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One Community Scotland
People really do make Glasgow. We’re a city that prides ourselves on our warm welcome. At One Community Scotland we’re helping families and young people who are new to the city to settle in. We have recruited ‘champions’ from the city’s Horn of Africa community to help us do this. The ladies have all created happy and successful lives in the city and are now offering a helping hand to others.
Whether it’s getting to know the city, improving language skills or applying for jobs the ladies are there to help. Our champions have been given a range of training so they can ensure people get the right support from people and services in the city to overcome any challenges.
Community Champion Samira said: “We want people to know they are not alone, we are there to help whenever they need it. Whatever the problem we will do our best to get them the support they need.”
One Community Scotland is led by prominent campaigner Khadija Coll who has spent more than 25 years working in Scotland and Africa. Khadija explained: “The champions are dedicated women who understand the challenges that young people can face building a future here. Scotland is a friendly country that has great opportunities, we want to make sure everyone can make the most of those opportunities and contribute to the success of the country.”
Chief Inspector Alastair Muir of the SVRU said: “Building a life in a new country can be tough at times. It’s crucial that if issues do come up help is there to keep young people on the right track and making positive choices. Safe cities are created by engaged communities. ”
Launching the project in June 2018 the then Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "This project will have a crucial role in working with BME communities across Glasgow helping them to overcome barriers in access to education and encouraging positive life choices."
You can follow One Community Scotland on Facebook @OneCommunityScotland and on Twitter @1CommunityScot
Street & Arrow
Street & Arrow dishes up tasty modern street food. However this social enterprise does more than just good grub, it’s also serving up second chances for its employees.
Street & Arrow hires people with convictions for twelve month blocks. During that...
RESILIENT SCOTLAND
Negative events in childhood can affect a person’s whole life. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of everything from depression, alcohol abuse and incarceration through to conditions like heart disease and even cancer. It's estimated* up to half of...
People really do make Glasgow. We’re a city that prides ourselves on our warm welcome. At One Community Scotland we’re helping families and young people who are new to the city to settle in. We have recruited ‘champions’ from the...
Working in emergency departments in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayrshire Navigator aims to help stop the revolving door of violent injury in our hospitals.
Mentors in Violence Prevention
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) is Scotland’s largest anti-violence schools programme...
Medics Against Violence
Medics against Violence (MAV) were set up in 2008 by 3 surgeons who dealt every day with the awful consequences of violence. They wanted to prevent young people in particular being killed or becoming the victims of serious life changing...
ASC (Ask Support Care) is a training programme which aims to give everyone from vets and hairdressers to firefighters the skills to reach out to those who have become victims of domestic abuse and offer help and support.
#BackingSecondChances
Do you believe in second chances? At the SVRU we believe in supporting people who are putting in the graft to change their lives. One of the most powerful ways to help a person help themselves is to open the...
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Up Cranberry Grade
In July of 2008 my brother in law was visiting with his family and looking at the progress of my layout thus far when he made some comment to the effect that "I wonder why all the layouts that I see have no turns in them?" Now I don't know what layouts he was talking about since most layouts have too many turns. But I took it as a thinly veiled reference to my layout; yet I still managed to hold my tongue.
However, the incident spurred me to start the first section of the three tracks up Cranberry grade with a projected completion date of before Christmas. Cranberry grade is along the right wall as seen in the track plan. This section would involve building four new benchwork sections and laying out two 90 degree curves and two S-curves.
The radii of the curves on Cranberry are 64", 68.5" and 73". They were originally intended to be 64", 68" and 72" , but when I adopted Atlas switches in the M&K Junction area, I had to adopt their 4.5" center-to-center track spacing. These curves will handle big B&O steam like the EM-1 2-8-8-4 and the S1 2-10-2.
The curves were laid out using a homemade beam compass. At one end of the beam that I made for the beam compass are holes to hold a pencil to draw: the center line of the track; the limit of the roadbed on both sides of the center line; and the limit of the sub roadbed cutout on both sides of the center line. On the other end of the compass beam, and measured from the pencil hole representing the center line of the track, I have holes at 64", 68.5" and 73" that accept the pivot nail on the center column of the beam compass. Using this beam I could draw the five lines representing he 64" radius curve, move the pivot nail to the 68.5" hole and draw those five lines and finally lay out the 73" radius curves in a similar manner. By using a red pencil for the center line, green for the edge of the roadbed and blue for the 'cut-to' line at the edge of the sub roadbed the lines drawn on the plywood sub roadbed do not get too confusing. The picture that follows shows the guidelines laid out for two parallel curved tracks.
The beam compass was aligned square to the tangent (straight) track at the point where the curve was to begin (the Point of Tangency (PT)) then the pivot point of the compass was offset about 3/4 to 1 inch towards the inside of the curve to provide for an offset for an easement. Once positioned to my satisfaction, the pivot point of the beam compass was not moved until all curves in that location were laid out. This kept all curves concentric. I lay out my curves while the plywood sub roadbed is still flat.
All of my curves are eased. I initially tried to lay out easements using a cardboard template actually calculated using the cubic spiral formula. However, even in O scale the offsets calculated using the cubic spiral formula were so small that I worried that the effect on trains would be minimal. So I reverted to using a batten (a thin, narrow strip of wood) to lay out the easements.
Once all of the curves and easements are laid out, I take the plywood sub roadbed outside and cut to the blue lines, which represent the edge of the sub roadbed. Doing the cutting outside eliminates sawdust in the basement. Once the plywood is back on the benchwork, I begin adjusting the risers to the grade, if any.
Here is the track at the start of Cranberry grade.
These tracks are on a 1/2 percent grade which will increase to 2 percent to the left of this scene.
After this first 90 degree curve in the corner of the basement, I had to begin the back-to-back 'S' curves along the short wall of the basement (right hand side in the trackplan). Why such a complicated track arrangement? Because photographs, track diagrams and personal on-the-ground inspection show that there is little straight track on Cranberry Grade, and S-curves are common. A secondary, but very important, reason is to have a scenic attraction at this spot on the layout.
Now S-curves are supposed to be one of the toughest things to do on a model railroad; therefore I proceeded very deliberately. I used the guidelines in John Armstrong's "Track Planning for Realistic Operation" and laid out generous easements into and out of the 'S'. Armstrong reccommends that every S-curve have a section of straight at its center at least as long as the maximum truck center spacing of your longest rolling stock; in my case 85' passenger cars.
But generous easements and long straightaways left little of the sinuous 'S' curvature that would be a scenic attraction. So I minimized the central straightaway as much as I believed that I could get away with. To make sure it would work with the minimal straight sectgion I laid the flextrack on the plywood first and tested each S-curve on all three tracks with a passenger car coupled to a 30' hopper to accentuate the offsets of the couplers (per John Armstrong) to avoid a mistake that would be difficult to correct later.
Well, to make a long story short, by attending to detail it seems to have worked OK. My test trains seem to traverse this section of track quite well. Although I cannot run a through train yet, I run trains forward and reverse along these S curves with no derailments. Here’s a video of such a run (the train appears about 25 seconds into the video)
The train is moving up a 2% grade and rises about 10 inches moving along this section of track.
Labels: 2 rail, 3 rail, benchwork, layout, model railroading, O Scale
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Andy May – “Café Americana”
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Andy May dishes up comfort food for the soul with his 2005 release, Café Americana. Containing 14 new original songs, Café Americana continues Andy’s tradition of CDs packed with enjoyable songs that have depth, heart, and (often) a sense of humor, and are presented with excellent musicianship and beautiful, clean production. Solidly Americana, this CD lays out a smorgasbord of country, bluegrass, and folk-flavored acoustic treats cooked up and served by a seasoned performer and his five-star band.
Snowy Winds of January…
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Snowy Winds of January – Andy May – Maysongs
The “Andy May and Atlantic Express” Years
Ride with Me, which contained mostly original material, was getting good reviews, and I was determined that my future performances would feature a lot more of the material I was writing. I’d had a band sound in mind for that record and had produced it primarily as a band record. So now, with the prospect of booking actual concert dates, I put a band together of some of my favorite players in my area, and “Atlantic Express” was born. We worked well together, made good music, and had fun on stage – and people loved our sound. By 1987, I was becoming a sort of poster child for new Indie musician movement in the northeast.
Raise My Voice – Andy May & Atlantic Express, 1984
Back in the 80’s, Andy had a band called Andy May and Atlantic Express: Tim Griffin on drums, Jimmy Heffernan on pedal steel and dobro, Rudi Weeks on bass, Rick King on electric guitar, and Andy on acoustic guitar and vocals. They played all over the Northeast. The photos in this video are from a 1984 festival they played in…
Andy May – “MaySongs”
The first Swift River Music CD release of Andy May, MaySongs contains 15 original Andy May songs– several co-written with his wife, Lauren. The CD has a contemporary acoustic feel, with shades of rock, country, folk and bluegrass.
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The African American Autry Families of Southeast North Carolina
Autry Family Home · Costan Autry · Daniel Autry · Frank Autry · Sam Autry · William Autry
In 1850 and 1860, George W. Autry was the only slave owner with the surname of Autry that lived in the Southern District of Sampson County, North Carolina. In 1859 George owned eleven slaves. According to the North Carolina State Archives, the slaves were named Pharoah, Chasey, Saul, Ned, Juda, Eliza, Sam, Harry, Chainy, Frank, and Chasey Jr. If George's slaves were siblings, it is more than probable that the descendants of Chasey & Sam (Autrys in and around present day Pender County), Frank Autry (Autrys in and around present day Clinton, NC), and Ned Autry (Autrys in and around Bladen and Cumberland County) are all blood relatives.
The first US Census was conducted in 1790. This census contained information on seven white individuals that were using the surname of Autry. Six of these individuals resided in Sampson County in southeast North Carolina at the time .
The six individuals were Cornelius Autry and his sons. Cornelius has come to be regarded by many as the original progenitor of the Autry surname among Anglo Americans in the United States.
According to the 1790 census, Cornelius and his sons did not own slaves.
By1840, the US Census was reporting that there were 35 families that were using the Autry surname. Of the 35, 20 resided in southeast North Carolina.
After Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the conclusion of the civil war, all slaves were freed. The freed slaves were included in the 1870 US Census. African American Autrys first appeared in this census. This census reported that there were six African American Autry families that resided in Southeast North Carolina.
The following were the six families:
Costan Autry (1851) - Clinton Township, Sampson County
Daniel Autry (1830) - Cedar Creek Township, Cumberland County
Frank Autry (1848) - Little Coharie Township, Sampson County
Sam Autry (1830) – Taylor’s Bridge Township, Sampson County
William H Autry (1850) - Dismal Township, Sampson County
Ned Edward Autry (1826) - Dismal Township, Sampson County
These six are more than likely the progenitors of the Autry surname among all African American Autry that claim ancestry from North Carolina. It is also very likely that they were blood relatives or slaves owned by the same slave owner.
The 1920 US census reported that the total number of Autry households (white and black) had increased to 563. The largest percentage was still found in North Carolina. Of the 563 households, 140 (25%) resided in North Carolina, 77 (14%) in Texas, 74 (13%) in Georgia, 43 (8 %) in Alabama, 28 (5%) in Tennessee and 8 (1%) in South Carolina.
In addition to the African American Autry’s from Southeast North Carolina listed above, the 1870 census listed another African American Autry family living in Union County, North Carolina. The head of this family was Ralph Autry (1833). He moved to Union County from South Carolina. Union County was once part of Anson and Mecklenburg counties. Anson County was once part of Bladen County. Union County is located in south central North Carolina near Charlotte. It borders South Carolina.
Today the number of Autry households has drastically increased. Unconfirmed estimates indicate that 1 out of every 1000 households in North Carolina and Georgia is an Autry household.
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Are We Headed For An All-Out Nuclear War With Russia? Marching Toward World War III While Russia Boosts Nuclear Arsenal And The US Stockpiles Degrade
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
Are we barreling ahead toward a nuclear World War III with Russia?
Recent headlines show us that tensions are increasing between Russia and the West almost daily and while Americans are focused on the economy, the strange unprecedented military movements throughout the country, disease, bird flu, the 2016 presidential candidates and a whole host of other issues, moves are being made by the U.S., NATO and Russia that should also be highlighted because any war between Russia and the West is guaranteed to become nuclear and wipe out a significant portion of the population.
NATO is encroaching on Russian borders, with Russian President Vladimir Putin responding bluntly that he will respond "accordingly."
“If someone threatens our territories, it means that we will have to aim our armed forces accordingly at the territories from where the threat is coming. How else could it be? It is NATO that approaching our borders, it’s not like we are moving anywhere,” Putin said speaking at a joint media conference with Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto in Moscow on Tuesday.
Via RT:
The comments come after The New York Times ran a piece Saturday, which said the Pentagon could store “battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries.”
Day later, Poland and Lithuania revealed on-going talks with Washington to host US military equipment warehouses. This prompted a harsh reaction from Moscow; Russia warned that it has no binding obligations limiting its armed forces in its Western region.
We also see that Russia is boosting their nuclear capabilities with 40 new Intercontinental missiles this year, while we see other recent reports indicating that America's nuclear arsenal has been reduced, what we have is outdated and our "450 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are stored in decaying 60-year-old nuclear silos in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming that look like a poorly maintained Cold War museum."
Via The Week back in January:
The average age of a U.S. nuclear warhead is 27 years. Many of the buildings where the nuclear missiles and bombs are stored date back to the 1950s — and it shows. Blast doors on the country's nuclear missile silos are too rusty to seal shut. The roof of a security complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that houses most of the U.S. supply of enriched uranium collapsed in March. For years, the three ICBM complexes had just one working wrench available to tighten the bolts on the missiles' warheads. When the wrench was needed, the workers would FedEx it from base to base. Today, the principal information technology used to operate and launch the ICBMs is an 8-inch floppy disk from the 1960s.
Sound bad? It is, as was reported in November 2014 by Mother Jones:
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering a massive overhaul of America's nuclear weapons program after finding that "we've taken our eye off the ball," he said at a press conference on Friday morning. The Pentagon released a review of the nuclear forces that found outdated equipment, weak leadership, and abysmal morale among the men and women responsible for maintaining and launching some of the most destructive weapons on the planet. It found, for example, that the Air Force had only one wrench to attach and remove nuclear warheads on 450 ICBMs at three different bases. Maintenance officers would FedEx it among the bases.
The wrench fiasco, since remedied, "is reflective and indicative of a system that has been allowed to slowly back downhill," Hagel said. "We must change the culture of the nuclear force, especially in the Air Force."
Now let us take a look at the actual numbers, in the Arms Control Association's latest update in April 2015:
Russia: According to the March 2015 New START numbers, Russia has 1,582 strategic warheads deployed on 515 ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic bombers. The Federation of American Scientists estimates Russia has several thousand nondeployed strategic warheads and approximately 2,000 tactical nuclear warheads. An additional 3,700 are awaiting dismantlement.
United States: According to the March 2015 New START declaration, the United States has 1,597 strategic nuclear warheads deployed on 785 ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic bombers. The Federation of American Scientists estimates that the United States' nondeployed strategic arsenal is approximately 2,800 warheads and the U.S. tactical nuclear arsenal numbers 500 warheads. In total, the U.S. has about 4,800 nuclear warheads , including tactical, strategic, and nondeployed weapons. Additional warheads are retired and await dismantlement.
General Yury Yakubov, a senior Defense Ministry official, was quoted as saying by Interfax "If America’s heavy arms, be it tanks, artillery systems or other heavy military hardware are deployed to Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, it will be the Pentagon’s and NATO’s most aggressive step since the end of the Cold War a quarter of a century ago." (Source- ‘Most aggressive since Cold War’: Russia may beef up border if US arms stationed in E. Europe)
That article also reminds readers that "Russia formally announced a “complete” halt to its participation in the CFE Treaty on March 10, 2015, citing NATO’s expansion as the reason."
Deployment of American military hardware would contravene the Russia-NATO act. This stipulates the alliance must not deploy substantial troop numbers on new NATO member states’ territory, Aleksey Fenenko, an expert at the Institute of International Security Problems, told RIA Novosti.
Fenenko believes Russia will be unable to give a proper diplomatic answer to this step, so counter-measures will most probably be of a military nature.
“Russia will simply aim short-range attack missiles on [NATO] installations in Poland,” he said.
Perhaps the most concerning statement comes from Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov when he said "A few days ago, reports started to turn up about certain [American] missiles put in a certain location and about certain ammunition depots in Eastern European countries and the Baltic. It looks like our colleagues from NATO member states are pushing us into an arms race."
It won't be an "arms race" it will be a slaughter with Russia boosting their nuclear arsenal and the US allowing ours to degrade to the point where we don't even know what works and what doesn't.
While it is important to keep our eyes on all the latest current news, disease, borders, politics, etc.... none of it will mean a thing if the US, via NATO, continues to march us all into World War III.... because a nuclear war will have no winners, just millions upon million of dead bodies.
Video below: The international military-technical forum ‘ARMY-2015’ begins in the Russian town of Kubinka in the region of Moscow on June 16 and will continue until June 19.
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This Year at SXSW, the Next Killer App … Maybe Isn’t
March 8, 2013 at 4:34 am PT
In recent years, the annual SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, has become a hive for new platforms, with early tech adopters buzzing about the latest and greatest apps, sending some of them into flight.
But this year, the next big app is … well, it isn’t clear. After asking nearly a dozen of the hippest, smartest, earliest-adopting people I know in tech, media and digital advertising, the consensus is:
What — no new killer app?
Of course, SXSW will still go on and will probably even be fun, even if there isn’t a new app that “wins” the event. And here’s why:
SXSW Interactive was never really a launchpad for apps. With the exception of Foursquare — which the social location company hustled to finish in the few weeks leading up to the 2009 conference — most noteworthy apps haven’t actually launched during the conference.
Twitter didn’t, despite popular mythology, although its numbers did swell during the 2007 SXSW conference. And some articles that year ventured to say that SXSW was a “tipping point” for the newish microblogging site. But the first tweet? It came a year before that.
Also not new-kids-on-the-block were the messaging apps that were all the rage in 2011. GroupMe, now owned by Microsoft, launched the August before; Beluga had been around long enough to get acquired by Facebook just before SXSW that year.
The hype machine is broken. Last year’s pre-conference predictions were over the top. Remember Glancee, Highlight and Sonar? These were hot. They were changing the world! In theory, these apps were taking geolocation services to the next level. Some call this SoLoMo. Others call it MoLoSo. (I get these confused and it hurts my head.)
In any case, users quickly ran into battery issues with their smartphones, since these types of apps constantly track and ping users when other app-happy friends are nearby. And by the end of that week, AllThingsD writer Liz Gannes reported, a good SXSW icebreaker question was asking which apps people had deleted during the event, not downloaded.
Highlight creator Paul Davison said the company never sought out that kind of attention. “We had a lot of visibility after SXSW, which was great,” he says. “But after coming back, we said, ‘Okay, we really need to spend some time building out infrastructure and optimizing battery life. We need to make this a long-term product, not a festival product.'” Highlight has just released a new version of the app, hoping to take a second stab at success at SXSW this year.
There are too many apps. App fatigue isn’t a new theory, but it’s one I’ve heard mentioned a lot more in recent days. “I think it might be more difficult for newer companies to launch things there now,” says Tristan Walker, entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, who was part of the early days of Foursquare. “There are only so many new apps you want to download, and you’re not going to benefit from having 16 of them on your smartphone.”
Venture capitalist Bill Tai echoed this sentiment: “There are so many apps, the barrier is harder to break through.” But Tai, who has backed a brand-new app called Posse that he hopes will gain traction at SXSW, added, “I do think some app makers still see it as a good place to launch.”
Exciting hardware is stealing some attention away from apps. It’s hard to imagine SXSW becoming the next CES-like miasma of gizmos and gadgetry, but the New York Times’ Jenna Wortham highlights a hardware trend in her piece this week, with keynotes coming from Tesla’s Elon Musk and the founder and creator of the Ouya gaming console, as well as plenty of 3-D printing sessions to go around.
SXSW isn’t just about apps. It’s about the networking … at the parties. And the non-digital, real, live, human-to-human connections you’ll make … at the parties. And the interesting keynotes and panel sessions … followed by parties. So, if you’re looking to get value out of this year’s fest, you might want to consider this piece of advice, courtesy of Ad Age: Stop looking for the next big app.
Also: Get to a party.
(Feature image: Rondo Estrello / Flickr.)
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Affiliated to Delhi University, Gargi College was established in the year 1967 and is amongst the top South Campus College of Delhi University. A college for women Gargi College offers courses in Arts and Humanities, Commerce, Science and Education. The college is located in South Campus of the University on the Siri Fort Road near the historic Siri Fort, which is seen from the college playground. Gargi College is named after a woman named Gargi, figuring in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishada of the Vedic Age. Gargi College is one of the two colleges in Delhi to have been honored with the prestigious College with a Potential for Excellence grant, by the UGC in the year 2004-2005. The award was given to Gargi College for its holistic approach towards teaching and its excellent track record in academic and other aspects of college functioning. Nine departments i.e. Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Elementary Education, Microbiology, Physics, Psychology, Zoology and the Women’s Development Centre are at present engaged in improvement and experimentation in the UG programmes by using contemporary methods of learning and evaluation. Gargi College has an entirely computerized library that helps students reach the highest point of excellence in their particular field of study. The Library has a wide range of books to help the students. A variety of national and international journals and magazines are also subscribed to for references. Apart from the fiction section, books on general knowledge are in abundance in the library. An airy and relaxed reference section with sufficient seating is the delight of a student who would like to study, refer to, read or just flip through the pages of literature. The library has a staff that guides and answers all queries concerning books and the library facilities. The laboratories of Botany, Chemistry, Elementary Education, Microbiology, Physics. Psychology and Zoology are very well equipped and spacious. Gargi College offers medical facility to students during college hours. In addition, a Medical Room is in the college where a trained nurse is available for help or assistance to the students. Besides providing basic first aid, students may get their health check-up done. Regular medical and dental check-ups are also carried out in college by qualified medical professionals. The Students' Council of Gargi College instills the values of democracy among students. The General Body elects a new council every year which is for the students, by the students and of the students. The Students' Union Room is the 'Head Quarters' from where the decisions made by the Students’ Council are executed. It is not just a space for the council members; rather it is an open platform for all students where they can express their views and ideas. Gargi College offers UG and PG courses namely: 1) Bachelor of Arts in English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Political Science, history, and Philosophy 2) Bachelor of Commerce 3) Bachelor of Science in Life Science, Chemistry, Zoology, and Phy Sciences 4) Master of Arts in Political Science, and English 5) Master of Science in Chemistry. An active placement cell in Gargi College helps the students in the form of: career counseling sessions, information on avenues of higher/specialized education and campus interviews and placement. Every year MNCs, Banks, Insurance companies, Event Management companies etc. approach the college to recruit bright and talented employees.
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HFC-43-10mee atmospheric abundances and global emission estimates
T. Arnold; D. J. Ivy; C. Harth; M. K. Vollmer; J. Mühle; P. K. Salameh; L. P. Steele; P. B. Krummel; R. H. J. Wang; D. Young; C. R. Lunder; O. Hermansen; T. S. Rhee; J. Kim; S. Reimann; S. J. O’Doherty; P. J. Fraser; P. G. Simmonds; R. G. Prinn; R. F. Weiss
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 41, Issue 6, p.2228 - 2235 (2014)
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2013GL059143
We report in situ atmospheric measurements of hydrofluorocarbon HFC-43-10mee (C5H2F10; 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane) from seven observatories at various latitudes, together with measurements of archived air samples and recent Antarctic flask air samples. The global mean tropospheric abundance was 0.21 ± 0.05 ppt (parts per trillion, dry air mole fraction) in 2012, rising from 0.04 ± 0.03 ppt in 2000. We combine the measurements with a model and an inverse method to estimate rising global emissions—from 0.43 ± 0.34 Gg yr−1 in 2000 to 1.13 ± 0.31 Gg yr−1 in 2012 (~1.9 Tg CO2-eq yr−1 based on a 100 year global warming potential of 1660). HFC-43-10mee—a cleaning solvent used in the electronics industry—is currently a minor contributor to global radiative forcing relative to total HFCs; however, our calculated emissions highlight a significant difference from the available reported figures and projected estimates.
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Scores-06
Meet Schedule-06
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State Meet Results 05
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2006 Agua Fria Lady Owls Track and Field
2006 AGUA FRIA GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD ...................................... Front Row-(L-R) Desiree Johnson, Ariana Shannon, Brittany Williams, Cynthia Belzer, LaTorri Lindsay, Madeline Turner ................................. 2nd Row- Tiffany Perry, Irene Owusu-Ankomah, x,x,x, Gea Soto ......... 3rd Row- Michelle Stanback, Briana Greer, DaNey Teague, Candice Gray, Megan Shelton .. Top Row- Jasmine Easley, Kandi Sims.
2006 Season Highlights Dual Meet Record 14-1 (undefeated in region)-- 4 Invitational Titles- , 2nd Place West Valley Region 139 pts, 4th place 4a Div 1 State Meet 41 pts.
5/10/06-5/13/06 4a Div 1 State Meet- 4th place 41pts(40 pts in 05).. Under some very adverse conditions , the ladies had a strong state meet overall,considering a hamstring injury for Jasmine and a knee injury for Kandi; weren't able to do all the events to have a higher team finish, but were victorious in their specialties. Jasmine won the 100m in 12.20 after hobbling a 12.97 in the prelims, and grabbed 2nd in the 200 in 25.30. Kandi won the SP with a 38'5 PR (#2 all time AF), 3rd in Discus 104'6 P.R. Candice Gray took 6th in the Shot with a 31'6" effort, the girls 4x1 earned 5th place medals with a 50.48 mark. Other noteable marks were: Brittany Williams 10th in High Hurdles with a school record 16.87..DaNey Teague(15th) Freshman Record in HH 17.71.. Madeline Turner(13th) sophomore record in 800m 2:28.23.
5/2/06-5/4/06- West Valley Region Meet-2nd Place 139 pts( 139 in '05 also but 1st)..with just 12 girls..the ladies put up a huge number of points ..averaging over 10 a piece..started out on a bad note with Kandi twisting her knee in the L.J. and the ladies trailing by 33 pts after the 1st day..Everyone came up big on day 2 and were even by the 400 relay which we won in a seasons best 50.19. The judge that DQ'd Millennium then changed his call and the 400 break was too short by 15 min for Jasmine to run (otherwise the ladyowls win).. Not to take anything away from our ladies effort.. Great job by Brittany and DaNey (1-2) in the Hurdles..Kandi (36) and Candice(33) 1-3 in the shot. Kandi (1st)in the Tj 33'. Jasmine and Bre(1-3) in the 100/200. Megan 3rd in the 1600 and 2nd in th 3200m, Madeline 2nd in the 800m after her ankle injury.
4/15/06 Tempe Relays Small School Champion (under 2000 enrollment-Combined with Boys)..Huge Trophy! Top 9 teams-
Agua Fria 74
Moon Valley 44
Chaparral 39
McClintock 32
Greenway 31
Pinnacle 29
Paradise Valley-27
Higley 19
Jasmine ran 12.31, 25.17 and had a 56.6 anchor on the 4x4... Tiffany(62.4), DaNey(65) Madeline(63) ran a 4:08.67 # 1 in 4a Div 1 and .18 off the school record! Kandi got 3 medals and had 4 good events Tiffany hit 13.33 and Bre 27.30!
4/8/06 Estrella Foothills Invitational Champions- 108 pts..14 teams
Jasmine ran 7 races..prelims and finals in 100, 200, 400 & 4x1...won outstanding female runner plaque(30 pts) Kandi Sims won outstanding Female field performer plaque with a 1st (triple jump) 2nd (Shot Put )and a third(Discus)..24 pts before having to leave. Madeline Turner -PR in 1600 5:43 - and a 2nd in 800 2:31 and 63 split in the 4x4!.. Megan had a big PR 13:18 in the 3200! This was a first prelim/finals in the same day and the sprint team came up big ..scoring in 100/200 & 400m .
4/1/06 Covina Invitational- Starting in the cold rain and finishing under the dark of night the ladies performed well and set some P.R.s in this non-team scoring meet with 25 teams. They awarded Jasmine the top female runner award after she swept the 100 and 200 meters in 12.48 and 25.38.. The girls 4x4 improved 6 seconds to 4:16 which was good enough for 4th place.
3/25/06 Chandler Invitational - 77 teams competed at the 66th annual event. The Lady Owls earned 20 pts which was also 20th place.. 3rd in 4a....Jasmine qualified for the state meet with 12.49 and 59.78 clockings in the 100 and 400 meters. Kandi broke the school record and qualified for state with a 34' 11 1/2" Triple jump.. The 4x100 m relay turned in the fastest 4a time and got 5th in 50.68.
3/18/06 Phoenix Christian Invitational Champions- 102 pts -20 teams- A cool and windy day at Phoenix College turned golden for the Lady Owls as the scored in 13 of 17 events. Kandi Sims jumped 34'6" in the TJ ..2nd in LJ and SP 3rd in Discus.. Jasmine ran into a strong headwind but took 3 firsts.. The sprint corps was great scoring in 100, 200 and 400m and getting a win in their heat of th 4x4!
3/4/06 Tolleson Invitational Champions- 112 points - 13 4A and 5A Teams.. 1st invitational of the year and first time the Lady Owls have won here. Jasmine won the 100 and 200m. Kandi won the TJ second in the shot put and won the Long Jump. The 4x1 was victorious in 51.60. Nice jumps by Ariana and Desiree. DaNey, Michelle in the 400 and Brittany in the HH medaled in a great team effort!
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Article - Fishing; 7/12/18
Folks in a fishing village on the Arabian Peninsula definitely had more reason than we did to complain about last week’s heat.
In the town of Quriyat in Oman, the mercury set a record, plunging to 108.7 degrees on the night of June 26, marking the hottest low temperature in recorded history. During the day, it was 121.6 degrees. Those recordings combined to give the town of 50,000 another record, the hottest 24-hour period ever.
The United States still holds the record for the highest temperature on record: 134.1 degrees, recorded on July 10, 1913, at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, Calif., according to the World Meteorological Association.
Article - Things; by Ellie Pesetsky - 7/12/18
The Michael D. Schrodel Golf Classic
Play to remember — and repay
After Michael Schrodel’s early death in 2001, his family and brothers of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity of Frostburg State University hosted a golf tournament to celebrate his life and memory.
“He wanted to give back to organizations that helped him when he was sick,” says his daughter Carmen, a student at James Madison University. “My dad liked to golf, so we figured a golf tournament would be a good way to bring people together for such a great cause.”
In 15 years, the Michael D. Schrodel Golf Classic has raised more than $100,000. All proceeds from the Classic benefit Calvert Hospice and the Michael D. Schrodel Endowed Scholarship Fund at Frostburg, his alma mater.
As well as supporting causes dear to Schrodel, it is, his daughter says, “such a fun day, a reunion of new and old friends!”
Friday, July 20, at Compass Pointe Golf Course, Pasadena. Sign up to play or sponsor until July 15: https://birdeasepro.com/Event/Register/8885.
Article - Places; by Keri Luise - 7/12/18
Cooling off on the Dog Days of Summer
SPCA reprises its two-species Cruise on the Bay
Annapolis is one dog-friendly town, from water bowls and treats outside of Main Street stores to events made just for furry friends.
On July 19, Annapolis further appreciates its dogs when the Anne Arundel Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals partners with Watermark Cruises for its sixth dog Cruise on the Bay.
“A cruise,” says Watermark’s Katie Redmiles “because the dogs can get the breeze from the water and we don’t have to worry about problems with getting them into places.”
Dogs and their people board Watermark’s Harbor Queen boat at City Dock to cruise 6:00 to 7:30pm. Both decks are open air, so the dogs have a lot of room.
Half of the ticket price benefits AASPCA dogs in need.
Liz Herrick of Glen Burnie and her Chihuahua-Pomeranian mix Bodhi and Pomeranian Pippa will be aboard. “My favorite activities are those that contribute to causes that I care about, so this was a perfect choice for my two pups and me,” she said.
Karisa Josephson of Dunkirk is boarding for the first time to help the cause. She is, she says, looking forward to “spending time with my friend [her dog] and the many people who love doing things with their pets as I do.”
Doggie pools afloat with hot dogs add to the fun for pups who can cool off in the water and go bobbing for a snack.
“I bring my dog every year, and he really loves it,” Redmiles said. “Dogs, believe it or not, like to get out on the water, so I’d say it’s more for the dogs, and they happen to bring their people along.”
Humans will have fun, too, with light food donated by Graul’s Market, an open bar, raffles and silent auction items, the latter two going to the dogs.
Article - Creature Feature; by story and photos by Wayne Bierbaum - 7/12/18
Snapping Turtles Hatching
Watch for babies and respect elders
The common snapping turtle’s life history shows extreme longevity and perseverance.
They begin their life by cutting through an eggshell, digging through a half foot of dirt, then crawling up to a half mile to water. Many eggs are eaten by raccoons, and the tiny young are food for many animals, even other turtles. Living on a diet of insects, tadpoles and minnows, the young spend most of their time hiding in dense pond weeds.
The first two years of life are the hardest. Very few, maybe one percent, survive.
Snapping turtles grow slowly, taking 15 years to reach maturity. Their lifespan is unknown, but some tagged individuals have been over 100 years old and weigh close to 90 pounds. Locally, some have been up to 75 pounds. A large common snapping Turtle may well be older than you.
They are ambush predators, eating almost anything that comes along — and that list is quite long. They have been witnessed killing a raccoon, but generally they eat fish that swim too close to gaping mouths.
Through winter, snappers hibernate under water and frequently under mud.
In the warm seasons, they mate. The female can store live sperm for several years, waiting until the conditions are right for egg laying. Starting in the late spring, female common snapping turtles laden with up to 75 eggs haul themselves out of the safety of water to find an area suitable for laying eggs. The nesting area can be up to a half-mile from water and uphill.
On their journey, you might see them crossing roads, laying eggs in gardens, hissing at pets and blocking trails. As for human contact, for the most part they are shy, but when cornered they can be very aggressive. Their strong jaws can cause serious damage to hands and feet.
To rescue a large snapping turtle crossing a road, either use a shovel to lift it or toss a towel onto the head and back and pick it up by the sides of the shell. Picking it up by the tail can tear the artery going into the tail and cause the animal to perish. Some people are able to pick them up by the shell at the area where the back legs go in, but there is a risk of getting bitten or scratched. Move the turtle in the direction that the turtle was already going.
Mid to late summer is the time the turtles hatch from their underground nests. They are a little more than an inch long and look like a clump of dirt or a partially smashed acorn. The hatchlings are usually only noticed when they move or are discovered by a pet. If you find a baby turtle, move it to a nearby body of fresh or brackish water. Snappers cannot survive the salinity of the ocean.
Article - News; by Cassi Whitehead - 7/12/18
Riding Past Polio
Team Rotary RAAMs Polio raced across America with local support
The race to end polio has stretched farther than Race Across America’s 3,000 miles, all around the world. It has lasted longer, 39 years instead of a week. But this year’s race brings the killer closer to eradication. In its third year racing, Team Rotary Race Across America’s Polio raised an all-time high of $1 million to destroy the dread disease in its last strongholds, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Team Rotary RAAMs Polio reached new personal bests in both time and sponsorship. As well as raising more money for polio vaccinations, the four international RAAM racers reached Annapolis less than seven days after setting out from California.
Two racers from Austria, Ruth Brandstaetter and Markus Mayr, and one racer from Germany, Kurt Matzler, joined Tulsa’s Bob McKenzie in the United States for the race. McKenzie has ridden in Race Across America with Rotary for three years running. “I tell the team every year in Oceanside that we’ve already won because we have provided immunization for the kids against polio,” McKenzie says.
Rotary, an international organization, has been focused on eradicating polio since 1979, thanks to John L. Sever. In 1979, the year when the final case of polio was diagnosed in the United States, Sever was both a Rotarian and head of the National Institutes of Health’s infectious diseases branch. Awed by the conquest over smallpox, Rotary International president Clem Renouf challenged Sever to find Rotary an equal task. Sever suggested polio as the Rotary target.
The challenge succeeded. Incidences of polio around the world have decreased by 99.9 percent. As the vice chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee, Sever is after the last of the germ. Low vaccination rates and unexpected occurrences still keep the disease alive. Ukraine, for example, was declared polio-free in 2002 — until two cases were reported there three years ago. Only 50 percent of that nation’s children had been vaccinated against polio. The disease won’t stay down if people are not vaccinated against it.
Local Rotary clubs have supported the campaign since its beginning. For this year’s Race Across America, the Rotary clubs of Parole, Annapolis and North Shore contributed, raising $4,000.
“The club tries to contribute $2,500 to the PolioPlus campaign each year,” said Bob Smith, president of the Parole Rotary Club. This year, the contribution went higher, thanks to the additional efforts of the Annapolis and North Shore Rotary clubs.
It cost $60,000 in equipment and maintenance for Team Rotary RAAMs Polio to compete. In their arduous race, they were able to raise enough money to deliver more than 1.6 million polio vaccines.
“It’s pretty spectacular when you think about it,” Smith says.
Article - Creature Feature; by Wayne Bierbaum - 6/28/18
Singing Like a Grasshopper
Maybe that's because it's what this sparrow eats?
Many animals are named by the sounds they make or the food that they eat. The grasshopper sparrow is named for both. These little birds live in grasslands from Canada to Florida, where they like to perch on any stick or fence and sing a song that sounds like a flying grasshopper. They also feed on grasshopper and other grasshopper-like insects.
In the summer, they make nests by clumping grass near the ground. Thus their nests are at risk during hay cutting. Some farmers purposefully put off cutting while the birds are nesting. With fewer open grass fields, more grass cutting and many other reasons, the population has dropped 75 percent since 1968. The Florida sub-species is almost extinct.
To help protect populations of grass-nesting birds and animals, most states have established large tracts of grasslands that are not cut until after nesting is finished. In Maryland, the largest tracts are at Fair Hill and Soldiers Delight, with a smaller grassland at Sands Road Park.
Article - News; 6/28/18
Join a July 4th Parade
Cape St. Claire Celebration
10am from the Fire Department to the Main Beach for fun from 11am-2pm: tug-of war, sand-castle building contest, water-balloon toss, spoon and egg races, watermelon-eating contest and the Cape’s BBQ ribs and patriotic dessert contest: 410-757-1223; www.cscia.org/cape-st-claire/cape-st-claires-annual-july-4th-celebration
Severna Park Parade
10am from St. Martin’s in-the-Field Church, to Severna Park High School, to Evergreen Road to B&A Blvd to Cypress Creek Park: 410-647-3900.
Shady Side Parade
10am from Cedarhurst to the Shady Side Community Center on Snug Harbor Road. Roads close to traffic at 9:45am. Eddy Boarman: 443-370-8720.
Galesville Parade
1pm down Main Street, which closes to traffic around 12:45pm. Parking $5/car on the athletic field at Anchors Way and Main St.: [email protected]; 703-328-6669.
Annapolis Parade
6:30pm down West Street from Amos Garrett Blvd., around Church Circle, down Main Street, then on Randall Street to Market House: www.annapolis.gov.
Under the Rockets’ Red Glare
Your guide to fireworks, parades and celebrations
Historic St. Mary’s Fireworks: Pyrotechnics follow Chesapeake Orchestra’s birthday concert in honor of Leonard Bernstein, with music of Sousa, Tchaikovsky and more. Bring lawn seating and a picnic or buy from food trucks. Arrive early at this thronged summer favorite. 7pm, Townhouse Green, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City: www.chesapeakeorchestra.org.
Chesapeake Beach Fireworks go up from two barges anchored beyond the town jetties, visible from the water and from land along the Bayfront from as far south as Willow Beach to north of North Beach. Watch the 25-minute spectacular from North Beach Boardwalk; at Rod ‘N’ Reel, where Split 2nd performs 5-9pm; on water onboard the Miss Lizzy (8pm, Chesapeake Beach Resort, $35, rsvp: www.cbresortspa.ticketleap.com); or take in the view from Chesapeake Beach Water Park (www.chesapeakebeachwaterpark.com). Fireworks 9pm, Chesapeake Beach: www.chesapeake-beach.md.us.
St. Michael’s Fireworks: The Shades of Blue Orchestra plays at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (7-10pm) for Big Band Night and St. Michaels’ fireworks. The orchestra performs at the historic Tolchester Beach Bandstand with dancing under the tent, and fireworks beginning at dusk over the Miles River (rain date July 1). Bring chairs, picnic blankets, food and drinks, but leave non-service dogs at home. Food, ice cream and non-alcoholic beverages sold; sponsored by Eastern Shore Tents & Events: www.cbmm.org/bigband.
Tuesday July 3
Sherwood Forest Fireworks: See this private community show from the Severn River from your boat. Or book on the Harbor Queen, with light snacks and cash bar. 7:30-10:30pm from Annapolis City Docks, $50 w/discounts, rsvp: www.watermarkjourney.com.
Herrington Harbour Fireworks: Fireworks set off from a barge illuminate Herring Bay. Marina grounds are reserved for members. But the view is great from boats, private docks, lawns or beaches. About 9:15pm, Herrington Harbour South, Rose Haven: www.herringtonharbour.com.
Baysox Fireworks: With an extended finale follow the Bowie Baysox baseball game against the Harrisburg Senators; rsvp for barbecue picnic buffet ($40 w/discounts). Picnic 5:30pm, game 6:35pm, Prince George’s Stadium, game tickets $7-$17, rsvp: www.baysox.com.
Annapolis Fireworks rise from a barge anchored in Spa Creek, illuminating Annapolis Harbor. Spa Creek Bridge closes to traffic at 6pm and local garages may fill up early; $1 shuttles run from Navy-Marine Corps Stadium to Lawyers Mall 5pm-midnight. Town and water views including from the Harbor Queen (7:30-10:30pm, Annapolis City Dock, $55 w/discounts, rsvp: www.watermarkjourney.com) or Schooner Woodwind (6:30-10pm, Annapolis Waterfront Hotel dock, $89 w/discounts, rsvp: www.schoonerwoodwind.com ): 9pm over the Severn River: 410-293-2291.
Solomons Fireworks shoot from a barge anchored in the Patuxent River, giving the entire island — plus boaters — front row seats. Arrive early for the boat parade (noon); stay to stroll the Riverwalk and see the town. Rsvp by June 30 to watch aboard the Wm. B. Tennison on a Calvert Marine Museum cruise (8pm, $35: 410-326-2042, x41). 9pm, Solomons: 443-324-8235.
Greater Baltimore’s Fourth of July fireworks illuminate the Inner Harbor, where the fun starts with the Commodores U.S. Navy Jazz Ensemble playing at the amphitheater (7pm). Come early for a heightened view on land or water, watch from the Top of the World observation floor, World Trade Center ($50 w/discounts, rsvp: 410-837-8439) or from a Watermark yacht (8-11pm, $59 w/discounts, rsvp: www.watermarkjourney.com) or on the Spirit of Baltimore (7-10:30pm, Inner Harbor, $115-$200, rsvp: www.spiritcruises.com). Fireworks begin 9:30pm over Inner Harbor, Baltimore: www.promotionandarts.org.
Washington, D.C. Fireworks: Celebrate America with high drama, music and special effects as the United States Army Presidential Salute Battery blasts cannons as fireworks burst over the capital. Tens of thousands of celebrants gather early on the National Mall for the National Symphony Orchestra’s annual concert (8pm). The nation’s capital begins the day at 11:45am with the Independence Day parade down Constitution Ave. and 7th St., traveling toward the Lincoln Memorial. Prime views include the Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial, Iwo Jima Memorial and the Ellipse: 9:09pm on the National Mall: www.nps.gov/foju.
Laurel Fireworks: Arrive early for parade (11am), then visit food and craft vendors, a classic car show, hot-dog eating contest and field events; Oracle plays music. Then settle in for fireworks set to music shot from the far side of Laurel Lakes. 9:15pm at Granville Gude Park (Laurel Lakes), 8300 Mulberry St., Laurel: www.laurel4th.org.
Article - Features; by Wayne Bierbaum - 6/14/18
The Piping Plover
Don’t crowd this little bird off the beach
“The birds are taking over the beach.”
I heard that complaint as parts of a beach were being roped off because of nesting birds.
The bird under protection is likely the tiny piping plover.
In the 1850s, piping plovers were very common along the East Coast and the shores of the Great Lakes. The population collapsed as they were hunted so their feathers could decorate women’s hats. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 stopped the hunting, and the population stabilized.
With human development along the coast, the population was again threatened. By 1986, just 790 breeding pairs survived on the Atlantic Coast. That is when they gained protection under the Endangered Species Act. Even with protection, the most recent surveys still place the Atlantic population at fewer than 2,000 pairs.
Piping plovers nest in small depressions in beach sand. They lay their speckled, sand-colored eggs in depressions about the size of a footprint. The eggs are very hard to see.
The eggs take 25 days to hatch, emerging at about the size and shape of a miniature marshmallow. The tiny chicks hide by freezing in place, as they cannot fly for another 30 days. Eggs and young are very vulnerable to predatory animals and to being stepped on or run over by motor vehicles and bikes.
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Bellevue Beat | Amazon buys Bellevue Corporate Plaza in downtown Bellevue
Amazon puts down more roots in Bellevue with announcement of the purchase of The Bellevue Corporate Plaza as reported in PSBJ today.
The 10-story office building, located at 600 108th Ave and adjacent to the Bellevue Transit Center, features an updated lobby, 3-level above-ground parking garage, tenant lounge, deli, secured bicycle storage and shower/locker facilities.
The seller, Equity Commonwealth of Chicago, previously submitted a master development plan for the 3.5-acre property that included a 435-foot tall 41-story hotel tower and a slightly taller 34-story office tower with a retail podium. This would replace the above-ground parking garage adjacent to the Bellevue Transit Center.
In early April, Amazon officially announced that it will move several thousands Seattle operations jobs to Bellevue in the coming years. With up to four 600' office towers coming to downtown Bellevue in 2023 and 2024, it's very likely that Amazon will claim them for its growing Bellevue presence.
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July 18, 2014 David DeMoss 5 Comments
At long last, we present our review of the 2013 remake of Carrie. This concludes Carrie-athon 2013, which began with Brian De Palma’s original 1976 film, 1999’s little-remembered The Rage: Carrie 2 and 2002’s best-forgotten made-for-TV remake/backdoor pilot for a series that never aired. With any luck, we’ll have another thirty-seven years before we see another one of these. By then, the “necessary” “updates” to the material might actually be necessary, instead of superficial…
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5 thoughts on “Carrie (2013)”
Ricardo Cantoral says:
When I saw the trailer, the first thing that struck me was the banal visuals.
David DeMoss says:
Ah lah! So much with the banal visuals. The last big-time horror movie our leading lady was in, the Let The Right One In remake, had the same problem.
I have not yet seen that film but I am interested.
As the resident snobbish critic who supposedly hates everything, I’m compelled to tell you to watch the original…or at least watch the original first. Watching both back-to-back is an interesting experience in itself…though not necessarily a happy one.
Charles Phipps says:
Oh DDM, I totally disagree with you this time.
Yes, there’s nothing wrong with the original Carrie (it’s a classic for a reason) but I think the two can/should be taken as separate entities. The reason Psycho’s remake is awful isn’t because it’s a remake of a classic, it’s awful because it’s awful. Psycho’s flaw is the garish lighting, awful acting by Vince Vaughn, and well–everything to be honest. Comparing Psycho to the original makes it look awful but it’s quite capable of being awful on its own merits.
Carrie (2013), though is good. Quite good, in fact. Not as good as the original but hell and beyond better than the others. I think all of the actors in this remake do an excellent job and you’ve put them in a no win situation. When they’re different from the original Carrie, you talk about how this is a change for the worst but if they were too similar, then there’s no reason to exist at all.
The dynamics of Carrie (2013) are different this time around because it’s set in the 21st century versus the 1970s. Things come SO MUCH closer to avoiding the inevitable school massacre and, had Professor Xavier been around (or hell, Magneto), then things might have worked out better. I liked the Lighter and Softer touch to the setting even if it is a horror film and we’re meant to buy Carrie snapping.
Which I do.
The thing is, I also buy THIS version of Carrie could have gone on to live a relatively normal life with her awesome telekinetic powers. She might have gone the way of her spiritual sister Tina Shepard and used her powers for good like slaying Jason Voorhees (or It since Derry is just a few miles down the road).
While this version of Carrie goes the same Left Handed Path as her other incarnations, the movie highlights there was a potential for Carrie to go Right.
We, the audience, always sympathetic to Carrie, even when we’re not supposed to be (SK has said repeatedly she’s a pretty horrible person–and she is), but this movie is more forgiving for that sin and I for one like that.
Maybe it’s because I was the bullied child myself and my school’s inhabitants would have been a greasy smear on the wall if I’d had Miss White’s powers. I survived, though, sanity intact because of loved ones. The original is a grand guginol of grotesques who all but guarantee the Hamletian massacre at the end. This version distinguishes itself by people trying to reach a troubled girl and failing–and that, for one makes it worth existing.
My review: http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2014/06/carrie-2013-review.html
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Sri Lanka is a small island of 65,000 square kilometres in the Indian Ocean, not far from the southern tip of India. It was formerly called Ceylon.
Sri Lanka has a population of 18.5 million, a tropical climate, lush green forests and a rich history. In 1518 the Portuguese built a fort at Colombo, and a priest chaplain was placed there.
The Augustinians built a church in Colombo dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Over seventy years later, in 1606 Augustinians from Portugal working in Goa accepted an invitation to take pastoral responsibility for the Four-Korales region. In this region they built churches at Betonta, Ramucana, Orna, Dugana, Aluga, Calilia, Mandemaravita, Atangale, Pitilgaldone, Ampe and Guileila. Mentioned in records in 1664 are thirteen Augustinian churches and the names of the Augustinian priests who attend to each of them. The Augustinian church at Attanagalla was dedicated to Our Lady of the Sinhalese, which is a significant fact of identification of Our Lady with the indigenous people.
When in 1658 the Dutch took over the colony from the Portuguese, all 120 priests in Ceylon were expelled. There were no priests for the next thirty years, and many churches were abandoned, especially in the country areas.
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BIRTHDAY August 16, 1982
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Cam Joslin Gigandet (born August 16, 1982) is an American actor. He is popular for his role in films Twilight, Pandorum, Never Back Down, Burlesque, Easy A, The Roommate and Priest.
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Gigandet was born in Tacoma, Washington. His sister Kelsie is a hair stylist. He recieved his education from Auburn Senior High School and Santa Monica College.
Gigandet has two tattoos,one on both arms that says "Godspeed". Has posses a black belt in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga.
Gigandet married his fiancée, Dominique Geisendorff. They have two children named Everleigh Rae Gigandet. Rekker Radley Gigandet. They also announced that they are expecting their third child.
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Gigandet has won MTV Movie Awards twice and has also won Teen Choice Awards and Young Hollywood Awards.
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…but when UbL was finally killed, we all know who took the credit…
Posted on October 31, 2019 by Charlie
In the aftermath of the ISIS leader takedown…
“Making ‘Conan’ the Dog a National Hero Is Pure Donald Trump”
We all remember who the hero of the Usama bin-Laden takedown was, right?
(Hint: no photo-ops of 4-legged pups, or 2-legged SEALs were reported)
Hmm…those actually ON the call say nothing improper was said…?
At the Federalist: “NSC Official Tim Morrison To Schiff: ‘I Was Not Concerned That Anything Illegal Was Discussed’ In Trump-Ukraine Phone Call”
And THAT’S the difference between those with opinions about the Trump call with Ukraine’s leader, and those intimately involved: Morrison was on that call too.
Furthermore, as noted in this Fox interview with Rep. Meadows (R-NC) “The impeachment narrative built by House Democrats is beginning to collapse, as witnesses continue to contradict the quid pro quo claim being made against President Trump, said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., on “Fox & Friends” Thursday. “All of a sudden what you’re starting to see is some contradictions between witnesses that we had yesterday [and] witnesses that we’re having today,” he said. “You’re starting to see a different side of the story. “And what we are finding and what your viewers need to understand is that each time that the witnesses are asked about holding up aid and [if] it was held up for improper purposes — the answer is no,” Meadows continued.” (emphasis added)
(And, NSC Morrison says Taylor testimony was riddled with ‘key’ inaccuracies.)
UPDATE: John Solomon destroys the Ukraine myths built around the Shampeachment efforts in a new article today, proving Democrats did everything they claim was done by President Trump, and points out Ukraine re-opened the corruption probe months before President Trump’s call to their leader…dismantling the basis of the Democrat case.
Looks like Democrats better gear up their next hoax…this one’s failing fast.
Lipstick on a Pig still leaves it a Pig
As reported at Breitbart.com: “House Democrats Pass Partisan Impeachment Process Resolution in Face of Bipartisan Opposition”
The pig (aka, impeachment ‘process’) has added the lipstick of ‘inquiry’ to its title.
Maybe it’s time to change the Democrat jackass mascot image?
But, it’ll take more than lipstick to make this Shampeachment leader look anything like legitimate: Adam Schiff is a proven leaker, a proven liar…and a material witness.
Now, with this latest ‘resolution’ he’s the man who decides its discretion and control?
As stated…it’s gonna take a lot more than lipstick.
Andy McCarthy breaks down the ‘resolution’ and the challenge faced by the Trump team in dealing with this situation, but its ludicrous proposition does beg a question:
He does a fair analysis, and toward the end notes that “…the president and his allies are going to need a substantive defense to the charge that, with a purpose to interfere in the 2020 election, he abused his foreign-relations power by encouraging a foreign government to investigate an American citizen for violating foreign law.”
But…isn’t that EXACTLY what Obama-&-co did in 2016?
It’s pretty bizarre, when the originators of a Russia-collusion hoax can get away with trying to impeach a duly-elected President for investigating and prosecuting hoaxsters.
‘Cuz that’s what’s going on here…
…their Shampeachment is meant to obstruct/discredit a real investigation…
…of a REAL crime.
And they will not stop.
Just curious though…don’t Democrats realize Republicans will want to put Joe Biden’s corruption with ‘foreign-relations’ on full display as good cause for an investigation?
Goodbye California…hello Medieval times?
If ever there was a poster-state for failed Democrat policy, California is it.
How else to describe, when a wildfire possibility can put you into the Dark Ages? We can’t clear-cut, manage undergrowth, or build new water-capture capabilities.
Between extreme environmentalists and Big Government Democrats, Green giddiness and Blue blundering have created Black conditions for California…and its populace.
“No longer is California the land of opportunity, it is a purgatory of high taxes, unaffordable housing, an outrageously steep cost of living, crumbling roads and bridges, soul-grinding traffic, and catastrophic homelessness.” Typhus, anyone?
This Issues-&-Insights article captures the irony: “Each of these is a man-made disaster created by public policy that limits and directs rather than frees and stimulates.”
California’s 2020 elections will be a choice of continuing to huddle in darkness…
…or be creative.
…and, folks, that’s called ‘witness tampering’…
“Nunes: Adam Schiff was coaching Alexander Vindman throughout his testimony”
And, when he wasn’t coaching, Schiff was telling him not to answer GOP questions.
Doesn’t get any more blatant than that.
Now, add this to the fact that Schiff, who is heading this Shampeachment proceeding, lied about he or his staff meeting with a whistleblower gossip-monger in advance.
Why would he feel the need to lie…unless aware it would be witness-tampering?
Federal agencies have protocols in place for whistle-blowers, and a complainant’s first contact over allegations would NOT be to partisan members of Congress; otherwise, such a contact made first is understandably considered unethical witness-grooming.
In other words…T.A.M.P.E.R.I.N.G.
This whole Shampeachment stinks…but not as badly as actions of the guy who runs it.
Race-baiter former first lady runs away from ‘her people’
Michelle Obama claims whites run away from blacks, but considering where she and The One have chosen to live nowadays, looks like it’s the pot calling the kettle…a pot.
Her new digs in DC and Martha’s Vineyard are in super-predominantly white areas.
Kalorama (Washington DC) is populated by 82.9% white, 3.8% black residents.
Martha’s Vineyard is populated by 94.4% white, 1.8% black residents.
If anyone’s running from ‘her people’…it’s Michelle O.
Typical Liberal…talk the talk, but NEVER walk the walk. (She could’a chosen Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta…funny, even she doesn’t want to make that choice.)
Why would she accuse whites of the very act SHE’S guilty of? With such overwhelming hypocrisy of hers on FULL DISPLAY, dare we suggest some pre-election race-baiting?
(At the risk of her accusing BlueCollar of ‘running away’ from a version of HER truth.)
On the one hand, we have a Trump economy making black employment great again…
…on the other hand, you have Michelle ‘Sharpton’ Obama…running away from Chicago.
Classic.
At the end of the day, they’re angry ‘cuz corruption IS being investigated
As the ‘quid-pro-quo’ saga continues, it’s sadly ironic to note how easily and openly the Democrats are willing to expose the fact that they are outraged over corruption probes.
And, tragic…that media is so deceitfully obscuring that naked truth.
Because, even IF the President suggested a quid-pro-quo to the Ukrainian leader, it would’ve been to conduct an investigation into corruption…not hide it to protect family.
Being fixed on the insignificant is exactly what Democrats want, because with everyone arguing about if a quid-pro-quo occurred, they’re NOT arguing about if corruption did.
Shouldn’t the real outrage be…
…that Democrats DON’T WANT CORRUPTION INVESTIGATED?
Now there’s a real campaign slogan, hiding in plain sight.
The only thing more outrageous, is the media’s duplicity in an effort to cover for them.
A fraud is being perpetrated on the public; first, begun before the 2016 election results and then – post-election – with a full-throated ‘collusion’ hoax…all to undo that election.
Can anyone spell ‘RICO indictments’…?
“The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization” (hat-tip to Wikipedia)
Corrupt is just another word for ‘politics-as-usual’
As the Democrats put finishing touches on their strategy of dodging criminal prosecution by running for higher political office, we can’t help but ask if any of them are innocent?
Or a follow-up question: why not put forward candidates who AREN’T corrupt?
Since they opened the dance with an ‘election-meddling’ mantra, it’s heart-warming and gratifying to see them squirm as ACTUAL meddling evidence mounts…against them.
Democrats call pre-election investigation of their corruption as unacceptably political.
We call it serendipitous, and based on that mounting evidence…well deserved.
Can someone in Beijing help poor millionaire Lebron?
Evidently the communist apologist…err…NBA player is forced from his home by fires.
There are plenty of homes in China…won’t someone please help this poor millionaire?
If terrorism ‘isn’t about religion’ why worry how a terrorist is buried?
No sooner does President Trump announce ‘we got al-Baghdadi’ than the Left goes into meltdown over how he’s to be buried.
For 20 years, they’ve told us Islamists have nothing to do with Islam…okay, then why the angst over honoring an Islamic burial custom for one who’s DISHONORED Islam?
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WHM: Historic Hilda Aitken, First Female MP
[Part of Women’s History Month Series | Written by Robyn Bardgett]
As one of the first women to win a seat in the House of Parliament, Hilda Aitken [1891 - 1987] set a course to create a place for women in politics.
She won a seat in Smith’s during the 1948 election, along with her contemporary, Edna Watson, who won in Paget.
The mother of two had been heavily involved in the Women’s Suffrage Society, which had encouraged her to run – four years after they had won the fight to give female property owners the right to vote.
Hilda Aitken’s portrait now hangs in the House of Assembly, alongside other pioneering Bermudian women, including Edna Watson and Dame Lois Browne-Evans.
“These were phenomenal women,” Deputy Opposition Leader Leah Scott told Bernews. “Hilda Scott, in particular, was very outspoken and it was something that her contemporaries couldn’t get used to and I feel like I align with her.”
Ms Scott, who along with Opposition Leader Jeanne Atherden, are the first women to hold both an opposition leader and deputy opposition leader position, added, “Hilda Aitken was very moved by the Suffragette movement, and while its not so much the Suffragette movement for me getting into politics, its about wanting to see Bermuda maintain its integrity. Hilda Aitken was determined to do what she thought was right – and she didn’t care what people thought.”
Seventy years after that historic win by Hilda Aitken, women have made great strides throughout many industries, but most notably are the women who took on the challenge of creating more female representation in politics.
Those female champions include Dame Lois Browne-Evans, who was the first black woman in Parliament in 1963 and the first woman opposition leader in the British Commonwealth in 1968.
Dame Pamela Gordon, who was the first woman appointed Premier by her United Bermuda Party colleagues and Dame Jennifer Smith, who was the first female political party leader to lead her Progressive Labour Party to a general election victory and become Premier.
“Women are very interested in politics, and actually a large percentage of women work behind the scenes in politics,” Tinee Furbert, Junior Minister for Disability Affairs told Bernews. “Women are very supportive in politics.
“However, many women know about the possible risks involved with politics and the time commitments. They simply prefer not to be frontline. Women are also developing their careers and/or caregiving for their families and at times it may become difficult to balance.”
Ms Furbert, who is also part of the Women’s Caucus established by the Progressive Labour Party, said there are currently eight elected women in the House of Assembly out of 36 seats, and four women appointed to serve in the Senate.
“There is an increase of women in politics all over the world but not nearly to the representation of men. Currently, Rwanda leads the world with the most women in their legislature. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda assisted with the country’s constitution change, which was passed in 2003 that decreed 30 percent of parliamentary seats be reserved for women…It’s an example of gender inclusiveness.
“We must speak more about the woman’s role in governing, making laws and policy. Women also need support in politics, and mentoring is an important piece of the puzzle. Making pro-women decrees like what Rwanda has done is also helpful.”
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, Bernews is featuring a series of profiles of exceptional Bermudian women throughout the month of March, you can click here to view the ones published so far, and look for additional features throughout the month.
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35 facts about the St. Louis campus
St. Louis was the first extended campus of Columbia College.
The current session has 939 enrollments (combined in-class and online classes)—largest enrollment ever!
The 2nd highest enrollment session was in 1999 with just under 900 (but they were all in-seat enrollments).
The St. Louis campus was founded on Oct. 31, 1973.
The first campus was on Goodfellow at TROSCOM (Army Troop Support Command) in Building 105 Annex.
The campus then moved to Jefferson Barracks.
The St. Louis campus was once at the Missouri Air National Guard Base at Lambert Field.
Buder Elementary School housed the St. Louis campus.
Hoech Middle School was a location for the St. Louis campus before moving to the current location.
The St. Louis campus finally settled at 4411 Woodson Road in 1997.
While at Buder Elementary School, a dietician at a nursing home provided cooked meals in the cafeteria for Columbia College–St. Louis students.
Columbia College–St. Louis initially shared the Woodson Road building with Bell Helicopter.
The campus has been served by eight directors—four women and four men.
Sabra Bingaman was the first director.
The eighth director is Debra Shrout.
Gary Massey, associate dean for Adult Higher Education and the Online Campus, was one of the eight St. Louis directors.
The longest serving current staff member is Assistant Director Jeff Long.
A current staff member who started in the evaluations office at the home campus is Tracey Ratermann, academic advisor.
Staff members Malaika Gaston (administrative assistant for financial aid) and Kristin Fisher (campus admissions manager) graduated from the St. Louis campus.
Jessica McKeown was responsible for 19 enrollments at Columbia College–St. Louis before she was hired at the St. Louis campus. (She worked for a local competitor but knew about the great value of Columbia College.)
Kenya Holloway, academic advisor, is related to 1978 Columbia College alumna Daisy Lomax.
Jerry Culberson, custodian, is the first person in the building each day.
LD Anderson, building monitor, is the last person out of the building each night.
Tikisha Davis, receptionist, is currently enrolled at the St. Louis campus.
The first evening receptionist at the St. Louis campus is Amanda Taylor.
The longest serving adjunct instructors are Jerry Timke and Steve Randoll (20 years).
The newest adjunct instructor is Courtney Barr, Spanish teacher.
The first graduation ceremony for the St. Louis campus was held in 2001.
Last year, $2,440 was contributed to the Kullmann Scholarship.
Online classes began in 2000.
52.5% of the St. Louis enrollment is women.
Most students are between 26 and 35 years of age.
85% of the students are pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
Military students comprise 5% of the current enrollments.
35% of the faculty has graduate work beyond a master’s degree.
Sunday, November 02, 2008 Chk out- 35 facts about the St. Louis campus
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Many of you know that our system was originally called COM.
But did you know it's been up and running since 1986?
Yes, our e-mail system was started back in 1986 in Almviks Gård, Sweden, by the former Harikesa Swami, whose purpose was to improve communications within the BBT and his zone. Prsnigarbha das had adapted existing Swedish BBS software and soon "COM", as it was called, was up and running on a DEC PDP 11/45, a big and ancient 16-bit computer with 192 KB of memory and a 14 inch 160 MB Winchester harddisk.
The telephone lines in Almviks Gård were lousy, and calling in from other countries was difficult. So, in 1987 COM moved to Korsnäs Gård, the headquarters of the NE-BBT, where it got a total of five login modems plus about fifteen direct (serial) lines connected to terminals in the BBT offices.
Soon the PDP computer was replaced by an Intel 386 PC with a 300 MB harddisk (which was a monster capacity in those days), running XENIX as operating system. Three Datapak lines (X.25 packet switching network) were added. At the end of 1989, COM got its own Internet domain (bbt.se), and the software got adapted so that messages could be sent to and received from outside e-mail addresses. COM would dial up the Internet provider a few times a day and exchanged mail using the UUPC protocol. In those days, very few devotees had Internet access. The worldwide Internet big bang would come only about two years later.
Throughout all those years, Prsnigarbha das worked steadily on improving the software according to the directions of former Harikesa Maharaja, who promoted COM intensely and encouraged many of his godbrothers and disciples, often preachers or managers, to get on COM. When also other Swamis (not to forget Jayapataka Maharaja) started to inspire everyone to get on COM, it quickly became a very important means of communication for ISKCON worldwide.
In the middle of 1992 Prsnigarbha das was made the manager of a construction project near Stockholm and his service as SysOp (System Operator) of COM was transferred to Dharmaraja das. He still continued developing the COM software in his spare time, though.
In September 1992, Ramakanta das from Zürich, Switzerland, joined the COM programmers team and started working on porting the COM software to the DOS platform (with DesqView as multitasking software), because XENIX, although a true multi-user / multi-tasking system, had many disadvantages. Three months later, in the beginning of December 1992, COM was effectively running under DOS, on an Intel 486 (33 Mhz) with 16 MB of RAM.
LINK, the BBS of ISKCON Communications (at that time still in San Diego), had been using Wildcat BBS software (also DOS) so far, but now Mukunda Maharaja decided to switch over to the COM software, and some limited conference networking was set up between COM and LINK. Devaprastha das (at that time Bhakta Dave) was the SysOp.
In October 1993, Dharmaraja das, who also functioned as department head of the NE-BBT Typesetting and secretary to the former Harikesa Swami, could not devote enough time to COM and handed over the SysOp service to Raktambara das. Murari das (at that time just Madhava) in the US joined the team of programmers. He did a great job by adding many new features to COM in a relatively short time.
Crisis Leads To Improvement
If you've been following attentively, you will remember that the COM BBS was now running on one 486 computer with 16 MB of RAM, hosting five modem lines, three Datapak lines, one Internet dial-up UUCP line, and about fifteen local terminal lines... As more and more users joined, both the hardware and DOS were loaded to the max. Moreover, the COM software had many bugs because the programmers involved could only work on it in their spare time, and nobody had had any time to go through the entire program code to eradicate all the bugs. Prsnigarbha das, who had been given other responsibilities, even resigned from the team of programmers altogether, as did Murari das. The situation became critical, the users got fried...
In June 1994 a major crash occurred that destroyed most of the text database (remember, it's a BBS), imploring Ramakanta das to take the systematic eradication of all COM bugs as his mission. At the same time, Raktambara das set up a coax ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) in the NE-BBT, which was also of great advantage to COM. The old COM computer was made into a Lantastic (Artisoft) server hosting the COM databases, and other client computers divided the various tasks: two 386'es answered the five modem lines, one 486 dealt with all the local terminal and Datapak lines, and another 386 did the Internet mail transfers.
With this new hardware setup and Ramakanta das gradually exterminating all the bugs, COM became faster and more reliable than it had ever been. Turbo login was added by starting the COM processes in advance and then having the users "drop into" the COM sessions. (Before that time, the login process alone took at least twelve seconds, which was a long time if you consider that most devotees were calling from abroad.)
In August 1994, features were added that allowed forwarding of COM mail to an external e-mail address on a regular basis, and for COM users to send in updumps (an updump contains mail to be sent, plus additional COM commands, e.g. commands to download files) through e-mail instead of having to call by modem. This relieved those COM users who did have Internet access from having to pay expensive phone bills.
In November 1994, Ista das started CIS COM in Moscow, the third COM node. It had one modem line.
Sometime in 1995, the Lantastic server software was replaced by Novell Netware software, which was a little faster.
WinCOM enters the story
Then suddenly, almost overnight, the Internet became widely and easily available to everyone. Murari das started a free World-Wide-Web version of COM, WWW-COM, with a very nice interface that attracted many devotees who simply wanted to read some conference mail here and there and occasionally write a letter. For devotees who had to cope with fairly big amounts of mail daily, however, it was too slow and thus impractical. These devotees remained with COM or LINK.
Since now COM allowed forwarding of mail to an external e-mail address, many devotees desired to join COM, and the number of COM users increased greatly in a short period of time. As every COM process keeps all user names in memory while running, DOS with its 640K program memory limitation quickly became unfit for hosting the COM software. A stable 32-bit operating system was required. The options back then were either OS/2 or Windows NT 3.5. Ramakanta das, a true kalpa-vrksa devotee, satisfied all SysOps by making COM versions for both OS/2 and NT 3.5 in an amazingly short time. COM chose for OS/2 and CIS for NT. Also, the COM hardware was upgraded (from 386'es and 486'es) to Pentium 75Mhz computers, and a 100Mhz Pentium database server, and COM became what was then considered blazing fast.
However, the users were still not completely satisfied. Especially the newcomers were complaining that the BBS command line interface to COM was old-fashioned and difficult to deal with, that one had to remember so many commands, etc. Murari das had already started working on an off-line reader program for DOS that would enable users to deal with their COM mail in a very convenient way, but he somehow lost inspiration and never finished it. Time was short, so Ramakanta das took over and started working on a Windows version, and soon WinCOM was born.
In October of 1996, LINK had a harddisk crash, and broken backups... They closed down forever, the two main reasons being that (1) LINK had had a hard time to survive economically, and (2) that LINK wasn't preferred any longer by American devotees, since COM did not charge subscription fees and they could get their COM mail forwarded to their local Internet provider.
In December of 1996, Raktambara and Ramakanta invented telnet login to COM, meaning that one could be on-line on COM (still a BBS) through one's local ISP (Internet Service Provider), instead of having to use modem or Datapak login. Because it was very costly and very hard to get a permanent connection to the Internet in the middle of the countryside (Grödinge, where the BBT is located), Raktambara das improvised a fixed connection over a normal phone line for the time being. This of course limited the total bandwith to a poor 28.8 kbps which had to be shared with all online users, but nevertheless telnet login quickly proved a great success.
The following months saw many versions of Ramakanta's WinCOM, the COM off-line reader, with an increasing number of features and the Address Book and Comfort add-on programmed by Raktambara das. In May of 1997, COM finally got a real Internet connection (128 kbps) for the e-mail transfers to and from the Internet as well as the Telnet logins. To soften the heavy investment a bit, the Datapak connections were canceled.
But... COM had always been a private system, with unwritten rules and regulations that differed considerably from the big Net out there. The massive gulf of new members from the US, often with ideas about COM being something like Usenet, had given rise to occasional clashes with the earlier, mostly European, members of COM. Several COM conferences died in such conflicts.
Due to the open structure of the Internet, the COM community and its SysOp now all of a sudden had to deal with things that never existed on COM before. Formerly, abusers were extremely rare and the filter file (yes, it has always been there) had only a handful of names in it for many years. Now, that filter file had become insufficient for dealing with the onslaught of unsolicited junk mail, hate mail and challenging propaganda pouring in from the Net.
Also, no address based filter file can cope with nowadays bulk e-mail software, which has stealth features and creates random sender addresses. In no time such a filter file would grow out to megabyte size, filled with non-existing addresses. Therefore a new type of filter was installed that scans incoming mail for foul language, bulk e-mail software signatures and typical get-rich-quick, MLM and snappy sales talk contents. Mail with such contents is either immediately discarded, or in case of doubt, ported to the SysOp for evaluation.
Late 1997, Raktambara das got fed up with the Novell server which was occasionally corrupting the COM database, and decided to run everything on one NT server. He got a new 200 MHz AMD with 128 MB RAM, NT Server 3.51, and fast SCSI harddisks (four harddisks giving a total capacity of 14 GB). This setup replaced the Novell server as well as the four 75Mhz Pentiums. As the database could now be accessed directly (instead of through a network), COM became considerably faster once more, but what was most important: one could finally call it a stable system.
In December 1997, Raktambara das started a second mail system called PRONTO. COM was no longer alone. PRONTO allowed devotees to deal with the outside world without any filtering. Membership was free, just as for COM. In February 1998, Ista das closed down CIS in Moscow due to financial strain. The NE-BBT agreed to adopt CIS. So, now there were three e-mail systems on one server, The Bhaktivedanta E-mail Systems. But they would not be called like that for very long...
A New Identitiy
In July 1998, Harikesa Swami, the founder and highest authority of COM for all these years, gave up his position as sannyasi as well as his responsibilities in ISKCON after a serious nervous breakdown. It was a difficult period for his disciples (and consequently for the NE-BBT) in all regards , but nevertheless COM continued to function without interruption.
Besides the above mentioned troubles, the BBT also became financially strained as the sankirtan scores in Europe dropped tremendously. It was hard to continue to sponsor an e-mail system that was actually mostly used by ISKCON members. Moreover, some GBC members showed great dissatisfaction with what was going on in certain COM conferences, and blamed it on the BBT. A BBT trustee noted: "I am not sure whether COM is working like a glue that helps hold the movement together, or like a solvent that helps melt it apart." A longwinded discussion entailed between BBT trustees, GBC members and the SysOps. Officially on February 1, 2000, an agreement was reached between the BBT and the SysOps where the BBT would sell the e-mail system to the SysOps.
We didn't want to keep spending the money. We didn't want the administrative hassle. We didn't want to get involved in social decision-making ("Should we allow X to be a user? Should we shut down conference Y?") We didn't want to set up and staff new bureaucracies. Nor, truth be told, did we want to be the sponsor for a huge traffic in aparadhas and prajalpa. In short, we wanted out.
To provide e-mail services for the preaching mission of ISKCON lies outside what Srila Prabhupada gave us as the "job description" for the BBT. In commercial language, we have divested ourselves of a complex, distracting, money-losing unit in order to focus on our core business.
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This 350 miles tour of the Essex Coast starts at the north boundary along the River Stour, glides past the historic town of Harwich at the mouth of the North Sea, heads south along the meandering coast, taking in the quaint seaside of Frinton-on-Sea, on to Walton and Clacton and finishes down past Southend-on-Sea on the River Thames estuary. There are many an old story to be told of smugglers, coast guards being murdered, the most haunted house in Essex and the most notorious tidal path in England.
There are great days out to be had at Maldon mud race, Burnham Regatta or Leigh on Sea art festival. Riversides to be walked with mysteries to discovered as you go. On your walk see some of Britain's rare wildlife and migrating birds frequently in dazzling, spectacular flocks.
There are Islands such as The Essex Archipelago like no other in Britain with secrets to be revealed. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, digital art, maps old and new, drawing and paintings of Essex by the author.
Clacton on Sea and North Essex
Clacton-on-Sea faces due south in a gently curving bay of beautiful sands. Within its boundaries are residential Holland-on-Sea to the east and Jaywick to the west. ln addition to its attractive location an extremely dry and sunny climate Clacton offers as a healthy and pleasure resort. lt merited the distinction of being Britain’s least rainfall holiday town for two consecutive summers. All Information on these pages has been compiled from information from third parties and which may be subject to change or cancellation. As we cannot be held responsible for any errors or inaccuracies you are advised to confirm details with the various organisers before attending. Site run by Doug Carpenter
Spring Plant Festival Weekend
Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market, nr Colchester
Saturday 12th May 2018 and Sunday 13th May 2018
“The Gardens will be open to ALL during this special plant festival weekend. Come and enjoy FREE talks on gardening, plants, the gardens, and special behind-the-scenes tours. Meet the gardeners who manage the beautiful gardens of one of the world’s most influential plantswomen, 10-time Chelsea Gold Medal winner, and author Beth Chatto.
Admission to the Garden will be free throughout the weekend. Talks and tours will be free, and ticketed on a first-come first-serve basis.”
Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex, CO7 7DB.
Tel: 01206 822007 Fax: 01206 825933 E-mail: info@bethchatto.fsnet.co.uk
The Beth Chatto Gardens began in 1960. From an overgrown wasteland with poor gravel soil and boggy hollows it has been transformed into an informal garden harmonising with the surrounding countryside.
Complementing the gardens is a large retail nursery producing a wide range of plants, the majority of which can be seen growing in the gardens. Coaches are welcome and our newly refurbished tearoom is now open, offering light refreshments.
Beth Chatto was thrilled to be presented an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University on 11th November 2009. The award was in recognition of outstanding achievement in her field and to exemplify what is possible to achieve thanks to hard work, determination and talent. Mrs Chatto had the opportunity to speak at the award ceremony to the graduating students and found the whole day very enjoyable. This is the second time Mrs Chatto has received such an honour, the first being in 1987 when she received an honorary degree from the University of Essex, which can be seen on display in our Tea Room.
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The Beth Chatto Gardens began in 1960 when the site was an overgrown wasteland between two farms. Faced with all kinds of difficult conditions Beth and Andrew Chatto set out to find homes for many of the plants they wished to grow. With dry and damp soil in both sun and shade, they were able put into practice the underlying principles of what is now referred to as “Ecological gardening”.
Accompanied children under 14 free. No other concessions. No dogs. Light refreshments are available in our newly refurbished tearoom. Available are hot and cold drinks, locally made cakes and ice creams and a small selection of filled rolls.
Visitors are welcome to bring a picnic to be eaten on benches situated in the grassed car park. Toilet facilities are available (including disabled). Except for exceptionally wet periods the garden is accessible for wheelchairs (not provided)
Beth Chatto light and modern Tea Room, which overlooks the famous Gravel Garden was opened in 2006 and welcomes our visitors throughout the year. Our friendly staff are always on hand to offer light lunches and refreshments including home-made soup, filled rolls, mouth-watering cakes, teas and coffees. We try to source our produce locally as often as possible, from Tiptree Jams to James Whites Juices and award-winning ice cream from the Manor Farm Creamery in Bury St Edmunds. The Tea Room is an ideal finish to a walk around the Gardens and Nursery; it also hosts the Beth Chatto Gardens ever-growing list of workshops and events.
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Water Body Restoration
Mumbai Struggles to Clean Up Its Most Polluted Mithi River
Alarm Bells by clean-water
Mumbai booming population and rapidly expanding urban areas have exacted a huge toll on Mithi river, which is badly polluted and choked by development.
The Mithi River is also known as “‘Mahim River”‘. Over the decades, the river has been systematically ravaged by dumping of raw sewage, industrial waste, settlements along its banks, and governmental neglect.
Image: Scroll.in // Retaining walls along the river near its origin at Vihar lake.
What destroyed Mumbai’s Mithi River?
‘Mithi’ means sweet in Hindi, but the story surrounding the Mithi River has increasingly soured over the decades. The Mithi river flows 18 km before draining at Mahim Bay and into the Arabian Sea and is a critical stormwater drain for Mumbai.
One of the oldest rivers in Maharashtra, the Mithi is now nothing more than a sewage drain. The polluted river and the destruction of mangroves are cited as one of the primary reasons for 2005, the deluge in Mumbai.
The government has spent crores of rupees on the Mithi river revival program, but the river still carries the highest amount of fecal coliform (FC) content — a bacterium found in human and animal feces.
Image: Reuters // Mithi river has 16 times the permissible level of fecal content.
The fecal coliform content is almost 16 times the permissible levels for a river.
According to the data collected in the first three months of 2018, fecal coliform content in Mithi river near the bridge was as high as 1,600/100 ml. The permissible limit is 100/100 ml, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
A Fortress of Slums
The river flows through various slum clusters including Asia’s largest slum—Dharavi. Almost 70% of the river banks are occupied by lakhs of slum units from where domestic waste and even open defecation waste flows into the river.
Image: Scroll.in // Household waste entering Mithi in the slums of Bhim Nagar.
Moreover, several small-scale industries in these slum clusters pollute the river with their quite often toxic waste. The toxic chemical waste released by industries, along with the innumerable truckloads of debris being unloaded into the river, need to be severely dealt with.
Even before that, the slum dwellers around the river must be rehabilitated somewhere close to their source of livelihoods and yet away from the river.
The Mithi’s crowded banks point to the social challenges of these cleanup efforts, especially in a city where half the population lives in slums.
