 students was stretched to allow the congregation’s inclusion, and it marched along with several other Manhattan synagogues under the banner “Manhattan Synagogues-We Are One Singular Sensation!” Indeed, that year’s theme was “We Are All One People.”[51]
The difficulty that Congregation Beth Simchat Torah encountered is representative of the larger struggle between the gay Jewish community and the Jewish world in general. This community is gradually being accepted into Jewish communal life. The parade committee’s 1999 decision reflects this evolution among American Jewry.
The Israel Day Concert
Directly after the Salute to Israel Parade ends, tens of thousands of participants gather in Central Park for what has been named the Israel Day Concert. The concert has no official connection to the parade; it is an additional event that attracts many of its participants. Established in 1993 in protest against the Oslo agreement, the concert has become an annual right-wing rally.
The theme varies based on the events of the year. Recent concerts have focused on disengagement, realignment, and opposing a Palestinian state, with groups attending dressed in orange-the official color of the antidisengagement bloc in Israel. The concerts also are dedicated to victims of terrorism. Hosted by the Israel Concert in the Park Committee in association with the National Council of Young Israel, popular bands and singers take part as well as speakers. Past speakers have included Ariel Sharon a decade before his disengagement plan, other right-wing Israeli politicians, and prominent rabbis. In the 2006 events, former Gush Katif residents told their personal stories.
Whereas many parade participants say they are glad it is an apolitical event, concertgoers tend to be proud to take a stance on Israeli issues. In an attempt to increase turnout for the event, concert organizers use a tactic of making the parade “lead into” the concert. This is done explicitly and succeeds in drawing numerous people from the parade. Many of these are not right-wing and go to the concert for the music and continued festivities. There is a manipulative aspect to the concert organizers’ approach.
Most of those who attend the Israel Day Concert, like most of the speakers, musicians, and sponsors, are Orthodox Jews. This reflects the American Orthodox community’s shift to the Right both religiously and politically. A poll commissioned by Yeshiva University found that 56 percent of Orthodox Americans opposed the disengagement plan whereas 66 percent of Conservative, 72 percent of Reform, and 70 percent of “other” Jews supported it. Orthodox Jews also were more supportive of the Iraq war. Much of the difference can be attributed to the religious concern about ceding parts of the Land of Israel.[52]
The concert also reflects the changing relationship between American Jews and Israel. Since the 1980s, American Jews have more openly expressed opposition to Israeli policies. Although the general Jewish populace continues to be fully supportive of Israel’s actions, there are increasing oppositional voices.
Historically, American Jews had a one-dimensional relationship to Israel. At the time the state was founded, American Jewish representatives stressed to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion that they would provide support but it was inappropriate to keep speaking of aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel). Later, in response to numerous factors such as U.S. involvement in the Middle East, the First Intifada, and the Jonathan Pollard case, American Jews began to dissent more often from Israeli policies, whether from the Left or the Right. They no longer felt they had no right to take such stances.[53]
This trend continued to grow throughout the Oslo process; the Second Intifada, during which some American Jews called on Israel to immediately withdraw from the territories; and the disengagement from Gaza and the initially announced pullback from the West Bank. The trend also is represented by the “pro-Israel, pro-Palestine” protesters beside the parade, who take the opposite stance from the organizers of the Israel Day Concert. The difference between these protesters and the orange-attired right-wingers is that the latter march in the parade itself. The Israel Day Concert is their expression of dissent, but it takes place after the parade, not during it. Nevertheless, their opposition, too, is part of American Jewry’s recent tendency to openly criticize Israel.
A Celebration of Israel and Jewish Freedom
In 1972, Marshall Sklare in his book America’s Jews referred to
the parade that takes place annually on 5th Avenue in New York City-the “Salute to Israel” parade. The parade was first held in 1964. At the beginning it was a small-scale and hesitant event but it has grown into a mammoth spectacle involving hundreds of thousands of participants and spectators. The idea is now widely imitated in other major centers of Jewish population. The occasion of the parade is a new holiday in the ancient Jewish calendar: Yom Haatzmaut (Israel Independence day). To the community at large the deviation of Jews from their traditional reticence to appear in public as Jews is little realized: the parade appears to be just another ethnic event comparable to what Irishmen have been doing for decades on St. Patrick’s Day, Italians on Columbus Day or Germans on Steuban Day. Even Jews are generally unaware of the novelty of their behavior, as well as the fact that it is Israel that has given them the psychological freedom to appear in public as Jews.[54]
The parade marked a turning point in the communal life of American Jewry. Since their initial arrival in America in the 17th century, American Jews have been fearful of anti-Semitism and the charge of dual loyalty. This parade was one of the first times American Jewry assembled publicly just to show their Jewishness and their support for the Jewish state.
It was this initial step that helped American Jewry become a prominent voice in the United States and to be recognized publicly as Jews. With a common interest in mind, American Jews could unite as an ethnic group and declare allegiance to a country across the world. As Haim Zohar remarked, “The state of Israel gave Jews the freedom to appear in public as Jews, and it was an Israeli that gave them the parade.”[55]
The Parade’s Effects
The parade has been a major force in shaping American Jewry’s relations with Israel and among themselves. It enables them to work together and feel their basic commonality. As one participant put it, “There is a broad consensus deep in the Jewish community that is reflected here in the streets of New York.”[56] All this is heightened in times of crisis for Israel.
The parade also gives Israel and Israeli culture a more authentic relevance among American Jewry. The educational theme allows learning about Israel in a unique and hands-on way. It can be difficult for American Jews to connect to a place that is so distant, but the parade reinforces the Zionist idea and the sense of being both committed to Israel and a proud American.
The parade also has given American Jews a new approach to their Jewish identity. It underlines the national dimension instead of seeing their Jewishness as defined solely by the Jewish religion. This has helped them reshape their identity by infusing Zionism into the mainstream of their communal life. The parade does not focus on religion but instead highlights the importance of Israel for the Jewish people.
Changes in the Parade Reflect Changes in the Community
The parade fostered significant change in the American Jewish community, and also reflects the community’s evolution. In a sense it is a barometer for the community and its trends. The three cases of the gay synagogue’s acceptance in the parade, turnout during times of trouble, and the Israel Day Concert indicate how the community’s development affects the dynamics and politics of the parade. The attendance of the parade also suggests American Jews’ sense of comfort and security in the United States. The participants, the themes that are chosen, and the dynamics of the parade itself reflect how American Jews relate to Israel and to themselves.
[1] Interview with Dan Ronen, 31 July 2006.
[2] Interview with Haim Zohar, 28 July 2006.
[3] Interview with Ted Comet, 30 July 2006.
[10] Interview with Haim Zohar, 28 July 2006.
[11] Interview with Dan Ronen, 31 July 2006.
[14] Salutetoisrael.com.
[15] www.salutetoisrael.com
[16] www.salutetoisrael.org
[17] Interview with Ruth Kastner, 30 July 2006.
[19] Rachel Klapper and Deena Greenberg, “Despite Rain, Crowds Turn Out for Israel Day Parade,” www.writeonforisrael.org/students/Despite%20Rain,%20Crowds%20Turn%20Out%20For%20Israel%20Day%20Parade.shtml.
[20] www.salutetoisrael.com.
[21] Melissa Hauptman and Bella Ballas, “Angels Guarding Us All at the Israel Day Parade,” www.writeonforisrael.org/students/Angels%20guarding%20us%20all%20at%20the%20Israel%20Day%20Parade.shtml.
[22] Carolyn Slutsky, “Parade Passion Prevails,” Jewish Week, 9 June 2006.
[23] Orit Galili, Haaretz, 9 May 1989. [Hebrew]
[24] Nacha Cattan, “N.Y. Israel Parade Draws Broad Spectrum of Marchers,” Forward, 10 May 2002.
[26] Slutsky, “Parade Passion Prevails.”
[28] Alan Brinkley, American History, Vol. 2 (New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003), 840.
[29] Ibid., 870.
[30] As described in Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the President and Fellows of Harvard University, 1963).
[31] Betty Hoffman, Jewish Hearts: A Study of Dynamic Ethnicity in the US and USSR (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001).
[32] David Desser and Lester Friedman, American Jewish Filmmakers (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 2.
[34] Interview with Ted Comet, 30 July 2006.
[38] “Salute to Israel Parade Draws Record Crowd,” NY1 News, www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=21214.
[39] Melissa Radler, “NY Jews Rally for Israel,” Jerusalem Post, 6 May 2002.
[40] Stewart Ain, “A Pride with Dignity,” Jewish Week, 26 April 2002, www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=6094.
[41] Cattan, “N.Y. Israel Parade.”
[44] Alex Witchel, “At Work With: Sharon Kleinbaum: ‘Luckiest Rabbi in America’ Holds Faith amid the Hate,” New York Times, 5 May 1993.