Says; Yale Environment 360
Changing Mindset
Cleaning is just one aspect of the plan. The Mithi River can be cleaned only by changing the mindset of the people who are working and living along with it.
Image: Getty Images // A woman and her son cross the Mithi River in Mumbai.
Afroz Shah, a Mumbai-based lawyer spearheaded the largest beach clean-up drive in the city. He Says, The bigger challenge is to instill a sense of belonging among residents. The lack of a garbage disposal system in the slums forces them to fling solid waste into the river.
‘We need to sensitise the locals living around these areas’, says Afroz.
“Having cleaned Versova beach for three years, we were also training people on how to handle garbage. We believe in circular economy, which stresses on garbage reduction philosophy and recycling. The boys we’ve trained have taken it up as a movement and now, teach others too. Cleaning is one, but without community development it is of no use,” he stresses.
Photo: AFP // Afroz Shah (in black) during a Versova beach clean-up in December 2017.
The Status Today
The deadlines for the Mithi rejuvenation programme are usually missed. The authorities have maintained that the river will be rejuvenated by 2020. Despite all the hype, there is much to be done.
The right use of technology, coupled with the political and administrative will, can certainly help achieve some of the targets, but this would still not solve the crux of the problem which makes the Mithi River’s ‘restoration’ is far more complex than it seems.
Read: Indore: The Under-Estimated Task of Kahn River Restoration
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Scrapie is slowly progressive disease of sheep and goats. It is a disease that causes a degeneration of the central nervous system. The disease was first described in sheep in Great Britain and Western Europe over 250 years ago. Scrapie was introduced into the United States in 1947 from Great Britain via Canada. Scrapie has had a significant impact and financial loss to the entire US sheep industry. Over 900 flocks have been diagnosed with scrapie since its introduction in 1947.
Scrapie belongs to a group of similar diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). These diseases affect man and some animals. Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and the new variant (nv) CJD are the two most publicized TSE's of man. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) affects wild deer and elk. Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy is a rare degenerative nerve condition in captive mink. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of cattle, was first diagnosed in Britain in 1985. Commonly known as "mad cow disease" BSE was first found in the United States in 2003. A form of TSE has been identified in domestic and wild members of the cat family and in captive wild ruminants. To date, there is no scientific evidence that these diseases are transmissible between species.
Nature of the Transmissible Agent
Scientists report that the causal agent is very complex form of a prion protein that reacts with the normal prion protein of the host. Certain genes of the host react with the agent, which determines the resistance or incubation period. The current view is that clinical scrapie results from the interaction of one or more stains of the infectious agent with one or more host genetic factors. Testing for genetic resistance has been promoted.
Transmission/Incubation
Transmission appears to be primarily from dam to offspring early in life. It is thought to be spread most commonly from ewe to offspring and to other lambs through contact with the placenta and placental fluids. Signs of the disease usually do not appear until 2-5 years after the animal is infected. The ram does not seem to play a major role in transmission as the agent has not been found in the seminal fluids or sperm. Transmission from sheep to goats has been reported, therefore, lateral transmission is possible.
Scrapie is an insidious disease of sheep and goats without fever. The clinical course is usually one to six months The clinical signs start with a slight change in behavior. An animal may become nervous or aggressive, and separate itself from the rest of the flock. The animal may appear normal until startled or moved causing the animal to tremor and often go into convulsions. When forced to move there is a characteristic "bunny hop gait". Incoordination of the hind limbs is progressive as the disease continues. Extreme itching may cause the animal to rub the wool from its sides and rear quarters, bite and/or chew on themselves or others in the flock. The appetite remains normal but the animal continues to lose body condition. The clinical signs may vary. Some may not rub the wool while others may not show incoordination. Ovine progressive pneumonia, listeriosis, rabies, external parasite and toxins may have some of the same clinical signs.
Current diagnosis is based on a clinical history, histopathological changes in the brain and immunohistochemical detection. A live animal test is available utilizing a portion of the third eyelid.
Maintain a closed flock. Purchase animals from flocks that have been enrolled in the "Voluntary Scrapie Free Certification Program" for at least 3 or more years to reduce the risk of introducing the disease. Enroll in the "Voluntary Scrapie Free Certification Program."
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Indicating the status of freshwater ecosystems under changing climatic conditions
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Wetlands in cold ecoregions - overview
The pristine status
Wetlands are among the most abundant and biologically productive aquatic ecosystems in the Arctic, and occur most commonly as marshes, bogs, fens, peatlands, and shallow open waters. Wetlands in high latitudes and mountainous regions are predominantly ‘mires’, characterised by the accumulation of peat. These unique systems support highly adapted plants and animals, notably a wide range of carnivorous plant species. Arctic wetlands are highly productive and diverse systems, as they often are important transition zones between uplands and more permanent freshwater and marine water bodies. They are typically dominated by hydrophytic vegetation, with a few species of mosses and sedges, and in some instances terrestrial species such as lichens, shrubs, and trees. Many peatlands in high latitudes are important for breeding and migratory birds, fish, and mammals such as reindeer and rodents, which support predator populations. In Sweden, wet forests and bogs provide habitat for about 200 threatened species of plant and animal. Aside from habitat provision, river-flow attenuation, and a number of other ecological functions, wetlands also store and potentially release a notable amount of carbon, with potential positive feedbacks to climate change
Rain-fed rivers, wholly dependent on atmospheric inputs for their water and solute supplies, also develop in regions having adequate precipitation. Fen peats develop in sites fed by groundwater, which may be on slopes, in basins, or on river floodplains and lake margins. Some peatlands are extensively forested.
Peat-dominated wetlands have been altered by a wide range of impacts, including natural drying of the peat mass beyond its ability to retain a high water table, effects of acid rain and eutrophication, drainage for forestry and agriculture, and mining by the peat industry for energy and horticultural products.
Climate change impact
Click to enlarge Warmer climates will likely result in more precipitation in general and less precipitation falling as snow in high northern latitudes, altering the hydrology of streams and rivers. Rivers in the southern parts of the boreal zone with catchments lacking large alpine areas will experience significant decreases in the proportion of precipitation falling as snow. In these systems spring floods will have lower magnitudes or disappear, resulting in losses or reductions in the area of riparian forest communities, with subsequent losses in riparian species richness. In addition, water levels will vary less among seasons, with higher winter flows, resulting in upward displacements of low-elevation riparian zonation, amphibious and aquatic plant communities replacing forbs and graminoids. In boreal continental-climate regions, warming is expected to lead to more extreme summer humidity deficits, resulting in decreased summer flows and more drought stress, which may reduce riparian biomass production and alter competitive relations among species. Increases in the occurrence of extreme floods of long duration can cause extinctions of flood-sensitive species.
Ström L., Jansson R., Nilsson C., Johansson M.E. & Xiong S.J. (2011) Hydrologic effects on riparian vegetation in a boreal river: an experiment testing climate change predictions. Global Change Biology, 17, 254–267.
Ström et al., 2012. Projected changes in plant species richness and extent of riparian vegetation belts as a result of climate-driven hydrological change along the Vindel River in Sweden. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02694.x
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Reconciliation of nanoscratch hardness with nanoindentation hardness including the effects of interface shear stress
Noureddine Tayebi, Thomas F. Conry, Andreas A. Polycarpou
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 19 / Issue 11 / November 2004
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2004, pp. 3316-3323
The definitions of hardness from nanoscratch and nanoindentation analyses with a spherical indenter were compared and shown to be mathematically equivalent for the case of zero interface shear stress (surface traction). The definition of nanoindentation hardness was taken as the ratio of the resultant force to the area of contact projected on a plane normal to the line of action of the resultant force, whereas in the case of the nanoscratch technique, the hardness and interfacial shear stress were related to the measured normal and lateral forces in a nanoscratch experiment, as well as to the cross-sectional area of the groove. The two definitions of hardness were then applied to nanoscratch experimental data from material systems covering a wide range of hardness values. The calculated values of hardness from the two definitions were based on the contact area, determined from the scratch residual profile and the elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surface, and yielded the same values of hardness within experimental error. The contact angle, and thus the contact area, was shown experimentally to be sensitive to interface shear stress: a positive increase in interface shear stress led to a reduction in contact area as compared to the case of a frictionless contact. For a material with given hardness, normal indenter force, and contact area, a positive or negative interface shear stress is balanced by a positive or negative change, respectively, in the lateral force about the value needed to maintain a static balance for a frictionless nanoscratch contact. A comparison of these effects with experimental data indicates that very hard materials tend to have negative to zero interface shear stress, which correlates to a sink-in effect, whereas the soft materials tend to have positive interface shear stress, which correlates to a pileup effect.
Effects of substrate on determination of hardness of thin films by nanoscratch and nanoindentation techniques
Noureddine Tayebi, Andreas A. Polycarpou, Thomas F. Conry
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 19 / Issue 6 / June 2004
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2011, pp. 1791-1802
Print publication: June 2004
A comparative study on the effects of the substrate on the determination of hardness of thin films by the use of the nanoscratch and nanoindentation techniques was conducted. Gold films deposited on fused quartz substrates and silicon dioxide films deposited on aluminum substrates with variant film thicknesses were investigated. These two systems correspond to a soft film on a hard substrate and a hard film on a soft substrate, respectively. The effect of substrate interaction on the measurement of hardness using the nanoscratch technique was found to be less pronounced compared to that of the nanoindentation technique due to: (i) the lower normal loads applied to achieve the penetration depths that occur at higher loads when using the nanoindentation method; (ii) the direct imaging of the residual deformation profile that is used in the nanoscratch technique, which allows for the effects of pileup or sink-in to be taken into account, whereas in the nanoindentation technique the contact area is estimated from the load-displacement data, which does not include such effects; and (iii) the account of elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surfaces from scratch tests. The film thickness did not appear to have any effect on the hardness of Au and SiO2 films obtained from nanoscratch data. This observation allowed, for the case of SiO2 films, the determination of the “free substrate effect region” and the derivation of an empirical relationship that relates the composite hardness of the film/substrate system to the contact-depth-to-film-thickness ratio, even when the indenter penetrates into the substrate. Such findings can allow for the determination of the intrinsic hardness of ultrathin hard films (∼1–5 nm thick), where the substrate effect is unavoidable.
Determination of hardness from nanoscratch experiments: Corrections for interfacial shear stress and elastic recovery
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 18 / Issue 9 / September 2003
A frequent application of the nanoscratch technique is to estimate hardness of ultrathin films when substrate effects are encountered with the nanoindentation technique. A model based on the work of Goddard and Wilman, which assumes a rigid-plastic behavior of the deformed surfaces, is commonly used for the determination of hardness from scratch tests, yet it overestimates the hardness of materials by as much as a factor of three at very shallow indentation depths on the order of 1–10 nm. The Goddard and Wilman model was extended in this paper to include the effects of the component of the shear stress tangential to the meridianal plane and the elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surfaces assuming elastic-perfectly-plastic material behavior. The proposed model was subsequently verified by performing nanoscratch experiments on fused quartz, which is homogeneous and isotropic with no known surface layers and with known hardness. The hardness was calculated using both the model based on the work of Goddard and Wilman and the extended model. The hardness calculated using the extended model was in very close agreement with the accepted value of bulk hardness of fused quartz over the range of scratch depths tested, showing the importance of the effects of elastic recovery and interfacial shear stress. The model was further verified for the case of a pure aluminum sample and the native thin film coating of alumina that forms on the surface upon air exposure.
Effects of the substrate on the determination of hardness of thin films by the nanoscratch and nanoindentation techniques: A comparative study for the cases of soft film on hard substrate and hard film on soft substrate.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, U7.5
Hardness values of Au/Fused Quartz and SiO2/Al systems, which correspond to the cases of soft film on hard substrate and hard film on soft substrate, were measured using both the nanoindentation and nanoscratch techniques. The effect of substrate interaction on the measurement of hardness using the nanoscratch technique is found to be much less pronounced compared to that of the nanoindentation technique. Such reduction in substrate effect is attributed to the features used in the nanoscratch analysis: (a) direct imaging of residual profile allows for the effect of pile-up/sink-in to be considered, (b) lower normal loads applied as compared to the nanoindentation, (c) effect of elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surfaces is included in the nanoscratch analysis, whereas the nanoindentation analysis is based solely on the load-displacement data. Moreover, experiments with residual scratch depths as shallow as 3 nm are used to estimate hardness of thin films; a promising indication for the use of such technique in the measurements of ultra-thin films.
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Improving the runner
So, I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the changes we've made to the runner, why, and what impact it's had on performance. Back when we started, the main complaint with Game Maker was that it was too slow, and that for more complex games, it just didn't cut it. This is clearly not the case any more, so what's really changed? Well, this only really effects the c++ runner, but lets take a look see what we did...
When we started on the PSP port, the 1st thing we did was to remove all the compression from the output. The game was in fact doubly compressed (which is nuts BTW - it's not like it's going to get magically smaller again!), and on the PSP this lead to loading times of around 40 seconds to a minute is even very simple games. So, we changed the whole output, altering it into an IFF based WAD file, and this meant it could be loaded incredibly quickly, and was ready to go as soon as it loaded. This was a huge change code wise, and touched every element of Game Maker. However, this change alone meant games would load either instantly, on in a few seconds.
Game Maker was originally split into 2 parts, scripting, and D&D (Drag and Drop), and believe it or not, there were to totally separate code paths for each. On top of this, everything was compiled on load, meaning there was another noticeable pause when games loaded. So, first thing that was done, was we changed the script engine to use a virtual machine, this meant we could optimise small paths of code rather than huge chunks - twice. This gave a modest boost - not as much as we hoped, but this was due to the way GameMaker dealt with it's variables, and how things were cast, and we were stuck with that. The next thing we did was to remove the D&D path, and then compile all D&D actions into script so they could then be compiled in the same manner. Lastly, we pre-compiled everything. This removed the script from the final game - and finally removing the worry of simple decompilation, but it also sped the loading of a game up yet again. It was not at the point, where a windows game would load and run almost instantly.
There's quite a number of changes here, so I'll break it down a little further. But basically, the old Delphi runner had some major CPU->GPU stalls, and so we had to look into fixing them.
Hardware T&L
This was introduced on GM8.1, and it's was the first real boost for performance. All later versions of Studio also use this "Hardware Transform and Lighting" mode. By using this, the GPU does all the transformations, and leaves the CPU free for running the game. Up until we switched it, after you submitted a sprite, DirectX then used the CPU to transform all the vertices into screen space before passing them onto the GPU - this places severe limits on how much you can push though the graphics pipeline, so it was changed on the first version of GM8.1 we released.
The first thing we did was to upgrade to DX9, this meant we were on a version which Microsoft still maintained properly, and gave us access to more interesting tools down the line - like better shaders. While doing this, we also introduced a proper fullscreen mode, and while this may not seem like much, when in fullscreen mode, things do render slightly quicker. Also...DX9 is just a little faster than DX8, and the upgrade is a pretty simple process (takes time, but its simple enough).
Texture pages
One of the biggest problems with Game Maker, was that every sprite, every background was given it's own texture page, and while this might seem like a good idea as it means you can easily load things in, and throw them away, it utterly destroys any real performance. So, we set about putting all images on texture pages (TPages), but this was more complex as Game Maker allows non-power of 2 images.
Standard methods involved sub-dividing images down, splitting them in 2 each time until you allocate the sprite, and fill up the whole sheet. This is very fast, and very efficient. However... we needed something more. So what we did was create a multi-stream, virtual rectangle system which would clip to everything as you added any sprite of any size. I came up with this years ago, and it was incredibly powerful, and very fast - but it was recursive, and complex. Still, having written it before, I did it again and we had a very nice texture packer for any size of image.
Next we noticed that current Game Maker developers were incredibly wasteful of images. They would have huge sprites with nothing but space in them, so they could be aligned easily with screen elements. A cool fix for this, was to crop out anything which had a 0 alpha value. You basically search the sprite for a bounding box that isn't 0 alpha, and then crop it, and remember the all the offsets to enable you to draw it again as normal. This is a cool trick, that helps us pack even more onto a page,which then helps with batching as well.
Speaking of batching.... Since the old version changed texture all the time, it could never hope to batch more than a couple of triangles at once, and this meant the CPU was forever getting in the way. Modern graphics hardware wants you to send as much as you can in one shot, then to go away and leave it alone!
So, the first thing we did was go through and change all the primitive types. The old way (TriFan) is unbatchable, and so you would always be stuck with 2 triangles per batch, and that's useless. So we changed them to the most batchable prim we could use, TriList. I wrote a new vertex manager that you could allocate vertices from, and it detected if there was any changes, or breaking in batches, so all the engine had to do, was draw, and the underlying API would auto-batch it for us.
Couple this with the new texture pages, and if you were just drawing sprites, you had a good chance of actually drawing multiple sprites in one render call. In fact, many games (like They Need to be Fed) can render virtually the whole game in one render call depending on the size of the texture page.
There are still some things which can break the batching (obviously), but with careful set up, rendering sprites is no longer the limiting factor of your game.
Blend States
Blend states are always tricky, and in the past I've tended to using a layering system - something that might appear in later versions of Studio or more likely GM: Next, as it helps manage state changes much better. However, we got a shock early in the year when we discovered how GM users actually manage state, and so we worked hard to hide the pain of management from our users.
Now a user can simply set state and reset state as they see fit, and aside from the GML call overhead, we handle all the blend state batching behind the scenes. For example, if you set a blend state, draw something, reset it, then set it again, draw something and then reset it, we recognise this, and both items will be drawn together in a single batch, making the rendering code much more efficient without the developer ever having to care.
It'll also handle more extreme cases, where you set blends several times, then set a different one, and then set more blends several times. The engine will also recognise this, and will only submit 3 batches - or however many blend state batches are actually needed. This is incredibly powerful, and a major playing in rendering performance.
In the past, whenever you created a D3D model, it didn't actually create anything, it just remembered the prims and commands you sent, then replayed them back dynamically. This meant 3D rendering was terrible, and you would struggle to get above a few thousand polys.
We actually introduce this new concept in GM8.1 although it was more of a pet project for me at the time. Now its a staple of how you should work. Studio will now let you build fully static models, meaning that when your finished creating them, you'll be left with a single vertex buffer (or multiple depending on lines and points), that will simply be submitted to the hardware when you want to draw something.
This is basically as fast as it's possible to draw on modern hardware, you create a buffer full of vertices and submit them but simply pointing to the buffer. This is what all modern games do, its what engines like Unity does. With this addition, you can quite literally draw models with hundreds of thousands of polys at hundreds of frames per second (depending on your graphics card of course!)
Although a recent addition, this is a powerful performance tool. Up until this point, special effects would be done on surfaces, then processed by the CPU, most of the time, painfully so! But with all the previous optimisations in place, shaders were finally able to get their place and show you what the GPU was really able to do.
From effects such as shadows, to environment mapping, to more 2D effects such as outlines, colour remapping or even full shader tilemaps all meant that the CPU got more time to work on the game, not spend time trying to make things look pretty, especially when there was a much better way of doing it sitting there doing nothing.
string_execute()
Yeah... this old one. Well, this was a popular command, mainly because it let you be really lazy in the way you coded, and yeah.... it's not a terrible thing, but it was one of the worse performance hogs, and folk using Game Maker had come to rely on it, meaning it was pulling performance down for everyone. So why was it so bad? Well, unlike code when you executed it it had to compile the string every time before running it, and this was incredibly bad. Lets have a quick look at what's involved when compiling.
Lexical Analysis. First it had to scan the string, break it down into tokens allocate memory for it and store a parse tree. Even a very simple string like "room_goto(MenuScreen)" means we had to parse the string, looking at each character, and breaking it into several tokens. room_goto command token, find and verify the syntax of the command, and evaluate the contents of the brackets - in this case; MenuScreen, which is also stored as a token. These are then stored as a parse tree, so that equations and evaluations are calculated correctly. So if you gave a calculation like "A = instance3.x+((instance.B*12)/instance2.C)", it would be evaluated correctly when executed.
Compilation. This then transforms the parse tree into byte code. Previously, it was transfered into a stream of tokens, and the engine just run these, but with the virtual machine, we now compile into byte code. This memory also has to be allocated.
Running. Now the new script can be run. First it sets up a code environment (again, more code allocation), complete with the current instance so it can store things correctly, then the VM takes over and runs the code.
Freeing. This is the real crime. Once all this work is done, and the script has been run.... it's all thrown away. All the different memory blocks are freed, and when you try and run it again, it has to do this all again.
Knowing this... it's no wonder this command was such a hog. And file_execute was even worse, as it had to load the thing first, before doing any of this - and disk access is ALWAYS slow. So this is why this command was removed. You should never need it if you code properly anyway. It can be great for tools, but when everyone just sees it as a command they can use....well, they just blame Game Maker for not being quick enough so it had to go.
Now, there are obviously countless other optimisations in the runner, from ds_grid get/set being made much quicker, to the total rewrite of the ds_map, allowing for huge, lightning fast dictionary lookups, or from the way variables are now handled so that the VM can access them much quicker, or how YYC now translates everything into C++ so it can be natively compiled and thereby lifting the what little lid there was left.
And don't forget, we're a multi-platform engine, and each platform gets the same kind of treatment as the windows one does. Each platform has it's own quirks, it's own set of performance enhancing toolset, like for example the total rewrite of the HTML5 WebGL engine, that does things in a totally different way just so it can push things a little better for that platform, or the windows RT platform, that has a custom DX11 engine design and optimised just for RT devices. Each platform is taken on its own merits, and enhanced to best fit that device.
But no matter how you look at it, GameMaker: Studio has move well beyond the mere learning tool it was once designed to be, it's no longer only use by beginners, or bedroom coders looking for some fun, it's now used by professional developers around the world because it delivers, fast, cross platform development, with a truly fast engine, that's always being improved.
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Trump’s Government Never Sleeps…Ask ISIS
Last Friday, Chuck Schumer closed down the government and even though they weren’t getting paid, our American heroes bombed an ISIS headquarters and killed 150 of the enemy. That’s a major blow to the terrorist group that has been on the run since Day 1 of the Trump presidency. They have now lost 98% of the land they once controlled when Obama was president. Military leaders credit the president for changing the rules of engagement. During the Obama years, they had to wait for Obama’s blessing before they killed the enemy.
ISIS’s numbers are way down but they can still mount sizable terror attacks and that’s why Trump is keeping troops in Syria, to make sure they don’t make a comeback and at the same time we are training fighters, most of whom are Kurdish.
Maj. Gen. James Jarrad, commanding general of Special Operations Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve said:
“Our SDF partners are still making daily progress and sacrifices, and together we are still finding, targeting and killing ISIS terrorists intent on keeping their extremist hold on the region. We cannot take our focus off our mission, and we must not lose our momentum in taking these terrorists off the battlefield and preventing them from resurfacing somewhere else.”
From The Daily Caller
The strikes, launched Saturday amid a government shutdown in Washington, targeted an ISIS command and control center in As Shafah, one of the terror group’s last remaining enclaves in Syria’s Euphrates River Valley.
The ISIS camp contained a “heavy concentration” of fighters who appeared to be “massing for movement,” according to a statement from Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the U.S.-led coalition to defeat ISIS.
Syrian Democratic Forces, who are doing the bulk of the fighting against the hardcore remnants of the ISIS “caliphate” in Syria, assisted in target observation prior to the airstrikes, OIR said.
President Trump is bound and determined not to make the same mistake Obama did and leave a giant hole for ISIS to take control of. It’s just crazy enough that it might just work.
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Giant PHEV & EV News Roundup
Feb 25, 2011 (From the CalCars-News archive)
We long ago gave up making sure everything about plug-in hybrids and related issues showed up at CalCars-News, since people have so many other ways to get information -- and of course we have our hands full on advocacy and on driving our new plug-in cars. So here's a roundup of recent news items we've found most interesting -- we bet all of our readers have missed at least one or two! To make it easier to scan, we've divided the 17 topics and 32 links into categories: Auto Industry, Policy & Market Penetration, Energy Policy & Fossil Fuels, Media.
CHEVROLET VOLT DEBATES LEAVE OUT THAT WHOLE
"VISION THING": That's the opinion of former USA Today Detroit Bureau Chief David Kiley, writing at AutoblogGreen on the importance of the Chevy Volt for GM and the auto industry. http://green.autoblog.com/2010/12/18/opinion-chevrolet-volt-debates-leave-out-that-whole-vision-thi/ . His piece reminds us of comments we've heard frequently: back in 2008, if GM had not been able to point to the Volt as its future, its chances of receiving public investments to stay alive would have been near-zero. Mark Reuss, GM's President of North America, said as much in an interview http://green.autoblog.com/2011/01/19/in-deep-with-gms-mark-reuss-at-naias/ that's summarized and pointed to (along with logos for all the Volt's awards) at http://gm-volt.com/2011/01/20/gm-north-american-president-on-the-importance-of-the-chevy-volt/ . And as GM accelerates volume production plans, the Volt will be for sale in all 50 states by year-end.
BYD'S LOW-PRICED PHEV HEADING TOWARD THE U.S.
PlugInCars.com publisher/editor Brad Berman offers the first on-the-road review of the F3DM from China at http://www.plugincars.com/first-drive-byd-f3dm-chinese-plug-hybrid-106831.html and links to his articles in the Sunday New York Times. Feb. 18, 2011.
GM'S PROGRESS: After announcing on January 26 that it wouldn't tap $14B from the US Treasury under the 2007 Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (a $25B fund from which Ford, Nissan, Tesla and Fisker have borrowed), GM announced on February 23 a profitable year for the first time since 2004. Its $4.7B net was the highest since 1999. Of course, this came after the company assigned pension obligations, laid off many workers and closed many dealerships as part of its bankruptcy and restructuring. GM gave its remaining hourly workers bonuses averaging $4,300. The company is still 1/3 owned by the U.S. Government, and the stock will have to appreciate significantly for the U.S. to break even.
AUTOMAKERS APPROACHING 4-WHEEL DRIVE PHEVS:
People we meet who live in or travel frequently to cold climates or mountains often say they won't buy another car until it has a plug -- but it has to be usable in deep snow. Progress is encouraging even though we don't yet see commitments for sales in North America:
Land Rover (now owned by Tata Motors of India) has announced the Range_e, a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid version of its Range Rover Sport.
Volvo (now owned by Geely of China) will unveil at the Geneva Auto Show in March the Diesel-Electric V60 wagon PHEV for sale in Europe in 2012.
Ford, GM, Toyota, and Subaru have announced plans for plug-in SUVs or crossover vehicles, but none are described as 4WD.
BILL FORD BULLISH ON PLUG-IN CARS: Ford's Executive Chairman at the Detroit Auto Show: "We don't know [about market acceptance], but one thing we do know is the technology is ready for prime time. These vehicles are fun to drive--you don't have to give up anything to drive them. That was always the tradeoff with prior green efforts... .So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don't have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly... . ultimately, our country has to decide is this where we really want to go... ." http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/expert-panel-report-finds-achieving-1m-plug-in-vehicles-in-us-by-2015-would-require-concentrated-act.html
RAPID ELECTRIC VEHICLES DELIVERS CONVERTED
GAS-GUZZLER TO ARMY: Vancouver-based REV (a conversion company we highlight at http://www.calcars.org/ice-conversions.html ) has delivered the first of four Ford vehicles -- three Escape SUVs and one F-150 pickup truck -- to the U.S. military's leading advanced vehicle center, US Army Tank Automotive Research Center (TARDEC). The attraction of the vehicles goes beyond electrification to their use as Ancillary Power Vehicles with two-way charging capabilities. http://i.green.autoblog.com/2010/12/13/rapid-electric-vehicles-delivers-first-of-four-battery-powered-a/ Dec. 13, 2010 And while we're on the subject of conversions, wheel motors continue to develop -- once they're in mass-production and affordable, they will make conversion of smaller vehicles more practical. http://evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=25224 Feb. 15, 2011
POLICY & MARKET PENETRATION
PROVOCATIVE PREDICTION: "The Future of Clean Energy Rests on Consumers and Electric Vehicles:" David Crane, CEO of Fortune 250 power company NRG Energy says, "if one of the new electric cars is just a little bit successful and starts selling hundreds of thousands of units a year, that would blow all other greentech product sales out of the water." http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-clean-energy-rests-on-consumers-electric-vehicles/ Feb. 23, 2011
ADMINISTRATION EXPANDS SUPPORT FOR PLUG-INS: Vice Pres. Biden followed Pres. Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 26 with steps to get a million plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. DC proposes transforming the existing $7,500 tax credit into an automatic rebate at the time of purchase, ensuring that all buyers are eligible. The 200,000 vehicles/manufacturer credit ceiling could rise to 500,000. http://www.energy.gov/10034.htm . A Feb. 8 Energy Department analyses showed no production bottlenecks to reach a million. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/doe-20110208.html . Its table may already be out of date, since it doesn't include Toyota, Honda and BYD, and may have understated Nissan's initial volumes. (State-by-state models from The Center for Automotive Research and Pike Research project only about half a million plug-ins sold by 2015.) On Feb. 14, the proposed budget also includes an 88% increase in R&D for vehicle technologies, increases in ARPA-E and Energy Innovation Hub programs for batteries and transportation, and a $200M program to spur concentrated development of plug-in cars in 30 communities -- a version of what the Electrification Coalition has proposed. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/budget-20110214.html Feb. 14, 2011
INTERVIEW WITH VOLT'S MARKETING MANAGER: "Ears Wide Open, Chevy Volt Marketing Manager Collects Driver Feedback " How John Hughes and the company are tracking responses by drivers to the Volt. http://www.plugincars.com/ears-wide-open-chevy-volt-marketing-manager-collects-driver-feedback-106763.html (We think they have even great opportunities to track, analyze and benefit even more from drivers' views and experiences.) Feb. 3, 2011
PROFILE OF NORTH BAY NISSAN'S GREG DEXTER, TOP
LEAF DEALER: His story shows the impact of the grass-roots support for EVs and PHEVs on one dealer's vision and strategy to gain the confidence and the orders of plug-in car buyers. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20029344-48.html Jan. 28, 2011
ENERGY POLICIES & FOSSIL FUELS
THOMAS FRIEDMAN, ON GAS TAX, CHEERS ON THE VOLT:
In "If Not Now, When?," the New York Times columnist and author, says, "With one little gasoline tax, we can make ourselves more economically and strategically secure, help sell more Chevy Volts and free ourselves to openly push for democratic values in the Middle East without worrying anymore that it will harm our oil interests." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/opinion/23friedman.html Feb. 23, 2011 In "The Big Leak," back in December he addressed the same idea: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/opinion/05friedman.html . And a related opinion piece by "Beyond Oil" conference organizer Steve Marshall and Plug In America chair Dan Davids, "Don't tax electric cars; stabilize tax revenues instead" http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110213/OPINION04/702139995/-1/OPINION Feb. 13, 2011
OIL: International organizations and oil companies are acknowledging that conventional sources of oil are becoming depleted faster than easily accessible sources are found. Now "fracking," the controversial drilling technique that's been hailed as a miracle technology for natural gas, is now being extended to crude oil extraction. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil Feb 10, 2011 The arguments against "drill everywhere" forces can't rely on expectations of "peak oil" but have to focus on the unacknowledged external costs fossil fuels impose on all of society. And arguments for increasing domestic supply many years from now are not very convincing as the world continues to be held hostage to a globally priced fuel much of which comes from unstable petrodictatorships.
COAL: A new study of economic, health and environmental costs that are not included in the "cheap" price of coal could total 17.8 cents/kWh of electricity generated. http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/16/life-cycle-study-coal-harvard-epstein-health/ Feb. 16, 2011.
NATURAL GAS: The Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders assumptions that replacing gasoline with NG lowers greenhouse gases by 30-40%. Taking into account the full life-cycle of gas production, especially methane emissions in production and distribution, brings down the numbers. http://www.propublica.org/article/natural-gas-and-coal-pollution-gap-in-doubt Jan. 25, 2011.
"WORLD ON THE EDGE," LESTER BROWN'S NEW BOOK: We've been a fan of Brown for years (and he of CalCars: http://www.calcars.org/photos-people.html#LB. His "Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" volumes, versions 1-4, have now been succeeded by "World on the Edge, How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse." This up-to-date and very readable book describes the intersecting problems of food and water supplies, climate and climate refugees, and fossil fuel dependence that lead to global security issues. And it presents the solutions, notably including plug-in hybrids and renewable energy. See more about him and a link to his recent Washington Post story at http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/20/lester-brown-extreme-weather-climate-change-record-food-prices/ . Order the book at Earth Policy Institute http://www.earth-policy.org or at http://www.calcars.org/books.html
BUY "CHARGED UP & READY TO ROLL: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PLUG-IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES": The completely-revised 2011 edition of Plug In America's consumer resource guide. It's really "Everything You Want Everyone to Know" about Plug-Ins." It belongs in every auto dealership, every legislative office, and on every driver's bookshelf. Its 64 pages and 20 articles are comprehensive and comprehensible. See which six automakers have full-page ads, which two have half-pagers, and which didn't show up. And it even has a chapter, "Converting a Gas Guzzler," co-authored by Shannon Arvizu ("Miss Electric") and Felix Kramer. You get a digital copy automatically if you join http://www.pluginamerica.org . And you can order as many print copies ($5+$3 shipping) at https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2711/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=553&t=&store_item_KEY=3484
BIG CHANGES AT GM-VOLT.COM: After four successful years, Lyle Dennis, publisher and editor of the highly successful GM-Volt, announced at "GM-Volt: a Turn in the Road" http://gm-volt.com/2011/02/15/gm-volt-a-turn-in-the-road/ his return to his full-time neurologist job and his family life. He sold the site to VerticalScope, a company with online forums including Autoguide. New management's first posting was at http://gm-volt.com/2011/02/18/gm-volt-charging-forward/ . One of the most entertaining posts before the transfer came from Volt Vehicle Line Director Tony Posawatz: "Lighting the Way and Passing the Torch" http://gm-volt.com/2011/02/10/lighting-the-way-and-passing-the-torch/ . Posawatz commemorates his fifth anniversary as GM Employee #1 on the Volt project. (gm-volt's partner site, http://www.nissan-leaf.net , has not attracted a large user base compared to http://www.mynissanleaf.com .)
ELECTRIC CARS GET CHARGED FOR BATTLE is a long Business Week cover story on the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_02/b4210048400234.htm Dec. 29, 2010
GENE AND THE MACHINE: THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT
THE ELECTRIC VOLT: We heard from many readers who couldn't stop laughing about this Washington Post Sunday Magazine cover story by resident humorist Gene Weingarten. He describes his expectations and discoveries as he drives the Chevy Volt. (Only Dan Neil's reviews in the Wall Street Journal of the Volt and the Leaf entertained people more.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012105347.html Jan. 30 2011
VOLUNTEER WANTED: We're looking for an experienced social networker, ideally but not necessarily in the SF Bay Area, who can help us promote and auction Felix's once-unique now historic (see http://www.calcars.org/photos.html and pages linked from there) white 2004 Prius converted to a PHEV. It now has a nearly-new Hymotion A123Systems battery pack and we're hoping a buyer will keep its signs! Please write to jobs at calcars.org
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December 2019 – June 2020 Dec 2019 – Jun 2020
AMY WINEHOUSE REMEMBERED IN SONG (SOLD OUT! Feb 28 Now On Sale!)
Commemorating the songstress Amy Winehouse. Back to Black comes to Camelot for an evocative and powerful evening. Paying tribute to the great tunes from Amy Winehouse from her pop and jazz repertoires.
Featuring some of Sydney’s finest musicians and vocalists, the High Rollers Big Band crew bring you the sublime vocals of Sera Rose and Adem Ozbakan, Sean Velazquez on keys, Stefano Careleo (drums), Lyal Loughnan (bass), Michael Sheridan (guitar), Tim Long (trombone), John Pennings (trumpet), Ari Palandjian (Musical Director & saxophones) plus some special guests. Proudly brought to you by www.highrollersbigband.com
UNLOCKING THE DOORS @ Django
Unlocking The Doors has rapidly built up a strong following throughout NSW – a must see outfit totally dedicated to bringing you the true sound of Jim Morrison and the powerhouse performances of The Doors. The band consists of 4 Wollongong-based musicians who have single-mindedly set out to capture the magic of this intoxicating music – taking you back in time with a stunning & unmissable showcase.
DIRT MUSIC ORCHESTRA presents RADIOHEAD EXPANDED
Have you ever heard Radiohead’s music like this? Gorgeous arrangements for a modern 18-piece big band expand Radiohead’s music into a stunning and fresh tonal palette.
Radiohead’s music has lent itself – almost uniquely – to painting on varied sonic canvasses, from solo piano, to jazz quartet, to chamber orchestra. This event sheds new light on the songs, using the incredible dynamic range and varied timbral colours of a contemporary big band.
Similarly, the big band has proven itself a versatile musical vehicle. If you’re unfamiliar with the format, come prepared to be blown away by a 13-piece horn section. Either way, come prepared to have your expectations expanded with these sublimely beautiful re-imaginings of Radiohead’s music.
The sounds from this evening will stay with you for days, months and years to come – a new soundscape to carry with you wherever you go.
GREGG ARTHUR & JOHN MORRISON’S SWING CITY BIG BAND presents A VERY SWINGING CHRISTMAS
A Very Swinging Christmas
Swing your way to Christmas cheer with Gregg Arthur and John Morrison’s Swing City Big Band!
Fly Me To The Moon (in a sleigh) Come Fly With Me (to the North Pole) The Best Is Yet To Come (down a chimney)
All your Swing favourites with a couple of Christmas classics thrown in for good reindeer.
Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Count Basie and John Morrison in a Santa hat. Ho Ho Ho!
For this show they will joined by very special guest trumpet player Billy Burton, just back from a national tour with the Glen Miller Orchestra.
PAT POWELL: A SOULFUL CHRISTMAS @ Django
Pat Powell is one of Sydney’s most versatile singers, and once again he is collaborating with some of the finest musicians around to create a spellbinding night if sweet soul and pulsating funk.
Pat has supported James Brown, Queen, The Eurythmics, Boy George, Crowded House, Horace Andy and Luciano, Tina Arena and George Benson to mention a few.
He has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia & Europe the USA and Canada, there must be a reason for this come and find out while you groove to some classics..
For this magical night Pat is collaborating with some of the finest musicians to bring you a night of soulful Christmas sounds.
RUSSELL MORRIS + PAULA PUNCH
Aria Hall of Fame inductee, #1 selling Platinum artist, King of Pop, Australian Icon!!
A few phrases commonly used when describing Aussie legend Russell Morris.. Shooting to fame in the middle 60’s with Somebody’s Image, Russell had a string of hits including Hush and the Bob Dylan classic Baby Blue. In 1969 he and producer Molly Meldrum released “The Real Thing”, Australia’s only true psychedelic #1 hit and a song that is played regularly on commercial radio to this day.
Following that, Russell penned breakthrough hits such as; Sweet Sweet Love, Wings of an Eagle, Rachel, Part 3 into Paper Walls, The Girl That I Love and many many more…
Constantly in demand, Russell stills tours nationally throughout the year as well as appearances internationally. Russell has worked alongside industry heavyweights like Cher, The Bee Gees, Linda Ronstadt, The Beach Boys and toured Australia with the hugely successful “Long Way To The Top” in 2012.
Opening the night is Paula Punch.
WOODSTOCK 50th Anniversary Tribute
The world famous Woodstock music festival took place in New York state in 1969. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary this iconic event, some of Sydney’s best singers and musicians will come together to celebrate songs performed by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat and The Band.
This is another show from Access All Eras who have brought other classic album shows to clubs and venues over the last 10 years.The Woodstock show is one of the more interesting shows covering such an eclectic range of artists!
KING TIDE @ Django
Put on your dancing shoes! Sydney’s up-town, jamdown, roots, pop, rocksteady, reggae, gut-soul, sound…. King Tide are coming back to Django. These Aria award nominees are Australia’s’ premier original Rock Steady Reggae gut soul band! “There is much to marvel at when rock steady royalty KingTide take the stage. From out of the fattest, deepest grooves come brooding horns, delay-warped keys and steady, muted stabs of electric guitar.” -SMH
MONSIEUR CAMEMBERT’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS/HANUKKAH PARTY!
“Simply the best Gypsy band in the land!” (SMH). Klezmorized carols & other fun and frivolity as this 3x ARIA-winning 6-piece band brilliantly weaves Gypsy music with tango, klezmer, swing, Latin & jazz for the ultimate Christmas/Hanukkah party! “Bring your Cossack boots & prepare to dance (The Age).” With sensitivity, virtuosity, & extraordinary energy, “…they pick you up & carry you on a wave of energy, excitement & poignancy that never relents…the band play with such cohesion, energy & abandon that I experienced an emotion so foreign I barely recognised it: elation.” (John Shand, SMH)
IRENE VACONDIOS: GREEK BOHEMIAN BOUZOUKI VIBES
Christmas Party anyone? Inspired by the Bohemian soul Marika Ninou who, not only sang some of Manolis Hiotis’ best written songs, but also most of Tsitsanis’, Irene Vacondios, vocals, Sotiris Procopiou bouzouki, vocals, Dimitri Haremis bouzouki, vocals, and Angelo Gatsos grand piano, accordion are ending 2019 with the Greek Bohemian Bouzouki Vibes of an eclectic selection of songs from the tributes of the last year, but also some of the songs that should have, but didn’t quite make the final playlist. Think Zabetas, Hristakis, Eftihia Papagiannopoulou, more songs from Kazantzidis, Marinela, Hiotis, Greek Cinema and more. Make it an unforgettable Christmas Party.
BLUES & SOUL EXTRAVAGANZA @ Django
Back by popular demand…Blues & Soul Extravaganza is a revue style show with two of our finest male Blues/Soul Artists, the legendary Continental Rob Susz( Dynamic Hepnotics, Mighty Reapers) and internationally reknowned Clayton Doley joining Multi award winning Soulful Blues Queens – Liza Ohlback (First Ladies of Soul ) & Kate Lush.
Both these ladies new albums have both hit no 1 on the Australian Blues & Roots charts as well as top 3 in the American Blues charts.
Also joining them is one of the best Engine rooms around, Dave Longo (Doug Parkinson), Greg Ohlback and special Guest Dave Weir (Jessica Malbouy) on Saxophone..
Featuring each artists popular originals, plus classic Blues & Soul tunes from BB King, Ray Charles, Susan Tedeschi , Donny Hathaway, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and more… sizzling vocal duets, gospel harmonies and mighty tempting grooves….A real Soul kind of Feeling!!
ROLLING STONES REVIVAL
Rolling Stones Revival have been paying their respects to the greatest rock and roll band in the world since 2012. The band pay tribute to all eras of The Rolling Stones long and successful career that spans 29 studio albums and 250 million records sold. With 12 number one hit singles and 14 songs featured on Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Top 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time”, to this day the Rolling Stones remain one of the most enduring and popular music acts on the planet.
Rolling Stones Revival recreates the classic visuals and sounds of a real Stones concert, totally live on stage! With over 300 plus performances the show has been honed into the most musically and visually authentic Rolling Stones tribute in Australia.
The show has evolved into a concert style experience delivering a performance akin to the touring behemoth the Rolling Stones themselves. Depth of experience, passion, enthusiasm and abundant musical quality are the key ingredients that make this one of the most authentic Rolling Stones shows around.
RHYTHMS OF ZIMBABWE with SIMBA MUSHETE & ECHOES OF AFRICAN MUSIC @ Django
When the rhythms of Zimbabwe come to town the nation starts to smile, and the dance is inevitable. Come and celebrate the rich heritage of the music of Zimbabwe, from authentic traditional to old hits and contemporary lively township jive.
Simba Mushete and Echoes of African Music (Kwekwe, Zimbabwe) is a unique band devoted to resurrecting the old sweet melodies from Zimbabwe. There may be a lot of people out there who do not realise the richness and the awesome power of the rhythms of Zimbabwe. Simba and his band do just the job of bringing it all back to life, live and direct in a magnificent fashion that will undoubtedly put a smile on your face and get you onto the dance floor in an instant. Those old Zimbabwe hits from the 60’s all through to the recent times are all packed in to one fine package as the band pounds away some irresistible rhythms and grooves from Zimbabwe. Who better to do it for you that the one and only Simba Mushete, a songwriter and composer who has worked at various levels with the legendary Zimbabwean icon Oliver Mutukudzi.
Please note: Chris Gudu is no longer able to perform for this show.
FUNK/SOUL PARTY with BUMP CITY
Bump City are Sydney’s very own kings of soul and funk and they’re back at their favourite venue Camelot Lounge. Bump City are the ultimate 10 piece party band with a repertoire of soul hits from Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Tower of Power, Al Green, Wilson Pickett and many more. The five piece Bump City Horns make these classic songs come alive. With a tight rhythm section and lead singer Peter Morgan’s soaring soul vocals, you will want to party with Bump City all night long.
NEW YEARS EVE with MARSALA (SOLD OUT!)
8pm doors
Back by popular demand the ultimate party band MARSALA will again be doing Camelot on NYE!!!
This will be THE most fun way to see in the New Year in Sydney, and its only $60
Don’t miss out – prebookings strongly advised
Marsala covers some of the best music from Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Zimbabwe…
They do Gypsy Music, Tango, Salsa, Samba, the African Township thing, French Rap, Italian Jazz, Tom Waits songs, Russian Folk songs… anything to make audiences feel passionately and dance beautifully. They create passion and romance where ever they go. Audiences can’t help but dance and fall in love with each other’s traditions.
Marsala is more of an institution than a band. It brings together the life work and study of some outstanding musicians. They bring together knowledge and understanding of various traditions and continue to explore and present ‘the world’ in music.
THE PRAGMATICS: A VERY PRAGMATIC NEW YEARS EVE @ Django (SOLD OUT!)
Rounding out their fifth year of raucous classic rock, soul and delicious surprises, The Pragmatics invite you to share with them that holiest of party nights, NYE, at the intimate and magnificent Django Bar, in sun-soaked Marrickville.
Joined by a selection of special guests, including The Brassmatics horn section, The Prags will deliver three swinging sets of ragged glory, til well past midnight.
The Prags have sold out every Camelot show (!) to a devoted throng who are on their feet with hands in the air thanks to a unique selection of shout-out-loud anthems and deep cut discoveries. Here’s why…
Imagine a band that grooves through Motown: The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Then, like a Queenslander on Bundy, gets punchy with Bowie, Queen, Accadacca, The Jam and Thin Lizzy. Or, with morning-after regret, sings harmony-laden tracks from The Band, Bee Gees, Beatles, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart. And then, with a fresh application of lippy and a scrunchy, combines 80s classics from Dexy’s Midnight Runners, INXS, Simple Minds, Style Council, Tears for Fears, Johnny Cougar, Bryan Adams, Billy Bragg and more! With horns!
You’re right, it doesn’t make sense! Where is the logic? The through-line! The principles!
Whatever. This is Pragmatic. We’re gonna have a party.
Get in early to avoid disappointment.
BELLY OF A DRUNKEN PIANO: Stewart D’Arrietta performs the music of Tom Waits
BELLY OF A DRUNKEN PIANO is a passionate, demented and intense rock journey through Tom Waits’ rich catalogue of music, mining some of Waits’ most memorable hits—from Martha and The Piano Has Been Drinking to Big in Japan and Hold On. Drawing on his personal experiences, as well as Wait’s vast musical history, D’Arrietta adds new dimension to the music, as he shares his personal love affair with the Tom Waits’ brilliant songs. Waits’ colourful misfits come to life in this powerful, poignant and innovative show.
GEORGE DOUKAS & THE D-STRINGS
After a sold out show at the start of the year, George Doukas is back at Camelot Lounge with his band The D Strings for another night of musical mayhem!
If you like some Beethoven with a side of baklava, or Ravel with your Rembetiko, or even Mozart with a slice of moussaka, then join the D Strings at Camelot Lounge for this very special show.
The D Strings is a ten piece ensemble which combines the velvet sound of the string quartet with the edgy tones of bouzouki and baglama. They perform a mix of original music, traditional Greek, Rembetika and even a taste of Gypsy Jazz (Greek style). And….as indicated above, there is even a journey into the world of well known classical composers.
You can listen or you can dance – the choice is yours. Either way, you can be assured of a memorable evening.
SOUL SANGEET @ Django
Witness a live duo unlike any other with the incredible 22 string fusion sitar/ guitar and sensational rhythms of one of the worlds most expressive drums tabla as the Soul Sangeet tour returns to sydney for its 3rd running year! Soul Sangeet is a unique blend of music based on the Indian Classical system and philosophy to sound combined with various World Music styles. Sangeet means sound or music in Sanksrit and follows a deep belief of spirit in sound; hence the name Soul Sangeet.
This music has a tendency to elevate the atmosphere and listener to new levels of depth and tone with its dynamic contrast of slow to fast speeds, unique rhythmical patterns and improvisational complexity bringing a natural high of intoxicating melody and rhythm with an unparalleled depth of knowledge and cultural understanding from generations upon generations.
Shivam Rath and his signature ‘crystalslide’ is joined for the first time by international tabla wizard Satpak Sharma from New Delhi India who has been playing tabla since the age of four and studying with the world famous tabla mestro Akram Khan since the last 15 years.
DAVID BOWIE BIRTHDAY BASH with BOWIE UNZIPPED with JEFF DUFF (SOLD OUT!!!)
The legendary Jeff Duff will celebrate what would have been David Bowies 73rd birthday and the Thin White Duke’s iconic songs at what will be an incredibly magical night of all things Bowie. Jeff Duff has been singing Bowie’s songs for many years with the glowing support of Bowie’s official website BowieNET. Together with an all-star band, Duffo’s journey to Planet Bowie will include the songs Space Oddity, Lets Dance, China Girl, Life On Mars, Changes, Ziggy Stardust… amongst many other faves. Jeff’s all star band features guitarist Jak Housden from the Whitlams along with the brilliant keyboard player Glenn Rhodes and drummer- percussionist Jess Ciampa.
www.bowieunzipped.com.au
LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL: The ultimate vintage hard rock show @ Django
Classic is a word too often applied to the mediocre. Too easily posted alongside the drab and dreary. It is a phrase too readily conjured for older rock, regardless of its standing.
But It is a dirty word no more.
Long Live Rock and Roll is a show concocted by journeymen of the genre, through decades of blood, sweat and tears on the road. It is more than a tribute to the Gods of rock’n’roll, it is a flashback to a time when the music was simple, but the songs were great.
Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Toto, The Cult, Chuck Berry and Queen are just a few of the great acts to get reborn in this must-watch show. We’ll say no more, and let the music do the talking.
MOUSSA DIAKITE & WASSADO @ Django
“Diakité re-emerges as a humble torchbearer, unsung hero & ambassador for Malian culture” (Toumani Diabaté). Influential guitarist Moussa Diakité was part of the golden era of Malian music in the 70s & ‘80s, performing with some of Africa’s best, including Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare, Toumani Diabaté & the Super Rail Band de Bamako.
Since migrating to Australia, he has stamped his mark on the local scene & together with exciting 5-piece band Wassado fuses traditional West African styles with Cuban, blues & jazz into a unique “Afro-groove”. Performing tracks from their highly acclaimed album Doncomodja & following stand out performances at WOMADelaide, this is a dynamic show that is mesmerizing, sophisticated, & irresistible on the dance floor… “Brilliant, Unique, Inspired (Four Stars!” Tony Hillier, The Australian)
THE REGENT STREET BIG BAND
Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Goodman, Basie, Miller and much, much more.
Following many sold out Sundays in recent years, the 17-piece Regent Street Big Band kicks of 2020 with the warmest singers you’re ever likely to see on stage: Sara O’Connor and Scott Shepard. Sara and Scott leave audiences glowing every time they perform – not only great singers, but artists working with the palette of audience emotions. They’re ruthless: they don’t care what mood you turn up in – you’re going to leave feeling great.
Weaving that thread of artistry into the power and kaleidoscope of timbres in a 17-piece big band, you end up with a night of classic swing that you don’t want to miss. The wall of sound that is a big band is an aural and visual feast, every time you experience it.
The band is excited to be kicking off their 2020 programme with this feel-good gig in a room that never, ever fails to turn on the good times.
THE BLACK SORROWS (SOLD OUT!)
The Black Sorrows have earned the reputation as a dynamic live act. There is a level of accessibility to The Black Sorrows that can appeal to the newest of fan. At the helm, Camilleri steers the band through an energetic interplay of solid grooves and well-crafted songs that mix those well-worn ingredients of blues, soul, R&B, gospel, country and even Brill Building pop. Spontaneous (forget set lists) and emotionally driven, Joe ensures that no two performances are ever the same. Camilleri’s mantra is simple “we come to play and leave the audience feeling exhilarated”.
THE CAMELART CLUB
Every Wednesday night…A sketch-club – a life-drawing session – happens in the Django @ Camelot. With evocative live music from a bevy of outstanding musicians – one week it may be jazz piano, the next week Gypsy guitar, the next French Accordion etc etc…A nude model will take to the stage for 2 sets between 6.30pm & 8.15pm, with the musician/s underscoring the session. Cocktails, Young Henry’s on tap, delicious red wines etc available, as are delicious pizzas!
630pm – 815pm | BYO all your own art supplies – pads, pencils etc. Only $10 admission
TÉTÉ (France) + LIZ MARTIN @ Django
French pop folk superstar Tété is returning to Australia for the first time in 7 years to celebrate the release of his seventh, and latest album ‘Fauthentique’. Be it fake news, conspiracy theories or lies from public figures, the news keeps reminding us that these distortions of reality are now part of our daily life.
Tété’s new album comes as a reverse question to this unforeseen present: “How can one be sure about one’s perception?” Hence the “Fauthentique” concept, the expression being French for “falsely authentic”. The recording comes across as a sort of melodic make-believe odyssey, built upon organic programming. Falsely naive. Falsely acoustic. Fauthentique.
Tété is very excited to be returning to Australia to share these 12 new songs from “Fauthentique”, along with classic tunes from across his career.
Atmospheric, passionate, brooding, melodic, at times downright swaggeringly cool, and full of a mesmerising and captivating musical and lyrical diversity, Liz Martin is a powerful and distinctive Australian music talent. ‘Evocative, alluring and strangely comforting’ – Tim Ritchie, ABC RN ‘From play one, I felt an instant connection and obviously I was not alone. Every spin on FBi provoked listener response, which I can assure is not the norm’ – Stephen Ferris FBi
KARISE EDEN + ALEXI KAYE
Karise Eden’s voice can move a nation! In 2012 she won The Voice with her uniquely soulful renditions of classic songs. She broke records for the most number of singles in the national sales chart and she had the biggest selling album nationally for an Australian artist that year. She followed it up in 2014 with the Gold selling album Things I’ve Done. This summer, Karise Eden steps out of a fresh spell of songwriting to perform her best known songs and a few surprises. This will be a rare show with stripped back, minimal production by arguably Australia’s best female soul vocalist.
Opening the show is Alexi Kaye. Born into a music loving family and the musically rich place of South Africa her influences are vast. A true music lover influenced greatly by her mothers varied taste she could expect to hear anything from Oulm Khasoulm or Juluka to Boys to Men; John Coltrane, Desert Blues to Italian Opera.
LOLO LOVINA @ Django
7pm door, 9pm show
Lolo Lovina (‘Red Beer’) is an intoxicating brew infused with Unza, Swing and Balkan Gypsy beats. Fronted by Australian born Hungarian Romani- Gypsy singer Sarah Bedak. Lolo Lovina`s music reflects the cosmopolitan identity of an artist, who grew up with three native tongues and cultures.
Sarah Bedak-Vox; Nenad Radic-drums; Nathan Gatt-Bass; Noa Lidd-guitar; Matt Ottignon-sax and Marjan Nedeski-Accordion.
Lolo Lovina’s album Rroma Sapien received a 4 Star review in the London based World Music magazine ‘Songlines’ (June 2016) with Rroma Sapien and RromAntcis both being featured albums on ABC Radio Nationals program, ‘The Daily Planet’
LOVE CATS: A TRIBUTE TO THE CURE @ Django
Featuring some of Sydney’s favourite musicians, the Love Cats band chooses some of the Cure’s most loved songs and performs them with likeness to the original recordings.
From the early hits like Boys Don’t Cry and A Forest the band performs the modern hits such as Friday I’m In Love, In Between Days, Close to Me and of course Love Cats.
Capturing the music scene from the eighties to more recent years, Love Cats pays tribute to one of the most iconic bands of the era. Gothic pop at its best from Head on the Door to Disintegration the band features Sam Joole (vocals); Chris Alford (keys); Dave Kirby (Drums); Jason De Wilde (guitar); Siebe Pogson (bass).
CIGÁNY WEAVER (BRIS) @ Django
Formed out of a love for the legendary partnership between Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grapelli, ‘Cigány Weaver’ is one of Australia’s most exciting gypsy-jazz ensembles, with a dedicated and passionate following around the country. Their sound is reminiscent of jazz Manouche, traditional swing and Romani music, interwoven with compelling originals and the band’s reinterpretations of classics from popular culture. Through virtuosic and energetic live performances, ‘Cigány Weaver’ invoke everything from subtle toe-tapping to exuberant dance floor foot-stomping.
TEX PERKINS & MATT WALKER
Tex Perkins has played a key role in Australian music It’s understandably difficult to pull together a coherent picture of a man whose career has taken in everything from the groundbreaking experimental punktonica of Sydney mid-80s noiseniks Thug to the lilting, dark country of his recent material with the Dark Horses.
From the hard edged pub rock of the Beasts Of Bourbon’s, a snarling slice of filthy pub rock to the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea.. Then there’s the Tex, Don & Charlie albums, which saw Perkins joining forces with the legendary Don Walker, Cold Chisel’s pianist and master songwriter and son of the Clarence Valley, and Charlie Owen, previously Australia’s best kept musical secret.
Now is Tex’s exciting new (and long over due) collaboration with Matt Walker (a great artist in his own right) for duo shows. It’s a blues swamp-groove kinda thing that’s a little reminiscent of some of the things in Tex’s back catalogue. Many new originals inhabit the setlist, but see them now while they still have to flesh out the set with a few Cruel Sea covers! “Tex has the swagger, presence and indomitable attitude that comes from years of fronting some of Australia’s most intense and spirited rock’n’roll bands.
TEX PERKINS & MATT WALKER (SOLD OUT!)
THE SICARIOS: The Best of CCR, TOM PETTY and NEIL YOUNG @ Django (SOLD OUT!)
The best of Creedence, Neil Young, Tom Petty played by The SICARIOS, have earned the reputation for truly nailing these classic songs. Led by the irrepressible Lloyd G on vocals / drums out front, whose love and respect of these artists is evident in his captivating storytelling and intense energetic performance throughout the night. He manages to inject new layers of meaning and significance to the music and his warm, witty stage presence really makes the audience feel part of the show. And that’s not even to say how he perfectly captures the vocal timbres of Fogerty, Petty and Young.
Featuring some of the country’s finest musicians, this band will have you captivated from start to finish, and you truly won’t want the show to end.
Be quick to get your tickets, as this show will sell out.
Pre Carnival Party Brazilian Style with KAVALO @ Django
As the month of February approaches, in Brazil, the Carnival parties are popping up everywhere!
Kavalo are back to Django @ Camelot to celebrate it in style and get you warmed up for the happiest party on the planet! Come and share your best moves and be transported to the hot nights of Brazil with classic Samba-rock tunes and the most famous “Marchinhas” (Brazilian Carnival anthems). A night not to be missed!!!
Think positive vibes, happy music and a pumping dance floor!!!
MAHALIA BARNES & THE SOUL MATES + MR PERCIVAL
Mahalia Barnes has been in and around music her entire life which helped shape her into the powerhouse soul and blues vocalist that has jaws dropping every time she picks up a mic. Don’t expect a quiet, polite, restrained gig, or a gimmicky soul show with costumes & scripted banter. This band covers the full range of the soul music spectrum, the show is dynamic, organic, raw & exciting. Great players, great singing & so much feeling. Says Mahalia “The soul mates and I are heading back to our favourite Marrickville spot for another huge night of soul music… we will be joined by the amazing Fern Tully on drums for this show, & my beautiful, incredibly talented friend Jade Macrae will be playing a few songs from her forthcoming record. Franco Raggatt, Benjamin Rodgers, Clayton Doley & Lachy Doley will all be there! It’s going to be a fun night, and we are expecting some special guests… so join us! The last few shows have sold out, so grab your tickets now!”
Mr Percival (aka Darren Percival runner up on The Voice Australia Series 1) brings his unique brand of solo looping to open the show. Mr. Percival has been creating spontaneous choirs with his solo shows at some of the biggest music festivals in Australia since 2003 and has earned a reputation as an artist of pure imagination and skill. This is a rare chance to experience the uplifting, invigorating and passionate performance of this creative artist up close and personal where everyone can join in and be connected with this entertaining and dynamic performer.
NADYA’S 101 CANDLES BALKAN GYPSY ORKESTRA @ Django
“A sensational, virtuosic night of Eastern-European & French Chanson with Balkan Rhythms, Edith Piaf, Gypsy Anthems & Dancing Songs, Russian, Polish and Balkan songs – a potent Franco-Euro-Gypsy mixture, guaranteed to uplift your spirits!”
Django @ Camelot will become “The tavern at the end of the Euroverse” for this huge Balkan Gypsy Party!!! Nadya’s 101 Candles will raise the roof with a night of stomping Balkan-Gypsy firecrackers as well as some French, tango, and Italian classics thrown in in for good measure. Nadya Golski, “a contralto of power, range and conviction…has the sort of voice that would light up a room if the power failed…” (John Shand, SMH). Also featuring Sasa Todorovic (accordion), Sam Golding (trumpet), Stephen Lalor (mandolin), Samir Kos (guitar), Dario Moconja (bass), Pece Markovski (drums), & Macedonian clarinet legend Ilias Ampevski!
CARLO AONZO TRIO (ITALY) @ Django
A musical journey from the Italian tradition to jazz, from classical music to bluegrass: from Europe to America and back…
A voyage through European and American music, revisiting songs chosen from among the international evergreens. The music, which can be offered in different combinations, encompasses a variety of musical genres, from bluegrass to folk dances, from soundtracks to jazz and Brazilian music, from Italian melody to a review of the classical repertoire. A “Mandolin journey” to discover, in the company of this amazing instrument, the common roots of music.
Carlo Aonzo is a worldwide known Italian mandolin performer, native of Savona – Italy – where he grew up immersed in music, since his home itself hosted the music school of the “Circolo Mandolinistico G. Verdi”.
Graduating with honors from the conservatory in Padua (1993), he has played for several prestigious institutions like the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala in Milan (Italy), the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (USA), the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal (Canada), the Philharmonia of San Petersburg (Russia), the Minsk Chamber Soloist (Belarus), Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany).
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this world class band in the intimate surrounds of Django @ Camelot.
RAI THISTLETHWAYTE (THIRSTY MERC)
Rai is a one of Australia’s most respected musical talents: a highly accomplished pianist, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. As a songwriter, he has been nominated for APRA Song of The Year. His band Thirsty Merc has sold over 250,000 albums and has been nominated for 5 ARIA awards.
Rai’s composition ‘In The Summertime’ has been the theme song to internationally acclaimed Aussie TV show ‘Bondi Rescue’ for 11 consecutive seasons.
Aside from his work in Rock and Pop, Rai performs as a solo artist, basing his performances around his first instrument – the piano – and his love of Jazz, Soul, and Funk music. He has released 4 solo EPs and has toured extensively in Australia and the U.S. since 2012. Some of his notable collaborations have been with with ARIA award-winning guitarist James Muller, Trumpeter James Morrison, and bassist Christian McBride (Sting, Wynton Marsalis band).
SCARECROW PEOPLE: THE MUSIC OF XTC
Scarecrow People, a dedicated assembly of seven enthusiasts based in Sydney, present the amazing catalogue of XTC for your delectation.
Scarecrow People features members, past and present, of Petulant Frenzy, The Nature Strip, Magic Lunchbox and Monsieur Camembert. The band has wowed punters on their last couple of sold-out shows at Camelot and only play infrequently, so book early!
STEVE EDMONDS BAND: HENDRIX & HEROES @ Django
The Steve Edmonds Band Jimi Hendrix Tribute Show is a heartfelt tribute to the great music and imagery of Jimi Hendrix and a tribute to the greatest guitar songs and bands of the 70’s.
Steve Edmonds is a veteran of the Australian music industry and greater guitar community. His working and recording credits include Jimmy Barnes, Delta Goodrem, Billy Thorpe, Australian Idol and Renee Geyer to name only a few.
In part one the band pay tribute to Hendrix’s most famous live performances from Woodstock to Monterey Pop, featuring classic hits including Voodoo Chile, Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, Little Wing and many more favourites. Part two is a dedication to the classic rock songs of the 70’s including songs by Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Doors, Thin Lizzy, Cream, ZZ Top and many more.
Overall the Steve Edmonds Band Jimi Hendrix Tribute Show is a must for fans of great CLASSIC 70’s style guitar driven rock and Jimi Hendrix devotees. A fun night out for real rock and rollers!
JUNGLE BOOGIE: 70’s Funk Celebration @ Django
Following some funky good times, ‘Jungle Boogie’ returns by popular demand to Django @ Camelot to set the dance floor alight with some Hard Funk. Get up for the downstroke on the funk rollercoaster with a 10 piece band bustin’ loose with some funky stuff.
Hit the dance floor with some heavy funk tunes from Kool & the Gang, JBs Funky People, The Meters, Parliament, Ohio Players, Average White Band, Sly & the Family Stone, Brass Construction and more! Let the spirit of the boogie take your mind!
ALASKA STRING BAND @ Django
The Alaska String Band brings the best of Americana. Winners of the Fame Awards – Bluegrass Band of the Year, this group is polished and riveting harmonies are totally off the charts. Groove along while this captivating four member family band offers up American roots favorites … swing, jazz, rock, original, pop, folk and Bluegrass.
Hailing from Alaska’s capital city of Juneau, the Zahasky family, recognized internationally as the Alaska String Band, is the subject of much curiosity and inspiration to millions around the globe.
As gifted multi-instrumentalists the family often swap symphonic tools throughout a performance with an impressive collection of acoustic guitar, violin-fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bass, percussion and penny whistle.
“Completely floored by their performance; exceptional from beginning to end; the Alaska String Band are applauded, cheered and awarded with a duly deserved standing ovation.” The Age, AU
VAUDEVILLIA by Mic Conway’s National Junk Band!
ROLL UP! ROLL UP! as Mic Conway’s National Junk Band presents their own version of comedy-cabaret mayhem, Yes, that whacky mob of rhythmagicians are at it again: by very popular demand, a new edition of “VAUDEVILLIA” will storm the twin stages of Camelot. Inspired by the vaudevillians of yesteryear, expect music, magic, comedy, sight gags, fire-eating & some very funny songs. Where “everything new will be old again” this show promises to be the most bizarre experience you’ll have all year.
Old favourites join circus & comedy special guest, Jerry Hatricks The Magnificent, to lift your spirits.
GREGG ARTHUR: The Tony Bennett Songbook
“I love the way you sing. You’re yourself which makes you an original singer. Your phrasing is perfection”
– Tony Bennett
Australia’s own Gregg Arthur sings The Tony Bennett Songbook, with Tim Fisher on piano, Craig Scott on bass and the one and only John Morrison on drums.
Tony Bennett has connected in unprecedented fashion with all generations of audiences with some of the most popular songs ever written. No one in popular American music has recorded for so long and at such a high level of excellence as Tony Bennett. In the last ten years alone he has sold ten million records.
Gregg Arthur aims for that same level of excellence in his work and unique approach to singing. His originality and style is praised by both critics and his peers, but most of all Gregg is the only Australian singer to be given the highest praise possible, having Tony Bennett as a fan.
“You have a fan in the way you sing, I think it’s perfect”
A party like no other with dance music from Africa, Cuba, The Balkans, Russia, Spain, France, Italy, with styles ranging from wild Eastern European Gypsy music to Cuban Salsa and Zimbabwe township tunes.
“For two decades Marsala has been turning music from all around the world into one repertoire, and people from around the world into one audience. Every groove was somewhere between vibrant and irresistible, and virtually every solo raised the stakes of its host song, whether it was Khusid’s diamond-edged trumpet blazing on Dark Eyes or Stojcevski’s machine-gun alto on Wedding Cocek. For 140 minutes this was music as art and for dancing all at once; music for going a little crazy. And the community that goes crazy together sticks together.” John Shand SMH
SIMPLE DREAMS: THE SONGS OF LINDA RONSTADT @ Django
One of Australia’s finest talents from theatre and cabaret,Angela Ayers stages a tribute to an artist long admired, Linda Ronstadt.
Angela weaves her way through Linda’s many famous songs, linking humorous stories and events with hits such as Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Different Drum, Desperado and the beautiful ballads of the Gershwin great, Someone to Watch Over Me, and the Grammy award-winning song, Somewhere Out There. Her backing band, The Stoned Brumbies, are some of Sydney’s finest musicians.
THE ERIC CLAPTON EXPERIENCE @ Django
We invite you to celebrate one the most important and influential guitar players of our time.
Prior to Eric Clapton the idea of the guitar hero didn’t exist in rock’n’roll.
Clapton was the inventor of rock guitar playing, taking the powerful blues licks of B.B king and buddy guy and blending it with a Marshall amp turned up to 11 and a Gibson Les Paul to create the first blues rock landscape. Influencing everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck to Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen. Don’t miss out on this magnificent night, as Drey Rollan and company take you on a journey through this guitar legends great body of work. Expect to be transported back to Eric’s days in Cream, Blind Faith , Derek & the Dominos and onwards to his hugely successful solo career. Playing songs such as crossroads, sunshine of your love, white room, Layla , Cocaine , wonderful tonight and many, many more. Featuring in this lineup will be Johnny G on keys , Antero Ceschin on drums , Scott leishman on bass and Bobbie green on vocals & percussion.
TIJUANA TAXI: A TRIBUTE TO THE TIJUANA BRASS
TIJUANA TAXI brings to life the glorious sound of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, the unique, upbeat, and melodic sensation of the swinging Sixties. This stylish 8-piece ensemble evokes the sound and mood of the time, delivering a killer set of 21 classic tunes, faithfully recreated with joy, humour and heart.
Hits such as ‘Spanish Flea’, ‘Tijuana Taxi’, ‘A Taste of Honey’, ‘Zorba The Greek’, ‘The Lonely Bull’, ‘Casino Royale’, and ‘I’m Getting Sentimental Over You’, are just the tip of the iceberg of the great body of work put out by Herb and his band.
TIJUANA TAXI, led by bassist Tina Harris, and comprised of Sydney’s finest musicians, is two trumpets, trombone, marimba/percussion, bass, drums, guitar and keyboards. They have been delighting packed houses at Camelot since its launch in 2015.
The music of The Tijuana Brass will strike chords of deep nostalgia for baby boomers as well as intrigue and delight the next generations of kitsch-loving younger gen folks. It’s a sublime, kooky and especially joyful night out.
SHANTI FIRE @ Django
‘East meets west: Indian classical infused with soul, jazz & flamenco inspired sounds’.
SHANTI FIRE is the meeting of 5 seasoned musicians who bring their depth of experience in Indian classical, jazz, soul, kirtan, West African, Jewish folk and flamenco to produce music that is unique, hypnotic and passionate.
Rosie Henshaw leads the band with her soulful voice, Sitar playing and heart opening songs. Emanuel Lieberfreund explores his Jewish roots through his classical & jazz training on flute and saxophone. Byron Mark exhibits his Flamenco flair on Spanish cajon, coupled with his classical/jazz training on piano – and plays both instruments simultaneously! Rucha Lange hailing from Gujrat, offers exquisite renditions of Indian classical ragas, ghazals and devotional music through her stunning Indian classically trained voice. Maharshi Raval, one of Australia’s most skilful and versatile Tabla players, adds a spicy fire to the mix. Together they form SHANTI FIRE: World music fusion at its most exciting and most vibrant.
With band leader Rosie having relocated to Amsterdam, don’t miss this chance to experience SHANTI FIRE on one of their rare reunion concerts.
THE STARS OF THE THE TEN SOPRANOS
Nirvana, Dreamgirls, ABBA, The Beatles, Queen, Puccini, Beethoven & more…
With 300 shows across 80 theatres in Australia, The Ten Sopranos have curated a world class performance. They are a combination of classical and contemporary singers who deliver a repertoire of favourites and well-chosen popular songs, in a spine-tingling fashion… Underpinned by the meticulous detail spent on every note sung, audiences have been so moved by the performances that some have left theatres in tears, others have left exhilarated, and others just loiter around the venue to savour the moment, a little longer.
The songs are performed with a vocal delivery at once engaging, and uniquely fascinating.
From Puccini to The Beatles, the songs are handled with perfection, and augmented with subtle new harmonies and deliver a haunting and emotional experience through the sensitive vocal treatments.
Critically acclaimed Award-winning Artistic Director and lead vocalist, Penny Pavlakis has aced major singing competitions in the world in both classical and contemporary music and is referred to by her peers as “The Singers’ Singer”. With a working history that includes Baz Luhrman, Tommy Tycho, Secret Garden, Dame Joan Sutherland and Grammy & Brit award winning conductors and song writers, and over 1000 performances across the world, she brings to the stage star power few can match.
KATIE NOONAN: THE SWEETEST TABOO (Album Preview Shows)
Katie and her world class Jazz ensemble of Sam Keevers, Zac Hurren, Evan Mannell and Phil Stack preview material from the upcoming album.
This special preview show see’s Katie and her band road testing material days before entering the recording studio.
With a repertoire based on some of Katie’s formative inspirations, the show will see a reinvention of some 80’s classics brought tastefully into the Jazz world.
DAVE WARNER’S FROM THE SUBURBS + NICOLE WARNER @ Django
The Suburbs set will feature some classics plus a fair bit of spoken word. `Poetry and the spoken word monologues work well in the intimate space of the Django, but don’t worry if you’re a har-core Suburbs fan, Girls Wank and many other rock tracks will be on the set-list too,’
Nicole Warner has many times sung back-up for husband, Dave “Suburban Boy” Warner, and has several times opened the show with a few numbers of her own but for this show she will be sharing the bill. The gig marks the release of her second single `Forever and a Day’ the title track of her debut album due out end of March.
Even though his own material can be anarchic and in-your-face, the thirteen songs Dave and collaborator Martin wrote for Nicole’s album are mainly country and country-pop. Dave and Nicole will also perform a couple of duets in Nicole’s set. `Hopefully we’ll be channelling Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra,’ said Nicole, `but hey, if it turns out more like Sonny and Cher, that’ll still be fun.’ Martin Cilia, Bill Beare, Janette Buckingham and Lloyd Gyi will be in the Nicole band, with Tony Durant joining for Dave’s set.
DIESEL: SUNSET SUBURBIA & HITS
Australian hit machine Diesel has expanded his Sunset Suburbia & Hits Tour, adding new solo shows around the country. Having announced the release of 3 separate EP’s leading to an album Sunset Suburbia, Diesel will hit the road in 2020 to showcase new songs from the EP along with playing all his classic hits spanning a multi-platinum career.
The ‘SUNSET SUBURBIA &HITS’ -SOLO TOUR is coming to Camelot Lounge be sure to catch the evolution of Diesel as an artist as he rolls out Sunset Suburbia and performs a ‘best of’ collection of tracks in solo mode across the country!
SMOOTH SAILING YACHT ROCK PARTY @ Django
Do you like piña coladas? Ever found yourself caught between the moon and New York City?
For one night only, the Smooth Sailing Yacht Rock Party will take over Django @ Camelot for a celebration of everything yacht. Yacht rock was the music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that was the polar opposite of punk: think gentle singer-songwriter melodies, backed by session musicians playing some slowed-down disco funk. It’s music that, let’s face it, was completely daggy, but which you completely love anyway: think the likes of Michael McDonald, Toto, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, Boz Scaggs and the Captain & Tennille.
The Smooth Sailing Yacht Rock Party features an crack 13-piece band, complete with horns and backing vocalists, featuring musicians who’ve played with the likes of Josh Pyke, Lazy Susan, The Lee & Nancy Experience, and Suzy & The Snakepit. Aside from playing some of the songs that got to the top of the Yachtest 100, there’ll be cocktails, a yacht rock-themed photobooth setup, and captains hats galore. And with beats this smooth, you’ll steer your ship to the dancefloor.
BABY ET LULU
Baby et Lulu return to Camelot with all your favourite chansons, plus a new song or two.. ARIA-Nominated Baby et Lulu is a French extravaganza seeing Abby Dobson (Leonardo’s Bride, Leonard Cohen shows) and Lara Goodridge (FourPlay, Miriam Lieberman) come together with a sterling band to bring you a selection of beautiful chansons, including Gainsbourg, Piaf, Aznavour, Camille and their own originals.
THE NANCY SINATRA LEE HAZLEWOOD EXPERIENCE @ Django
The Nancy Sinatra Lee Hazlewood Experience returns to Django @ Camelot.
These Boots are Made for Walking, Jackson, Summer Wine, Sugar Town, Lightning’s Girl, – the NancySinatra Lee Hazlewood Experience play them all and are exactly what their name suggests – a glamorous, entertaining re-imagining of the Sixties through the eyes of the iconic and culty Nancy & Lee.
Fronted by renowned stage, film and television actor Zoe Carides as Nancy, Scott Holmes as Lee and Pete Marley on bass, the band have already carved out a steady following among the Sydney Inner West audience. “The quintessential sound of the late 60’s……. but sporting the twenty-first century finesse of a group of seasoned musos” “sassy…sensual, haunting” (Lloyd Bradford Syke – Australian Stage)
“The quintessential sound of the late 60’s……..but sporting the twenty-first century finesse of group of seasoned musos” “sassy….sensual, haunting” (Lloyd Bradford Syke – Australian Stage)
JOSEPH TAWADROS QUARTET
‘Thrilling intensity, spectacular beauty and unnerving emotion.’ The Age
Multi-instrumentalist and virtuosic exponent of the oud Joseph Tawadros has dazzled Australian music-lovers for decades with his intoxicating energy and fluid inventiveness. His joyous style has led to collaborations with Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, Neil Finn, Katie Noonan, Richard Tognetti, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Hear Tawadros perform original works fusing Arabic, folk and jazz – even metal and bluegrass elements – in a quartet featuring his brother and prodigious percussionist James Tawadros, Matt McMahon on piano and Karl Dunnicliff on bass. The fascinating program is woven together by Joseph’s virtuosity, lyricism and the contemporary musicality of the oud.
‘One of the most impressive musicians to emerge in Australia … with a dazzling technique dispensing hair-raising tempos … His writing displays a real depth of emotion … reveling in a zest for life and celebration.’ The Australian
NADYA GOLSKI TRIO @ Django
“A contralto of power, range and conviction…Nadya has the sort of voice that would light up a room if the power failed…” (John Shand, SMH).
Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to experience “Australia’s Queen of Gypsy Soul” Nadya Golski (Nadya’s 101 Candles Orkestra) in a rare trio setting with two giants of Australia’s Gypsy music scene! Nadya will be joined by Russian/Romanian accordion virtuoso Leonid Beshlei (Lolo Lovina) and beloved Russian Jewish sax player Edouard Bronson (Monsieur Camembert). Edouard is a national treasure, or as John Shand from SMH puts it: “Australia’s finest saxophonist…a sound to melt chocolate, hearts or steel with equal ease…were it played near a cemetery there would be widespread resurrection!”
From French & Italian tunes to Balkan Gypsy tunes to tango, this will be a most uplifting evening of joyous, passionate music, played the way it SHOULD be played. No artifices, no gimmicks – just 3 wonderful musicians playing their heart out, transporting you to faraway lands, bordellos and underground Gypsy speakeasies!
AMIRA MEDUNJANIN
Amira Medunjanin is a renowned performer of “Sevdalinke”, Bosnian love songs. This year, Amira has been invited to tour New Zealand and Australia and to once again perform at the 2020 National Multicultural Festival held in Canberra. Amira’s vocals will be backed by the guitar and bass sounds of Ante Gelo and Zvonimir Sestak who are also eager to showcase their unique styles to audiences in New Zealand and Australia. This style of music is very popular within the former Yugoslav communities with large venues consistently being sold out, throughout Europe. The songs of this concert are performed in Croatian and Bosnian languages with stories in between songs told in English.
ALISON FORBES ALBUM LAUNCH + BRANDON DODD + THE APRIL FAMILY @ Django
Fresh from shows at Tamworth Country Music Festival, Alison Forbes is heading to Django at Camelot to launch her brand new album. Expressing warm but edgy vocals thrown on a classic country pillow with a dash of bluegrass on the side. Heartfelt, emotive lyrics in a unique country folk style. Allison Forbes has well and truly found her calling – to change the face of Country Music.
Sydney Alternative Country combo The April Family will be showcasing their unique blend of classic country stylings, with a little blues mixed with 70’s West Coast country rock and their tight 3 part harmonies, the show will feature vocalist Kylie Whitney, lead guitarist Casey Atkins and guitarist Michael Carpenter!
From a simple upbringing in a little Australian beach town in NSW to travelling the world on stage after joining Kasey Chambers band at just 19 years old as her guitar player, Brandon Dodd, now 24, has already experienced more than most musicians dream of in a lifetime. Join him for this rare Sydney show.
EMMA PASK
Award winning Australian vocalist Emma Pask is heading back to Camelot!!!
Nominated for an ARIA award for Best Jazz Album, she is super excited to be hitting the road again and sharing her music with you all.
“Two Out” – a chance to catch one of Australia’s finest voices up close and personal alongside Kevin Hunt , in this beautifully intimate duo setting of voice and piano.
Award winning vocalist Emma Pask is sure to delight as she interweaves storytelling through timeless swinging jazz standards, upbeat latin rhythms, tender ballads and of course some raucous blues.
Well known for spending the last 20 years by the side of jazz virtuoso James Morrison, Emma Pask has firmly established herself one of one of this country’s favourite voices in Jazz.
“Whilst it’s fashionable to be a jazz singer these days, she’s the real thing!” James Morrison
STEPHEN CUMMINGS (THE SPORTS)
Iconic performer, songwriter & Performer Stephen Cummings – took his bow to Australian audiences during his farewell tour at the start of 2019. Cummings was supposed to have retired after he finished touring his albums, ‘Prisoner of Love’, and 50 song collection, but he grew bored of the down time and decided to perform a limited number of acoustic shows from February to May 2020. There would be no more talk of stepping down! A new album of self-penned country blues would follow at the end of 2020. Cummings insists, “You will see me at the height of my powers, taking you on a wonderful spiritual journey you’ll never forget with my guitarist Sam Lemann.
THE BADLOVES @ Django
Throughout the 90’s they enjoyed hits with “Green Limousine”, “Lost”, “Caroline”, “Slave”, “Barefoot Bride” “Memphis” and the Top 5 hit “The Weight” with Jimmy Barnes. That is the history.
Currently Michael Spiby is keeping The Badloves legacy alive and relevant with new music for today.
The moment you first hear their new single ‘Soulbrothertruckinsong’ you are immediately taken back to their trademark sound from 1993 featuring Hammond organ and Spiby’s rich soulful vocals.
The Badloves now has exactly the same authenticity Michael Spiby established in the ‘90s. Once again, welcome aboard.
BRAZILIAN FUNK & SOUL PARTY with KRIOLA COLLECTIVE
Unique Sydney based 10 piece band, ‘Kriola Collective’features some of Sydney’s best musicians playing a snapshot of the 1970’s Black Rio Samba, Soul and Funk movement from Brazil. The band’s repertoire includes a classic mix of groovy Brazilian beats, Funk, Soul and Bossa Jazz from the Carnival capitol of Rio.
‘Kriola Collective’ will conquer the dance floor with an explosive set of Brazilian infused Soul, Funk and brassy Samba from well known Brazilian artists such as Jorge Ben, Seu Jorge, Banda Black Rio, Tim Maia, Di Melo, Bebeto and Joao Donato.
Kriola Collective features some of Sydney’s best Funk, Soul and Brazilian players from groups such as Mucho Mambo, Jackie Orzasky, Cumbiamuffin, Kavalo, Mr. Sambasoul and performs a sizzling, seductive, and syncopated snapshot of 1970’s Brazil. They have become a crowd favourite with their fusion of Brazilian Soul, Funk, Rio Carnival Samba and Olodun.
MONSIEUR CAMEMBERT
“Simply the best Gypsy band in the land!” (SMH). Monsieur Camembert have received standing ovations around the globe, from the Montreux Jazz Festival to the International Leonard Cohen Festival! “A brazen & intoxicating blend of jazz, Gypsy Swing, Latin & East European influences – bring your Cossack boots & prepare to dance” (The Age). With sensitivity, virtuosity, & extraordinary energy, Triple ARIA Award winning band Monsieur Camembert brilliantly weaves Gypsy music with other World Music styles, to create a truly original and intoxicating blend. From Russian Gypsy songs, to tango & klezmer, from Gypsy swing to Latin grooves, “…they pick you up & carry you on a wave of energy, excitement & poignancy that never relents…the band play with such cohesion, energy & abandon that I experienced an emotion so foreign I barely recognised it: elation.” (John Shand, SMH)
AKIS PANOU & VICKI MOSHOLIOU TRIBUTE
An All Star Event featuring Vicki Mosholiou’s bouzouki player of 16 years, Manolis Michalakis. Singing Akis Panou classics, special guest Kostas Giannakaros from Sydney Gyradiko, and Irene Vacondios, Sotiris Procopiou vocals and guitar, along with Angelo Gatsos, piano, John Diamond, bouzouki, Yannis Bardas, bass and Bill Kazellos percussions.
Akis Panou, Greek lyricist and composer, wrote songs that undoubtedly contributed to the successful musical careers of Greece’s finest; Stelios Kazantzidis, Stratos Dionysiou, Giorgos Dalaras, Marinella, Giota Lydia and Vicki Mosholiou; Greece’s most powerful female vocalist, who matured professionally over 4 and a half decades singing Giorgos Zabetas, Xarhakos, Apostolos Kaldaras, Giannis Spanos and more. The highlight of Manolis Michalakis’ professional career in Greece was leading her band for the last 16 years of her life.
A tribute not to be missed!
DAMIAN WRIGHT + CAMERON JONES TRIO @ Django
Join us for a night of Gypsy Swing and Flamenco guitar music at Django At Camelot on Sunday, February 23rd. A concert that journeys from Paris to Spain featuring acclaimed flamenco guitarist, Damien Wright (Bandaluzia) performing in a stunning duo setting with percussionist James Hauptman (Vince Jones, James Morrison) plus gypsy swing guitarist, Cameron Jones performing in trio format with Joseph Zarb (Marsala) on guitar and bassist Oscar Peterson (The Djangologists)
“Damian Wright is a brilliant flamenco guitarist…Wright showed what a captivating solo player he is on his own “In Time”, and elsewhere his articulation of complex lines was fluid and dripping with conviction” – John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald.
CAMERON JONES is a musician who draws inspiration from the driving rhythms and melodic honesty of the acoustic gypsy jazz guitar.
“I am most impressed with his understanding and execution of the Gypsy Swing style.”
Hank B Marvin
É.T.É (QUÉBEC) @ Django
Élisabeth Moquin, Thierry Clouette and Élisabeth Giroux united their creative and artistic forces to offer a very dynamic and modern vision of Québec traditional music.
The musical arrangements of É.T.É are shaded with influences of folk, progressive rock and classical music interpreted on fiddle, Irish bouzouki and cello. Élisabeth Moquin adds special colour to the group through her masterful step dancing.
The musical vision of the three performers is presented in their original compositions and unusual arrangements of traditional tunes. With rich vocal harmonies, musical drive, instrumental virtuosity and remarkable on-stage complicity, É.T.É transforms the traditional kitchen party into an unforgettably entertaining and lively performance.
AMY WINEHOUSE REMEMBERED IN SONG
Back to Black comes to Camelot for an evocative and powerful evening. Paying tribute to the great tunes from Amy Winehouse from her pop and jazz repertoires.
Featuring some of Sydney’s finest musicians and vocalists, the High Rollers Big Band crew bring you the sublime vocals of Sharnielle Hartley and Adem Ozbakan, David Allen on keys, Stefano Careleo (drums), Lyal Loughnan (bass), Michael Sheridan (guitar), John Pennings (trumpet), Ari Palandjian (Musical Director & saxophones) plus some special guests. Proudly brought to you by www.highrollersbigband.com
SALSA SESSION with MALO MALO
The 10 piece MALO MALO bring their own brand of progressive salsa that is heavily inspired by the classic 1970’s Cuban, Puerto Rican and New York dance bands mixed with modern influences such as Soul/Rnb, Contemporary Jazz and Timba. Led by the Australian Danny G Felix they have just released their debut album “AUSTRALEÑO which contains their popular original recordings “El Robo”, “Tombola” “Derecho,” “Acuarela,” and “Ritmo Caliente.” Their ever growing repertoire also includes classics by the likes of Eddie Palmieri, Grupo Niche, Hector Lavoe, Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto and they are open to requests. A distinct originality enriches the latin rhythms including guaguanco, son montuno, mozambique, cha cha, son, songo and bolero.
They’ve headlined at the Sydney Salsa Palladium for the past four years, were featured at Melbourne’s Johnston Street Festival the last two last years and have toured multiple times to Colombia with special guests from Grupo Niche, Hermanos Lebron, Calibre and La Mambanegra.
Malo Malo’s bandleader and pianist/trumpetist Danny G Felix has lived and worked in Cali, Colombia “the world capital of Salsa” as a member of Orquesta Calibre and Marea Brava both with whom he has recorded some of the biggest current international salsa hits.
AMY & THE GREY ZONE @ Django
They’re back! After a sell out show for their last Django appearance, The Grey Zone return with their usual eclectic mix of tunes, some new covers and a new singer!
Join them as the welcome Amy to the fold. Expect everything from blues, psychedelia to retro classics and back again. See you on the dance floor!
PURPLE DOVES present PRINCE: 1958-FOREVER
The Purple Doves return after a huge run of SOLD OUT shows at Camelot Lounge to celebrate PRINCE. Be ready to party to all the hits and your favourite B sides LIVE with the country’s no 1 PRINCE tribute band. 80s synth and falsetto vocal will have you partying like it’s…. Yeh, party to hits such as 1999, Kiss, When Doves Cry, Little Red Corvette, Cream and so much more Minneapolis FUNK. Be quick to secure your tickets!
20 Years of ‘CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD’: A Tribute To The Music Of LUCINDA WILLIAMS @ Django
Lucinda Williams’s “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” was released 20 years ago, at a time when the new “alternative country” movement was taking shape and refining its style and purpose. This breakthrough album, by an artist that didn’t fit into the standard mould of what it was to be a ‘country artist’ despite being acknowledged within the country community as a significant songwriting and performing talent, became an important ‘ground zero’ marker point for the “Americana” scene and continues to inspire artists and define what it takes to BE an artist in that genre.
“20 years of Car Wheels” is a celebration of that album, and some of Lucinda Williams’s enviable catalogue. Led by one of Australia’s best Alt.Country voices, Katie Brianna, and producer/multi instrumentalist Michael Carpenter, and featuring vocalists Brielle Davis (Not Good With Horses) and Peta Caswell, and a house band featuring Carpenter, Casey Atkins, Mike Rix and Russell Crawford, the show is a celebration of not only an important artist and album but also a genre that continues to grow in Sydney and Australia.
DAHLIA DIOR: INTERNATIONAL WORLD CABARET
“Dahlia Dior is a singer of enormous vitality and energy, and her unique vocal talents have gained her international acclaim. Dahlia can authentically sing and interpret songs from all over the world, and is indeed one of the most versatile vocalists, singing in many different styles and languages…”
The show: International World Cabaret, is a passionate presentation of rhythmically throbbing and tuneful songs, combined with spoken, often dramatic insights into multicultural history with delicious, saucy and hilarious stories…
Musically, the concert explores Middle Eastern, European, South American and English styles with emphasis on peace and reconciliation, shared history and beliefs, cultural cross fertilisation and conviviality…
Backed by superb musicians: Marcello Maio(piano/accordion), Eddie Bronson(flute, clarinet, saxophone, accordion, euphonium), Mark Harris(double bass/vocals), Jess Ciampa(drums/percussion).
MUCHO MAMBO 13 piece LATIN BIG BAND
Following amazing sell out shows over the years at Camelot, the 13 piece Mucho Mambo orchestra returns to Camelot Lounge, with two big sets of Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Salsa, Bolero and New Orleans grooves.
Mucho Mambo’s unique sound blends bold, brassy riffs and driving percussion with big brass arrangements and cool old style Latin grooves. Mucho Mambo’s sound builds on the classic orchestrations and rhythms of the 1950’s and 1960’s and moves through to the great Big Band Salsa sounds of today, always reinventing them with a funky new edge.
Booking is highly recommended, Mucho Mambo has sold out every time at Camelot.
VAN THE MAN: THE AUSTRALIAN VAN MORRISON SHOW @ Django
“VAN THE MAN” had its roots in the highly successful Sydney wine bar circuit of the 1970’s.
“Hogan & The Becketts” (the backbone of Van the Man) played all the hits through the 80’s and 90’s, with Van Morrison being one of the favourites. In 1999 “Van the Man” was formed and started its career with a bang, being invited to perform at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
According to Richard Jinman of “The Age” ….. “sound right … oh yes! Van the Man do the business. Hogan has Van’s jazzy vocal phrasing and gruff irish burr down pat. Hit or miss? Absolute HIT! “
“Van the Man” has gone on to perform for State of Origin fixtures, Bledisloe Cup Finals and sold out one of Sydney’s premier live music venues. With exclusive appearances for the Packer family at their country retreat Ellerston, seven highly acclaimed tours of New Zealand and a recent triumphant performance at Norway’s Music Festival in Kjollefjord, “Van the Man” is a must see for all Van Morrison fans, both young and old.
BOWIE UNZIPPED with JEFF DUFF
The legendary Jeff Duff will celebrate David Bowies and the Thin White Duke’s iconic songs at what will be an incredibly magical night of all things Bowie. Jeff Duff has been singing Bowie’s songs for many years with the glowing support of Bowie’s official website BowieNET. Together with an all-star band, Duffo’s journey to Planet Bowie will include the songs Space Oddity, Lets Dance, China Girl, Life On Mars, Changes, Ziggy Stardust… amongst many other faves. Jeff’s all star band features guitarist Jak Housden from the Whitlams along with the brilliant keyboard player Glenn Rhodes and drummer- percussionist Jess Ciampa.
LENKA @ Django
Don’t miss Lenka on her Australian tour to support her forthcoming twin EP Recover/Discover!
Lenka is an Australian singer/songwriter, formerly of the critically acclaimed band Decoder Ring, who has been releasing solo albums and touring worldwide for the last decade. She is best know for her songs The Show, Trouble Is A Friend and Everything At Once, which have all had wide international success, especially in the world of film and TV placements. For this show Lenka and band will be revisiting her early work as well as playing new songs and covers from the twin EPs.’
“Lenka’s gentle tone wraps snugly around folk electronic minimalism and flirts with far grander, sweeping pop… Blue skied optimism, fragments of world beat fun, all bouncy and up-beat, glossy and positive.” Jonny Nail, Rolling Stone, 2017.
VINCE JONES
Vince Jones has set the benchmark for Australian Jazz singers since his emergence in the jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 70s and early 80s. His 20 album, international career has never hesitated in its musical evolution – a career played in the moment. He is that rare genre-defying artist who creates music without borders. From Iris DeMent’s folk “Our Town” to his original piano heavy, new age “Wonderworld”, he comments, sometimes uncomfortably, about the world we live in, from an unashamedly idealistic perspective.
His intuitive readings of the Great American Songbook are sensitively true to composer and artist. He is a wonderful trumpet player as his style has developed a distinctive reserve and subtlety. He plays a little less and draws a good deal more from it than he did in early days. A brief solo from Vince is worth a hundred notes played with less discretion. Particular about the musical company he keeps, he continues to enjoy playing with the best jazz musicians the country has to offer. He is, quite simply, a national treasure.
CÒIG (CANADA)
Còig is one of Atlantic Canada’s most exciting Celtic traditional groups made up of four accomplished multi-instrumentalists, Chrissy Crowley, Rachel Davis, Darren McMullen and Jason Roach. With the fiery Celtic high energy style as its musical core, Còig easily shifts between century old tunes of past generations to original and upbeat compositions, featuring the bands range of over a dozen instruments (vocals, fiddles, piano, guitars, banjo, mandolin, viola, bouzouki, whistles, and more). With driving tunes, haunting songs and infectious energy, Còig is an unparalleled music force.
“…every number is convincing and compellingly delivered. This group’s ability to back songs on piano, fiddles, cello, guitars and more gives them enormous scope, and keeps the surprises coming.” – Alex Monaghan, FolkWorld
The best in trad music, in a non-traditional way. That’s Còig.
JOHNNY G & THE E-TYPES
Sydney’s premier soul show! Their latest Soul Revue showcases the classics from the legendary STAX recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee & FAME recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Dance all night to the hits of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Picket, Eddie Floyd, Percy Sledge, Sam and Dave, Etta James & more. This explosive 9-piece band performs these hits like it’s 1967.
THE BEATLES: ALBUM TRACKS, B-SIDES & SELECTED HITS @ Django
‘The Album Show’ presents “The Beatles: Album Tracks, B-Sides and Selected Hits”.
Featuring a 4 piece band of some of the most experienced ‘Beatle performers’ in the country, the show will predominately focus on tracks that many would consider ‘second tier’ in the Beatles’ vast catalogue. But these songs are hardly obscure, with some of the most iconic tunes in the Fab Four’s catalogue getting rare live performances, mixed in with a few really obscure tracks, and enough bonafide hits to fill out an informal and complete night of Beatle tunes.
Lead by producer/singer-songwriter Michael Carpenter (The Beatle Boys/Petty Nicks) and featuring John Kater (The Beatle Boys/1927), Rod Auld (The Beatle Boys/Jonah’s Road) and Russell Crawford (The Beatle Boys/Josh Pyke), the night will give these talented musicians an opportunity to explore the catalogue of a band that continues to inspire musicians and music fans alike, in a way never witnessed before in popular music.
LIVE CUBAN MUSIC with ARMANDITO & TROVASON
This Traditional Latin Band features Cuban Band Leader, Composer and Arranger Armandito Garcia .
Armandito comes from Santiago de Cuba, also known as the “Cradle of Son”, with its connection with traditional styles of Cuban music. He settled in Australia after ten years touring internationally with the legendary Cuban band Sonora la Calle and Lady Salsa Show, performing in Europe, UK, Pacific Island, New Zealand and Australia.
On stage, the band is characterised by a high energy, distinctively Cuban sounds blend with gifted improvisation, with an authentic repertoire includes all the most popular and traditional rhythms of Cuba, ranging from Son, Cha Cha Cha, Mambo and Rumba, to “Buena Vista Social Club” style of music.
POUR IT ON: The 80’s Funk Party @ Django
POUR IT ON will present to you all your favourite 80s funk classics LIVE at Camelot. The Midas Touch, Rock Steady, She’s Fresh, Push It and let’s not forget MJ, Whitney, Madonna, EWF and Prince…
An authentic 80s sound and groove will have you shaking to this unique production of Funk and soul.
SIMA presents THE VAMPIRES
Fresh from their European tour, The Vampires are back in Australia with 12 shows along the east coast, promoting their sixth release Pacifica.
The Vampires are trailblazers for a generation of creative talent from Sydney, having gained critical attention worldwide in the jazz community and beyond.
Combining influences from around the world, the band has developed an original sound that has been compared to such diverse sources as Mulatu Astatke, Blue-Note Jazz, Electric Miles Davis, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bob Marley and Henri Texier’s cinematic music, yet has something of their own. Having developed their music through the band’s 14 years of touring, travelling, and recording together, the band has found a recognisable sound that is as much the sum of the individuals in the group as it is a part of Australian jazz.
Jeremy Rose, saxophone. Nick Garbett, trumpet. Noel Mason, double bass. Alex Masso, drums.
LOUIS TILLETT & THE LT3
Louis brings the core of his band The Art of Darkness to light in a new and exciting combo, as we premiere the LT3, and it’s combined experience of 100 years of live playing, right here in Marrickville. This is something you are unlikely to see on a regular basis.
Louis, with his trademark baritone vocals and blues/rock piano style, combines with John Maddox’ unique virtuosity on Bass and Colin Watson’s thoroughbred Guitar expertise and feel, to bring Louis’ repertoire into a dangerous new place. You may remember Louis from his dozen “solo” albums and pioneering improv ensembles like Paris Green, or his thunderous big bands, such as The Aspersion Caste. He has also been a featured pianist on recordings of such legendary Australian acts as Died Pretty, Beasts of Bourbon, Laughing Clowns, and Tex, Don & Charlie, and many others. In International circuits he is billed as the Rockpoet of The Night, and he is held in the same high esteem and written and filmed in the same publications and TV specials as his peers John Cale, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Tom Waits. UK Rolling Stone called him The Dark Giant.
He rarely plays in Australia, preferring to “ride on the tide and the wings of the wind”, as so much of his music alludes to, him being a full time sailor. After more than 2 years since The Art of Darkness last played, which filled The Factory Theatre in 2017 and 2015, this night will present a rare opportunity to catch Louis in an intimate and dynamic environment, where, keeping the band small and tight, each performance takes on it’s own life and direction, leaving all three players to leave the script, to allow them to take the music where it needs to go at that particular time. Louis Tillett, as a musician and a bandleader is synonymous with the Sydney Live and Underground music of the 80s, 90s and 00s. Come and find out why he is often touted as a National Living Treasure.
BARRIO LATIN SOUL
Following fantastic dance nights at Camelot ‘Barrio Latin Soul’ returns to transport you to the barrios of New York for some smooth Soul, funky Latin and groovy Disco celebrating 1960s and 70s Latin Soul, Latin Disco and Boogaloo.
Fusing African American R&B and Soul with Mambo and Cuban Son Montuno and mainly sung in English, the Latin Soul and Boogaloo movement in the 1960’s had a huge influence on the growing Salsa scene in the 1970’s. The unique funky 11-piece all-star band ‘Barrio Soul’ celebrates the era in style and features members of well-known groups, Mucho Mambo, Watussi, El Orqueston, Johnny G and the E types, Hi-Tops Brass Band, Cumbiamuffin and Son Veneno and will set the dance floor alight with some serious Soul, Latin and Disco grooves from artists such as Mongo Santamaria, Joe Bataan, Joe Cuba, Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Pete Rodriguez.
DANGEROUS SONG and BUKHU @ Django
The incredible Mongolian overtone throat singing of Bukhchuluun Ganburged. Looped sounds of endangered species played on a digital wind instrument by Linsey Pollak and the extraordinary voice of Lizzie O’Keefe.
‘Dangerous Song’ is Linsey Pollak and Lizzie O’Keefe. Linsey plays endangered animal calls using a digital wind instrument. He ‘live loops’ layers of music using those animal sounds. Lizzie O’Keefe is an incredibly versatile singer with an unbelievable range and an absolutely beautiful voice.
In this project they are joined by Bukhchuluun Ganburged (Bukhu) who is a master musician performing the folk music of Mongolia, and exploring the aural dimensions of sounds generated by traditional instruments and harmonic overtone vocal techniques. Bukhu combines virtuosic Morin Khuur (Horse Head Fiddle) and Khuumii (Harmonic Overtone Throat Singing). Bukhu’s music has a contemporary take on the tradition of Mongolian bards of ancient times.
GARDEN QUARTET (MELB) @ Django
Garden Quartet blends contemporary Persian and Western motifs, creating Iranian-Australian world music in a way not heard before. Emotive and delicate pieces, entwined with subtle pop sensibilities, lift into vibrant and triumphant movements.
Taking inspiration from Iran, Australia and beyond, Garden Quartet creates contemporary music that is steeped in history and dares to explore the dualities of multiculturalism. Delicate Iranian poetry entwines as the Quartet delves into themes of place, home, love, loss and hope in original and cherished works. Led by kamancheh player and vocal virtuoso Gelareh Pour, Garden Quartet’s diverse influences carry wisdom and emotion into music that tugs at your heart.
A NIGHT OF MOTOWN with SUZY & THE SNAKEPIT
Suzy And the Snakepit pay tribute to the Motown tunes that everywhere, around the world, get people dancing in the street. In the 1960s in Detroit, Motown found the perfect formula for pop: catchy, clever songwriting, great singers, and deeply danceable grooves. The musicians that Berry Gordy assembled in Motown’s studio, the Snakepit, also had an enormous influence on rock & roll – Motown tunes have been covered by everyone from The Rolling Stones to The Jam to Motorhead.
Suzy And The Snakepit play a set that revolves around the best of Hitsville USA, from the effervescent hits that you’d have to be a grouch not to love, like Stevie Wonder’s ‘Signed Sealed Delivered’ or The Temptations’ ‘Ain’t Too Proud To Beg’ but also includes some treasured deep cuts from the era. Based around the soulful vocals of Suzy G, and featuring a crack backing band including musicians who’ve played with Sydney indie bands like Pel Mel, Perry Keyes, Fallon Cush, Lazy Susan, and Eva Trout, Suzy And The Snakepit will play hit after hit that will keep you ready for a brand new beat. Bring your dancing shoes!
VICTOR VALDES MARIACHI BAND
In his own right, VICTOR VALDES (harp, vocals) is a truly extraordinary performer, but this is a rare opportunity to experience him in full regalia with his big band Mariachi group, as they play all the Mexican favourites! Trumpets, violins, the works – this will be a tequila-fuelled night to remember! Victor Valdes’ powerful, compelling voice, magical harp and passion for storytelling will take you on a unique sonorous journey through Mexico and Latin America. Come and join him at Camelot for a Mexican Party, as he performs with his Mexican Mariachi Band!
A walking encyclopedia of Latin music past and present, Victor has redefined the harp as a solo and lead instrument in a multitude of musical contexts. He’s played with everyone from Angus & Julia Stone and Los Lobos to Jimmy Barnes, and appeared on folk, world music, rock and blues festival stages Australia-wide.
DANIEL WELTLINGER (BERLIN)
‘If you can make sound tell a story it becomes music, and were Daniel Weltlinger not a musician, he would still be a story-teller…he uses notes the way a supremely elegant writer – say, Austen or Orwell – uses words, so the sounds, rhythms and sentence constructions dovetail with the meaning so perfectly that the reader’s eye dances effortlessly along each line.’ John Shand – Sydney Morning Herald
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1977 and of French-Austro-Hungarian-Israeli family background, the critically acclaimed Berlin-based violinist and composer- producer Daniel Weltlinger has long been renowned worldwide for his distinctive warm sound and innovations within the genres of Gypsy-swing, jazz, Yiddish-klezmer and experimental/free-improvised music.
Don’t miss this rare Sydney show while Daniel is back in town.
A BIT OF BRIT @ Django
Drawing on their collective love of British pop and rock, the guys from The Winstons have teamed up with good friends from the Inner West music community to join them and celebrate the truly remarkable music from the UK in the past 50 years, ranging from the ground-breaking rock of the 1960s to the punk and new wave of the 1970s and 80s, to the heyday of Britpop in the 1990s right up to the 2000s.
Artists covered on the night include • Blur • The Clash • The Cure • Dave Edmunds • Echo and the Bunnymen • Elvis Costello • Eurythmics • Joy Division • New Order • Pretenders • Radiohead • The Smiths • Verve • XTC and more! Artists performing on the night include: Zoe Carides (Nancy Sinatra Lee Hazlewood Experience), Suzy Goodwin (Suzy and the Snakepit, Fallon Cush) Steve Starr (Doppelgangers, Di Levi & the Levitations) Scott Holmes (Nancy Sinatra Lee Hazlewood Experience, Whole Lotta Soul) and The Winstons frontman Peter Long. Don’t miss this fantastic show!
DANCING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN
Known in legend as “the sound of young America” Motown had more hits than The Beatles, The Stones, The Beach Boys and Elvis combined.
The All Star band features a bevy of Australia’s most accomplished singers and musicians playing classic Motown hits from The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and The Vandellas, Four Tops, Jackson Five, Edwin Star and many more.
Groove and sing along to classic hits including: Reach Out, Heatwave, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Dancing in The Streets, Uptight, You keep Me Hanging On, WAR, What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Standing On Shakey Ground, papa was a Rolling Stone and My Girl as well as some more obscure dance groove tracks such as Shotgun, Cloud Nine and The Flick.
RENÉE GEYER: UP CLOSE & INTIMATE @ Django
Renée Geyer’s past is Australian music history. Her career has spanned 4 decades & is still going strong. A precocious jazz, blues & soul singer in her late teens; Countdown royalty in her 20s; a string of pop, soul & reggae hits spanning the 70s & 80s; her LA years in the studio with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Sting, Joe Cocker & Chaka Kahn; her 90s renaissance with Paul Kelly. She is a singer, a songwriter, producer, & author. Whether in the studio or on stage, this is where Renée Geyer is home and continues to wow audiences with her remarkable voice. Don’t miss this rare show in the intimate surrounds of Django @ Camelot.
CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION @ Django
Come back to the Summer of Love, a musical trip, experience free love and above all, peace with one another.
Featuring 2 x ARIA winner Pat Powell (Melbourne Ska Orchestra and Dancing in the Shadows of Motown), accompanied by a line up of amazing musicians guaranteed to captivate any audience, just try and stay off the dance floor.
Featuring classics such as San Francisco, Mr. Tambourine Man, The Beat Goes On, California Dreaming, Dizzy, Age Of Aquarius, Spirit In The Sky, I Got You Babe.
THE AUDREYS @ Django
Three time Aria Award Winning, Blues & Roots sensations The Audreys are returning to Django! The Audreys have graced almost every major festival in Australia and played more gigs than they can count. They’ve rocked festivals and clubs in Europe and North America, sold songs to films and tv shows far and wide, written music for theatre, won awards, hit the charts, gone gold and pawned their very hearts for rock and roll.
http://www.theaudreys.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/theaudreys
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAudreysMusic
GLENN SHORROCK
With a career spanning over 40 years, Glenn Shorrock is one of the elder statesmen of Australian contemporary show business.
Born in England, Glenn migrated at the age of 10 to Adelaide in the mid-1950s. A self-confessed child of rock n roll, he began singing in 1962 with a vocal group called the Twilights.
Axiom with Brian Cadd followed shortly thereafter, with hits including Arkansas Grass and Little Ray of Sunshine. Axiom disbanded soon after with Glenn moving to London in 1970.
Late 1974, Glenn returned to Melbourne to help form Little River Band as lead singer. Managed by long time friend, Glenn Wheatley, Little River Band cracked the lucrative United States market in 1976, and began a string of eight Top Ten Hits in the U.S.A. and around the world. The band has sold in excess of 25 million albums, often being credited for opening the door for many Australian acts on the international circuit.
Glenn’s credentials extend to all fields of show business, notably in theatre and cabaret where he starred in Evita, The Rocky Horror Show, One for the Money, Go Cat Go and Two Up.
As a testament to his enduring talent he has been twice inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame first in 1991 in his own right and again with The Little River Band in 2004.
KALLIDAD
Kallidad return to Camelot Lounge!
Day of the Dead “Flamingo Fiesta” trio Kallidad formed in unlikely circumstances five years ago, and partly by accident. From humble beginnings Kallidad have become a world class headining act.
An all instrumental show, Kallidad do not need to utter one word to create a bond with their audience, combining Spanish guitar styles with Heavy Metal roots to create a once in a lifetime sound that has seen the group visit Europe, Japan, Indonesia and New Zealand.
Kallidad is one of Australia’s hardest working bands, constantly crisscrossing the great southern land, spreading their music and engaging with the land itself. The lineup is simple two Spanish guitars and percussion. But don’t let the lightweight set up fool you!
THE ARETHA FRANKLIN SONGBOOK: Celebrating the Life and Music of The Queen Of Soul
Jun 12 all-day
Celebrating the life and music of The Queen Of Soul in the best possible way, with Shauna Jensen and an 8 piece all star band playing classics from Aretha Franklin’s amazing catalogue. Remember the songs from her early jazz-blues numbers through to her soul-dance hits such as Respect, Chain Of Fools, Think, Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves and Freeway of Love.
Shauna Jensen has always been the biggest ever fan of Aretha Franklin and has been blessed with the ability to respectfully sing Aretha’s songs with her soulful and powerful voice. She has toured and recorded with Jimmy Barnes, Richard Clapton Powderfinger, Noiseworks. Shauna performed in the stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar..
Her voice will rock your world!
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CaFA Film Nights – Queer Caribbean Film Night
Romola Lucas
Friday, August 7, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
Nicholas Variety, 570 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tix: $5
Refreshments served.
August is Black Pride in New York, and to celebrate, CaFA Film Nights will be dedicated to the Queer Caribbean. As is the case in other parts of the world, the lives, work and art of Caribbean LGBTQI people are rarely given the attention they deserve and we hope in our own little way to change that. Let’s take a look at the films being screened.
Out on the Tracks
produced by Ron San Marchi
US/Guyana | 2014
Out on the Tracks centers on gay Guyanese soul singer Nhojj, and documents his groundbreaking Made To Love Him sessions. Affirming the LGBTQ community through same-sex renditions of classic heterosexual love songs from Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me” to Billy Joel’s “She’s Got a Way” (“He’s Got a Way”), this gentle and human documentary touches upon the themes of love, hope and self-acceptance, and explores the recording process and the power of music.
by Reginald Campbell, Jr.
Jamaica | 2014
This 30min documentary looks at the life of several gay Jamaicans. It relays what life is like to be gay and Jamaican in the 21st century by showing some of the obstacles they continue to undergo and covers the work of activist, Javed Jaghai, as he mounts a legal challenge to Jamaica’s “buggery” laws.
ANTIMAN
by Gavin Ramoutar
Narrative Short
Guyana | 2014
Set in Guyana, South America, this film explores masculinity in the Caribbean. Anil, an introverted young boy, is pressured by his abusive father, Max, to become a skillful cricket player the way he himself was years before. Although skilled in the game, Anil refuses to play and takes refuge in his love for Dano, an older boy in the village. In order to attend the local masquerade and see the boy he pines for, Anil must win the cricket tournament.
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1.A Brief History of Prohibition in Northeastern North Carolina by Edwards, Brian Tributaries Vol. Issue 9, October 1999
Distilling alcohol for private consumption has been regulated in the state since 1715. Complete prohibition occurred in 1908 after the passing of Watts and Ward Law. One reason distillation remained so prevalent in the northeast portion of the state is that distilling used the similar equipment as for making turpentine, an already established industry in the area. Dare County moonshiners took to distilling both because they already had the equipment and also tough economic times drove them to lucrative manufacturing and sale of alcohol.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 9, October 1999, p7-23, il
2.A Man of Desperate Fortune The Career and Trial of John Vidal by Newell, Sam Tributaries Vol. Issue 12, October 2004
Newell, Sam
John Vidal's career as a pirate was short-lived and comedic. For one week in 1727, Vidal, who called Bath home, attempted to raid Ocracoke Inlet just after the Gold Age of Piracy. His acts of piracy around the inlet were brought to trial on August 15, 1727 in front of Virginia's Acting Royal Governor. Where Vidal was unfortunate in piracy, he was fortunate in the Governor's ruling which initially was execution but Vidal was later pardoned.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 12, October 2004, p6-17, il
Pirates--North Carolina, Eastern; Vidal, John
3.A View of History by Earley, Lawrence S. Tributaries Vol. 2 Issue 1, Oct 1992
Earley, Lawrence S.
Life in the naval stores industry of 19th-century North Carolina is documented in a pictorial series.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Oct 1992, p12-15, il
Naval stores; North Carolina--History--Pictorial works
4.A View of History...Faces of the Outer Banks by Barfield, Rodney D. Tributaries Vol. Issue 4, Oct 1994
Barfield, Rodney D.
After the Civil War, the independent lifestyles of Outer Banks citizens began to change as business interests, such as commercial fishing, moved to the area in competition with traditional cottage industries, such as boat building and net making.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 4, Oct 1994, p14-19, il
Outer Banks--History--Pictorial works
5.A View of History: Learning from the Past by Alford, Michael B. Tributaries Vol. Issue 5, Oct 1995
Alford, Michael B.
Development of watercraft that worked the state's coastal waters during then 19th-century is documented in a pictorial series.
Boatbuilding; North Carolina--History--Pictorial works
6.A View of History: Reminders of a Colorful Era by Butler, Lindley S. Tributaries Vol. Issue 3, Oct 1993
Butler, Lindley S.
Structures related to shallow river navigation, such as wing dams and sluice walls, are depicted in this photographic essay.
Navigation--History; North Carolina--History--Pictorial works; River engineering
7.Blackbeard the Pirate: Historical Background and the Beaufort Inlet Shipwrecks by Moore, David Tributaries Vol. Issue 7, Oct 1997
Moore, David
Blackbeard the pirate was the terror of the coast during the early 18th-century. He was killed near Ocracoke in 1718. A shipwreck found off Beaufort Inlet on November 21, 1996, is thought to be his flagship QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 7, Oct 1997, p30-39, il, f
Blackbeard, d. 1718; Pirates; QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE (Ship)
8.Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge by Tributaries Vol. Issue 11, October 2001
The entire issue is dedicated to the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck with historical background about pirates, Blackbeard's escapades throughout North Carolina, and updates from the field excavations.
QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE (Ship)
9.Colonial Phantom on the Northeast Cape Fear: A Brief History of the Exeter Site by Angley, Wilson Tributaries Vol. Issue 3, Oct 1993
Angley, Wilson
Exploration of the Cape Fear Region began in the 17th-century when prospectors recognized potential for agriculture and timber exploitation. Two men, David Williams and Henry Skibbow, purchased 100 acres of land to become Exeter or New Exeter. The area was to be formally incorporated as a town in 1754. Expectations were for Exeter to become a viable port on the Cape Fear, however, by 1770 it was excluded from customs legislation indicating failure to become a trade center.
North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
10.Death All around Us Yellow Fever in Wilmington 1862 by Trask, Benjamin H. Tributaries Vol. Issue 13, October 2005
Trask, Benjamin H.
Wilmington thrived as a Civil War blockade running port because of its proximity to foreign ports, Bermuda and Nassau, and internal connections via railroad to Charleston and Richmond. Typically blockade runners brought in much needed supplies and were celebrated, however, the steamship Kate also brought along yellow fever in the late summer of 1862. Historic sources vary on total number of deaths but modern scholars believe it to be between 446 to 700 or more.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 13, October 2005, p16-28, il
Wilmington--History
11.Dendrochronology: A New Tool for Dating Historic Structures by Sandbeck, Peter B. Tributaries Vol. 2 Issue 1, Oct 1992
Sandbeck, Peter B.
A process that has been used by foresters and the timber industry is now a valuable tool in assisting historians in precisely dating old houses and maritime artifacts.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Oct 1992, p26-29, il, f
Historic buildings; Dendrochronology; Historic ships
12.Developing a Public Health Policy in Early North Carolina by Watson, Alan D. Tributaries Vol. Issue 15, October 2008
Watson, Alan D.
Public health policy was managed at a local level throughout much of the state's history. Wilmington serves as a case study because of public health policy development for several reasons. The city's need for a health program for its citizens was compounded because of its continually growing population throughout much of history and its role as a bustling port. A history of public health concerns and local officials reactions are reviewed in this article.
Public health--History; Public health policy--Wilmington
13.Expedition to the Cape Fear Mystery Wreck by Wilde-Ramsing, Mark Tributaries Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1991
Wilde-Ramsing, Mark
Pender County middle school students and state archaeologists researched the muddy wreck of what was thought to be the ship SYLVAN GROVE. By studying yellowed newspaper articles and old photographs, the researchers discovered the true name of the vessel.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1991, p1-7, il
Shipwrecks--Cape Fear River; SYLVAN GROVE (Ship); Underwater archaeology--Wilmington
14.Fair Hair and Blackfish by Luster, Michael Tributaries Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1991
Luster, Michael
Blackfish is a type of fish considered a delicacy by New Yorkers in the early 20th-century. In Carteret County a group of Scandinavian fishermen moved to the area and brought their specially modified boats. This group of fishermen worked cooperatively and seamlessly with other fishermen and within coastal communities like Beaufort.
Fishes--Carteret County; Fishermen
15.Fatbacks, Bunkies, and Pogies by Frye, John Tributaries Vol. Issue 7, Oct 1997
Frye, John
The menhaden fishing industry once stretched from Maine to Florida, but now is centered in four states - Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The industry peaked in the state in 1956, and the sole plant still operating is in Beaufort.
Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 7, Oct 1997, p6-13, il, bibl
Menhaden fisheries
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When Worlds Collide -- REALLY Collide
BTTF Wonderland
“Damn damn, where are they?”
Clockwork stalked through the seemingly endless hallways, frowning. “They were right behind me just a few minutes ago, I swear! How could we have lost each other so suddenly?” he muttered. “Honestly, the things we go through just to track down our mun sometimes. . . .”
Clockwork blinked, then looked down. Sitting by his feet were two familiar puppies. “Something of that sort,” he said, raising an eyebrow. “More that I’ve lost everyone else. Where did you two come from?”
“We got bored, waiting in the Inkwell,” Steve said, scratching an itch on his side. “So we shifted and started looking for you guys.”
“We’re still not sure why you thought Wonderland was a good place to find Vic,” Gary added, sniffing the air.
“Well, she’s been so into Alice and her various iterations, that when we discovered she wasn’t in her room. . . .” Clockwork shrugged. “You haven’t seen Marty and the others, have you?”
“Just you,” Gary said. “How the hell did you lose Marty, anyway? Aren’t you two joined at the hip?”
“We’re not that bad,” Clockwork retorted. “And I’m not sure. I was leading the group before. It’s possible I got too far ahead and went left while everybody else went right, or something like that.” An idea hit him. “You don’t think you could smell him out, could you?”
Steve and Gary looked at each other. “We could try,” Steve said, though he didn’t sound too confident. “Problem is, I’m not sure what he, or any of the others, smells like.”
“You’re not sure??”
“Hey, we’re not natural dogs!” Gary said in their defense. “We don’t know how to handle these ‘heightened animal senses!’”
“You seem to have taste pretty well conquered,” Clockwork commented with a slight snort.
“Well then, if Marty’s left some sort of taste trail. . . .” Steve snarked right back.
“Doc? Doc?”
Clockwork and the puppies turned around. “Marty!” he yelled.
“Doc! Where are you?”
“I’m – er – hang on.” Clockwork closed his eyes and concentrated. A gust of wind swept down the corridor, fanning out at either end. He added a rumble of thunder for good measure. “Over this way!”
“Okay, hang on. . . .”
A few minutes later, Museical and Simon appeared at one end of the corridor. “Man, you can really get turned around in here,” Simon commented. “What’s the deal with this?”
“I’m starting to think the royalty of Wonderland – this Wonderland, at any rate – just likes mazes,” Alice commented, stepping forward.
“Must be.”
Museical ran forward, enveloping Clockwork in a hug. “Shit, I’m glad we found you,” he said, squeezing tight.
“Er, I’m glad to be found,” Clockwork said, returning the embrace. “Though you’re acting like I was missing for a week, not just a few minutes.”
“We’ve got trouble, Doc,” Museical reported, pulling back. “Big trouble.”
Clockwork frowned. “Big trouble? Like – exploding Chicago coffee house trouble?”
“Exploding Chicago in general trouble, maybe,” Museical said with a wince. “Andrew’s here.”
Clockwork knew his mechanical heart was incapable of skipping beats, but it felt like it had skipped one anyway. “Who?” he croaked.
“Wait, wait, Andrew as in Andrew Sparks?” Steve asked, frowning. “As in the bastard who turned Doc into Steampunk Terminator?”
“That’s him,” Museical nodded.
“Apparently we have an infestation of all the most annoying and dangerous antagonists from Victoria’s head,” Alice added. “Andrew’s just the one we have the most personal interest in.”
Clockwork shook his head, trying to process this. “How do you know he’s here? Did – did any of you--”
“No, nothing like that,” Victor said, pulling at his tie briefly. “It’s – rather more complicated.”
“More complicated.”
There was a round of tired nods from the others. “While we were looking for you or Vic, Dee happened to overhear someone yelling for help in a locked room. When Simon chainsawed the door open, we found it was – well – ten other Martys,” Lucy reported.
“Ten – did someone attack the muse house?” Clockwork asked, blinking.
“No, that’s the thing,” Museical said. “They’re the story versions of everybody! A bunch of them are what VampMarty and VultureMarty and the rest of them would be like in the actual stories. One of them’s me, Doc! That’s how we know Andrew’s here!”
Clockwork stared. “The story – but how did they get here?”
“Apparently this guy named Jack Brown – you know, NonTrilogy’s evil twin – has found out how to skip dimensions,” Museical said. “He stole one of the other Doc’s train and started kidnapping every Marty he found. He’s got a really bad grudge against NonTrilogy’s, and he decided to take it out on every other Marty in existence.”
There was a brief silence after this. “What kind of crack are you guys smoking, and where can we find some?” Gary finally asked, tilting his head.
“Oh, trust me, we wish this was just some drug-induced hallucination,” said a familiar voice. What looked like another Marty rounded the corner. “It’s all too real, though.”
A couple of other Martys appeared as Clockwork and the puppies gawked. One of them looked hard at Steve and Gary. “Are you guys the sentry turrets who turn into dogs?” he asked.
“Uh, yeah,” Steve said, backing up a little. “I’m Steve, he’s Gary.”
“Hi. You’re accusing us of smoking crack?”
“Hey, when it comes to Aperture Science, you quickly learn to leave reality at the door,” Gary said in their defense.
“Great Scott,” Clockwork whispered as the rest of the Martys joined the group. “This is – this is new and strange, even for us.”
“So we’ve heard,” another Marty said. “Museical told us about you and Victor falling into some sort of crazy Chicago once. You know anything about how to get us all back home?”
“Sorry, I never got a chance to really study the Rifts,” Clockwork said apologetically. “Too much was going on most of the time.”
“We’d have to take care of Jack and the others anyway,” a different Marty pointed out. “Can’t leave our Docs at their tender mercies.”
“How many bad guys are we talking about here?” Steve asked, sniffing around the Martys curiously.
“We’ve got Jack Brown, Doc’s insane twin; Biff Tannen, you guys gotta know him; Sandra Rabyen, this bitch of a vampire killer; Amina Ali, one of the Libyan terrorists and she has a thing for Jack; Stanley Carlyle, a former hospital intern who’s got a grudge against – I guess you guys call him OckDoc; and Andrew, who Marty Nine and Museical tell us is the worst person in the entire world,” one of the Martys counted off.
“Don’t forget that the Queen of Hearts and her cronies seem to like Jack,” another Marty said. “Incidentally, why the hell does she look like Biff?!”
“Vic seems to find it amusing to stick Tannens in drag,” Clockwork said, deadpan. “I believe the Duchess of this realm is Buford.”
“Buford?” The Marty snorted. “Okay, that’s actually pretty funny.”
“Can you help us?” another Marty pleaded. “I’m sure our Docs could kick their asses, but a little extra firepower wouldn’t hurt.”
“No way!” a third Marty protested. “Do you know what’ll happen to him if Andrew gets his paws on him again?! Not to mention I don’t think you can stop a Fae – not unless you kill it with cold iron.”
“What is so awful about this Andrew guy?” the second Marty said, looking deeply frustrated. “I get that he’s a dick and not exactly human, but what did he do?”
There was a sudden hiss of steam from under Clockwork’s coat. The group of Martys stared. Clockwork sighed and shrugged off his coat, revealing the large gears sticking out of his joints. “He did this.”
“Holy shit,” one of the Martys whispered.
“He – he – what the hell?” a fourth said, shaking his head.
“He partially mechanized me,” Clockwork explained. “Most of my skeleton is metal now, run by steam power. He also replaced my stomach, heart, and teeth. Essentially, I’m a very weird cyborg.”
“Who – who does that?” one Marty blurted.
“Fae do,” the Marty who was apparently the counterpart to Museical said darkly. “They don’t think like humans do. To them, chopping up somebody and replacing all their bones with metal is just something to do to stave off the boredom. Like making me go on-stage for days at a time to sing.”
“Exactly,” Clockwork agreed, pulling his coat back on. “And they don’t like it when someone escapes. If they’re not planning to put you back after they’re through with you – and that’s exceedingly rare – then your only hope is to run, and pray they get distracted enough not to come looking for you.”
“Shit,” the leader Marty hissed. “So bringing you along would put you in danger – but hey, what happens to your Doc, Nine?”
Museical’s counterpart – Nine, evidently – went white. “Oh no. . . . Damn it, what do we do?”
“We go and see what’s going on and if we can help,” Clockwork said firmly. “I’m not possibly condemning my counterpart to another twenty years of hell. If we all work together, we might have a fighting chance against this bastard. Where do you think they are?”
Doc Five winced as another heart-shaped projectile exploded above his head. This was getting ridiculous. They’d been in standoff for what felt like forever. Every time one of them tried to make a move to attack, one of the Card Guard would launch off a missile, forcing them to duck or dodge. Even attacking in groups didn’t work – the guards would just fire off a volley of missiles and laugh as they scattered. Jack was obviously enjoying every minute of it. “Give up yet?” he said calmly, arm wrapped around Amina.
“Oh, they never give up,” Sandy said, looking smug. “They’re too stupid for that.”
“What’s stupid is kidnapping my best friend, and then expecting me to just lie down and take it,” Doc Three growled.
“Fighting back isn’t getting you anywhere, though.”
“That’s only because you convinced this lunatic to get her army to help you!”
“Lunatic?! Do you really think flattery will get you anywhere?” Queen Biffica said, though she was smiling.
“In the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton, something has to happen, and fast,” Doc Four muttered. “Otherwise I’m going to go crazy.”
One of the guards on the upper level suddenly turned, as if he’d spotted something. “Halt! In the name of – another one of you? Shouldn’t they have run out by now?”
Both good guys and bad guys shared a surprised glance. Another Doc? “How many of us can there be?” Doc Five muttered.
“Damned if I know – I just hope he doesn’t end up taking a heart missile to the face,” J.C. said, bouncing up and down anxiously.
“It would be advisable for you to get out of my way,” the familiar tones of a Dr. Emmett Brown stated calmly.
NonTrilogy Doc arched an eyebrow. “Hey,” he said, “you don’t suppose that’s--”
“Would it? I don’t think so,” the guard said, weapon at the ready. “If you don’t leave right now, I’ll--”
Out of nowhere, a strong breeze whipped through the room. The Docs scrambled to secure loose items. “What in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton?!” Doc Three began –
Then paused as he noticed something. The breeze wasn’t just affecting them – it was also affecting the card guards. Specifically, it was lifting them up and scattering them about like – well, cards. They tumbled uselessly in the wind, yelling in fear and dropping their weapons.
Finally, the breeze abated. The card guards, now very dazed, drifted slowly earthward. A familiar figure appeared on the upper balcony, smirking. The other Docs and the baddies looked up. “Show-off,” VampDoc2 said, rolling his eyes good-naturedly.
“I can’t help it if I’m gifted,” the Doc replied, looking down at the motley scene. “So, I’m assuming this is the trouble. . . .” He glanced over to the half of the room where Jack and his crew were gathered. He paled a bit. “Damn it, why do you have to be here. . . .”
“Who are you?” Jack snapped, trying and failing to put his hair into some semblance of order.
“You don’t recognize your own twin brother? Although that’s a misstatement, considering I don’t have a Jack--”
“I know that part! But what universe’s hell spawned you?”
“That’s Clockwork,” Hatter Doc said brightly. “He’s an alternate of – Doc Nine, was it? – Yes, Doc Nine. The one who has steam coming out of his joints.”
“Wait, what?” Andrew looked between the two Docs, suddenly looking unbalanced. It appeared to be a rather unfamiliar sensation for him. “How can – I only had one back in the lab!”
“Diverging universes,” the Doc identified as Clockwork said coolly. “Apparently I missed out on a week’s worth of torture because I decided to run early.”
“Torture? We were doing science!”
“That was not science!” Clockwork snapped – and above him, thunder abruptly boomed. “That was a perversion of everything science is!”
“Ridiculous! We were going farther than your mere mortal mind could go! I was doing you a favor, getting you away from everyone who could hold you back! You deserved my attentions – that’s a honor!”
“A honor.”
“Yes! How can you say that we didn’t break the bounds of knowledge? We learned, Professor! We learned! And we did! I couldn’t have left you there, to struggle and sweat with no reward! I had to bring you to my realm! Just like the others!”
“Great Scott, I don’t even want to know who else you dragged away.”
“Jealous? You shouldn’t be, you outstripped practically all of them--”
“No. You bastard, you’re not advancing science, you’re retarding it!”
“You just don’t understand, Professor. I can’t let a genius like yourself stay with these humans. You need proper care, proper training! And I’m the only one who can give you that!”
“You do what you must because you can?” a voice suddenly spoke up from somewhere behind Clockwork.
“Exactly!” Andrew agreed with a bright smile.
“Aperture Science would have loved him,” another voice muttered. “He and GLaDOS would have gotten along like a house on fire.”
“I have no doubts,” Clock mumbled back.
“Oh, I’m not even getting into this,” Jack muttered. “I have their Martys, I don’t have to put up with yet another version of my goddamn brother. Who wants to be the one to kill him?”
“You’re the meanie who put all those Martys in that room?”
A little girl scurried down the stairs, frowning at Jack. “Dee!” Clockwork yelled, running after her.
Dee ignored him. “Why do you look so much like Daddy?” she demanded, arms folded.
“I’m his nonexistent twin,” Jack said, frowning down at her. “You managed to produce a little girl this time?”
“It’s more complicated than that,” Clockwork said, grabbing Dee’s arm. “And if you do one thing to harm her--”
Jack just smirked at him. “Now, honey, where’s your mommy?” he cooed fakely at Dee.
Dee glared at Jack. “I don’t have one,” she snapped.
That made Jack blink a little. “Oh, adopted? They actually let you adopt a child?” he added to the Docs at large. “The worthless, insane, completely incompetent--”
“He is not!” Dee yelled, as Clockwork tried to pull her away. “And he made me!”
“Made you?” Sandy repeated, one eyebrow arched severely. “Like in the lab?”
“You actually made your own kid,” Biff said, looking a little stunned. “Man, I knew you got up to crazy shit in that garage of yours, but even I didn’t think you’d ever go that far.”
“What purpose does she serve?” Andrew asked, stroking his chin curiously. “Mere companionship? I thought you had your dogs for that.”
“I was created to aid in the completion of time travel,” Dee announced proudly.
“. . .A little girl?” Amina said, puzzled.
“I’m not a little girl!”
“That’s funny,” Jack started, rolling his eyes. “From where I’m standing, you look just--”
There was a sudden twisting in front of him, and where Dee had stood, there was now a fully tricked out DeLorean time machine. “Just. . .like. . . .”
“What the hell?” Biff squeaked, eyes huge. “How did – how did you--”
“Not me,” Clockwork said, leaning on the top of the car with a satisfied smile. “Apparently falling through a Rift between realities sometimes grants a vehicle shape-shifting abilities. I don’t have the slightest idea how it works, but then I didn’t have the slightest idea how pretty much any of that world worked.”
“What insanity have we walked into?” Douglas finally said, unable to keep his mouth shut any longer.
“We’re in Wonderland, and you choose now to ask that?” Sandy retorted, though even she looked shaken by the sudden “child into car” transformation. “It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference. We’re still in control here. Once the card guards get their senses back--”
“I can knock them over with wind any time I like,” Clockwork said calmly. A soft breeze wafted behind him, spinning around a card guard who’d started to get his bearings again. He flopped over. “And, frankly, the only reason I’m not hitting you all with lightning right now is because the one I really want dead wouldn’t die.”
“You could hit them all with lightning anyway,” Doc Four said, causing him to turn around. “We certainly don’t mind.”
“You’re a weather controller?” Doc Three added.
“It’s a long and complicated story,” Clockwork said. “Of course, I suspect the reason you’re all here is also a long and complicated story.”
“Not all that long,” Jack said, getting his mind working again. He was in a realm of living cards, and he’d started out this adventure in an animal-based Hell – seeing someone transform into a time machine shouldn’t rattle him so much. “I’ve been taking their Martys and--”
Something hit him just then. “Wait a minute. How did--” He stopped, looked at the DeLorean. “How did that know about them?”
“Dee is not a that,” Clockwork shot back, “and those Martys of yours aren’t as captive as you’d like.”
The other Docs immediately perked up. “You rescued them?” Doc Five said, the faintest hints of a smile on his face.
“My Marty and his friends did, actually,” Clockwork said proudly. “They mentioned you all were in trouble, so we decided to come over and help you. Well, actually, they mentioned a certain Fae bastard was here, and I wasn’t going to let my counterpart suffer at his hands again. . . .”
“Where are – actually, no, don’t answer that,” Doc Six backpedaled. “We don’t want them knowing anything.”
“This castle can’t be that big,” Jack snarled, now thoroughly pissed off. How and why were his plans suddenly going so wrong now? Maybe it has to do with us landing in this horrible fictional place. “We’ll find them again. And this time, I won’t waste any time killing them. I’ll start with yours!”
“You really want to mess with the man whose emotions control the weather?” NonTrilogy Doc asked, arching an eyebrow. “Funny – of all the unkind words I could say about you, ‘dumb’ never made the list before now.”
“Shut up! I’m not afraid of him, or of any of you! I’ve been through far worse! I have been through the fires of Hell themselves! You are all child’s play!”
“Then why are you losing your temper?” one of the voices from the balcony said.
“He’s probably just making it all up,” the other one said.
“Who are you?” Sandy called, frowning and pointing her gun in the general direction of the voices.
Two puppies came jogging down the steps – one white, one black. They grinned up at the vampire slayer. “We’re Steve and Gary,” the white one announced. “I’m Steve, he’s Gary.”
“Hey, crazy girl,” Gary said amiably.
“Talking dogs.” Sandy looked back over at Dee. “Well, after the person turned car. . . .”
“No, she started out as a car – she turns into a person,” Gary corrected.
“And we’re not really puppy dogs either,” Steve said. “We transform into mechanical monstrosities too.”
“Oh? Care to demonstrate?”
“Sure!” There was another moment where the fabric of reality twisted, and then sitting in the two puppies’ place were two – what appeared to be turrets of some sort. “Hey,” they said, as if this happened every day.
Sandy stared for a moment. Then she snorted. “Oh, jeez. At least the DeLorean was impressive. What are you two supposed to be?”
“We’re sentry turrets,” Steve said, now sounding a little ticked off.
“Sentry turrets? Like to guard someplace? One kick and you’d go right over!” Sandy began to laugh in earnest. “You have the dumbest design I’ve ever seen! What can you do, really?”
The red glow in the turrets’ eyes seemed to darken ominously. “We – can do this,” Gary said coldly. Two panels set with multiple guns popped out of their sides. “DISPENSING PRODUCT, BITCH!”
The air was suddenly alive with gunfire. Sandy had mere seconds to hit the floor. A few bullets grazed her, and two scored solid hits in her abdomen. Behind her, the wall started to bear a marked resemblance to Swiss cheese. “YEAH! HAVE SOME PRODUCT! HAVE SOME FUCKING PRODUCT!” Steve yelled, rocking from side to side slightly with the force of the gunfire.
“APERTURE SCIENCE WISHES YOU A NICE DAY!” Gary added furiously.
“Holy shit!” a Marty voice said from the balcony – the other Docs looked up to see a Marty that looked near-identical to Marty Nine gawping at the scene.
“Wow, you forget they can do that,” someone else – a young man with red hair and a large nose – agreed, eyes wide.
“More crazy people?!” Biff demanded, jogging around to the other side of Jack to make sure he was far out of the turrets’ range. “How many of these friends do you have?”
“Quite a few,” the man said, scowling at him. “And incidentally, I have a chainsaw.”
“And that’s only one of the things he usually carries around,” the new Marty added.
“Jack?” Douglas’s voice was thin and reedy. “I know I’m going to get smacked for this, but I have to say it. I think we’re outclassed.”
Jack elbowed him in the gut. “We are not outclassed!” He grabbed a stave from one of the still very dizzy hearts. “I am never outclassed!”
“You’re certainly outnumbered,” Doc Four growled, letting his eyes glow. “I don’t care how many of those stupid homing devices you have, you can’t beat all of us.”
“I can certainly well try. And just to prove I mean business. . . .” He spun around and fired off a round straight at the new Marty’s head.
“SHIT! Marty, duck!” Clockwork yelled, blasting the missile with a gust of wind.
The new Marty and his friend dropped. The missile spun off course from the wind, tried to correct by swerving in a large U –
Then, for some reason, exploded in midair. The group stared at the remains of the missile. “Are they supposed to do that?” TeenDoc asked slowly.
“For the love of God, tell me I didn’t grab a defective one,” Jack growled.
“What the hell? Who’s firing?”
A rather short blond girl rushed onto the balcony, looking pissed. “Hey, bozos, we’re not enemies! You nearly scared Victor literally out of – his. . . .What in the name of Marty Feldman??” She looked between the two groups. “What’s going on here?”
“Just what we need, more new people,” Sandy grumbled, still pinned down by turret fire. “Ow. . . .”
“Who the hell are you, butthead?” Biff snarled, pointing his gun at her.
“Off with her head! Off with her head!” Queen Biffica yelled, waving her scepter.
“What brings you here?” DocWolf said, rather casually in the other Docs’ opinions.
“Wondering where the hell all of you had gotten to! Have you started a war?”
“Not us – him,” HatterDoc said accusingly, pointing at Jack.
The girl turned to look at the group of baddies. Her eyes widened. “What the everloving – what are you doing here?! You’re dead!”
“As I have told many, many others, I got better,” Jack hissed. “And – wait a minute, how do you know me?”
The girl suddenly looked embarrassed. “I, uh, kind of thought you up.”
“. . .What.”
“What?” Doc Ten echoed, staring at the girl in disbelief. “Really, who are you?”
The spot where the girl was standing abruptly darkened, as if it had been cast into shadow. She drew one arm across her face, like she was holding a cape. Dramatic music started up.“I am the terror who flaps in the night! I am the creature who makes pens and pencils run in fear! I – AM--”
“A fanfic writer with delusions of grandeur,” NonTrilogy Doc said, cutting her off.
The music stopped abruptly, and the room lightened again. The girl glared at NonTrilogy Doc. “You guys just can’t let me have my fun.”
“Where on earth did that music come from?” Doc Three muttered, searching the ceiling.
“Fanfic writer?” Jack repeated slowly. “Oh, come on, don’t tell me this is that girl you were talking about earlier. The one you claim made all this.”
“Yeah, that would be her,” OckDoc said, in a rather tired voice. “Vic, chaos. Chaos, Vic. I’m sure you’re already well acquainted.”
“Is there really a need for all that sarcasm?”
“We know you, so yes,” OckDoc replied, tentacles grumbling. “You care to explain to us why practically every single major antagonist we’ve encountered in your stories and role-playing backstories is here?”
“I don’t know! Like I said, Jack-boy there is supposed to be rotting in the pits of Hell! And as for the rest of them--” Vic noticed the turrets firing wildly at Sandy. “Wait, who’s that? Steve, Gary, quit for a minute!”
“She insulted us!” Steve snapped, not ceasing in the least.
“That’s no reason to waste all your ammo, idiot. Besides, I want to know who’s under the rain of bullets.”
“Sandra Rayben, one of the most tenacious vampire hunters to ever grace this planet,” Doc Two filled in with a sigh.
“Sandy?! I wrote exactly one story with her in it, and I never even typed it up because I lost interest in the universe – ah, no offense,” she added hurriedly to Doc Two.
“Don’t take any – losing interest means you don’t have to put up with any more threats to your way of life,” VampDoc told his story alternate.
“Oh, this is just crazy,” Allysin said, folding her arms and glaring. “I refuse to believe this girl is responsible for all life on the planet, so to speak. I’ve hit my limit on the insanity. Who is she really?”
“We’re telling the truth!” TeenDoc protested.
“Bullshit!”
“Believe the ‘fanfic author with delusions of grandeur’ part, then,” NonTrilogy Doc said, looking frustrated. “That’s true enough.”
“I do not have ‘delusions of grandeur,’” Vic snapped, finally coming down from her perch on the stairs. “I am a perfectly normal – okay, even I can’t finish that with a straight face. But I’m not delusional. Not when it comes to grandeur.”
“I just refuse to believe this girl created our universe and everything in it,” Allysin continued, scowling. “I ain’t fictional.”
“Well, not in the context of your own world, no,” Hatter Doc said reasonably. “Here, though, the rules work a little differently.”
“And I didn’t create all of your world,” Vic added. “I borrowed big pieces of it from other sources. You need to blame White Wolf games for your little Faerie problem.”
“So we’ve heard,” Fred said suspiciously. “And I’m from a video game, and Victor from a movie?”
“Bingo. Now you’re getting it.”
Allysin snorted. “Yeah, yeah, tell me another one. I’m not buying it, pretty lady.”
Vic sighed and rolled her eyes. “Okay, fine, believe what you want. I think I’ve got bigger fish to fry anyway.”
“You don’t have any fish to fry! What possible reason do you have for being here!”
“Oh, shut up Andrea!” Vic snapped, turning around.
Allysin started to reply – then froze, eyes widening with shock. “What did you call me?” she whispered, mouth hanging open slightly.
Vic stopped, then slapped a hand to her forehead. “Allysin. . .I can’t believe I just said that!”
“What’s my real name, then?” Victor spoke up, voice trembling.
Vic looked at him. “Well, technically, your real name is Victor – I just changed it to Timothy to reference Tim Burton.”
Victor took a moment to process this information. “I never liked being called Timothy, you know,” he blurted.
“It could be worse,” Tie-Twister said darkly. “My full name is Victor Fitzwilliam Van Dort.”
“Fitzwilliam?” Victor repeated, blinking. “Who names their child Fitzwilliam?”
“Isn’t that from Pride and Prejudice?” Fred added, just as stunned as anyone else.
“Yes, and one of her friends has a crush on Colin Firth, who played Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in one of the movie adaptations,” Tie-Twister said. “That’s what called her attention to the name, and she thought it was hilarious, so she had Mother think it high-class and saddle me with it.”
“That does sound like Mother,” Victor said.
Allysin, however, was starting to turn red with rage. “You’re – you’re the reason – you did all of this to – what the hell is wrong with you?! I should brain you with my mallet!”
“You’re welcome to,” Vic said with odd calm.
“I – what?”
“I said, if you want to take a swing at me, go ahead,” Vic said with a small, almost embarrassed shrug. “I’m not going to deny I put you through hell. I’m hardly the first, and I won’t be the last, but I’m sure you care exactly zero percent about that, so, yeah.”
“That’s one of the reasons we put up with her – she’s surprisingly good about this sort of thing,” OckDoc said. “I’ve personally put her out the window a couple of times.”
“Out the window?” his counterpart Doc Six said, frowning. “Not that I can’t say she didn’t deserve it, looking at our various backstories, but it still seems a little harsh.”
“Authorial privilege!” Vic said cheerfully, bouncing on her heels. “I’m indestructible.”
“Plus once she put a trampoline under there,” OckDoc added, tentacles nodding.
The group of bad guys were watching the scene with various levels of disbelief. “So, this is God?” Biff muttered. “Guess all those pagan weirdos were actually right.”
“This is not God,” Jack said, feeling the beginnings of a major headache come on. “She cannot be God. I refuse to believe some blond 18-year-old is our God!”
“Good thing I’m not 18 then,” Vic said, overhearing. “I’m 23. I know, it’s the face. Curse.”
“Does she treat everything with such disrespect?” Amina growled, glaring at the blonde girl.
“Hey, it helps when you’re God,” Vic smirked at her. “Don’t worry, though, I’m not going to demand you worship me. Mostly because you personally skeeve me out.”
“I don’t know what that means, but I do know that you are not Allah or God or whatever you want to call yourself,” Amina snapped back. “You are a wretched stain upon the fabric of life. You are the filth that should be eliminated from the world! And I know my dear Jack knows just how to take care of you,” she added, smiling up at her new boyfriend. Jack smiled back down at her.
Vic stared for a moment. “Your dear – oh, in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton, please tell me those two do not have a thing for each other,” she begged of the nearby Docs.
“My other selves told us they’ve been making out all over the train,” Museical called from where he and his friend were still hunkered down.
“Oh, yuck. Talk about unholy matrimony,” Vic muttered, making a face.
“You’re asking for one of these to be fired straight into that pretty little face of yours,” Jack warned, warming up the heart stave again.
“Uh, yeah, you miss the part where I said I’m indestructible? Authorial privilege?”
“Bullshit!” Sandy’s voice suddenly came. A leg swept out, knocking Steve and Gary over.
“Uh, a little help please?”
Sandy jumped back to her feet. The wounds in her abdomen were bleeding, but they barely seemed to slow her down. She pulled a knife and ran straight at Vic. “I’ll show you indestructi--”
About a foot away from the girl, she suddenly slammed right into an invisible wall. Stunned, she fell backwards. Vic examined her nails. “Yes, okay, lovely effort. May we move on to the part where I send all of you idiots back to where you came from?”
Sandy got back to her feet, now looking a little wobbly. She took an experimental swing at Vic. And then yelped as her hand connected with the invisible wall. “Nice one,” Vic said, deadpan. “You want to break your foot next?”
“She’s not going to let you touch her,” VampDoc2 said as Sandy wound up for another attempt. “Admittedly, it would amuse me to see you beat yourself up trying. . . .”
“Shut up, you filthy aberration,” Sandy snarled, slapping a hand against the invisible wall. “I don’t know how this bitch got her hands on a – a force field, but I--”
Something suddenly pushed her backwards, throwing her to the ground again. Vic sighed and rolled her eyes. “Oh, we are going to have to do this the hard way, aren’t we?” She waved at the other Docs. “Leave them to me. I’ll have them crying for their mamas in no time.”
“I do not cry for anyone, especially my mother,” Jack said. “We’ll figure out a way to hurt you.”
“Excuse us!”
“Assistance requested and all that crap!”
Jack turned to look at the overturned turrets. He grinned. “Like, say, smashing those two?” he said, turning his heart stave on the robots.
“Don’t you--” Vic started, advancing.
“Um, did he say smash?” Gary asked, a distinct note of worry in his voice.
“Or blow up,” Jack said, charging his stave. “I’m easy.”
“Shit! Transform! Transform!”
“Go go power rangers!” Steve yelled as the two hurriedly turned back into their puppy forms.
“Seriously, dude? Power Rangers?” Gary asked, shaking his head.
“Don’t worry about it! Run! Run!”
“Oh, great, how many of him are there?” Biff snapped as another Victor appeared at the top of the stairs, looking quite worried.
“Don’t worry, it’s only the three of us,” Tie-Twister said coldly.
“No, I think it’s only going to be the two of you,” Jack said, swinging the charged stave around to point at the new Victor, who froze. “I’m rather tired of all these alternates myself. Farewell, whatever version of Mr. Van Dort you are.” He aimed carefully, and –
Found that he couldn’t fire. For some reason, he could not activate the trigger. “What the – is it jammed?” he asked, lowering the point to try and get a better look at the firing mechanism. “I could have sworn--”
A loud explosion promptly blew up the section of floor in front of him. The others scrambled for cover as debris flew around. Smoke curled up from the floor, then dissipated, leaving the blackened figure of Jack standing there. He glared around the room. “Nobody. Say. One. Word.”
“Does laughing count as a word?” Vic replied, not even trying to hide her grin.
Clockwork, however, seemed less amused. “He really could have hurt him – all right up there, Victor?” he called, obviously worried.
There was no reply. The new Victor had vanished from sight. “Victor?”
“He kind of hit the ground, Doc,” Museical said, slowly getting to his feet. With a grunt, he pulled up the limp body of the new Victor, half-slinging it over his shoulder. “I think Jack spooked him good.”
Jack grinned. “Well, at least I caused the little bastard to faint. That should keep him out of our hair for the moment. Of course, I’m still open to more permanent solutions.”
“You touch him and I will end you,” Clockwork said, voice dark.
“Oh, found yourself another little boy-toy?”
Jack suddenly found himself on the receiving end of a gust of wind so concentrated it felt like a punch to the face. He stumbled backwards, blinking, as Clockwork glowered. “I can do a lot worse, so I’d refrain from using such language.”
“And besides, he’s ultra-protective of everyone who lives at the Inkwell, so your gay sex insinuations don’t really fit,” Vic added, rolling her eyes.
“I haven’t seen one girl here yet – that DeLorean doesn’t count – so I think--”
A knife suddenly flew past his head, embedding itself into the wall. “It appears you have need of me,” a young woman said as she made her way past Museical and down the stairs, pulling out a pack of cards as she did so.
“Perfect timing, Alice,” Vic grinned. “Here’s your girl, Jackie-boy! Of course, now I’m sure you’re just going to make some joke about him constantly associating with teenagers, but you must now acknowledge he resides in a place with women.”
Jack was baffled enough not to take the bait. “Now who the hell is this?”
“What’s with the weird dress?” Stanley added, tilting his head.
“Alice Pleasance Liddell,” the girl introduced herself with a mocking curtsy.
“Alice – Wonderland’s Alice?”
“Have you even noticed where we are?” Sandy demanded. Looking at Alice, she added, “I’ll, uh, give you that I wasn’t expecting her to be that old. . . .”
“How old were you expecting me to be?”
“Seven? Seven and a half?”
Alice rolled her eyes. “Just because that was my age in the books doesn’t mean I’m frozen at that moment forever. I most assuredly did not take Humpty Dumpty’s advice to heart.”
“What the hell does that even mean?” Biff demanded.
“Don’t remember our conversation from Through the Looking-Glass? He told me that seven and a half was a tricky age, and that, with proper assistance, I could have left off at seven.” She smirked in a way that seemed to hint at horrible things happening in the very near future. “Shall I assist you in leaving off at your current age?”
Biff stared at her a moment. Then he smirked back. “How do you plan to do that?” he said.
“Well, these are very useful in that regard,” Alice said with a little shrug, holding up the cards.
“A pack of playing cards? What are they, razor sharp on the edges?”
The smirk made a reappearance. “Precisely.” She suddenly grabbed a few of them and hurled them at Biff.
The startled auto detailer managed to dodge a good number of them, but a few whisked past him, slicing cuts into his arms and leg. “Ow! What the--” He stared down at the cuts, then back up at Alice. “What kind of Alice are you?”
“The kind whose family died in a fire shortly before my eighth birthday,” Alice said calmly, readying more cards. “I’ve been in bedlam since I was small.”
“. . .It’s been a while, but I don’t remember that from the books.”
“You can read?” Alice retorted mildly.
Biff scowled and brought his gun up. “Yeah, I can. I can also shoot this. So unless your little cards can cut through it. . . .”
Alice examined the gun for a moment. Then she shook her head. “No, I don’t think my cards would do well against your gun,” she allowed, dropping them in her apron pocket.
Alice nodded, then reached forward – and plucked the biggest gun Biff had ever seen out of thin air. The damn thing was almost as tall as she was, with a flared barrel that looked good for shooting cannonballs. “So I guess I’ll just have to pull out my own,” she continued with a little grin.
Biff gaped, his gun hand sagging. “What – what--”
“It’s called a Blunderbuss. It can essentially annihilate anything that annoys me. Though the recoil is absolutely terrible. It always takes me a few minutes to recover.”
“Sucks,” Biff squeaked.
“This is getting ridiculous,” Jack growled. “I don’t believe any gun, no matter how big, could take out all of us in one hit.”
“What, has seeing – and experiencing – the power of the heart staves not convinced you that normal physics need not apply here?” Vic asked.
“We’re all talking too much,” Jack said, swinging his stave up. “Let’s see what firepower we can really pull off. Everyone, either grab a stave or get one of those fucking guards on their feet!”
“Shall I blow them all up?” Alice said, cocking her gun and causing Biff, at least, to freeze halfway toward grabbing one of the fallen weapons.
“Well, I still kind of want to know what the hell they’re doing here. . . .”
“You’re not going to get the chance to find – Hey!”
Jack jumped as something grabbed his stave and tried to yank it out of his hands. “Who the hell dares–” he began, half-turning.
Only to see what looked like a green, glowing Victor Van Dort standing behind him.
Jack couldn’t help a moment of staring. Every time he thought things couldn’t possibly get any weirder. . . . “So, I – succeeded in killing you?” he said slowly. “I have to admit, that’s nice.”
“No, I’m afraid I’m not quite dead,” the young man replied with a frown.
“Then – then how are you--” Victor babbled, staring at his supposedly-dead duplicate with wide eyes.
“Er, yes, did I forget to mention he has the ability to die temporarily and become a ghost?” Tie-Twister said, pulling at his tie awkwardly.
“How the hell do you get that superpower?” Fred asked.
“Have a mun with a strange sense of humor,” the ghostly Victor said, trying again to yank the stave from Jack’s hands.
“You’re from a movie where you accidentally marry a corpse,” Vic argued. “How could I not give you a death-related power? And this is the result of falling into an alternate universe Chicago through a rift that changes something about you,” she added to the others. “Same reason Clockwork can control the weather, in case he didn’t mention it earlier.”
“Why do I get the feeling that movie had something to do with my Durance as well?” Victor said, eyes narrowing slightly.
“Uh, yeah,” Vic said, suddenly looking a little embarrassed. “I can be a horrible person, I admit.” Looking at the bad guys, she added, waving to Jack and Andrew, “Exhibits A and B, right there.”
“What are you talking about?” Andrew said, folding his arms. “All I ever tried to do was help my Professor! There was nothing malicious about it! We had an excellent student-teacher relationship!”
“Yeah, that’s what makes you creepy, Andrew,” Vic said. “You just don’t get it. And that’s why you’ll never know all there is to know.”
Andrew’s face darkened. “What did you say?” he said, eyes narrowing to slits.
“I said, Mr. Seeker of all Knowledge, your quest can never be completed. Because there’s always going to be knowledge you just can’t know, on account of being you.”
“I am a Fae,” Andrew growled, his voice taking on an odd, echoey tone. The others, even Jack, backed away slightly. “I am eternal.”
“No you ain’t. I’ve read the sourcebooks. You don’t fight with your fellow Fae, don’t struggle and strive to become evermore perfect, and you just fade away.”
“Really?” Allysin said in hopeful tones.
“What would any human know about us?” Andrew said, eyes starting to glow. “Humans, though fascinating in their own ways, are far inferior to the might of my race.”
“Hmmm. Really. That’s really weird, then, how I plan to have that lot of Changelings back there kill you and another Fae at the end of their story.”
Four mouths dropped open in unison. “What?” Doc Nine whispered.
“Oh, so you’re really not that far along? Okay then, I’ll spoil the surprise – Doc gets to kill Andrew and Victor gets to kill Rosie.” Vic grinned and spread her arms wide. “So, who’s your god?”
“You – you let me kill R-Rosie?” Victor whispered.
“Yup. With ironic echoes and everything.”
“I am not going to be killed by my Professor!” Andrew yelled. His form had twisted a little now – not much, but he somehow looked rather less human than he did before. The glowing eyes and the grease dripping off his fingers didn’t help. “He would never do such a thing!”
“Think again, Andy,” Clockwork snarled. “I’d love to cave your head in with a tire iron.”
“Same here,” Doc Nine agreed, face dark. Glancing over at Vic, he added, “I really get to kill him?”
“Scout’s honor,” Vic said, holding up a hand. “And that’s not just a hackneyed phrase – I was a Brownie back when I was a little ickle girl.”
“You were in the Girl Scouts?” OckDoc said incredulously.
“Yeah. Had the handbook and everything.”
“This is ridiculous!” Andrew roared. “Though obviously I didn’t do enough work on you, Professor!”
“You did no work! These mechanical things are all my doing!” Clockwork roared back, steam pouring out of his elbows.
“I put them in, didn’t I? And I can take them out as well!” He made a sudden grab for Clockwork’s arm. “Come, we’re going--”
He stopped dead as his hand hit an invisible wall a few inches above the Changeling character’s arm. He and Clockwork stared for a moment. “Home?” Andrew said, a bit of his human form coming back as anger was replaced by confusion. He flexed his fingers above the barrier. “Now what is this?”
“Oooooh, poor little Fae,” Vic said with a distinctly mocking grin. “Did we forget something important?”
“What are you prattling on about now?” Andrew snapped at her.
Vic sashayed up to him. “Oh, how quickly one forgets,” she cooed. “You made him a promise, back when you first took him. Or, rather, the first time he tried to get out of your clutches. Remember? ‘If you make it home, I will never touch you again.’”
“He didn’t make it home!” Andrew said, frustrated. “I found him lost in the Hedge!”
“He didn’t make it home the first time,” Vic corrected, grin widening. “It’s all in the phrasing, Andrew buddy. And I didn’t see any time limit attached to your little promise.”
Andrew’s expression slowly went from “I will cut you if you keep talking” to “oh, shit. . . .” “But – but he didn’t make it back to Hill Valley!” he protested, still trying and failing to grab onto Clockwork’s arm.
“No – but I consider the Inkwell home now,” Clockwork said, voice soft. “Hell, I even called Chicago home a couple of times!” He turned to Vic, eyes bright. “You mean – I can touch him, but he can’t touch me?”
“Precisely,” Vic smirked.
Clockwork looked at Andrew, who stared back with uncomprehending eyes. Then he drew back his fist –
POW! There was a blast of high-powered wind, an absurdly loud crash, and then – the sight of a large hole in the wall opposite the scientist, roughly the size and shape of a Fae. Andrew’s legs could be seen sticking out of it. Clockwork grinned brightly. “Great Scott, that was satisfying!”
There was a round of general staring. “Jesus Christ, Doc, you just punched somebody through a wall!” Museical finally yelled, mouth hanging open.
“I noticed,” Clockwork said, frowning. “Vic, why didn’t the punching bag do that? It weighs a lot less than a full-grown Fae, and I was pretty damn angry at the time I was using it.”
“I didn’t want to get in trouble for wrecking the Conrad,” Vic said. “People might have complained, you know.”
“Excuse me, someone was just punched through a wall here!” Museical yelled, gesturing at the hole. “Now is not the time for discussing shit like that!”