[45] Jacques Steinberg, “Gay Dispute Fails to Dim Israel Parade,” New York Times, 10 May 1993.
[46] K. C. Wildmoon, “Jewish Gays and Lesbians Banned from Parade Marking 45th Anniversary of Israel,” Southern Voice, 30 May 1993.
[47] Rabbi Benjamin Hecht, “The March for Israel Parade and Halachic Decision Making,” Nishma Update, June 1993.
[48] Wildmoon, “Jewish Gays and Lesbians.”
[49] Steinberg, “Gay Dispute.”
[51] Congregation Beth Simchat Torah’s pictures from the Salute to Israel parade, 1999 and 2000, www.infotrue.com/salute.html.
[52] E. J. Kessler, “Orthodox Disagree with Other Jews on Gaza Pullout, Iraq War,” Forward, 1 July 2005.
[53] Stuart Eizenstat, “Loving Israel, Warts and All,” Foreign Policy, No. 81 (Winter 1990-1991), 87-105.
[54] Marshall Sklare, America’s Jews (New York: Random House, 1971), 215-16.
[56] Quoted in Klapper and Greenberg, “Despite Rain.”
Marissa Gross graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University with a B.A. in American History. Since September 2007, she has been studying toward her Master’s Degree in Education Policy and Administration at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a research assistant at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in 2006. At present, in addition to her studies, Marissa is employed at the Jerusalem Center as the Communications Coordinator.
Marissa Gross graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University with a B.A. in American History. She earned a Master's Degree in Education Policy and Administration from the Hebrew University.
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Nowhere over the rainbow
Everybody loves The Wizard of Oz, and TCM are showing it overnight tonight at 12:15 AM ET (that's late this evening in the Central Time Zone and points west). You know Judy Garland; Billie Burke as Glinda the Good Witch; and Margaret Hamilton shrieking, "I'm melting! Melting!!!". However, 12:15 AM Monday is the slot for TCM's Silent Sunday Nights, and the version of The Wizard of Oz they're showing is a silent version released in 1925.
It's got little to do with the movie that's now considered a classic. Dorothy Dwan plays Dorothy, who in this movie is purportedly the heir to the throne in Oz. The evil Prime Minister doesn't want her to sit on the throne, and he'll stop at nothing to prevent her from taking her rightful place. Sure, Dorothy gets helped by a tin man, a scarecrow, and a lion. Parts of the movie are set in Kansas, and there's even a tornado. But don't expect anything like Judy Garland or MGM's dazzling Technicolor spectacle in this one.
In fact, the movie largely gets poor reviews. Part of it is deserved; the movie has its problems. The story is problematic, and the movie can't quite decide what it wants to be. But I can't help but think there are a lot of people who remember the 1939 version fondly -- as it deserves to be remembered -- and rate the silent version on how well it compares to the classic. At any rate, this version is certainly of interest to anybody who's a fan of The Wizard of Oz, just as the later The Wiz would be. That, however, isn't all. This movie has Oliver Hardy (without Stan Laurel) in the Tin Man role (and some others), a fact which by itself makes the movie worth seeing once just as a curiosity.
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Twentieth Century Columbia
Tomorrow morning's movie to watch out for is Twentieth Century, airing at 10:00 AM ET on TCM. The title has nothing to do with the movie studio of that name, but the train.
Carole Lombard stars as a struggling actress who is turned into a star on Broadway by her producer, John Barrymore. However, he turns out to be so overbearing that she runs off to Hollywood to make a career for herself in the movies. Barrymore is reduced to struggling to find backing for his Broadway endeavors -- until the day he finds that Lombard is on the same train he is. It goes without saying that he wants her back, and will stop at nothing to get her back, despite the fact that she's let him know in no uncertain terms that she hates him.
Howard Hawks directed this nifty little comedy, and it has his fingerprints all over it. As in better-known movies like Bringing Up Baby or His Girl Friday, Hawks uses rapid-fire dialog, with the characters almost talking over each other. There is also the requisite cast of oddball supporting characters, which in this case means Barrymore's two assistants, played by Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns. Both of them were Columbia Pictures regulars, having appeared the same year as Twentieth Century (1934) in It Happened One Night (Connolly as Claudette Colbert's father; Karns as annoying bus passenger Mr. Shapely). Watch also for an oddball who insists on putting put stickers with a religious them on every surface he can find.
Twentieth Century is also the movie that really made Lombard a star, showing the world how adept she was at comedy. Indeed, John Barrymore was exceedingly impressed with her work and let her know just how highly he thought of her performance in this movie. I'm not the biggest fan of John Barrymore, personally preferring Lionel, but John is fine here. If anything, the overbearing producer is the right sort of type for him to be playing -- by this stage of his career he was quite the alcoholic, and was well on his way to becoming a parody of himself.
Twentieth Century is available on DVD, should you miss tomorrow's showing on TCM.
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This being the morning after the big holiday, I found myself thinking of that dreadful song, "The Morning After", which believe it or not, is an Oscar-winner, from the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure.
The movie's been remade, so you certainly know the story. A luxury cruise ship goes on a voyage, and on New Year's Eve gets hit by a giant tsunami (yeah, right: the voyage is in the Mediterranean, where they wouldn't get tsunamis). This capsizes the ship, and begins to fill it with water, forcing the survivors to make their way where they think is up, to eventual safety. Nowadays, this is all standard-issue stuff, but in 1972, when the movie was released, it hadn't really been done before.
The cast is an all-star one, and pretty good at that. Gene Hackman plays the ship's chaplain, reduced to working on ships because no real ministry would have him anymore; Ernest Borgnine plays a cop married to Stella Stevens; Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson are the older couple on their second honeymoon; Red Buttons the aging bachelor who's never been able to find true happiness in life; and Roddy McDowell the ship's purser. (Leslie Nielsen has a brief role at the ship's captain, although he doesn't survive the tsunami.) For good measure, throw in the proverbial bratty kid and his older sister. Once the tsunami hits, all of them end up together, working as a group to try to ensure their survival.
What makes this more interesting, however, is that not everybody survives. There's no particular rhyme or reason as to which of the characters are going to live, and I wouldn't spoil the movie by saying anything about it. However, the movie gives us ample opportunity to form opinions about which of the characters we'd like to see survive. As for the performances? Well, the script isn't the greatest, but the main idea of the story is much that don't need the greatest screenplay. Shelley Winters probably gets the best part, and in one key scene she gets to show off her swimming skills, despite the fact that she put on a good 20 or 30 pounds to play the role. Winters earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for it. Red Buttons is also quite good in his poignant role. Hackman is mildly irritating, and Borgnine and Stevens strain credulity.
Finally, there are the special effects. They're 1970s vintage, which means they're clearly not as advanced as they'd be today -- except that they're also not CGI. Apparently, however, the giant ship set must have cost quite a bit of money: there wasn't enough left in the budget to get a wide shot of the doomed ship for the final scene. You see the survivors on the outer hull of the Poseidon, and that's it. There's no pulling away. Still, The Poseidon Adventure is available on DVD and a great way to spend two fun hours.
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A brief Thanksgiving message
This being a holiday, I don't have the time to do a full blog posting, so I'll just be putting up a brief item that I've written beforehand.
Thanksgiving is historically based on the day we give thanks for the bountiful harvest, so that got me to thinking about some of the farm harvests in classic movies. I've already posted on Our Daily Bread, a very interesting movie that's on DVD.
Another really interesting movie is Aleksandr Dovzhenko's 1930 silent Earth, about a Ukrainian collective farm that gets its first tractor. Unfortunately for Dovzhenko, his work was being used in furtherance of a policy that resulted in the deaths of millions through famine. This movie is also available on DVD,
I would like to have recommended Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, as well, in which Edward G. Robinson plays a Norwegian immigrant farmer, but it's not on DVD.
Driving Home
Thanksgiving is one of those holidays when everybody goes home to see the familiy if they can. I wanted to recommend Sunday Dinner For a Soldier as a good movie to watch on Thanksgiving, but sadly, it's not available on DVD or even VHS, which is a great shame.
There are a lot of movies about journeys of discovery -- and I've recently recommended the great Harry and Tonto as such a movie. It's a universal theme, and foreign movies like Ingemar Bergman's Wild Strawberries or the Japanese classic Tokyo Story fit the genre as well.
Travelling home, however, is a bit less common. A very interesting, and understated, little movie on the subject is The Trip to Bountiful. Geraldine Page stars as an elderly woman who is now living in a small apartment in Houston, Texas, with her son and his wife. It's a fairly pitiful existence, and the one thing she'd still like to do in her final days is to visit an old friend who lives in the tiny town of Bountiful, where she grew up. Her daughter-in-law rules the roost, however, and has absolutely no desire to let the poor old woman travel back to Bountiful. However, Page is a crafty old woman, and one day when her daughter-in-law is off at the drug store gossiping with friends, she gets up and runs away, to go to the bus station and take the bus back to Bountiful.
Of course, the trip isn't so easy. Everybody except for her one friend has abandoned the town of Bountiful, to the extent that the railroad and buses don't go there anymore. And, she has to stay one step ahead of her son and daughter-in-law, who have discovered she's missing, and start searching for her. Page, in addition to being crafty, is also charming and determined, and she plans to let nothing stop her from getting to Bountiful....
The whole movie revolves around Geraldine Page, who is wonderful in this movie. She won the Best Actress Oscar, deservedly so. The rest of the cast are mere supporting props, even though they all do a good job with their parts. John Heard plays her son, and Carlin Glynn the daughter-in-law. However, the one to watch for is Rebecca De Mornay, early in her career. She plays the wife of an Army man who's been shipped abroad, and she's on the way back to live with her family while her husband serves overseas. De Mornay gets the seat next to Page on the bus, and shares her story with Page, forming a fast friendship.
The Trip to Bountiful is available on DVD.
The comedy western
I've mentioned before that I'm not a huge fan of westerns. Movies that are good in other ways, and happen to be set in the old West, however, are a different story. I've already recommended the psychological drama No Name on the Bullet, and tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM ET, TCM is airing a comedic western: Support Your Local Sheriff!.
The under-rated James Garner stars as a man who's going through an Arizona gold rush town on his way to make his fortune in Australia. However, it turns out this little town is a lost cause, with rampant crime and sheriffs dropping like flies. Desperate for help, the town fathers (watch for M*A*S*H*'s Harry Morgan here) enlist a reluctant Garner to take on the job. Of course, he immediately has to deal with the local crime gang, and a dysfunctional town administration (the jail cell doesn't have any bars yet, for example).
Although Garner is technically the star, the movie is really more of an ensember cast. In addition to Garner and Morgan, there's Joan Hackett as Morgan's odd daughter, who falls in love with Garner; Walter Brennan as the patriarch of the gang, and Bruce Dern as one of his sons; and veteran character actor Jack Elam as Garner's deputy. All of the actors look as though they're having a blast making the movie, and it's an infectious enthusiasm that makes the movie all the more enjoyable for the viewer.
For whatever reason, Support Your Local Sheriff! isn't all that well-known today. It might have something to do with the fact that it was released in 1969, and doesn't really have any social commentary. Also, the 1969 release date is towards the end of the biggest era of popularity of the whole western genre. Third, many of the cast members were more veteran, meaning that, like Yours, Mine, and Ours, the movie comes off as being directed more toward a stodgier generation. Paradoxically, though, as with Yours, Mine, and Ours, this has the effect of making the movie feel less dated than other contemporary movies, such as Cactus Flower (which, despite being a very good movie, very much feels like a product of the 60s in a way that the others don't). It's available on DVD, too, which is a nice bonus.
The producers kindly ask that you not spoil the ending
This week sees the last night of Charles Laughton's time as TCM's Star of the Month. Laughton made many great movies, and one of those near the top of the list would have to be Witness for the Prosecution, airing at 10:15 PM ET tonight.
Laughton plays a prominent London barrister who's had a heart attack, and is about to go off to Bermuda for a well-deserved retirement. However, fate intervenes in the form of Tyrone Power, who's been charged with murdering a rich old lady. There are a lot of discrpeancies in the case, and in many ways it doesn't look so good for Power, but Laughton agrees to take the case.
What follows is a stand-out legal drama, even if it does contain some of the clichés of Hollywood movie-making. Laughton's man who's fighting against time goes back to at least the Warner Baxter producer of 42nd Street a quarter-century earlier. The vacillation between whether we should think Power is guilty or innocent is also a staple of lawyer movies, as is the dark humor.
The cast includes Elsa Lanchester as Laughton's nurse, and Marlene Dietrich as Power's wife, and the movie was directed by the great Billy Wilder, based on a play by the equally talented Agatha Christie. If seeing all those famous names in the cast and crew makes you think this is going to be a good movie, well, you'd be right.
You'll note that I haven't gone into that much of a description of the plot. That's because when the movie was made, it was well-known that the ending was going to be something to watch out for. Indeed, in the trailers for the movie, the producers deliberately asked people not to reveal the ending to their friends, as that would spoil the movie for them. And so I too won't spoil that ending, if you haven't seen it before.
Labels: Billy Wilder, Charles Laughton
Orphans of the Storm
Tonight's offering on TCM's Silent Sunday Nights is DW Griffith's 1921 film Orphans of the Storm airing just after midnight (technically very early Monday on the east coast; Sunday evening in the rest of the US).
The plot is a simple one. Lillian and Dorothy Gish play a pair of sisters living in rural France as it was (well, not really) just before the French Revolution. One sister is blind, so the other takes her to Paris for an operation that will supposedly cure her of her blindness. There wouldn't be a movie if that's all there were to the story, so we get a melodramatic plot twist: an aristocrat falls in love with the sighted sister, taking her into his world, and leaving the blind one to suffer at the hands of a cruel man who forces her to beg for a living. Worse, the French Revolution is about to intervene, and our aristocratic hero is about to fall on the wrong side of the revolution....
DW Griffith directed, and it must have been becoming clear to everybody that the world of movie-making was passing him by. Sure, Griffith had made masterpieces like Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, but other directors were now making pictures with more advanced techniques and better stories. Indeed, this was the last movie the Gishes made with Griffith. Still, Orphans of the Storm has some pretty nifty sequences. One involves the aristocratic class partying with gay abandon, oblivious to all the social upheaval going on outside their manors. The setting for this is more than suitably decadent, and Griffith shows very nicely the chasm between the French classes. Later, after the Revolution has begun, there's a scene involving peasant prisoners being freed by force, and tormenting their previous captors. Their literally riotous celebrating is also excellently photographed.
The other thing that's quite interesting about this movie is the historical goings-on surrounding it. The French revolutionaries were inspired by the American Founding Fathers, but clearly went much further (probably because the French governmental system was much more centralized under the King than the English system, from which the Americans broke away, had been). Griffith's intertitles on the Revolution itself comment on this, and make an interesting mention of the radicals of his day, socialists and communists influenced by what had been going on in Russia.
The version of Orphans of the Storm TCM is showing is supposed to be a restored version. They're listing the running time at just over 150 minutes, which I believe is several minutes longer than the version they've previously shown.
A three-hour tour
TCM showed the three-hour Hawaii today, and not being able to think of anything better to write about, I hit on the idea of combining Hawaii with three hours, coming up with "Gilligan's Island". The three-hour tour sung about in the theme of course turned into something quite a bit longer, but I started thinking of small boats in the movies.
Large boats and ships are obviously common, with naval battals, voyages of exploration, and the obvious tragedies like Titanic or The Poseidon Adventure. Using a smaller boat, on the other hand, is something quite a bit different. Montgomery Clift famously rented himself one when he intended to kill poor Shelley Winters in A Place In the Sun, while we recently saw a bunch of people ride boats through the tunnel of love in Strangers on a Train. And who could forget the tiny, cramped boat in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat?
One of the more picturesque boat trips would have to be that taken by Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons, when he's returning from Hampton Court after having seen Henry VIII. The trip is an overnight one, and Scofield's Thomas More wakes up to a beautifully misty England, well captured in vibrant color. Interestingly, the King later comes to see More, and gets to come on a much bigger boat.
Ingrid Bergman does comedy!
Ingrid Bergman had made some comedy movies in her native Sweden in the 1930s before coming to the US, but after coming across the Atlantic, she didn't make many. One notable exception is Cactus Flower.
Walter Matthau stars as Julian Winston, a New York dentist who is also a confirmed bachelor. He serially gets into relationships with young women, such as his current relationship with Toni (Goldie Hawn), and then breaks them off by saying he can't get married to them, because he's already married to a woman who won't give him a divorce. Unfortunately for the caddish doctor, Toni responds to this rejection by closing all the windows to her apartment and turning on the gas stove, intending to commit suicide. Her next-door neighbor Igor (Rick Lenz) discovers her, saves her life, and hears her tragic story. Eventually, they hit on an idea: if she can see Dr. Julian's wife, she'll be able to convince her to grant him a divorce, or else disabuse herself of the idea that she'd want to marry Dr. Julian.
What's a doctor to do? Well, he's got a nurse-receptionist, Stephanie (that's Bergman, seen in the photo), who happens to be unmarried, and wouldn't she pretty please help him out by pretending to be his wife? Needless to say, Stephanie is horrified by the idea at first, but Dr. Julian is such a schmoozer that eventually, she agrees to go along with the plan. They say honesty is the best policy, and here, trying to keep up a lie only makes things worse, as Stephanie falls in love with Igor! It seems more logical, of course, that the two young people should end up together, as should the two old folks....