The bad guys similarly gawked at the hole. “You – he – gaaahhh. . . .” Biff whimpered.
“I think Biff’s brain is well and truly broken now,” Vic commented with an evil grin. “Soon he’s gonna end up like the Bursar.”
“Jack, I’d like to rethink our plans a little,” Sandy said, staring at Clockwork with nervous eyes. “I mean, this whole kidnapping plan was great when we didn’t have someone who could flatten us with just a punch--”
“I don’t even need that much,” Clockwork said, smiling in a way that made him look exactly like the mad scientist plenty of people said he was. “The weather responds to my emotions. All you have to do is get me ticked off enough that I lose control.”
“Yeah, we definitely need to reassess our goals here.”
“They haven’t won yet!” Jack protested. “If he can flatten us all, why doesn’t he just do it?”
“DON’T TEMPT HIM!” everyone else, even Amina, yelled.
The distraction proved enough for DGVictor to finally pull the stave out of Jack’s hands. He bolted for the opposite side of the room and his body. “Here, you take this,” he said, shoving the stave into J.C.’s hands.
“Okay,” J.C. said, starting as some of his fingers brushed through hers. “Yikes, that’s cold!”
“My apologies – I can’t control that.” He went over and placed a hand on the limp body still slung over Marty’s shoulder. There was a flash of green, then the ghostly Victor was gone. Moments later, his eyes popped open. “Oh, it feels good to be back,” he commented, getting to his feet.
“You’re not going to be back for long!” Jack yelled, running at him (and just barely dodging a lightning strike out of nowhere – “Damn it,” Clockwork hissed). Victor scrambled away from Marty, only to stumble over the head of a card guard. Jack was on him in an instant. “I am sick and tired of you all causing me problems! Well, soon you--”
It happened so suddenly that it took his mind a few minutes to catch up. As he reached out his hands to try and grab DGVictor’s throat, they froze. He tried to force them forward, but they refused to move. And through his anger, he could feel – an urge. A distinct urge not to hurt. “The hell?” he muttered, trying and failing to even wiggle his fingers in a threatening way.
Everyone else seemed similarly confused – Jack got the feeling it was the only reason he wasn’t under a pile of angry Docs right now. “I thought you were going to strangle him?” J.C. said, raising the stave so it was level with Jack’s head. “Incidentally, back off or I’ll blow you to kingdom come.”
“I can’t,” Jack said, deciding just to let the confusion show. Hell, it was a very trying day all of a sudden – he was allowed to be confused.
“You?” Amina said, astonished. “Show mercy to some beanpole American--”
“English,” Vic corrected.
“–English swine?” Amina continued, rolling her eyes. “Jack, that’s not like you.”
“No, it’s not that I won’t – I literally can’t,” Jack snapped. He wasn’t about to admit to any weird feelings of friendliness toward this young man. They didn’t feel right anyway.
“Can’t?” Vic repeated, arching an eyebrow. “That’s not right. The only way you couldn’t is – is if. . . .”
Her voice trailed off as her eyes went wide. “You weren’t making some sort of weird joke when you said, ‘I got better,’ were you? You bastard, you’re a fucking runner!”
“I haven’t got the slightest idea what you’re talking about!” Jack yelled, finally straightening up. The animation returned to his hands, leaving him quietly relieved.
“We’d like some clarification too,” Doc Six said, the tentacles hissing. “Just so we know exactly what we’re dealing with here when it comes to him. And the best way to kill him.”
“That’s the problem,” Vic said, her voice now icy. “He’s already dead.”
There was another round of general silence at that. “Wait, what?”
Jack arched an eyebrow. “What the hell do you mean by that?”
“I mean – wait, you don’t know?” Vic gaped at him. “How the hell could you miss the fact that you’re dead?”
“I’m not dead!” Jack snapped. “I was before, but I recovered! I came back!”
“Coming back doesn’t mean you’re magically not dead, you moron. Seriously, how did you not notice?”
“I’ve had a lot on my mind,” Jack said sarcastically. “Also, I’m not dead.”
“Fine, then. Prove it,” Vic said, crossing her arms. “Check your pulse.”
“Gladly.” Jack lay two fingers on his wrist, scowling at all and sundry. This was absolutely ridiculous. Well, everything about his current situation was absolutely ridiculous, but this was more so than the rest of it. How the hell could he be dead? Surely he would have –
Would. . .have. . . .
He looked down at his wrist as he realized that there was something rather important missing. He quickly transferred his fingers to his neck. The carotid artery and jugular vein were in there, he’d have to feel it. . . .
Nothing. As a last resort, Jack pressed both hands hard against his chest, searching with newfound desperation for the familiar beat, beat, beat. . . .
Emptiness greeted his hands. He looked up slowly, into the face of a very smug-looking Vic. “But – but I’m breathing,” he said, not willing to admit defeat just yet. “Why would I breathe--”
“Two possibilities,” Vic interrupted him, holding up her fingers. “One, you’re doing it out of habit. Two, you’re merely taking in air to talk, and you’ve been too busy to notice you haven’t been breathing otherwise. It’s one of those things we don’t really think about when we’re alive, you know.”
Jack stared at her, then, on impulse, tried to hold his breath. There was no gradually growing burning in his lungs, no need to open his lips and bring in air. He felt a shudder go through him. “I’m warm!” he said desperately.
Vic frowned. “Okay, that one I’m not sure about – rot? Or maybe it’s just a leftover from Hell, I don’t know.”
“And what about the fact that I feel pain?” Jack growled, trying to ignore the growing sense of uneasiness deep in his gut.
Vic looked at him flatly. “I had you in Hell, genius. It doesn’t work as well unless you have a mortal shell with working nerve endings. Pratchett’s taught me that much. Basically, your nervous system works – for a given value of such – but nothing else does. You don’t need to eat, you don’t need to breathe, but you can still feel.” Looking at his face, she added, “Well, okay, maybe the circulatory system works too – though I dunno. Can you bruise if the blood’s not flowing? I need to get some biologists in my head.”
Jack shook his head, the uneasiness temporarily masked by anger. “Do you mean to tell me,” he snarled, “that I managed, through planning and extreme luck, to escape Hell, and return to Earth, and that didn’t include restoring me to LIFE?!”
“Nope!” Vic said, going back to perky. “You’re dead dead dead, and nothing will ever change that, you worthless pile of scum.”
“What happens if I try killing you?” Jack hissed.
“Then all of reality – your reality, anyway – winks out of existence. God, remember?”
“What does this have to do with him not being able to hurt the beanpole?” Douglas asked quietly, as the others gaped.
“Oh, dead things like that Victor,” Vic said easily. “It’s a side effect of the ghost thing. Zombies and the like see him as one of their own. Jack must have gotten hit with a particularly strong blast of the effect.”
“You mean I can’t lay a finger on him?!” Jack yelled.
“Nope,” Vic grinned. “Life sucks, doesn’t it?”
“You – you--”
“Me!” Vic said, still grinning widely. “Honor thy God, or face her wrath. Though you might face her wrath anyway, if you’re a horrible bastard like you are.”
Jack turned to glare at the newest Victor, who’d regained his feet. He shrugged. “It’s hardly my fault.”
“I’m not accepting defeat,” he growled. “I refuse to accept defeat. I’ll figure out--”
And then it hit him. He turned to look at Andrew, who’d finally crawled out of his hole, a new smile crawling across his face. “Andrew?”
“What?” Andrew snapped, rubbing his head and sounding extremely ticked off (and extremely inhuman).
Jack pointed between Clockwork and the newest Victor. “Trade?”
Andrew frowned for a moment. Then it clicked, and he smiled. “That sounds lovely.”
“Oh no you don’t!” Clockwork yelled, a fresh wind picking up. “I’m not letting you lay a finger on him!”
“He’s my special guest, so he can do as he likes!” Queen Biffica snarled. “Off with your head!”
“You know what, this has gone far enough,” Doc One declared, eyes narrowed. “Everyone without a defensive power of some sort, head for the doors as fast as you can. The rest of you--” He took a deep breath. “Hit them with everything you’ve got.”
On To Chapter Seventeen--->
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Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (1978)
Style: Art Rock, Pop Rock
Label: EMI, Sonopresse, Capitol Records
01. Moving
02. The Saxophone Song
03. Strange Phenomena
05. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
06. Wuthering Heights
07. James And The Cold Gun
08. Feel It
09. Oh To Be In Love
10. L'Amour Looks Something Like You
11. Them Heavy People
12. Room For The Life
13. The Kick Inside
The tale's been oft-told, but bears repeating: Discovered by a mutual friend of the Bush family as well as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Bush was signed on Gilmour's advice to EMI at 16. Given a large advance and three years, The Kick Inside was her extraordinary debut. To this day (unless you count the less palatable warblings of Tori Amos) nothing sounds like it.
Using mainly session musicians, The Kick Inside was the result of a record company actually allowing a young talent to blossom. Some of these songs were written when she was 13! Helmed by Gilmour's friend, Andrew Powell, it's a lush blend of piano grandiosity, vaguely uncomfortable reggae and intricate, intelligent, wonderful songs. All delivered in a voice that had no precedents. Even so, EMI wanted the dullest, most conventional track, James And The Cold Gun as the lead single, but Kate was no push over. At 19 she knew that the startling whoops and Bronte-influenced narrative of Wuthering Heights would be her make or break moment. Luckily she was allowed her head.
Of course not only did Wuthering Heights give her the first self-written number one by a female artist in the UK, (a stereotype-busting fact of huge proportions, sadly undermined by EMI's subsequent decision to market Bush as lycra-clad cheesecake), but it represented a level of articulacy, or at least literacy, that was unknown to the charts up until then. In fact, the whole album reads like a the product of a young, liberally-educated mind, trying to cram as much esoterica in as possible. Them Heavy People, the album's second hit may be a bouncy, reggae-lite confection, but it still manages to mention new age philosopher and teacher G I Gurdjieff. In interviews she was already dropping names like Kafka and Joyce, while she peppered her act with dance moves taught by Linsdsay Kemp. Showaddywaddy, this was not.
And this isn't to mention the sexual content. Ignoring the album's title itself, we have the full on expression of erotic joy in Feel It and L'Amour Looks Something Like You. Only in France had 19-year olds got away with this kind of stuff. A true child of the 60s vanguard in feminism, Strange Phenomena even concerns menstruation: Another first. Of course such density was decidedly English and middle class. Only the mushy, orchestral Man With The Child In His Eyes, was to make a mark in the US, but like all true artists, you always felt that Bush didn't really care about the commercial rewards. She was soon to abandon touring completely and steer her own fabulous course into rock history.
Chris Jones / BBC Review
Labels: Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
Nearly God – Nearly God (1996) (USA & Canada Edition)
Style: Abstract, Trip Hop, Experimental
Format: CD, Vinyl, Cass.
Label: Durban Poison, 4th & Broadway
01. Tattoo
02. Poems
03. Together Now
04. Keep Your Mouth Shut
05. I Be The Prophet
06. Make A Change
07. Black Coffee
08. Bubbles
09. I Sing For You
10. Yoga
12. Children's Story
Trip-Hop is a very interesting style of music to listen to most of the time. Even a more interesting one to review. Some albums will strike you as amazing right off the bat. Others will just sound strange and strewn about all of over the place. Nearly God is an interesting mix between the two, mixing some of the practical elements, with some really different ideas. Each song really does carry it's own separate tune but also contributes to the album as a whole in their own way. Some songs will come off sounding light and very acessible, and some will sound downright disturbing. It will be up to you to decide which ones are which.~
From the start of the album you can tell you're in for a ride. As the album opener, Tatoo is immediately immersive with its creepy, brooding atmosphere, paving the way for the record's bleak and depressing soundscape. Alone in a room with headphones on, Nearly God is as ethereal as it is eerie. This album will jump from one genre bending song to the next in the blink of an eye, and most of the time you don't even progress a song. Songs like Poems and Together Now are very light and upbeat, including very acessible vocals and song structures. Songs like Tattoo, Keep Your Mouth Shut and Judas will give off more of the macabre tone. Between the processed vocals and the very eerie background vocals, it will make you ponder as to whether some of the songs are beautiful or just creepy. But songs such as I Be The Prophet are almost standalone tracks that don't sound like anything you've heard on the album prior. Traditionally oriented strings as the main beat/rhythm of the song really make the song, (among others), some of the best on the album to listen to. With the female vocals and the same processed male vocals layered over the top of each other, it gives a great juxtaposition between angelic and demonic. The music itself is quite amazing, completely un rushed and takes it's time building a constant tone and mood throughout the entire listen. Between the different singing and talking/rapping (if you will) throughout the album, you get a great variety of genres all within one song. This album has almost constant layering, between the vocals and all of the random noises/ambience that is added. While in some releases this can be a nuisance, it is executed very well on this album and almost perfectly in some cases.
The amount of guest musicians and singer/songwriters is a bit intimidating at times. It can make one wonder, how complete the listening experience is with the vocalist changing almost every single song. But overall the album still retains a very good feel of consistency throughout and still maintains to sound completely different each and every track. With songs that don't even speak English to songs that have one obscure beat then quickly jump to a sample of a pre-recorded generic rap song.
Although the album does a great job with the atmosphere and almost flawless production of the vocals and music itself, it's not without its' faults. The length of the songs may not look that bad, the longest just clocking in at 6:54. But sometimes the album can feel like it drags on and on, and its just you listening to the same thing over and over again, waiting for something more to happen. Although each song will recapture your attention with each passing track, even some of the 4 minute tracks can seem a bit boring and monotonous.
This album is very hard to really form a solid opinion on, some of the songs will completely draw you in and make you really listen. Others will just make you want to hit the skip button and see if the next track is better. I would say, if you're into trip-hop or this artist in particular, check this out. It might not be up to par with a lot of the other artists in the genre but it's worth a shot. To everyone who hasn't heard of this artist at all and have never heard of this genre, still check this out. There are better releases, I'm sure, but this is still one great album.
beans / sputnik music
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American Film Institute Catalog
by: Michael Jimenez - May 9th, 2007
The American Film Institute Catalog is an authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893–1971.
Content is added twice yearly, as the AFI staff completes their coverage of 1970s. The AFI Catalog currently offers over 47,760 film records with detailed subject and music indexing, plot summaries and production notes. In addition, over 1,000 film entries have been updated with current information on new film and television adaptations of older films, the latest news on persons in the film records, additions to silent film records from new research findings, and other relevant film industry news. The Top Ten Films of the last 5 years, selected by AFI, are also featured with full entries, subject and music indexing, and extensive plot summaries and production notes. Harvard University ID and PIN required.
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Hydrogeology of Libya
Revision as of 16:29, 19 March 2018 by Beod (talk | contribs) (→Surface water)
A checked version of this page, approved on 19 March 2018, was based on this revision.
Africa Groundwater Atlas >> Hydrogeology by country >> Hydrogeology of Libya
This page has limited information and needs to be updated. If you have more information on the hydrogeology of Libya, please get in touch!
Please cite this page as: Upton & Ó Dochartaigh, 2016.
Bibliographic reference: Upton, K. & Ó Dochartaigh, B.É. 2016. Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Libya. British Geological Survey. Accessed [date you accessed the information]. http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Hydrogeology_of_Libya
Libya. Map developed from USGS GTOPOPO30; GADM global administrative areas; and UN Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. For more information on the map development and datasets see the geography resource page.
Estimated Population in 2013* 6,201,521
Rural Population (% of total) (2013)* 21.8%
Total Surface Area* 1,759,540 sq km
Agricultural Land (% of total area) (2012)* 8.7%
Capital City Tripoli
Region Northern Africa
Border Countries Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Tunisia
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal (2013)* 4,326 Million cubic metres
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Agriculture (2013)* 82.9%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Domestic Use (2013)* 14.1%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Industry (2013)* 3.1%
Rural Population with Access to Improved Water Source (2012)* n/a
Urban Population with Access to Improved Water Source (2012)* n/a
* Source: World Bank
More information on average rainfall and temperature for each of the climate zones in Libya can be seen at the Libya climate page.
There are no permanent rivers in Libya, only ephemeral rivers or wadis. The main natural lakes are the Ubari lakes in the Ubari Sand Sea in the south, including the Gaberoun, Mandara and Mafo akes–, the protected Ouau en Namu lakes and the 23rd of July or Benghazi lake, which is actually a lagoon.
The Qattara Depression in the north-west of Libya lies under the sea level and is covered with temporary lakes, salt pans and salt marshes. Other large salt pans include Sabkhat al Hayshah close to the coast near the gulf of Sidra, and Sabkhat Shunayn and Ghuzayyil in the north-east.
Major surface water features of Libya. Map developed from World Wildlife Fund HydroSHEDS; Digital Chart of the World drainage; and FAO Inland Water Bodies. For more information on the map development and datasets see the surface water resource page.
Soil Map of Libya, from the European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Soil Portal. For more information on the map see the soil resource page.
Land Cover Map of Libya, from the European Space Agency GlobCover 2.3, 2009. For more information on the map see the land cover resource page.
The geology map on this page shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (see the Geology resource page for more details).
Geology of Libya at 1:5 million scale. Developed from USGS map (Persits et al. 2002). For more information on the map development and datasets see the geology resource page.
The hydrogeology map below, at 1:5 million scale, shows the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see the Hydrogeology map resource page for more details).
More information on the hydrogeology of Libya is available in the report United Nations (1988) (see References section, below).
References with more information on the geology and hydrogeology of Libya can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
United Nations. 1988. Groundwater in North and West Africa: Libya. United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation for Development and Economic Commission for Africa.
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Bank Failure Friday – Another Triple!
While not so Stressful Test Results Await…
Three more banks fail
Silverton Bank closes, costing the Deposit Insurance Fund an estimated $1.4 billion. Smaller New Jersey and Utah banks also shutter.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Three more banks shut their doors Friday, according to the federal government, bringing the total number of failures up to 32 in 2009.
The first failure was a wholesale banking operator that served 1,400 other lenders across the country and was the fifth biggest bank failure during the current recession in terms of assets.
Georgia "bankers' bank": The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in a statement that it created a bridge bank to take over the operations of Silverton Bank, National Bank, headquartered in Atlanta.
Unlike the other 30 banks that have failed so far in 2009, Silverton Bank did not take deposits directly from the general public or make loans to consumers. Instead, it was a "bankers' bank," offering a wide variety of services, such as foreign wire transfers, as well as clearing and cash management, to other banks.
Silverton was cooperatively owned by community banks throughout the Southeast and was heavily invested in loans to real estate developments in Florida, Georgia, and other parts of the Southeast, according to Christopher Marinac, managing principal of financial firm FIG Partners LLC based out of Atlanta, Ga.
When real estate values sank in the current downturn, the assets backing those properties also lost their value. The Southeast has seen numerous regional banks topple as the housing bubble burst.
At the time of its closing, Silverton Bank had approximately $4.1 billion in assets and $3.3 billion in deposits, all of which are expected to be within the FDIC's insurance limits.
The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund will be $1.3 billion, making it the fourth costliest bank failure since the start of the recession. "It is a bigger hit to the insurance fund than they have seen in the last couple weeks," Marinac said. "This is a bigger issue than we have seen in awhile."
Silverton served banks in 44 states and operated six regional offices. The FDIC created a bridge bank to take over the assets of the institution and has contracted The Independent Bankers Bank, out of Irving, Texas, to assist. The FDIC does not expect to see any significant impact to the bank's clients, at least in the near term.
However, the bridge bank only plans to be operational for 60 days, with a possible 30-day extension. When the bridge bank services terminate, the banks that were serviced by the cooperatively owned bank will have to go out and find another institution to take care of those services.
"There is no clear cut answer on a situation like this," said Marinac. "This is a little bit more complex and therefore there are more uncertainties about how this will unfold."
Thus far, the FDIC has not been able to find another wholesale bank to agree to take over Silverton's operations. The FDIC will attempt to sell off the assets, but it could pose a challenge to find a buyer for risky commercial loans. However, the FDIC could try to find a buyer by discounting the debt. "Everything has a price," said Marinac.
New Jersey: State regulators shut down Citizens Community Bank Friday night, and named the FDIC as the receiver. The Ridgewood, N.J.- based bank had total assets of approximately $45.1 million and total deposits of $43.7 million as of Dec. 31.
North Jersey Community Bank, of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has agreed to assume all of the deposits of the failed bank. The failed bank's single office will reopen Monday as the North Jersey Community Bank.
North Jersey Community Bank paid a premium of 0.67% to acquire all of the deposits of the failed bank and has agreed to purchase approximately $11.5 million in assets. The FDIC will hold onto the rest of the assets to dispose of later.
The FDIC will continue to fully insure individual accounts up to $250,000 through the end of 2009.
Utah: On Friday evening the FDIC also became the receiver of America West Bank, after the Utah regulators closed the institution. The Layton, Utah-based bank had total assets of approximately $299.4 million and total deposits of $284.1 million as of Dec. 31.
Cache Valley Bank, based in Logan, Utah, is assuming all deposits, paying discounted price of $352,000. It also agreed to buy nearly $11 million worth of America West's assets and took a 30-day option to purchase loans at book value. The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund will be $119.4 million.
America West's three branches will reopen Monday as Cache Valley Bank outposts.
Checking accounts, debit cards still work: Through the weekend, depositors of both Citizens Community Bank and America West Bank can access their money by writing checks or using ATM or debit cards. Checks drawn on either of the failed banks will continue to be processed, and the FDIC said loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual.
Stress tests awaited
Local banks have been shutting down in droves as the recession has made it harder for customers and businesses to pay their loans. Nearly every Friday so far this year, at least one bank has failed. Last week, four regional banks were shuttered.
Even as the government has committed unprecedented amounts of money to increase liquidity and jumpstart the economy, the pace of bank failures has accelerated. In all of 2008, 25 banks failed, compared with 2009's 31 banks.
It is not only smaller, regional banks that have felt the pressure of the recession. The nation's largest banks have also been hit by rising default rates and a decline in business spending.
The assessment of the bank's health was expected to be made public May 4, but an announcement from the Treasury Department Friday indicated that results would be delayed until May 7.
Market watchers are anxiously awaiting the results of the stress tests, which have been designed to assess the banks' preparedness to weather further downturns in the economy, including further increases in unemployment and decreases in home prices.
So, the transactions are starting to get a little more complex, and more institutions are being seized without having a buyer in hand.
While it may appear that these failures are insignificant, what is happening is that the debts are mostly moving from one institution to another with the government’s backing, of course. This process, while clearing out the small and weaker players, does not clear out the debt and it leaves consumers with fewer banking choices and larger banking institutions to play with.
So, the fringes are fraying and getting clipped away. Large shifts always start at the fringes and thus these failures are important and should not be glossed over.
Meanwhile the really large institutions, all of which are truly insolvent, are being kept alive with government money and false/ completely phony accounting with the government’s blessing and backing, of course.
Again, the “Stress Test” is really no stress whatsoever. It’s a sham developed to divert attention and distract people away from the real issue while they are being robbed. Oh yeah, it’s also an excuse to “inject more capital” into the banks which is code for STEAL FROM THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
Meanwhile, they are milking this sham for everything its worth, now delaying the already delayed “results” yet again. And the market monkeys use this carrot to pump the financials or at least hold them up for as long as they can to draw in as many retail investors as possible to distribute their “equity” and overvalued debt to those buying into a “once in a lifetime opportunity.”
And what an impressive rally it’s been in the financials… why this rally is of historic proportions, they say, you better get in before it’s too late! Yes, the XLF did rally an astonishing 81% in the past eight weeks!! But let’s look at the chart a little further out than 8 weeks for those who didn’t catch the XLF below $6, shall we?
Here’s a 2 year weekly chart of the XLF and you can see that it went from a high of over $36 to today’s $10.65 price, a DROP of 71%! Is the latest rally really any different than the previous ones of this bear market? Look at the volume pattern, that’s where you find confirmation or a lack thereof… and I’m seeing a very large divergence there between rising prices and falling volume. Does it really look different than the other bear market rallies?
And funny, but the stair step nature of this decline looks very similar to another and the comments along the way sound familiar too:
While this MAY have been THE bottom in the financials, you have to ask yourself what's changed FUNDAMENTALLY over the past two years in the banking system that will spark and initiate new growth and new profits? Yes, spreads have widened allowing the banks to arbitrage profits from the consumers… but have the debts cleared the system? And I don’t mean the banking system, I mean the economy. The answer is no either way. The only structural change has been letting accounting standards fall back to the banker’s good old mark-to-fantasy/ take a bonus ways. Oh, and the industry has consolidated its power and grip on politicians further – there’s progress.
Be my guest, go ahead and donate your money to their cause. Not me.
I will say it again. The only “once in a lifetime opportunity” here is to sell this rally and get positioned for what’s coming in the months and years ahead. It won’t be pretty, the banking system, the consumer, and the entire economy have already hit the wall...
Kansas – The Wall:
Ben Bernanke – Bond Market Bozo…
I know that I’ve been neglecting fans of the good old rock and roll lately, so I’m going to give you a some Santana to set the mood and to let you know Nate’s still on the job, and that somebody's winning, right now I think it's the bond market vigilantes...
Santana – Winning:
Way back in early January I wrote about how the bond market was peaking and presented my case clearly: Bond Market Hide & Seek – A Domed House & 3 Peaks...
It appears that I correctly labeled THE peak, as it has now been 3.5 months and global intervention and Quantitative Easing (QE) have not been able to keep long term rates in the bond and treasury market at those extreme lows. As I said in that article, once the Fed lowers their target rate to zero, you know you are near the end.
As the following chart of TLT (20 year bond fund) shows, we experienced a parabolic rise followed by a parabolic collapse. The collapse was indeed halted via intervention for about 3 months, but it has now resumed with technical breakdowns occurring since Bernanke and the FOMC failed to announce further actions or a larger pool of money to buy our own debt with phony trumped up dollars. You can see that we have now retraced more than 78.6% of the last parabolic rise, and places the odds high that we will retrace all of it:
Here’s a one month chart showing how fast the selloff and breakdown is occurring in bonds over the past few days:
And the ten year is nearly as bad.
Remember, most fixed mortgage rates are tied to the ten year rate. Although mortgage rates are at historic lows, as seen in this chart by the fed, they are at those lows only because the fed has been buying up hundreds of billions worth of near worthless Fannie and Freddie mortgage debt:
While conditions in the bond market here are oversold, returning prices up and rates lower will now require very difficult tradeoffs, but a short term bound could happen at any time making a levered bet on the bond market risky. Those tradeoffs would include letting the equity market go in order to preserve low rates.
These rates are NOT sustainable, so I would suggest that if you haven’t refinanced real estate that you should do so immediately.
Now, a lot of people think that with rates this low, it’s time to BUY real estate. The exact opposite is true. The general rule is that you should sell real estate when interest rates are at or near historic lows and you should buy when they are at historic highs. Look at this chart of interest rates and think about it:
Had you bought real estate in 1980 at the peak in interest rates and sold recently, you would have done terrific, especially if you would have sold like I did in 2005. Since about the year 2000 rates have been held artificially low courtesy of your morally and ethically challenged Federal Government. But think about the interest rate equation. Buying a home, if you can afford the financing, at a high rate of interest means that you will be buying when PRICES are low. Yes, your payments are higher, but if you are financing then you refinance when rates are low, like now. But what you don’t do is buy real estate when rates are low because that’s when prices are high. Once interest rates come up again, people will not be able to afford as much house and prices will continue to fall.
No, your government does not have the power to force rates low forever. They have reached their limit NOW.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so. Check out Mike Larson’s latest update from just this morning:
Sayonara Treasury Bubble!
by Mike Larson 05-01-09
You’d think that after the dot-com bubble … the housing bubble … and the bubbles in commercial real estate and private equity, investors would have learned their lesson.
Nope! They did the same stupid things this fall …
• They chased long-term Treasury prices higher and higher (just like they chased Miami condos and Pets.com),
• They drove prices to loftier and loftier levels,
• And they relied on the Fed to save their bacon.
And now, they’re getting their heads handed to them! Long bond futures have plunged a whopping 20 points — from 143 in mid-December to less than 123 yesterday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury Note has exploded from a fall low of 2.06 percent to 3.11 percent this week — a gain of 51 percent. Key technical levels are giving way all over the place.
Fortunately, you had the market’s playbook. You were told in no uncertain terms — right here in Money and Markets — that the Treasury market was caught up in a huge bubble, one that was destined to pop.
As I said in early December:
“The truth is the U.S. government is going to have to flood the market with a wave of Treasuries the likes of which the world has never seen. And just like any other market, the bond market reacts to supply and demand.
“Too much supply and not enough demand should drive prices lower.
“Bottom line: There are lots of reasons to believe this Treasury rally is unsustainable, and that a day of reckoning is fast approaching.”
Now, let’s talk about why this is happening … where we’re headed next … and what the implications are for you and your investments.
The Biggest Debt Binge
In World History
The immediate catalyst for this week’s bond market break? The Fed’s refusal to increase the amount of Treasuries it has committed to buy. The Fed said at a policy meeting several weeks ago that it would purchase up to $300 billion in Treasuries, and it didn’t alter that target at this Wednesday’s gathering.
But I believe the problem is MUCH bigger. For starters, as I mentioned in my Money and Markets column last week, the Federal Reserve has been backing up the truck and buying every crappy piece of paper it can get its hands on. Lousy residential mortgages. Crummy commercial real estate loans. Toxic CDOs, credit card bonds, student loans — the Fed is buying or loaning money against anything and everything!
I warned that at some point, this would be viewed as bearish for the dollar. I also said it would only add to worries about the perceived credit quality of the U.S. itself. We’re starting to see the dollar get clubbed now and clearly, U.S. debt is getting trashed.
It’s not just the Fed, either. The U.S. Treasury is doing its part, too. Indeed, we’re borrowing and spending the country into oblivion!
This week alone, Treasury sold a record $26 billion in seven-year notes, a record $35 billion in five-year notes, and $40 billion of two-year notes. Next week, we’ll get a record $71 billion in longer-term debt issuance.
Total net borrowing needs for the second quarter are now up to $361 billion. That’s up 27-fold from $13 billion a year earlier and more than double the previous estimate of $165 billion.
We just learned the Treasury will start selling 30-year bonds every month, as opposed to eight times a year. And speculation is running rampant that the U.S. will soon start auctioning off 50-year bonds! All this issuance is needed to fund a federal budget deficit that’s projected to hit at least $1.75 trillion this year and $1.2 trillion in fiscal 2010.
The Implications For You …
First, I’ve implored you to dump long-term bonds for several months now. If you followed that advice, you saved yourself a world of hurt. The average long-term government bond fund has already lost 11.2 percent in value this year, according to Morningstar, and we still have eight months to go!
Credit spread tightening has helped diversified, long-term bond funds perform better. But even they’re showing year-to-date losses, on average.
My advice remains the same: Get the heck out of the LONG-TERM part of the bond market while you can. Stick with SHORT-TERM Treasury bills. They are not subject to the same price risk and credit concerns as longer-term notes and bonds.
…Meanwhile, if you’ve been waiting to refinance your mortgage, I wouldn’t hold off any longer. The Fed has been trying to manipulate the bond market in order to hold rates down. But the cumulative “sell” decisions of investors around the world are starting to overwhelm Bernanke & Co.
Thirty-year mortgage rates are still hovering in the high 4 percent area. But they’ll climb if bond prices continue to tank.
The bond market Bozos of Greenspan and Bernanke espoused the Keynesian deficit spending mantra during down cycles but forgot that the other half of that equation which is that you must save money during the upcycles if you wish to even the cycles out. Simply printing during economic dips only leads to more economic distortions and digs us deeper and deeper into debt. Just remember that every time you hear the word “credit” you are in fact hearing the word DEBT. Our marketing based politically correct Alice in Wonderland World doesn’t like labeling things in a negative light. And that’s a big part of the problem. Can’t tell little Johnny that he can’t sing, you might bruise his ego. Of course encouraging off tune Johnny to sing only distracts him from gravitating to the things he is really good at. Funny how that works. Real praise for real performance. Real criticism when it’s deserved.
Well, sorry to the p.c. crowd, but this economy is riddled with debt, broken morals and ethics, a one way rule of law, math that does not work and is IMPOSSIBLE to pay back and I really don’t care if that brings you down. It must be dealt with NOW and by adults who can both tell and handle the truth!
Hey, at least Joe the Plumber here can sing the truth while another economic Bozo simply grins behind him – how true. And truer words were never sung, “…we owe our souls to the Federal Reserve.”
Two Trillion Tons - Sung by Joe the Plumber:
Now I know that a bond market collapse is not a funny subject matter, but you have to admit Joe the Plumber pretty much nailed it!
Futures are up slightly after climbing slowly overnight (now down as I post):
Long bonds are getting slammed again, and the dollar is up slightly with gold down again. I hope everyone’s paying attention to the bond market, this is a very significant breakdown, one that has to have Bernanke’s attention, I know it has the rest of the world’s attention as rates are going higher:
World Bank Bonds Show What Happens When Governments Rush Rescue
By Gabrielle Coppola
May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Federal guarantees by 13 countries on more than $400 billion of financial company bonds are punishing the AAA-rated World Bank Group with record borrowing costs -- an indication of what can go wrong when government gets in the way.
The Washington-based World Bank, founded in 1944 to rebuild economies after World War II, sold $6 billion of three-year notes March 26 priced to yield 30 basis points more than the benchmark for such borrowings. The so-called spread was the widest for a dollar-denominated bond offering by the supranational lender, said George Richardson, the institution’s head of capital markets, in an interview.
Just seven months ago, the World Bank paid a record low 35 basis points less than the midswap rate, a market measure for exchanging fixed- and floating-rate cash flows. The sudden rise in World Bank relative bond yields is an unintended consequence of sales of taxpayer-backed debt by more than 50 companies, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. While these special offerings were designed to bring stability to the credit markets after $1.4 trillion in losses and writedowns in the past 28 months, no one realized the World Bank would be depreciated by such government policies.
“Governments started announcing guarantees for their banks, and then the whole world changed,” said Richardson, a former Goldman Sachs banker.
Rising Sales
Rising risk premiums are also affecting the Washington- based Inter-American Development Bank, which lends to Latin American and Caribbean countries, and Germany’s state-owned Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau, whose credit supports housing, education and small business.
Banks and financial companies worldwide sold 320 billion euros ($424 billion) of state-guaranteed debt since October, denominated in euros, dollars and U.K. pounds, according to Leef Dierks, a fixed-income analyst at Barclays Capital in Frankfurt.
They may issue a total of 900 billion euros in bonds for all of 2009, Dierks said.
The total includes $235 billion of dollar-denominated debt in the U.S. with backing from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as of yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Lenders backed by multiple governments, known as supranationals, have the flexibility to borrow billions in multiple currencies and at any part of the yield curve, making their bonds among the most liquid securities.
Financial Acumen
The financial acumen of the World Bank, which pioneered the first use of derivatives to obtain Swiss francs and German marks by exchanging cash flows with International Business Machines Corp. in 1981, hasn’t protected the institution from widening borrowing spreads.
Average yields relative to midswap rates on dollar- denominated supranational debt rose to 164.4 basis points, as of yesterday, from 46.8 basis points at the start of October, according to the Credit Suisse Liquid U.S. Corporate Sovereign Spread Over Swap index.
The midswap index, which contains bonds sold by the World Bank and the IADB, reached a record-high of 217.4 basis points on Jan. 2, Credit Suisse data show. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
A benchmark for borrowers, the midswap index lies between the bid and asking yields on contracts exchanging fixed for floating interest-rate cash flows.
Double Borrowings
The World Bank, which now finances AIDS prevention in Botswana, will more than double borrowings to as much as $35 billion this year to help provide food, health and education services through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Richardson said.
Robert Zoellick, the bank’s president, recently announced plans for $100 billion of new loans over the next three years to relieve the recession. The lender issued $1.5 billion of five- year notes on Oct. 1 at 35 basis points below the midswap rate, a record low for that maturity, according to Richardson.
The International Monetary Fund, a Washington-based agency of the United Nations that monitors the global economy, may sell its first bonds to China and Brazil to raise money to combat the downturn. IADB borrowings will total $15 billion to $20 billion this year, up from $6 billion to $7 billion in 2007 and $11 billion in 2008, said Soren Elbech, the bank’s treasurer.
While development lenders’ spreads more than tripled since October, the yield premiums on World Bank and other supranationals’ bonds have narrowed since their sale as corporate credit markets begin to heal.
Passed On
The three-year notes sold by the World Bank on March 26 rose to 100.4 cents on the dollar as of yesterday to yield 50.8 basis points more than Treasuries, according to Bloomberg data. That’s down from 82.2 basis points when they were issued.
Increased financing costs are being passed to borrowers, according to Horst Seissinger, head of debt capital markets at Frankfurt-based KfW, which has a direct guarantee from the German government.
Well, that’s what happens (higher yields) when one stimulates every aspect of the world’s economy and guarantees every corporation on the planet then issues complex and opaque instruments in an attempt to squeeze ever increasing amounts of debt into the system.
I got a good chuckle this morning reading about the new government plan to provide “cash for your clunker.” I started thinking about my young son, just about to exit high school and how attractive it might be to be paid more than his paid for old car is worth as an incentive to buy a new one. Of course it is being sold as a pollution solver, but the truth is that if he were to do that, he would go from being free of debt to being a debt slave, all sponsored by the fine people of your government.
And the Senate just yesterday voted down a provision that would have let bankruptcy judges modify loan agreements for individuals filing bankruptcy and at risk of losing their homes. It’s a rule of law thing they said. Of course the rule of law only applies to ordinary citizens, evidently, and not to corporations. See, that’s the current problem. It’s not that there aren’t laws, it’s that the laws are blatantly being applied unequally and every decision favors corporations. I wish the rule of law applied to everyone equally, and especially to the banks and politicians. Armstrong is correct in that capital formation is much more difficult when it is perceived that there is no rule of law.
And the bankers argue over the “stress test” results and decide to delay their release so that they can massage and manipulate the wording just right. You see, the porridge must be neither too hot nor too cold for little miss market, she couldn’t handle the truth, and that certainly isn’t the point.
And speaking of rule of law, the administration finally allowed an automaker to enter bankruptcy. Congratulations. Notice how through all the hoopla the President and no one mentioned the fact that all the plants would be shut down immediately. No, he was touting how many jobs he was saving.
Let me ask you this… when was the last time America produced a major new auto manufacturer? Not in your lifetime? Why is that? Why are new manufacturers springing up in places like Korea and China, but not here?
I would contend that it’s for the very moral hazard reasons that are occurring now. Namely, the big corporations run the government. Chrysler should have been allowed to fold decades ago. They are now a two time loser and keeping them around may just net the world another K-car piece of crap, but it won’t net you new and exciting innovative products that are made in America. No, it will net you an indebted nation, one that cannot possible pay its bills and it will net you lazy and complacent management and a hammered down middle-class.
This is not the end of our problems in America people, they are truly just beginning.
In regards to the rest of the news, most of it is just a distraction. I’m going to say this to all those who follow my writing, it is now time to exit the market again. The risk of holding equities is too high. Yesterday’s 888 top may be a top that holds. If it doesn’t, the upside potential here is limited.
And as I’ve been typing the futures turned slightly negative. Keep in mind that at some point today the short term stochastics are going to reach oversold… there’s a key uptrend line to watch at about SPX 866. Below that is bearish.
Martin Armstrong – Making His Own Case…
I feel privileged to have brought you a collection of Martin Armstrong’s recent works. His insights are valuable, I believe, to society and to our markets. He has a unique understanding of cycles and market dynamics while his legal problems and jail experience have certainly given him unique insights into the rule of law as he clearly explained in But They Can't Do That!
I do not know Mr. Armstrong personally and have never met him. I am not an attorney and do not have personal knowledge of the merits of his case or the case of the government. Therefore, I must remain agnostic in regards to guilt or innocence, but I am not agnostic in regards to whether due process has been served in his case, nor do I waffle in stating that it appears he has been forced into confinement for a period of time longer than is the standard for the alleged crime.
Below, I present ALL the information he just released in an attempt to make his case in public. It will be controversial, that is why I agreed to post it. Debate on this subject is healthy, in my opinion, just keep in mind that we are viewing only one side. I would ask than anyone with legal expertise in these areas please feel free to offer your opinion on what he says or please share any background or supporting information you may have, even if you do so confidentially via email or in the comments section below.
Some of the things he has experienced in prison are shocking as he describes in Behind the Curtain:
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At the beginning of this month, Martin filed the following motion and I understand that the SEC has agreed to review his case. He makes some very serious accusations about the SEC and others:
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Initially held in prison for years on contempt charges, Martin claims that the SEC conspired with and controlled the judges appointed to oversee his case:
He goes as far as to accuse the system of torture that led to his “confession” in an attempt to force some sort of release date (now Sept., 2011), because prior to that he was being held indefinitely and asked to provide something he claims he doesn’t possess:
Below an attorney from a law firm specializing in Financial matters (FCL, Inc.) who reviewed Armstrong's case basically accuses Republic (the firm handling Princeton's trades) of defrauding Princeton:
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A little investigation revealed that the signator of that report happens to know a little bit about complex financial transactions and WORKED FOR THE SEC. He now works for Capstone Advisory Group, LLC and boasts a very impressive background:
Michael M. Mulligan is a Managing Director of Capstone Advisory Group, LLC, and is based in the Washington, DC office. Prior to joining Capstone, Mr. Mulligan was the Executive Director of FCL Advisors, Int’l, Inc. As a former Senior Counsel for the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Michael specializes in consulting for clients in the areas of securities fraud, forensic accounting, complex financial fraud, and corporate and disclosure controls. Other areas of service involve business and lost business valuation, contract damages, broker/dealer suitability and domestic and international funds tracing. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Washington, DC.
During his 20-plus year professional career, Michael has consulted with companies and/or investigated cases involving a wide range of financial and legal issues. He has worked for 3 years as an auditor in public accounting and 3 years as an accountant in the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Additionally, he worked for 5 years as an attorney-investigator-prosecutor in the Division of Enforcement of the SEC, and then spent 4 years managing a 40person legal and financial consulting office in Kiev, Ukraine.
As an attorney at the SEC, Michael litigated fraud claims and acted as lead counsel on several complex securities fraud investigations. Michael has investigated and/or prosecuted a wide range of cases involving fraudulent financial statements. Such cases were based upon allegations that issuers had improperly “managed earnings;” improperly accounted for acquisition and/or restructuring charges; prematurely recognized revenue; or violated the books and records, and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He has also worked on cases involving insider trading, improper markups on securities sales, market manipulations through complex trading schemes, savings and loan fraud and generic fraud in the offering.
Armstrong offers up several articles written about him and his case for background:
The above article came from a list of articles Martin suggested reading about him and his case:
Us vs Zichettlo Kris Marty wanted this posted along with everything else regarding his innocence.
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He offers up more “proof” that people where directed to withhold evidence from him via a memo:
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Here is a New York Times article offered by Martin from 2007:
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This article provides some more background as reported in Money Week by the same reporter – The strange case of the jailed market genius - Money Week, 30 April, 2007:
Money Week - “The Strange Case of the Jailed Market Genius.
So, that’s a lot of information to digest about a very complicated case, and as I mentioned, it’s one side of the story. My life experience teaches me not to dismiss what he is saying. I believe that judges, the SEC, and others sometimes think they possess powers that were never given to them, and in some instances they wield those self-given powers in ways that are against the principals found in our Constitution. I think his case should be reviewed, but it should be reviewed by a neutral party, not the SEC.
I know of a lot of criminals who deserve what Armstrong is going through, or worse, and are not only walking free, but they are calling the shots (hear me Hank Paulson?). Again, I appreciate input from anyone with legal expertise or experience in matters such as this. Also would love to see his case garner more media attention, so anyone in the media seeking a good investigative story let me know and I WILL hook you up.
Posted byAmy Jamison at1:36 PM
Good Gap up Morning,
Once again most of the meaningful moves are happening overnight when most people have no chance to act unless they are managing their positions correctly with stops. At any rate, the /ES reached 887 this morning which is just below the SPX 890 area where there is a powerful uptrend line that should offer resistance. Here’s a chart of the overnight action:
It sounds like Chrysler is going to file bankruptcy, possibly today. This is what should have happened a long time ago. Actually Chrysler should have been allowed to fail back in the early ‘80s before the K-car. This whole bailout mantra is moral hazard in the extreme and America will pay the price dearly in the long run as the same losers are allowed to operate, dominate, and squeeze out new entrants. When was the last time a new American automobile manufacturer was allowed to flourish? Too big to fail is total BS, it is in America’s interest to let the big guys fail when they fail.
Profits plummeted 58% at Exxon Mobile, poor bastards only earned $4.55 billion this past quarter after earning more than $10 billion the quarter before. Heck, $4 billion is chump change in this QE Zimbabwe environment.
Unemployment claims fell 14,000 down to 631,000 last week. Yet another week above 600k, and another new continuing claims all time record at 6.27 million.
So, this never ending rally continues to gap up as more and more believers think the banks and the consumers are holding up just fine. I assure you that without government guarantees behind everything and their complicit help in hiding the true value of assets, that even the façade of a declining rate of free fall wouldn’t be supported. I will also assure you that people buying stocks at this level are about to be taught another very sad lesson in the continued robbery of America.
While we may touch 890 today, I do not believe we will be able to break that level at this time, at least not by any significance.
I am working on assembling some documents that Martin Armstrong is offering as “proof” of his innocence and I will present those probably later today or tomorrow. This will be controversial, I’m sure, and that’s exactly why I’m going to post them. While I am going to remain agnostic as long as I only have one side of his personal case, the issues he raises about the rule of law are absolutely correct and critical to understand about what makes an economy strong and vibrant.
Have a good day,
Well, it appears that first quarter growth was much slower than the bulls thought, with the GDP coming in at -6.1%. Economists were expecting a drop of 4.7%. Fourth quarter ’08 growth’s final revision put it slightly weaker at -6.3%.
Futures are still up as they have been ramping all night long in what has become typical gap fashion. In fact, as of late almost all the real action has come overnight, and I’m pretty sure that not a healthy indication. Note that the overnight uptrendline was just broken and the /ES is at about 858:
I’m also fairly certain that the futures would have sold the GDP report harder except for the fact that Benny and the boys get another chance to manipulate the markets with their FOMC meeting announcement which should occur about 11:15 Pacific, 2:15 Eastern. I will not be at all surprised if they announce a larger pool of “money” for their circle jerk QE/destroy America plan.
The dollar is weaker this morning and bonds, which fell on their rear yesterday, are only slightly up this morning. Several more bond auctions occur today as they attempt to finance their folly and fight the math which always wins in the end.
MBA purchase applications fell slightly last week, dropping by .6%.
And then there’s the swine flu and the fact that America has now seen its first death from it, a 2 year old boy in Texas. Texas now has 64 confirmed cases and the last I heard last night CNN was reporting that Mexicans blame close to 160 deaths on the virus. There’s a lot to this story and I’ll have more later.
And we’re learning that 6 of the 19 “stress tested” banks will require addition capital. This is such a joke, I can’t even stand to write about it. The central bankers all sit around and dream up schemes to hide assets, fool the American public, and rob the taxpayers of this nation with the complicit help of our own damn politicians. It’s disgusting, criminal, and certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned, it is exactly what they feared.
At any rate, we’ll have to see what fun and games Benny and the Jets have in store for us with the FOMC…
Look, there’s Benny now surrounded by his puppets!
Elton John-Benny & the Jets:
Martin Armstrong – Answering Your Questions…
Below is a link to a .pdf file of Martin Armstrong’s answers to your questions, primarily to those concerning “Looking Behind the Curtain...”
He did not answer specific or individual questions but instead grouped them into broader subjects like; the “club” and Money Supply v Debt. Hopefully this will help clarify his thinking.
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Answers To Your Questions – Behind the Curtain…
Martin Armstrong – But They Can’t Do That!
Martin discusses our legal, political, and prison systems and how they relate to history and to our economy. The rule of law is important to confidence and thus underpins all aspects of the economy.
Of course he has insights into this world most of us do not and so you must keep in mind his position and circumstances as you read along.
But They Can’t Do That!
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You may also download a .pdf file for reading, printing, or sharing by clicking on this link: But They Can’t Do That!
I am expecting more from Mr. Armstrong shortly, including answers to many of your questions. Please feel free to ask more questions as they arise and I will forward them to him.
Posted byAmy Jamison at11:42 AM
Feds Paying Interest on Reserves to Fight Inflation???
The American people are being played. And robbed.
In a sickening and twisted story from Wonderland, people including reporters, are buying into the central banker insanity…
Fed Relies on Bank Reserves to Stem Inflation When Crisis Eases
By Steve Matthews and Michael McKee
April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials are relying on interest paid on bank reserves to help stem inflation once the economy stabilizes, spurring some former insiders to intensify their warnings that consumer prices may soar.
By paying lenders to keep cash on deposit at the central bank, the Fed is seeking to prevent the money being poured into the broader economy, potentially pushing prices higher. The strategy is a gamble: interest on reserves last year failed to stop the benchmark interest rate from falling below the policy makers’ target. Officials may discuss the issue at their gathering today and tomorrow in Washington.
The debate is likely to intensify as indicators suggest the worst of the recession is past, with prospects strengthening for growth in 2010. Once the economy does turn, Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues will need to contend with the consequences of more than doubling the Fed’s balance sheet to $2.2 trillion, analysts said.
“You’ve got the raw material there for a rapid monetary expansion and credit expansion,” said former St. Louis Fed President William Poole, a senior adviser to Merk Investments LLC of Palo Alto, California, and a contributor to Bloomberg.
Investors’ expectations for inflation are climbing amid signs the grip of the financial crisis is easing. One measure of 10-year inflation expectations, taken from the difference between yields on 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and regular Treasuries, climbed to 1.55 percent yesterday, the highest level in almost seven months.
‘More Aggressive’
Policy makers “have to be more aggressive than in the past about stopping inflation,” said Allan Meltzer, the Fed historian and professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Bernanke said in an April 14 speech in Atlanta that discussions about how to withdraw the Fed’s monetary stimulus once the recovery takes hold “have occupied a significant portion of recent FOMC meetings.”
The Fed’s Open Market Committee may tomorrow leave its benchmark rate target at zero to 0.25 percent and maintain its goals for purchases of Treasuries and mortgage securities, economists said. An announcement is expected around 2:15 p.m.
Congress approved in 2006 the paying of interest on reserves from 2011. Bernanke requested last May that the date be moved forward so the central bank could have a tool to help keep the federal funds rate closer to the target rate while it flooded the banking system with billions of dollars of cash.
After gaining congressional approval, the central bank began paying interest on reserves in October.
Curb Prices
Some former Fed officials are skeptical the new policy instrument will enable the FOMC to curb an increase in prices.
“It doesn’t sound to me like much of an exit strategy,” said Robert Eisenbeis, chief monetary economist for Cumberland Advisors Inc. and former research director at the Atlanta Fed. “There is a big risk of inflation.”
Unlike during previous recoveries, when banks had to raise additional funds to begin making loans, excess capital is already on their books, Poole said. “Banks will be able to fund new loans by drawing down reserve balances, rather than go into the market,” he said.
Also, the Fed doesn’t have the authority to pay interest on reserves held by government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leaving them free to lend any excess reserves. Some smaller banks also keep their reserves at larger banks rather than at the Fed, and don’t receive interest.
Jobless Rate
To lean against inflation, the Fed will need at the start of a recovery to begin raising the reserve rate and the federal funds rate, even if unemployment is still high. The fed funds rate is the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans. The jobless rate will reach 9.5 percent in the final three months of the year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Policy makers favoring an increase in interest rates will face resistance from lawmakers, Eisenbeis said.
“If you have to turn policy while unemployment is high, politicians are going to be screaming like mad that the Fed is taking away the punchbowl too early,” he said.
Bernanke and other Fed officials have voiced confidence they can snuff out any threat of surging prices even after pursuing an unprecedented policy of cutting the main rate to as low as zero and providing lending to nonbanks.
“I am not worried at all that the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet will generate an inflation problem,” William Dudley, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, said in an April 18 speech in Nashville.
Still, Dudley acknowledged “worry in some quarters that paying interest on excess reserves might not work very well as a tool for controlling the federal funds rate.”
This is the most asinine article I have read in quite some time. Yes, back in October Paulson and fellow “club” members pressured Congress into approving the paying of taxpayer monies in “interest” for the bank’s “reserves.” THIS IS THE MOST BLATANT CRIME I HAVE EVER SEEN.
Banks are allowed the PRIVILEGE of loaning money and charging USURIOUS interest rates and fees IF they hold enough in RESERVE to accomplish such lending without undo risk. The situation now is that THE BANKS HAVE NO REAL RESERVES despite what the fed puts out on their charts. The charts have been whipsawed because they are playing games with the TARP and other borrowed money and how it is counted. The banks have lent the government their near worthless crap in exchange for real taxpayer backed dollars and thus their reserves are BORROWED despite how they now claim it is not. They mark all their assets to fantasy and NOW CHARGE THE TAXPAYERS for the PHONY reserves that they supposedly hold.
Let’s take a look at the supposed non-borrowed reserves. Note how this was hugely negative and was whipsawed back to positive just prior to October of last year:
How or why did that change occur? Did the banks suddenly grow money? Did the TARP allow the banks to grow that much in supposed reserves? Remember, the FED doesn’t GIVE money away (cough, cough, bullshit), they only “loan” it. So, if the TARP money is borrowed and their “reserves” grew from the TARP, then their reserves are BORROWED. Yet, the chart above says that non-borrowed reserves are at their highest point in history! Amazing how that happens just before and after Congress agrees to pay them for their supposed reserves which is a concept that is deplorable to begin with.
So now we all of a sudden have massive “excess” reserves:
And as you can see, total reserves peaked right around the October time frame.
Now, if your intention is to stimulate the economy and to get “credit” (debt) flowing again, wouldn’t you want to encourage the banks to get their money out into the system? Or is it that “confidence” in the banks is more important?
Now they are claiming they can use it as a policy tool to incentive banks to hold reserves and slow the economy when the time comes? Isn’t that what they are already doing? Do they plan on paying more money we don’t have to the banks as if they can’t make enough already?
I AM SICK OF THEIR LIES, FALSE ACCOUNTING, AND BLATANT ROBERY. Paying banks money to hold reserves is sick, morally and ethically bankrupt. A bank is by rights already a privileged institution and keeping reserves is all that is asked for them to earn that privilege. Paying them for those reserves is asinine in the extreme. They are absolutely playing games with what reserves are, who holds them, and it is simply another excuse to take money and leave Americans further in debt.
DISGUSTING. These people belong in prison at best. They are, in fact, traitors to America and should be treated as such. Look up the penalty for treason.
Futures are down considerably again this morning with the /ES down in the 845 area just beneath the 848 pivot:
There were some strange movements last night in the gold futures, /YG. Just after the lockup, the price fell by more than $50 an ounce, but recovered most of it. Prices did wind up bleeding off and is currently down about $20 an ounce. The dollar initially rose, but has fallen back again this morning.
Bonds are higher, don’t ask me why or how. Deleveraging? Bernanke? The Treasury needing to borrow SIX TIMES its prior RECORD quarterly amount should have people running from our debt and burning our dollars! But then again the rest of the world is likewise as bad and the dollar and “safety” are definitely a perceived notion as fanciful as it may be.
And this morning Econoday is reporting that the ISCS store sales fell .7% last week, the worst rate in nearly 3 months:
Store sales fell back steeply in the April 25 week according to ICSC-Goldman's same-store index that fell -0.7 percent for a -1.7 year-on-year rate -- the worst rate in nearly three months.
Redbook comes out soon, we get some more Case-Schiller data, and consumer confidence comes out at 10 Eastern.
BAC shareholders get to vote tomorrow on whether to show CEO Ken Lewis the door – Adios Ken, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
And there’s more talk that both BAC and C will need more capital as a result of the “stress test” which they are going to deny, of course. Whatever, they are toast regardless… the only question is how much and for how long are our idiot politicians going to keep giving our money to them? Or, the better question is how long are the people going to allow the greatest robbery in history to continue before they are all shown the exit at the business end of a pitchfork? Hmmm… American Idol still on? Check. Donald Trump still on? Roger that, it’s going to be awhile.
Swine/Mexican/Baxter flu, what’s an investor to do? The Air Force flying 747’s and fighter jets over the Hudson river w/o even coordinating? Pakistan fighting off the Taliban only miles from their nuclear arsenal? Automakers owned by the government and their employees? Oh my.
798 is the next lower pivot after 848. The short term stochastic say that a rally or at least sideways action may be necessary to get the oscillators back off oversold, although the 60 minute slow does have a ways to go before it reaches oversold. For now it’s just chop until we can exit the range we’ve been in, it would take a drop below 825 or so to do that.
US Treasury 2nd Quarter Borrowing to hit $361 Billion…
Math, it’s not fun when it works against you, and the Fed, the central banks, and your government are all working against you. The second fiscal quarter is the one where the revenues are supposed to be the strongest and borrowing the least. However, not this year:
US Treasury April-June borrowing to hit $361 bln
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday it expects to borrow $361 billion of marketable debt in the April-June quarter, up $196 billion from earlier estimates, as government spending soars in the deepest and longest recession in decades.
The amount is a record for the quarter, in which borrowing usually diminishes because most Americans' annual income taxes are filed by April 15. Borrowing needs include $200 billion to support Federal Reserve liquidity programs aimed at reviving lending after the housing market crash and surge in credit defaults.
The previous record borrowing for the April-June quarter is $60 billion in 2003. The Treasury cited weak revenues and greater spending to support economic recovery programs as among reasons for greater borrowing needs.
The Treasury said it expects to borrow $515 billion of marketable debt in the July-September quarter. In the January quarter it borrowed $481 billion, slightly less than earlier estimates.
The Treasury on Wednesday announces its quarterly debt refunding needs. (Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Neil Stempleman)
The previous record for the quarter is $60 billion? That almost sounds quaint! Well, I think I know how to do simple math and that means that this year we are SMASHING THE ALL TIME DEBT RECORD BY A FACTOR OF 6! Six times more than ever before?!
You can't say you were never warned: U.S. Budget Disaster Strikes...
Hey, sorry to those who believe the crisis is over, but I think I see that train a coming… and we’re all stuck in Folsom Prison!
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
The futures are down this morning about where they were last night, sitting right on the first level of support at the 848 pivot. Here’s a snapshot of the overnight action:
The dollar is up and back inside that triangle I showed. Bonds are up as well and this is a BIG week for bonds with auctions galore beginning today.
No economic data today, but Wednesday is the big day with GDP and the FOMC wordsmithing.
GM announced they are laying off another 23,000 workers, cutting 40% of their dealerships and shutting down the Pontiac name. They are also attempting to restructure their debt by offering 225 shares of stock to bondholders for each $1,000 in debt ($4.44) per share. GM is trading at a buck-eighty. The Bloomberg article I’m referencing doesn’t address the disparity just that they seek to reduce debt by $44 billion.
Ford is taking the opposite stance and say they are going to build more cars this year than last. Okkkkay, we’ll see how that works out for them.
So, as you remember, last Monday was a gap down that took the entire week to fill. Now we’re gapping down over the same range we gapped before. Is the swine flu sufficient to keep down? We’ll find out. 848 pivot first, then the 100dma at 830, then 798. The battle is on!
Going to have some Martin Armstrong stuff coming... answers to your questions and another article. Should be interesting.
Uncle Jay Explains the News...
It's time again, boys & girls, for Uncle Jay to explain the news!
Max Kaiser Latest Appearances...
Max Kaiser in good form telling it like it is. Americans are being robbed, we are a bunch of pansies who should be rising up, the bankers are criminals, and Paulson belongs in jail. Nothing but the truth... (HT Glass... thank you!).
Max Keiser - News appearance compilation - 24-25 April 2009:
Charlie Rose – Stiglitz, Ackman…
On the “Stress Test,” toxic assets, and the financial crisis in general…
In general, there’s good information here, but in my opinion anyone who believes the stress test has any real meaning is simply living in Wonderland.
This is parts one & two of 3… The third part is not up as of yet, but I’ll bring it to you as soon as it is:
Charlie Rose Stiglitz and Ackman part 1 of 3 (10 minutes):
Eric Rosenfeld on LTCM…
Very interesting but long Presentation by Eric Rosenfeld of MIT to an MIT classroom regarding the history, risk, and outcome of the LTCM (Long Term Capital Management) debacle… If you are already familiar with the history of what happened at LTCM, Rosenfeld’s lecture will be of great interest and if you’re not familiar, this is a great lesson in the risks involved with leverage and what the insiders of a risk taking firm where thinking.
Here is a link to a Wiki description of LTCM to give you a little overview as you view or just listen to Rosenfeld… Long Term Capital Management.
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(Redirected from Fannish-feud)
Fan feuds are ongoing conflicts between one or more individual fans or fan groups (such as clubs, concoms, regional or political groups or factions thereof). While they are sometimes quiet enmities, usually the term encompasses much issuing of written rants, diatribes and manifestos full of intemperate language, formerly in hastily cranked out fanzines, but now largely online. (The net equivalent is "flamewar.")
The First Feud seems to have been the one in late 1930 which led to the breakup of the Scienceers, one of the first (if not the first) clubs.
Feuds may arise because of ill-considered words and hurt feelings, often a result of typically fannish social geekiness, because of pronounced differences on fannish issues, or anything else resulting in personal antagonism. Unfortunately, some fans foment feuds deliberately — their favorite fanac is to get up somebody else's nose. Others like to agitate from the sidelines: "Let's you and him fight." A love of sparring has also created mock feuds, such as the Great Staple War.
Some truly major fan feuds — the 1939 Exclusion Act, WSFS, Inc.., the Boondoggle, the TAFF Wars, Sad Puppies, among others — have been pervasive over large areas of fandom, and detrimental to the microcosm as a whole. The phrase "All Fandom Was Plunged Into War" can be quite literal.
See also: An Outline of Fanhistory - Earl Evers - Faan
From Fancyclopedia 2 ca 1959
In principle a feud exists when one party to an argument tries to drive the opposition out of fandom, or to get fans as a whole to follow some course he opposes or refuse to follow one he advocates. And the word is also often applied to the mere slinging of bitter words.
The cause of a feud may be an important issue which isn't settled peaceably, such as the failure of Wonder Stories to pay young authors which brought on the ISA-SFL war; or the scrapping over a fan organization which characterized the Insurgent Wars; or it may be something as minor as the rights to the pename Franklin Ford. A number of conflicts we consider as feuds spring from apparently idealistic motivations: opposition to crackpottism in fandom with some of Degler's opponents; ditto in the proz with Palmerism in general and the Shaver Mystery in particular; opposition to commercialization in the TAFF fracas. Or feuds may rest upon differences of opinion or ideology which continually show up in fan writings, as on sociological questions (example: the origin of the Wollheim-Moskowitz feud in the latter's denunciation of Michelism as "Communism".) A necessary ingredient to a feud as distinguished from a disagreement, however, is personal antagonism. (This antagonism, it may be defended, is based on the person's actions and opinions; anyway, it exists.)
"Real" or classic feuds have been the serial Sykora-Wollheim and Moskowitz-Wollheim hassles in New York; Ackerman vs various Bohemian elements in Los Angeles; Degler and the Sane Fringe; Ackerman against Palmer, Shaver, and Graham; and the brawl over WSFS and its Plane Trip. The middle class of feuds-by-usage includes frivolous matter like Pete Vorzimer against the world, intermittent cuss-fests between Gertie Carr and anybody left of the late Arthur Wellesley, and the three-cornered cat-fight between the various NY clubs in 1947-50. Some feuds, like Vorzimer's, were possibly attempts to gain BNF status thru notoriety; results are usually disappointing to people who try this. There are also fake-feuds in which perfectly sensible faaans burlesque the ravings of the fugghead element and sometimes are almost as funny as the real feudists; such was the Chuck Harris-James White feud of 1952 which introduced the zapgun to Anglofandom. In this connection we should mention the Ballard Code.
It was thought by many at one time that fan feuds were a good thing; articles have been written to say so, but apparently the knock-down-drag-out kind aren't meant.
Fans usually take the form of vituperation in fanzines; intemperate language is used by non-veteran fans and was used by the veterans in their wars, words like "lie", "vicious", and "sneaky" being thrown around freely, not to mention the colossal effort to seem merely amused by your opponent's actions. Heat has never risen so high, however, that fans could not occasionally commend a good story or article by one of their opponents, and it should be remarked that when fans meet face to face, they are usually quite fraternal, regardless of the fights they've been waging on paper; the worst usually found is an insulting coolness. At the 1939 PhilCo, after tempers had been rising for some time, violence was threatened by Sykora with the words "You can say whatever you want to about me behind my back, but you can't call me a liar to my face!"; when the Triumvirs tried to eject Futurian visitors from a QSFL meeting in early 1941 there actually was rough stuff; and during his anti-Degler feud T. Bruce Yerke once was at the point of laying hands on the Cosmic One when he, (Yerke), suffered a heart attack [!!!!] But the unfavorable reaction of fandom at large indicates the unusual character of such incidents.
The feuds we have always with us, but they are particularly prominent in the Second Fandom, and suffered a momentary revival after the Exclusion Act thru the 1939 Philco that fall, at which time each faction was purposing to drive the other out of fandom. Public fan sentiment was against feuding by them, however, and neither side felt like pushing the initiative and taking the responsibility.
The cause of a feud may be an important issue which isn't settled peaceable, such as the failure of Wonder Stories to pay young authors (which brot on the ISA-SFL war) or the scrapping over a general fan organization, or it may be a thing as minor as the rights of the fanzine name Stardust. Feuds may rest upon differences of opinion which continually show up in fan writings, as on sociological questions (example: the origin of the Wollheim-Moskowitz feud in the latter's writeup of the Third Convention). A necessary ingredient to a feud as distinguished from a disagreement, however, is personal antagonism. This antagonism, it may be defended, is based on a person's actions and opinions; anew, it exists.
From the breakup of the ISA down to 1943 when they lost interest in feuding or retired from fandom, there was a constant antagonism between Wollheim and Sykora. The two sides which may be defined by these individuals (this does not imply that they were the controlling figures of the two sides with the others merely ranged behind them) have included the Futurians, Wiggins, Beck, Tucker, Ackerman, and Morojo on the one hand, and on the other hand the Phillies, Queensies, and the Miske. There have also been private work-fites between such pairs ad Lowndes and Speer, Wilson and Moskowitz, Singleton and Hamling, etc, but the forgoing is the general lineup when fan feuds became so universal as to constitute a fan war. At various times other active fans have occupied middle ground, Warner, Rothman, Swisher, Wilson, Koenig, and others having in some case held aloof from the feuding, in other case joined the battle in particular sector. This middle ground, for that matter, has also included Taurasi, Tucker, Ackerman, the Phillies, and others previously indicated, if cases in which they have opposed the opponents of their opponents, or converselywise, be considered.
It was thot by many at one time that fan feuds were a good things; Morojo wrote an article saying so, but apparently wasn't referring to the knock-down-drag-out kind; by early 1939 the IPO voted 8 to 19 against them.
The general purpose in a feud is to discredit your opponent, either to drive him out of fandom (as in the case of G. G. Clark), or to get fans as a whole to refuse to follow some course he advocates or to follow one which he opposes, such as forming an organization or adopting certain principles in their discussions.
Intemperate language is used in feuding by non-veteran fans, and was used by the veterans in their wars; words like like, "vicious", and "sneaky" being thrown around freely, as well as the colossal effort to seem merely amused by your opponents' actions. Heat has never risen so high, however, that fans could not occasionally commend a good story or article by one of their opponents, and it should be remarked that when fans meet face to face, they are usually quite fraternal, regardless of the fites they've been waging against each other on paper. The worst usually found is an insulting coolness. At the 1939 Philco, after temperatures had been rising for some time, violence was threatened by Sykora with the words You can say whatever you want to about me behind my back, but you can't call me a liar to my face!"; and when the Triumvirs tried to eject Futurians visitors from the QSFL meeting in early 1941, there actually was ruff stuff. But the unfavorable reaction of fandom at large indicates the unusual character of such incidents.
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Femtalent Fòrum 2018
What is femtalent?
femtalent is a pioneer project set up in 2008 that develops innovative actions in gender equality and women talent management in the science, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation areas.
The project is coordinated by The Network of Science and Technology Parks of Catalonia (XPCAT), and promoted by Barcelona Activa, in collaboration with other women associations.
Since 2008, femtalent has developed activities focused on:
Encourage child, especially girls, to choose science, technology and innovative careers, in order to change stereotypes in these fields. Especially stimulated science and technology vocations in primary schools.
Present to the society good examples of women talent in science and technology fields in order to create a critical mass that increase the number of women in these areas of expertise and improve women professional careers.
Empower women to raise leadership and top positions. Femtalent identified brilliant women professionals in science, technology and entrepreneurship positions. And helped them with training and mentoring programs in order to increase number of women in the Board of Directors of companies.
Involve people and companies in new time management necessities and consequence benefits. New time management and egalitarian procedures improve balancing lives and therefore make economy and productivity profitable.
Main figures
30 companies trained and mentored in new time management procedures.
Over 200 people trained in “Egalitarian opportunities” in the companies.
Over 100 women in a top positions identified; 34 selected and trained to occupy a leader position in the companies’ Board of Directors.
Over 5.000 children in 75 primary schools were motivated in science, technology and innovative professions in order to improve egalitarian relationships in science and technology fields.
A virtual femtalent community: 4.857 people.
femtalent forum 2018
In this new edition, main subject of femtalent forum will emphasize top women in international arena and/or these who are leading international projects in research, industry and innovation.
In this sense, femtalent wants to show also women in Science and Technology Parks distributed worldwide. The title of the forum is “World Wide Women: inspiring Global Women Talent” and it will will be celebrated on March 2018.
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Your Dream Frank Zappa Box Sets.
Spaceresearcher
Post subject: Your Dream Frank Zappa Box Sets.
Bit of a double up, but it is a wish list, that's for sure. So this post is for the wish in me, the other is for fellow fans discussions(See the Albums Forum section).
As mentioned in other posts, one of my main Frank Zappa album fantasies is in the form of hoping for what hasn't been done EVER!!!.
That would be a couple of complete recording Frank Zappa box sets. Imagine a special edition box set featuring all 102 official Frank Zappa albums for example!!!
Alright, now back to reality, not many people would be able to afford it (what do you reckon the price on such a set would be fellow fans? Starting price $2500+ you reckon? (That would equate to approximately $1500 USD and no change at all I would imagine).
A more realistic set of box sets for this fan would be something like this:
Frank Zappa Ultimate Collection Box Set 1
1. Freak Out (1966)
2. Absolutely Free (1967)
3. Lumpy Gravy (1967)
4. We're Only In It For The Money (1968)
5. Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968)
6. Uncle Meat (1969)
7. Hot Rats (1969)
8. Burnt Weeny Sandwhich (1970)
9. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
10. Chunga's Revenge. (1970)
11. Waka/Jawaka (1972)
12. The Grand Wazoo (1972)
13. Over-Nite Sensation (1973)
14. Apostrophe' (1974)
15. One Size Fits All (1975)
BONUS: The Lost Episodes Collection.
16. Bongo Fury (1975)
17. Zoot Allures (1976)
18. Lather (1978)
19. Sheik Yerbouti(1979)
20. Joe's Garage Acts I, II and III. (1979)
21. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Collection (1981)
22. You Are What You Is (1981)
23. Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (1982)
24. The Man From Utopia (1983)
25. London Symphony Orchestra Volumes 1 and 2 (1983,1987)
26. Them Or Us (1984)
27. Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (1985)
28. Jazz From Hell (1986)
29. The Yellow Shark (1993)
30. Civilisation Phase III (1994)
Bonus (Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Zappa In New York and Orchestral Favourites).
The Live Albums is where it would get tricky but perhaps a number of collections
Frank Zappa Ultimate Collection Box Set 3 - Live and Alive - Beat The Boots Vol 1 and 2.
Frank Zappa Ultimate Collection Box Set 4 - You Simply Can't Do That On Stage Or In A Box Set Anymore!
All of the 'You Can't Do That On Stage Volumes' plus
Broadway The Hard Way
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Make A Jazz Noise Here
Playground Psychotics
Ahead Of Their Time
Frank Zappa Ultimate Collection Box Set 5 - Let Me Take You To The Box (I think that's got a lot of Frank in that title. ).
Everything From 1996's Tribute to and including: 'The Dub Room Special'.
Frank Zappa Ultimate Collection Box Set 6 - The Box Set Is The Ultimate Solution
Everything From 2007's Wazoo to Road Tapes, Venue #2.
Frank Zappa Ultimate Collection Box Set 7 - Box Proxy
Everything from A Token Of His Extreme till there is at least another 15 releases to add to the set.
Just imagine, each box could feature special extra's like rare printings of original Frank Zappa transcriptions and writings, perhaps badges or T-shirts(well it worked for the Beet The Boots box sets). I'm sure most fans would love a copy of an original Frank Zappa composition featuring his unique words and ideas highlighting sections etc.
Yeah, I know, it could be over the top but as a fan who's owned the main bulk of Frank's work 2.5 times and ends up giving albums away to awaken people to Frank's music, set's like this would be fantastic to instantly top up the collection again. Some people purchase up to 10 copies of albums they like just to get alternate mixes, bonus tracks and special printings. It's no different for us Zappa fans right?
PS. A Dweezil Zappa box set is a long time coming as well. Some Dweezil albums are only available on Vinyl and while I love vinyl, it's an inconvenient medium for playing music on the go(eg, in my car on the CD player is sometimes the only chance I for one get to listen for example).
Dweezil Zappa Collection Box Set - My Box Set Want To Kill Your Mama (LOL. OK, perhaps a better title is in order).
1982 – "My Mother Is a Space Cadet"/"Crunchy Water", 12" single, produced by Frank Zappa
1986 – Havin' a Bad Day
1988 – My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
1991 – Confessions
2000 – Automatic
2006 – Go with What You Know
2015 – Via Zammata'
1994 – Shampoohorn
1996 – Music For Pets
2008 – Zappa Plays Zappa
2010 – Return of the Son of...
2011 – In the Moment
2012 – F.O.H.
2012 – F.O.H. III: Out of Obscurity[17]
PLUS: Bonus guitar magazine and never before released tracks etc. Featuring a bonus shampoo horn to hold all your albums on while swapping them in and out of your CD player.
Well there's my Zappa album collection box set dreams fellow fans. What's yours?
RELEASE THESE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post subject: Re: Your Dream Frank Zappa Box Sets.
Something else I should mention is the possibility of having more than 1 album on a CD, that would help bring the cost down.
During the early 90's Ryco released some terrific double album releases. Most notably and no doubt famously, Were Only In It For The Money / Lumpy Gravy and Apostrophe / Overnite Sensation. These were excellent value for money and best of all, there's no disc flipping required. Perhaps some of the albums could be collected together like that in order to make the box sets more viable. Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo for example should fit nicely on a single disc.
Just a suggestion as I think about it seriously.
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Spaceresearcher wrote:
Bit of a double up, but...
Hey lapsed, you could get to 15,000 posts in no time by doing this!
and I know, I think
The Forum Killed Arkay
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During the early 90's Ryco released some terrific double album releases. Most notably and no doubt famously, Were Only In It For The Money / Lumpy Gravy and Apostrophe / Overnite Sensation. These were excellent value...
Those doubles were some of the worst quality they ever put out.
My dream box consists of only unreleased material.
Don't Be Stupid Unless You Want To
The Forum Killed Arkay wrote:
Very interesting to hear. Some of those doubles are the only form I've heard them on CD. Which versions are superior to those Ryco's? I'd love to hear those in comparison.
Would that include all the previously unreleased material from 1996 till the present or only new material never before released full stop?
Personally I love hearing previously unreleased material. That 'The Lost Episodes' was an absolute treasure trove for example.
KUIII
The 2012 re-releases of the entire catalog are superior to all the Rykodisc releases.
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KUIII wrote:
Thanks KUII, I haven't heard the 2012 re-releases and hence why I'm hoping some good box sets can come into existence so I can give my Zappa collection a serious upgrade.
Noted is of course those delicious looking 'A Dozen Frank Zappa Albums' collections from Barfko Swill.
However in order for completeness and for the avid collector, it's not everything plus perhaps some bonus tracks that a box set could deliver.
Everything you write reads as if you have been in a coma for the last 20 or 30 years.
Thinman wrote:
Well I don't believe being excited about Frank Zappa albums puts me in that category but if you feel better for saying that, then thank you for your cosmic debris.
I'd love to hear unreleased box set of material with Sugarcane.
Well here's proof that box sets are desirable. It's rare to see anymore than 15 bids on an ebay item.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/You-Cant-Do- ... SwaZdXIZnX
Imagine that box set re-released with the new 2012 editions.
I used to have that. Really cool and well made. One of my biggest Zappa regrets was letting that box go.
That is so sad. You poor person. That set was VERY nice. At least you can pick up the YCDTOSA series in single cases so on the plus it will take up less space. But yeah I understand, it's just not the same as that gorgeous solid road tour capable box set.
Yeah I got all the 2012 re-releases but that box was pretty spiffy.
jaypfunk wrote:
I have all the 2012s and have not yet decided on what I wanna do with all of my Rykos. I have all of them too. For completest and fetishist purposes I have not been able to part with them.
You might as well hang on to them.
I want to be buried with my YCDTOSA box.
If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)
tweezers wrote:
Hopefully not real soon.
coughelitistfaggotcough
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Location: Approaching Death
lapsed maps wrote:
Hey fucknut, I am a hardcore collector and have been for close to 30 years. Fuck off.
How does that make you any better than someone else who likes Frank's music? I thought it was about the music? Not, how many versions of each album you have.
"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"
You obviously don't know the meaning of the word imply.
And, he attacked you first. Something you've never done on this forum. Goddamn, you're such a fucking hypocrite. Fuck off shithead!
downer mydnyte
I am a hardcore collector
Right. We know. The music is secondary. If it matters at all. I'm thinking music doesn't matter a whole lot to you when I see you participating in watered down shit like the Natasha Komis band. For "the kids"!
Now, call me a faggot, you package hoarding purveyor of hair metal.
downer mydnyte wrote:
hair metal.
ACTUALLY...
it's hard pop/hard rock, but also..... accessible enough to be put in a top 40 type genre,
even though it's a little bit heavy.
Gay boy.
*strives to regain faggot status*
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Three storytellers receive grants to bring home the realities of homelessness
Three members of the Close to Home Storytellers Network recently received a grant to strengthen the voices and leadership roles of people who have experienced homelessness. Jen McDonald, Theda Bruns, and Dee Clark will use the funds, respectively, to develop a storytelling podcast. find new ways to inspire residents to take action, and mentor people on how to share their stories.
The Storytellers Network is a diverse group of people with lived experiences of homelessness who share their stories with groups and organizations across Metro Denver. The Storytellers shed light on the realities of life without a safe place to call home, allowing audiences to see the human side of the experience. The network is part of The Denver Foundation's Close to Home Campaign, which launched in 2015.
“We need to bring more residents who have experienced homelessness into the conversation.”
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“We need to bring more residents who have experienced homelessness into the conversation,' says McDonald, a mother of two who experienced homelessness when a life circumstance changed without much warning. "There are compelling stories not being told that could help to move people to support change.
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CIA psychologist abusers reach settlment...
The ACLU sued the two main psychologists who were involved in torturing men at Guantanamo. The suit has been pending with many important victories along the way- (I have been meaning to do an update on the lawsuit but was too busy)- today that lawsuit was settled.
"The lawsuit was filed in 2015 on behalf of Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud and the estate of Gul Rahman. It sought unspecified monetary damages from the psychologists, whose company was based in Spokane.
Rahman, an Afghan, was taken from his home in Pakistan in 2002 to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan. He died of hypothermia several weeks later after being shackled to a floor in near freezing conditions.
According to the lawsuit, Salim and Ben Soud both were subjected to waterboarding, daily beatings and sleep deprivation while inside CIA secret prisons. Salim, a Tanzanian, and Ben Soud, a Libyan, were later released after officials determined they posed no threat."
READ MORE HERE....
THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO THE ACLU FOR FIGHTING FOR THE RULE OF LAW IN MY COUNTRY--- WHERE THE RULE OF LAW IS QUICKLY EVAPORATING.
From Our Friends Down Under...
Khadr: 10 years at Guantanamo on a bizarre murder charge
The Canadian government has paid former Guantanamero Omar Khadr compensation of $10.5 million for its violation of his rights, and apologised.
Some media were mystified by the mean-spirited reaction of Canadian citizens to the Khadr payout and apology. It was hardly unprecedented: a Toronto paper cited Australia's (apology-free) settlement with Mamdouh Habib.
The best exposition of Khadr's case can be found in a 2013 video presentation by his Pentagon-appointed appellate counsel, Sam Morison. In 2017, Fitch found only one Canadian report that acknowledged the elephant in the room, the bizarre murder charge against a combatant legally responding to an attack:
"Under the laws of war, a combatant who kills another combatant cannot be charged with murder. That's called combatant immunity. Non-combatants who kill a combatant can be charged with murder, and they are entitled to the procedural protections owed to a criminal accused. Mr Khadr was treated neither as a combatant nor as an accused criminal. Instead, the United States invented a new war crime called "murder by an unlawful alien enemy combatant".