Cactus Flower is a lot of fun. It was released in 1969, and is clearly a product of the 1960s, but it's a fun trip back in time, with the horrid fashions and design. This sort of schemer is a role that Matthau was perfect for, having already won an Oscar for playing the type in The Fortune Cookie. In Cactus Flower, however, the Oscar went to Goldie Hawn, who does do a fine job as the young woman. That having been said, the one who really shines is actually Bergman. She shows deft comedic timing, and gets some of the more fun lines, notably one about Idaho champagne delivered in a 60's-chic nightspot. Her character starts off as an almost uptight, spinsterish woman, but really begins to loosen up and discover how much joy there can be in life as she meets and falls in love with Igor, who seems bohemian, but really has a conscience under that exterior. Lenz, to be honest, is competent, although he seemed to have been cast to provide eye candy, getting several scenes where he's just come out of the shower and is only wearing a towel.
Somewhat surprisingly, reviewers of the time weren't so kind to Cactus Flower. Although it's dated, it's a little gem, and not just for Ingrid Bergman's good turn at comedy. Thankfully, it's been released to DVD, too.
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The great science-fiction author Ray Bradbury appears on TCM tonight as the monthly Guest Programmer, selecting four of his favorite movies and discussing with Robert Osborne why he considers them among his favorites. For the record, Bradbury's selections are:
The Phantom of the Opera, at 8:00 PM;
The Lon Chaney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, at 9:45 PM;
Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, at 11:45 PM; and
Citizen Kane, at 2:00 AM ET overnight.
However, I'd like to mention a different movie; the film adaptation of Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451. The story, of course, is well-known; an oppressive society of the future has banned books, with "firemen" burning any books discovered. Oskar Werner plays one such fireman, dutifully burning books until he meets a book owner with whom he falls in love (Julie Christie).
The thing I love about the movie is the 1960s style. Sure, the movie is set in the future, but as with all movies set in the future, they can't help but look like the time in which they were made. Things to watch out for in Fahrenheit 451 that came straight out of 1966 would include the hairstyles (obviously), the streetlights, the design of the fire trucks, and that god-awful monorail. If anything, however, the swinging 60s kitsch doesn't detract from this movie, instead giving it more of a timeless look. Fahrenheit 451 deals fairly directly with censorship, and depending on your political point of view, you can either think that the outgoing Bush administration was stifling dissent, of the incoming Obama administration will bring back the "fairness doctrine" and destroy talk radio.
The other interesting thing about the movie is that it was directed by François Truffaut, the only time Truffaut directed an English-language movie. It's available on DVD as well, since TCM aren't showing it any time soon.
In Memoriam: Thomas Ince
Silent movie producer Thomas Ince died on this day in 1924. His death was shrouded in mysterious circumstances, but Hollywood has tried to guess at what happened, in the interesting 2001 movie The Cat's Meow.
The action takes place aboard a yacht owned by the famous William Randolph Hearst (here played by Edward Herrmann). He's got members of Hollywood's glitterati there for a days-long cruise/party, from thespians (both his great love Marion Davies, and Charlie Chaplin were there) to producer Ince (Cary Elwes), to writers like Louella Parsons. All during the party, there were rumors that Chaplin was trying to carry on a relationship with Davies, an idea which enraged Hearst. So, Hearst tried to get his revenge by.... Well, I won't tell you exactly what happens next, as that would give the story away.
It's an interesting story, although nobody is going to have any idea how much it hews to reality. As a result, the movie (like Girl With a Pearl Earring) can be looked at pretty much as a completely fictional story. In that regard, it's not bad. Herrmann's Hearst comes across as both domineering and lonely, a man who, having reached the top, finds out that it's not all he's bargained for. Kirsten Dunst plays Davies, who seems to be both smarter than she's generally given credit for, and a bit chafing about being somewhat under Hearst's thumb. The highlight of the characters is Eddie Izzard's portrayal of Chaplin. This Chaplin isn't the Little Tramp, but an obnoxious, supercilious man who is convinced of his own genius and thinks the world should bow before him because of it. I've always felt that Chaplin is overrated amongst the silent comedians when compared to Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and this characterization gives me even less sympathy for him.
The other nice thing about the movie is the portrayal of 1924. The movie is a trip back in time, with the cars, the fashions (wow, those hats!), and the culture of the time -- part of the reason for the party was so everybody could get rip-roaring drunk, legally, in international waters. Although the studio system had a lot going for it, one of the advantages of modern films is that they are generally much better at portraying the look of history (even if they're just as bad at getting what actually happened correct).
The Cat's Meow is available on DVD, although it's not for everybody. The subject material is certainly not for younger people, and the characters, other than Chaplin, may be a bit of a slog for those who don't know much about the movies. I must admit myself that I had never heard of Ince before seeing this movie.
Betty Persky and Mr. Methot
TCM is showing To Have and Have Not tonight at 8:00 PM ET. The movie stars Lauren Bacall, née Betty Persky; and Humphrey Bogart, who was at the time, nearing the end of his third marriage, to actress Mayo Methot. Bogart and Bacall fell in love, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Why is the love story between Bogart and Bacall the iconic Hollywood love story? To be honest, I don't know. Bogart was technically cheating on his then-wife during the filming of the movie, although to be fair, the marriage was a mess. Mayo Methot was a raging alcoholic, and by all accounts a mean drunk, with one story having her allegedly pulling a gun on dinner guests. You can't fault anybody for wanting to get out of a marriage like that.
I was going to posit Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as one of the more romantic love stories in Hollywood history. They were married for just over 50 years, having celebrated that golden anniversary this past January. What I didn't know, though, is that it wasn't Paul Newman's first marriage; in fact, he had to wait for his first marriage to be officially dissolved before he could marry Woodward -- and married her the day after that happened, according to IMDb.
Even the Woodward/Newman marriage isn't Hollywood's longest, and not by a long shot. (It's not even Hollywood's longest second marriage; Ronald Reagan's second marriage, to Nancy Davis, lasted just over 52 years.) As for those who made it to their diamond anniversary, there's Eddie Bracken (63 years until his wife's death), Charlton Heston (64 years until his death), and Bob Hope (69 years until his death). Assuming neither dies, Karl Malden and his wife will be celebrating their 70th anniversary in a month's time. But even that isn't Hollywood's longest marriage. Norman Lloyd and his wife have been married for 72 years.
At least some people in Hollywood seem to be able to find their true love.
Very early Stanwyck
TCM is airing a curiosity from the career of Barbara Stanwyck at 7:00 AM ET on November 18: The Locked Door. It's the first talkie in Stanwyck's long career, having been made in 1929, and that early provenance shows
Stanwyck plays a young woman who, at the start of the movie is dating the boss' son (Rod LaRocque). They're on a gambling boat, that's legal and able to sell booze only because it's in international waters. But two bad things happen for Stanwyck on the cruise. First, LaRocque comes on to her more than she'd like, and second, the ship drifts back into American waters, resulting in a raid. Fortunately for Stanwyck, she's able to jump bail.
Fast forward about 18 months. Stanwyck has gotten maried to a respectable man, and it's their first anniversary. He's got a kid sister (about 18 years old) living with them, an into their lives walks -- you guessed it: the aforementioned Mr. LaRocque. He's having an illicit affair with the kid sister, and she's thinking about eloping with him, although for obvious reasons, Stanwyck thinks this is a bad idea. So, she goes to LaRocque's wonderful Spanish-style apartment (this set design is probably the highlight of the movie), trying to convince him not to marry her. However, her husband knows some other secrets about LaRocque, and he too is about to confront LaRocque with those secrets. Stanwyck natuarlly doesn't want her husband to see the two of them together, so she hides in a bedroom as her husband walks in. LaRocque, being a jerk, pulls out a gun, and accidentally gets shot with it in the scuffle. Worse, poor Stanwyck has been locked in the apartment with the dead man by her husband.
Boy is it melodramatic stuff. Stanwyck would go on to say later in her career that she considered it one of the worse movies she made. To be honest, it's not really her fault. First, the plot is cringe-worthy, full of overworked devices, and twists that are outrageous, to say the least. Second, in 1929, almost nobody knew how to act for the sound camera. The Hollywood actors of the day were either silent screen stars, who were used to using gestures instead of words to display emotion; or, like Stanwyck, they were imports from the stage, used to having to make certain people at the back of the theater could hear and follow the action. You don't need to do these things when a camera can get a close-up shot of you, but this lesson hadn't been learned yet by the stage actors. The result is something that looks hammy, and would probably have been consigned to the dustbin of history if it weren't for Stanwyck's presence.
This is another movie that's not available on DVD. But for anybody interested in Stanwyck, or anybody interested in learning the technical aspects of film-making (or how not to do it), there are some good lessons in here.
Labels: Barbara Stanwyck
Payment Deferred
Charles Laughton is TCM's Star of the Month for November, and his movies are showing up on TCM every Monday night in prime time. Tonight's lineup of Laughton films begins with a particularly obscure movie: Payment Deferred, at 8:00 PM ET.
Laughton stars as the father of a British family in a bit of a financial pinch. One day, into the family's lives walks a distant cousin returning from Australia with a tidy sum of money. Nobody knows he's stopped in to see them, and since this was 1932, it would take a long time for anybody to discover that this young man is missing, or for news to get back to Australia about it. So, Laughton decides to kill the young man and take his money. Problem solved!
Not really, of course. As in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, there's the slight matter of conscience. Laughton has buried the victim in the back yard, and realizes that if he sells the house, the new owners will eventually dig in the back yard for some reason -- if only to plant a garden -- and find the dead body. Once again, crime does not pay.
Laughton is good as always, and we're interested in his character even though his this time it's a bad man. It's completely Laughton's movie, but the rest of the cast isn't bad, either. A young Maureen O'Sullivan plays Laughton's daughter, and as for the murder victim? That's a young Ray Milland.
Payment Deferred isn't available on DVD, and I belive this is the first time it's aired on TCM since Ray Milland was part of Summer Under the Stars in August of 2005. So you'd better catch this little gem tonight.
Labels: Charles Laughton
Just as good as Foreign Correspondent
Tomorrow at 9:15 AM, TCM is airing another Alfred Hitchcock thriller that is just as good -- and just as underrated -- as Foreign Corresponden: 1942's Saboteur.
Robert Cummings stars as Barry Kane, a worker at an aircraft factory in Los Angeles at the outset of World War II. There's a fire at the plant, and Kane and his best friend rush to the scene. Kane gives his best friend the fire extinguisher, but it does no good, as his friend dies in the fire. Worse for Kane, it turns out that the fire extinguisher was filled with gasoline. The police obviously suspect him, but Kane remembers seeing a certain Mr. Fry handing the extinguisher to him, to give to his friend.
And so begins a cross-country search for the elusive Mr. Fry (played by Norman Lloyd), with Kane also having to stay one step ahead of the police. Along the way, Kane meets a series of interesting characters, including the trucker who wants to help him against "the man", not knowing that Kane is wanted for sabotage; the blind man who recognizes without seeing him, that Kane is innocent, and the blind man's model niece Patricia Martin, played by Priscilla Lane. She doesn't agree with her uncle, and when he wants her to take Barry to a blacksmith to remove the handcuffs, Pat tries to take him to the police instead. Of course, Barry is too smart for Pat, and is able to waylay her. Eventually, he is able to convince her of his innocence, in part because she sees what the real saboteurs are out to do. Pat then follows Barry to New York City, where we reach our climax, atop the Statue of Liberty. But I won't give that part of the story away....
Saboteur is vintage Hitchcock, with themes that he would explore over and over throughout his career. There's the monument for the climax, the blonde, one great sequence after another (notably a scene in the Radio City Music Hall theater), and Hitch's trademark dark humor. Not long after meeting Pat, we learn that she's deathly afraid of snakes; shortly thereafter, Barry and Pat hop aboard a circus caravan. The sideshow characters themselves are enjoyable (Pat comments to Barry later that she felt bad for the "human mountain" because her figure had gone so much), but even better is what happens when the police stop the caravan looking for Barry and Pat. The leader of the troupe has hidden Barry, but when the policeman asks about Pat, the leader tells him, that Pat is actually their snake-charmer!
In many ways, Saboteur is the same story as the earlier The 39 Steps, as well as the later North by Northwest, in that a man falsely accused of a crime has to stay ahead of the police, while trying to find the real guilty party. It may actually be the best of the three. Saboteur has better production values than The 39 Steps, while the two have stories that are about the same quality. The big thing Saboteur has over North by Northwest is the lack of Cary Grant. This is a movie that should be story-driven, and putting a major star like Cary Grant into it, with all the baggage that he brings, really changes the story. (Not that Grant is a bad actor; just that the movie works better with a lesser actor as the lead.) Also, in North by Northwest, there's a bit of a deus ex machina in that we know the police are really on Grant's side the whole time; in Saboteur, Cummings and Lane actually have to convince him. Also, Lane actually gets to be a bit stronger of a woman than a lot of the blondes Hitchcock used. Although she's been kidnapped, she doesn't need Barry to come and save her; she cleverly engineers her own escape by using her lipstick to write a note that she throws out the window. She also takes part in the climax, tailing Fry, and detaining him at the Statue of Liberty until the police arrive.
Saboteur is also available on DVD, should you miss tomorrow morning's showing.
Labels: Alfred Hitchcock
The Seven Year Itch
One of the commendable things the Fox Movie Channel does is its weekly Fox Legacy series, where, on Friday nights, Fox executive Tom Rothman introduces a well-known movie from the Fox studio, including some of the classics. The movies air three times in succession on Friday evenings, with a movie repeated the following Sunday. Last week's Friday selection, which will be shown again tonight at 8:00 PM ET, is The Seven Year Itch.
Marilyn Monroe stars, but we'll get to her in a bit. The movie starts off with faithful husband Richard Sherman (played by Tom Ewell) saying goodbye to his wife and son as they leave New York City for a summer vacation out in the country. Unfortunately, he has to stay behind and work. That's bad enough, but there are two other problems he has. First, he's got a vivid imagination, resulting in what are almost delusions of grandeur. Worse, is that that imagination is about to be let loose on his new upstairs neighbor, played by Marilyn Monroe.
Monroe is her typical steaming hot stuff, and Mr. Sherman naturally begins to believe that perhaps she's falling in love with him. Certainly, she needs a man. She's new to the city, and thoroughly incompetent, and so, she consistently ends up in Sherman's apartment, ultimately testing his marriage. The Seven Year Itch is, of course, the movie with the very famous scene of Monroe standing over a subway grate, while the air forced out by the train causes her dress to billow up around her, revealing her panties. It's still sexy today; it must have been shocking in the mid-1950s when the movie was released.
There's really not much to the story other than The Man, The Girl, and The Overactive Imagination, but this is still a pretty darn good farce. Much of that credit is due to Billy Wilder, who directed the movie, and just as importantly, co-wrote the screenplay from George Axelrod's play.
The folks at Fox should be thanked for showing this, and really ought to be encouraged to put more of their older classics on in prime time. They have quite a bit of good stuff, that's prestigious enough that they wouldn't have to play obscure movies that "regular" people wouldn't recognize. Fox Legacy has already shown Gentleman's Agreement, and they have other Oscar-winning movies like The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley that they could show, to name just two.
Labels: Billy Wilder, Fox, Marilyn Monre
A fresh, unused mind
One of my favorite underrated Alfred Hitchcock movies is coming up on TCM at 6:00 AM ET tomorrow (November 16): Foreign Correspondent.
A relatively young Joel McCrea (before he got into all those westerns) stars as Johnny Jones, a journalist for one of the New York newspapers, in the days just before World War II. His editor knows that the situation on the other side of the Atlantic is volatile, but doesn't want one of his old, traditional foreign correspondents to report on it: they won't get the real story. What he wants is a fresh, unused mind; somebody who doesn't know the difference between an ism and a kangaroo. That somebody just happens to be Jones, although his name is too pedestrian for a foreign correspondent, so get gets rechristened as Huntley Haverstock.
What awaits our hero is the traditional Hithcock blend of suspense and thrills. Jones meets the Dutch foreign minister Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), just before he is supposed to speak before a peace organization's meeting in London. Jones meets him again in Amsterdam, but this time, has the great misfortune of being an eyewitness to the foreign minister's assassination. Or not -- As Jones is chasing the assassins, he sees his old friend alive, but not well, being held hostage in a windmill. And so the action really picks up, as Jones tries to convince everybody what's going on, all while trying to escape the bad guys.
This is really good Hitchcock stuff, performed by a cast of underrated players who all played a lot of great supporting roles in their careers, but (with the exception of McCrea), never quite got to be the stars of Hollywood A-level material. Closest to McCrea in that regard is the wonderful Laraine Day, who plays the daughter of the leader of the peace movement, and who eventually falls in love with Jones. Sadly for her, she will eventually have to face the fact that her father (Herbert Marshall) isn't quite what he claims to be. Jones, meanwhile, is aided by a British journalist played by a young George Sanders, and is taking over from the newspaper's former correspondent, a dipsomaniac Robert Benchley who has to go on the wagon for health reasons, and absolutely hates it. Perhaps the best of all roles is given to lovable old Edmund Gwenn, who here plays a hired killer (I haven't given anything away; Gwenn is introduced when one of the characters hires him to try to kill Jones)!