The new offence made it lawful for US soldiers to kill Mr Khadr, but made it a war crime if he killed a US soldier. This ersatz war crime was invented by the United States after his capture and then applied to his actions retroactively. No system governed by the rule of law does this."
The widow of the US soldier who, even if Omar Khadr threw the grenade, was legally killed, has lost her suit to freeze the compensation payout pending a proceeding to enforce a default Utah judgment for $US 134 million.
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Question from Southern Illinoisan reporter sparks Twitter war with Trump appointee
September 17, 2019 by Amelia Blakely
A local reporter asked a question to a U.S. Housing and Urban Development senior official that sparked a three-day Twitter war in late August between the Trump appointee and the journalist.
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— David Carson (@PDPJ) September 18, 2019
Molly Parker, a reporter for the Southern Illinoisian, has reported on the country’s public housing crisis locally and nationally since 2015. On August 21, she tweeted a question to Lynne Patton, the HUD Regional Administrator for New York and New Jersey, asking if HUD’s reform of its inspection system began in 2015, which would have predated Patton’s involvement.
Their subsequent exchange highlighted the contentious relationship journalists engage in reporting on federal agencies and showed how journalists use Twitter to ask questions to public officials who may not be accessible for comment in more traditional manners.
Before Patton was the regional administrator for New York and New Jersey, she worked as an aide to Eric Trump and was also a speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Most recently, she grabbed headlines when she posted a picture of an article from the Daily Mail reporting Jeffery Epstien’s suicide with the caption, “Hillary’d!!” She added the tag, “#VinceFosterPartTwo,” a reference to the lawyer in Bill Clinton’s administration who killed himself in 1993; his death was ruled a suicide, but conspiracy theories still emerged blaming the Clintons.
Earlier in the summer, Mark Meadows, a congressman from North Carolina, used Patton’s role as an aide with the Trump family to assert that Trump is not racist during the Micheal Cohen hearings. She also called White House reporter April Ryan “miss piggy,” on Twitter and has since apologized.
She has no past experience working in public housing, which is how the riff began. On her official HUD Twitter account Patton said she was honored to have a critical role in the creation of the Real Estate Assessment Center Task Force and Physical Inspection reform after an inspection of a failing property. Parker asked in a reply if REAC reform began in 2015, which would have predated Patton’s involvement. Patton then used her personal account to tweet a GIF and accused the reporter of trying to diminish her role in inspection reform.
No. Nice try. Years later, all global ministries resulted in was a sale/change of management agent to a local preservation buyer/agency. But keep trying to diminish my role. I’ll wait. OR ask career PIH & housing stakeholders. Afraid they’ll actually tell the truth?? 🙄 pic.twitter.com/r5viozUnOw
— 🇺🇸 Lynne Patton (@LynnePatton) August 22, 2019
According to an expanded statement offered by HUD, in August of 2017 Patton alerted Carson and senior staff at HUD’s headquarters of the inefficient inspection system after a multifamily property in Newark, New Jersey received passing inspection scores from REAC despite deplorable conditions.
In subsequent tweets, Parker provided a U.S. Government Accountability Office’s report showing HUD also began an internal review of REAC in 2016.
The late-night argument rolled over to the early morning of Aug. 22 when Patton responded to Parker’s tweet, which was an image of the U.S. GAO’s report outlining past reform recommendations.
Almost four years ago to the day the Twitter fight between Patton and Parker began, Parker had reported how some Cairo, Il. residents in housing run by the Alexander County Public Housing Authority were living in “third world” conditions while some employees and management of the local housing authority had collectively taken home hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars through payments, bonuses, consultant contracts, retirement incentives, and legal incentives along with regular pay.
Downtown Cairo, Illinois. (Photo by Paul Sableman via Flickr)
This story launched a series by Parker that chronicled one community’s struggle to gain access to safe and clean public housing.
After a new administration took over HUD in 2016, Cairo was one of the first places of action when the agency took the local housing authority under its control.
A year later, HUD made the decision to shutter the McBride and Elmwood public housing units and relocate residents with vouchers that act as part of rent payment. In early 2018, 85 residents living in Thebe’s public housing, a neighboring town of about 360 people, were also informed by HUD that they would be relocated.
Parker told the Gateway Journalism Review that the effect this had on the residents and community varied. Not all the units were uninhabitable. Some families felt their units were not in as poor condition as others, Parker said.
For some, moving was not what they wanted; others saw being relocated provided a new start for families.
Cairo is at the bottom tip of Illinois. It’s an impoverished town in a struggling region. Historically, it has an important role being at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. When the majority of America’s trade was transported by the country’s river system and railroad, Cairo was in the middle of all the movement and culture.
In the Civil War, Cairo played an important role for stationing the union army and keeping an eye on the southern states which bordered the city.
After the war, Cairo was a destination for freed slaves. Some stayed in the city, others continued north. Those who stayed and their descendants were subject to racial discrimination and oppression. Violence rocked the city during the civil rights movement, leaving generational scars on the city of now, a couple thousand.
Those scars manifested in unfit living conditions, that were reported in the early 1970s by the late journalist Paul Good. His report included chipping paint, bad plumbing, rat and roach infestation, and cracked walls and ceilings that he found in segregated public housing.
Parker found in 2015 HUD had failed again to enforce fair housing laws as it had 45 years ago.
Parker received a ProPublica Local Reporting Grant in 2018 allowing her to travel around Illinois and outside the state to tell the story of America’s public housing crisis. Her reporting took her to New York City, East St. Louis, and Missouri to tell similar stories about HUD’s failed inspection system that has left thousands of Americans living in inhabitable and dangerous conditions.
ProPublica’s deputy managing editor came out in support of Parker’s questions.
👋🏽@LynnePatton and @HUDgov.
Asking questions of government officials is called reporting.. which is what reporters, you know, DO.
When @MollyParkerSI asks you or other @HUDgov officials questions, you often don’t answer. Let's take a look. https://t.co/YygxTgsiNE
— ProPublica (@propublica) August 22, 2019
Reporting on the housing crisis in Cairo was heartbreaking, Parker said.
“I am a reporter, so we try of course to be as objective as possible and to a degree that requires you to detach yourself,” Parker said. “But at the end of the day you’re human.”
As a southern Illinois native, Parker said she recognized some of the families and interviewed a lot of female head of households.
“A lot of the mothers were my age,” she said. “I recognized that we probably played sports against each other.”
Parker thinks about that a lot, she said. She started to ask herself tough questions.
“Why do some communities fare better than others? Why do some have resources and some don’t? Why are some of our communities segregated and lacking resources?” she said.
These problems are not unique to southern Illinois. But sometimes it’s easier to not recognize things for what they are – the modern effects of racism’s legacy, she said.
“All those things hit home for me,” Parker said.
By starting to report on the public housing crisis in Cairo, Parker was welcomed into the community by residents who reminded her to tell positive stories that are happening in Cairo like every other community.
In a tweet with images of past threads Parker tweeted her disapproval for Patton’s responses to her original question of when REAC reform was initiated. In a response to a Twitter reply, Parker called Patton’s responses “discouraging.”
In a statement emailed to GJR, Patton described the Twitter exchange with Parker as “a contentious debate about whether or not the current Administration has pursued more impactful reform as it pertains to REAC than the last Administration, which is partisan activity directly geared toward the success or failure of a specific political party.”
Patton noted that she had used her personal Twitter account to engage. In defense for responding to Parker’s questions with GIFs, Patton called the reporter unprofessional and said she had stalked her.
Reporters’ engagement with public officials hasn’t always been contentious.
Bill Lambrecht of Hearst Newspapers and San Antonio Express-News paid a lot of attention to HUD when Presidential candidate Julian Castro was then-secretary during 2014-2017.
From a long-term perspective, the agency has done a good job in Washington with being responsive, Lambrecht said.
In the most recent years under President Obama, reporters began to see a difference in how reporters were treated. But it was never to the extent it is today, Lambrecht said.
Federal agencies are in “political mode” in order to protect their bosses politically rather than serving the public, he said.
“What we’ve seen at HUD and other agencies is that the press person in government that once operated as press advocates are now in many cases in these exaggerated and adversarial relationships with news outlets,” he said.
Twitter is not a space for political discussion. It allows bits of information to skim the surface, if even that, Lambrecht said.
“They flow so swiftly that they allow little time before the next tweet,” he said.
As reporters are adapting to the changing media landscape that has come with social media, there must be a laser focus on the truth and keep some humility as they present stories, Lambrecht said.
Since the Internet’s birth Lambrecht said public information staff, who are supposed to work for the taxpayers and the media, have used the internet as a crutch. Countless times he said he’s been directed to an agency’s website looking for answers to find nothing that responds to his questions.
That vacuum of public information is why Parker’s and others’ reporting is essential, Lambrecht said.
“There is precious little focus on government agencies,” he said.
In Washington, Capitol Hill is filled with national journalists covering Congress.
“But so little of what congress does truly impacts peoples’ lives and their problems,” Lambrecht said. “Everyday there are, in HUD and other agencies, decisions made that have a big impact on people.”
Back in the day, before everyone carried their digital life in their palm, a reporter would reach out to an agency with their questions. If the questions were good, media relations would find an expert in the agency to answer the questions, Lambrecht said.
“We see less and less of that with this phony reliance on websites and efforts, for political reasons, to protect their bosses in the administration,” he said.
An example of the government’s difficult relationship with the press is when employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were threatened with losing their jobs when they tried to correct the record of where Hurricane Dorian was going to hit in early September, Lambrecht said.
“In matters as basic as weather we now see efforts at the federal level to dissemble or to mislead,” Lambrecht said. “Which is a little bit frightening when truth is a plungeable commodity.”
If and when government bosses misrepresent a fact through the internet, it’s important for reporters to not engage in a “cute back and forth” or insulting behavior that can be seen in officials and their staff.
“It’s incumbent upon journalists to present the truth as best they can and point out inaccuracies but do so in a straightforward way that doesn’t diminish the value of those truths,” Lambrecht said.
As journalists continue to work in a climate that has a diminished trust in the institution of journalism they must unremittingly seek the truth, he said.
“As best we can.”
Amelia Blakely reported from Carbondale, Illinois, where she is a student at Southern Illinois University. You can find her on Twitter @AmeilaBlakely.
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Blonde psyllium is likely to help control blood glucose when used with standard treatment A29
Carnitine is a nutrient in the body that turns fat into energy.C11, C12
Fenugreek is an herb that is taken as a supplement. (Note: Fenugreek is not safe for women who are pregnant.)A35
Garlic is an herb that is used in cooking and baking.C26-C28
Green Tea A7, A22
Magnesium is a mineral in the body, in foods, and taken as a supplement.A32, A34,C29, C30
Milk Thistle is an herb that is taken as a supplement.A9
Resveratrol is a compound found in grapes, peanuts, and wine.C37, C38
Soy is a protein that comes from soybeans, soy yogurt, and tofu.C33-36
Sweet potato A23
Vitamin D is available in a few foods and as a supplement. Your body also makes it in response to sunlight.A16, A36C46-C50
Vitamin E is found in nuts, olive oil, and sunflower oil.C39-C41
Yoga may help lower your fasting blood glucose.B1-B3
Vitamin B3 is found in grains, nuts, and meat. It is likely to improve blood fat levels.C42
May Be Effective
Aloe vera is a succulent plant that is used in many forms to treat health problems.A12
Ayurvedic herbs A11
Beta carotene is a red-orange compound found in fruits and veggies.C2
Bee propolis is a substance made by bees to coat their hives.C1
Carob refers to the bitter seeds that come from the pods of a tropical tree.C13
Chinese herbs A19
Chromium is a mineral that humans need in trace amounts. (Note: Chromium should not be taken by people with certain mental health problems.)A31, C4-C18
Cinnamon is a spice that is thought to help treat health problems.A3, A5, A6, A8, A14, A17, A21, A24
Folate is an essential vitamin found in grains, lentils, and spinach that is thought to improve organ function and blood flow.C24, C25
French maritime pine bark is taken as a supplement. (Note: It should not be taken by people who have problems with their immune system.)A13
Ginger is a spice that is thought to help treat health problems.A27
Ivy gourd (coccinia indica) is taken as a supplement to treat health problems.A4
Lemon balm is an herb in the same family as mint.C22, C23
Nettle is a plant best known for the sting of its leaves.C32
Red ginseng is a root that is taken as a supplement to treat health problems. (Note: Red ginseng may not be safe when taken long-term or by those with certain health problems.)A10, A26, A28
Sage (salvia officinalis) is an herb taken as a supplement to treat health problems. (Note: Sage may not be safe when taken long-term or by people with certain health problems, such as seizure disorders.)A25
Salacia oblonga is a shrub that grows in Asia.A1, A2, A20
Tribulus terrestris is a vine with yellow flowers.C7
Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits, sweet peppers, and broccoli.C43
Whortleberry comes from a shrub and is used to treat health problems. (Note: It may not be safe when taken at high doses for a long period.)A18
Unlikely to Be Effective
These herbs and supplements are unlikely to help lower your blood glucose levels:
Bitter Melon is a tropical, fruit-like gourd. (Note: It should not be taken by women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.)A15
Not Enough Data to Assess
Beta-carotene C2
Biotin C3-C5
Coenzyme Q10C19-C21
French maritime pine bark C51
MatéC31
Wolfberry C6
Editorial process and description of evidence categories can be found at EBSCO NAT Editorial Process.
Herbs and Supplements to Be Used With Caution
Talk to your doctor about any supplements or therapy you would like to use. Some may get in the way of treatment. They can also make illness worse or cause new problems. Examples include:
Astragalus may make the immune system more active. Talk to your doctor before taking it if you have problems with your immune system.
Bee propolis should not be used by people with bee allergies.
Berberine is not safe for children or women who are breastfeeding or pregnant.
Beta-carotene may increase the risk of cancer, stroke, and other health problems in smokers and people with a history of asbestos exposure.
Bitter melon should not be taken by women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Carob may interact with vitamin A supplements. It may interact with the medicines taken by people with blood pressure or heart problems.
Toxicities and side effects of Chinese herbs and Ayurvedic medicine vary depending on the herb and amount used.
Chromium should not be taken by people with certain mental health problems.
Fenugreek is not safe for women who are pregnant. It may cause contractions.
French maritime pine bark may make the immune system more active. Talk to your doctor before taking it if you have problems with your immune system.
Red ginseng may not be safe when taken long-term or by people with certain health problems, such as auto-immune diseases or bleeding problems.
Sage may not be safe when taken long-term or by people with certain health problems, such as seizure disorders.
Whortleberry may not be safe when taken at high doses for a long period.
Wolfberry may increase the risk of bleeding in people taking blood thinners.
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A2. Williams JA, Choe YS, et al. Extract of Salacia oblonga lowers acute glycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007;86(1):124-130.
A3. Baker WL, Gutierrez-Williams G, et al. Effect of cinnamon on glucose control and lipid parameters. Diabetes Care. 2008 Jan;31(1):41-43.
A4. Kuriyan R, Rajendran R, et al. Effect of supplementation of Coccinia cordifolia extract on newly detected diabetic patients. Diabetes Care. 2008 Feb;31(2):216-220.
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A6. Akilen R, Tsiami A, et al. Glycated haemoglobin and blood pressure-lowering effect of cinnamon in multi-ethnic Type 2 diabetic patients in the UK: a randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial. Diabet Med. 2010 Oct;27(10):1159-1167.
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A21. Hasanzade F, Toliat M, et al. The effect of cinnamon on glucose of type II diabetes patients. J Tradit Complement Med. 2013 Jul;3(3):171-174.
A22. Liu K, Zhou R, et al. Effect of green tea on glucose control and insulin sensitivity: a meta-analysis of 17 randomized controlled trials. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Aug;98(2):340-348.
A23. Ooi CP, Loke SC. Sweet potato for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Sep 3;(9):CD009128.
A24. Allen RW, Schwartzman E, et al. Cinnamon use in type 2 diabetes: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Fam Med. 2013 Sept-Oct;11(5):452-459.
A25. Kianbakht S, Dabaghian FH. Improved glycemic control and lipis profile in hyperlipidemic type 2 diabetic patients consuming Salvia officinalis L. leaf extract: a randomized placebo. Controlled clinical trial. Complement Ther Med. 2013 Oct;21(5):441-416.
A26. Bang H, Kwak JH, et al. Korean red ginseng improves glucose control in subjects with impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, or newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. J Med Food 2014 Jan;17(1):128-134.
A27. Mozaffari-Khosravi H, Talaei B, et al. The effect of ginger powder supplementation on insulin resistance and glycemic indices in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Complement Ther Med. 2014 Feb;22(1):9-16.
A28. Oh MR, Park SH, et al. Postprandial glucose-lowering effects of fermented red ginseng in subjects with impaired fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2014 Jul 11;14:237.
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A37. Liang Y, Xu X, et al. Effects of berberine on blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Endocr J. 2018 Nov 3.
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B3. Angadi P, Jagannathan A, et al. Adherence to yoga and its resultant effects on blood glucose in Type 2 diabetes: a community-base follow-up study. Int J Yoga. 2017 Jan-Apr;10(1):29-36.
C1. Samadi N, Mozaffari-Khosravi H, et al. Effects of bee propolis supplementation on glycemic control, lipid profile and insulin resistance indices in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial. J Integr Med.2017;15(2):124-134.
C2. Asemi Z, Alizadeh SA, et al. Effects of beta-carotene fortified symbiotic food on metabolic control of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A double-blind randomized cross-over controlled clinical trial. Clin Nutr. 2016;35(4):819-825.
C3. Singer GM, Geohas J. The effect of chromium picolinate and biotin supplementation on glycemic control in poorly controlled patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a placebo-controlled, double-blinded, randomized trial. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2006 Dec;8(6):636-643.
C4. Albarracin C, Fuqua B, et al. Combination of chromium and biotin improves coronary risk factors in hypercholesterolemic type 2 diabetes mellitus: a placebo-controlled, double-blind randomized clinical trial. J Cardiometab Syndr. 2007;2(2):91-97.
C5. Albarracin CA, Fuqua BC, et al. Chromium picolinate and biotin combination improves glucose metabolism in treated, uncontrolled overweight obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2008;24(1):41-51.
C6. Cai H, Liu F, et al. Practical Application of Antidiabetic Efficacy of Lycium barbarum Polysaccharide in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Med Chem. 2015;11(4):383-390.
C7. Samani NM, Jokar A, et al. Efficacy of the hydroalcoholic extract of tribulus terrestris on the serum glucose and lipid profile of women with diabetes mellitus: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial. J Evid Based Complementary Altern Med. 2016;21(4):NP91-97.
C8. Francelino Andrade E, Vieira Lobato R, et al. Effect of beta glucans in the control of blood glucose levels of diabetic patients: a systematic review. Nutr Hosp. 2014 Jan 1;31(1):170-177.
C9. Shen XL, Zhao T, et al. Effect of Oat β-Glucan Intake on Glycaemic Control and Insulin Sensitivity of Diabetic Patients: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Nutrients. 2016;8(1):E39.
C10. He LX, Zhao J, et al. The difference between oats and beta-glucan extract intake in the management of HbA1c, fasting glucose and insulin sensitivity: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Food Funct. 2016 Mar;7(3):1413-1428.
C11. Vidal-Casariego A, Burgo-Peláez R, et al. Metabolic effects of L-carnitine on type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analysis. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 2013;121(4):234-238.
C12. Xu Y, Jiang W, et al. L-carnitine treatment of insulin resistance: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Adv Clin Exp Med. 2017 Mar-Apr;26(2):333-338.
C13. Lambert C, Cubedo J, et al. Effects of a Carob-Pod-Derived Sweetener on Glucose Metabolism. Nutrients. 2018;10(3):E271.
C14. Abdollahi M, Farshchi A, et al. Effect of chromium on glucose and lipid profiles in patients with type 2 diabetes; a meta-analysis review of randomized trials. J Pharm Pharm Sci. 2013;16(1):99-114.
C15. Suksomboon N, Poolsup N, et al. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of chromium supplementation in diabetes. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2014;39(3):292-306.
C16. Bailey CH. Improved meta-analytic methods show no effect of chromium supplements on fasting glucose. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2014 Jan;157(1):1-8.
C17. Yin RV, Phung OJ. Effect of chromium supplementation on glycated hemoglobin and fasting plasma glucose in patients with diabetes mellitus. Nutr J. 2015 Feb 13;14:14.
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C19. Suksomboon N, Poolsup N, et al. Effects of coenzyme Q10 supplementation on metabolic profile in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2015;40(4):413-418.
C20. Moradi M, Haghighatdoost F, et al. Effect of Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation on Diabetes Biomarkers: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials. Arch Iran Med. 2016;19(8):588-596.
C21. Stojanović M, Radenković M. A meta-analysis of randomized and placebo-controlled clinical trials suggests that coenzyme Q10 at low dose improves glucose and HbA1c levels. Nutr Res. 2017 Feb;38:1-12.
C22. Asadi A, Shidfar F, et al. Safety and efficacy of Melissa officinalis (lemon balm) on ApoA-I, Apo B, lipid ratio and ICAM-1 in type 2 diabetes: A randomized, double-blinded clinical trial. Complement Ther Med. 2018;40:83-88.
C23. Asadi A, Shidfar F, et al. Efficacy of Melissa officinalis L. (lemon balm) extract on glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in individuals with type 2 diabetes: A randomized, double-blind, clinical trial. Phytother Res. 2019;33(3):651-659.
C24. Sudchada P, Saokaew S, et al. Effect of folic acid supplementation on plasma total homocysteine levels and glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2012;98(1):151-158.
C25. Zhao JV, Schooling CM, et al. The effects of folate supplementation on glucose metabolism and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Ann Epidemiol. 2018 Apr;28(4):249-257.e1.
C26. Ashraf R, Khan RA, et al. Garlic (Allium sativum) supplementation with standard antidiabetic agent provides better diabetic control in type 2 diabetes patients. Pak J Pharm Sci. 2011;24(4):565-570.
C27. Hou LQ, Liu YH, et al. Garlic intake lowers fasting blood glucose: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2015;24(4):575-582.
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C29. Veronese N, Watutantrige-Fernando S, et al. Effect of magnesium supplementation on glucose metabolism in people with or at risk of diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of double-blind randomized controlled trials. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2016 Dec;70(12):1354-1359.
C30. Verma H, Garg R. Effect of magnesium supplementation on type 2 diabetes associated cardiovascular risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2017;30(5):621-633.
C31. Klein GA, Stefanuto A, et al. Mate tea (Illex paraguariensis) improves glycemic and lipid profiles of type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes individuals: a pilot study. J Am Coll Nutr. 2011;30(5):320-332.
C32. Namazi N, Esfanjani AT, et al. The effect of hydro alcoholic Nettle (Urtica dioica) extracts on insulin sensitivity and some inflammatory indicators in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized double-blind control trial. Pak J Biol Sci. 2011 Aug 1;14(15):775-779.
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C36. Zhang XM, Zhang YB, et al. Soy Protein Supplementation Reduces Clinical Indices in Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome. Yonsei Med J. 2016;57(3):681-689.
C37. Liu K, Zhou R, et al. Effect of resveratrol on glucose control and insulin sensitivity: a meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials. Am J Clin Nutr. 2014;99(6):1510-1519.
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C39. Suksomboon N, Poolsup N, et al. Effects of vitamin E supplementation on glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes: systematic review of randomized controlled trials. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2011 Feb;36(1):53-63.
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2002-N-0508 (1) Kalamazoo Avenue and North Burdick Intersection
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Image, looking northwest, of the Kalamazoo Avenue and North Burdick Street intersection located in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. Kalamazoo Avenue runs from left to right with North Burdick Street visible in the foreground. The focus of the image...
2002-N-0152 (02) War Bond Parade
Parades; Celebrations; Patriotism;
Series of ten images of a World War II Bond Drive and patriotic parade taking place in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo in commemoration of "Salute to Our Heroes" month. Nine of the images in this series were taken of the parade from the second...
2002-N-0152 (03a) War Bond Parade
2002-N-0504 Intersection of Kalamazoo Avenue and Rose Street
Intersections; Streets;
View, looking northwest, towards the Rose Street and Kalamazoo Avenue intersection in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. Rose Street runs from left to right while Kalamazoo Avenue runs from the top to the bottom. The gentleman standing in the middle...
View, looking west down Kalamazoo Avenue, taken just east of the Kalamazoo Avenue and North Burdick Street intersection. The tall building on the left (southwest corner of Kalamazoo and Burdick) is the Reid Hotel. The business on the right...
2002-N-0102 (05) Shakespeare Factory Complex
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View, looking to the northeast, of the Shakespeare Factory Complex located in downtown Kalamazoo. Known for their fishing and sports equipment among other products the complex stood at 235 to 245 East Kalamazoo Avenue and was bordered by Kalamazoo...
2002-N-0130 (01) Kalamazoo Sled Company
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Image of a gentleman seated behind a desk in a rather sparse office space. The signs on the wall behind him read: "Kalamazoo Sled Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan" and "Toddle Line of Play and Educational Toys Manufactured by J. L Weiner Company...
2002-N-0600 (02) Kalamazoo Flying Service
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Aerial view, looking west, of the Kalamazoo Flying Service Incorporated located at 5607 Portage Road on the grounds of the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport. The hanger and office buildings are situated in the bottom center of the image on the east side...
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MILO'S WEEK
This is a weekly comic strip I wrote and drew for the NZ Listener between 1995 and 1997. The central character is Milo Brown, editorial cartoonist on the Daily Bugle. Other characters include TV reporter Sasha Davies (who has an on-again off-again thing with Milo), Daily Bugle reporters Joe and Sue, Cabinet Minister "Fingers" Finchley and corporate high-flyer and Business Roundtable member Sir Roland McPillage. Among others. Even the Invisible Hand of the Market makes an appearance (and promptly goes on a crime spree).
During its time in the Listener, Milo provoked a certain amount of comment - from readers, politicians, journalists and economists. Business Roundtable spokesperson Roger Kerr saw fit to attack it in print and rumour has it that a former cabinet minister cancelled an interview with the Listener after they published my two page comic-strip report on the Beyond Dependency conference. A sequence about the Winebox Scandal was reprinted in a book by Ian Wishart and an Invisible Hand strip even made it in to an Economics textbook. All in all, a satisfying run, some of which you can sample here. Of course, nothing lasts for ever and when a new editor took over the Listener in 1997, Milo was one of the regular features to be 'downsized'.
I tentatively drew a couple of samples for a daily Milo strip, but was soon busy with other things and so these have never been published (naturally, you can see these here).
Milo resurfaced briefly in the NZ Political Review - before retiring gracefully to the cartoon world's dole queue... Whether he reappears one day will depend primarily on my busy lifestyle.
Meet the cast! A Who's Who of Milo's Week...
Read a selection of the NZ Listener Milo's Week strips.
Read the unpublished Milo dailies.
� Copyright 2000 Dylan Horrocks
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Howard League Scotland
Reform of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Monday, September 7, 2015 - 11:29
The following submission was prepared by Howard League Scotland in response to the Scottish Government's May 2015 consultation paper on reform of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
1. We welcome the opportunity to comment on the Scottish Government’s proposals for reform of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (“the Act”). In our meetings with the former and current Cabinet Secretary for Justice, we have consistently highlighted the need to reform the Act.
2. The Act was reformed in England and Wales and those changes came into force in March 2014, putting those with criminal convictions in Scotland at a disadvantage compared with their English and Welsh counterparts.
3. We welcome the fact that the proposed changes can be implemented without delay by means of secondary legislation. However, as indicated in Chapter 3 of the consultation document (‘Next Steps’), there is a pressing need for wider reform, which may necessitate primary legislation.
THE IMPORTANCE OF REFORM
4. The economic and social costs of reoffending are considerable. Enabling those with convictions to become rehabilitated and reintegrated into society is in everyone’s interests: it improves public safety and reduces reoffending.
5. Howard League Scotland (HLS) agrees that a balance must be struck between allowing those with criminal convictions to turn their lives around and ensuring public protection. However, it is clear that, over the past four decades, the balance has become skewed against allowing those with convictions to become rehabilitated.
6. As the consultation document notes, average custodial sentence lengths have risen quite significantly since the Act was introduced. In particular, more people are being sentenced to custody for periods between six months and four years.
7. Scotland’s prison population has grown from 4,860 in 1980 to 7,732 in 2015. Our imprisonment rate is one of the highest in Western Europe.
8. Over one in three male adults and almost one in ten female adults in Scotland has at least one criminal conviction.
9. Therefore more individuals are coming under the scope of the Act and with sentence length inflation, more offenders can never become rehabilitated in the eyes of the law. This impacts not only on their employment prospects but access to education, housing and financial service products (mortgages, insurance etc.).
THE NEED FOR FURTHER REFORM
10. There are a number of areas that require further consideration. This should happen without delay, given the likelihood of a need for primary legislation:
Rehabilitation periods for determinate sentences
11. Any determinate sentence assumes that there is a point at which someone’s debt to society will have been repaid. And yet, even once the ‘rehabilitation periods’ in the Act have been amended, anyone sentenced to custody for a period of four years or more will have to disclose that conviction for the rest of their life. We have to ask ourselves how being faced with the prospect of a lifetime of potential discrimination in the employment market will impact on an individual’s incentive to desist from committing further crimes.
12. Therefore we would like to see consideration being given to the possibility of a mechanism for reviewing whether those who have served long term sentences should have to disclose those convictions for the rest of their lives.
Tackling employer discrimination
13. In a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in 2010 a third of employers admitted to deliberately excluding those with a criminal conviction when recruiting . The report noted that “employer attitudes remain the most significant barrier that may prevent more people from some groups from entering, remaining and progressing within employment.” It also concluded that “ex-offenders are the most disadvantaged of these various groups”.
14. Many employers are unclear about what their responsibilities are with regard to the Act. At present, there is no penalty for discriminating against an individual without good cause on grounds of a previous conviction. Consideration should be given how best to ensure that employers comply with the requirements of the law. Employers should also be able to access support and advice on risk assessment. And where employers do retain a right to ask about past convictions, any exclusions should be based on an offence with direct relevance to the job.
Review of the Exclusions and Exceptions Order
15. There is a need to review the Exclusions and Exceptions Order (that is, the categories of employment and proceedings to which the 1974 Act does not apply as it is considered appropriate that access to spent conviction information continues to be available for the purposes of public protection). The list of professions that are exempted from the scope of the Act has increased considerably since the legislation was introduced, meaning that many types of employment are now effectively closed to those with spent convictions.
Children’s Hearing System
16. The proposed changes to the Act will not impact on offences admitted to in the Children’s Hearing System (CHS). Almost all offences admitted to/proofed in the CHS now count as Alternatives to Prosecution (AtP) except for those for which the police can retain DNA evidence. This means that any such offences committed by children aged between 8 and 12 will remain on their record until they are aged about 40, even although no longer prosecutable in the courts. This is one of the anomalies of not raising the age of criminal responsibility to 12 along with the age of prosecution.
Reducing the size of the prison population
17. As noted above, Scotland has one of the highest imprisonment rates in Western Europe. One way of reducing the numbers of individuals who fall under the scope of this legislation is to reduce the numbers of people being sent to prison in the first place. Greater use should be made of early intervention, diversion from prosecution and community-based disposals. We would also like to see the Scottish Government revisit the presumption against short term sentences, which are known to be ineffective in reducing reoffending.
The ‘Google’ effect
18. As highlighted by Unlock in their response to the 2013 consultation, reform of the Act does not tackle the ‘Google’ effect. The proliferation of online media means that, even if someone with a conviction has become spent, details of their conviction may be available via an internet search. Consideration should be given to measures to mitigate against the retention of online information about past convictions that might unfairly impede an individual’s ability to become fully rehabilitated/secure employment.
Submitted on 12 August 2015
Guest blog: Restructuring Community Justice in Scotland
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 13:28
As the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee commences its Stage 1 considerations of the Community Justice Bill, Jamie Buchan considers reform of community justice in Scotland.
Under legislation recently introduced by the Scottish Government, community justice in Scotland is to be reorganised for the second time in about a decade, after the previous reorganisation left it with serious structural flaws – but even if these problems are removed, challenges old and new will remain.
Scottish criminal justice has seen some interesting developments recently; most encouraging was the January decision not to build a new women’s prison at Inverclyde and instead to pursue a model of small local centres, as recommended by Howard League Scotland and the Commission on Women Offenders (the Angiolini Report).
Less well-known are the Angiolini Report’s recommendations on community justice. This is an important part of Scotland’s criminal justice system – in 2013-14, over 20,000 offenders received a community sentence. These sentences combine punishment and rehabilitation – they can include unpaid work requirements, probation supervision delivered by criminal justice social work (CJSW), and interventions aimed at the offenders’ ‘criminogenic needs’ (such as mental health, housing or employment). This vital work goes beyond community sentences – these same structures contribute to the reintegration of offenders released from long prison sentences.
Community punishments are cheaper, less disruptive and overall more effective at tackling reoffending than imprisonment, and the Scottish Government has accepted this for some time. Nonetheless, community justice features only rarely in media and public discussions. As Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall wrote in Doing Probation Work (2013), community justice doesn’t have the pop-culture prominence that novels, news media, TV and films have imparted to the police, prisons and the courts. Notwithstanding the reality of sentencing, we tend to think of prison bars when we think of punishment – and to think of community punishments as ‘alternatives to imprisonment’ rather than punishments in their own right.
The distinctive structure of the Scottish system was developed almost fifty years ago, following the Kilbrandon report into youth offending. That report, which famously led to the creation of the Children’s Hearings System, also made recommendations about adult social work and criminal justice. Scotland’s probation service was abolished, and its functions were folded into new generic social work departments within local authorities.
The position of CJSW as a local authority social work institution, rather than a national criminal justice institution, has shaped its development in Scotland – but community justice issues don’t stay neatly within the institutional boundaries of social work departments. They involve police, courts, prisons, the NHS, social housing and the many charities that work with offenders. That makes community justice a matter of partnership, and the current system aims to reflect this. It’s structured around eight Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) – regional bodies established in 2006 after hurried compromise between local government, social workers and the Scottish Executive.
CJAs were set up to reduce reoffending in their regions by allocating CJSW funding, promoting partnership and holding social work departments to account for meeting reoffending targets. The members of each CJA are councillors from the constituent local authorities, who vote on area plans which detail how resources will be allocated. In practice, these plans are prepared by CJA employees – the Chief Officer and their small support staff – and rarely come to a vote. CJA Chief Officers also coordinate activity between various partners: local authority CJSW, the Scottish Prison Service, the NHS, the Crown Office, Police Scotland, Victim Support Scotland and various charities.
Despite the efforts of CJA employees, the current model has serious structural flaws. A CJA has no operational control and only limited strategic control, and it can’t hold the NHS or the courts accountable in the same way it can social work departments. My own ongoing research suggests that CJA staff feel a conflict of aims – reporting a failing social work department to the Government would hinder partnership working, so this power has never once been used. With no control over non-CJSW partners, the success of a CJA partnership has often come down to personality, not policy.
Despite being restricted by these structural factors, CJA staff have often played important roles in developing innovative approaches to rehabilitation. Reoffending has fallen and partnership working has improved since CJAs were established. The system has not been a total failure, but by the time of the Angiolini report it was clear it had to change.
The consultation for redesigning the system was unusually long (about two years), which suggests the Scottish Government wished to avoid the rushed decision-making and implementation that produced the CJA system. Initially the consultation presented three options: keeping CJAs but enhancing their power, handing responsibility to local authorities, or setting up a single national Community Justice Service (the latter recommended both by the Angiolini report and by Howard League Scotland).
None of these options was accepted – instead a compromise between local and national was agreed, but not a regional middle way like the CJAs. Instead the Community Justice (Scotland) Bill, recently published and now in its first stage, will replace CJAs with a new two-tier system.
Local Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) will be responsible for coordinating partnerships and developing local plans for reducing reoffending – as they already are in many areas outside justice. Alongside these a new national body, Community Justice Scotland, which will be responsible for promoting knowledge exchange and public awareness of community justice.
It’s likely to be a turbulent time for CPPs as they assume these new responsibilities. The upcoming Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill is intended to strengthen CPPs in light of criticisms of their performance; the Scottish Government is also requiring local authorities to integrate health and social care provision structures, and there’s a growing division within the local authority umbrella group COSLA.
Promoting public awareness and developing public interest could be an even greater challenge for Community Justice Scotland. The Inverclyde decision suggests Scotland could forge a path to a more effective and humane criminal justice system, centred on rehabilitation and reintegration. Getting there requires us to challenge the narrow conception of community punishments as ‘alternatives to prison’, and to develop locally engaged structures which can deal in a multifaceted way with the complex problem of rehabilitation.
Jamie Buchan is a third-year PhD student in criminology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the development and effects of the restructuring of the community justice systems of England and Wales and Scotland, with particular reference to practitioner opinions, experiences and adaptation in Scotland. He writes here in a personal capacity.
Response to Scottish Government announcement on women offenders
Howard League Scotland welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for Justice’s decision not to proceed with plans to build HMP Inverclyde. His decision was another step towards meeting the recommendations in the 2012 report of the Commission on Women Offenders which was clear that most women in prison in Scotland today do not need to be there for reasons of public safety and that their needs would be better met in the community.
Since the Cabinet Secretary’s announcement in January, the Government has recognised that more needs to be done to reduce the size of the female prison population in Scotland and we welcome their efforts.
The emphasis must be on preventing women from becoming caught up in the criminal justice system in the first place, diverting them at the point of arrest and prosecution wherever possible, and reducing the use of remand and short term prison sentences. The time is therefore right to revisit the presumption against sentences of three months and under. There must too be sustainable funding for community-based services.
Decommissioning existing custodial capacity should also be an early aim, with lessons to be learned from the success of work with young offenders and the reduction in numbers at Polmont.
At present it is unclear what the timescale for decommissioning existing capacity will be. We would be very concerned if this did not take place before the creation of the proposed new prison places at a new facility on the site of Cornton Vale and places at five regional custodial units (each with 20 places). The evidence suggests that the creation of new prison capacity can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If we redouble our efforts and take a ‘whole systems approach’, there is no reason why the success in reducing the number of young people in custody cannot be replicated for women in custody in Scotland.
http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/New-plans-for-women-in-custody-announce...
Prisoners (Control of Release) Bill - Stage 3 briefing
PRISONERS (CONTROL OF RELEASE) (SCOTLAND) BILL – STAGE 3
BRIEFING AND ANALYSIS
Dr Monica Barry, Principal Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde
Professor Lesley McAra, Chair of Penology, University of Edinburgh
Professor Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow
Professor Cyrus Tata, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of Strathclyde
Apex Scotland
Circle Scotland
Positive Prison? Positive Futures
Scottish Association of Social Workers
Social Work Scotland
Women for Independence, Justice for Women Group
As the Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill approaches Stage 3, there are four issues that we wish to highlight:
1. Inadequate consultation and evidence gathering
Given that these amendments amount to ‘what may be the most radical change in custodial sentencing policy for twenty-two years’ , we are concerned that they were brought forward in draft legislation without any prior evidence-gathering process. Previous legislation in this area has been preceded by a proper process of consultation and evidence gathering. Unfortunately, the Bill - which has changed almost beyond recognition since Stage 1 - seems to us to have been created without careful thought and without being informed by the extensive national and international evidence on custodial and community sentencing policy.
Lack of scrutiny of the major amendments at Stage 2
The Bill as originally drafted sought to end automatic early release for prisoners serving sentences of over 10 years and sex offenders serving sentences of over four years. However, on 3 February 2015, prior to publication of the Justice Committee’s Stage 1 report, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice wrote to the Convener to say that the Scottish Government intended to table amendments at Stage 2 with the effect of extending the scope of the Bill so that the proposals would apply to all long-term prisoners. He also indicated that he would table an amendment to ensure all long-term prisoners were subjected to a period of compulsory supervision in the community. No further explanation or intentions were provided. Given the significant changes to the scope of the Bill, the Justice Committee’s Stage 1 report confirmed that the Committee “will seek sufficient time at Stage 2 to allow it to conduct the thorough scrutiny expected by witnesses and the general public”.
Unfortunately, no further detail (that is, updated policy and financial memoranda) on the proposed amendments was provided by the Scottish Government until 19 May 2015, meaning that witnesses had just one single day in which to consider the revised proposals and respond to the Justice Committee’s call for evidence ahead of Stage 2 of the Bill. Just two expert witnesses were recalled to give evidence, but this took place the day after the Stage 2 proceedings, meaning that their evidence was unable to inform discussions about the Government’s tabled amendments.
The Bill’s proposals are undermined by the evidence and knowledge of practice
The stated policy objectives of the Bill appear to be to improve public safety and reduce reoffending. However, the Scottish Government has not offered any evidence to support the assertion that the current system of early release currently fails to achieve either of those objectives.
On every occasion that this issue has been given careful consideration in the past, it has been concluded that the best way of minimising harm to the public is to ensure that all determinate sentenced prisoners (especially those denied release at the discretionary stage) are subject to a proportionate and proactive period of supervision and support in the community . This is to ensure that by assisting prisoner resettlement, risk of public harm and risk of reoffending are reduced as far as possible.
No evidence has been produced to refute the conclusions from these earlier in-depth inquiries; nor has there been any new evidence since those findings to show that things have changed in the interim.
Impact on the quality of compulsory supervision of long-term prisoners on release
However, there is evidence that Scottish practice (rather than law) needs to improve in pursuit of these objectives. Shortening the period of support and supervision and seeing its main function as merely technical compliance is likely to be counterproductive. For example, even where prisoners develop ‘narratives of transformation’ in prison, they can struggle to fulfil and realise their aspirations post-release, partly because of a lack of support and lack of acceptance in the community . Similarly, ongoing research suggests that ex-prisoners commonly perceive supervision on licence as counterproductive in terms of resettlement where it is felt to be merely a mechanistic monitoring exercise. Unfortunately, the proposals to reduce supervised release to just six months for all long-term prisoners are likely to make it appear even more mechanistic. Furthermore, the impact of the Bill’s proposal to greatly diminish the period of compulsory supervision and support on the practice of social work supervision should not be underestimated. The standards for initial contact and the frequency of contact thereafter are currently set to ensure ample time for a released prisoner to be assessed, enrolled for and to complete any significant programme of work on post-release supervision .
2. Six month supervision period is inadequate and likely to jeopardise public safety
Currently, long-term prisoners can apply for discretionary parole from the halfway point in their sentence. If they are not released on parole, they are released at the two-thirds point of their sentence (e.g. four years into a six year sentence) and remain under compulsory supervision in the community until the end of their sentence. Long-term prisoners are thus currently subject to (in many cases very demanding) conditions on release and can be recalled to custody at any point during this period.
The Bill as originally drafted made no provision for any compulsory supervision period for those who serve the entirety of their sentence in custody. In response to concerns raised by expert witnesses during Stage 1, the Scottish Government then proposed that all long term prisoners who have not received discretionary parole will be automatically released six months prior to the end of their sentence and be subjected to compulsory supervision in the community until the end of their sentence.
A fixed term of six months is arbitrary and not based on empirical evidence
Proponents of the Bill have not offered any empirical basis for this six-month supervision period. At Stage 2 it was suggested that six months was more or less a compromise between those who wanted three months and those who wanted supervision proportionate to the original sentence length. In reality, the suggestion of three months was only put forward when it appeared at Stage 1 that it was intended to have absolutely no period of mandatory support and supervision in the community. In other words it was seen as better than nothing, but not put forward as an improvement to what is currently done.
Reintegration of long-term prisoners, including those considered a high risk, takes time
Rehabilitation and reintegration take time, especially where someone has been incarcerated for many years. Since released prisoners need to be settled into a community (in terms of securing accommodation and benefits in particular) before supervisors can work with them on longer term issues (such as reducing reoffending and finding employment), we are concerned that six months will be an insufficient period in which to provide supervision in the community and make progress towards reintegration, not least when some released prisoners are placed in temporary hostel or bed and breakfast accommodation for periods often up to a year or more .
Proponents of the Bill have failed to explain how moving from a compulsory supervision period that is proportionate to the length of the original sentence to a blanket six-month period for all long-term prisoners, regardless of sentence length, better serves the interests of public safety. The evidence of a wide range of studies of desistance from crime , , highlights how challenging the process of desistance can be for people who have been involved in persistent and/or serious offending. It is commonly characterised by lapses and relapses that need to be carefully managed in order to sustain and secure positive change. This is skilled work that involves considerable investment of time in developing relationships that nurture motivation, build human capacities and develop social capital. Only where people leaving prison have considerable personal and social resources are they likely to manage that transition safely within a short period. Whilst it is true that the highest risk period is immediately after release, this does not mean that this is the only period when support is required.
In its submission to the Justice Committee on 20 May 2015, the Risk Management Authority stated:
“We want to advise of challenges associated with managing the release of long term prisoners within the proposed timescale of 6 months. Such risk management will necessarily focus on immediate resettlement issues, restrictions, monitoring and contingency measures: resettlement efforts that focus on accommodation, associates and activities will predominate as time constraints will preclude more thorough reintegration efforts to address matters such as building pro-social relationships and employment prospects, and the delivery of interventions; the risk profile associated with this group of prisoners would also indicate that restrictive measures will be applied and compliance closely monitored; agreed and well co-ordinated contingency actions will be required to ensure appropriate and timely response to deterioration in circumstances or failure to comply. As such, the risk management will be intensive but its impact may be limited by the brief period available for monitoring individuals’ circumstances and behaviour, and the preclusion of meaningful rehabilitative efforts.
“A period of 12 months statutory supervision would provide more opportunity for engagement in reintegration activities, and a more valuable period of monitoring.”
The proposed reforms reduce supervision and support to those considered the greatest risk
It should also be borne in mind that this six-month period will apply to those long-term prisoners who either have not been granted discretionary parole because they have been regarded as too great a risk to public safety, or have not sought parole and resisted engaging with rehabilitative services in prison. While the Scottish Prison Service has made great strides forward in making imprisonment a more humane and less degrading experience, it should be remembered that by its nature incarceration (no matter how humane the conditions) cannot prepare individuals for life outside in the way achieved by support and supervision in the community.
3. Increased potential for ECHR challenges
If the period of mandatory supervision in the community is to be reduced to just six months, then there is likely to be an increase in demand for programmes in prisons and places within the open estate whereby prisoners can demonstrate their reduced risk in order to improve their chances of securing discretionary parole.
Witnesses giving evidence during Stage 1 of the Bill raised concerns, however, that there is currently insufficient provision of such courses and open estate availability to meet demand. Where such services are not available (or are insufficient to meet the demand), continued detention may become arbitrary and in breach of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Whilst the current case law in this area (Wells v. Secretary of State for Justice (2010) 1 AC 553; James v. United Kingdom (2013) 56 EHRR 12) relates to those serving indeterminate sentences, it is likely that those serving determinate sentences who consider that they are subject to arbitrary detention without preparation for release will seek to make Article 5 challenges.
4. Financial implications of the Bill
The financial implications of the Bill are considerable. The Scottish Government has estimated that the annual additional cost of changing the current system of automatic early release for all long-term prisoners will rise from £4.6m in 2019/20 to £16.7m in 2030/31.
When questioned at Stage 2 on how these increased costs would be met, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice indicated that these costs would be met by savings made by “other changes that are to be introduced in the system, such as a presumption against short sentences, greater use of alternatives to custody, changes in sentencing practice…and alternatives to the traditional custodial estate”.
In an era of financial restriction, we are concerned that the enormous cost implications of these proposals will be based on uncalculated and unreliable assumptions that savings can and will be made elsewhere.
By contrast, the projected annual cost of these proposals in 2030/31 represents just over half of the Scottish Government’s current budget for community justice (£31.8m in 2015/16). Rather than investing that money in prison capacity, we would suggest that it should be spent on improving the quality and effectiveness of post-release supervision and support.
We can only draw the conclusion that this Bill does not achieve its originally stated aims. It will not end automatic early release , it will not reduce reoffending and it will not improve public safety in the longer term; indeed it is likely to jeopardise both public safety and reintegration.
Furthermore, the Bill misses the opportunity to better clarify sentencing and release policy. It may well be possible to combine the virtues of public safety with clarity in sentencing , but unfortunately this Bill appears to achieve neither.
SPICE briefing on Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefingsAndFactsheets/S4/SB_1...
Justice Committee’s Stage 1 report on Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Reports/jur-15-08w...
Written submission from Drs Monica Barry and Beth Weaver, University of Strathclyde, Stage 1
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/AER10._D...
Written submission from the Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland, Stage 1
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/AER7._Ho...
Written submission from Professor Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow, Stage 1
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/AER9._Pr...
Written submission from Positive Prison? Positive Futures, Stage 1 http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/AER6._Po...
Written submission from Professor Dr Cyrus Tata, University of Strathclyde, Stage 1
Written submission from Dr Monica Barry, University of Strathclyde and Professor Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow, Stage 2
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/P14._Dr_...
Written submission from the Howard League Scotland, Stage 2
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/P15._How...
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/P13._Pro...
Written submission from Positive Prison? Positive Futures, Stage 2
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/P17._Pos...
Written submission from Social Work Scotland, Stage 2
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/P12._Soc...
Supplementary written submission from Social Work Scotland, Stage 2
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/P12a._So...
Written submission from Professor Cyrus Tata, Strathclyde University, Stage 2
Supplementary written submission from Professor Fergus McNeill, Dr Monica Barry and Professor Cyrus Tata
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/Tata-McN...
Women's Penal Policy Campaign Still Needs Champions
Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 10:47
A recent article from Professor Mike Nellis addresses the ongoing struggles to achieve female penal policy reform since plans for HMP Inverclyde prison were halted in January. For HLS, this announcement came after a long campaign against the prison, however, it does not mark the end of the process but rather signals a new beginning for women’s penal policy in Scotland. However, can anything truly radical be achieved when traditional balances of power remain, namely ‘the continuing Scottish Prison Service (SPS) domination of the debate on the future of women offenders’ as well as ‘the power of the sheriffs/judiciary to exempt themselves from democratic debate on policy as and when they choose’
As Prof Nellis writes, on this issue the government need to hear from outside voices, those same voices that rallied against the prison in the first place. Howard League Scotland continue to be a leading voice in this agenda, and by becoming a member of HLS that you add your voice and the weight of public support to this cause. If we are to make reform a reality then now, more than ever, we must add our voices to the campaign for Scotland’s community based penal system for women.
Mike Nellis, After HMP Inverclyde: where power lies in Scotland’s penal reform debate, Scottish Justice Matters.
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Scottish Prisons in Comparative Perspective
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23rd March 2015
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Blue Ivy steals the spotlight from famous parents Beyoncé and Jay Z in her stylish leopard-print fur vest during lunch outing in Barcelona
At two years of age, Blue Ivy Carter is one of the most well-travelled children in the world.
Currently in Spain as her superstar mom Beyoncé heads into the final straight of her Mrs Carter Show World Tour, the tyke has also proved to be one of the most stylish celebutots in Tinseltown
- always dressed in outfits to rival her fashionista parents' during outings.
Following Monday night's concert in Barcelona, Beyoncé was back on mommy duty on Tuesday as she took her little lady out for a top-notch meal, accompanied by husband Jay Z.
Precious cargo: Beyoncé held on tight to daughter Blue Ivy as she made her way out of Restaurant Windsor in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday with husband Jay Z
The sweet little girl once again proved her fashion chops as she arrived at the upscale Restaurant Windsor held in the arms of her doting daddy, dressed in a super-stylish
leopard-print fur vest.
She completed her ensemble with a pair of black leggings, long socks and shoes, along with a white long-sleeved top.
Beyoncé was dressed to impress in black and white checked pants, a matching vertical striped short-sleeved blouse and pale green stilettos.
Fashionista-in-the-making: The two-year-old displayed her fashion chops in a leopard-print fur vest, teamed with black leggings, long socks and shoes and a white long-sleeved top
Proud papa: Jay Z carried his daughter into the upscale establishment, though he was dressed far more casually than his leading ladies, in black jeans, a grey sweater, black and turquoise Nikes and a backwards black baseball cap
She topped her long blonde locks with a black bowler hat.
The 32-year-old held a protective hand on her only child's head as she carried her back to their car following their meal, as the inquisitive youngster turned around to take in her surroundings.
While his leading ladies dressed up for their lunch, rapper Jay Z kept it casual in his signature Brooklyn street style.
He's still a Brooklyn boy at heart: The rapper gave a shout out to his hometown in his Brooklyn cap, which was spelt out in backwards lettering
Hot mama! The 32-year-old was stylish as ever in navy blue and white checked pants, a matching vertical striped short-sleeve blouse and pale green stilettos, with a black bowler hat topping her long golden tresses
Hollywood royalty: The stars were flanked by a team of security as they made their way back to their car following their excursion
The 44-year-old paired black low-slung jeans with a light grey sweater featuring a contrasting darker grey spotted print, black and turquoise Nike high-top sneakers, a gold chain and backwards black baseball cap.
That same day, Bey shared some bikini-clad photos from the family's relaxing weekend in the European country on her Tumblr page.
She looked relaxed and carefree - not to mention perfectly slim and toned - in the selection of images, as she took a dip in the pool overlooking the ocean, surrounded by palm trees.
Safety first: The doting mom placed a protective hand on her daughter's head as she bundled her into their waiting car
What an entrance! The Carters made quite the fashionable arrival
Is something the matter? The 44-year-old seemed a little out of sorts and sombre after his meal, biting on his lip and with his hands in his pockets as he left
The proud mom also posted a cute snap of her daughter, who was trying on a hilariously huge pair
of her mother's glasses.
Despite turning the tour into one big, fun family vacation, the trio are no doubt excited to head home in the coming days.
With the finish line in sight, next up, the family will head to Lisbon, Portugal, where Bey will perform two shows, on March 26 and 27, before her critically-acclaimed tour comes to an end.
Fun in the sun: That same day, the star shared some photos from her weekend escapades, as she soaked up the sun and enjoyed a dip in the pool at the family's Spanish villa
She woke up like this! The stunning star showed off her toned physique and flawless complexion in the happy snaps
She wants to be just like her mama! Bey also shared this adorable picture of Blue as she tried on her mom's hilariously huge glasses
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Just now it is quite and beautiful snowing outside my window, but at the 16 of December 1996 the real snowstorm happened in our city and Vernon (Victor Vernon Woolf) had to stay in Khabarovsk because all aviation companies had cancelled all their flights… and thanks to that occasion people in Khabarovsk had a chance to have not only the seminar of 1-st stage of Holodynamics, but the seminar of the next, 2-d stage too. After those seminars all participants started actively to practice the new method. For me it was really easy to start, because I was really motivated. I had a cancer and along before Vernon seminar I was in the very intensive search of effective ways to help myself and others. I was really interested in finding the effective approach to support people who are staying face to face with a death coming to them closer with the every day; I wanted to help myself and all those people who are trying to come out from the hopeless situation.
All methods I found before the meeting with Vernon were rather a kind of "partial" solution, helping not in whole to the person and I felt a lack of integrity. And what was really difficult - there was not any group of support for patient with cancer in Russia before 1992 and methodologically the psychological aspect of cancer was rather "terra incognito".
Patient with diagnosis "cancer "was a kind of social outcast and such diagnosis meant death sentence with some respite of execution time. People had to die just because of fear in hopeless situation. Social situation was a real killer for a lot of people: hopelessness; lack of money; betrayal of your own family; violence in relations; impossibility to change a life, etc. Exactly because of everything like this during 1995-1996 we've lost 18 women.
In July 1994 I've organized a group of support in Khabarovsk and named it - Surviving School HOPE. It became the 4-th of such group in Russia.
So about two years before Doctor Woolf arriving in Khabarovsk we were in desperate need of knowledge and experience in psychotherapeutic work with oncological patients and, what was even more difficult, psychotherapists in Russia were afraid to work in oncology.
At the seminar Vernon have shown us how to track holodynes which are controlling the cancer. The women he worked with are still alive and remember Vernon with a Love. At the 2-d seminar in April 1997 in Khabarovsk Vernon made a tracking with the Alexander, who was at the 3-d course of chemotherapy because of lymphogranulomatosis. Now Alexander is healthful and successful businessman.
Thanks to those practical examples we understood better how the new approach is working and started to use it actively in our work.
Our group of support had no any official status, because the appropriate law article for such community appeared in Russia later, in 1998. Everything in "Hope" was doing by volunteers.
Else was very difficult to work because the new medical direction "Psychosomatic illnesses" appeared officially in Russia only in 1998. So before that moment psychotherapeutic work in oncology was in a kind of persecution. The common point of view was - "only oncologist could decide how and how long the patient will live and the psychotherapist is a destroying element of the cancer healing process, so all psychotherapists should be taken out of oncological clinic… as well as all patient relatives.
So, now you know in what situation in age of 49 I had to become a student of psychological faculty. After that I wrote a book "Rehabilitation Problems of Patience with Cancer" describing 9 techniques of work. In total 9! And only 1 - Russian!!
And there were no more, because the only one - Andrey Gnezdilov, Doctor of Medicine in Russia, psychotherapist, story-teller, sculptor, musician and artist - used to work with the oncological aspect in Russia. He is an author of image-therapy. In 1990 together with English journalist Victor Zorza, whose daughter died because of cancer, Andrey created the very first in Russia Hospice.
Later we've become friends with Andrey Gnezdilov. But in December 1996, walking along full of snow streets after Vernon Woolf seminar, I didn't know about this and a lot of others events on my future way.
At the snowing day in December 2002, in Moscow in Pushkin Museum I was awarding with the premium "For the Selfless" for the input in medicine of Russia in the field of psychological support of patients with cancer. Later in 2005 I was nominated within the project "Nobel Prize - 1000 women of the World."
I didn't know that a lot of things would meet their "moment of truth" in future. Such as calumny, persecution, rumors, gossips, treachery of children, divorce with husband, confrontation with medical system and religious fanatics, protection of own "good name", parting with those whom I loved and who loved me.
At the same time a lot of beautiful things were waiting me in future. The help from people whom I love and who love me, the obtaining of recognition of all efforts made for God's and people sake. New people and joyful events. New ways and discoveries. Farewells, forgiveness, declaration of love, gratitude and thanksgiving, and love to me just because I am in the world.
I didn't know. And I was feeling sad. Because I was overwhelmed with the loneliness of this person, which were that moment already somewhere in the sky on his way from Khabarovsk. Because of presentiment of something bigger than we are, unavoidable no matter how strongly we will want to avoid it.
Then an intensive work started. A lot of work. A lot of tracking processes were done. Different cases, different reasons. And with every new process something were changing inside of me and in the world outside. Now we are taking this without saying, very naturally, but at the very beginning such changes seemed to us very amazing, as miracles.
The way back to ourselves was not easy. Step by step, from one process to others, we were changing the old ways of thinking and actions, and what was really challenging - we had to be always ready to take gifts of Full Potential. And sometimes it was the most difficult part on our way. Now 10 years have pasted from the first seminar.
Several tens of Holodynamics seminars I've organized by myself or with friends. About 40 seminars in different regions and topics: art-therapy, personal growth, psychological consulting, Helinger method, and rehabilitation of patient with cancer. Plus 940 meetings of the group of support "Hope".
I've published two books with a number of stories about people who had a cancer. The title of one of stories written by Alla Golik sounds as "Oncology - different country".
Twice I was in USA. Within the project "Community Connection" I visited Alaska in 2002 and Los-Angeles in January-February of this year. The project is financed by USAID. Thank to this project, the translator of our group Anya Sosnovskaya and my friends Lon and Natasha from Portland I met with Doctor Vernon Woolf and the meeting gave me such happiness for all of us and the new impulse for development.
At the 18-20 of May in Ekaterinburg Lubov Hoklova will hold a symposium "Problems of Person and Society in a transition period as the resource for the development. Transmodal subjective and Holodynamic approaches". About 30 reports are planed now for the symposium. Lubov could tell you much more about Holodynamics in Russia because she is one in Russia who is trying to achieve an official recognition and license for Holodynamics.
I am working as a psychologist - consultant, practitioner and I have no time for developing scientific terminology. My job is people - their lives, health, relations and family systems with all their connections.
The name of my city is Khabarovsk. It's not the name of project, it is a city. The name of the project, which is working for patients with cancer; is called "Choice - Life". The mottos of the project are: "Celebrate a Life!" "World is starting from Home;" "Nobody could take our way."
Usually the rehabilitation process is taking from 3 to 5 years. Very seldom - 1 year. So rather long process, because it include all aspects and, of course, all six levels.
Not for all people Holodynamics works from the very beginning and sometimes I had to try some other methods to "turn on" the interest, so to find a space for joint creativity of therapist and patient. In my own life it works and in result there is a huge transition - from being critically ill to the way of realizing the whole beauty of mine Full Potential.
Lubov Latypova wrote the book "Dreams I live in" with description of all processes, which happened with us after Vernon Woolf seminars. This book is published in the Internet and could be find at the site: http://efee.ru/shop/sny.html All opinions, references and photos you could find here. Look please it is really interesting.
Lubov is living now in Colorado, Fort Collins and you could communicate with her by phone 970-493-4388 or email: lloveru@yahoo.com . Lubov is a journalist, speaks English very well and will be happy to explain you the specific of Holodynamics development in Russia.
Olga Sokolova
Psychologist-consultant,
The chief of NGO "Chance for Hope"
Khabarovsk, Russia
Phone 8 (4212) 222-471
Translator: Ludmila Lyametz - Holodynamists and student Dr. Woolf 1996-97 years.
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Beloved Husband, Loving Son, Brother, Son-In-Law, Brother-In-Law, Uncle, Great Uncle, Nephew, Godfather
FRANK A. SACK, age 52, beloved husband for 17 years of Maria (nee Di Franco), loving son of Jeanne (nee Orazem) and the late Frank Sack, dear brother of Michele Stauffenger (husband Steve) and Vincent Sack (Toni Harvey), son-in-law of Margherita (nee Catalano) (deceased) and Adelmo (wife Carmela) Di Franco, brother-in-law of Remo Di Franco (wife Mary), step-brother-in-law of Miguel (wife Sharon), Jorge, and Hector (wife Anne) Chiappero, devoted uncle of Max, Sam (wife Laura) and Abby Stauffenger, Kristina Tarantino (husband Nick), Erica, Daniella and Brianna Di Franco, great uncle of Vail, Dominic, Angelo and Vincenzo, step uncle of the Chiappero children, cherished Godfather, nephew, cousin and friend of many. Frank's life was deeply rooted in faith and family. His devotion to the daily mass and rosary comforted and strengthened him throughout his illness. Per his wishes, family and friends are invited to gather for Mass of Christian Burial 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 7 at the Church of St. Clare, 5659 Mayfield Rd., Lyndhurst followed by Interment at All Souls Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Frank's memory suggested to his favorite charities: Food for The Poor or Catholic Charities.
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their prejudices to second-guess information they might like to believe And relying on open-mindedness to defeat tribal tendencies has not proved a winning formula in past searches for truth That is why many advocates are suggesting that we reach for another powerful tool: shame Wardle says we need to make sharing misinformation as shameful as drunk driving Wineburg invokes the environmental movement saying we need to cultivate an awareness of “digital pollution” on the Internet “We have to get people to think that they are littering” Wineburg says “by forwarding stuff that isn’t true” The idea is to make people see the aggregate effect of little actions that one by one ill-advised clicks contribute to the web’s being a toxic place Having a well-informed citizenry may be in the big picture as important to survival as having clean air and water “If we can’t come together as a society around this issue” Wineburg says “it is our doom” Write to Katy Steinmetz at katysteinmetz@timecom This appears in the August 20 2018 issue of TIMEOne of Latin America’s most important museums was gutted by a fire Sunday night in a disaster that may have destroyed more than 20 million scientific and historical artifacts It remains unclear how many of the irreplaceable treasures housed at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro were lost in the blaze but authorities expect a catastrophic blow has been dealt to Brazil’s cultural nucleus One museum director estimates as much as 90% of the inventory may have been razed The timing of the fire couldn’t have been worse As firefighters battled the flames reportedly using lake water because the nearest fire hydrants failed museum officials revealed that the underfunded institution had been slated for a $5 million upgrade including to its fire prevention system As investigators continue searching for clues as to what may have started the blaze here’s what to know What was lost By Monday morning museum directors began to survey the damage Underneath the rubble of lumber shingles and metal beams they hope to find any of the natural history museum’s relics Firefighters and museum personnel carry a burnt painting from National Museum of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Sept 3 2018 following a fire Silvia Izquierdo—AP Most of what was lost was contained within the 200-year-old Imperial Palace Once home to the Portuguese royal family this main building housed an extensive collection of paleontological anthropological and biological specimens according to the Associated Press Inside the palace was a 12000-year-old skull called Luzia that was believed to be among the oldest fossils ever found in the Americas The wing also held an Egyptian mummy and displayed the largest meteorite ever discovered in Brazil one of the few artifacts that officials could confirm had survived Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte the museum’s deputy director told AP that anything held in this main building was likely gone “The loss of the National Museum’s collection is insurmountable for Brazil” President Michel Temer tweeted on Sunday How has the public reacted Not long after the plumes of smoke rose into Brazil’s night sky people rushed to the scene reportedly to witness and protest the loss On Monday morning police fired tear gas and pepper spray into the angry crowd to stop them from entering the premises while the embers were still smoldering Al Jazeera reported Students and National Museum employees protest outside the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro Brazil on Sept 3 2018 Silvia Izquierdo—AP For some Brazilians the charred remains of the 200-year-old museum symbolize not only a heartbreaking disaster but also the larger griefs of a country gutted by a recession and tarnished by corruption and mismanagement More than 12 million people have been left unemployed while spending on culture and education has suffered Bernardo Mello Franco a columnist for O Globo one of Brazil’s major newspapers wrote "The tragedy this Sunday is a sort of national suicide A crime against our past and future generations” according to the Guardian’s translation What state was the museum in before the fire The stately museum had reportedly fallen into disrepair amid the country’s struggles Roberto Leher rector of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told reporters Monday that it was well known that the dilapidated museum required extensive renovations Funds were so sparse at one point that the staff resorted to crowdfunding But change appeared to be on the horizon In June a project to improve the fire system was approved and the funds were expected in October Leher said according to CNN What now Investigators are still trying to determine what set off the fire around 7:30 pm local time when the museum was already closed to the public People watch as a massive fire engulfs the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Sept 2 2018 STR—AFP/Getty Images And while there are already calls to rebuild the museum many have pointed out that the loss of the collected history can never be restored Luiz Philippe de Orleans e Braganca an heir to Brazil’s last emperor told AP “The building could be rebuilt but the collection will never again be rebuilt Two hundred years workers researchers professors that dedicated in body and soul (to the museum) … the work of their life burned due to the negligence of the Brazilian state” Write to Laignee Barron at LaigneeBarron@timeinccomCarly Fiorina came out swinging at Hillary Clinton today attacking her for everything from accepting foreign money in the Clinton Global Initiative to not being strong enough on women’s issues “Mrs Clinton name an accomplishment” Fiorina said during her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC “And in the meantime please explain why we should accept that the millions and millions of dollars that have flowed into the Clinton Global Initiative from foreign governments do not represent a conflict of interest” Fiorina the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and the only woman in the emerging GOP field has cast herself as one of the most aggressive critics of Clinton in stump speeches At CPAC she continued the trend of firing at Clinton the presumptive Democratic nominee: “She tweets about womens rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights She tweets about equal pay for women but wont answer basic questions about her own offices pay standardsand neither will our President Hillary may like hashtags But she doesnt know what leadership means” You can read TIME’s own analysis of Clinton’s Twitter strategy here At the end of her speech during the question and answer section Fiorina couldn’t help but take one more shot at Clinton during a question about the importance of female candidates: “I will say this if Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage at the very least she would have a hitch in her swing” Behind the Scenes of CPAC Peter Dudziak of John Minnesota 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‘50 Cent’ and Le Chemin du Roi Champagne to Give the Winner of the Bellator Welterweight World Grand Prix One Million Dollars
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 27, 2018) – Bellator MMA, a global combat sports leader owned by Viacom, has joined forces with entertainment superstar and business mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson on an extensive partnership and licensing deal featuring a new apparel line based upon Jackson’s popular “Get The Strap” trademark and integrating Jackson’s elite champagne brand, Le Chemin du Roi in future Bellator events.
A passionate and knowledgeable MMA fan, Jackson has already agreed to re-invest a portion of his deal by offering one million dollars in cash to the winner of the upcoming Bellator Welterweight World Grand Prix that will air exclusively on DAZN.
“We are thrilled to partner with such a legendary icon who has been a friend to the Bellator family for quite some time. The “Get The Strap” apparel line is just the beginning of many joint ventures we will explore together,” said Scott Coker, President of Bellator MMA.
“I am excited to partner with the Bellator Viacom franchise. Mixed martial arts yields some of the most action-packed events in the world. I’m excited for people to see how I plan to shake up MMA with the integration of my ‘Get The Strap’ trademark as well as my luxury champagne Le Chemin du Roi.” said Jackson.
Leveraging his viral “Get The Strap” moniker, Bellator and Jackson will launch a global apparel line that will be fashionable and edgy, with distinctive attitude.
Also, Jackson’s popular new champagne, Le Chemin du Roi, will become fully integrated into Bellator events from in-arena signage to mat placements and more.
“Bellator has a roster filled with some of the most charismatic athletes in the world,” adds Jackson. “As my relationship with Bellator deepens, you will see me moving into fighter management opportunities that will allow me to integrate top stars into both scripted and unscripted projects across the Viacom networks, as well as the other outlets I have access to.”
About Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III, is an award-winning rapper, entrepreneur, actor and producer from Queens, New York. Recognized as one of the most talented and prolific music artists of his time, the Grammy Award winner rose to fame with his record-shattering debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and has since sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and been awarded numerous prestigious accolades. Jackson has leveraged his star power to cross over with unparalleled success as an entrepreneur, actor and producer. From Get Rich or Die Tryin’ being one of the fastest selling albums in history to creating one of the most influential deals in hip-hop with the sale of Vitaminwater, Jackson continues to break records. He currently has the critically-acclaimed #1 show on Starz, “Power,” in which he not only co-stars but also serves as executive producer and director leading into season six.
Jackson has carved out a thriving television and film career. In 2005, he founded G-Unit Film & Television, Inc. which has produced a wide variety of content across numerous platforms and sold a myriad of shows to various networks. Among these is “Power,” which premiered in June 2014. Starz and Lionsgate extended Jackson & G-Unit Film & Television, Inc’s overall deal to develop new projects for the network, including “Tomorrow, Today,” based on a screenplay penned by Jackson and the “BMF” project. Additional credits include the variety show “50 Central” on BET and two dramas for Sony Crackle “The Oath,” the networks most-watched new original series and “RPM,” which is currently in development. Jackson’s successful film career has included roles in several blockbusters: most recently “Den of Thieves” co-starring opposite Gerard Butler, which Jackson has signed on to produce the sequel along with Butler, Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama “Southpaw,” alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and “Spy” with Melissa McCarthy. Jackson will also reprise his role in “Escape Plan 2.”
The exceptional businessman serves as CEO of G-Unit Records, which he founded in 2003 and has since signed a host of multi-platinum artists. Jackson continues to dominate the charts with hits like the recently released “Still Think I’m Nothing,” and he is continuously recording new music.
Jackson continues to extend his brand, which encompasses a broad spectrum of businesses including: footwear and apparel, fragrance, video games, publishing, headphones, Le Chemin du Roi champagne, vodka, health drinks, Casper mattresses and supplements.
Jackson was represented on this deal by Stephen J. Savva and Eric Feig.