Along the way, we see some vintage Hitchcock scenes and camera work. The "assassination" of Van Meer is a typical example; it takes place on a rainy day, and McCrea chases the assassin through a crowd of umbrellas, with the action being photographed from above so that we only see the umbrellas moving. A scene in which Jones has to escape from a hotel room is another excellent one, and there is also the climax, a plane ditching into the Atlantic Ocean that is pretty spectacular by 1940 standards. (Hitchcock later explained that he had hired a pilot to film a steep nosedive over water, and then played this footage on a screen of rice paper while the actors were doing their scene. When the time came for the "crash", the screen was broken, releasing a torrent of water that had been hidden behind the screen onto the actors.)
As usual, there is also the trademark dark humor, much of it courtesy of Benchley. In addition to the humor in scenes of his not being allowed to drink, there is also a tiny line -- you'll miss it if you're not paying attention -- just as Sanders and McCrea are leaving to catch the plane bound to take the bad guy out of the country. As they're rushing off, Sanders tells Benchley, along with all the other practical instructions about dealing with their editors, "Don't forget to cancel my rhumba lesson!" Poor Robert Benchley. But all of this adds up to a tremendously good movie.
Interestingly enough, it was good enough to be honored with a Best Picture Oscar nomination (losing to another Hitchcock movie, Rebecca). What's interesting about this is that at the time, thrillers were considered to be "lesser" movies. Indeed, Hitchcock had wanted Gary Cooper for the lead role, but Cooper turned it down, thinking thrillers were beneath him.
I apologize for mentioning this movie only a few hours before it airs, and when you might miss the posting if you don't read the blog in the evening. Fortunately, however, Foreign Correspondent is available on DVD.
Labels: Alfred Hitchcock, George Sanders, Joel McCrea
Dick Powell, 1904-1963
It was on this day in 1904 that actor Dick Powell was born. Powell was probably best known for his singing in a string of musicals in the 1930s, including (but not limited to) 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933. However, later in his career, Powell showed that he was adept at straight drama, too, playing a southern writer whose work Kirk Douglas wants to turn into a movie in The Bad and the Beautiful.
Interestingly enough, it wasn't just into serious acting that Powell broadened his career. He directed a few movies in the 1950s, such as You Can't Run Away From It, the muscial remake of It Happened One Night starring Jack Lemmon and June Allyson in the Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert roles. Not only that; Powell directed a war movie: The Enemy Below, a Robert Mitchum movie in which a German U-Boat tracks Mitchum's destroyer.
With the exception of You Can't Run Away From It (which is nowhere near as good as the original), all of these movies are available on DVD.
Labels: Dick Powell
I don't usually recommend more recent movies, mostly because more of my movie-watching time is spent watching older stuff. However, there's a really good 2003 movie airing on IFC tomorrow that I'd like to recommend. I Am David airs on IFC at 9:35 AM and 3:15 PM ET.
Based on a novel by Anne Holm, I Am David tells the story of a young Bulgarian boy in 1952. He's up against a big goliath in the form of the Communists, who have set up a string of concentration camps, along the lines of the Soviet gulag. Our hero David (movingly played by Ben Tibber) is in one of these camps, trapped for reasons unbeknownst to him. Seemingly the only person he can trust is an adult fellow prisoner (Jim Caviezel of The Passion of the Christ), who one day gives him a sealed envelope, tells him how to escape and find a backpack with a few supplies, and to make his way to Denmark.
Why Denmark? Well, that's part of the story I'm not about to give away. David does get out of the camp, and proceeds to make his way to the nearest port in a non-Communist country, that being Thesalonniki in Greece. He stows away aboard a boat headed for Italy, scared to death of being caught. After all, having grown up in a concentration camp under brutal dictators, one thing you quickly learn is not to trust anybody. As David tries to make his way to Denmark, he meets some people who may or may not be willing to help him, but whom he believes won't really help him.
Until, that is, he meets a Swiss artist played by Joan Plowright. By this time, David has been underway for some time, tired and hungry. She lives alone, and puts David up at her small cabin while David begins to learn that perhaps he can trust some people.
I Am David is a journey movie in the long tradition of great movies like Saboteur or Harry and Tonto. There's quite a bit of coincidence that happily helps our hero escape from the bad guys just when it seems things are at their bleakest, and the good people (like Plowright, or an Italian girl David saves from a fire) who show up in just the right place at just the right time. But that shouldn't take away from the fact that I Am David is an excellent movie. Ben Tibber is outstanding; the rest of the cast is more than good enough; and there's some beautiful cinematography to boot. The only possible problem is the flashbacks that might make the movie a bit difficult to follow at times, as every time David begins to think he might be able to trust somebody, he has a flashback to what happened in the concentration camp.
That, however, is only a minor quibble. I Am David is well worth watching, and is also happily available on DVD should you miss tomorrow's showings on IFC, or don't even have IFC.
Creative writing on a train
TCM is airing Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train at 10:00 PM ET this evening. If you don't know the story, a tennis player (Farley Granger) with an estranged wife meets a wealthy young man (Robert Walker) with an overbearing father on a train trip. Each would like to get out from under the relationship, and Walker, who turns out to be deranged, comes up with the idea that each of them can murder the other person's unwanted party, since nobody knows the two have met. It's pretty good Hitchcock stuff, but unfortunately, it's ripe for parody.
One of the great homages to Strangers on a Train, however, is the 1987 comedy Throw Momma From the Train. Billy Crystal stars as a creative writing teacher who's got writers' block, and is depressed over the fact that his ex-wife has just written a best-selling novel. One of his students, played by Danny DeVito, lives with his overbearing mother. One day, Crystal gives DeVito the writing advice to see an Alfred Hitchcock movie, on the grounds that it will help with coming up with coherent plots and character motivations. Unfortunately, DeVito gets the wrong idea, and thinks that Crystal wants him to kill the ex-wife, while Crystal would then kill DeVito's mother.
The humor in all this is that the mother (Anne Ramsey) is truly the mother from hell. It's obvious from the very beginning why DeVito wants her dead, and frankly, after spending a few minutes with her, it's easy to see why anybody would want her dead. However, she's tough as nails, and no matter what anybody tries to do, there's no way they're going to be able to bump her off.... Ramsey received an Oscar nomination for her role, and she's the highlight of the movie
Throw Momma From the Train is certainly not a movie for everybody. It's full of adult situations, so right off the bat, it's not for the kids. It's also a very dark comedy, and there are a lot of people who may find the movie too cynical. For the rest of us, however, it's a hilariously warped view of life. Throw Momma From the Train is available on DVD, which is a good thing, since it doesn't seem to be scheduled on any cable channel in the near future.
Two interesting spy movies
TCM are showing a bunch of espionage movies on Wednesday, from the 1930s and early 1940s. Two of them are quite interesting, albeit for different reasons:
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, airing at 10:45 AM ET. Edward G. Robinson stars (although he only shows up in the second half of the movie) as the FBI man who helps break up a ring of Nazi agents in the US. These agents are operating under cover of the German-American Bund, an organization ostensibly of German-American heritage, but that was used in the 1930s to try to spread the idea of isolation, keeping the US from backing Britain in the upcoming World War. Paul Lukas plays a doctor who speaks about Hitler's racial policies at various Bund meetings, and George Sanders plays the Nazi agent who is a go-between connecting the Nazis in America with their paymasters back in Germany.
This movie is interesting for a bunch of reasons. It's told in a bit of a documentary style, presaging a lot of the police procedurals that would come into vogue after the Second World War. More interestingly might be the fact that the movie was made at all. Confessions of a Nazi Spy was released in May 1939, months before Germany invaded Poland. There was a substantial strand of American thought that considered the events in Europe a strictly European problem, and wanted the US to stay out of things. The idea that Hollywood would make movies that were seen as anti-isolationist propaganda horrified these people, so much that Congress eventually held hearings on the matter in 1941. A final interesting point is to watch for the wife of low-level agent Kurt Schneider. That's Grace Stafford. You might not recognize the name, but she went on to bigger things, marrying Walter Lantz, and becoming the voice of Woody Woodpecker.
The other interesting movie is Stamboul Quest, at 6:30 AM. This is a World War I movie about Germans passing secrets to Britain via a Turkish agent in Istanbul. The fascinating thing about this 1934 film is the casting: Myrna Loy plays the German agent. She's dispatched to Istanbul via train, which is where she meets an American doctor played by George Brent, another interesting casting choice considering that the movie was made at MGM and Brent was a Warner Brothers contract player. The movie itself is somewhat typical for the early-1930s studio era, a lot of fun despite the not terribly good production values.
Bad clergy
TCM showed Becket today. Based on the play by French playwright Jean Anouilh, it stars Richard Burton as Thomas à Becket, the priest and confidant of English King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) who got himself assassinated when he decided to follow his conscience and submit to God's will instead of the King's will. The movie isn't bad, although it is a bit too long. However, that's not why I was thinking of the movie. One of the most famous lines in the movie is King Henry asking, "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
My natural reaction is to think of some of the clergy in classic movies who, unlike Thomas à Becket, would more likely to end up spending eternity in "the other place". Elmer Gantry comes right to mind, although having been born Catholic, I can't help but wonder whether lay people who take it upon themselves to preach the Gospel in the way the revivalists of the 1920s did really count as clergy.