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59.- Critical state in superconducting single-crystalline YBa2Cu3O7 foams: Local versus long-range currents
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60.- High critical current YBa2Cu3O7 artificial joints using Ag foils as welding agent
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62.- The identification of grain boundary networks of distinct critical current density in YBa2Cu3O7-x coated conductors
T. Puig, A. Palau, X. Obradors, E. Pardo, C. Navau, A. Sanchez, Ch. Jooss, K. Guth and H.C. Freyhardt
63.- Kinetics study of YBCO thin films epitaxic growth on LAO(100) single crystals by the TFA-MOD method
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64.- Oscillation of Y2BaCuO5 particle concentration in the melt-grown YBaCuO bulk superconductors
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65.- Chemical solution techniques for epitaxial growth of oxide buffer and YBa2Cu3O7 films
Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 24, (2004), pp. 1831-1835
A. Cavallaro, O. Castaño, A. Palau, J.C. González, M.D. Rossell, T. Puig, F. Sandiumenge, N. Mestres, S. Piñol and X. Obradors
66.- Influence of the mercury source on the synthesis of Hg0.8Re0.2Ba2-ySryCa2Cu3O8+δ at normal pressures
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67.- Magnetic granularity analysis of YBCO coated conductors
Physica C, 408-410, (2004), pp. 866-868
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68.- Chemical solution growth of superconductors: A new path towards high critical current coated conductors
X. Obradors, T. Puig, A. Pomar, N. Mestres, F. Sandiumenge, S. Piñol, O. Castaño, A. Cavallaro, A. Palau, J.C. González, M. Coll and J. Gazquez
69.- Supramolecular self-assembled molecules as organic directing agent for synthesis of zeolites
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70.- Stepwise construction of oligomeric 1,2-diselenolene platinum(IV) complexes
X. Ribas, J.C. Dias, J. Morgado, K. Wurst, M. Almeida, T. Parella, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
71.- A molecular multiproperty switching array based on the redox behavior of a ferrocenyl polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical
C. Sporer, I. Ratera, D. Ruiz-Molina, Y. Zhao, J. Vidal-Gancedo, K. Wurst, P. Jaitner, K. Clays, A. Persoons, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
72.- Anhydrous supercritical carbon dioxide method for the controlled silanization of inorganic nanoparticles
E. Loste, J. Fraile, M.A. Fanovich, G.F. Woerlee and C. Domingo
73.- Single-component magnetic conductors based on Mo3S7 trinuclear clusters with outer dithiolate ligands
R. Llusar, S. Uriel, C. Vicent, J.M. Clemente-Juan, E. Coronado, C.J. Gómez- García, B. Braïda and E. Canadell
74.- New approaches for synthesizing III-CoOOH by soft chemistry
Chemistry of Materials, 16 (2), (2004), pp. 299-306
F. Bardé, M.-R. Palacín, B. Beaudoin, A. Delahaye-Vidal and J.M. Tarascon
75.- In situ neutron powder diffraction of a nickel hydroxide electrode
F. Bardé, M.R. Palacin, Y. Chabre, O. Isnard and J.-M. Tarascon
76.- Thermal transformation of (NH4)[Fe(AsO4) into the new textural porous orthohombic Fe(AsO4) phase. Crystal structures, thermal behavior, and spectroscopic and magnetic properties
B. Bazán, J.L. Mesa, J.L. Pizarro, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, J. Sánchez-Marcos, A. Roig, E. Molins, M.I. Arriortua and T. Rojo
77.- Optimized synthesis of the elusive є-Fe2O3 phase via sol-gel chemistry
M. Popovici, M. Gich, D. Nižňanský, A. Roig, C. Savii, Ll. Casas, E. Molins, K. Zaveta, C. Enache, J. Sort, S. de Brion, G. Chouteau and J. Nogués
78.- Novel CuIII Bis-1,2-dichalcogenene complexes with tunable ED framework through alkaline cation coordination: A structural and theoretical study Chemistry - A European Journal, 10, (2004), pp. 1691-1704
X. Ribas, J.C. Dias, J. Morgado, K. Wurst, E. Molins, E. Ruiz, M. Almeida, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
79.- A new multifunctional ferrocenyl-substituted ferrocenophane derivative: Optical and electronic properties and Selective Recognition of Mg2+ Ions
J.J. Lopez, A. Tárraga, A. Espinosa, M.D. Velasco, P. Molina, V. Lloveras, J. Vidal-Gancedo, C. Rovira, J. Veciana, D.J. Evans and K. Wurst
80.- Synthesis, characterization, and electronic structure of Ba5 In4Bi5: An acentric and one-electron deficient phase
S. Ponou, T.F. Fässler, G. Tobías, E. Canadell, A. Cho and S.C. Sevov
81.- Synthesis and coordinating ability of an anionic cobaltabisdicarbollide ligand geometrically analogous to BINAP
I. Rojo, F. Teixidor, C. Viñas, R. Kivekäs and R. Sillanpää
82.- Superhydrophobic silica aerogels by fluorination at the gel stage
A. Roig, E. Molins, E. Rodríguez, S. Martínez, M. Moreno-Mañas and A. Vallribera
83.- Polyoxometalates: From inorganic chemistry to materials science
Frontiers in Bioscience, 9, (2004), pp. 1759-1770
N. Casañ-Pastor and P. Gómez-Romero
84.- Insertion reactions of [M(SR)3(PMe2Ph2] with CS2 (M=Ru,Os; R=C6F4H- 4,C6F5). X-ray structures of [Ru(S2CSC6F4H-4)2(PMe2Ph)2], trans-thiolates [M(SR)2(S2CSR)(PMe2Ph)2] (M=Ru; R=C6F5 and M= Os;R=C6F4H-4), and
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Inorganic Chemistry, 43 (3), (2004), pp. 986-992
M. Arroyo, S. Bernès, J. Cerón, J. Rius and H. Torrens
85.- Synthesis, crystal structure, and physical properties of (BEDT-TTF)[Ni(tdas)2] (BEDT-TTF=Bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene; tdas=1,2,5-thiadiazole-3,4- dithiolate): First monomeric [Ni(tdas)2]- monoanion
S. Curreli, P. Deplano, M.L. Mercuri, L. Pilla, A. Serpe, J.A. Schlueter, M.A. Whited, U. Geiser, E. Coronado, C.J. Gómez-García and E. Canadell
86.- Alkaline side-coordination strategy for the design of nickel(II) and nickel(III) Bis(1,2-diselenolene) complex based materials
X. Ribas, J.C. Dias, J. Morgado, K. Wurst, I.C. Santos, M. Almeida, J. Vidal- Gancedo, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
87.- Synthesis, characterization, and dynamic studies of 12-vertex 5-ruthenium(II) closo-phosphine complexes with monoanionic [10-L-nido-7-R-7,8-C2B9H9]¯ ligands
O. Tutusaus, R. Núñez, C. Viñas, F. Teixidor, I. Mata and E. Molins
88.- Antifluorite-type lithium chromium oxide nitrides: Synthesis, structure, order, and electrochemical properties
J. Cabana, C.D. Ling, J. Oró-Solé, D. Gautier, G. Tobias, S. Adams, E. Canadell and M.R. Palacín
89.- Anion ordering and defect structure in Ruddlesden-Popper strontium niobium oxynitrides
G. Tobías, D. Beltrán-Porter, O.I. Lebedev, G. Van Tendeloo, J. Rodríguez- Carvajal and A. Fuertes
90.- A chiral molecular conductor: Synthesis, structure, and physical properties of [ET]3[Sb2(L-tart)2]·CH3CN (ET = bis(ethylendithio)tetrathiafulvalene; L-tart = (2R,3R)-(+)-tartrate)
E. Coronado, J.R. Galán-Mascarós, C.J. Gómez-García, A. Murcia-Martínez and
91.- Novel five-membered pallada- and platinacycles containing a [C(sp2, ferrocene), N, S]ֿ terdentate ligand. Theoretical interpretation of their electrochemical and electronic properties based on density functional calculations
Organometallics, 23, (2004), pp. 224-236
S. Pérez, C. López, A. Caubet, R. Bosque, X. Solans, M. Font Bardía, A. Roig and E. Molins
92.- Formation of new 5-rhodium(III) complexes from 5-Rh(I) rhodacarborane- containing charge-compensated ligands
R. Núñez, O. Tutusaus, F. Teixidor, C. Viñas, R. Sillanpää and R. Kivekäs
93.- New derivatives of [NHMe3][7-Me--(9,10-HMeC)-nido-7-CB10H10]
J. Bould, A. Laromaine, C. Viñas, F. Teixidor, L. Barton, N.P. Rath, R.E.K. Winter, R. Kivekäs and R. Sillanpää
94.- Ultroporous single phase iron oxide-silica nanostructured aerogels from ferrous precursors
M. Popovici, M. Gich, A. Roig, Ll. Casas, E. Molins, C. Savii, D. Becherescu, J. Sort, S. Suriñach, J.S. Muñoz, M.D. Baró and J. Nogués
95.- Pressure-induced melting of charge-order in the self-doped Mott insulator YNiO3
J.L. García-Muñoz, M. Amboage, M. Hanfland, J.A. Alonso, M.J. Martínez-Lope and R. Mortimer
96.- Synthesis, structural and magnetic properties of a series of copper(II) complexes containing a monocarboxylated perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical as a coordinating open-shell ligand
Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, (2004), pp. 1073-1082
D. Maspoch, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, J. Vidal-Gancedo, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
97.- Mild mono and double demethylation in dimethylsulfonium substituted ruthenacarborane complexes. A regioselective reaction
J. Giner, C. Viñas, F. Teixidor, M.B. Hursthouse and M.E. Light
98.- Sulfur, tin and gold derivatives of 1-(2’-pyridyl)-ortho-carborane, 1-R-2-X-1,2- C2B10H10 (R = 2’-pyridyl, X = SH, SnMe3 or AuPPh3)
A.S. Batsanov, M.A. Fox, T.G. Hibbert, J.A.K. Howard, R. Kivekäs, A. Laromaine, R. Sillanpää, C. Viñas and K. Wade
99.- Open-shell channel-like salts formed by the supramolecular assembly of a tricarboxylated perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical and a [Co(bpy)3]2+ cation CrystEngComm, 6 (93), (2004), pp. 573-578
D. Maspoch, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, G. Vuaghan, N. Domingo, J. Tejada, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
100.- 2D Layered coordination polymer based on an unusual mixed valence Cu(III)/Cu(I) bis-1,2-diselenolene compound
CrystEngComm, 6 (96), (2004), pp. 589-592
X. Ribas, D. Maspoch, J. Dias, J. Morgado, M. Almeida, K. Wurst, G. Vaughan,
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101.- (EDT-TTF-I2)2 PbI3·H2O: An ambient pressure metal with a β’ donor slab topology
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 14, (2004), pp. 135-137
T. Devic, E. Canadell, P. Auban-Senzier and P. Batail
102.- Magnetic nanoporous coordination polymers
D. Maspoch, D. Ruiz-Molina and J. Veciana
103.- Conducting oriented [(n-C4H9)4N]2[Ni(dcbdt)2]5 and new (BEDT- TTF)[Ni(dcbdt)2] phases as mycrocrystalline films, electrodeposited on silicon substrates
D. de Caro, H. Alves, M. Almeida, S. Caillieux, M. Elgaddari, C. Faulmann, I. Malfant, F. Senocq, J. Fraxedas, A. Zwick and L. Valade
104.- Amino-substituted ferra-bis(tricarbollides) - metallatricarbaboranes designed for linear molecular constructions
B. Grüner, J. Bačkovský, R. Sillanpää, R. Kivekäs, I. Císařová, F. Teixidor, C. Viñas and B. Stíbr
105.- Electron-rich organoantimony(III) dithiolate complexes
N. Avarvari, M. Fourmigué and E. Canadell
106.- Polymer electrolyte fuel cells based on phosphoric acid-impregnated poly(2,5- benzimidazole) membranes
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 151 (2), (2004), pp. A304-A310
J.A. Asensio, S. Borrós and P. Gómez-Romero
107.- Uracilato and 5-halouracilato complexes of Cu(II), Zn(II) and Ni(II). X-ray structures of [Cu(uracilato-N1)2(NH3)2]·2(H2O], [Cu(5-chlorouracilato- N1)2(NH3)2](H2O)2, [Ni(5-chlorouracilato-N1)2(en)2]·2H2O and [Zn(5- chlorouracilato-N1)(NH3)3]·(5-chlorouracilato-N1)·(H2O)
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 98, (2004), pp. 632-638
A. Terrón, A. García-Raso, J.J. Fiol, S. Amengual, M. Barceló-Oliver, R.M. Tótaro, M.C. Apella, E. Molins and I. Mata
108.- Ternary complexes metal [Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) ] – ortho- iodohippurate (I-hip) – acyclovir. X-ray characterization of isostructural [(Co, Ni or Zn)(I-hip)2(ACV)(H2o)3] with stacking as a recognition factor
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 98, (2004), pp. 1703-1711
M. Barceló-Oliver, A. Terrón, A. García-Raso, J.J. Fiol, E. Molins and C. Miravitlles
109.- On the key importance of homogeneity in the electrochemical performance of industrial positive active materials in nickel batteries
Journal of Power Sources, 134, (2004), pp. 298-307
M. Casas-Cabanas, J.C. Hernández, V. Gil, M.L. Soria and M.R. Palacín
110.- Proton-conducting membranes based on poly(2,5-benzimidazole) (ABPBI) and phosphoric acid prepared by direct acid casting
Journal of Membrane Science, 241, (2004), pp. 89-93
111.- Sulfonated poly(2,5-benzimidazole) (SABPBI) impregnated with phosphoric acid as a proton conducting membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells Electrochimica Acta, 49 (25), 2004, pp. 4461-4466
112.- Organometallic nickel (II) complexes with dithiophosphate, dithiophosphonate and monothiophosphonate ligands
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G. Sánchez, J. García, D.J. Meseguer, J.L. Serrano, J. Pérez, E. Molins and G. López
113.- Zinc complexes of 6-methyl-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid. Crystal structure of [Zn(MeC5H3NCOO)2(H2O)]·H2O
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 357, (2004), pp. 3789-3792
J. Pons, R. March, J. Rius and J. Ros
114.- Crystal structure solution of the low and high temperature forms of potasium dawsonite: An intermediate compound in the alkaline hydrolysis of calcium aluminate cements
Acta Crystallographica A, 60, (2004) pp. s231
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115.- Synthesis, morphological-structural characterization and magnetic properties of amorphous iron (III)-oxyhydroxy-phosphate nanoparticles
Suber, S. Foglia, D. Fiorani, H. Romero, A. Montone, A. Roig and Ll. Casas
116.- Rationalization of the industrial nickel hydroxide synthetic process in view of optimizing its electrochemical performances
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 43, (2004), pp. 4957-4963
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117.- Synthesis, crystal structure and properties of the new semiconductor (EVT)4·[Pt(CN)4]
A.D. Dubrovskii, N.G. Spitsina, A.N. Chekhlov, O.A. Dyachenko, L.I. Buravov,
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118.- New molecular conductors based on EDT with anionic complexes of rare-earth elements: (EDT)2[Ho(NCS)4(H2O)4] and (EDT)3[Y(NO3)5]
O. Kazheva, E. Canadell, L. Kushch, G. Aleksandrov, A. Chekhlov, L. Buravov and O. Dyachenko
119.- Microstructure-conductivity relationship in Gd- and Sm-doped ceria-based electrolytes prepared by the acrylamide sol-gel related method
Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 8, (2004), pp. 650-654
S. Piñol, M. Najib, D.M. Bastidas, A. Calleja, X.G. Capdevila, M. Segarra, F. Espiell, J.C. Ruiz-Morales, D. Marrero-Lopez and P. Nuñez
120.- Structure determination of the blue mineral pigment aerinite from synchrotron powder diffraction data: The solution of an old riddle
European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, (2004), pp. 127-134
J. Rius, E. Elkaim and X. Torrelles
121.- Synthesis, X-ray structure and magnetic properties of the quinone cobalt complexes [CoIII(3,5-DTBSQ)(bpy)2]X2 (X-= BF4-, ClO4-)
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 65, (2004), pp. 831-837
D. Ruiz-Molina, L.N. Zakharov, A.L. Rheingold and D.N. Hendrickson
122.- In situ neutron diffraction study of the nickel oxihydroxide electrode upon discharge
123.- 1,2-Bis(methylsulfanyl)-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12)
Acta Crystallographica C, 60, (2004), pp. 524-526
A. Laromaine, C. Viñas, R. Sillanpää and R. Kivekäs
124.- Geochemical characteristics of particulate matter in the atmosphere surrounding a ceramic industrialized area
Environmental Geology, 45 (4), (2004), pp. 536-543
E.T. Gomez, T. Sanfeliu, M.M. Jordan, J. Rius and C. de la Fuente
125.- Exploitation of the photochromic nitroprusside anion [FeNO(CN)5]2- As counterion for constructing molecular conductors: The first radical cation salts based on BDH-TTP and the amide functionalized derivatives of EDT-TTF Journal de Physique IV, 114, (2004), pp. 481-485
R. Shibaeva, S. Khasanov, L. Zorina, S. Simonov, I. Shevyakova, L. Kushch, L. Buravov, E. Yagubskii, S. Baudron, C. Mézière, P. Batail, E. Canadell and J. Yamada
126.- Structural and electrical properties of (DT-TTF)2[Cu(mnt)2]
J.C. Dias, E.B. Lopes, I.C. Santos, M.T. Duarte, R.T. Henriques, M. Almeida, X. Ribas, C. Rovira, J. Veciana, P. Foury-Leylekian, J.-P. Pouget, P. Auban-Senzier and D. Jérome
127.- The low and high temperature phase transitions in the family of compounds(DT- TTF)4[M(L)2]3, M = Au, Cu and L = pds, pdt
E.B. Lopes, J.C. Dias, J.P. Seiça, I.C. Santos, J. Morgado, R.T. Henriques, M. Almeida, X. Ribas, K. Wurst, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
128.- Oxidación electroquimica de plata y cobre en medio acuoso básico y en hidróxidos fundidos
E. Tejada-Rosales, N. Casañ-Pastor and P. Gómez-Romero
129.- Estudio por GXRD de la formación de fases en metales de los grupos IV y V por implantación iónica de nitrógeno
J.A. García, J. Rius and R.J. Rodriguez
130.- Materiales híbridos basados en fosfato de vanadilo y polímeros conductores como cátodos en baterías reversibles de litio
A.K. Cuentas-Gallegos, R. Vijayaraghavan, M. Lira-Cantú, N. Casañ-Pastor and
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131.- Bis(ethylenethio)tetrathiafulvalene (BET-TTF) and related dissymmetrical electron donors: From the molecule to functional molecular materials and devices (OFETs)
Chemical Reviews, 104, (2004), pp. 5289-5317
132.- A robust purely organic nanoporous magnet
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133.- A robust nanocontainer based on a pure organic free radical
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, (2004), pp. 730-731
D. Maspoch, N. Domingo, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, J. Tejada, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
134.- High mobility of dithiophene-tetrathiafulvalene single-crystal organic field effect transistor
M. Mas-Torrent, M. Durkut, P. Hadley, X. Ribas and C. Rovira
135.- Importance of intermolecular interactions in assessing hopping mobilities in organic field effect transistors: Pentacene versus dithiophene-tetrathiafulvalene Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, (2004), pp. 6544-6545
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136.- Correlation between crystal structure and mobility in organic field-effect transistors based on single crystals of tetrathiafulvalene derivatives
M. Mas-Torrent, P. Hadley, S.T. Bromley, X. Ribas, J. Tarrés, M. Mas, E. Molins, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
137.- New organic metals based on BDH-TTP radical cation salts with the photochromic nitroprusside anion [FeNO(CN)5]2-
I. Shevyakova, L. Buravov, V. Tkacheva, L. Zorina, S. Khasanov, S. Simonov, J. Yamada, E. Canadell, R. Shibaeva and E. Yagubskii
138.- Polymorphism of a new bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF) based molecular conductor; novel transformations in metallic BEDT-TTF layers Chemistry of Materials, 16, (2004), pp. 2471-2479
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139.- Supramolecular photomagnetic materials: Photoinduced dimerization of ferrocene-based polychlorotriphenylmethyl radicals
I. Ratera, D. Ruiz-Molina, J. Vidal-Gancedo, J.J. Novoa, K. Wurst, J.-F. Letard,
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140.- Magneto-structural characterization of metallocene-bridged nitronyl nitroxide diradicals by X-ray, magnetic measurements, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, and Ab initio calculations
C. Sporer, H. Heise, K. Wurst, D. Ruiz-Molina, H. Kopacka, P. Jaitner, F. Köhler,
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141.- Structural isomerism in crystals of redox-active secondary ortho-diamides: The role of competing interfacial intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds in directing crystalline topologies
S.A. Baudron, N. Avarvari, E. Canadell, P. Auban-Senzier and P. Batail
142.- Superstructures of donor packing arrangements in a series of molecular charge transfer salts
Chemical Communications, (2004), pp. 18-19
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143.- A new (63)·(69.81) non-interpenetrated paramagnetic network with helical nanochannels based on a tricarboxylic perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical Chemical Communications, (2004), pp. 1164-1165
D. Maspoch, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
144.- Enantioselective formal synthesis of uleine alkaloids from phenylglycinol-derived bicyclic lactams
M. Amat, M. Pérez, N. Llor, M. Martinelli, E. Molins and J. Bosch
145.- Novel fused D-A dyad and A-D-A triad incorporating tetrathiafulvalene and p- benzoquinone
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 69, (2004), pp. 2164-2177
F. Dumur, N. Gautier, N. Gallego-Planas, Y. Sahin, E. Levillain, N. Mercier, P. Hudhomme, M. Masino, A. Girlando, V. Lloveras, J. Vidal-Gancedo, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
146.- Conjugate additons to phenylglycinol-derivel unsaturated -lactams.
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M. Amat, M. Pérez, N. Llor, C. Escolano, F.J. Luque, E. Molins and J. Bosch
147.- A nanoscale view of supramolecular stereochemistry in self-assembled monolayers of enantiomers and racemates
Mamdouh, H. Uji-i, A. Gesquière, S. De Feyter, D.B. Amabilino, M.M.S. Abdel-Mottaleb, J. Veciana and F.C. De Schryver
148.- Spin transfer and magnetic interaction via phosphorus in nitronyl nitroxide radical-substituted triphenylphosphine derivatives
C. Rancurel, H. Heise, F.H. Köhler, U. Schatzschneider, E. Rentschler, J. Vidal- Gancedo, J. Veciana and J.-P. Sutter
149.- Chiral, single-molecule nanomagnets: Synthesis, magnetic characterization and natural and magnetic circular dichroism
Ph. Gerbier, N. Domingo, J. Gómez-Segura, D. Ruiz-Molina, D.B. Amabilino, J. Tejada, B.E. Williamson and J. Veciana
150.- Preparation, conformational analysis and behaviour as chiral solvating agents of 9-anthrylpentafluorophenylmethanol enantiomers: Study of the diastereomeric association
M. Pérez-Trujillo, A. Virgili and E. Molins
151.- Temperature dependence of the electrical properties of single-crystals of dithiophene-tetrathiafulvalene (DT-TTF)
M. Mas-Torrent, P. Hadley, X. Ribas and C. Rovira
152.- Stereochemistry and EPR investigation of a chiral molecular magnet
J. Vidal-Gancedo, M. Minguet, D. Luneau, D.B. Amabilino and J. Veciana
153.- Magneto-structural defects on a congested nanoscopic polyradical dendrimer
D. Ruiz-Molina, J. Vidal-Gancedo, N. Ventosa, J. Campo, F. Palacio, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
154.- Synthesis, X-ray structure, EPR and optical properties of a ferrocene substituted polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical
Sporer, I. Ratera, D. Ruiz-Molina, J. Vidal-Gancedo, K. Wurst, P. Jaitner, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
155.- EPR characterization of a nanoporous metal-organic framework exhibiting a bulk magnetic ordering
Maspoch, J. Vidal-Gancedo, D. Ruiz-Molina, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
156.- Magnetic oscillations in ’’-(BEDT-TTF)4(NH4)[Fe(C2O4)3]·DMF: Fermi surface study and frequency mixing
V.N. Laukhin, A. Audouard, L. Brossard, T.G. Prokhorova, E.B. Yagubskii and
157.- Taking chiral induction into the nanometre regime: Chiral teleinduction in the synthesis of poly(isocyanide)s
Mendeleev Communications, 14, (2004), pp. 256-257
D.B. Amabilino, J.L. Serrano, T. Sierra and J. Veciana
158.- Raman studies of the charge ordering and semiconductor-metal phase transition in polymorphic forms of (BEDT-TTF)2Br1.3I1.1Cl0.6
R. Wojciechowski, A. Kowalska, J. Ulanski, M. Mas-Torrent, E. Laukhina, C. Rovira, V. Tkacheva, K. Yamamoto and K. Yakushi
159.- Intramolecular electron transfer mediated by a tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) bridge
P. Hudhomme, F. Dumur, N. Gautier, A. Gorgues, V. Lloveras, J. Vidal- Gancedo, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
160.- Metallic thin films of TTF[Ni(dmit)2]2 by electrodeposition on (001)-oriented silicon substrates
Advanced Materials, 16 (9-10), (2004), pp. 835-838
D. de Caro, J. Fraxedas, C. Faulmann, I. Malfant, J. Milon, J.-F. Lamère, V. Collière and L. Valade
161.- Self-limited growth of a thin oxide layer on Rh(111)
J. Gustafson, A. Mikkelsen, M. Borg, E. Lundgren, L. Köhler, G. Kresse, M. Schmid, P. Varga, J. Yuhara, X. Torrelles, C. Quiros and N.J. Andersen
162.- The role of intermolecular and molecule-substrate interactions in the stability of alkanethiol nonsaturated phases on Au(111)
Barrena, E. Palacios-Lidón, C. Munuera, X. Torrelles, S. Ferrer, U. Jonas, M. Salmeron and C. Ocal
163.- Structure and microstructure of epitaxial Sr4Fe6O13±δ films on SrTiO3
M.D. Rossell, A.M. Abakumov, G. Van Tendeloo, J.A. Pardo and J. Santiso
164.- Critical effects of substrate terraces and steps morphology on the growth mode of epitaxial SrRuO3 films
Sánchez, G. Herranz, I.C. Infante, J. Fontcuberta, M.V. García-Cuenca, C. Ferrater and M. Varela
165.- Self-assembled monolayers of tetrathiafulvalene derivatives on Au(111): Organization and electrical properties
E. Gomar-Nadal, G.K. Ramachandran, F. Chen, T. Burgin, C. Rovira, D.B. Amabilino and S.M. Lindsay
166.- Molecular insight, through IR spectroscopy, on solvating phenomena occurring in CO2-expanded solutions
ChemPhysChem, 5, (2004), pp. 243-245
S. Sala, T. Tassaing, N. Ventosa, Y. Danten, M. Besnard and J. Veciana
167.- Evaluation of drug deliver characteristics of microspheres of PMMA/PCL- cholesterol obtained by supercritical-CO2 impregnation and by dissolution- evaporation techniques
Journal of Controlled Release, 99, (2004), pp. 231-240
C. Elvira, A. Fanovich, M. Fernández, J. Fraile, J. San Román and C. Domingo
168.- New insigths in the c(4x2) reconstruction of hexadecanethiol on Au(111) revealed by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction
Torrelles, E. Barrena, C. Munuera, J. Rius, S. Ferrer and C. Ocal
169.- Photoinduced chain-oxygen ordering in detwinned YBa2Cu3O6.7 single crystals studied by reflectance-anisotropy spectroscopy
A. Bruchhausen, S. Bahrs, K. Fleischer, A.R. Goñi, A. Fainstein, G. Nieva, A.A. Aligia, W. Richter and C. Thomsen
170.- Light-induced oxygen-ordering dynamics in (Y,Pr)Ba2Cu3O6.7: A Raman spectroscopy and Monte Carlo study
S. Bahrs, A.R. Goñi, C. Thomsen, B. Maiorov, G. Nieva and A. Fainstein
171.- Self-organized structures in CoCr2O4(001) thin films: Tunable growth from pyramidal clusters to a {111} fully faceted surface
U. Lüders, F. Sánchez and J. Fontcuberta
172.- Analysis of the surface termination of Nd1+xBa2-xCu3Oγ thin films
X. Torrelles, C. Aruta, A. Fragneto, I. Maggio-Aprile, L. Ortega, F. Ricci, J. Rius,
M. Salluzzo and U. Scotti di Uccio
173.- Band structure of indium selenide investigated by inrinsic photoluminescence under high pressure
F.J. Manjón, A. Segura, V. Muñoz-Sanjosé, G. Tobías, P. Ordejón and E. Canadell
174.- Evidence of spontaneous spin polarization in the two-dimensional electron gas
A.R. Goñi, P. Giudici, F.A. Reboredo, C.R. Proetto, C. Thomsen, K. Eberl and
M. Hauser
175.- Effects of the exchange instability on collective spin and charge excitations of the two-dimensional electron gas
P. Giudici, A.R. Goñi, C. Thomsen, P.G. Bolcatto, C.R. Proetto and K. Eberl
176.- Ta2Si thermal oxidation: A simple route to a high-k gate dielectric on 4H-SiC
Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 7 (12), (2004), pp. F93-F95
A. Pérez-Tomás, P. Godignon, J. Montserrat, J. Millán, N. Mestres, P. Vennegues and J. Stoemenos
177.- Faster acquisition of structure-factor amplitudes in surface X-ray diffraction experiments
X. Torrelles and J. Rius
178.- Preparation of dense, ultra-thin MIEC ceramic membranes by atmospheric spray-pyrolysis technique
Journal of Membrane Science, 240, (2004), pp. 113-122
A. Abrutis, A. Teiserskis, G. Garcia, V. Kulibius, Z. Saltyte, Z. Salciunas, V. Faucheux, A. Figueras and S. Rushworth
179.- YSZ thin films deposited on NiO-CSZ anodes by pulsed injection MOCVD for intermediate temperature SOFC applications
G. Garcia, R.I. Merino, V.K. Orera, A. Larrea, J.I. Peña, M.A. Laguna-Bercero,
J.A. Pardo, J. Santiso and A. Figueras
180.- Influence of expansion conditions on the characteristics of cholesterol crystals analyzed by statistical design
Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 31, (2004), pp. 313-322
P. Subra, P. Berroy, J. Saurina and C. Domingo
181.- Self-organization of phthalocyanines on Al2O3 (11-20) in aligned and ordered films
E. Barrena, J.O. Ossó, F. Schreiber, M. Garriga, M.I. Alonso and H. Dosch
182.- Metal-organic chemical vapour deposition of mixed-conducting perovskite oxide layers on monocrystalline and porous ceramic substrates
Thin Solid Films, 449, (2004), pp. 94-99
A. Abrutis, A. Bartasyte, G. Garcia, A. Teiserskis, V. Kubilius, Z. Saltyte, V. Faucheux, A. Figueras and S. Rushworth
183.- Optical properties of anisotropic materials: An experimental approach
Thin Solid Films, 455-456 (5), (2004), pp. 124-131
M.I. Alonso and M. Garriga
184.- Epitaxial Sr4Fe6O13±δ films obtained by pulsed laser deposition
J.A. Pardo, J. Santiso, C. Solís, G. Garcia, A. Figueras, M.D. Rossell and G. Van Tendeloo
185.- The role of conducting-oxide-substrate type and morphology in TiO2 films grown by microwave chemical bath deposition (MW-CBD) and their photovoltaic characteristics
E. Vigil, B. González, I. Zumeta, S. Docteur, A.M. Peiró, D. Gutiérrez-Tauste, C. Domingo, X. Doménech and J.A. Ayllón
186.- Control of calcium carbonate morphology by precipitation in compressed and supercritical carbon dioxide media
Journal of Crystal Growth, 271 (1-2), (2004), pp. 268-273
C. Domingo, J. García-Carmona, E. Loste, A. Fanovich, J. Fraile and J. Gómez- Morales
187.- Temperature-dependent tribological properties of low-energy N-implanted V5Ti alloys
Surface & Coatings Technology, 188-189, (2004), pp. 459-465
J.A. García, G.G. Fuentes, R. Martínez, R.J. Rodríguez, G. Abrasonis, J.P. Riviere and J. Rius
188.- Transport properties of monocrystalline microwires of EDT-TTF-(CONHMe)2 and (TMTSF)2ClO4
C. Colin, C.R. Pasquier, P. Auban-Senzier, F. Restangno, S. Baudron, P. Batail and J. Fraxedas
189.- Epitaxial growth of YSZ films prepared by pulsed injection MOCVD
G. Garcia, J. Santiso, J.A. Pardo and A. Figueras
190.- Advances and some recent applications of the origin-free modulus sum function
Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie, 219, (2004), pp. 826-832
J. Rius
191.- Initial stages in the growth of {111}-faceted CoCr2O4 clusters: Mechanisms and strained nanometric pyramids
Applied Physics A, 79, (2004), pp. 93-97
192.- Growth and magnetic properties of CoCr2O4 epitaxial films
193.- Precipitation of PMMA/PCL blends using supercritical carbon dioxide
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 91, (2004), pp. 2422-2426
A. Vega-González, C. Domingo, C. Elvira and P. Subra
194.- Raman spectroscopy with UV excitation on untwinned single crystals of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
Physica Status Solidi B, 241 (12), (2004), R63-R66
S. Bahrs, S. Reich, A. Zwick, A.R. Goñi, W. Bacsa, G. Nieva and C. Thomsen
195.- Process performances and characteristics of powders produced using supercritical CO2 as solvent and antisolvent
Powder Technology, 142, (2004), pp. 13-22
P. Subra, P. Berroy, A. Vega and C. Domingo
196.- FULLPROF as a new tool for flipping-ratio analysis: Further improvements
C. Frontera and J. Rodríguez-Carvajal
197.- Internal infrared laser deflection system: A tool for power device characterization
Measurement Science and Technology, 15, (2004), pp. 1011-1018
X. Perpiñà, X. Jordà, N. Mestres, M. Vellvehí, P. Godignon, J. Millán and H. von Kiedrowki
198.- Flasch lamp supported deposition of 3C-SiC (FLASiC) - a promising technique to produce high quality cubic SiC layers
Skorupa, D. Panknin, W. Anwand, M. Voelskow, G. Ferro, Y. Monteil, A. Leycuras, J. Pezoldt, R. McMahon, M. Smith, J. Camassel, J. Stoemenos, E. Polychroniadis, P. Godignon, N. Mestres, D. Turover, S. Rushworth and A. Friedberg
199.- Electrical characterization of deposited and oxidized Ta2Si as dielectric film for SiC metal-insulator semiconductor structures
A. Pérez, D. Tournier, J. Montserrat, N. Mestres, F. Sandiumenge and J. Millán
200.- Room temperature implantation and activation kinetics of nitrogen and phosphorus in 4H-SiC crystals
S. Blanque, R. Pérez, P. Godignon, N. Mestres, E. Morvan, A. Kerlain, C. Dua,
C. Brylinski, M. Zielinski and J. Camassel
201.- Visible light laser irradiation: A tool for implantation damage reduction
J. Camassel, H. Peyre, D.J. Brink, M. Zielinski, S. Blanque, N. Mestres and P. Godignon
202.- A highly effective edge termination design for SiC planar high power devices
R. Pérez, N. Mestres, S. Blanque, D. Tournier, X. Jordà, P. Godignon and R. Nipoti
203.- SiC base micro-probe for myocardial ischemia monitoring
J. Pascual, F. Valvo, P. Godignon, J. Aguiló, J. Millán, J. Camassel and N. Mestres
204.- Formation of 3C-SiC films embedded in SiO2 by sacrificial oxidation
D. Panknin, P. Godignon, N. Mestres, E. Polychroniadis, J. Stoemenos, G. Ferro,
J. Pezoldt and W. Skorupa
205.- Self-heating experimental study of 600 V PT-IGBTs under low dissipation energies
Microelectronics Journal, 35, (2004), pp. 841-847
Perpiñà, X. Jordà, N. Mestres, M. Vellvehí, P. Godignon and J. Millán
206.- Growth and physical properties of molecular organic thin films
J. Fraxedas
207.- Crecimiento de películas delgadas de membranas de conducción iónica mediante la técnica de PIMOCVD
G. Garcia, J. Caro, J. Santiso, J.A. Pardo, A. Figueras and A. Abrutis
208.- Magnetic properties of Fe - Fe oxide particle systems
Archives of Materials Science (Archiwum Nauki o Materialach), 25 (4), (2004), pp. 469-475
K. Racka, M. Gich, A. Roig, A. Krzyzewski and A. Slawska-Waniewska
209.- The structure of Ge(111): C60 - (131/2x131/2)
ESRF Newsletter, 39, (2004), pp. 17-18
X. Torrelles, J. Rius, O. Bikondoa, P. Ordejon, E. Machado, T.L. Lee and J. Zegenhagen
210.- Structure, morphology, and optical properties of thin films of F16CuPc grown on silicon dioxide
Organic Electronics, 5, (2004), pp. 135-140
J.O. Ossó, F. Schreiber, M.I. Alonso, M. Garriga, E. Barrena and H. Dosch
211.- Self-passivation mechanisms in clusters of N dopants in SiC
Physica Status Solidi C, 1, (2004), pp. 274-277
212.- Superconductivitat i superfluïdesa. Un premi per a la comprensió d’efectes quàntics ben visibles
Revista de Física, 26, (2004), pp. 4-15
J. Fontcuberta and X. Obradors
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Why Business In Myanmar Is About To Change
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Myanmar, also known as burma adventure tours, is a country in transition. Business in Myanmar is on the brink of sweeping changes that should usher in long overdue economic prosperity for the citizens of Myanmar.
For decades, Myanmar was tightly controlled by a military regime. During this time, western governments including the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European nations sanctioned Myanmar. With the exception of humanitarian aid for the starving population, western businesses were not allowed to do business in Myanmar.
However, after the 2010 elections in Myanmar, the new Myanmar president and other political leaders ushered in rapid radical reforms and the western world began to take notice. Political prisoners have been freed, the press is now allowed access, and earnest efforts in peace talks have been praised by many. It seems the new Myanmar government is really trying to help its own people and also cultivate business and political relationships with other countries.
In July 2012, President Obama declared that U.S. companies are now free to invest in Myanmar for the first time in 15 years. The UK followed suite soon after. The Myanmar parliament is in the process of passing new legislation that will supplant Myanmar's existing 1988 investment law. The new law will reform greatly how Myanmar does business with international investors.
The first version of this bill was criticized as being too strict and it was thought by the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Myanmar's top business lobby group, that changes needed to be made. The Myanmar parliament has gone back to the drawing board and it is predicted the changes they are making will attract foreign investors in a big way.
One of the main changes is the original financial cap that was to be placed on foreign investment. Originally it was capped so high that small to medium sized foreign businesses would have been shut out. However, the cap has now been lowered to a level that they can participate.
The tax incentives to foreign businesses have also been increased and extended which will now make doing business in Myanmar much more attractive. In most cases, the tax incentives have been extended from three to five years.
Another primary source of contention in the original version of the new foreign investment law was the inclusion of 13 areas where foreign investment would be restricted. This was designed to protect the primary domestic businesses including agriculture, fishing, and textile manufacturing. However, these restrictions have now been made more lax and now allow for foreign businesses to enter into 50/50 partnerships with domestic Myanmar businesses in these restricted business categories.
The Myanmar Investment Commission will be in charge of regulating the new international business inside the country. They have been putting on a far friendlier face than they have had in the past to woo in the international investors. At the same time, the Myanmar parliament has given them more power in how they handle things. This includes the ability to revoke the tax incentives.
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The Role Of A Trustee
Legacy Planning Solutions
Bloodline Planning
Utilising Trusts For Bloodline Planning
Asset Planning In Your Lifetime
Access To Protected Assets
Discretionary Trusts
Life Interest/Interest in Possession Trusts
The Cost of Care
Types of Home Ownership
When would I have to pay for Care?
Probate Plus Preservation Trust
Taxation & Trusts
What is a trust?
The Different Trusts Available
How are trusts taxed?
Exit and Succession Strategies
Typical Cross Option Agreements
Why you need an exit strategy
Share Release Exit Strategy
The Different Types of Powers of Attorney
What is an Advance Directive or Living Will?
Who do I notify first?
Why Appoint a Professional Executor?
Who can make a Will?
Rules of Intestacy
For married couples or civil partnerships the Interest in Possession Trust would be utilised to cater for the residue over and above the Nil Rate Band.
The Trust can provide the flexibility for the surviving spouse (or any other appointed Trustees) to release capital from the Trust as needed for his/her benefit or to release to the children or other specifically named beneficiaries.
Whilst initially the surviving spouse only has a right to income or use of assets, this “interest in possession” means that for Inheritance Tax purposes, the assets are deemed in the surviving spouse’s estate and so taxed upon second death.
Much depends on the planning decided with regards to the Properties and their ownership as to how much could be directed into the IIP Trusts. Having said that, the theory is that it would be the balance of assets in each individual’s estate above the Nil Rate Band which would be directed to them.
Assets receive the guaranteed protection of the trusts on first death, a second death may occur many years later and we have no idea what legislation may be in place at that time. So we advise to maximise the opportunities that we know exist today.
Additional Inheritance Tax planning can be achieved by the surviving spouse should he/she give up all or part of his/her life interest.
Should he/she give up all or part of her life interest then this is treated as a Gift.
However, the surviving spouse loses access to these funds and needs to live for 7 years for the strategy to become fully effective.
Should he/she survive the necessary 7 years, the asset then escapes Inheritance Taxation upon second death.
The proposed strategy is designed to provide maximum flexibility and opportunity for further Inheritance Tax mitigation, decisions can be made by you today or dependent on the surviving spouse’s position at that time.
Possibly not a decision the surviving spouse would make in whole, but the decision does not need to be taken until after the first death.
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Islamic Pedia
Ahadiths
Surat Al-Qaşaş
Tafsir Sura Index
What is the Qur'an About?
Tafsir Ishraq al-Ma`ani
Syed Iqbal Zaheer
تفسير إِشراقُ المَعَاني
سيد إقبال ظهير
The Qur'an is the Word of Allah and a Book of Guidance. It can be asked, guidance to what? The answer is: “Guidance to Allah Most High, His Attributes, His Will, and the way in which one may conduct oneself to obtain that approval (rida) of Allah after which there is no anger." Imam Shafe`i perhaps had the first part of this statement in mind when he said:
"All that (the scholars of) the Ummah have to say is nothing but the exposition of the Sunnah. All that is in the Sunnah is the exposition of the Qur'an. And the whole of the Qur'an is nothing but the exposition of the Names and Attributes of Allah" (Zarkashi: Al‑Burhan Fi `Ulum al‑Qur'an).
This guidance to Allah, the knowledge of His Attributes and Will, and the guidance to right conduct cannot be obtained by any means other than the Qur'an and its complementary, the Sunnah, (the sayings and practices of Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him).
The Qur'an is also the only source of guidance. Someone who is unaware of its existence, but is a seeker of Truth, (on account of his innate faith in God and disillusionment with the world), will be led to this Book, one way or the other. The Qur'an says (29: 69): "Those who strive in Us, We shall surely guide them unto Our paths."
What is Guidance?
From another angle, it might be said that being on the guidance is to know, acknowledge, and, live by the Truth. In the context of this life, it is
a) the knowledge of what one is required to do, in the right measure, at any particular moment, and
b) the will to live by that knowledge.
In one sense, then, Guidance is knowledge, and in another, the will to act by it. The ‘will to act' is not the same as the ‘power to act.' That is because man has been granted will (or the freedom of choice) in a limited framework, while all power is Allah's. The power, or ability to act ‑ referred to as tawfiq in Islamic terminology ‑ is granted when willingness is demonstrated.
Further, since there is no such thing as half‑guidance, both are essential for salvation: knowledge without the will to act is only an evidence against one's self (hujjah), and deeds (however pretty their appearance), are grains thrown in the sand if they go without the acknowledgement of the Truth.
The Qur'an guides in both the senses. It bestows knowledge (or 'ilm wa 'irfan), giving the seeker the proper concept of the truth, as well as the will‑power and the moral courage to produce a living model of that concept in his own person, overcoming the obstacles he might encounter from within or without.
No other book, writing, philosophy, or person can achieve this. There should be no doubt about it; for any ambiguity in this regard can deprive one of the fruits of study and application.
The above definition illustrates and emphasizes the external, physical, and ephemeral aspect. Guidance has an esoteric, transcendent, and eternal meaning also, which is the fruit and essence of the external aspect. It is that state of mind and soul in which the other world becomes dearer than this one, in which, one eagerly awaits to be transported to the other world in order to heal that pain in the heart, and quench that thirst of the soul which only the company of those on High can heal and quench.
It is when one begins to ‘wait for the next salah after the last one,' when one ‘remembers Allah in his seclusion and the remembrance brings tears to his eyes,' when Allah becomes so dear that one begins to ‘love for Allah and hate for Allah,' and, when ‘the state of sabr and shukr become one and the same,' then it is that a person can said to be, in the words of the Qur'an, "on a guidance from his Lord."
A hadith of the Prophet (saws) says: "I am leaving behind me two things. So long as you hold fast unto them, you will not be misguided: they are Allah's Book and my practices." Nevertheless, this oft‑quoted hadith is rarely treated seriously. People apply themselves with great fervor to books, writings, speeches and ideologies presented by the scholars of Islam, but not as often do they leave them and their influences aside to turn directly to the Qur'an in complete seriousness. They do not seem to realize that they are not guided by those books and writings but to the extent that they themselves contain the Qur'an and the Sunnah in their pure form and unadulterated meaning.
Further, even when the Qur'an is studied, it is mostly done through the eyes, minds, and explanations of the scholars. The knowledge derived is, therefore, at best second‑hand, vicarious, and not wholly trustworthy. Again, a study of the Qur'an after a lot of other literature has been read has the disadvantage of the earlier readings embossing on the mind impressions that do not allow for the new ones to take place in their pristine form. The result is a jumble of concepts, true, half true, and false.
Alternatively, the Qur'an is read with pre‑conceived ideas. Human ideas are then taken for Divine ideas with citation of Qur’anic verses as evidences.
There are a few other characteristics that distinguish the Qur'an from all other kinds of writings. Firstly, the knowledge that the Qur'an imparts is the true and infallible knowledge. Secondly, the Qur'an succeeds in communicating the ideas it holds. That is, the reader cannot miss the meaning that it intends to communicate. Provided one is sincere, no one can miss its guidance, or, led to a meaning and understanding not intended. That happens with writings other than the Divine; humans say one thing, and the audience understand another thing. Moreover, through its intricate sequencing of the texts, the Qur’an answers to the doubts that arise, so to say, on the spot, and registers its meaning and message without adulteration of doubts menacing the mind, or skeptical notes lying beneath like snakes in the grass.
Therefore, to obtain true knowledge and right guidance from the Qur'an the requirement is to do away with preconceived ideas and study it with the firm intention to live by the meaning as it unfolds itself. With that kind of intention, the student is qualified to receive the true meaning. The meaning obtained is also accompanied by an urge to live by it, which then is the next requirement. That accomplished, that is, the meaning translated into action, the reader demonstrates purity of intention. In consequence, he qualifies to receive a fresh set of true meaning which unfolds themselves with further reading. This goes on until the student reaches that state which has been described in a hadith by Allah (swt) Himself in words, “I become the hands of the slave with which he grips, the feet of the slave with which he walks ... (to the end of the hadith).” But if he fails, that is, he is not true to himself at any given phase, or discontinues the process, then the tawfiq is held back until he amends his ways. The Qur’an has said (7: 146):
{سَأَصْرِفُ عَنْ آيَاتِيَ الَّذِينَ يَتَكَبَّرُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَإِنْ يَرَوْا كُلَّ آيَةٍ لَا يُؤْمِنُوا بِهَا وَإِنْ يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ الرُّشْدِ لَا يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلًا وَإِنْ يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ الْغَيِّ يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلًا ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَكَانُوا عَنْهَا غَافِلِينَ} [الأعراف: 146]
“I shall turn away from My signs those who wax proud in the land without cause. If they witnessed all the signs, they will not believe in them, and, if they see the path of righteousness, they will not accept it as a path. But if they see the deviated path, they will accept it as a path. That, because they gave a lie to Our signs and were heedless of them.”
How to Obtain the Right Verbal Meaning?
It is to seek guidance, in the sense delineated above, that one should read the Qur'an. That should be the intention in every session with it.
Dr. Muhammad Iqbal's father well illustrated this point when he asked his son, who was reciting the Qur'an, as to what he was reading. The young son, knowing that the father was aware what he was reading, responded with an indifferent answer. “Who was it revealed to?” was the next question. The embarrassed son replied that it was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (on whom be peace). “This way, my son,” said the father, “you will never profit from the Qur'an. You will only if you read with the belief that the Revelation has just come down, that it has been sent down specifically for you, and that it is you who has been addressed. It is only then that this Book will open itself to you.”
In other words, one should take it as a message unto himself, and allow each verse of the Qur'an free and unhindered access to the mind and heart with the will to be led where it will lead.
In contrast to other revealed Books and religious literatures, in whatever form and language they may exist, the Qur'an should not only be read by oneself, directly, but also in its own language ‑ Arabic. No commentary, however comprehensive, and no exegete, however erudite, can impart what the Qur'an itself can. The following reasons will illustrate the point.
The Miraculous nature of the Qur'an
It is well known that the Qur'an is a miracle. In fact, it is a living miracle; although the true nature of the miracle is not always understood. We cannot elaborate on this point extensively at this juncture. But it might be pointed out that the miracle expresses itself both in its form as well in its content. Both are powerful, unique to the Qur'an, which defy translation. The Prophet said: "Every prophet before me was given a miracle. I have been given the Qur'an. And I hope to have a greater following by its virtue than any prophet of the past."
Consequently, thousands of people from all over the globe are led to Islam every year through their study of the Qur'an. When a non‑Muslim asks a Muslim about Islam, all that he does in most cases is to hand him over a copy of the Qur'an. Invariably, even that mangled thing called ‘the translation of the Qur'an' leads the person to Islam. That is the miracle of the Qur'an. And of course, miracles cannot be translated.
Let us look into a few reasons that make impossible to communicate what the Qur'an itself communicates.
The Qur'an is in Arabic. It is neither in prose nor in verse but a unique combination of both, unsurpassed in its effect on the mind and soul by any other writing. In the words of John Alden Williams:
"...the Arabic of the Qur'an is by turns striking, soaring, vivid, terrible, tender, and breathtaking ... It is meaningless to apply adjectives such as ‘beautiful' or ‘persuasive' to the Qur'an; its flashing images and inexorable measures go directly to the brain and intoxicate it.
It is not surprising, then, that a skilled reciter of the Qur'an can reduce an Arabic‑speaking audience to helpless tears" (Islam: p.2, Washington Square Press '69).
In the words of Arberry:
"... to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I have been at pains to study the intricate and richly varied rhythms which ‑ apart from the message itself ‑ constitute the Koran's undeniable claim to rank amongst the greatest literary masterpieces of mankind" (The Koran Interpreted, Intr. p. x, Oxford Univ. Press '64).
It is this inimitable beauty that challenges mankind to produce its equivalent: in sublimity of language, its instructions, and its sublime effect on the mind and soul. The Qur'anic challenge has remained unanswered by the humans (2: 23, 24):
"O People! If you are in any doubt concerning what We have sent down on Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a piece similar to it (in all its merits). And call (to your aid) your witnesses apart from Allah, if you are true (in your allegation that it is the work of Muhammad). But if you cannot do it ‑ and you can never do it ‑ then beware of the Fire whose fuel is human beings and rocks: prepared for the unbelievers."
The Qur'an then is inimitable and, therefore, untranslatable. Any translation, however accurately done, and however close to the original, cannot reproduce the sense and beauty of the original. Therefore, when one is reading a translation, he is not reading the Qur'an per se. No surprise then that the best effects are lost. No wonder also that the scholars of old would not allow translation of the Qur'an. This is also Ibn Taymiyyah's opinion. In fact there is a consensus of opinion among the scholars that the Qur'an should not be quoted in ‘sense' or ‘meaning' but always in its original textual words. How can then one be allowed to translate the Qur'an and call it the Qur'an?
Accordingly, if permission to translate the Qur'an has been granted due to modern exigencies, it is on condition that sufficient notes are supplied to overcome the deficiencies arising out of the translation. Further, it is required that the new work be called "interpretative translation of the Qur'an" (tarjumah tafsiriyyah), or, "the translation of the meaning of the Qur'an," rather than "the translation of the Qur'an" or, what would be more audacious, "the meaning of the Qur'an," since none of these are within human power (Manahil al `Irfan, Zarqani).
Linguistic Difficulties
There are many linguistic difficulties that make the Qur'an untranslatable. In Arabic one expresses sense rather than meaning. A beautiful Arabic sentence that can enrapture the mind and touch the soul becomes insipid in another language. Not only sentences or words, even single consonant letters are hard to translate. For example, the "fi" of Arabic has a depth that is lacking in the "in" of English. One needs a whole ugly, terse, and unmusical word in English to translate mere letters such as:
و ف إنَّ
Obviously, the complications with the words are far greater than those with the letters. Arabic is a language in which words are based on consonantal roots, from which are derived scores of words in various forms giving out various meanings but remaining, even if loosely and distantly, connected in sense and letter‑content to the root. `Ayn for instance can mean: an eye, a spring, a spy, a group of people, evil‑eye, honor, a flag, a girl, etc. `Afw stands for effacement, obliteration, elimination, forgiveness, amnesty, boon, kindness, favor, surplus, and others. The translated word must on the one hand give out the basic meaning and, on the other, convey several nuances the original carries. Obviously, to achieve that is well‑nigh impossible.
Let us take an example (4: 4):
وَآتُوا النِّسَاءَ صَدُقَاتِهِنَّ نِحْلَةً [النساء : 4]
"Give the women their dowries (as a gift) spontaneous,"
In this example, the word saduqat is derived from the root sadaqa ( صَدَقَ ) which means, with the addition of various suffixes or prefixes: ‘to speak the truth, to be sincere, to prove to be true, to come true, to fulfill one's promise,' and so on. Now, a true translation of the derived term saduqa, (plural: saduqat صَدُقات ), should carry in its overtones the sense of truth and sincerity. That is, ‘a gift that is offered (by the groom to the bride), as an expression of his sincerity toward her and the relationship he is proposing.' To render it as dowry, with the connotation that the language and culture of the readers carry, is to mutilate it.
In addition to the problem of words that yield several meanings, the complex structure of the Qur'anic verses admit of many interpretations (well described by Muhammad Asad as unfolding of "layer upon layer of meaning") from which the translator can choose but one, without necessarily being right in his choice. This means that, granted the translator did not err, the translation conveyed only one meaning out of the several contained in the Qur'an.
As another example, the following is speaking of the unbelievers (11: 20):
يُضَاعَفُ لَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مَا كَانُوا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ السَّمْعَ وَمَا كَانُوا يُبْصِرُونَ [هود : 20]
"For them the chastisement shall be doubled; (for) they could not hear, neither did they see."
It can be translated in at least six different ways, three of them depending on how the letter "maa" is treated: whether of the same meaning as "lamu kayy," ( لامُ كَي ); as a synonym of "ila," ( إلى ); or as a negative "maa". Obviously such possibilities, which occur quite often, can leave the translator baffled as to his own choice during translation.
Another linguistic difficulty is that many Arabic and Qur'anic terms do not have proper equivalents in other languages, especially the languages of the occident. Allah, al‑Rahman, al‑Rahim, jihad, salah, zakah, sadaqah, `ibadah, al‑ghayb, kufr, nur, fisq, taghut, nabiyy, rasul, ghaniyy, are a few examples from a long list.
If, to the above are added the difficulties of `ijaz (ellipticism), rhetoric, alliteration, resonance and rhythm (all of them present in the Qur'an in their most excellent forms and in the highest degree of expression), then the job of translation becomes a hopeless task.
But the impaired meaning is not the only casualty. The loss in terms of beauty, charm, appeal, elation and the ecstasy that a reader feels on reading the Qur'an in its original is immeasurable.
Therefore, it can be safely said of a person who has always read the Qur'an through translations alone, that he did not read the Qur'an once.
Trying to understand the Qur'an with the help of commentaries is no less hazardous. Some reasons are as follows.
Essentially, commentaries are of two kinds. Those that are based on the Qur'an itself, supported by the hadith and opinions of the Companions, or their next‑generation Followers (tabe`iyyun). These are known as al‑tafsir bi 'l ma'thur ( التفسير بالمأثور ) i.e., interpretation based on report or tradition.
The other category is the one in which the commentator offers an interpretation, based not on a specific accepted source ‑ a Qur'anic verse, a hadith, or a remark of a Companion or one of their Followers ‑ but his personal opinion based on his intellect, knowledge or intuition. This kind of commentary is known as al‑tafsir bi 'l ra'yi ( التفسير بالرأي ). al‑tafsir 'l‑ishari [ التفسير الإشاري ] falls under the same category).
As for the first kind of tafsir, i.e., al‑tafsir bi 'l ma'thur, it can be fully appreciated only when read in Arabic. Many concepts and ideas of the Qur'an are closely tied up with the Arabic language. Further, those concepts and ideas are so subtle that their explanations fall flat and lose their import in another language. The commentaries of Ibn Jarir or Ibn Kathir, for example (which are good examples of the al‑tafsir bi 'l ma'thur) fail to have their impact on the reader in their translated version. Besides, some basic knowledge of hadith classification, fiqh and other disciplines, which in turn require knowledge of Arabic, is necessary to appreciate this kind of commentary.
In short al-tafsir bi ‘l ma’thur does not help much in understanding the core meanings of the Qur’anic texts. The profound part is often missed.
On the other hand, if one tries to understand the Qur'an with the help of the other kind of tafsir, viz. al‑tafsir bi 'l ra'yi, he faces the following hazards.
Firstly, to be able to correctly comment on the Qur'an, one has to have, in addition to the Revealed texts, a thorough knowledge of all the physical and metaphysical sciences and disciplines that have been developed by the humans. The Qur'an deals with history, law, social affairs, morality, worship, economy, psychology, state affairs, spiritual development, eschatology, divinity, and many other disciplines ‑ all in one go. Obviously, since it is beyond one man's capacity to master so many disciplines in a life‑time, it is beyond him also to write a commentary of the Qur'an that conveys the true intent of the Qur’an.
Further, every commentator is a product of his own age, genre, intellectual atmosphere, and cultural background. His problems are the problems of his time ‑ not necessarily of all times. His view of life is from a certain angle ‑ not necessarily the ecumenical and transcendental view of the Qur'an. (So, we often hear from such commentators that “the Qur’an lays down the way of life”: which immediately reduces its message to mundane level. Had they said it lays down the ways to moral and spiritual life, they would have been closer to truth). Such commentators are led, and cannot help but be led, by their personal predispositions and bent of mind, appealing to those of similar dispositions, and not necessarily reaching out to all the inquisitive minds and thirsty souls. Finally, whatever a commentator’s caliber, he remains subjective. True objectivity is not the share of man.
For example, if he is of a sufi bent of mind he detects suggestions that may or may not exist. If he subscribes to a certain philosophy, he may emphasize a certain point, which might be there in the text, but might not be it focal point. Thereby he distorts the overall view. Or, if his interpretation of life is materialistic and earthly, he is quite likely to rush through verses that are, so to say, mawarid al zam'an (watering places for the thirsty), and the hovering grounds of the restless soul, concentrating instead on the wonderful capabilities of Islam to promote material growth and development on earth and bring back to the Muslim Ummah its lost glory!
In short, he is a human dealing with the Word of Allah. To do justice to it is not in his power.
Finally, it is agreed by the scholars of Islam that there are two aspects to the meaning of the Qur'an: the external and the internal. The external or the obvious meaning is that which has come down from the authorities: the hadith, the opinions of the Companions, their next‑generation Followers and the meaning unanimously accepted by the scholars of Islam through and through the ages. The internal, hidden or the secret meaning of the Qur'an comes from deep reflection and a sustained exercise of the mind and soul coupled with righteous living. To take an example, it is reported that the verse (5: 3): "This day I have perfected your religion for you and completed My favor unto you, and have chosen for you as religion al‑Islam," brought tears into the eyes of `Umar ibn al-Khattab The Prophet asked him the reason. He replied: "So far we were witnessing a continuous rise of Islam. Now that it has been completed (i.e. it has reached its zenith), it can only follow a downward direction, as it happens with anything that has achieved its zenith." The Prophet (saws) agreed with him.
Imam Ghazali writes in his eighth book of Ihya' `Ulum 'l‑Din:
"The truth is that to everything pertaining to reflective and intellectual matters, which have become ambiguous to men of reflection, and in which people have differed, there are indications and implications in the Qur'an which can be observed by men of understanding. How can these indications and implications be completely conveyed by translations of its outward meanings and its (outward) exegesis?"
Further down he writes:
"The man who imagines that the Qur'an has no meaning except that which the outward exegesis has translated (and described), is acknowledging his own limitations; he is right in his acknowledgement (because he knows only this measure and is not aware of that which lies beyond this), but is wrong in his judgment which places all other people on the same footing as himself." (The Recitation and Interpretation of the Qur'an: Al-Ghazali's Theory by Muhammad Abdul Quasem, p. 87, 88).
Nevertheless, the scholars are also in agreement that the internal meaning can be attained only after a complete mastery of the external has been achieved. Zarkashi writes:
"The Book of Allah: it is the bottomless sea, whose meaning cannot be unfathomed but by the well-versed in (religious) knowledge; he who fears Allah in open and secret, and gives due esteem to Him in places where he comes across the ambiguous. Its subtleties and truths cannot be grasped but by one who (as the Qur’an said) ‘lends his ear and is attentive...'"
He adds a little further,
"All knowledge can be summed up as that of the ‘Acts' and ‘Attributes' of Allah. The Qur'an contains the knowledge of the Acts, Attributes, and the Essence of the Supreme Being. This fact leads us to another, viz., the field of knowledge is immensely vast. There is room for much more than what is obvious to the mind. The exegesis therefore, that has been passed on to us (by the authorities) do not lay down limits for the attainment of knowledge. Yet, it is not possible to jump over to the hidden without mastery of the obvious. Indeed, the knowledge of the external is absolutely essential to step into the internal and the hidden. Whoever claims to have knowledge of the secret part of the Qur'an while lacking a proper understanding of the external and the obvious, is like he who claims manhood at the threshold of his house (to which he has just crawled) although he has not yet stepped out of the door."
In brief, the Qur'an has two levels of meaning: the external and the internal. It should be obvious, therefore, how difficult it can be for a person to get to the second level, while his first level of understanding is suspect due to his ignorance of the language which leads him to take the words of men for the words of God.
These are some of the reasons why neither a translation nor a commentary can be substituted for the original.
It should not be surprising therefore to note that according to Imam Shafe`i, learning of the Arabic language is obligatory on every Muslim. Imam Abu Yousuf and Zufar, both students of Imam Abu Hanifah, went a step further. They stated that it is makruh (undesirable) for two Muslims who can manage some Arabic, to speak with each other in another language. Ibn Taymiyyah is also of the opinion that learning Arabic is a religious requirement since what is necessary to realize an obligation (wajib) is itself obligatory (wajib).
Pre‑conceived Ideas
In contrast, neglect of the language and study and reliance upon a single commentary of the al-tafsir bi 'l‑ra'yi type, can lead a student of the Qur'an to hold questionable opinions despite long study and painful application. Many of those who could become connoisseurs ended up dilettantes. Imam Ghazali writes about this class of people:
"The sufis have said that knowledge (`ilm) is a veil (between man and God), and by this knowledge they have meant those beliefs (`aqa'id) which most people have been firmly holding either by dogmatically following an authority or by mere reliance on casuistic sentences written by zealots of schools of thought and delivered to them. As for the real knowledge which is the uncovering of the actual condition of the thing known and which is a vision by the light of spiritual insight, how can it be a veil, seeing that it is the ultimate object of desire?
Pure dogmatic following of an authority is sometimes false (in itself) and is, therefore, an obstacle to the understanding of the meaning (of the Qur'an). An example of this is a man who has a (purely dogmatic) belief in Allah's istawa' on the Throne as His being settled on it physically. Then in the case of (the divine name) ‘the Holy One' (al-Quddus), for example, there comes to his mind the meaning that He is pure from all that is ascribable to His creation: but that purely dogmatic belief of his does not make it possible for this meaning to be firmly implanted in his mind. Had it become strengthened in his mind it would have led to a second meaning and a third, which could be inter-connected. But he hastens to drive this meaning away from his mind, because it contradicts his false belief which is held purely dogmatically.
Sometimes purely dogmatic following of an authority is true (in itself), but it too becomes an obstacle to understanding (the meaning of the Qur'an) and to unveiling of them. The truth in which man is obliged to believe has stages and grades, and it has an external beginning and an internal end. Concentration of man's nature on the external aspect prevents him from reading the internal end" (source cited above, p.70, 71).
Finally, every commentator is influenced by the ideas of his time that seem to be so powerful, and therefore of great consequence, which could be so during a particular epoch, but prove not to be so with the passage of time. Moved by those ideas or forces, a commentator might try to give the verses of the Qur'an a new meaning, sometimes at the expense of certain basic and universal truths. This can seriously affect the way in which his readers understand the Qur'an.
The conclusion therefore is that anyone who has not done a course of study in the tafsir of the approved type, but, instead, applies himself to the other type ‑ the tafsir bi 'l‑ra'yi ‑ runs the great risk of ending up with ideas that might not be true, half true or altogether wrong.
Therefore, every serious student of the Qur'an must learn enough Arabic to be able to read the Qur'an himself, directly, and without dependence on a translation to an extraordinary degree. It is only after he has spent sufficient time with the Qur'an (and, in addition, the Sunnah), that he can turn his attention to the translations and commentaries as further aids. It is only those for whom it is beyond their capacity to learn the language that might resort to dependence on translations and commentaries alone, although, to remain in consultation with the scholars is a necessary requirement for not getting misled on concepts.
Al-Tafsir bi 'l Ma'thur
The safest way to derive the right meaning of any part of the Qur'an is to seek its explanation within the Qur'an itself. What is stated in brief at one place is detailed at another, and what is ambiguous at one point is supplemented with elaborations elsewhere. Also, the Qur'an deals with a subject in a variety of ways, at different points, and with emphasis on different aspects in different contexts. The complete meaning can only be obtained by collecting together, either on paper or in the mind, all relevant verses, seeking connections that become apparent with contemplation. The Qur'an then should be understood in the first instance with the Qur'an itself.
Next, one should turn to the hadith. The ahadith are in reality a commentary on the Qur'an. Allah (swt) not only revealed the Word to the Prophet but also its meaning. A verse (4:105) says, "Surely We have sent down a Book to you (O Muhammad) with Truth so that you may judge between the people by what Allah shows you (as its true meaning)."
But it is not only the meaning as expressed in the words of the Prophet (saws) that has to be learnt. It is also the meaning as expressed in his actions that should be applied to one’s own life, to gain an understanding of the Qur'an. The Prophet lived according to the Message he received, not deviating from it in the least. In other words his life was the Qur'an interpreted: "Have you not read the Qur'an?!" was the answer given by `A'isha (ra) when asked about the Prophet's conduct in everyday life.
An example will illustrate how well the Prophet understood and lived by the Qur'an.
The Qur'an uses the term rih (in the sense of ‘winds') in two ways. In some places in the singular form as rih, and in others in the plural form as riyah. In all, it has used these terms on 29 occasions. Now a careful study reveals that when the occasion is the announcement of a punishment or chastisement from Allah, the word is used in its singular form (rih). In contrast, when the context is announcement of a glad tiding, it is the plural form that is chosen (riyah). [The odd deviation from the rule can be explained].
Now, keep the Qur'anic rule in mind and consider the prayer‑words of the Prophet, who, with every stormy weather supplicated in the words:
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْهَا رِيَاحًا وَلا تَجْعَلْهَا رِيحًا
"O Lord! Make it winds (riyah) for us and not wind (rih)."
Another example can be cited. The Qur'an said (9: 103): "Accept (O Muhammad) of their wealth a free-will offering, to purify them and to cleanse them." This injunction came after the declaration that the free-will offering of the hypocrites was not acceptable; and the reference is to the zakah on wealth. The free-will offering, of course, is collected by the State and is distributed following another injunction (9: 60) that cites eight categories of people as the deserving recipients.
However, following the clue that zakah (and sadaqat by implication) purify and cleanse the people ("to purify them and cleanse them"), and, reasoning that the purifying agent cannot itself be clean after its purifying operation (another example is ablution water dropping down a man), the Prophet declared his kinsfolk as undeserving of a share in the zakah (and sadaqat) funds. He told them that the zakah funds were a dirt of the hand and hence unsuitable for them.
The above stray examples demonstrate not only how well the Prophet understood the Qur'an and the extent to which he applied it to himself, but also, how important it is for a reader to gain mastery over the two: the Qur'an and the Sunnah texts, to understand either.
The Companions and their Followers
Any clarification required after the first two sources have been exhausted, should be sought in the opinions of the Prophet's Companions; especially those who were close to him, received his special attention, and specialized in the Qur'an during his life‑time: such as the four khulafa', Ibn `Abbas, Ibn Mas`ud, `Abdullah ibn `Umar, Ubayy b. Ka`ab and others, or those of the Followers who became the pupils of these Companions, such as: Mujahid, `Ikrimah, Sa`id ibn Jubayr, Masruq, `Ata' ibn Rabah, Hassan al Busri, Sa`id ibn al Musayyib, Qatadah, Dahhak, Abu al `Aliyyah and others.
The differences in their opinions, however, should not disturb a student. For, as Ibn Taymiyyah has pointed out in his Muqaddimah fi Usul al Tafsir, in most cases they express the same meaning in different words. The word "hafadah" for instance, has been explained as "daughters" by Ibn Mas`ud and Sa`id b. Jubayr; as "grandsons" by Ibn `Abbas; as "in‑laws" by Ibn Mas`ud; while `Ikrimah, Mujahid, and Hasan al‑Basri say it stands for "servants." They are all of course expressing one or the other aspect of the meaning of the word. For "hafadah" is plural of "hafid" and in its singular form it means "he who is made to serve." At the time the verse was revealed, the word was used in all those senses in which it was adopted by different authorities.
Tafsir bi 'l ma'thur derives its basis from ‑ apart from others ‑ a hadith which says that when the Prophet was deputing Mu`adh ibn Jabal to Yemen he asked him how he was going to judge between the people. "With the Book of Allah," replied Mu`adh. "But what if you do not find (a lead) therein?" the Prophet asked. "With the Sunnah of Allah's Messenger," he replied. "But if you do not find (a lead) therein also?" he asked him. "Then," Mu`adh replied, "I will work out my own opinion." The Prophet expressed his approval (Muqaddimah, Ibn Taymiyyah).
A word of caution however, about this kind of tafsir should be in place. What is recommended is the methodology as enumerated above, and not the entire content of the books of tafasir that have followed this methodology. In some of these works massive amount of Jewish material and comments of the early exegetes have been included without verifications of their authenticity. If not read critically, these can have their own pitfalls. Naivety, for instance, can be perceived in those who rely on these alone and have failed to step into the modern age in intellectual terms.
Al-Tafsir bi al Ra'yi (Personal Opinions)
As stated above, sometimes a commentator uses his intelligence, knowledge, intuition or inspiration to bring out a point in language, history, law, etc. Some of such comments are acceptable, while others are not. Take for example verse (2: 102): "Sulayman blasphemed not, but the Satans blasphemed." A question arises. We know that a prophet does not blaspheme. Why then did the Qur'an have to say that Sulayman (asws) did not blaspheme? For an explanation we have to look into the Bible which alleges that Solomon became an idolater during the last days of his life (Majid). Though not based on an athar, it is a valid explanation and also corroborates with what details classical commentators (such as Ibn Kathir) have recorded as coming from Suddi and Sa`id b. Jubayr.
To take another example, the Qur'an says (2: 273): "(Alms are) for the poor who are restrained in the way of Allah, who can not journey in the land (for trade). The ignorant supposes them rich because of their restraint. You will know them by their mark. They do not beg of people with importunity. And whatsoever of good things that you spend, surely, Allah will know it."
Commenting on the verse, Thanwi says that the words, ‘(Alms are) for the poor who are restrained in the way of Allah,' are telling us that those who are working in the way of Allah deserve to receive first priority in aid. Further, the clause ‘who cannot journey in the land' signifies that it is desirable for those engaged in the path of Allah that they may suspend their efforts at livelihood, if need be, although there is no contradiction between the two (i.e. engagement in the path of Allah, and search for livelihood). Finally, the words ‘the ignorant supposes them rich,' implies that it is undesirable to put on appearances that will distinguish a man from the common people.
This is the kind of Tafsir bi 'l ra'yi that is acceptable since such statements can be corroborated in other ways also. What can be proved as valid either directly through deductions from the Qur'an, Sunnah, opinions of the Companions, their immediate Followers, or that which, in the least, does not contradict any of the above, in word or spirit, is valid and acceptable.
The permission for this kind of interpretation is based on the supplication (du`a) which the Prophet made for Ibn `Abbas. He said:
اللَّهُمَّ فَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ وَعَلِّمْهُ التَّأْوِيلَ
"O Allah, grant him knowledge of the Qur'an and teach him the interpretation."
Contrary to this is the unprincipled interpretation that has its basis neither in the sources cited above, nor does it agree with the spirit of Islam as understood by the scholars at large.
To explain, any opinion with reference to a Qur’anic text that contradicts with that of the Salaf, in matters involving the Shari`ah, values, morals or spiritual affairs, is Tafsir bi al-Ra’yi, and stands rejected outright. It is about such an interpretation that the Prophet remarked: "Whoever speaks about the Qur'an without knowledge, may seek his abode in the Fire."
The Companions and their Followers were quite careful about offering an interpretation that did not have a Qur'anic verse or hadith in its support. Abu Bakr (ra) used to say: "Which heaven will shelter me, and which earth will support me if I said about Allah's Book, that which I have no knowledge of." Abu Yezid said: "We used to ask Sa`id ibn al‑Musayyib about the ‘lawful' and the ‘unlawful' and would find him the most knowledgeable of men. But when we asked him about a verse of the Qur'an as to how it was to be understood, he would be quiet, turning a deaf ear to us."
Al-Tafsir 'l‑Ishari (Allegorical Interpretation)
By nature, man is awed by the mysterious. It is the inexplicable, the symbolical, and the mysterious that engage his attention. The obvious and the clear‑cut escape him. To seek a solution to a riddle or the meaning of an allegory is a task he undertakes with enthusiasm. The allegorical verses of the Qur'an have provided grist to the minds of its scholars and there have been several interpretations proffered to explain them. Some of these are not readily acceptable and raise controversies. The best course of action about them when they are authentically quoted, by authoritative people, but which seemingly contradicts ideas of the Salaf, is to make no judgment about their acceptance or rejection.
In this work the use of Tafsir 'l Ishari has been restricted. It is inadvisable to read them without the guidance of a specialist. Thanwi’s Masa'il al‑Suluk as footnotes to his Urdu Bayan al‑Qur'an, is of this class. So are Alusi’s notes under this heading.
Nevertheless, it should also be borne in mind that every passage whose meaning is not obvious is not necessarily of the allegorical type, nor is the Qur'an entirely without them. There are some portions of the Qur'an whose true meaning the human mind might never be able to unravel. Ibn `Abbas has said: "There are four kinds of meanings: a) that which is apparent to the Arabs because it is in their language, b) that whose meaning no one can deny on the pretext of ignorance, c) the meaning that is the share of the scholars alone, and, d) the meaning that no one knows save Allah and His Messenger."
Further, one may note that there are Qur’anic texts whose meanings would be understood at the time of death, or subsequent to it.
Following the Qur'anic method, we might end with what we started with. Application is part of the study. One will not travel much on the road if he failed to live by the instructions and inspirations that he received with the study. The Qur'an is the Word of Allah. It has been sent to guide the people. But it guides only those who are willing to be guided. As Rumi has said, the Qur’an is a closed book except for the true ardent seeker; to which we might add, ‘those who would care to apply.’
A further condition is to avoid sins of all kinds. The following is reported to have been said by Imam Shafe`i:
شكوت إلى وكيع سوء حفظى * فأرشدنى إلى ترك المعاصى
وأخـبرنى بـأن العـلم نور * ونور الله لايهدى لعاصى
I complained to Waki` of my forgetfulness
He guided me to give up sins
And taught me that knowledge is Light
And Allah’s Light is not shown to the sinner
The student of the Qur'an will have to develop his mind in such a way as to be skeptical of everything that the senses report, doubt every opinion that is formed by the intellect, and question every information that comes from non‑revealed sources. In the next step, he will have to test all of them against the Qur'an and reject any that contradicts it in word or spirit. Ibn Mas`ud (ra) said: "During the life-time of the Prophet, we used to take ten verses of the Qur'an for study and would not move on to the next ten until we had lived by those ten." It is reported of `Umar ibn al‑Khattab (ra) that he finished surah al‑Baqarah in seven years. According to a report he was so happy at its completion that he slaughtered a camel and invited his friends to a feast.
We can conclude with Zarkashi's remarks. He writes in Al‑Burhan fi `Ulum al‑Qur'an:
"In the final analysis, the derivation of the meaning of the Qur'an is largely dependent on a man's own thoughts and reflections. Let it be known, therefore, that the true meaning of the revelation and the secrets of the veiled knowledge will never be the share of a man whose heart is filled with innovations, or who insists on a sin, or in whose heart resides pride or base desires or love of the world, or that he be of an uncertain faith, or poor of discernment, or dependent on the opinions of a mufassir who has knowledge only of the externals (`ilm al-zahir), or gives precedence to his own thoughts and ideas (during the process of thinking). All these are veils and obstacles, some of which are of greater impedance than others.
"(In contrast), if the man pays full attention to the words of His Lord, is receptive to the meaning that the Attributes of the One addressing him unfold themselves, is always aware of His powers, abandons his own self-established conclusions based on reason and intellect, renounces his own powers and abilities, is ever mindful of the greatness of the Speaker, beseeching Him the grant of the meaning: and all this from a personal state of integrity, a good-natured heart, with the power of knowledge, of a calm disposition to gather the meaning, and to wait for the missed meaning seeking (Divine) help through Prayers and Supplications, (the supplications themselves) presented with the weakness (of the human against Powers of the Divine), and observing patience while waiting for the mind to be opened by Him who is the Opener, the Knowing; and he who strengthens these qualities with a recitation during which his mind is fully attentive to the verbal meaning and bears witness to the Attributes of the One addressing him by anxiously waiting for the promises (of the opening of the heart coming true), and fearing the calamities (that may befall him for his failings), and who warns forcefully .. such is the one who has a good voice for the Qur'an and it is about him that Allah Most High has said (2:121): ‘Those to whom we have given the Book, read it in the manner it should be read. It is these who believe in it'" (p. 180-81, vol.2).
The Methodology in this Work
It has been this writer's endeavor to present in this work, principally, the meaning of the Qur'an as understood by the classical scholars. That is, in the light of the Qur'an itself, traditions of the Prophet and statements of the Companions and their followers. To achieve this, the author first consulted Ibn Jarir Tabari. Since Ibn Jarir was a Muhaddith himself, he did not cite sources to the hadith, or to statements of the Companions that he quoted. Citing the sources was done by Ibn Kathir. Therefore, Ibn Kathir was next consulted. However, Ibn Kathir did not cite sources to the statements of the Salaf. This was done, to some degree, by Shawkani. So, he was consulted next. Although Ibn Kathir cited hadith sources, he did not state the authenticity-status of ahadith. In such cases, this author tried to search the opinion of Hadith Doctors, to add a note about their reliability. Further, if there were differences in opinions over the meaning of a certain verse, Ibn Kathir preferred to adopt the opinion of Ibn Jarir, which, this author indicated. Thus, a meaning emerged as of the Salaf. The translation of the verses reflects this meaning. The author suppressed his own opinion, for whose credibility he lacks the qualification, unless it was a scientific issue, historical, geographical or the like.
Thereunto, the author added the opinions of various other commentators, taking care of course, that such opinions did not clash with the opinions of the Salaf, for in matters of Law, morals (Akhlaq), and spiritual matters, the Salaf were the true authority. The way the first three generations understood the Qur’an, was never understood by any after them. It is they who changed the world, the way no generation could. If a headstrong person thinks that someone’s understanding of the Qur’an and Sunnah, was, or is, as good as that of the Salaf, and as accurate, he might need a course on how `ilm is defined in Islam. Ibn Sirin, a prominent Tabe`i said, “Knowledge is gone. What’s left of it is bits and pieces, scattered among the scholars.” Hasan al-Basri, his contemporary, was told by someone that the “Fuqaha’ say so and so.” He corrected him, “Have you ever seen a Faqih?”
An additional note about the commentaries made by the Companions and their followers might be in order. The Prophet has said: "The best of epochs is my epoch, then that of the Followers, and then that of the Followers." He was referring to the epoch followed by his own, and that of the Companions and the Tabe`iyyun. There were many Companions of the Prophet who received his special attention and specialized in the Qur'an during his life‑time itself. In turn they tutored many among the Tabe`iyyun. The term Salaf applies mainly to these: i.e., the Companions and the two succeeding generations, plus the third (because of some reports). Their opinion is the approved opinion. If they agree over the meaning of a particular word, or a verse, and the issue is purely of a religious nature as indicated above, then any other opinion that contradicts it and cannot be reconciled with it, stands rejected. Of course, there is no such restriction when the subject concerned is of historical, geographical or scientific nature, for, these disciplines were developed after them. Some contemporary commentaries tend to give new meanings to some Qur’anic terms. If they clash with those of the Salaf, they must be ignored; for, the Salaf knew the ‘Arabic of the Qur’an,’ and not the Arabic of those who refer to dictionaries and literary works developed after them to argue their case. `Umar used to say, “If you are in doubt, refer to the Jahiliyy poetry. The Qur’an was revealed in that language.”
The opinions of the Salaf might sometimes surprise the reader. He might consider them as entirely out of context. But, it is the failure to understand the context that creates the confusion. "Jump the line" is a sentence in English that conveys different meanings to different people in different situations. To a sportsman it has one meaning. When spoken by a motorist complaining of the erratic behavior of another motorist it has another meaning. In contrast, to an electrician working on the power grid, the sentence carries a different sense altogether. What we have to realize about the Companions is that they did not merely understand the context; they were themselves the context, and often spoke from the transcendental level; not from the stand point of the misleading cliché of modern times: ‘reason and logic.’
If the reader wishes to make the most of this work, he or she should allocate an area in his mind wherein he stores information obtained from the Salaf, in this work. This is the principal, the most reliable meaning, and the basis on which he can build on further. He might highlight such passages for ease of later reference.
Nonetheless, in order to keep alive interest and help increase knowledge, I have also included material that has so far been the prerogative of the Arabic‑speaking readers: material without which the Qur'anic spectrum of legitimate meaning loses some of its color.
To the above I have added some useful material from commentaries in Urdu and English. But of course, while selecting material from contemporary works, a critical eye has been kept open for errors of the conceptual type and, to the extent possible, those that contradict with a meaning accepted by the Jumhur al‑Ummah (the great majority). Jumhur al‑Ummah is of course not the same thing as the Ijma` al‑Ummah (the consensus of opinion ‑ the research of which is a difficult task, well beyond the scope of this work). The opinions of the Jumhur give us some idea of how the Qur'an has been understood through the ages. When Ibn Jarir, Zamakhshari, Razi, Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, Thanwi or others consider a point from the previous exegetes as worth quoting, then surely that adds up to the weight of the comment.
I have not reproduced from, or cited reference to, the contemporary commentators if they have discussed those matters that the ancients have already done. In most cases the contemporary scholars have changed the form, picking out from the ancients what would suit them most. I have quoted them only if they have a new idea or a fresh point, with the condition, once again, that such ideas do not, in my limited knowledge, contradict a proven opinion held by the Salaf or Jumhu al-Ummah. Anecdotes, poetry, fiqh points, and comparative study material have been added to break the monotony.
A word about quotations from the Sufiya' would be in order. We all know that an unclean person in dirty clothes would hardly improve himself by applying perfume. He first needs to cleanse himself. How can it be any different in matters pertaining to the soul? A heart filled with pride or preferential love of this world will hardly improve through wisdom-words or supererogatory exercises. Something needs to be done first to remove the impurities. Sufism is all about this removal of impurities. This centrist position however, lies between two extremes. It should not be imagined that by quoting the Sufiya' we are approving the extreme positions, practices, or the so‑called "ways of the Gnostic" that have no basis in the Shari`ah.
Hadith Authenticity
The most difficult task has been to present only those ahadith or reports from the Companions or others that are authentic, since no noteworthy work has been done by the hadith experts on Qur'anic commentaries. Mahmud Shakir's attempt at Tabari has remained incomplete. Hussain b. Ibrahim and Sayyid Ibrahim have done some useful, although not exhaustive work on Ibn Kathir and Shawkani. Occasionally, I have either traced the ahadith to their sources, and when not in the Sahih works, have depended on works on the topic by Hadith experts. I have tried not to quote anything less than Hasan in status. If I have quoted some weak reports, it is only those that are not very weak or are strengthened by other, although weak, ahadith, or the personal opinions of the Companion or others.
Ideological Interpretations
Some readers might be surprised to note the lack of a single string of thought in this work, as it is also lacking in classical commentaries: one strand, so to say, that weaves into itself the "philosophy of the whole of the Qur'an." This is a naive idea. To speak of the Qur'an in such terms is to presume a certain meaning, a certain philosophy, a certain ideology, and reduce the Word of Allah to human definitions.
It is common knowledge that this terrestrial existence is too complex to be interpreted in terms of a single philosophy. Life cannot be reduced to equations. Even the inorganic does not render itself to such simplification. At this very moment, scientists at a billion dollar apiece Accelerators (commonly known as atom smashers) are at their wit’s end trying to determine if the building blocks of an atom (which were once thought to be electrons, protons, neutrons and a few other elementary particles) are quarks, those 300 subatomic particles visible for a fraction of a second when the nucleus is smashed with highly accelerated protons, or there is more to it. No one can say for sure if there will be an end to it!! The wave and particle function of the sub-atomic particles is another intriguing issue. If solid matter is proving so complex, what should one think of the uncreated ‘Word’ of Allah?
Moreover, such a demand betrays the failure to understand the very basics of life in terms of human fears, hopes, aspirations, creativity and interactions. At every moment of his existence a man has several options before him, only one of which is the optimum best for him. What can guide him to the right choice but a criterion backed by a vast set of concepts, data and ideas that have their own quality to fuse themselves, in a flash of a second, into one homogenized whole and present a single, synchronized, workable idea or a suggestion ‑ that the man may accept or reject!?
Again, the Qur'an is, from one angle, a long essay in the education of concepts: the divisions are for human convenience. No detail can be missed in any area but at the loss of a concept; sometimes it might be the most valuable concept acting as the central link to a maze of ideas, and, a powerful magnet to iron flakes flying by in every direction. Hence the presentation in the style I have adopted. The reader will have to pick up bits and pieces, and put them together into a homogenous meaningful whole that is pertinent to his situation, and would be useful perhaps to him alone.
Rarely has a work of such dimensions and a task so demanding been attempted by a man as poorly qualified as this author. Yet, no efforts were spared to locate material necessary to produce the "aid for understanding the Qur'an" that he has aimed at producing. Although, it must be admitted, that efforts are no substitute for abilities.
The author’s dependence, therefore, on those who are pioneers in similar efforts should be quite evident. In the rendering of the Qur'anic text into English for instance, A.J. Arberry's influence can be easily detected. Yusuf `Ali, Asad and Pickthall have been in constant reference. N.J. Dawood and several others have also been consulted. To make it easier for the beginners and non‑Muslims (and following the recommendation of the fuqaha'), words and phrases have been added in parenthesis while rendering the text into English. Such interpolations are, nonetheless, based on an accepted interpretation.
Without trying to be humble, it can be said with a fair amount of accuracy that for all that is good and useful in this work, the credit is due to someone else, while the shortcomings are the contributions of this author who seeks Allah's forgiveness, and the reader's help in overcoming them.
References, abbreviations, and technical terms
Clue to References
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Albani: Silsilah al-Ahadith al-Sahiha, Muhammad Nasiruddin Albani, (d. 1420 A.H.).
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Arba`ahal, Kitab al-Fiqh `ala Madhahib al-Arba`ah by Abdul Rahman al-Jaziri
Asad: The Message of the Qur’an by Muhammad Asad (d. 1412 A.H.)
`Awn al-Ma`bud: Sharh Sunan Abi Da’ud, Muhammad Shams al-Haq al-`Azimabadi.
`Ayni, `Umdatu al-Qari Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari, Badruddin `Ayni, Ihya al-Turath al-Islami, Beirut.
Bada’i`: Bada’i` al-Tafsir, Al-Jami` al-Tafsir al-Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, collected by Yusri Sayyid Muhammad, Dar Ibn Jawzi, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1993
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Hussain: Tafsir ibn Kathir, Hussain b. Ibrahim Zahran, ed.
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Ibn Kathir: Tafsir al Qur’an al `Azim by `Imad al Din Abul Fida Isma`il ibn `Amr ibn Kathir (d.774 A.H.)
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Jami` Saghir: Fayd al-Qadir Sharh Jami` Saghir (of Jalaluddin Suyuti) by Muhammad `Abdul Ra’uf al-Munawi.
Kabir al: Al-Tafsir Al-Kabir, tafsir notes of Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (d.728 A.H) collected by Dr. `Abdul Rahman `Umayrah.
Kanz: Kanz al-`Ummal,by Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi.
Lane: An Arabic-English Lexicon, by Edward Willian Lane, Librarie Du Luban, 1968
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Nawawi: Sharh Sahih Muslim by Imam Sharfuddin al-Nawawi (d. 261 A.H.)
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Rawa‘e`: Rawa‘e` al-Bayan Tafsir Ayat al-Ahkam by Muhammad `Ali Sabuni.
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Sabuni: Safwatu al Tafasir by Muhammad `Ali Sabuni.
Sahih ibn Hibban bi-Tarteeb Ibn Balban, `Ala’uddin `Ali b. Balban, , Mu’assasah al-Risalah, Beirut.
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Shanqiti: Adwa‘ al-Bayan, Fi Idahi Al-Qur’an bi ‘l-Qur’an by Muhammad Al-Amin b.Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Jakani Al-Shanqiti.