There's also Black Narcissus. Deborah Kerr leads a group of nuns from their mission in Calcutta to a place high in the Himalayas, and it eventually drives several of them to various forms of temptation. Oops. It's a visually beautiful movie, and somewhat surprisingly, none of it was shot anywhere close to Asia, but in the British Isles.
Who's your favorite bad member of the clergy?
Another man should keep his day job
Several weeks ago, I commented on the acting skills -- or more precisely, the lack of acting skills -- of Babe Ruth. It's not just athletes, though, who found the transition to acting a bit beyond them. Our next selection shows the same thing can happen to musicians: They Shall Have Music, airing at 4:15 AM ET Monday on TCM.
The movie was designed by producer Samuel Goldwyn to feature the famed violinist Jascha Heifetz. The plot is a fairly simple and predictable one: child actor Gene Reynolds plays a boy living with his aunt and uncle after his parents die. He used to take violin lessons, but there's no money for that, and he's fallen in with a gang of kids who Goldwyn obviously though were going to be the next East Side Kids. Reynolds' uncle is an exceedingly stern man, and eventually destroys the boy's beloved violin, causing him to decide to run away. He ends up at a school for music that's struggling financially, and this is where Heifetz (eventually) comes in.
Reynolds and several of the students go to one of the fancier parts of New York City and run into Heifetz, who says he might be willing to do something to help their benefit if he can fit it into his schedule. The students take this to mean "yes", when it's only a "maybe", which you just know will cause problems later. Meanwhile, Reynolds' old friends in the gang get a violin for him -- by stealing Heifetz' violin! Eventually, everything comes out right in the end, of course, but part of the fun is seeing the route they take to get there.
The movie was done on a fairly limited budget, so it doesn't have the best production values, and parts of the story are a bit off. Heifetz was a good violin player, but he couldn't really act; of course, the patrons wouldn't have been paying to watch him act. Indeed, the music is quite good, both from Heifetz himself, and from the students, many of whom were in fact classically trained musicians in an actual youth orchestra. And there are also the adult actors, whom I haven't mentioned yet. Walter Brennan, of all people, plays the headmaster of the music school. His daughter is played by Andrea Leeds, who never went on to bigger and better things. Her boyfriend, who works at a music store and provides the students with instruments against the better judgment of his boss, is the improbably cast Joel McCrea. All of them do a competent job, although the story isn't really about them.
They Shall Have Music is a heart-warming movie that's suitable for the whole family. It's the sort of entertainment that Hollywood doesn't really make any more (could you imagine a G-rated version of Little Miss Sunshine?). What's an even bigger shame is that They Shall Have Music hasn't made it to DVD, and it rarely shows up on TCM as it is. So this is one of your only chances to catch it.
Labels: Joel McCrea
For those without IFC
I know that IFC isn't as widely available as TCM, so if you don't have DirecTV, a good movie to watch tomorrow morning would be The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, at 10:15 AM ET.
I've already blogged about it, so you should just click the link above if you want to learn more about this wonderful comedy.
Umberto D
The Independent Film Channel tends to air foreign films on Sunday mornings, and tomorrow, they're airing a very interesting one: Umberto D, November 9 at 10:05 AM ET.
Carlo Battisti stars in the title role, as a poor pensioner in the Rome of the early 1950s. He lives with his beloved dog Flic, but other than that, doesn't have much of a life. The building in which he takes a room is decrepit; the owner wants to evict him, anyhow; and it's not like he would have any place else to go. Life isn't much better for the other pensioners, either, and the all try to eke out a meager existence in what ought to be their golden years....
Umberto D is part of the "neo-realism" genre, a genre which produced several famous Italian movies in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The actors aren't professionals, but they're actually quite good, being put in situations that are quite familiar to them, as they mirror what would have been going on in their real lives.
One warning, though: despite being a very good movie, Umberto D is also a very sad movie.
Labels: Foreign
TCM have scheduled the experimental short movie La Jetée overnight tonight, at 1:15 AM ET. It's a very interesting movie in that it's got almost no motion in it. Instead, it tells its story almost entirely through the use of photographs, with some clever editing to give the appearance of motion.
The story is that a man wakes up after a nuclear war, having an odd memory of a time he was a kid, before the war, standing at an airport, when he sees somebody getting killed. It turns out that, after the nuclear war, there are people experimenting in time travel, drugging their subjects to get them to travel through the past to do their bidding. However, our hero meets a girl he loves, and hopes that he can go back with her to that memory he has from his childhood....
It's a very interesting story, and one that's hard to talk too much about without giving away too much of the plot. If you haven't seen it yet, it's one I can highly recommend.
Labels: Foreign, Short
Richard Widmark is better than Patrick Swayze
The Fox Movie Channel showed Road House today. Not the Patrick Swayze movie from the late 1980s, but the noir from the late 1940s. Fox produced quite a few noirs like this, and generally did a fairly good job of it.
In Road House, Richard Widmark plays Jefty Robbins, the owner of the title road house. Although he owns it, he's hired his good friend Pete Morgan (Cornel Wilde) to manage the place. The arrangement works fine, until the day the femme fatale walks in, in the form of singer Lily Stevens (played by Ida Lupino, although I thought the way she was made up made her look more like June Allyson than the way Lupino looked in High Sierra). Jefty hires her against Pete's advice, and you know trouble is about to break out.
It does, in the form of the love triangle. Jefty falls in love with Lily, but Lily isn't quite certain whether she's in love with him. Jefty leaves for his cabin in the woods to decide whether or not to ask Lily to marry him, but while he's away, the mouse will play: Lily falls in love with Pete. This is bad news for Pete, as Jefty responds by framing Pete for grand larceny.
Richard Widmark, having played Tommy Udo a year earlier in Kiss of Death, shows again that he's quite good at playing evil. Jefty, you see, doesn't stop at framing Pete. Although the jury finds Pete guilty of the grand larceny, Jefty convinces the judge to give Pete a suspended sentence and probation, releasing Pete into Jefty's custody. This effectively makes Pete Jefty's indentured servant, and Pete and Lily can tell that Jefty is going to try something worse.
Widmark is wonderful in this movie, although the plot fizzles a bit at the end. Ida Lupino is quite good, too, even despite the fact that she's pretty badly made up. She could have played the singer role quite well with her normal hair color and style, without having to be made up to look almost like a monstrosity. The June Allyson look is one that I found distracting, as it made me wonder whether Allyson would have been able to play the role. On the other hand, we do get to hear Lupino sing, which is a bit of a treat.
Cornel Wilde is a bit of a third wheel, and does a competent job, if not a memorable one. The same can be said for the second woman, played by Celeste Holm, who plays the cashier at the road house and serves as a bit of a sounding board for Pete and Lily. Road House, however, is Widmark's film all the way. It's been released to DVD, too, so you don't have to wait for the next time it shows up on the Fox Movie Channel.
Labels: noir
Late Joan Crawford
I taped Strait-Jacket when TCM showed it a week and a half ago, and finally got around to watching it. What a riot.
Crawford stars as Lucy, a woman with a mental condition. We first see her twenty years before the main action of the movie, coming home early from a trip, only to find her husband (Lee Majors, in an uncredited role) sleeping with another woman. This enrages Lucy so much that, in a fit of jealousy, she grabs the nearest axe and murders both her husband and his girlfriend! (Yes, Strait-Jacket is that scholocky.) However, apparently she was able to get off on an insanity plea, as she wasn't sent to a prison, but to an asylum.
Fast forward twenty years, and Lucy is about to be released from the asylum, to be turned over to the care of her brother and his wife, who have raised Lucy's daughter Carol (played by Diane Baker, having just as much fun here as she was in Marnie) on their farm. Carol wants things to be just as they were twenty years ago, right down to the same ghastly dress and wig Lucy wore back then. There's also the problem of Lucy's past; Carol is about to get engaged, but worries that her boyfriend's parents won't approve of Lucy. Things go from bad to worse when Lucy's former doctor pays a visit, and gets his head chopped off. Of course Lucy did it... or did she?
Strait-Jacket is delightfully over the top, as Joan Crawford runs the gamut of emotions from a repressed librarian type (think Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life during the scene when George Bailey is being shown what things would be like if he had never been born), to libidinous vamp, in a scene when she comes on to Carol's boyfriend. William Castle directed it. He was known for introducing gimmicks to get people to see his movies; it was he who had theater seats wired to produce electric shocks at key points of The Tingler. Here, though, there isn't really much of a gimmick, just a fun little thriller, even if the plot is predictable. Watch also for George Kennedy as a farm hand, and the obligatory product placement for Pepsi -- at this stage of her career, Crawford was the widow of a Pepsi executive, owned a lot of stock in the company, and sat on the board, leading her to place Pepsi products in her movies.
Strait-Jacket is available on DVD, and deservedly so. It's not exactly great, but it's a heck of a lot of fun.
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Art Carney, 1918-2003
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of actor Art Carney. Carney was an Oscar-winner, picking up a Best Actor statuette for the wonderful 1974 movie Harry and Tonto. The basic story involves Carney as Harry, a retired teacher and widower living with his cat Tonto in a New York City apartment. Life isn't so good to him, though, as one of his close friends dies and the owners of his apartment building are trying to tear it down to replace it with a parking lot. Harry doesn't want to leave, but it eventually forcibly evicted.
Thus begins a journey of discovery for old Henry. He first moves in with one of his sons, but finds that that son's family is a bit off-kilter and not really a suitable place for an old man to live. So, Harry and Tonto pack up to go out to Chicago to see another of his kids. And here is where the story really picks up. Along the way, Harry meets a whole host of interesting characters, including a runaway who's heading out to live on a commune; a Jesus freak, a traveling salesman, an Indian, and on and on. As Harry meets each of these people, he learns that he's got life left in him, while they learn a bit about themselves and how to live. There's comic relief, but Harry and Tonto isn't a straight-up comedy. After Harry makes it to Chicago, though, he finds that it's not the best place for him, and continues on his journey to meet his third child, out in Los Angeles.
Art Carney does an outstanding job in Harry and Tonto, running the whole gamut of emotions, shwoing us that although life has its poignant side, there is also joy to be found, and, if you work hard enough, a sense of purpose and triumph too. Perhaps the very best scene is when Harry talks to the teenage runaway about an old girlfriend of his, who separated from him fifty years ago in order to dance with Isidora Duncan. The young girl convinces him to look her up in the midwestern town where she settled down, which he does. Unfortunately, she's gone senile and is in a nursing home, and doesn't recognize Harry. Still, they dance together in what would have been a heart-breaking moment for a real-life Harry.
I've read a lot of people who think that Carney didn't deserve the Oscar, and I can't help but think there's a bit of politics involved in the reasoning. Harry and Tonto is, at heart, a movie with a message that's not political at all; and is definitely of a different cultural norm from three of the other nominees: Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce; Al Pacino in The Godfather, Part II, and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. (For some reason, I always thought Gene Hackman was nominated for The Conversation, another movie obviously involved in consciousness-raising; he wasn't, although the movie itself was nominated for Best Picture.) Carney's performance, though, shines, and makes this little movie a truly memorable experience. In fact, it's a good thing the he won; if he hadn't, Harry and Tonto would probably be largely forgotten today. As it stands, though, it's remembered, and is also out on DVD, and is well worth viewing by grown-ups. The only downside is that, despite the seemingly innocuous plot, it does have enough adult language and situations as to be unsuitable for children.
He's Henry VIII he is
Monday nights in prime time in November on TCM are given over to Star of the Month Charles Laughton. This first Monday in November sees a bunch of biopics starring Laughton. The best of them is The Private Life of Henry VIII, airing at 11:30 PM ET.
Laughton plays the title role, as the English king who had six wives. However, we don't actually see the first of them -- Catherine of Aragon. As the opening of the movie tells us, her story is of no particular interest because she was a "decent and respectable woman". From this, we can deduce that the film isn't going to be just a straight biography, but one that sets out to have a bit of fun with history. Indeed, we only see a bit of wife #2, Anne Boleyn, as the story starts on the day of her execution. But then, this biography isn't really about the wives; it's about Henry. If anything, it's a personal story of the man, as we really see very little of the affairs of state, or of whatever disputes England had with other European countries. There's no Thomas More here.
And as for Henry, Charles Laughton is brilliant. His Henry VIII is larger than life, full of life, and charismatic to boot. If anything, this Henry is a boy who never grew up, trapped inside the body of a man who by accident of birth has to be the English monarch. Laughton looks as though he's having a blast making this movie, and steals every scene he's in, if you can say that the lead steals scenes. Watch for Henry taking on a wrestler at a banquet, in order to show one of his wives that he's still got it, or a gluttonous Henry irritating wife #6 (Catherin Parr) by continuing to eat even though she's telling him how bad it is for his digestion. Laughton won the Best Actor Oscar, and in doing so became the first person to win a major Oscar for a non-Hollywood movie. He richly deserved it, too; this is one of the very best performances of the entire first half of the 1930s, and probably wasn't surpassed until Laughton himself played Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty two years later. (The only performance that comes close is Paul Muni's in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, who was up against Laughton and lost.)
Even though Laughton is good, we shouldn't overlook the rest of the cast. Robert Donat plays King Henry's right-hand man, Thomas Culpeper, and is fine; the Queens Consort include Merle Oberon (Anne Boleyn), Elsa Lanchester (Anne of Cleves), and character actresses Wendy Barrie and Binnie Barnes.
Jimmy Stewart vs. the Nazis
Today's TCM recommendation is The Mortal Storm, airing at 4:15 PM ET.
Released in 1940, The Mortal Storm tells the story of the rise of the Nazis, and how it affects not only the Jews of Germany, but people who don't particularly care for the Nazis and would otherwise just lead a quiet life. Frank Morgan plays Professor Viktor Roth, a man who doesn't care for the Nazis, and is fairly open about it. This opposition lands him in prison, of course, making life difficult for his family. His daughter Freya (played by Margaret Sullavan), is engaged to a Nazi officer, and when her father is imprisoned, it strains the relationship. Meanwhile, family friends of the Roths, the Breiters (son Martin is played by James Stewart), support the Roths even though it might make life difficult for them....
Although The Mortal Storm is fairly clear in its anti-Nazi beliefs, it is at the same time not much more than a standard romance/crime story set against that Nazi backdrop. It's fairly obvious that Martin is going to fall in love with Freya, and help her escape when the time comes; the escape is also standard-issue stuff. However, Stewart, Sullavan, and the rest of the cast all do more than capable jobs. And this having been released by MGM, the rest of the cast is filled with well-known names: a young Robert Stack, a young Robert Young, Bonita Granville as a girl living with the Breitners; Maria Ouspenskaya as Stewart's mother, and so on.
The thing about The Mortal Storm that's probably most interesting is the fact that it was released a full 18 months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, pushing the US into World War II. That, and the fact the movie was made at MGM. It was Warner Brothers that had spent the 1930s making socially conscious movies, while MGM made mostly glitzy stuff. Also, there was a strong isolationist sentiment in the United States in the years leading up to December 1941, and there were more than a few people who didn't like it when entertainment was used to try to make messages they feared would get the US involved in another European war. Indeed, The Mortal Storm is one of the movies that led to a Congressional investigation of the movie industry.
Sadly, The Mortal Storm is not available on DVD.
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Id, Id, Id
Science fiction movies really started to take off in the 1950s, first as an aftereffect of World War II and the sighting of UFOs, and then with the space race. A lot of the movies are schlocky (but often fun) B pictures, but once in a while, a really good movie was made in the genre. When MGM tried to put its classy sheen on a sci-fi movie, the result could be something as good as Forbidden Planet, which airs tonight at 6:15 PM ET on TCM.
Leslie Nielsen is one of the male stars, as Captain Adams, the captain of a spaceship sent to check up on the colony at Altair-4, since they haven't made contact with Earth recently. He discovers that there are only two survivors of the colony left on the planet: Dr. Morbius (played by Walter Pidgeon), and the good doctor's lovely daughter, played by Anne Francis. Morbius warns the crew of the spaceship to get off the planet, because what happened to everybody else might happen to them, too, and it's the crew's risk if they stay on the planet. Of course, Morbius knows full well why everybody died, and is trying to keep that a secret. (No surprise there; we wouldn't have much of a plot if that weren't the case.) Naturally, strange things start happening, resulting in the deaths of multiple crewmen. Adams can't possibly let that go, and investigates further, eventually discovering that the planet was previously home to a super-advanced race called the Krell, that they all died long ago, and that Morbius has learned the secrets of the Krell. Adams also learns the dark secret that killed the Krell, and killed all the earthlings....
Obviously, I'm not about to give away the ending if you haven't seen the movie. This is sci-fi, MGM-style, and it's pretty good stuff. To be honest, that's partly because the movie is very loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Shakespeare is a pretty good starting point. In some ways, it's less a genre film, and more a psychological story that has been shoehorned into a different genre. But there's more to it than just that. Walter Pidgeon adds a presence that the B sci-fi movies never had; the sets are much better; they're also in brilliant color and Cinemascope. The score, such as it is, is excellently evocative of the future. (In fact, the credits don't call it a score, or music, but "electronic tonalities".) The highlight, however, might be the non-human character, Robby the Robot, who provides the comic relief and steals a lot of the scenes he's in. Forbidden Planet is a heck of a lot of fun, and not just if you only know Leslie Nielsen from his later comedies.
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