Se`di: Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman, fir Tafsir al-Mannan, `Abdul Rahman b. Nasir Se`id.
Shawkani: Al-Fut-h al-Qadir by Muhammad ibn `Ali Shawkani (d.1255 A.H.)
S. Ibrahim: Ed. Al-Fath al-Qadir, by Shawkani
Sihah: Taj al-Lugha wa Sihah al-`Arabiyyah, Isma`il b. Nasr Hammad al-Jawhari, 393 A.H.
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Thanwi/Bayan: Bayan al Qur’an by Ashraf `Ali Thanwi (d.1361 A.H.)
Tuhfah: Tuhfah al-Ahwazi bi Sharh Jami` al-Tirmidhi by Muhammad ibn `Abdul Rahman Mubarakpuri.
Yusuf Ali: The Glorious Qur’an, Meaning and Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (d. 1953 A.H.).
Zafar Ahmad `Uthmani, I`la al-Sunan, Idaratu al-Islam wa `Ulum al-Islamiyyah, Karachi, Pakistan.
Zamakhshari/Kashshaf: Haqa’iq al- Tanzil Wa `Uyun al-Aqawil Fi Wujuh at-Ta‘wil by Abu al-Qasim Jarallah Mahmood b.`Umar al-Zamakhshari (d.538 A.H.).
Zarkashi: Al-Burhan Fi `Ulum al-Qur’an by Badruddin Muhammad bin `Abdullah al-Zarkashi (d. 794 A.H.), Dar al-Ma`rifa, Beirut.
Note: The list above is not a complete bibliography, but rather books sort of more often referred.
Abbreviations as in
Abdul Majid Daryabadi’s English Commentary
(1) BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
Ac. = Acts of the Apostles.
Am. = Amos.
1. Ch. = The First Book of the Chronicles.
2. Ch. = The Second Book of the Chronicles.
1. Cor. = Paul’s First Epistle of the Apostles.
1. Cor. = Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians.
2. Cor. = Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians.
Dn. = The Book of Daniel.
Dt. = Deuteronomy: The Fifth Book of Moses.
Ex. = Exodus: The Second Book of Moses.
Ez. = Ezra.
Ezek. = The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel.
Ga. = Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians.
Ge. = Genesis: The First Book of Moses.
He. = Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews.
Ho. = Hosea.
Is. = Isiah.
Ja. = The General Epistle of James.
Jn. = Gospel according to St. John.
Jo. = Joel.
Job. = The Book of Job.
Jon. = The Book of Jonah.
Josh. = The Book of Joshua.
Judg. = The Book of Judges.
Je. = The Book of Jeremiah.
1. Ki. = The First Book of the Kings.
2. Ki. = The Second Book of the Kings.
La. The Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Lk. = The Gospel according to St. Luke.
Le. = Leviticus: The Third Book of Moses.
Mi. = Micah.
Mk. = Gospel according to St. Mark.
Mt. = Gospel according to St. Matthew.
Na. = Nahum.
Ne. = The Book of Nehemiah.
Nu. = Numbers: The Fourth Book of Moses.
1. Pe. = The First Epistle General of Peter.
2. Pe. = The Second Epistle General of Peter.
Ph. = Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians.
Pr. = The Proverbs.
Ps. = The Book of Psalms.
Re. = The Revelation of St. John.
Ro. = Paul’s Epistle to the Romans
1. Sa. = The First Book of Samuel.
2. Sa. = The Second Book of Samuel.
So. = The Song of Solomon.
1. Thes. = Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians.
2. Thes. = Paul’s Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.
1. Ti. = Paul’s First Epistle to Timothy.
2. Ti. = Paul’s Second Epistle to Timothy.
Tt. = Paul’s Epistle to Titus.
Ze. = Zechariah.
(2) GENERAL
“Ant.” = Josephus’ ‘Antiquities of the Jews.’ (Routledge London).
Aq. = Shah Abdul Qadir Dehlavi (D. 1241 A.H./1826 C.E.). Urdu translator and commentator of the Holy Qur’an.
ASB. = Asad’s English Translation of Sahih al-Bukhari.
AV. = Authorized Version of the Bible.
AYA. = `Abdullah Yusuf `Ali. English translator and commentator of the Holy Qur’an.
Bdh. = Nasir-ud-Din `Abdullah Baidhavi (D. 685 A.H./1282 C.E.). Commentator of the Holy Qur’an.
BK. = ‘Book of Knowledge,’ 4 Vols. (Educational Book Co., London)
CD. = Pallen and Wynne’s ‘New Catholic Dictionary.’ (New York).
CE. = McDannell’s ‘Concise Encyclopedia,’ 8 Vols. (New York).
C.E. = Christian Era.
DB. = Hastings’ ‘Dictionary of the Bible,’ 5 Vols. (Clarke, London).
DCA. = Smith and Cheetham’s ‘Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,’ 2 Vols. (Murray, London).
DV. = Douay Version of the Bible.
EBi. = Cheyne and Black’s ‘Encyclopedia Biblica,’ 4 Vols. (Black, London).
EBr. = ‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ 29 Vols. 11th Edition. (London).
‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ 24 Vols. 14th Edition. (London and New York). Where no edition is specified, the reference is to 14th edition.
EI. = Houtsma and Wensink’s ‘Encyclopedia of Islam,’ 5 Vols. (Luzac, London).
EMK. = Hammerton’s ‘Encyclopedia of Modern Knowledge,’ 5 Vols. (Waverly, New York).
ERE. = Hastings’ ‘Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics,’ 13 Vols. (Clarke, London).
ESS. = Seligman’s ‘Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,’ 15 Vols. (Macmillan, London).
FWN = Frazer’s ‘Worship of Nature,’ 2 Vols. (Macmillan, London).
GB. = Ragg’s ‘The Gospel of Barnabas.’ (Oxford).
GRE. = Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,’ 7 Vols. (Methuen, London).
HHW. = ‘Historians’ History of the World,’ 25 Vols. (The Times, London).
HJ. = The Hibbert Journal. (Constable, London).
IA. = Hadhrat `Abdullah Ibn-i-`Abbas. (D. 68 A.H./688 C.E.) (A companion and cousin of the Holy Prophet).
IQ. = Ibn-i-Qutaiba. (D. 276 A.H./890 C.E.) Author of ‘Arabic Glossary of the Holy Qur’an.
JE. = ‘The Jewish Encyclopedia,’ 12 Vols. (Funk and Wagnalls, New York).
LL. = Lane’s ‘Arabic-English Lexicon,’ 8 Vols. (Williams and Norgate, London).
LSK. = Lane and Lane-Poole’s ‘Selections from the Kuran.” (Trubner, London).
M.A. = Maulana Mohammad `Ali: (D. 1349 A.H./1931 C.E.) Indian Muslim leader. (Not to be confused with his namesake of Lahore and a translator of the Qur’an). The references are to his unpublished work, ‘Islam: The Kingdom of God’ (since published as ‘My Life – A Fragment’ by Sh. M. Ashraf, Lahore).
NSD. = ‘New Standard Dictionary of the English Language,’ 4 Vols. (Funk and Wagnalls, New York).
NT. = The New Testament.
OT. = The Old Testament.
PC. = Tyler’s ‘Primitive Culture,’ 2 Vols. (Murray, London).
RV. = Revised Version of the Bible.
RZ. = Imam Fakhruddin Razi. (D. 659 A.H./1209 C.E.). Well-know commentator of the Holy Qur’an.
SOED. = ‘Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,’ 2 Vols. (Oxfor).
SPD. = Sale’s ‘Preliminary Discourse to the Translation of the Kuran,’ prefixed as Introduction to Wherry’s ‘Commentary on the Kuran,’ 4 Vols. (Trubner, London)
Th. = Maulana Ashraf `Ali Thanvi. (B. 1280 A.H./1864 C.E.). Translator and commentator of the Holy Qur’an
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Zm. = Jar-ul-lah Zamakhsari (D. 538 A.H./1144 C.E.). Commentator of the Holy Qur’an.
Abbreviations - General
asws: `Alayhi al‑Salat wa al‑Salam (on him be peace and blessing).
ra: Radi Allahu `anhu/`anha (may Allah be pleased with him/her).
Au.: Author.
Sahihayn: Bukhari and Muslim.
saws: Sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam (May Allah send peace and blessing upon him).
swt: Subhanahu wa Ta`ala (glorified be He, the Exalted).
Da`if: A weak report but not a fabricated one nor entirely untrustworthy. It has some weakness in its text or in its isnad. A kind of hadith, therefore, before which one can place a question mark.
Gharib: That report in which the isnad has a single narrator after the Companion.
Hasan: A da`if report but above in strength over the one classified as da`if. Several da`if versions (unless too weak) render a hadith hasan.
Isnad: Chain of narrators.
Mawquf: A report whose chain of narration stops at a Companion.
Munkar: A kind of da`if hadith that has no other report through any other chain of narrators for a double check.
Mursal: A hadith which has been transmitted directly from the Prophet (saws) by a tabe`i, without a Companion in between Mutawatir: A report by such a large number of narrators whose agreement upon a lie is inconceivable.
Sahih: A trustworthy report.
The transliteration method used in this work neither conforms to the international standards, nor it has been applied extensively. It is only where it was thought that some confusion might occur that a few marks have been added. However, the method is as follows:
( ث ) is transliterated as "tha" ; ( ح ) as "ha" ; ( ذ ) as "dhal" ; ( ز ) and ( ظ ) both as "za" ; ( ص ) as "sad" ; ( ض ) as "dad" ; ( ع ) as "`ayn" ; and hamza ( ه ) as “ ' “ e.g. Jibra’il.
Vowels have been expressed in the following manner
( ا ) is expressed as "a", so that ( باب ) is written as "bab" ; (و ) is expressed with "u" , as for example ( نون ) is written as "nun"; ( ي ) is expressed with "i", as in the word (سين ) which is written as "sin".
Surah No. 28
Meritsof the Surah
1. Ibn `Abbas and Qatadah have said that this chapter is Makkan except for a verse which came down in Juhfah during the Hijrah journey. The verse in question is no. 85: “Surely He who ordained the Qur’an upon you, will surely bring you back to the place of return.” Muqatil however said that verses 52 to 55 are Madinan.
Ma`dikarab says, “We went to `Abdullah ibn Mas` ud and asked him to recite to us Surah Ta Sin Mim, the two hundred. He said, ‘I do not have it. But rather, you should take it from someone who took it directly from the Prophet, say Khabbab b. al-Art.’ So I went to Khabbab b. al-Art and asked, ‘How did the Prophet recite? Was it Ta Sin Mim, or Ta Sin?’ He answered, ‘The Prophet used to recite them all’ (Qurtubi).
The report is in Ahmad, Tabarani and Ibn Marduwayh, about which Suyuti has said that it has a good chain (Shawkani). Haythamiyy also mentioned it and approved the chain as in Ahmad (S. Ibrahim).
As is usual with the hadith masters, they are primarily concerned with the chain of narratives, leaving out the meaning of the text, or its criticism, to other experts. With reference to the above report, we could not find a proper explanation of the ending words. Perhaps by saying "recite them all" Khabbab meant “he used to recite them both ways.” Again, `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud was an authority on the Qur’an. What did he mean when he said he did not have the Surah? Did he mean he did not take it directly from the Prophet, but rather, Khabbab did?
Alusi reports from Suyuti that the Qur’an mentioned a few incidents from the life of Musa in Al-Shu`ara, such as Fir`awn said, in v.18-19,
{قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدًا وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ (18) وَفَعَلْتَ فَعْلَتَكَ الَّتِي فَعَلْتَ وَأَنْتَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ} [الشعراء: 18، 19]
“Did we not raise you amongst us as a child, and you stayed with us many years of your life? But you committed a deed of yours that you committed, and you are of the ungrateful,” to which Musa replied, in v. 20-21,
{قَالَ فَعَلْتُهَا إِذًا وَأَنَا مِنَ الضَّالِّينَ (20) فَفَرَرْتُ مِنْكُمْ لَمَّا خِفْتُكُمْ فَوَهَبَ لِي رَبِّي حُكْمًا وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ} [الشعراء: 20، 21]
“I did it then while I was of the unguided. So I fled from you when I feared you.” Then in the next Surah, Al-Naml, what happened from that point onward in Musa’s return journey was revealed. It said, v.7,
{إِنِّي آنَسْتُ نَارًا} [النمل: 7]
“I perceive a fire.”
The Qur’an did not state at those places what happened in the intervening gaps. It picks up the story now in this chapter to fill in the gaps. Considering a few other verses of this and the last two chapters, which, according to Ibn `Abbas were revealed in this sequence, one can say that what was presented in brief in the previous two chapters, was expanded upon in this one, while what was detailed in the previous two, received brief attention in this one.
We are indebted to Asad for pointing out the special characteristic of the story of Musa as it appears in this chapter. He writes: “It is noteworthy that most of this story depicts the purely human aspects of his life – that is to say, the impulses, perplexities and errors which are part of the human condition as such: aspects which the Qur’an stresses in order to counteract any possible tendency on the part of the pious to attribute ‘superhuman’ or, in the least resort, semi-divine qualities to God’s apostles. Appropriately, the surah ends with a sonorous evocation of the truth that ‘there is no deity save God’, and that ‘everything is bound to perish, save His [eternal] Self.’”
He adds: “The presentation of Musa’s story in this chapter begins with his birth. Nowhere else in the Qur’an has his story started from this point although his stories are spread over several chapters in the Qur’an. This is because the first episode in Musa’s life, the difficult conditions prevailing at his birth, his isolation at birth from every power, the weakness of his people and their humiliations at the hands of Fir`awn .. all these go to serve the principal objective of this chapter and brings out the powerful, open, and challenging hand that works without any veil covering it and directly strikes at tyranny and oppression when humans become incapable of doing so, helping those weak ones who have no power to turn to and establish the persecuted ones who have no authority and no security. That was the meaning that the weak ones at Makkah were in the need to receive, to be reassured with, and which the rebellious, oppressive, and overwhelming majority pagans at Makkah were in the need of learning.”
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ طسم (1)
28|1| Ta. Sin. Mim
تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ الْمُبِينِ (2)
28|2| These are verses of a clear Book.2
2. “Mubeen” has several connotations: a Book clear in itself, clearly depicting the truth, showing a clear path, as well as, clarifying its message, leaving no doubt about its intents and purposes, so that if somebody chooses a path other than that it shows, he shall not have the excuse of ambiguity of the text at his disposal. This is a proof of Qur’anic authenticity, which every other Scripture lacks (Au.).
نَتْلُو عَلَيْكَ مِنْ نَبَإِ مُوسَىٰ وَفِرْعَوْنَ بِالْحَقِّ لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ (3)
28|3| We recite to you a part of the story of Musa and Fir`awn in truth – for a people who believe.
إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعًا يَسْتَضْعِفُ طَائِفَةً مِنْهُمْ يُذَبِّحُ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيِي نِسَاءَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ (4)
28|4| Indeed Fir`awn rose up in the land3 and divided its inhabitants into factions,4 weakening a group of them, slaughtering their sons and keeping their women alive.5 Indeed, he was of the corrupters.6
3. That is, writes Zamakhshari, the land of Egypt and Syria, (and elsewhere), Madyan excluded.
4. I.e., “.. undoubtedly referring to the division of people into ‘high’ and ‘low-born’ (Asad) a practice now widely prevalent among all kinds of people (Au.).
5. Reports (and not ahadith: Au.) say that it was Ibrahim (asws) who had predicted that one day an Israelite will bring down the power and rule of the Fara`inah. The Children of Israel had been passing the tradition from generation to generation, which finally reached the ears of the Copts (Razi, Ibn Kathir).
According to Suddi, the Fir`awn contemporary to Musa dreamed that a fire had started from Jerusalem that reached the Egyptian lands which burned down houses of the Copts but spared those of the Israelites. The dream was interpreted by the Egyptian priestly class to mean that someone was to rise from the Israelites who would destroy Egypt. So Fir`awn ordered that every new-born male child was to be killed at birth and the general Israelite public to be put to hard and meanly labor. This was the division that Allah (swt) spoke of in this ayah (Tabari, Razi, Qurtubi).
Qurtubi notes Zajjaj as commenting on the intelligence of the unbelievers, examples of which are reported to us on a daily basis from the elitists of the unbelievers in reference to Islam and Muslims: Consider Fir`awn’s idiocy. If the soothsayers had predicted that a man was to rise from among the Israelites who would destroy his kingdom, then there were two possibilities. Either, they were right in their interpretation, (which meant it would happen no matter what you did), in which case there was no point in killing the new-born males, or they were wrong, in which case too there was no point in killing the new-born (Au.).
6. The Salaf understood the “`ard” of this occurrence as meaning, lands of Egypt and Syria.
وَنُرِيدُ أَنْ نَمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَنَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةً وَنَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوَارِثِينَ (5)
28|5| Whereas We wished to confer favor upon those who were weakened in the land7 and make them leaders,8 and make them the inheritors.
7. “.. an allusion to the historical fact that the Hebrews were the first to accept monotheistic creed in a clear, unequivocal formulation..” (Asad).
8. See Surah Ta-ha, note 33 for explanation.
وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَنُرِيَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَحْذَرُونَ (6)
28|6| And establish them in the land, and show Fir`awn and Haman9 – and their forces – that which they were dreading.
9. Majid discusses the identity of Haman. He writes: “Haman does not seem to be a personal name, but on the analogy of Pharaoh, it may well be only an official designation. That there was a great Egyptian god by the name of Amon admits of no doubt. ‘He was originally the local divinity of Thebes, but on the accession of the eighteenth dynasty, became the supreme ruler of the Egyptian Pantheon, and official god of the empire.’ (JE. I. p. 526). ‘Amon became the great god of the most important age of Egypt – the XVIIIth-XXth dynasties.’ (ERE. V. p. 247). ‘Later, Amon obtained pre-eminence and, with the rise of Thebes, became the official chief god of Egypt (EBi. C. 3429). And it is quite likely that the official acting as the high priest, in the king’s absence, of Amon’s temple may have borne a title closely akin to what in Arabic pronouncement is known as Haman.’ This is the more probable when we remember that it was impossible for the Egyptian king, who was the responsible head of a highly complex system of government, to exercise his high-priestly functions except on rare occasions, he accordingly was obliged to depute them to the heads, or higher members, of the various local priesthoods.’ (ERE. X. p. 294). Haman is here coupled with Pharaoh, as the latter, next to the king, was the highest dignity of the state. The Theban High Priest of Ammon, was recognized beyond dispute the chief of the sacerdotal order, and the next person in the kingdom after the king.’ (Rawlinson, Ancient Egypt, p. 289).”
Asad’s own research confirms Majid’s. He writes: “This Haman, who is mentioned several times in the Qur’an as Pharaoh’s chief advisor, is not to be confused with the Persian Haman of the Old Testament (The Book of Esther iii ff.). Most probably, the word ‘Haman’ as used in the Qur’an is not a proper noun at all but the Arabicized echo of the compound designation Ha-Amen given to every high priest of the Egyptian god Amon. Since at the time in question the cult of Amon was paramount in Egypt, his high priest held a rank second only to that of the reigning Pharaoh. The assumption that the person spoken of in the Qur’an as Haman was indeed high priest of the cult of Amon, is strengthened by Pharaoh’s demand (mentioned in verse 38 of this surah as well as in 40: 36-37) that Haman erect for him ‘a lofty tower’ from which he could ‘have a look at [or ‘ascend to’] the god of Moses’: which may be, among other things, an allusion to the hieratic purpose of the great pyramids of Egypt and to the function of the high priest as their chief architect.”
وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَىٰ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰ أَنْ أَرْضِعِيهِ ۖ فَإِذَا خِفْتِ عَلَيْهِ فَأَلْقِيهِ فِي الْيَمِّ وَلَا تَخَافِي وَلَا تَحْزَنِي ۖ إِنَّا رَادُّوهُ إِلَيْكِ وَجَاعِلُوهُ مِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ (7)
28|7| So We sent inspiration to Musa’s mother10 (to the effect): ‘Suckle him. Then, when you fear for him, place him into the river;11 and fear not, nor grieve. We shall restore him to you and shall make him (one) of the Messengers.’12
10. Although the term used is “awhayna,” the revelation was not the type that is sent to Messengers, but rather, as Suddi has said, inspiration placed in the heart (Ibn Jarir).
There is consensus of opinion among the scholars of Islam that she was not a Prophetess. It is possible that an angel was sent to her just as an angel was sent to test three men: the blind, the bald and the leper. Angels also greeted `Imran although he was not a Prophet (Qurtubi). See surah Al `Imran note 76 of this work.
11. The precedence of the words “suckle him” suggest that she was not asked to place the infant into the sea the day of his birth, but rather, resort to it whenever she feared the inspectors’ visit (Tabari).
The textual word “yamm” is used for any large amount of water, applicable both to river as well as sea.
12. As Ibn Zayd said, these words were said at a time when she had placed the casket containing Musa into the Nile but had forgotten to tie up the rope to a peg. The casket floated away (Ibn Jarir).
Asma`ee said that once he praised a bedouin girl for her poetry. She replied, “Is that any eloquence in comparison to ‘Suckle him. Then, when you fear for him, cast him into the river; and fear not, nor grieve; We shall restore him to you and shall make him one of the Messengers!?’ In this short verse Allah mentioned two commands, two prohibitions and two promises (Qurtubi).
Two commands: Suckle him, and, cast him into the river
Two prohibitions: Fear not, and, grieve not
Two promises: We shall restore him, and, make him a Messenger (Au.).
فَالْتَقَطَهُ آلُ فِرْعَوْنَ لِيَكُونَ لَهُمْ عَدُوًّا وَحَزَنًا ۗ إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا خَاطِئِينَ (8)
28|8| Then the household of Fir`awn picked him up13 to be an enemy to them and a cause of grief. Verily, Fir`awn, Haman and their forces were of the erroneous ones.14
13. The allusion by the words, “Fir`awn’s folks” is to the slave girls of Fir`awn’s wife who were bathing in the Nile. Another opinion is that Fir`awn and his courtiers used to assemble by evenings at the bank of the river Nile with Asiyyah at his side. It is his courtiers who had picked up the casket (Tabari).
14. Literally, those who commit mistakes. Hence Zamakhshari’s comment: They committed mistakes in everything that they did, although “sinning” is another permissible connotation.
وَقَالَتِ امْرَأَتُ فِرْعَوْنَ قُرَّتُ عَيْنٍ لِي وَلَكَ ۖ لَا تَقْتُلُوهُ عَسَىٰ أَنْ يَنْفَعَنَا أَوْ نَتَّخِذَهُ وَلَدًا وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ (9)
28|9| Said Fir`awn’s wife, ‘Comfort of the eyes, for me and for you. Kill him not;15 perhaps he will profit us,16 or we will adopt him as a son’ – and they perceived not.17
15. In keeping with the practice of killing off all male offspring of the Israelites, Fir`awn wished to do away with Musa too, having recognized him as of Israeli origin. But Asiyyah bint Muzahim argued him out of his intention (Ibn Kathir).
16. Ibn `Abbas said that when Asiyyah said, “Perhaps he will benefit us,” Fir`awn remarked dryly, “Maybe you, but not me.” The turn of events proved his words true. Musa benefited Asiyyah, who believed in him when he returned from Madyan as a Messenger, but not Fir`awn who refused and was drowned (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir).
This verse tells us by implication that one ought to interpret events occurring presently as foreboding good and, consequently expect good to unfold itself in the future.
17. That is, as Mujahid and Qatadah said, they perceived not that their destruction would be at his hands (Ibn Jarir).
وَأَصْبَحَ فُؤَادُ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰ فَارِغًا ۖ إِنْ كَادَتْ لَتُبْدِي بِهِ لَوْلَا أَنْ رَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قَلْبِهَا لِتَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (10)
28|10| And the heart of Musa’s mother became void.18 She wellnigh disclosed him, had We not fortified her heart – that she should be of the believers.19
18. Anyone who lost a dear one knows what it feels like in the heart for the first few days: it is as if there is a void where the heart used to be, or, as if within the heart there is a place vacant (Au.).
Although there are one or two other interpretations, the preferred meaning is that her heart became empty of everything except the remembrance of Musa. She could not think of anything or talk about anything except him. The pronoun in “bihi” then is for Musa’s remembrance which reached such levels that it was feared that she would reveal the birth and loss of child to his enemies. This is the interpretation offered by Ibn `Abbas (Ibn Jarir). This interpretation is in Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abi Hatim, and Hakim, with the latter declaring it trustworthy (Alusi, Shawk ani).
19. That is, a believer in Allah’s promise when He said to her, “We shall restore him to you” (Qurtubi).
وَقَالَتْ لِأُخْتِهِ قُصِّيهِ ۖ فَبَصُرَتْ بِهِ عَنْ جُنُبٍ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ (11)
28|11| She said to his sister, ‘Follow him.’ So she observed him from a distance while they perceived not.20
20. Another possible meaning is that she spotted Musa from a distance while he was being picked up, though she herself was not within their sight. Alternatively, as some reports suggest, she spotted Musa outside the palace gates as the attendants were looking for someone who could nurse the child. For a few other details see Ta-ha, note 33.
وَحَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْمَرَاضِعَ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَقَالَتْ هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ يَكْفُلُونَهُ لَكُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُ نَاصِحُونَ (12)
28|12| Now We had forbidden him aforetime (all) wet nurses.21 So she suggested, ‘Shall I direct you to a household that will take care of him and will be his sincere well-wishers?’
21. The word “maradi`” could also mean the place of suck, or, breasts (Zamakhshari, Alusi).
فَرَدَدْنَاهُ إِلَىٰ أُمِّهِ كَيْ تَقَرَّ عَيْنُهَا وَلَا تَحْزَنَ وَلِتَعْلَمَ أَنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقٌّ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ (13)
28|13| Thus We restored him to his mother that she might be comforted, and not grieve; and that she might know that Allah’s promise is true but most of them know not.22
22. Several commentators discuss in detail how it all happened that ultimately Musa was restored to his mother. But since the reports have not been checked for their authenticity, we ignore them. Nevertheless, one or two points could be discussed, e.g., did it not occur to Fir`awn’s attendants how Musa’s mother could have milk without giving birth to a child? The answer given is that Musa’s mother explained by saying that she had a son to suckle, Harun, who was born the year before, which was another reason, it has been said, why she said she could not move into the Palace, when asked to do so. There was perhaps another stronger reason, which the commentators do not point out, as to why Musa’s mother could not be identified as his mother: he was pretty dark, as in sahih ahadith, (but carefully concealed by Jews and Christians), while she was most probably fair. This author has known an extremely dark person, although none in the extended family was any worse than light brown (Au.).
وَلَمَّا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُ وَاسْتَوَىٰ آتَيْنَاهُ حُكْمًا وَعِلْمًا ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ (14)
28|14| Then, when he had reached puberty and attained full strength,23 We gave him judgment and knowledge.24 Thus do We reward those who do good.
23. This is how Ibn Jarir explains “Istawa.” Zamakhshari writes that it is that stage in life after which no further physical development is possible.
Sayyid adds: “(At this point we enter into a new phase of Musa’s life). As for what happened after he was restored to his mother, how was he brought up in the royal Pharaonic palaces, what kind of relationship existed between him and his mother after the suckling period was over, what was Musa’s status in the palaces and outside them after he had grown up, what were his beliefs, while he was being readied under Allah’s own eye .. these are all details that the Qur’an did not discuss, but rather, we are taken straight to the next stage in his life and to the next episode.”
24. “This implies that he was pious and righteous from early manhood, and was at no time of his adult life an unbeliever” (Majid).
وَدَخَلَ الْمَدِينَةَ عَلَىٰ حِينِ غَفْلَةٍ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا فَوَجَدَ فِيهَا رَجُلَيْنِ يَقْتَتِلَانِ هَٰذَا مِنْ شِيعَتِهِ وَهَٰذَا مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ ۖ فَاسْتَغَاثَهُ الَّذِي مِنْ شِيعَتِهِ عَلَى الَّذِي مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ فَوَكَزَهُ مُوسَىٰ فَقَضَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ۖ قَالَ هَٰذَا مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ ۖ إِنَّهُ عَدُوٌّ مُضِلٌّ مُبِينٌ (15)
28|15| And he entered the city at a time when its people were inattentive.25 He found there two men fighting: this from his own faction and this from among his enemy. Now the one that was of his faction appealed to him against the one who was from among his enemy. Musa struck him26 and finished him off.27 He exclaimed, ‘This is one of Satan’s doing. Surely, he is a misguiding, manifest enemy.’
25. It was perhaps midday, the markets were closed, and so there weren’t any people around in the streets (Ibn Jarir).
26. “Wakaza-wakz” is to fold the fingers and assault with the hand (Zamakhshari), what is known as a punch or a box today (Au.).
27. Although he did not intend to kill him (Ibn Jarir).
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي فَاغْفِرْ لِي فَغَفَرَ لَهُ ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ (16)
28|16| He said, ‘O my Lord! Surely I have wronged my soul. Therefore, forgive me.’ So He forgave him. He is indeed the Forgiving, the Merciful.28
28. Alusi comments on why Musa had to seek forgiveness for an unintended murder. First he points out that the Prophets of Allah never commit a major sin at any time in their lives. So, Musa was blameless on that account. However, he was remorseful because after the man died, he might have analyzed his behavior. Did he over-react? Should he not have merely pushed the man away instead of punching him? Yes he could. He had indeed proven hasty which was unbecoming of a man of his status. Hence he said, ‘O my Lord! Surely I have wronged my soul. Therefore, forgive me.’ And he was forgiven. He sought forgiveness because commitment of an unintentional wrong by the pious is considered a sin by those who are closer to Allah.
Mufti Shafi` emphasizes the illegality of a Muslim killing a non-harbi pagan, or confiscating his property. He quotes Ibn Hajr as writing in his Sharh al-Bukhari as follows, “The fact of pagans and Muslims living together in peace, makes their life and property unlawful unto the Muslims. Thanwi’s opinion is close to this, writes Mufti Shafi`, and was the last of his legal opinions that he heard from him on the 2nd of Rajab 1362 A.H., Thanwi succumbing to his prolonged illness, breathing his last on the 16th of Rajab the same year.
Mufti Shafi` perhaps thought it wise to emphasize - in view of the prevailing situation in the Indian sub-continent, where Muslim life and property is constantly under attack the question arise: should they retaliate in a similar manner, or sit back doing nothing? The answer is, so long as the state does not consider attacks against them as legal, they might defend themselves by whatever means possible, but not retaliate in the manner in which they are attacked, such as, indiscriminately killing any non-Muslim, or destroying property, as their enemies do (Au.).
قَالَ رَبِّ بِمَا أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ فَلَنْ أَكُونَ ظَهِيرًا لِلْمُجْرِمِينَ (17)
28|17| He said, ‘My Lord! For the favor You have bestowed on me, I shall never be a helper to the criminals.29
29. Hence, Ata’ has said that it is not lawful for anyone to help an oppressor, or be his writer, or even accept his company. It is reported that Dahhak was asked by Sulayman b. Muslim (an early Abbasid: Ibn Kathir in Tarikh) to go up to Bukhara and distribute some state funds among the people there. He declined. Sulayman made repeated requests but Dahhak emphatically refused. He was asked the reason. He replied tersely, “I do not wish to be a helper to any wrongdoing person in any way.” `Ata’ b. Rabah was asked, “I have a brother who earns his livelihood with his pen. He keeps the accounts, entering, deducting, etc. He has family and children. If he gives up, he will have to live on loans.” He asked, “Who employs him?” He was told, “Khalid b. `Abdullah al-Qasra” (an Umayyad: Ibn Kathir in Tarikh). He remarked, “Have you not read what a pious person (of the past) had to say?: ‘My Lord! For the favor You have bestowed on me, I shall never be a helper to the criminals!’” (Zamakhshari in part, Qurtubi, Alusi and Mawdudi).
فَأَصْبَحَ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ خَائِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي اسْتَنْصَرَهُ بِالْأَمْسِ يَسْتَصْرِخُهُ ۚ قَالَ لَهُ مُوسَىٰ إِنَّكَ لَغَوِيٌّ مُبِينٌ (18)
28|18| Thus he did his morning in the city in fear, watchful, when behold, the one who had sought his help the previous day was calling after him. Musa told him, ‘You are indeed an evident deviant one.’30
30. For, you are the one who led me to yesterday’s killing (Alusi and others).
فَلَمَّا أَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَبْطِشَ بِالَّذِي هُوَ عَدُوٌّ لَهُمَا قَالَ يَا مُوسَىٰ أَتُرِيدُ أَنْ تَقْتُلَنِي كَمَا قَتَلْتَ نَفْسًا بِالْأَمْسِ ۖ إِنْ تُرِيدُ إِلَّا أَنْ تَكُونَ جَبَّارًا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَمَا تُرِيدُ أَنْ تَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُصْلِحِينَ (19)
28|19| Then, as he tried to lay his hand on the one who was an enemy to both,31 he cried out, ‘O Musa! Do you intend to kill me as you killed a man yesterday?32 You do not wish but to be a tyrant in the land, and do not wish to be one of those who set things right.’
31. That is, Musa (asws) did not wish to strike him. He merely tried to restrain the Copt (Au.).
32. He wrongly perceived the threat from Musa’s words of alarm, "Indeed, you are an evident deviant one” (Alusi and others).
وَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ يَسْعَىٰ قَالَ يَا مُوسَىٰ إِنَّ الْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلُوكَ فَاخْرُجْ إِنِّي لَكَ مِنَ النَّاصِحِينَ (20)
28|20| Then came a man from the farthest end of the city, hurrying, and said, ‘O Musa! The chiefs are conferring over you, to kill you.33 Therefore, depart. I am indeed one of your sincere advisers.’
33. The intervening events are left out, viz., reports carried to Fir`awn that Musa was the one who had killed the Copt the previous day, and the discussions amongst the ruling elite as to what action was to be taken against Musa, the majority insisting that he be put to death in retaliation, etc. Their decision also implies that although Musa was brought up among the royals, he was never accepted as one of the royalty or even as one of the Copts, to be spared for accidentally killing one of them. Muslims who try to integrate themselves with the non-Muslims, and go a long way to please them, should perhaps make note of this historical reality (Au.).
فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَائِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ ۖ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ (21)
28|21| So he departed therefrom in fear, watchful saying, ‘O my Lord! Save me from the wrong-doing people.’34
34. Yusuf Ali tries to figure out Musa’s state of mind: “Moses saw that his position was now untenable, both in the Palace and in the City, and indeed anywhere in Pharaoh’s territory. So he suffered voluntary exile. But he did not know where to go to. His mind was in a state of agitation. But he turned to Allah (swt) and prayed. He got consolation, and felt that after all it was no hardship to leave Egypt, where there was so much injustice and oppression.”
وَلَمَّا تَوَجَّهَ تِلْقَاءَ مَدْيَنَ قَالَ عَسَىٰ رَبِّي أَنْ يَهْدِيَنِي سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ (22)
28|22| Then, as he turned his face towards Madyan, he said,35 ‘I do hope that my Lord will guide me to the right way.36
35. Various commentators, especially Majid and Mawdudi, have speculated the route Musa could have taken when leaving Egypt: none perhaps wholly accurate. We reproduce one possibility from Yusuf Ali, not for its certainty, but for its brevity: “East of Lower Egypt, for about 300 miles, runs the Sinai Peninsula, bounded on the south by the Gulf of Suez, and on the north by what was the Isthmus of Suez, now cut by the Suez Canal. Over the Isthmus ran the highroad to Palestine and Syria, but a fugitive could not well take that road, as the Egyptians were after him. If he could, after crossing the Isthmus, plunge into the Sinai desert, east or south-east, he would be in the Midianite territory, where the people would be Arabs and not Egyptians. He turned thither, and again prayed to Allah for guidance.”
“Here,” Mawdudi adds a useful point, “the Biblical account is in agreement with the Qur’anic one in that both state that after leaving Egypt, Moses went to Midian. The Talmud, however, relates the absurd story of Moses fleeing to Abyssinia and becoming a great favourite of the king there.. Moses was then (at the time of departure from Abyssinia: au.) 67 years old (as stated by Polano, though not Talmud. See also The Jewish Encyclopaedia, vol.9, p. 48: ed.).” Or perhaps this story needs to be connected with another, viz. Musa & Israelites had gone back to Egypt after the drowning of Fir’awn. May be there is a mix-up in the sequence of events. See note no. 191 of surah no. 7 for further details.
36. The translation reflects the understanding of Ibn `Abbas who said that Musa did not know the way to Madyan and hence prayed in these words (Ibn Jarir, Kashshaf, Razi and others). Sa`id b. Jubayr mentioned that the journey (on foot) between Egypt and Madyan was eight days long (Kashshaf, Razi, Ibn Kathir and others).
Majid adds: “’And because the public roads were watched, he took the flight through the desert through a route his enemies could not suspect he would travel.’ (Ant. II, 11: 1). ‘The route he took was probably very much the same as that by which he afterwards led the Israelites to Mount Sinai. It avoided the Egyptian parts and settlements.’ (Rawlinson, Moses, His Life and Times’ p. 186).”
وَلَمَّا وَرَدَ مَاءَ مَدْيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةً مِنَ النَّاسِ يَسْقُونَ وَوَجَدَ مِنْ دُونِهِمُ امْرَأَتَيْنِ تَذُودَانِ ۖ قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُمَا ۖ قَالَتَا لَا نَسْقِي حَتَّىٰ يُصْدِرَ الرِّعَاءُ ۖ وَأَبُونَا شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ (23)
28|23| Then, when he arrived at the waters of Madyan he found there a crowd of people watering (their flocks) and apart from them he found two women holding back (their flocks).37 He asked, ‘What is the matter with you two?’ They said, ‘We may not water (our flocks) until the shepherds drive off (theirs); and our father is a very old man.’38
37. That is, restraining their flock from rushing towards the well.
38. So, they had to wait until everyone had left by the end of the day, and be content with whatever water was left at the bottom of the well (Au.).
Although, a more becoming behavior on the part of those who are endowed with nature’s good qualities was that the girls should have been allowed to draw water first and drive away their flock before men would start (Sayyid).
Yousuf Ali beautifully fills in the gaps that the verses leave: “Here is a pretty little idyll, told in the fewest and most beautiful words possible. Moses arrives at an oasis in the desert, weary and travel worn, with his mind full of anxiety and uncertainty owing to his recent experiences in Egypt. He was thirsty and would naturally seek water. At the well or spring he found shepherds (or perhaps goat-herds) watering their flocks. As a stranger it was not for him to thrust himself among them. He waited under the shade of a tree until they should finish. He noticed two damsels, also waiting with their flocks, which they had come to water. His chivalry was roused. He went at once among the goat-herds, made a place for the flocks of the damsels, gave them water, and then resumed his place in the shade. They were modest maidens, and had given him in three Arabic words the key of the whole situation. ‘abu-na shaikhun kabirun' our father is a very old man, and therefore cannot come to water the flocks; we therefore do the work; we could not very well thrust ourselves among these men.’
فَسَقَىٰ لَهُمَا ثُمَّ تَوَلَّىٰ إِلَى الظِّلِّ فَقَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ (24)
28|24| So he watered (their flocks) for them,39 then he turned aside into the shade and said, ‘My Lord! Verily, whatever You send down to me of a good (thing), I am in need thereof.’40
39. This demonstrates that “perfection” (kamiliyyah) does not negate services to the people (Thanwi), in fact, it is a sign of perfection by itself (Au.).
Most commentators report that Musa drew water from the same well from which the shepherds were drawing. A few say that upon inquiry he was led by the girls to another well that had a huge rock on its mouth. Musa removed it, watered their flock and replaced the lid (Shawkani). The report is in `Abd b. Humayd and Ibn al-Mundhir (Alusi).
40. No human mind could ever think of expressing in such a short sentence, in such absolute sense, the extreme privation that Musa was suffering (Au).
It is said that Musa was in such a state that all that he wished by his supplication was a simple meal (Ibn Jarir).
His supplication demonstrates that the “perfect” are never tired of seeking Allah’s blessings, big or small, as against the “pseudo perfect” who evince total independence of material needs, in fact, spurn them when sent their way (Thanwi).
It is reported of Ibn Mas`ud: “I rode on my camel for two days until I was in Madyan. I inquired about the tree under which Musa had rested. I found it a lush green tree full of leaves. My hungry camel rushed to it and began to feed on it, which it did for an hour, and then vomited. I prayed for Musa and moved on” (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir). In fact, it is reported that Ibn Mas` ud also visited the tree (at Toor) from which Allah had spoken to Musa (Ibn Kathir).
فَجَاءَتْهُ إِحْدَاهُمَا تَمْشِي عَلَى اسْتِحْيَاءٍ قَالَتْ إِنَّ أَبِي يَدْعُوكَ لِيَجْزِيَكَ أَجْرَ مَا سَقَيْتَ لَنَا ۚ فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُ وَقَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الْقَصَصَ قَالَ لَا تَخَفْ ۖ نَجَوْتَ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ (25)
28|25| Then came to him one of the two walking bashfully.41 She said, ‘My father invites you that he may reward you with the wage for that you watered for us.’42 Then, when he came to him,43 and narrated to him the story, he said, ‘Fear not. You have escaped from an oppressive people.’44
41. The Qur’an has no romantic tales. But a little phrase, “tamshee `ala-istihya’” throws open several avenues of thought to those who have had the experience of watching simple men and women of the country-side living out their lives in complete innocence and supreme natural joy. Gone into oblivion are those days and those scenes that Wordsworth drew in his pastoral poems, perhaps never to return. Among the commentators, Yusuf Ali stands alone in courage and imagination, to fill the colors in the Qur’anic sketches. The reader is advised to read all the notes of this context in his work.
`Umar (ra) is reported to have said (in a Sahih report: Ibn Kathir) that the girl had gone to Musa covering her face with her shirt-sleeve, bashful, unlike the forward and fearless women who are ever ready to dash out of their homes into the streets: on any pretext or no pretext (Ibn Jarir).
42. This demonstrates that acceptance of wages, that were not intended for a good deed, does not nullify a good intention, especially when such acceptance is a means of preventing ill consequences (Thanwi).
A man of keen sentiments, Yusuf Ali could not fail to feel like several characters of the story must have felt at the time the episode took place. He writes, boldly, but cautiously: “Nothing could have been more welcome than such a message, and through such a messenger. Moses went of course, and saw the old man. He found such a well-ordered patriarchal household. The old man was happy in his daughters and they in him. There was mutual confidence. They had evidently described the stranger to him in terms which made his welcome a foregone conclusion. On the other hand Moses had allowed his imagination to paint the father in something of the glorious colours in which his daughters had appeared to him like an angelic vision. The two men got to be friends at once. Moses told the old man his story, - who he was, how he was brought up, and what misfortunes had made him quit Egypt. Perhaps the whole household, including the daughters, listened breathlessly to his tale. Perhaps their wonder and admiration were mingled with a certain amount of pity - perhaps with some more tender feeling in the case of the girl who had been to fetch him. In any case the stranger had won his place in their hearts. The old man, the head of the household, assured him of hospitality and safety under his roof. As one with a long experience of life he congratulated him on his escape. ‘Who would live among unjust people? It is as well you are free of them!’”
43. Although some of the earliest commentators have identified this person with Shu`ayb the Prophet, (but not Ibn `Abbas: Razi), it is very unlikely that the two were one in view of the fact that Shu`ayb the Prophet appeared at least four hundred years before Musa. Further, the Qur’an did not name the person as Shu`ayb in this context. As for the ahadith that speak of him in such context, none of them is trustworthy (Ibn Kathir).
“I have earlier expressed my opinion that it must or could have been Shu`ayb, but now I am convinced that it was not Suh`ayb the Prophet for, Shu`ayb’s people were destroyed. It is only those who believed in him that were spared. But, the behavior of the shepherds at the well, who did not allow the girls to water their flock first, is not something expected of the first generation of believers” (Sayyid).
44. Fir`awn’s kingdom did not include Madyan lands (Ibn Jarir from the Salaf).
قَالَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا يَا أَبَتِ اسْتَأْجِرْهُ ۖ إِنَّ خَيْرَ مَنِ اسْتَأْجَرْتَ الْقَوِيُّ الْأَمِينُ (26)
28|26| Said one of them, ‘O my father, hire him; surely, the best one you can hire is a strong, trustworthy (person).45
45. Brief and precise, the sentence cannot be improved upon: all you need when you hire a man is strength (ability to perform), and honesty. The two qualities assured, you can entrust your work and forget all about it (Zamakhshari).
It has been said, by Ibn `Abbas and others, that this was said by one of the two (daughters) whose flocks Musa had watered. “What makes you think he is strong and trustworthy?” her father asked. She replied that she judged his strength from the manner in which he had drawn the water and his trustworthiness from the fact that he had never looked at them twice and had asked her to walk behind him when she had gone to fetch him. Some others have said that she judged his strength from his feat of lifting the rock off the mouth of the well which only a group of men could ordinarily do (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir, Kashshaf).
The arrangement between the two was that if Musa strayed as they walked down to her house, she would throw a stone to indicate the right direction (Ibn Kathir).
Yusuf Ali does not rule out another implication: “Strong and trustworthy: Moses had proved himself to be both, and these were the very qualities which a woman most admires in the man she loves.”
قَالَ إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُنْكِحَكَ إِحْدَى ابْنَتَيَّ هَاتَيْنِ عَلَىٰ أَنْ تَأْجُرَنِي ثَمَانِيَ حِجَجٍ ۖ فَإِنْ أَتْمَمْتَ عَشْرًا فَمِنْ عِنْدِكَ ۖ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَيْكَ ۚ سَتَجِدُنِي إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ (27)
28|27| He said,46 ‘I intend to wed one of these my two daughters to you47 on (condition) that you serve me eight years.48 But if you complete ten, then, that will be (as a favor) from you.49 And I do not wish to press hard on you. You shall surely find me, Allah willing, of the righteous.’50
46. It should not be imagined that the entire conversation, from the time Musa met Shu`ayb, to this point, took place in one session (Au.).
47. In his re-portrayal of the scene, Yusuf Ali fills in the gaps with details that most readers would agree could be the missing links, “A little time passed, and at length the father broached the subject of marriage. It was not for the fugitive to suggest a permanent tie, especially when, in the wealth of this world, the girl’s family was superior, and they had an established position, while he was a mere wanderer. The father asked if he would marry one of the daughters and stay with them for at least eight years, or if he liked, ten years, but the longer term was at his option. If he brought no dower, his service for that period was more than sufficient in lieu of dower. The particular girl intended was no doubt tacitly settled long before, by the mutual attraction of the young hearts themselves. Moses was glad of the proposal, and accepted it. They ratified it in the most solemn manner, by appealing to Allah. The old man, knowing the worth of his son-in-law, solemnly assured him that in any event he would not take advantage of his position to be a hard task-master or to insist on anything inconsistent with Moses’s interests, should a new future open out to him. And a new and glorious future was awaiting him after his apprenticeship.”
Sayyid echoes the words of Qurtubi in essence when he elaborates: Thus, in this simple and frank manner that is devoid of any twist of the tongue, the man proposed his daughter to Musa: without any fuss, or feelings of shame or awkwardness. For, he is proposing the building up of a husband-wife relationship and establishment of a home. It is not something that has room for hesitation, vacillation, or far-fetched gestures nor the kind of artificiality that is to be found in societies that have lost their naturalness, having accepted false values and traditions. Such societies prevent the father or custodian from proposing to someone with whose religion, morals and personality he feels satisfied as matching with those of his daughter or sister. They prescribe that it is the man or his representative alone who should make the proposal to the girl’s father or custodian and it should never be done from the girl’s side. The deviation to be noted in such societies is that its young men and women mix together freely, talk freely, and move about freely without any intention of marriage; but when it comes to marriage, then suddenly a pall of unnatural embarrassment descends, and a wall of artificiality is erected, preventing a clear and frank discussion of the proposal.
In contrast, at the time of the Prophet, fathers offered their daughters for marriage to those they approved. Sometimes, even a woman offered herself for marriage. And the affairs were conducted in perfect frankness, cleanliness, and good manners, unimpaired by the thoughts of shame or dishonor. `Umar offered his daughter to Abu Bakr, then to `Uthman, and then complained to the Prophet perhaps hoping that Allah might decree a husband for his daughter better than the two he had proposed. A woman offered herself to the Prophet – who refused – and then she left it to him to find a suitable match for her.”
48. He was to serve him looking after his flocks and attend to related works (Ibn Jarir and others).
“In patriarchal society it was not uncommon to have a marriage bargain of this kind conditional on a certain term of service. In this case the episode conveys two lessons. (1) A man destined to be a messenger of Allah is yet a man, and must pass through the ups and downs of life like any other man: only he will do it with more grace and distinction than other men. (2) The beautiful relations in love and marriage may themselves be a preparation for the highest spiritual destiny that may await a Messenger of Allah. A woman need not necessarily be a snare and a temptation: she may be the understanding help-mate that the Lady Khadija was to the holy Prophet (Yusuf Ali).
This kind of marriage, in which wages are offered by the male as mahr is allowed among the Hanafiyyah (Shabbir), but on certain conditions (Shafi`). There is a close example of this in the hadith. A man had nothing to offer as mahr, so the Prophet (saws) told him to teach the bride some verses of the Qur’an in lieu, to which the woman agreed (Qurtubi). Abu Hanifa’s personal opinion however, was that such an agreement is not allowable in Islam now. Further, this Qur’anic precedence cannot be quoted since in this case, Musa actually promised to serve Shu`ayb, while the mahr is a woman’s own right, and not that of her father (Shafi`).
A contemporary commentator thinks however, that the whole debate as conducted by the scholars of the Ummah over the issue, is, in his words, “meaningless.” He lets his imagination loose, and constructs a scenario, which he perhaps thought could not have occurred to others before him. In the heat he failed to notice the clear implications of the verse in question, viz. service to the father-in-law was a clause of the marriage contract (Au.).
49. Although all of them weak, but severally they strengthen the report that of the two terms, Musa completed what was more becoming of him, that is, ten. We do not have a trustworthy hadith in this context, but this was the opinion of Ibn `Abbas, as reported in Bukhari (Ibn Kathir). Mujahid however maintained that altogether he served twenty years (Ibn Kathir, Alusi). If Musa was in his early twenties, which seems to be probable, then, it is quite likely that he stayed twenty years before thinking of returning to a land, where dangers lurking for him must have fizzled out over this long period of absence. Indeed, it is possible that he might have heard that the Fir`awn who had brought him up was dead and that another had taken his place (Au.).
In this there is close affinity with our own Prophet’s mission. He left Makkah in fear, but came back eight years later to subdue it (Shabbir), and emptied it of pagans, just like Egypt was emptied of the pagans in ten years time (Muwaddih).
50. “Here again,” writes Mawdudi, “the Israelites have done woeful injustice to their most illustrious Prophet, their greatest benefactor and hero.. According to another Jewish tradition, mentioned in The Jewish Encyclopaedia: ‘On his arrival at Midian Moses told his whole story to Jethro, who recognized him as the man destined to destroy the Egyptians. He therefore took Moses prisoner in order to deliver him to Pharaoh .. Moses was imprisoned in a deep dungeon in Jethro’s house, and received as food only small portions of bread and water. He would have died of hunger had not Zipporah, to whom Moses had before this captivity made an offer of marriage by the well, devised a plan by which she no longer went out to pasture the sheep, but remained at home to attend to the household, being thereby enabled to supply Moses with food without her father’s knowledge. After ten (or seven) years, Zipporah reminded her father that he had at one time cast a man into the dungeon, who must have died long ago, but if he were still living he must be a just man whom God had kept alive by a miracle. Jethro went to the dungeon and called Moses, who answered immediately. As Jethro found Moses praying, he really believed that he had been saved by a miracle, and liberated him … and gave him the virtuous Zipporah as his wife.’” (Vol.9, pp. 48-9).
قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ ۖ أَيَّمَا الْأَجَلَيْنِ قَضَيْتُ فَلَا عُدْوَانَ عَلَيَّ ۖ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ مَا نَقُولُ وَكِيلٌ (28)
28|28| He said, ‘Be that between me and you. Whichsoever of the two terms I fulfill, there will be no injustice to me. And Allah is a Witness51 to what we say.52
51. Literally, Trustee (Au.).
52. With this example of Musa before him, how can any Muslim, reduced to a state of discomforts, after the plenty he once possessed, complain of the vicissitudes of time? Or, agree to live among an oppressive or un-Islamic people, for reasons of a materially rich, but spiritually barren life? One may also note the goodness in the heart of a future Prophet. Just out of the palace, he marries a plain Bedouin shepherdess without any qualms, in order to be able to follow, as commentators have pointed out, a virtuous life, and to demonstrate that the love of the world had not touched the heart of someone brought up in luxuries (Au.).
فَلَمَّا قَضَىٰ مُوسَى الْأَجَلَ وَسَارَ بِأَهْلِهِ آنَسَ مِنْ جَانِبِ الطُّورِ نَارًا قَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ امْكُثُوا إِنِّي آنَسْتُ نَارًا لَعَلِّي آتِيكُمْ مِنْهَا بِخَبَرٍ أَوْ جَذْوَةٍ مِنَ النَّارِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَصْطَلُونَ (29)
28|29| Then, when Musa had completed the term,53 and was journeying with his family,54 he perceived a fire in the direction of the Tur. He said to his family, ‘Wait. I have indeed perceived a fire. Perhaps I will bring to you some information from there, or a burning firebrand that you may warm yourselves.55
53. What term was it? Was it the term of the marriage contract? Sayyid has an entirely different perspective in mind. Could it be the term of training and preparation? He elaborates: “Life in palaces is spent in a special kind of environment where it follows its own customs. The milieu there leaves a certain kind of impression on the heart, no matter how well a soul is possessed of knowledge, understanding, and purity of heart. But Messengership is in the service of all kinds of people. Among them are the rich and the poor, the possessed and the deprived, the pure and the impure, the cultured and the coarse, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak, the patient and the grumbling ones, and so on. Moreover, the poor have their own manners of eating, drinking, dressing and conducting their affairs. Their way of understanding the affairs, their notions concerning this life, their way of talking and moving, and their way of expressing feelings, are those that are a bit hard for those to appreciate who have been brought up in the comforts of palaces. Little chance the latter have of even seeing the life of the lowly ones, far from attempting to reform them – no matter how good the hearts of the poor ones, and how ready for improvement they are. The basic problem is that their lives and manners are something to which the residents of palaces do not open their hearts.
“Messengership on the other hand, means discomforts, some ruggedness, and of course requires some hard work, while the hearts of those who live in palaces, however prepared for sacrifices, however used to humbleness and equanimity, cannot bear long in patience when faced with deprivations, hardships, and difficulties of sorts in a life of very different settings and atmosphere than those they are used to.
“Allah wished then – who was moving Musa’s steps – that he should descend down from what he was used to, into the company of shepherds, and to make him realize the blessing there is in shepherding a flock of sheep, having found, after hunger and hardships, a refuge and provision ... and that he should root out from his inner self any repugnance there could have been for poverty, and the poverty-stricken, … root out the feelings of any revulsion against their ways and manners, their rustic ways and simplicity, their ignorance, poverty and shabbiness. He was forced deep into the wide sea, before he was ready to face its waves at the shore … all this in order to train him in the burden of Messengership that he was destined to bear…
“Thus we see, how Musa was prepared by Allah, under His own supervision, and how he was readied for the hardships he was about to face as he started on this in his way”
54. Some of the Salaf have said that Musa had with him his wife and two children (Au.), which is also reported in the Bible (Majid).
55. As mentioned earlier, it was a dark, rainy and cold night in which Musa (asws) had lost his way (Ibn Kathir and others).
فَلَمَّا أَتَاهَا نُودِيَ مِنْ شَاطِئِ الْوَادِ الْأَيْمَنِ فِي الْبُقْعَةِ الْمُبَارَكَةِ مِنَ الشَّجَرَةِ أَنْ يَا مُوسَىٰ إِنِّي أَنَا اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ (30)
28|30| When he came to it he was called from the edge of the valley on the right side,56 in a hallowed (piece of) ground, coming from a tree, ‘O Musa. Verily I, I am Allah, the Lord of the worlds.’57
56. Most scholars have understood this to mean, “from the right side of Musa.” Nonetheless, there is room to believe that the word “ayman” has been used in the sense of “hallowed” (Ibn Kathir, Asad and others).
57. Mahdawi has said that Allah (swt) spoke to Musa from above His `Arsh and made him hear His voice from the tree. Allah should not be attributed with movements that are the attributes of His creations. Abu Is-haq on the other hand said that Allah created a meaning within Musa’s mind with the help of which he was able to grasp the words of Allah when He spoke to him – His speech being a specialty to Him (Qurtubi).
Al-Ash`ari and Imam Ghazali maintain that Musa heard Allah’s own Eternal Voice, which was devoid of any sound, and devoid of any words.
وَأَنْ أَلْقِ عَصَاكَ ۖ فَلَمَّا رَآهَا تَهْتَزُّ كَأَنَّهَا جَانٌّ وَلَّىٰ مُدْبِرًا وَلَمْ يُعَقِّبْ ۚ يَا مُوسَىٰ أَقْبِلْ وَلَا تَخَفْ ۖ إِنَّكَ مِنَ الْآمِنِينَ (31)
28|31| And that, ‘Cast your staff.’ Then, when he saw it quivering as if a snake,58 he turned back in retreat and did not retrace his steps. ‘O Musa, come forward and fear not, you are of those who are secure.
58. “Jann” according to most commentators, though not all, is a little snake, fearsome for its swift movement. Tho`ban used elsewhere in the Qur’an, is for a large, and hence slow moving snake, a python, whereas “hayyah” is a common noun for snakes. It has been explained that, firstly, it took several shapes, suitable to the occasions, and secondly it evinced all qualities of snakes at once, i.e., even when it became a python, it moved as swiftly as a thin little snake, stirring great panic in the crowds (Au.).
اسْلُكْ يَدَكَ فِي جَيْبِكَ تَخْرُجْ بَيْضَاءَ مِنْ غَيْرِ سُوءٍ وَاضْمُمْ إِلَيْكَ جَنَاحَكَ مِنَ الرَّهْبِ ۖ فَذَانِكَ بُرْهَانَانِ مِنْ رَبِّكَ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَئِهِ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْمًا فَاسِقِينَ (32)
28|32| Thrust your hand in your pocket,59 it will come forth (shining) bright without any blemish. And draw your hand to your side against any fear.60 These are two proofs61 from your Lord unto Fir`awn and his chiefs. Indeed, they have been a people given to transgression.’
59. This is how Ibn Jarir understands the textual word “jayb.”
60. That is, ‘whenever fear or terror strike you, press your hand to your side, you will be cured of it.’ That is how Mujahid and Qatadah understood it (Ibn Kathir and others).
Literally, ‘Draw thy wing close to thy side, (away) from fear’. When a bird is frightened, it ruffles its wings and prepares to fly away, but when it is calm and composed, it sits with its wings drawn close to its sides, showing a mind secure from danger (Yusuf Ali).
The following we quote to demonstrate the decency among the Salaf and to show the extent to which their minds were filled with the Qur'an, to come to fore at a moment when you would expect an ordinary person to betray a smile. Qurtubi reports that once wind escaped a secretary of `Umar b. `Abd al-`Aziz. He felt embarrassed, threw down his pen in disgust and stood up. `Umar told him, “Take your pen, draw your hand to your side, and do away with any embarrassment for I have not heard it from anyone more than I heard it from myself.”
61. That is, the staff which turned into snake, and the hand which turned shiny white when brought out of the pocket (Ibn Kathir and others).
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي قَتَلْتُ مِنْهُمْ نَفْسًا فَأَخَافُ أَنْ يَقْتُلُونِ (33)
28|33| He said, ‘My Lord! I have indeed killed one of their men. So I fear that they will slay me (instantly).’62
62. That is, “before I get time to deliver the message” (Majid).
وَأَخِي هَارُونُ هُوَ أَفْصَحُ مِنِّي لِسَانًا فَأَرْسِلْهُ مَعِيَ رِدْءًا يُصَدِّقُنِي ۖ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يُكَذِّبُونِ (34)
28|34| And my brother Harun, he is more eloquent than I in speech, therefore, send him with me as a support, to corroborate me.63 I am indeed afraid they will lay the lie on me.
63. Musa did not mean when he said, “to corroborate me” that when he claimed Messengership before Fir`awn, Har un would attest and confirm his claim, but rather he would use his eloquent tongue to offer convincing arguments on his behalf (Zamakhshari, Razi).
‘It is not that Moses is not reassured from all fear on account of the apparent snake which his rod had become, or from the sacred and unfamiliar surroundings in which he found himself. On this point his heart has been completely assured. But he is still new to his mission, and the future is obscure to his mind. Pharaoh was after him, to take his life, and apparently with good cause, because one of Pharaoh’s men had been slain at his hands. And now he is commanded to go to Pharaoh and rebuke him and his Chiefs. The inner doubts and difficulties of his human mind he frankly lays before his Lord, and asks for a little human and visible support, which is granted him at once, viz.; the help of his brother Aron (Yusuf Ali).
قَالَ سَنَشُدُّ عَضُدَكَ بِأَخِيكَ وَنَجْعَلُ لَكُمَا سُلْطَانًا فَلَا يَصِلُونَ إِلَيْكُمَا ۚ بِآيَاتِنَا أَنْتُمَا وَمَنِ اتَّبَعَكُمَا الْغَالِبُونَ (35)
28|35| He said, ‘We shall surely strengthen your arm with your brother64 and shall vouchsafe unto you both an authority,65 so that they shall not be able to reach you:66 with Our signs, you two, and those who followed you, shall be the overcomers.’67
64. That is, ‘We shall strengthen your cause through your brother.’ This was done by making Harun (asws) a Prophet, for which Musa had prayed. Hence some of the Salaf have said that no one did a brother greater good than Musa to Harun when he prayed for his Prophethood. See 19: 53 (Ibn Kathir).
65. The Bible has a twist here. It reports (Ex. 7: 1), “And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.” Thus Musa became a god unto Fir`awn and Harun his, and not Allah’s, prophet (Au.).
66. That is, they will not be able to do you any harm (Zamakhshari, Razi).
This is similar to what was said to our own Prophet (5: 67),
{يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَإِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ وَاللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ} [المائدة: 67]
“O Messenger, proclaim what has been sent down to you by your Lord. If you did not, you would not have delivered His message. Allah will protect you from the people” (Ibn Kathir).
67. As Allah said (58: 21),
{كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَرُسُلِي إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ} [المجادلة: 21]
“Allah has written that He and His Messengers shall overcome.”
He also said (40: 51),
{إِنَّا لَنَنْصُرُ رُسُلَنَا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا} [غافر: 51]
“Surely We shall help Our Messengers and those who followed them in the life of this world” (Ibn Kathir).
فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ مُوسَىٰ بِآيَاتِنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ قَالُوا مَا هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُفْتَرًى وَمَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِي آبَائِنَا الْأَوَّلِينَ (36)
28|36| Then, when Musa came to them with Our clear signs, they said, ‘This is nothing but faked magic, we have not heard of this among our fathers of old.’
وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ جَاءَ بِالْهُدَىٰ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَمَنْ تَكُونُ لَهُ عَاقِبَةُ الدَّارِ ۖ إِنَّهُ لَا يُفْلِحُ الظَّالِمُونَ (37)
28|37| Musa said, ‘My Lord knows best who has brought guidance from Him, and for whom will be the ultimate Abode. Surely, wrongdoers will not prosper.’
وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَا أَيُّهَا الْمَلَأُ مَا عَلِمْتُ لَكُمْ مِنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرِي فَأَوْقِدْ لِي يَا هَامَانُ عَلَى الطِّينِ فَاجْعَلْ لِي صَرْحًا لَعَلِّي أَطَّلِعُ إِلَىٰ إِلَٰهِ مُوسَىٰ وَإِنِّي لَأَظُنُّهُ مِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ (38)
28|38| Fir`awn said, ‘O chiefs. I do not know of any other deity for you besides me.68 Therefore, kindle for me O Haman, (a fire) upon clay69 and build for me a tall edifice that I may have a look at Musa’s god.70 Surely I think he is of the liars.’
68. What this implied on Fir`awn’s part is that he had no evidence that God existed; and, according to him, that which lacked evidence did not exist: an error commonly committed by many people (Razi).
This trend is most common among the atheists, and, surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, among the scientists who know it as the first scientific principle, viz. what they do not have evidence for, can neither be rejected nor accepted. One should observe complete neutrality in such matters. But most often they take sides against some perennial and, in some cases, self-evident, truths (Au.).
A few details of the denial are given elsewhere in the Qur’an. Allah said (79: 23-24),
{فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَى (23) فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَى} [النازعات: 23، 24]
“Then he gathered (his people) and cried aloud, saying, ‘I am your Lord, the supreme’” (Ibn Kathir).
Mawdudi writes: “By saying so, Pharaoh obviously did not mean that he was their creator and the creator of the heavens and the earth… Nor did it mean that they worshipped no other God besides Pharaoh because it is well known that they worshipped many gods and Pharaoh, himself, had been raised to the status of godhead in his capacity as the incarnation of Ra, the sun-god. The Qur’an itself provides a definite testimony in this regard, for it mentions that Pharaoh worshipped many gods: ‘The elders of Pharaoh’s people said, “Will you leave alone Moses and his people to spread mischief in the land, and forsake you and your gods” (Al-A`raf 7: 127).’
“Hence the word ‘god’ used here by Pharaoh for himself was not to claim that he was their creator and their sole object of worship. He rather used this word in the sense that he was the lord and master of Egypt where his command was executed; where he was considered to have full authority, and where people considered themselves bound to obey him, and where he was the absolute sovereign whose orders were carried out, and where he was in a position to decide what was good and what was evil, and where no one else had the authority to issue any commands. In this context, Pharaoh wondered what the locus standi of Moses was.”
Although there is perhaps much truth in the above statement, but perhaps lesser in what follows thereafter in the original work, yet the fact remains that Pharaoh did assume some kind of divinity, and was considered invested with divine qualities, sounds obvious from the Qur’anic statements in this regard, here, and elsewhere (Au.).
Majid gives us the historical background to give us an idea of the somewhat ambiguous position Pharaoh held vis-à-vis, godhead, and which comes closer to explaining the Qur’anic expressions: “Pharaoh-worship was very much akin to Mikado-worship, and the ‘divinity’ of the ancient Egyptian Imperious House bore close resemblance to that of the present-day Japanese Imperial House. The Pharaoh was a veritable Incarnate Deity. ‘The king in that first monarchy was the visible god upon earth. The only thing like it that has been since seen is the deification of the Roman emperor. No pure monotheism would for a moment have been compatible with such an intense exaltation.’ (Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, Intro p. xxxvi) ‘It is a well-known fact that the Egyptians, from the earliest traceable period of their history, believed their kings to be embodied forms of certain gods … The reigning king was regarded as “Horus” (the national god of lower Egypt in pre-historic times, and, later, of the whole kingdom) … The reigning king was styled “the good god,” or at an earlier day, “the great god.” (ERE, VI, p. 647). Pharaoh ‘was not merely looked upon as the earthly representative of the god Horus … but he was actually regarded as a form or manifestation of that god. The king was therefore a god, and indeed was commonly spoken of as the “good god.” Moreover, by the time of the Vth dynasty the king was believed to be the physical son of the sun-god, the State-god of Egypt.’ (X. p. 294).”
69. The translation is literal, otherwise, the meaning is, “manufacture bricks for me” (Ibn Jarir). Nonetheless, either we believe our Prophet was a veritable encyclopaedia of knowledge, the like of whom did not appear earlier or later, or accept him as a Messenger of Allah. How did he, for instance, know such architectural details as Majid brings to our notice? Majid writes: “Note that brick, rather than stone was the general building material used in ancient Egypt, and the Egyptians were well-known for brick-making. ‘The true countries of brick-makers were Egypt and Mesopotamia … Egyptian bricks were usually twice the size of our modern ones. Many of them (from dynasty 18 onwards) were stamped with the name of a king, to show that they belonged to public buildings … Stamps as well as moulds have been preserved up to the modern times, and bricks with the name of Ramses II, “the Pharaoh of the oppression,” are shown in our museums.’ (EBi. C. 609). ‘Egypt has yielded numerous examples of brick, manufactured in the earliest and subsequent dynasties.’ (EBr. IV. P. 111).
70. There is no way to establish whether the edifice was built or not. Common sense tells us that it was not built. As for the stories that have been narrated concerning the edifice that was built, they only serve to open doors for attack by the adversaries of the Qur’an (Razi).
Elsewhere in this work, we have mentioned the Soviets trying to locate God in the skies. Mawdudi comments a little bit in detail on this point: “This mindset is similar to that of the Communists of the former Soviet Union. They launched sputniks … and then glibly claimed that their spaceships had found no God up there in the sky… This only shows that the reasoning of ignorant people has not changed over the last 3,500 years. What idiocy to believe that God is sitting somewhere up there in the sky waiting to be observed by anyone who can soar high enough. What idiocy to believe that if He cannot be so found, this is proof enough that He does not exist.”
وَاسْتَكْبَرَ هُوَ وَجُنُودُهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا يُرْجَعُونَ (39)
28|39| And he waxed proud in the land – he and his forces – without right, and thought that they will not be returned to Us.
فَأَخَذْنَاهُ وَجُنُودَهُ فَنَبَذْنَاهُمْ فِي الْيَمِّ ۖ فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الظَّالِمِينَ (40)
28|40| So We seized him and his forces, and flung them into the sea.71 See then, how was the end of the wrongdoers.
71. The choice of words, [“flung them”] is to express the worthlessness of the man and his army, flung away, (like they were no more than a dead lizard: Au.) – Zamakhshari, Razi.
وَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ أَئِمَّةً يَدْعُونَ إِلَى النَّارِ ۖ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لَا يُنْصَرُونَ (41)
28|41| We made them leaders inviting to the Fire;72 and, on the Day of Standing, they shall not be helped.
72. In the words of Asad, “archetypes inviting to the fire.”
That is, they became examples for the evil-minded people of all times, who could take lessons of the failure of tyranny and injustice from them (Alusi and others).
وَأَتْبَعْنَاهُمْ فِي هَٰذِهِ الدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةً ۖ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ هُمْ مِنَ الْمَقْبُوحِينَ (42)
28|42| And We made a curse to follow them in this world,73 and, on the Day of Standing they will be of the loathed ones.
73. That is, (although cursing is generally disallowed), cursing Fir`awn and his forces has been made lawful to the believers.
وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا أَهْلَكْنَا الْقُرُونَ الْأُولَىٰ بَصَائِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ (43)
28|43| We did give Musa the Book74 after We had destroyed the earlier generations:75 insights to men,76 a guidance and a mercy,77 haply that they will receive admonition.78
74. Yahya b. Sallam said that Tawrah was the first Book ever revealed that had commandments pertaining to the lawful and unlawful (Qurtubi). Abu Hayyan held the same opinion (Alusi).
Asad points to the significance: “By virtue of its being the first instance of a divinely-inspired Law, the Torah inaugurated a new phase in mankind’s religious history.”
75. Abu Sa`id al-Khudri is reported to have said, “After the revelation of the Tawrah, Allah (swt) did not destroy any nation through a heavenly chastisement, except for transformation of some people into apes and swine. Read if you will, ‘We did give Musa the Book after We had destroyed the earlier generations’” (Ibn Jarir). In fact, according to a version, Abu Sa`id al-Khudri reports this as the Prophet’s own words (Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir).
And Shabbir gives us the raison de’tre for the escape of the non-believing rebellious nations from wholesale destruction: Jihad was instituted.
That is, Jihad, instituted after the revelation of Tawrah, and put into action immediately after Musa (cf. the extensive military campaigns of Joshua) helped remove the leaders of disbelief from the way of the common people, who gained their freedom to accept the true religion of their time. In consequence, they escaped the divine punishment which they would have faced because of their disbelief. Allah was not going to tolerate disbelief for long. This should also explain why Muslim scholars have termed, surprisingly for many, the Islamic Jihad as a mercy, and why our own Prophet has promised that wholesale destruction of this Ummah will not happen because a group from among Muslims will continue fighting in the way of Allah until the Hour (Au.).
76. How do we reconcile the Qur’anic qualification of earlier revelations as affording insight (basa’ir), with the hadith of `Umar? `Umar was once reading the Torah in the Prophet’s presence. When he raised his head he found that the Prophet’s face had become red with anger. He said, “By Allah, if Musa was here today, he would have had to follow me.” Qurtubi answers after raising the question that firstly, Torah and Injil were at one time sources of insight, but, with interpolations and corruptions, no more. That of course, does not mean that they are totally devoid of any ability to offer insight now. But the Prophet had to respond so harshly to make sure that during his own time the people read nothing but the Qur’an. Once they had dwelt deep in to the Qur’an, they could, especially the discerning ones among them, profit from some parts of Torah and Injil.
In other words, writes Shafi`, the prohibition against Torah and Injil is not unconditional. Accordingly, we find some of the Companions quoting from the Torah and Injil during the time of the Companions, to which no one ever objected. Ka`b al-Ahbar was one of those who quoted from Jewish and Christian scriptures without earning any reproach from the Companions. That is because, by then the Qur’an and sunnah and the message they impart had taken firm root among the Muslims, and it was not feared that they would be misguided by the corrupted portions of the previous Books. Thus, there is no harm at all if they are read by people who are well-versed in the Qur'an and Sunnah, can make the difference between corrupted and uncorrupted portions of Tawrah and Injil and remove chaff from the grain. Common people should stay away from them.
77. “The first thing that happens to the seeker of truth (when he finds the truth) is that his understanding improves. This is the insight (basa’ir) of this occurrence. Next, he accepts the precepts and injunctions wholeheartedly for practice. This is guidance (hidayah) of the verse. Finally, he harvests the fruits of guidance, which is mercy (rahmah)” - Thawni.
78. “After the destruction of the Pharaonic Tyranny and other similar Tyrannies before them, Allah began a new age of Revelation, the age of Moses and his Book. Humanity began as it were with a clean slate again. It was a full Revelation (or Shari’at) which may be looked at from three points of view: (1) as Light or Insight for men, so that they should not grope in darkness; (2) as a Guide to show them the Way, so that they should not be misled into wrong Paths; and (3) as a Mercy from Allah (swt), so that by following the Way they may receive Allah’s Forgiveness and Grace. In vi. 91, we have a reference to Light and Guidance in connection with the Revelation of Moses, and in vi. 154 we have a reference to Guidance and Mercy in the same connection. Here all three are combined, with the substitution of Basair for Nur. Basair is the plural of Basirat, and may also be translated as Proofs (Yusuf Ali).
وَمَا كُنْتَ بِجَانِبِ الْغَرْبِيِّ إِذْ قَضَيْنَا إِلَىٰ مُوسَى الْأَمْرَ وَمَا كُنْتَ مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ (44)
28|44| And you were not at the Western side when We decreed the commission to Musa,79 nor were you of the witnesses.80
79. That is, `you were not, O Prophet, present there when Musa was being addressed, for you to be narrating it now (and in such details, as if you were standing right there observing every minute detail: Shabbir). But rather, it is by Our mercy that We narrate to you these stories for the admonition of those who believe in you.’ Stories of the Prophets, Messengers, and nations of the past then, as narrated in the Qur’an, are proofs of authenticity of the Prophet’s Messengership.
Similarly Allah said, writes Ibn Kathir (3: 44),
{ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَنْبَاءِ الْغَيْبِ نُوحِيهِ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا كُنْتَ لَدَيْهِمْ إِذْ يُلْقُونَ أَقْلَامَهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ يَكْفُلُ مَرْيَمَ وَمَا كُنْتَ لَدَيْهِمْ إِذْ يَخْتَصِمُونَ} [آل عمران: 44]
"These are a part of the tidings of the past that We reveal unto you (O Muhammad) for, you were not there with them when they were casting their quills to decide by lot which of them shall have charge of Maryam, nor were you there with them when they were disputing.”
Or He said (11: 49)
{تِلْكَ مِنْ أَنْبَاءِ الْغَيْبِ نُوحِيهَا إِلَيْكَ مَا كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُهَا أَنْتَ وَلَا قَوْمُكَ مِنْ قَبْلِ هَذَا فَاصْبِرْ إِنَّ الْعَاقِبَةَ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ} [هود: 49]
“These are the tidings of the Unseen that We reveal unto you (O Muhammad).You did not know about it, nor your people before this. So be patient. Surely the (good) end is for the righteous.”
Asad has a useful point: “The term al-amr ... is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew word torah ('law’ or ‘precept’), the commonly-accepted title of the revelation granted to Moses.”
80. Ashraf Ali sums up the Qur'anic argument neatly. He writes: 'Following Our practice, We made you (O Muhammad) a Prophet.' Now, of the various evidences of the Prophets authenticity, one is his narration of Musa’s story in such detail. To narrate any story with such accuracy, one has to follow one of the four ways: (i) Make use of one's own intellect. But intellect is of little use in matters involving news o the past. (ii) Re-narrate a report heard earlier. But the channels to this were closed for the Prophet because of the early appearance of antagonism between him and those who were the sources of knowledge (i.e., the Jews and Christians). They would not divulge any information to him. (iii) The Prophet should have been personally there at the time the events took place, which of course was not the case. Thus we are left with the fourth option alone, namely (iv) Revelation from Allah.
وَلَٰكِنَّا أَنْشَأْنَا قُرُونًا فَتَطَاوَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْعُمُرُ ۚ وَمَا كُنْتَ ثَاوِيًا فِي أَهْلِ مَدْيَنَ تَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِنَا وَلَٰكِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ (45)
28|45| But rather We raised (several) generations, and long periods passed over them;81 nor were you a dweller among the people of Madyan, to be rehearsing upon them Our revelations,82 but rather, We were to send the Messengers.
81. That is, you came to know, O Prophet, because We decided to raise you and send a fresh revelation, which had become due as a long time had elapsed since the previous revelation (Razi).
82. That is, Muqatil said, You were not there with the people of Madyan to be rehearsing their story to the Makkans now (Razi).
Shabbir looks at it in another way. He writes: ‘The verse seems to be saying, ‘You are now, O Prophet, rehearsing the affairs that took place in Madyan in such details as if you were a Messenger unto those people at that earlier time, and were reciting these verses to them. This of course is not the case, but rather, Allah has now raised you, and reveals these stories to you, in such precise manner, that you might warn your contemporaries and save them from a destruction of the kind the previous nations met with.’
Indeed no one, not even the Jews knew anything about the people of Madyan at the time of the revelation of the Qur’an (Au.).
وَمَا كُنْتَ بِجَانِبِ الطُّورِ إِذْ نَادَيْنَا وَلَٰكِنْ رَحْمَةً مِنْ رَبِّكَ لِتُنْذِرَ قَوْمًا مَا أَتَاهُمْ مِنْ نَذِيرٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ (46)
28|46| Neither were you there at the side of (Mount) Tur when We called (to Musa); but rather a mercy from your Lord, so that you might warn a people to whom no warner came before you, haply that they will receive the admonition.
وَلَوْلَا أَنْ تُصِيبَهُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُوا رَبَّنَا لَوْلَا أَرْسَلْتَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولًا فَنَتَّبِعَ آيَاتِكَ وَنَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (47)
28|47| If it was not (for the fact) that had a calamity struck them because of what their hands forwarded, they (would have) said, ‘O our Lord! Had you only sent us a Messenger, so that we could have followed Your revelations and been of the believers.’83
83. In other words, The Prophet was sent in order to remove any excuse they could have had, if no Messenger was raised, but punished for idol-worship. The same thing is differently worded elsewhere in the Qur’an (4: 165),
{لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ حُجَّةٌ بَعْدَ الرُّسُلِ} [النساء: 165]
“... so that the people might have no argument against Allah after the Messengers.”
It must be noted however, that Allah did not say, “If they had not said this, we would not have sent a Messenger” (Razi).
فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمُ الْحَقُّ مِنْ عِنْدِنَا قَالُوا لَوْلَا أُوتِيَ مِثْلَ مَا أُوتِيَ مُوسَىٰ ۚ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفُرُوا بِمَا أُوتِيَ مُوسَىٰ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۖ قَالُوا سِحْرَانِ تَظَاهَرَا وَقَالُوا إِنَّا بِكُلٍّ كَافِرُونَ (48)
28|48| But when there came to them the truth from Us, they said, ‘Why is he not given the like of what Musa was given?’84 Had they not disbelieved in what Musa was given earlier?85 They said,86 ‘A pair of sorceries,87 mutually supporting each other.88 And they said, ‘As for us, we are disbelievers in each one of them.’89
84. Asad places a note here which, as it terminates, correctly portrays the mind of the atheists which have worked similarly throughout the ages, including our own. He writes: “As the Qur’an frequently points out, the basic ethical truths enunciated in it are the same as those of earlier revelations. It is this very statement which induced the opponents of Muhammad (saws) – in his own time as well as in later times – to question the authenticity of the Qur’an: ‘If it had really been revealed by God,’ they argue, ‘would so many of its propositions, especially its social laws, differ so radically from the laws promulgated in that earlier divine writ, the Torah?’ By advancing this argument (and quite apart from the question whether the text of the Bible as we know it today has or has not been corrupted in the course of time), the opponents of Muhammad’s message deliberately overlook the fact, repeatedly stressed in the Qur’an, that the earlier systems of law were conditioned by the spiritual level of particular people and the exigencies of a particular chapter of human history, and therefore had to be superseded by new laws at a higher stage of human development... However, as is evident from the immediate sequence – and especially from the last sentence of this verse – the above specious argument is not meant to uphold the authenticity of the Bible as against that of the Qur’an, but rather, aims at discrediting both – and, through them, the basic religious principle against which the irreligious mind always revolts: namely, the idea of divine revelation and of man’s absolute dependence on and responsibility to God, the Ultimate Cause of all that exists.”
85. It is reported that the Jews had coaxed the Makkans into asking the Prophet to produce similar miracles as Musa (asws) had done. Hence it is the Jews that Allah addressed when He said, “Had they not disbelieved in what Musa was given earlier?” (Ibn Jarir, Kashshaf, Ibn Kathir).
Yusuf Ali expounds: “When a Revelation is sent to them, in the Qur’an, adapted to all their needs and the needs of the time they live in, they hark back to antiquity. The holy Prophet (saws) was in many respects like Moses, but the times in which he lived were different from the times of Moses, and his age did not suffer from the deceptions of sorcery, like that of Moses. The remedies which his age and future ages required (for his Message was universal) were different. His miracle of the Qur’an was different and more permanent than the Rod and the Radiant-White Hand of Moses. But supposing that the Quraish had been humoured in their insincere demands, would they have believed? Did they believe in Moses? They were only put up by the Jews to make objections which they themselves did not believe in.”
86. To whom is the allusion by the pronoun “they”? There are several answers. Imam Razi’s opinion is that the allusion is to the Makkans, who refused to believe in any Prophet or any heavenly message. This leads to the acceptance of the following word “sihran” as alluding to Tawrah and the Qur’an; which in turn is explained by the ayah that follows, “As for us, we are disbelievers in each one of them.”
87. A variant reading has been “sahiran” meaning, the two magicians. Following this reading, Ibn `Abbas said that the allusion is to the two Prophets Musa and Muhammad. But Mujahid thought the allusion is to Musa and Harun. (This is Ibn Kathir’s preferred meaning, if the variant reading is accepted). But most have read the word as it now appears in the Qur’an, viz., “sihran” meaning the two sorceries. Hence we have a second opinion of Ibn `Abbas which says that the allusion by two sorceries is to Tawrah and the Qur’an. Dahhak and Qatadah said the allusion is to Tawrah and Injeel. Ibn Jarir is with this last opinion.
If we accept the reading as “sihran,” writes Ibn Kathir, then the preferred meaning is that the allusion is to Tawrah and the Qur’an. This is strengthened by another verse of the Qur’an wherein Allah (swt) reports the Jinn as saying (46: 30),
{إِنَّا سَمِعْنَا كِتَابًا أُنْزِلَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مُوسَى مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ} [الأحقاف: 30]
“Indeed we have heard a Book sent down after Musa, confirming that which came before it.”
And, Warqah b. Nawfal had said, (when the Prophet read out to him the first ever revelation he had received), “This is the same Namus (message) that had been revealed to Musa.”
Those who are endowed with knowledge, continues Ibn Kathir, know instinctively that out of the Books that Allah sent down from the heaven unto the Prophets, there is no other as noble, eloquent, complete and perfect as the Book revealed to Muhammad, viz., the Qur’an. What comes next in nobleness and greatness, is the Book that was given to Musa, viz., Tawrah.
88. “A contemptuous allusion,” comments Asad, “on the one hand, to Old Testament predictions of the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) … and, on the other, to the oft-repeated Qur’anic statement that this divine writ had been revealed to ‘confirm the truth of earlier revelations.’”
89. Mujahid said that when they said, “we disbelieve in each one of them,” they meant that they disbelieved in the Qur’an; (which was their primary concern). Although Ibn `Abbas and Dahhak thought the allusion was to Tawrah and Injeel (Ibn Jarir). Imam Razi is of the opinion that their allusion was to every Revelation that was ever sent, whether the Tawrah, the Qur’an, or any other Book. This means the pronoun in “We” is for the Makkans. Hence Allah said, “Say, ‘Then bring a writing from Allah which is a better guide than the two.’”
Shah Abdul Qadir commented: The Makkan unbelievers asserted that had the Prophet (saws) brought such miracles as Musa did in his own time, they would have unhesitatingly accepted him. However, when they discussed the affair with the Jews, and found that the Tawrah also contained some of what the Qur’an was rehearsing, namely, idol-worship is tantamount to disbelief, Resurrection and Reckoning are true, carrion is unlawful, and that a final Messenger is to appear, etc., then they declared that both the Tawrah and the Qur’an are sorceries, and both Musa and Muhammad were sorcerers (and hence the words, “We disbelieve in each one of them)” - Shabbir.
قُلْ فَأْتُوا بِكِتَابٍ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ هُوَ أَهْدَىٰ مِنْهُمَا أَتَّبِعْهُ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ (49)
28|49| Say, ‘Then bring a writing from Allah which is a better guide than the two,90 so that I might follow it, if you are truthful.’91
90. Ibn Zayd said that the allusion by “the two” is to the Tawrah and the Qur’an (Ibn Jarir). Asad adds: “The Gospel is not mentioned in this context because, as Jesus himself had stressed, his message was based on the Law of Moses, and was not meant to displace the latter.”
91. We might perhaps attempt to paraphrase verses 47 to 49: “If it was not (for the fact) that had a calamity struck them (the Makkans) because of what their hands forwarded, they (would have) said, ‘O our Lord! Had you only sent us a Messenger so that we could have followed Your revelations and had been of the believers.’ But when there came to them the truth from Us, they said, (prompted by the Jews), ‘Why is he not given the like of what Musa was given?’ (The answer to the Jews is), had they not disbelieved in what Musa was given earlier? (The Makkan attitude is no different). They said, ‘(Tawrah and Qur’an) are a pair of sorceries, mutually supporting each other (since, in a nut-shell, they seem to carry the same message). And they (the Makkans also said), ‘As for us, we are disbelievers in each one of them.’ Say (O Muhammad), ‘Then bring a writing from Allah which is a better guide than the two, (Tawrah and the Qur’an) so that I might follow it, if you are true’” (Au.).
فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَكَ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّمَا يَتَّبِعُونَ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ ۚ وَمَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّنِ اتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ بِغَيْرِ هُدًى مِنَ اللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ (50)
28|50| But if they do not respond to you, then know that they only follow their caprices. And who can be more misguided than he who followed his caprice, devoid of guidance from Allah? Verily, Allah does not guide a transgressing people.
وَلَقَدْ وَصَّلْنَا لَهُمُ الْقَوْلَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ (51)
28|51| We have indeed (exhaustively) conveyed92 the Word to them,93 haply that they will receive admonition.
92. The parenthetical remark is prompted by the additional connotations that the textual “wassala” yields over the sense of merely conveying (something). Zamakhshari explains the associate meanings as, “the Qur’anic revelations came in close succession, with promises and threats, narratives and examples, admonitions and advices, so that they might draw lessons. Additionally it could mean they came down uninterrupted, one linked to the other.”
Mujahid on the other hand explained “wassala” as meaning, “explained in detail,” Suddi said it means, “made it clear” (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir).
93. Rifa`ah al-Qurazi (a former Jew) said that this and the next two verses were revealed in reference to ten men of whom he was one (Ibn Jarir, Zamakhshari, Razi, Qurtubi). The report is also in Ibn Abi Hatim (Ibn Kathir). Shawkani traces the report as found in Ibn Abi Shaybah, Ibn al-Mundhir, Abu ‘l Qasim Baghawi, Tabarani and Ibn Marduwayh, and thinks that the chain of narrators is strong enough.
However, reports do not mention names of the other nine (Au.).
الَّذِينَ آتَيْنَاهُمُ الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ هُمْ بِهِ يُؤْمِنُونَ (52)
28|52| Those to whom We gave the Book before this, they are believers in it.94
94. Mujahid, Qatadah and Dahhak held the opinion that this and the following few verses were revealed in reference to a group of followers of a previous Book. They believed in their Prophet, were persecuted, but observed patience and so were rewarded twice (Ibn Jarir).
Qurtubi thinks these verses are of general nature that describe any of the people of the Book who embraced Islam, although, in particular they could be applicable to some forty Christians who came from Najran along with Ja`far (at Madinah). Also see the notes that follow herewith.
Majid presents the testimony of a Jew. He writes: “Look at the grudging and very amusing admission of a modern Jew, - a rank reviler of the Prophet(saws): ‘Mohammed … had received considerable encouragement from certain Jews in Mekka. Some accepted Islam; others, doubtless, had flattered him, or even hailed him as a prophet (saws), in the hope of bringing him over to Judaism.’ (Torrey, Jewish Foundations of Islam, p. 128).”
وَإِذَا يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ قَالُوا آمَنَّا بِهِ إِنَّهُ الْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا مِنْ قَبْلِهِ مُسْلِمِينَ (53)
28|53| When it is recited to them, they say, ‘We have believed in it. It is indeed the truth from our Lord. We had indeed submitted (ourselves)95 before this.’96
95. Muslimin: That is, ‘we were believers in One God, sincerely devoted to Him, and responsive to His call (Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir). Sayyid Qutb echoes Thanwi and others when he offers a simple explanation: “They were those who had submitted themselves to Allah earlier.”
In the following statement of Mawdudi if the word “Muslim” is taken in the sense of “those who had submitted,” then, it reflects the opinion of the majority: “This statement explains that Islam is not merely the name of the Religion brought by Muhammad (peace be on him), nor does the term ‘Muslim’ denote only those who follow him. Rather, all the Prophets brought one and the same Religion and their followers have, at all times, been Muslims. However, if people refused to accept the Prophet (saws) who was raised after the one they initially followed, then, they ceased to be Muslims. As for those who believed in the previous Prophets and who also accepted the new Prophet when he was raised, there was no interruption in their Faith; they were Muslims before and continued to be so after their believing in the new Prophet.”
Alusi however, pointing out that while Kashshaf and Bahr tell us that Islam is not a specific attribute of this Ummah, but rather, that of anyone who adopted pure monotheism, and believed in Divine revelation, also informs us that Suyuti was reluctant to use the terms Islam and Muslims for the followers of the Prophets of the past. He in fact wrote a short treatise to demonstrate that only this Ummah has been named “Muslimeen.” However, when he had finished writing the treatise, and lay down to rest, this verse occurred to him as contradicting his thesis, and he felt, in his words, “as if a mountain had fallen over me.” He thought over it for sometime but could not work out reconciliation. He supplicated to Allah to open his heart and went to sleep. By morning three explanations occurred to him that helped him reconcile his thesis with this verse. Alusi mentions the three, but expresses his own dissatisfaction with two of them, agreeing more or less with the third. He, Alusi, is inclined to believe, along with Baydawi, that the use of the word “muslimin” is in the sense of submission. Thus, we are brought back to the explanations offered by Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir and others, as stated above.
A contemporary commentator seizes on Alusi’s report to criticize Suyuti. To him Suyuti offers “meaningless interpretations,” and that, “None of these answers, however, show any trace of the ‘opening of the heart’ for which he prayed.” The critic then proceeds to present evidences from the Qur’an to demonstrate Suyuti’s error. We cannot of course comment on Suyuti’s thesis without having seen it ourselves, and wonder whether the critic had seen it either. He does not quote anything more than what Alusi did. But we might point out that the verses that he quotes as evidences are in the knowledge of every student of the Qur’an, not to speak of a mufassir of Suyuti’s stature. Suyuti could have had the famous verse in mind which says (22: 78):
{وَجَاهِدُوا فِي اللَّهِ حَقَّ جِهَادِهِ هُوَ اجْتَبَاكُمْ وَمَا جَعَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ مِنْ حَرَجٍ مِلَّةَ أَبِيكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ هُوَ سَمَّاكُمُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مِنْ قَبْلُ} [الحج: 78]
“And strive in Allah, with a striving due to Him. He chose you. And He has not placed upon you in the religion any constriction: the faith of your father Ibrahim. He named you Muslims earlier,” where, according to Ibn `Abbas, Qatadah, Mujahid and Dahhak, the pronoun “huwa” is for Allah. That is, “Allah named you Muslims.” So, one might ask, if the previous nations were Muslims, what was the point in naming the Ummah of Muhammad as Muslims. (Interestingly, the critic does not include this ayah among his relevant and irrelevant evidences. Perhaps because it would not have served him his purpose without his curious footnote [placed at 22: 78] in which he says that the pronoun in “sammakum,” [i.e., the “you” of “He named you”], alludes to all the monotheists of the world, previous and subsequent. So, the address in “strive” is to this Ummah, the “you” of “He chose you” is for this Ummah, the address in “He has not placed upon you” is to this Ummah, but the allusion in “He named you” is to all the monotheist of the world, past and present!) In any case, in view of this ayah we understand that, after all, Suyuti had a point, apart from whatever else he would have mentioned in his treatise. Additionally, we might point out that the people of the Book take strong exception to earlier Jews and Christians referred to as Muslims, perhaps not only because as a mass they never “surrendered” themselves to One God but also because the word does not appear anywhere in their scriptures (Au.).
96. Before this, i.e., before the revelation of the Qur’an (Kashshaf and others).
Sa`id b. Jubayr said that these verses were revealed in response to a delegation from Abyssinia. Some seventy churchmen had been sent to Madinah by Najashi. (They were referred to, according to Muqatil, as the Companions of the Ark, and had come down along with Ja`far: Razi). The Prophet recited Surah Ya Sin before them. They wept and declared their faith in Islam. They were rewarded twice for believing in two books, the Gospels and the Qur’an. Zuhri was also of the opinion that these verses were revealed in connection with this Abyssinian delegation.
According to another report in Ibn Is-haq, the reference is to another delegation. This one comprised of twenty or so men. They met the Prophet in the Haram (at Makkah: Au.) and sat down before him while the Quraysh sat in their own circles. When they had explained to the Prophet the purpose of their visit, he recited some verses of the Qur’an and invited them to Islam. When they heard the Qur’an, their eyes were filled with tears. They embraced Islam, for they had found in him the signs that they had read in their Scriptures. When they rose up to go, Abu Jahl and a few of the Qurayshis confronted them and said, “May Allah fail the caravan (of yours). Your compatriots in your religion sent you to bring information about this man. But you had not even settled down before him that you abandoned your religion.” Of the things he said was, “We do not know of a delegation more stupid than yours,” or words of that sort. They replied, “Peace on you. We do not wish to enter into a bickering contest with you. Unto us, what we stand on, and unto you what you stand on. We have not been lax in seeking good for ourselves” (Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir).
And Abu Musa al-Ash`ari reports that the Prophet said,
ثَلاَثَةٌ يُؤْتَوْنَ أَجْرَهُمْ مَرَّتَيْنِ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ آمَنَ بِنَبِيِّهِ وَأَدْرَكَ النَّبِىَّ -صلى الله عليه وسلم- فَآمَنَ بِهِ وَاتَّبَعَهُ وَصَدَّقَهُ فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ وَعَبْدٌ مَمْلُوكٌ أَدَّى حَقَّ اللَّهِ وَحَقَّ مَوَالِيهِ فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ وَرَجُلٌ كَانَتْ لَهُ أَمَةٌ فَغَذَّاهَا فَأَحْسَنَ غِذَاءَهَا ثُمَّ أَدَّبَهَا فَأَحْسَنَ تَأْدِيبَهَا ثُمَّ أَعْتَقَهَا وَتَزَوَّجَهَا فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ
“There are three persons who will be rewarded twice: A man of the People of the Book who believed in his own Messenger and then happen to be in the time of the Prophet, peace on him, believed in him, testified him and followed him: he shall have two fold reward. A slave who did his duty to his master and to Allah – he shall have two fold reward; and a man who had a slave-girl. He trained and educated her well, freed her, and then married her – he shall have two fold reward.”
The hadith is in the Sahihayn (Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, Shawkani).
The above is from Muslim (Au.).
And, after narrating this hadith to a Khurasani student, Sha`bi remarked, “Take this hadith from me for no cost. Earlier, a man traveled to Madinah to hear a hadith of this kind” (Qurtubi).
أُولَٰئِكَ يُؤْتَوْنَ أَجْرَهُمْ مَرَّتَيْنِ بِمَا صَبَرُوا وَيَدْرَءُونَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ السَّيِّئَةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ (54)
28|54| They will be given their reward twice for that they patiently endured. They avert evil with good,97 and, of what We have provided them, they expend.98
97. Accordingly, the Prophet has said,
أَتْبِعْ السَّيِّئَةَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ تَمْحُهَا وَخَالِقْ النَّاسَ بِخُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ
“Follow up an evil deed with a good one, it will erase it, and deal with the people in a goodly manner” (Qurtubi).
There is a shorter hadith of this meaning, in Ahmad, which Suyuti declared trustworthy in his Jami` (Au.).
98. One can see how Allah first mentioned belief as their merit, then deeds involving the limbs of the body, and finally, deeds involving wealth, i.e., charitable expending (Razi).
Thanwi adds: In warding off evil with the good, is the cure for love of the self, while in expending is the cure for love of wealth.
وَإِذَا سَمِعُوا اللَّغْوَ أَعْرَضُوا عَنْهُ وَقَالُوا لَنَا أَعْمَالُنَا وَلَكُمْ أَعْمَالُكُمْ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ لَا نَبْتَغِي الْجَاهِلِينَ (55)
28|55| When they hear vain talk, they turn away therefrom and say, ‘To us our deeds, and to you your deeds. Peace on you.99 We seek not the ignorant.’
99. Hasan has said about the “salamun alaykum” of such occasion as “kalimatu ‘l hilm” meaning, a word of gentle indulgence (Zamakhshari). What the words mean is, ‘You may rest in peace from us. We do not wish to wrangle with you’ (Qurtubi).
Shah Abdul Qadir wrote at this point that if one feels talking to an ignorant man will not make him understand, then it is better to avoid talking to him altogether (Shabbir).
إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۚ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ (56)
28|56| Verily, you cannot guide whom you like; but rather, Allah guides whom He will;100 and He knows best the rightly guided.101
100. “The Qur’anic statement, ‘thou canst not guide aright everyone whom thou lovest,’ has undoubtedly a timeless import as well: it stresses the inadequacy of all human endeavours to ‘convert’ any other person, however loving and loved, to one’s own beliefs, or to prevent him from falling into what one regards as error, unless that person wills to be so guided” (Asad).
Abu Hurayrah is severally reported to have said that this verse was revealed in reference to the Prophet’s uncle Abu Talib. When his death approached him, the Prophet suggested to him, “Say: there is no deity save Allah, that I might bear witness on the Day of Standing.” He replied, “If not for the Quraysh taunting me that I said it overtaken by death-pangs, I would have said it;” and Allah revealed this verse. According to other reports, when the Prophet offered him the testimony of la ilaha, Abu Jahl and `Abdullah b. Umayyah, who had arrived before him, began to say, “Abu Talib! Will you renounce the religion of `Abd al-Muttalib (his father)?” The Prophet kept pressing on him with the testimony until Abu Talib said, “Upon the religion of `Abd al-Muttalib.” He refused to say the testimony. The Prophet remarked, “By Allah, I shall remain seeking forgiveness for you until I am forbidden. So Allah revealed, “It was not (proper) for the Prophet and the faithful to seek pardon for the polytheists, even if they were near of kin, after it became clear to them that they are companions of the Fire.”
Sa`id ibn Musayyib, Mujahid and others have the same report to offer (Ibn Jarir). The report is in the Sahihayn which adds that every time the Prophet offered the testimony to Abu Talib, the two repeated their taunt (According to some reports Abu Talib said, “If it was not for a remark that would be left on you and on the progeny of your father, I would have said the words to the cool of your eyes” - Zamakhshari).
In this context, Ibn Abi Hatim has another report. It reports Sa`id b. Abi Rashid as saying,
عن سعيد بن أبي راشد قال: كان رسول قيصر جاء إليَّ قال: كتب معي قيصر إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كتابًا، فأتيته فدفعت الكتاب، فوضعه في حجره، ثم قال: "مِمَّنْ الرجل؟" قلت: من تنوخ . قال: "هل لك في دين أبيك إبراهيم الحنيفية؟" قلت: إني رسول قوم، وعلى دينهم حتى أرجع إليهم. فضحك رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ونظر إلى أصحابه وقال: إِنَّكَ لا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ
“I was sent as a messenger by the Roman emperor. I traveled to the Prophet and presented the letter. He placed it in his house and then asked, ‘Where are you from?’ I answered ‘I am of the Tannukh.’ He asked, ‘Are you interested in the pure religion of your forefather Ibrahim?’ I said, ‘I am the messenger of a people, and on their religion until I return.’ The Prophet smiled broadly, looked at his Companions and said, ‘Verily, you cannot guide whom you like, but rather, Allah guides whom He will’ (Ibn Kathir).
The above report is in Ahmad and other works also, some of which versions are quite interesting, but too long for reproduction in this short work (Au.).
We also know of the affair of Abu Talib. The Prophet was keen that he should embrace Islam before death, but he would not. At death bed, with Abu Jahl on guard against Abu Talib’s tongue, the Prophet pleaded:
قُلْ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله أَشْهَد لَكَ بِها يَوْمَ القِيامَةِ، قال: لولا أن تعيرني قريش لأقررت عينك، فأنزل الله: إِنَّكَ لا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ
“Say la ilaha lillallah, so that I can bear testimony to your testimony on the day of Judgment.” He replied, “If not for Quraysh taunting me I would have said it to cool your eyes,” and Allah revealed, “You cannot guide whom you love ..” (Ibn Jarir).
It is also reported by `Amir that when Abu Talib died, some people commented that his kinship with the Prophet would not benefit him in anyway. The Prophet remarked,
بَلى، والَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِه إنَّه السَّاعَةَ لَفِي ضَحْضَاحٍ مِنَ النَّارِ عَلَيْهِ نَعْلان مِنْ نَارٍ تغْلِي مِنْهُما أُمُّ رأسِهِ، وما مِنْ أهل النَّارِ مِنْ إِنْسانٍ هُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَذابًا مِنْهُ
“No, by Allah. There will be no one on the Day of Judgment receiving a lighter punishment than Abu Talib. He will (merely) wear two sandals of Fire, (yet) that will boil his brain” (Ibn Jarir).
This verse does not contradict another of the Qur’an (23: 73) which says,
{وَإِنَّكَ لَتَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ} [المؤمنون: 73]
“And surely, you guide them (O Prophet) to the straight path.” For, the latter is speaking of the way that the Prophet could show, while the former is speaking of the tawfiq (Divine impulse) – Razi.
In all circumstance, the reports lead us to believe that the Prophet’s eagerness had its basis in his love for his uncle. One should therefore tread on the topic carefully, to avoid causing any pain to him. Caution should be the watchword (Alusi).
101. The words could also be understood as meaning, He knows well who will receive guidance and who will not (Razi).
وَقَالُوا إِنْ نَتَّبِعِ الْهُدَىٰ مَعَكَ نُتَخَطَّفْ مِنْ أَرْضِنَا ۚ أَوَلَمْ نُمَكِّنْ لَهُمْ حَرَمًا آمِنًا يُجْبَىٰ إِلَيْهِ ثَمَرَاتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ رِزْقًا مِنْ لَدُنَّا وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ (57)
28|57| They said, ‘If we were to follow the guidance with you, we will be snatched away from our land.’102 Have We not established for them a secure Sanctuary, to which are brought fruits of every manner, as provision from Ourselves?103 But most of them realize not.104
102. That is because in pre-Islamic times the territories around the Makkans were unsafe. People who could not protect themselves through an alliance could be looted, kidnapped, enslaved, or even murdered, except for the Makkans, who were treated with respect for the virtue of they being the custodians of the Ka`ba. It was Harth b. `Amir b. Nawfal who said, “We know that what you have brought is true. But, we are prevented by the thought that we will be snatched off the land – meaning, war will be declared on us (Zamakhshari, Razi, Qurtubi).
103. The purport of the ayah is that when the unbelievers said that they were afraid of losing worldly benefits if they declared their belief in the new message, Allah answered, in effect, that insistence upon rejection of the truth in fact endangers worldly blessings (Razi).
104. That is, they do not know that just as the security provided to them by Allah was by virtue of Him having declared the city a Sanctuary, the fruits of all manner that are brought to it are also by Allah’s power and command.
وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا ۖ فَتِلْكَ مَسَاكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَنْ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا ۖ وَكُنَّا نَحْنُ الْوَارِثِينَ (58)
28|58| And, how many of the towns We destroyed that exulted in their manner of life? Yonder there are their dwellings that were not dwelt in after them, except briefly;105 it is We who were the inheritors.
105. The textual words “illa qalila” afford two meanings. One, those dwellings were not inhabited but by a few of the remnants, and two, they were not dwelt in at all after their inhabitants were destroyed, save for an occasional passer-by who spent a night or so. This is the meaning that Ibn `Abbas preferred as noted by several commentators.
وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ الْقُرَىٰ حَتَّىٰ يَبْعَثَ فِي أُمِّهَا رَسُولًا يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِنَا ۚ وَمَا كُنَّا مُهْلِكِي الْقُرَىٰ إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَالِمُونَ (59)
28|59| And, your Lord was not a destroyer of the towns until He had sent to its central (town) a Messenger reciting upon them Our revelations.106 And We were not to be the destroyers unless its inhabitants were evildoers.107
106. Allah sent Messengers to the main towns because, one, (for cultural reason) the message is understood better in the main towns and, two because propagation of the call is easier from there than from minor towns (Thanwi).
107. That is, Allah would not destroy a town even after it had received His Messenger until confirmed rejection of its inhabitants proved true through several respites.
وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ فَمَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتُهَا ۚ وَمَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ (60)
28|60| And, whatever of the things you are given, is but this world’s transitory (means of) enjoyment and its glitter. But that which is with Allah, is better and longer lasting. Will you not then reason?108
108. Ibn `Abbas is reported to have said, “Allah created the world and made its people of three kinds: believer, hypocrite and unbeliever. The believer prepares for the Hereafter, the hypocrite goes for the glitter, and the unbeliever for fleeing enjoyments.”
أَفَمَنْ وَعَدْنَاهُ وَعْدًا حَسَنًا فَهُوَ لَاقِيهِ كَمَنْ مَتَّعْنَاهُ مَتَاعَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ثُمَّ هُوَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنَ الْمُحْضَرِينَ (61)
28|61| Is he then, whom We have promised a good promise, and so he will meet it, like he whom We gave this world’s transitory (means of) enjoyment but who will be of those arraigned on the Day of Standing?109
109. That is, he will be brought forth and made to appear in Allah’s Court of Justice as a criminal on the Day of Judgment (Au.).
وَيَوْمَ يُنَادِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُ أَيْنَ شُرَكَائِيَ الَّذِينَ كُنْتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ (62)
28|62| And that day He will call them, ‘Where are My partners that you were alleging?’
قَالَ الَّذِينَ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقَوْلُ رَبَّنَا هَٰؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ أَغْوَيْنَا أَغْوَيْنَاهُمْ كَمَا غَوَيْنَا ۖ تَبَرَّأْنَا إِلَيْكَ ۖ مَا كَانُوا إِيَّانَا يَعْبُدُونَ (63)
28|63| Those for whom the word (of punishment) will prove true will say, ‘O our Lord! These are the ones whom we led astray. We led them astray, even as we (ourselves) went astray.110 We disassociate ourselves (from them) to You. It is not us they were worshipping.’
110. What they would try to say is that ‘we are not truly responsible for misguiding them. We were ourselves misguided and they, those we are supposed to have misguided, went astray by their own volition. For, all that we did by way of leading them astray is to make suggestions. Yet, if we had invited them to disbelief, they were invited by Allah to belief through a voice that spoke from within, the voice of reason and conscience, to which was added the voice of the Messengers sent to them.’ This is what Shaytan will say on the Day of Judgment (14: 22):
{وَقَالَ الشَّيْطَانُ لَمَّا قُضِيَ الْأَمْرُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَعَدَكُمْ وَعْدَ الْحَقِّ وَوَعَدْتُكُمْ فَأَخْلَفْتُكُمْ وَمَا كَانَ لِيَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ سُلْطَانٍ إِلَّا أَنْ دَعَوْتُكُمْ فَاسْتَجَبْتُمْ لِي فَلَا تَلُومُونِي وَلُومُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ مَا أَنَا بِمُصْرِخِكُمْ وَمَا أَنْتُمْ بِمُصْرِخِيَّ إِنِّي كَفَرْتُ بِمَا أَشْرَكْتُمُونِ مِنْ قَبْلُ إِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ} [إبراهيم: 22]
“And Satan will say when the matter is concluded, ‘Allah promised you a true promise, and I too promised. But I failed in my promise. And I had no power over you except that I invited you and you responded to me. Therefore, do not blame me, blame your own selves. I cannot come to your aid now nor can you come to my aid. I disown your earlier (act of) associating me (with Allah).’ Surely, a painful chastisement (awaits) the wrongdoers” (Zamakhshari, Razi).
وَقِيلَ ادْعُوا شُرَكَاءَكُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ وَرَأَوُا الْعَذَابَ ۚ لَوْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَهْتَدُونَ (64)
28|64| And it will be said, ‘Call upon your partners.’ So they will call upon them, but they will not respond to them. And they will see the chastisement – would that they had received the guidance.111
111. Zajjaj has said that the consequence of “would that” has not been stated. The implication is, “had we believed, we would have escaped the punishment today” (Qurtubi).
وَيَوْمَ يُنَادِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَا أَجَبْتُمُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ (65)
28|65| And that day He will call them and say, ‘What did you answer the Messengers?’112
112. After being questioned about tawhid, they will next be questioned about risalah to be asked in effect, ‘If you could not use your own reason to arrive at tawhid, you could have at least listened to the voice of the Messengers. How did you answer them?’ (Shabbir)
فَعَمِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَنْبَاءُ يَوْمَئِذٍ فَهُمْ لَا يَتَسَاءَلُونَ (66)
28|66| But that day their arguments will be lost to them, and they will not ask each other.113
113. That is, they will not ask each other for help, as people normally do when they face difficulties (Zamakhshari, Razi). Qurtubi thinks they will not seek each other’s advice over how they should answer to construct a good case.
فَأَمَّا مَنْ تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَعَسَىٰ أَنْ يَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُفْلِحِينَ (67)
28|67| Then, as for he who had repented, believed, and did righteous deeds, then haply114 he will be of the successful.
114. When `asa (haply) is used by Allah (as a possibility from Him), it actually stands for certainty (Ibn Jarir).
وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَيَخْتَارُ ۗ مَا كَانَ لَهُمُ الْخِيَرَةُ ۚ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَتَعَالَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ (68)
28|68| And your Lord creates what He will, and chooses.115 Not for them was the choice. Glory to Allah, high above that they associate (with Him).
115. Bazzar has a trustworthy report which says,
إن الله اختار أصحابي على العالمين سوى النبيين والمرسلين، واختار لي من أصحابي أربعة" - يعني أبا بكر وعمر وعثمان وعلياً رحمهم الله - "فجعلهم أصحابي". وقال: "في أصحابي: كلهم خير، واختار أمتي على الأمم، واختار من أمتي أربعة قرون: القرن الأول والثاني والثالث والرابع
“Allah chose my Companions over the peoples of the world, except the Messengers and Prophets. Then of my Companions He chose for me four : Abu Bakr, `Umar, `Uthman and `Ali. He made them my Companions. To be sure, there is some good in every one of my Companions. And He chose my Ummah over the rest of the nations, and of my Ummah, he chose four centuries: the first, the second, the third and the fourth” (Qurtubi).
Haythamiyy declared that the above report could be trusted except that some differences in opinion have occurred over a few of the narrators (Au.).
Qurtubi follows up with some details about Salah al-Istikharah. It is not right for a believer that he should decide on any (important) affair without asking His Lord to help him choose the right course. Bukhari has a report that the Prophet (saws) used to teach his Companions to seek Allah’s guidance (through Salah al-Istikharah) in every affair. He paid as much attention to it, as he would when teaching them a chapter of the Qur’an. One must offer two rak`ah of Prayers, apart from other supererogatory Prayers and recite after Al-Fatiha, Surah number 109 in the first rak`ah, and number 112 in the second rak`ah. Some scholars have said, adds Qurtubi, that in the first rak`ah one might recite the verse under discussion, and in the second raka`ah (33: 36) which says,
{وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمُ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ وَمَنْ يَعْصِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلَالًا مُبِينًا} [الأحزاب: 36]
“It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should have any choice in their affair. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, has surely strayed into clear error.” After finishing the Prayer he should supplicate to Allah in the following words:
اللّهُمِّ إنّي أسْتَخِيرُ كَ بِعِلْمِكَ و أسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَ أَسْألُكَ مِنْ فَضلِكَ العَظيمِ فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَ لا أقْدِرُ وَ تَعْلَمُ وَ لا أَعْلَمُ وَ أنتَ عَلِّامُ الغُيُوبِ. اللّهمَّ إنْ كُنتَ تَعْلَمُ أنَّ هذَا الأمْرَ خَيْرٌ لِي فِي دِيني وَ مَعاشِي و عاقِبَةِ أمْرِي – أوْ قالَ عاجِلِ أمْري و آجِلِهِ – فَاقْدِرْهُ لي ويَسِّرْهُ لي ثُمَّ بارِكْ لي فيه. و إنْ كُنتَ تَعْلَمُ أنَّ هذَا الأَمْرَ شَرٌّ لي في ديني و مَعاشي و عاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي – أوْ قالَ في عاجِلِ أَمْري و آجِلِه – فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي و اصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ و اقْدِرْ لي الخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كانَ ثُمَّ أَرْضِنِي بِهِ
“O Allah! I seek Your help, by Your knowledge, and invoke Your Might through Your Power; ask of Your great bounty; for You have power and I have no power; You know and I do not know; and You are the Knower of the Unseen. O Allah. If You know that there is good for me in this affair, in my religion and in my life, and my affairs of the hereafter” – or he said, “the immediate of my affairs or the ultimate” – then, give me power for it and make it easy for me. Then, bless me in it. But if You know that this affair bodes evil for me, in my religion or life and in my affairs of the hereafter,” – or he said, “the immediate of the affairs and the ultimate” – then turn it away from me, and turn me away from it, and give me power over good, wherever it might be, and then render it acceptable to me.” After these words the man might name his need.
And `A’isha reports from Abu Bakr who reports from the Prophet that when the Prophet wished to do something he would say, “O Allah! Make a choice for me.” It is also reported that he told Anas, “O Anas, when you wish to do something, seek the right course from your Lord seven times, then see what establishes itself in your heart, for the good is in it.”
The scholars have said that before seeking Allah’s help, one should first empty his heart of any choice without being inclined to any particular side. Then seek Allah’s help in that state of neutrality and do according to the heart’s inclination, for the good is in it.
Quote from Qurtubi ends here.
وَرَبُّكَ يَعْلَمُ مَا تُكِنُّ صُدُورُهُمْ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ (69)
28|69| And your Lord knows what their breasts conceal and what they publish.
وَهُوَ اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ لَهُ الْحَمْدُ فِي الْأُولَىٰ وَالْآخِرَةِ ۖ وَلَهُ الْحُكْمُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ (70)
28|70| And He is Allah, there is no deity save He. Unto Him is the praise,116 at the first and at the last. His is the command,117 and to Him you will be returned.
116. The praise of this mention is the “praise of delight” (hamd al-ladhdhah) and not the obligatory praise (hamd al-kulfah). It is about this class that the Prophet said, “They (the inhabitants of Paradise) will be inspired with glorifications and exaltations (of Allah)” – Zamakhshari.
117. Imam Razi traces the sources of morality to Allah’s will and command: “If not for His command,” he writes, “there would have been no command on the earth. A child would not have obeyed his parents, a wife would not have obeyed her husband, neither subjects their rulers, nor a people their Messenger. It is Allah’s command that established the command of these people.”
قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ اللَّيْلَ سَرْمَدًا إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ مَنْ إِلَٰهٌ غَيْرُ اللَّهِ يَأْتِيكُمْ بِضِيَاءٍ ۖ أَفَلَا تَسْمَعُونَ (71)
28|71| Say, ‘Have you considered, were Allah to make the night perpetual upon you till the Day of Standing, what god is there besides Allah who could bring you light?118 Do you not then hearken?’
118. An important reality is concealed behind the simple statement, “who could bring you light” because all life on earth is dependent on photosynthesis of the plants which in turn depends entirely on the sun’s energy (Au.).
قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ النَّهَارَ سَرْمَدًا إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ مَنْ إِلَٰهٌ غَيْرُ اللَّهِ يَأْتِيكُمْ بِلَيْلٍ تَسْكُنُونَ فِيهِ ۖ أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ (72)
28|72| Say, ‘Have you considered, were Allah to make the day perpetual upon you till the Day of Standing, what god is there beside Allah who could bring you a night wherein you could repose?119 Do you not see (the truth)?’
119. We get light on all parts of the earth because it turns around on its axis completing one turn in about 24 hours, while orbiting the sun in about 365 days. Had the turn on its own axis been so arranged that when the earth completed, say one quarter of its orbit around the sun, then, during the same period, it also turned one fourth around its own axis, then the earth would be showing the same face to the sun. On and on, turning on its own axis, and orbiting the sun during the same time, the earth would always show its one face to the sun, the other half remaining in perpetual darkness. As if to give us an example at close hand, Allah established this system between the earth and the moon. The moon turns around its axis in about 29 days, while it also completes an orbit around the earth in exactly the same time, and hence the inhabitants of the earth can never see the other face of the moon from the earth. This arrangement, according to the scientists, is by accident. But the problem is, the universe is filled with such accidental occurrences! (Au.)
وَمِنْ رَحْمَتِهِ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ لِتَسْكُنُوا فِيهِ وَلِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ (73)
28|73| It is out of His mercy (that) He made for you the night and the day - so that you might rest therein and seek from His bounty120 - and that haply you will give thanks.
120. That is, writes Qurtubi, Allah made night and day, in both of which men can rest, whereas, He made the day specifically so that they may seek His provision.
Alternatively, the verse could be paraphrased as: “It is out of His mercy (that) He made for you night - so that you might rest therein – and the day – so that you may seek His bounty during it (Au.).
28|74| And the day He will call unto them and say, ‘Where are My associates (in Divinity) that you were alleging?’
وَنَزَعْنَا مِنْ كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ شَهِيدًا فَقُلْنَا هَاتُوا بُرْهَانَكُمْ فَعَلِمُوا أَنَّ الْحَقَّ لِلَّهِ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ (75)
28|75| And We shall draw out a witness from every nation121 and say, ‘Produce your evidence.’122 Then shall they know that the truth belongs to Allah, and lost to them will be those that they were forging.
121. That is, Allah will draw out of every nation its Prophet or Messenger, who will testify that he had conveyed the message to them (Mujahid: Ibn Jarir).
122. That is, present your evidences for worshipping false gods despite the Messengers delivering their message to you (Mujahid: Ibn Jarir).
إِنَّ قَارُونَ كَانَ مِنْ قَوْمِ مُوسَىٰ فَبَغَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ۖ وَآتَيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْكُنُوزِ مَا إِنَّ مَفَاتِحَهُ لَتَنُوءُ بِالْعُصْبَةِ أُولِي الْقُوَّةِ إِذْ قَالَ لَهُ قَوْمُهُ لَا تَفْرَحْ ۖ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَرِحِينَ (76)
28|76| Verily, Qarun was of the people of Musa,123 but he acted insolently towards them.124 And such were the treasures We had given him125 that their very keys would burden a body of strong men.126 Whereupon his people said to him, ‘Exult not; surely, Allah does not approve of the exultant.
123. According to Ibrahim, Qatadah and others he was Musa’s cousin (Ibn Jarir). The report is in Ibn Abi Shaybah’s Musannaf, Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abi Hatim, Hakim (who declared it trustworthy), and Ibn Marduwayh (Shawkani).
124. When bagha is used along with the suffix `alayhi, it adds the connotation of envy to the primary meaning of “rising against,” “acting insolently and arrogantly,” etc. Muslim sources say that Qarun was envious of Musa and Harun that they held all the ecclesiastical offices between themselves with none invested in him (Qurtubi and others). Further, Musa was demanding from Qarun payment of poor-due, which, at the rate of 0.1%. But Qarun did not feel it was a just demand and so he rebelled. The significance of the Qur’anic words is fully realized through Jewish literature – if trustworthy. Majid comments and quotes: “Bagha `ala akhihi” is also, ‘He envied his brother; he wished that a blessing, or cause of happiness, or an excellence might become transferred from his brother to himself’ (LL). The Bible gives rather a meagre account of his ‘rising’ against Moses and Aron (on them be peace!). ‘And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?’ (Nu. 16: 2,3).
“Josephus supplies some details:- ‘Corah, an Hebrew of principal account, both by his family and by his wealth … saw that Moses was in an exceeding great dignity, and was uneasy at it, and envied him on that account, (he was of the same tribe with Moses and kin to him) being particularly grieved, because he thought he better deserved that honourable post on account of his great riches, and as not inferior to him in his birth. So he raised a clamour against him among the Levites, who were of the same tribe, and especially among his kindred that … if God had determined to bestow that honour on one of the tribes of Levi, I am more worthy of it than he is, I myself being equal to Moses by my family, and superior to him in riches, and in my age.’ (“Ant,” Iv., 2: 2).”
125. Qurtubi points out that according to Farra’, the explanation by some that Qarun’s wealth was due to his knowledge of “Alchemy” is incorrect. Alchemy is pseudo-science with no basis in truth.
Ibn Kathir comments: Alchemy is no science for the simple reason that no one can alter the essence of things, such as ordinary metals to gold. A trustworthy narrative tells us that the Prophet said, “Allah says,
وَمن أظلم مِمَّن ذهب يخلق خلقا كخلقي ، فليخلقوا ذرة ، أَو ليخلقوا حَبَّة ، أَو ليخلقوا شعيرَة
“Who can be more wrong than he who claimed that he could create like I create. Let them then create an atom, let them create a barley seed.”
This hadith is in reference to the prohibition against artwork involving humans. Now, if mere image-making invokes such response, then what about when somebody claims to alter the very nature of things? No one can ever transfer say, one metal into another, unless it is by karamah (thaumaturgy) of the Friends of Allah, where, it is Allah’s own power which is working and not that of the person involved. For example, we have the story of Haywah b. Shurayh the Egyptian, whom someone asked for help. He had nothing to offer, although he could see the pressing need of the man before him. So he took a few pebbles, shook them in his hand and then advanced them to the man. And Lo! They were pieces of gold. There are several reports of this kind that cannot be presented for reasons of length.
Ibn Kathir’s quote ends here.
126. That Qarun was fabulously rich is a Qur’anic testimony. According to Jewish sources (such as the Jewish Encyclopaedia), the keys to his treasures had to be carried on the back of three hundred mules. (Yusuf Ali traces a similar report from Jewish compilation called Midrashim). Muslim commentators seem to have been influenced by them. They have reported that the keys were carried not by three hundred, but by sixty mules. But, allowance made for Jewish hyperbole, we are still faced with the Qur’anic statement, “And such were the treasures We had given him that their very keys would burden a body of strong men.” There are three answers: one, the word “mafatih” has to be understood in the sense of “treasures.” This was the opinion of Abu Saleh. Two, Dahhak thought that the allusion by “mafatih” is to “treasure-chests,” that were carried on forty mules. Three, the keys were made of leather which ended with wooden rods (that made them heavy). These three opinions are in Ibn Jarir. A fourth possibility is that since during that period technology was quite crude and cumbersome, the keys could have been made of massive sized wood, for special kinds of locks that the technology of that time could afford. Dozens of such keys would have required a band of men to take charge of material in the stockyards. (There is no consensus over the number that `usbah stands for. Opinions vary from 3-10 men to 40 men. Further, uli-quwwah could as well be referring to men experienced in accounts capable of handling large stocks of a variety of goods ranging from cloth, to arms, to spices). Finally, the Qur’an does not implicitly say that the keys were too heavy. A possible implication is that there were so many keys, (quite heavy in their own right), that the carrying, preserving and guarding of which was a heavy task upon a band of men (Au.).
One question may arise: The Israelites did not enter into Palestine for forty years after leaving Egypt. So, where were Qarun’s treasures? Yusuf Ali conjectures that perhaps he left his treasures in Egypt itself having brought with him only the keys. But that does not seem to be very likely, unless Qarun also went back to Egypt along with Musa after Fir`awn was drowned, as reported by Josephus (although Josephus does not name him). Alternatively, the episode might have taken place during the sojourn in Sinai, during which sojourn Qarun might have carried his treasure-chests on dozens of mules. That said, perhaps the explanation of Abu Saleh above is the most satisfactory, especially in view of the fact that the Qur'an has not made hyperbolic statements anywhere (Au.).
وَابْتَغِ فِيمَا آتَاكَ اللَّهُ الدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ ۖ وَلَا تَنْسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا ۖ وَأَحْسِنْ كَمَا أَحْسَنَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ ۖ وَلَا تَبْغِ الْفَسَادَ فِي الْأَرْضِ ۖ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُفْسِدِينَ (77)
28|77| But seek through what Allah has given you the Final Abode; and forget not your share of the world.127 And do good (to others) as Allah has done you good, and seek not corruption in the land. Surely, Allah does not approve of the corrupters.’
127. That is, do not give up working to please Allah in this world, through good deeds – Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid and others (Ibn Jarir).
After presenting the above opinions, Qurtubi adds that according to some the allusion is to his coffin. They meant to say, “Do not forget that in truth, your share of this world is the coffin-shroud in which you will be packed and dispatched into the Hereafter.” He quotes two poetical examples in support of this interpretation.
Another possible meaning is, do not forget to take your rightful share of this-worldly things such as victuals, clothes, articles of adornment, etc. For, your Lord has a right on you, your body has a right on you, your wife and children have their rights on you, your guest has a right on you, and so, give everyone his due (Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir).
قَالَ إِنَّمَا أُوتِيتُهُ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍ عِنْدِي ۚ أَوَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَهْلَكَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مَنْ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُ قُوَّةً وَأَكْثَرُ جَمْعًا ۚ وَلَا يُسْأَلُ عَنْ ذُنُوبِهِمُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ (78)
28|78| He boasted, ‘I was only given it by virtue of a knowledge that I have.’128 What! Did he not know that Allah destroyed before him of the generations, him who was stronger than he in might, and greater in wealth?129 And the criminals will not be questioned about their sins.130
128. Several of the earliest commentators have said that the allusion by “knowledge” is to the knowledge of the Torah that Qarun had mastered.
Ibn Zayd has said that Qarun thought that ‘if Allah was not well-pleased with me, if He was not unaware of my superiority, and the fact that I deserved it all, He would not have bestowed this wealth on me’ (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir).
The apparent meaning can be stated in Majid’s words: “i.e., what is this foolish talk about the grace and bounty of God? I have earned all this wealth on account of my own skill in the art of making money.”
129. That is, if wealth and material power were signs of Allah’s approval, why were nations and individuals of earlier times who were wealthier and stronger than him destroyed?
130. There are two possible meanings: one, as Qatadah has said, the unbelievers will be pushed into Hellfire without being questioned about their actions in the world. And two, the latter day unbelievers will not be questioned about the sins committed by earlier criminals (Ibn Jarir).
Zamakhshari thinks however that the relationship is as follows: When Allah mentioned that there were many who were destroyed for their sins, He also stated that He did not need to question the unbelievers for their crimes. He had full knowledge of their doings.
فَخَرَجَ عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ فِي زِينَتِهِ ۖ قَالَ الَّذِينَ يُرِيدُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا يَا لَيْتَ لَنَا مِثْلَ مَا أُوتِيَ قَارُونُ إِنَّهُ لَذُو حَظٍّ عَظِيمٍ (79)
28|79| Then he strutted forth before his people in his pomp.131 Said those who aimed for the life of the world, ‘O would that we had the like of what Qarun has been given. Truly, he is (a man) of great fortune.’
131. That is, he appeared along with his huge retinue, exulting, and displaying his wealth and position (Ibn Jarir).
“That Korah was joined by a large number of malcontents is borne out by the Jewish traditions: ‘Korah incited all the people against Moses, arguing that it was quite impossible to endure the laws instituted by the latter.’ (JE. VII p. 557).”
وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ وَيْلَكُمْ ثَوَابُ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لِمَنْ آمَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا وَلَا يُلَقَّاهَا إِلَّا الصَّابِرُونَ (80)
28|80| But said those who were given knowledge, ‘Woe unto you, Allah’s reward is better for him who believes and works righteous deeds. But none is granted it except the patient (and persevering).’
فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِ وَبِدَارِهِ الْأَرْضَ فَمَا كَانَ لَهُ مِنْ فِئَةٍ يَنْصُرُونَهُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ الْمُنْتَصِرِينَ (81)
28|81| So We sank him and his dwelling into the earth.132 He had no party to help him against Allah, nor was he of those who could defend themselves.
132. In the absence of a trustworthy report, it is difficult to say what immediate cause led to the earth swallowing Qarun. A popular report as in Ibn Jarir, Kashshaf, Ibn Kathir, Shawkani and others can be summarised in the following manner: When Qarun was asked by Musa to expend a meager amount of wealth in charity, it sounded like too much to him. So he thought he would rather cast aspersion on Musa and humiliate him before the elders of the Children of Israel rather than pay up. He prepared a harlot at good cost to allege that Musa had sex with her. As Musa visited Qarun to admonish him and his retinue, entourage, sycophants and supporters, he was confronted by Qarun who asked him whether what he preached about severing of the hand for theft, stoning to death for adultery and all that was equally applicable to him? (That is, to Musa). Musa said yes. At that point he accused him of adultery and the harlot was produced for testimony. But before the woman could speak out, Musa asked her to swear by all that was holy unto the Israelites before she made a statement. That drove fear into the woman and she decided to tell the truth viz., that Qarun had paid her to make the accusation against Musa. Musa went into prostration weeping, and supplicated that he be given command over the earth for a while. The supplication granted, he commanded the earth to swallow Qarun and his mansion, which it did. Qarun pleaded for mercy as he sank, but Musa paid no attention to him. After the sinking, Allah admonished Musa to the effect that had Qarun pleaded to Him for mercy, He would have responded to him. And, it is thought that his wealth was also sunk into the earth in order to remove any doubt that Musa wished to possess it.
Majid presents the Jewish traditions of this context: “The ground clave asunder that was under them. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained Korah, and all their goods. They, and all appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them; and they perished from among the congregation.’ (Nu. 16: 31-33). See also “Ant.” IV, 4: 3,4). ‘At the time of Kora’s engulfment, the earth became like a funnel, and everything that belonged to him, even linen that was the launderer’s and needle that had been borrowed by personal living at a distance from Korah, rolled till it fell into the chasm. According to the Rabbis, Korah himself underwent the double punishment of being burned and buried alive’ (JE. VII. p. 557).”
The description above of the earth becoming a funnel, if a reliable report, lends credence to the idea that he sank in the Sinai Desert. In our times, several caving in of the earth in the earth, have been reported, some, right in the middle of a town, and so large as to swallow houses and cars (Au.).
There is no hadith that mentions Qarun’s end. But Bukhari has a report which says,
بَيْنَمَا رَجُلٌ يَمْشِي فِي حُلَّةٍ تُعْجِبُهُ نَفْسُهُ مُرَجِّلٌ جُمَّتَهُ إِذْ خَسَفَ اللَّهُ بِهِ فَهُوَ يَتَجَلْجَلُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
“While a man was dragging his lower garment, he was swallowed by the earth and he will remain sinking in the earth until the Day of Standing.” Another report in Ahmad is slightly differently worded. It says,
بَيْنَا رَجُلٌ فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ خَرَجَ فِي بُرْدَيْنِ أَخْضَرَيْنِ يَخْتَالُ فِيهِمَا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ الْأَرْضَ فَأَخَذَتْهُ وَإِنَّهُ لَيَتَجَلْجَلُ فِيهَا إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
“While a man from of those before you came out in two green garments, strutting proudly and arrogantly, Allah ordered the earth to swallow him up. He will remain sinking into it until the Day of Judgment.” (Both these reports do not identify Qarun as the person).
And Hafiz ibn al-Mundhir has recorded in his `Aja’ib wa Ghara’ib the following from Nawfal b. Musahiq: “Once I encountered a young man in one of the mosques in Najran. I began to stare at him for his health, beauty and extremely well-balanced figure. He asked, ‘Why do you stare at me?’ I replied, ‘In wonder at your beauty and perfection.’ He said arrogantly, ‘Ah, even Allah wonders at me.’ Immediately he began to shrink in size until he became as small as about half a foot. One of his relatives picked him up, put him in his pocket and left” (Ibn Kathir).
وَأَصْبَحَ الَّذِينَ تَمَنَّوْا مَكَانَهُ بِالْأَمْسِ يَقُولُونَ وَيْكَأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَيَقْدِرُ ۖ لَوْلَا أَنْ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا لَخَسَفَ بِنَا ۖ وَيْكَأَنَّهُ لَا يُفْلِحُ الْكَافِرُونَ (82)
28|82| And those who had longed for his position the previous day began to say by the morning,133 ‘Ah! It is Allah indeed who extends provision to whom He will of His slaves and constricts it.134 Had not Allah been gracious to us, He would have sunk us (also). Ah!135 Surely the unbelievers never prosper.’
133. By the morning because, writes Alusi, the sinking took place at night.
134. Wealth and well-being are no signs of Allah’s approval. A hadith speaks of the principle behind Allah’s division of wealth and other things. It says, as reported by Ibn Mas`ud,
إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَسَمَ بَيْنَكُمْ أَخْلَاقَكُمْ كَمَا قَسَمَ بَيْنَكُمْ أَرْزَاقَكُمْ وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُعْطِي الدُّنْيَا مَنْ يُحِبُّ وَمَنْ لَا يُحِبُّ وَلَا يُعْطِي الدِّينَ إِلَّا لِمَنْ أَحَبَّ
“Allah has divided good character amongst you as he has divided wealth. Indeed, Allah gives wealth unto him He loves, and unto him He does not love. But He does not bestow iman (faith) except on him He loves” (Ibn Kathir).
135. “Ah” is a very poor equivalent of “wayka-annahu”. In Arabic it carries several connotations such as: “Have you not seen that?”, “Do you not see that?”, “Have you not known?”, etc., which is the meaning preferred by Ibn Jarir and Ibn Kathir.
تِلْكَ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ نَجْعَلُهَا لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فَسَادًا ۚ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ (83)
28|83| That home of the Hereafter We appoint it for those who seek not self-exaltation in the land, nor corruption.136 And the (good) end is for the godfearing.137
136. What constitutes “`uluww fi’l ard”? Ibn Kathir writes that it is arrogant treatment of the people. The Prophet has said,
إن الله عَز وجَل أَوحَى إِليَّ أنْ تَواضَعُوا ، ولا يَبغِ بَعضُكُم على بَعضٍ
“It has been revealed to me that you should be humble, so that none of you waxes proud against another and no one mistreats another.”
The report is in Muslim and Abu Da’ud: Hussain b. Ibrahim.
And `Ali (ibn Abi Talib) has said that if a man wishes that his shoe-lace should be better than his brother’s, then this verse is applicable to him (Kashshaf). That however, adds Ibn Kathir, if it is out of pride and show of insolence; otherwise not. A sahih report says that a man asked the Prophet,
قَالَ رَجُلٌ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَكُونَ ثَوْبُهُ حَسَنًا وَنَعْلُهُ حَسَنَةً. قَالَ « إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَمِيلٌ يُحِبُّ الْجَمَالَ
“A man likes that his clothes be good, and shoes beautiful. Does that constitute pride?” He answered, “No. Allah is beautiful and He approves of the beautiful.”
Qurtubi adds the following from Tabarani who narrates through Ahmad b. Hanbal: It is reported that once Hasan b. `Ali passed by a group of poor folks who were having their lunch over pieces of bread. He greeted them and they invited him to join in. Hasan recited this ayah,
{تِلْكَ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ نَجْعَلُهَا لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فَسَادًا وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ } [القصص: 83]
“That home of the Hereafter We appoint it for those who seek not self-exaltation in the land, nor corruption.” Then he got down from his beast and joined them. When they had finished he said, “I responded to your invitation, now you should respond to mine.” He took them home, fed them and gifted them things.
And it is reported that when `Adiyy b. Hatim entered upon the Prophet for the first time, he spread a cushion for `Adiyy to sit on. But `Adiyy preferred to sit on the bare ground. The Prophet told him,
قال أشهد أنك لا تبغى علوا فى الأرض ولا فسادا
“I testify that you are of those who do not seek self-exaltation in the earth nor corruption.” Not surprisingly, `Adiyy embraced Islam in that session.
And it is reported of `Ali at the time he happened to be the Caliph that he would visit the markets, help the lost one to find his way, assist the weak, pass by the grocery and vegetable sellers and remind them by the Qur’an. All the while he would be repeating,
“That home of the Hereafter We appoint it for those who seek not self-exaltation in the land, nor corruption” (Alusi).
137. “This verse was recited by the Prophet at the end of his last public address” (Majid).
مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْهَا ۖ وَمَنْ جَاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَلَا يُجْزَى الَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا السَّيِّئَاتِ إِلَّا مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ (84)
28|84| Whosoever brings a good (deed), then, for him is better than it. While he who brought an evil, then those who worked evil will not be recompensed but for what they were doing.
إِنَّ الَّذِي فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لَرَادُّكَ إِلَىٰ مَعَادٍ ۚ قُلْ رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْهُدَىٰ وَمَنْ هُوَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُبِينٍ (85)
28|85| Surely He who ordained the Qur’an upon you, will surely bring you back to the place of return.138 Say, ‘My Lord knows very well who has brought the guidance, and who it is that is in manifest error.’
138. Linguistically, the construction “ma`ad” is for “a place of return.” To what is the allusion? According to Ibn `Abbas, Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, Mujahid, `Ikrimah and Sa`id b. Jubayr, it is to Paradise. However, `Ikrimah, Mujahid and Hasan also mentioned it as being an allusion to the Day of Judgment. Ibn `Abbas and Sa`id b. Jubayr offered another opinion. They said that the allusion was to the Prophet’s death. And a fourth opinion is that the allusion was to Makkah. This was the opinion of Ibn `Abbas and Mujahid (Ibn Jarir). This last opinion of Ibn `Abbas is in Bukhari, Nasa’i and others (Ibn Kathir, Shawkani).
Thus Ibn `Abbas figures in all the opinions, perhaps because he had different aspects and implications in mind when making several statements on different occasions. And of course, reconciliation is easily possible, there being no contradiction between the various opinions. Dahhak on the other hand is reported to have said (Kashshaf) that when the Prophet (saws) had reached Juhfah during his Hijrah-journey, he felt nostalgic about Makkah. So to comfort him, Allah (swt) revealed this verse promising him that one day He will take him back to it (Ibn Kathir).
Qurtubi also reports the above opinions as well as the statement of Ibn `Abbas which imply that this verse is neither Makkan nor Madinan.
وَمَا كُنْتَ تَرْجُو أَنْ يُلْقَىٰ إِلَيْكَ الْكِتَابُ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً مِنْ رَبِّكَ ۖ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ ظَهِيرًا لِلْكَافِرِينَ (86)
28|86| And you were not expecting that the Book will be cast unto you, except that it is a mercy from your Lord. Do not then, ever be a supporter to the unbelievers.
وَلَا يَصُدُّنَّكَ عَنْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ بَعْدَ إِذْ أُنْزِلَتْ إِلَيْكَ ۖ وَادْعُ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ (87)
28|87| And never let them avert you away from Allah’s revelations after they have been sent down to you. Invite to your Lord; and never be of the polytheists.
وَلَا تَدْعُ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ ۘ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ ۚ لَهُ الْحُكْمُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ (88)
28|88| And do not invoke with Allah, another deity. There is no deity save He. Everything will perish except His Face.139 His is the command,140 and to Him you will be returned.
139. “Wajhahu”, literally, ‘His countenance’ signifies ‘His self’ or ‘Him’” (Majid). Alusi points out that according to the Salaf, “Wajh” is one of the Attributes of Allah which cannot be qualified or quantified.
Some of the Salaf believed that the sentence is purporting to say, “Everything will perish, except such deeds as performed for the sake of His Face – that is, for the sake of Allah’s Pleasure” (Bada’e`, `Uthmani, Shafi`). Ibn Kathir traces this opinion to Mujahid and Thawri as in Bukhari who himself obviously agrees with the meaning. Ibn Jarir quotes a poetical verse to show similar use by the ancients.
140. That is, it is His command alone that is executed in His creation (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir). Also see note 117 above.
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Dielectric function spectra at 40 K and critical-point energies for CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2
Choi, S. G.
Chen, Rongzhen
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering.
Persson, Clas
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Material Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9050-5445
Kim, T. J.
Hwang, S. Y.
Kim, Y. D.
Mansfield, L. M.
2012 (English)In: Applied Physics Letters, ISSN 0003-6951, E-ISSN 1077-3118, Vol. 101, no 26, p. 261903-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
We report ellipsometrically determined dielectric function ε spectra for CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2 thin film at 40 and 300 K. The data exhibit numerous spectral features associated with interband critical points (CPs) in the spectral range from 0.74 to 6.43 eV. The second-energy-derivatives of ε further reveal a total of twelve above-bandgap CP features, whose energies are obtained accurately by a standard lineshape analysis. The ε spectra determined by ellipsometry show a good agreement with the results of full-potential linearized augmented plane wave calculations. Probable electronic origins of the CP features observed are discussed.
2012. Vol. 101, no 26, p. 261903-
Interband Critical-Points, Temperature-Dependence, Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, Thin-Films, Electronic-Structure, Cuin1-Xgaxse2, Cuinse2
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-116662DOI: 10.1063/1.4773362ISI: 000312830700025Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84871730503OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-116662DiVA, id: diva2:600021
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1. Exploring the Electronic and Optical Properties of Cu(In,Ga) Se2
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2015 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2015. p. vii, 63
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-160949 (URN)978-91-7595-453-0 (ISBN)
2015-03-06, Sal N111, Brinellvägen 23, KTH, Stockholm, 11:00 (English)
Rydh, Andreas
Kondenserad materia och kvantoptik, Stockholms universitet .
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering, Multiscale Materials Modelling.
2. First-Principles Study on Electronic and Optical Properties of Copper-Based Chalcogenide Photovoltaic Materials
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To accelerate environmentally friendly thin film photovoltaic (PV) technologies, copper-based chalcogenides are attractive as absorber materials. Chalcopyrite copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS ≡ CuIn1–xGaxSe2) is today a commercially important PV material, and it is also in many aspects a very interesting material from a scientific point of view. Copper zinc tin sulfide selenide (CZTSSe ≡ Cu2ZnSn(S1–xSex)4) is considered as an emerging alternative thin film absorber material. Ternary Cu2SnS3 (CTS) is a potential absorber material, thus its related alloys Cu2Sn1–xGexS3 (CTGS) and Cu2Sn1–xSixS3 (CTSS) are attractive due to the tunable band gap energies. CuSb(Se1–xTex)2 and CuBi(S1–xSex)2 can be potential as ultra-thin (≤ 100 nm) film absorber materials in the future. In the thesis, analyses of these Cu-based chalcogenides are based on first-principles calculations performed by means of the projector augmented wave method and the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave formalisms within the density functional theory as implemented in the VASP and WIEN2k program packages, respectively.
The electronic and optical properties of CIGS (x = 0, 0.5, and 1) are studied, where the lowest conduction band (CB) and the three uppermost valence bands (VBs) are parameterized and analyzed in detail. The parameterization demonstrates that the corresponding energy dispersions of the topmost VBs are strongly anisotropic and non-parabolic even very close to the Γ-point. Moreover, the density-of-states and constant energy surfaces are calculated utilizing the parameterization, and the Fermi energy level and the carrier concentration are modeled for p-type CIGS. We conclude that the parameterization is more accurate than the commonly used parabolic approximation. The calculated dielectric function of CuIn0.5Ga0.5Se2 is also compared with measured dielectric function of CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2 collaborating with experimentalists. We found that the overall shapes of the calculated and measured dielectric function spectra are in good agreement. The transitions in the Brillouin zone edge from the topmost and the second topmost VBs to the lowest CB are responsible for the main absorption peaks. However, also the energetically lower VBs contribute significantly to the high absorption coefficient.
CTS and its related alloys are explored and investigated. For a perfectly crystalline CTS, reported experimental double absorption onset in dielectric function is for the first time confirmed by our calculations. We also found that the band gap energies of CTGS and CTSS vary almost linearly with composition over the entire range of x. Moreover, those alloys have comparable absorption coefficients with CZTSSe. Cu2XSnS4 (X = Be, Mg, Ca, Mn, Fe, Ni, and Zn) are also studied, revealing rather similar crystalline, electronic, and optical properties. Despite difficulties to avoid high concentration of anti-site pairs disordering in all compounds, the concentration is reduced in Cu2BeSnS4 partly due to larger relaxation effects. CuSb(Se1–xTex)2 and CuBi(S1–xSex)2 are suggested as alternative ultra-thin film absorber materials. Their maximum efficiencies considering the Auger effect are ~25% even when the thicknesses of the materials are between 50 and 300 nm.
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2017. p. 97
density functional theory, electronic structure, dielectric function, absorption coefficient, copper-based chalcogenides, ultra-thin film
2017-06-12, Sal D3, Lindstedtsvägen 5, Stockholm, 13:15 (English)
Ganchenkova, Maria G.
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, National Research Nuclear University, Moskva, Ryssland.
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29 MAY 2000 Monday
[01] TURKEY-PRESS SCAN
[02] 12TH INTERNATIONAL ANKARA FILM FESTIVAL ENDS
[03] TURKISH TRADE DELEGATION IN IRAN
[04] TOURISM HEALTH CENTERS TO BE OPENED IN TURKEY'S TOURISM CENTERS
[05] MOODY'S ANALYSES TURKISH ECONOMY:
[06] FOREIGN MINISTER CEM:
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[09] FINANCE MINISTER SUMER ORAL:
[10] STATE MINISTER ONAL: ''THERE IS NOT ANY SERIOUS
[11] FOREIGN MINISTRY MARTYRS COMMEMORATED
[12] JUSTICE MINISTER TURK: ''WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO PUNISH
[13] STATE MINISTER ONAL: ''THE INFLATION RATES IN FIRST FOUR MONTHS
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Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said, ''Belgium has decided not to extradite Fehriye Erdal, a member of the illegal Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) and one of the suspects of assasination of businessman Ozdemir Sabanci, because of capital punishment in Turkey. The capital punishment should be lifted.''
CROATIAN PASSENGER SHIP RESCUES TURKISH SEAMEN WHOSE BOAT SANK
A Croatian-flagged passenger ship rescued nine Turkish seamen whose boat had sunk near Catania Port in Italy. The Turkish seamen were brought to Dubrovnik Port in Croatia by the passenger ship named ''Oriana''. They will proceed to Sarajevo on Monday morning by bus. Later, they will leave Sarajevo for Istanbul by plane.
LIGHTNING STRUCK STADIUM, KILLING ONE PERSON
Lightning struck a stadium in Bolu province, killing one soccer player and injuring two others. Demise of Sinan Bolukbasi, 19, a university student, created profound sorrow among his relatives and friends.
FLOOD CAUSES FINANCIAL DAMAGE OF 20 TRILLION TL
Floods triggered by torrential rains inundated hundreds of dwellings and business places in Samsun province in Black Sea Region. Hasan Gemici, the State Minister, came to Samsun. He said, ''cultivated fields of 16 thousand hectares have been flooded. We cannot contact with 32 villages in the region. Floods engulfed dozens of village roads around Samsun and caused four bridges to collapse.''
MILLIYET (LIBERAL)
PENDIK AIRPORT TO BE OPENED IN 2001
Sabahattin Cakmakoglu, the National Defense Minister, said that the Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Pendik district of Istanbul would be opened till 2001. Cakmakoglu stressed that the airport which will cost 300 million U.S. dollars, had the capacity to serve 3 million passangers.
WE AIM AT INCREASING TRADE VOLUME WITH IRAN TO 1.5 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS
A business delegation headed by Kursat Tuzmen, the Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, started contacts in Iran. Tuzmen said, ''trade volume between Turkey and Iran was about 800 million U.S. dollars in 1999. We aim at increasing our trade volume with Iran up to 1.5 billion U.S. dollars.''
TERRORISTS KILL ONE SECURITY OFFICIAL
Members of the terrorist Hezbollah organization hurled hand grenades on security forces who launched an operation in a hide-out in eastern province of Erzurum. One security official was killed while two others were injured. Later, clash erupted between security forces and terrorists. One terrorist was killed in the clash. Security forces seized two computers, two weapons, three hand grenades and 60 bullets found in the hide-out.
SABAH (LIBERAL)
LIVE MEETING THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM
State Minister in charge of Economy Recep Onal said he and World Bank Chairman Wolfensohn will have ''live meetings'' every three months using video conference system. ''World Bank believes that the government's programme will produce good results. They are stressing that structural reforms are needed for future. Therefore, Wolfensohn told us that they want to contact us more frequently and he proposed the video conference system,'' Onal said. Onal also noted that IMF is about to complete its examinations over the first four months of Turkish economy.
JOURNEY TO HOPE
The government has been successful in pulling down the interest rates, inflation and foreign currency rates bu it failed to make the same progress in export and investment. The government was founded on May 28, 1999 in the middle of a economic crisis and it took important steps in economic stability. In its combat against inflation, the government could not prevent the rise in inflation rate in the first nine months of its administration. However, the inflation rate started to decline in the last two months. All these indications are showing that the government might be able to reach its 25 percent inflation rate which it targeted for the end of 2000. The government, however, did not display a good performance in export. The Turkish export increased only by 0.8 percent in the first two months of 2000.
CUMHURIYET (LEFT)
STATE MINISTER GEMICI IN FLOODED REGIONS
State Minister Hasan Gemici visited the flooded Black Sea townships of Ayvacik and Carsamba. Governor Ilyas Aksoy of Samsun furnished Gemici with information on the damage wrought by the flood. He told Gemici, that over 40 village roads had been damaged and 2 bridges had collapsed in the floods, and that more than one thirds of the Carsamba plains had also been floded by violent streams. Gemici reassured that the goernment would take the necessary measures to help those who had suffered from the damage that the floods inflicted and help them compensate their loss.
CEM IN BAKU
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem went to the Azerbaijani capital Baku to carry out contacts with various officials. Cem was welcomed at Bine Airport by his Azerbaijani counterpart Vilayet Guliyev with an official ceremony. Cem told reporters that he and Guliyev would be exchanging views on bilateral relations and various regional and international issues of common concern, and seek means of further developing the friendly relations between the two countries.
CONFERENCE ON E-BANKING
A conference on ''Banking anod Finance'', the first of a conference series on ''e-commerce'' is being organised with the contributions of the Central bank, by the Bogazici University's Department of International Trade. Among the sponsors of the conference, which is to take place odn June 2nd and 3rd in Istanbul, are Garanti Bank, Turkish Economy Bank, Arthur Andersen, and Turkcell.
RADIKAL (LEFT)
ECEVIT: ''CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED''
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, who made a statement to the reporters of the Prime Minister's Office and journalists from various media organs on Sunday, while celebrating his 76th birthday, said that he wanted capital to be abolished. Referring to the Belgian authorities decision not to extradite Fehriye Erdal, one of the defendants of the Sabanci assassination, Ecevit said, ''We have long been wanting to abolish the capital punishment. So long as it remains in force, we will not be able to become a European Union member anyway. I believe that the 57th government will do whatever might be necessary on this account.''
ATHENS-SARIYER FRIENDSHIP
The ''Friendship Festival'' organised and by the employees of the municipalities of Athens and Sariyer, Istanbul, continued on Saturday with a ''friendship match'' at Sariyer's Yusuf Ziya Onis Stadium. The Athens Municipality team won the match by 2-1, and the sports event was viewed cheerfully by a crowded audience. Fedon, a popular Turkish singer, colored the festival with a brilliant concert he gave on the occasion of the festival. In the half-time break, Mayor of Sariyer Sedat Ozsoy presented Acting Mayor of Athens, Jannis Gogozotos with a friendship plate, and thanked ''all Greek brothers and sisters who had extended a helping hand to Turkey in the wake of the Marmara quake''. In return, Jannis Gogozotos extended an olive branch to Ozsoy, and expressed wish that the friendly relations between the two countrie would further develop.
WOLFENSOHN: ''IT WAS A PLEASING VISIT''
World Bank Governor James Wolfensohn completed his 3-day visit to Turkey and left Ankara. Speaking to reporters at Ankara's Esenboga Airport, Wolfensohnn said that he had positive and pleasing impressions from his visit. Johannes Linn, Wolfensohn's deputy, who also spoke to reporters before taking off from Ankara, said that Wolfensohn's visit was an indication of the importance that the international community attached to Turkey, and expressed belief that this visit would serve for not only improved relations between the World Bank and Turkey, but also for a greater World Bank support.
YEN� B�NYIL (LIBERAL)
ORAL PROMISES TO GIVE EXTRA WAGE INCREASE TO CIVIL SERVANTS
Finance Minister Sumer Oral said they will make an additional increase in the wages of civil servants if the consumer prices increase more than 15 percent. ''If the inflation exceeds 15 percent, civil servants will get additional raise,'' Oral said. The lowest wage for civil servants will increase about 4 million Turkish Liras (TL) and become 124 million with the raise.
TURKSERVE.COM STARTS BROADCAST ON INTERNET
Turkserve.com which has been prepared for Turkish people all around the world and especially for those who live in Britain started broadcast with a ceremony held in London on Sunday. On Saturday night, the new internet site was promoted at a show at the British Parliament. The authorities said Turkserve.com will be very helpful for Turkish citizens who want to find to find out the current news in Turkey.
TURKIYE (RIGHT)
NEW AGENDA: REFORM
Turkey which has relieved after terrorism was eradicated and the unsolved homicides were revealed, has started to return its real agenda. The government is preparing to spread stability program in economy to the other fields. The government aims at finalizing investments in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, and accelerating transportation and infrastructure works in the region.
WORLD BANK CHIEF WOLFENSOHN DEPARTS FROM TURKEY
James Wolfensohn, the President and Chairman of Executive Directors of World Bank, departed from Turkey after wrapping up his three-day official visit. Addressing journalists at the Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Wolfensohn said that his visit to Turkey was very productive and positive. Meanwhile, Johannes Linn, the Deputy Chairman of World Bank for Europe, said that Wolfensohn's visit to Turkey was a sign of support given to Turkey by the international community.
Ismail Cem, the Foreign Minister, who is currently in Azerbaijani capital of Baku on an official visit, will come together with President Haydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizade, his Azerbaijani counterpart Vilayet Guliyev, and Murtuz Aleskerov, Speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament, later on Monday. Cem's contacts are expected to focus on cultural, political and economic cooperation between the two countries, and the latest developments in Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline project.
ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)
PARRIS, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY, TO VISIT SOUTHEAST
Mark Parris, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, will start a five-day tour including Van, Batman, Hakkari and Sirnak provinces in eastern and southeastern Anatolia. Parris whose term in office will come to an end in July, will be the first U.S. Ambassador visiting the region for years. Parris is expected to hold meetings with governors, mayors, representatives of non-governmental organizations, residents, businessmen and students during his visit. He will visit the universities, historical and touristic places in the region. Sources said that Parris' visit to Southeastern Anatolia aimed at increasing U.S. private sector's investments in the region.
ECEVIT: ''I DID NOT ENTER INTO POLITICAL
LIFE WILLINGLY AND CONSCIOUSLY''
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said, ''I did not enter into political life willingly and consciously. My real occupation is journalism and I wanted to remain as a journalist, but the developments made me enter into politics.''
ANKARA (A.A) - The 12th International Ankara Film Festival ended on Sunday night after the award ceremony.
''May Boredom'' directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan was chosen as the ''Best National Film'' by the jury headed by Prof. Dr. Oguz Makal.
The award-winners of the 12th International Ankara Film Festival are as follows:
Best National Film : May Boredom
Best Director : Kutlug Ataman, Lola and Bilidikid
Best Female Performance : Meltem Cumbul, Trial
Best Male Performance : Kamran Usluer, Lady Salkim's Grains
Best Supporting Actress : Guzin Coragan, Trial
Best Supporting Actor : Burak Sergen, Bean - Elevator
Best Original Screenplay: Etyen Mahcupyan and Taner Baran, Lady Salkim's Grains
Best Film Editor : Chris Squires, Lola and Bilidikid
Best Art Director : Mustafa Ziya Ulkenciler, Lady Salkim's Grains
Best Original Music : Tamer Ciray, Lady Salkim's Grains
Best Fiction : Sedat Karadeniz, Children of Dark City
Best Promising Actor : Selim Erdogan, Bean
Mahmut Tali Ongoren Special Award: Lady Salkim's Grains
-FOREIGN TRADE UNDERSECRETARY TUZMEN URGES IRANIAN AUTHORITIES
TO INCREASE TRADE VOLUME BETWEEN TURKEY AND IRAN
TEHRAN (A.A) - Foreign Trade Undersecretary Kursat Tuzmen had two meetings with Iranian Industry Minister Gulamriza Riza Safei and Industry and Mineral Chambers Chairman Ali Naki Hamusi on Sunday.
During his meeting with Safei, Tuzmen stressed that Turkey and Iran should develop industry relations and the two can make joint investments in third countries.
Tuzmen said Turkish and Iranian investors can cooperate in construction equipment, petro-chemistry, food and steel industry fields. He also noted that Turkish investors are interested in sugar, paper and cement sectors. Tuzmen called on both sides to organize fairs, and increase cooperation for closer relations.
Iranian Industry Minister Safei said they also wanted to develop industry and trade relations with Turkey and noted that Iranian laws over foreign capital transfer offer good opportunities. Safei also said he hoped small and medium scale enterprises in Turkey and Iran would also work together.
When he came together with Ali Naki Hamusi, Tuzmen reminded him that the trade volume between the two countries was 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in 1985, however it dropped in the recent years and he asked Hamusi to work to increase the trade volume.
Turkey is ready to lift its commercial limitations and open new horizons with Iran, Tuzmen said and proposed forming a joint trade council between Turkish and Iranian industrialists and merchants.
Hamusi also explained that the trade between the countries drew zigzags in the last 20 years and added that Iran can reach out to European markets through Turkey. He said Turkey and Iran can work together in motor vehicle productions, durable consumption goods, energy, oil and natural gas sectors.
NEVSEHIR (A.A) - Health Minister Osman Durmus announced on Sunday that ''tourism health centers'' will be set up in Turkey's tourism centers to provide better health service to tourists.
''If the municipalities assign a building for this purpose, we will provide equipments and personnel in 15 days,'' Durmus told reporters during his trip in Nevsehir. He also said that Turkish people will also be able to benefit from these health centers.
Durmus said the project will start from Nevsehir, Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir and Denizli.
''ALTHOUGH CONSISTS OF THREE PARTIES, THE COALITION
IS THE FIRST TO RECEIVE PARLIAMENT'S SUPPORT IN YEARS''
NEW YORK/ANKARA (A.A) - Moody's, one of world's leading rating institutions said in an analysis report assessing the first three months of 2000 in Turkish economy, that the ruling coalition government in Turkey, consisting of three parties, is the first in years, to get the support of the parliament, and that it is pursuing a constructive and determined policy, also displaying a surprisingly high performance.
According to the information compiled by the A.A correspondent from the analysis report, Turkey had long been suffering from high inflation rate and financial deficits, and that the coalition, headed by Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was dealing with these problems within the framework of a comprehensive reform program, and with determination and confidence.
The report drew attention to the considerable decrease recorded in interest rates with the implementation of the economic reform program, and said that privatisation programs had made a good and confident start, economic growth re-gained its pace in the wake of the 1997-99 global crises, and that the initial results indicated a surprisingly positive progress.
The report warned, however, that the economic reform program had such risks as the continuance of the public financial sector's sensitivity against domestic and international crises, and the possibility of failing to render the program sustainable.
The report drew attention to Turkey''s admission by the European union as a candidate member, and said Turkey's candidacy would force her to translate economic and political reforms into life, all at the same time.
It also heralded an increase to the credit mark of Turkey-presently standing at B1- so long as political stability was preserved and reforms continued.
-''TURKEY HAS SERIOUS AND CONCRETE RELATIONS
WITH CAUCASIAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES''
ANKARA (A.A) - Ismail Cem, the Foreign Minister, said on Sunday, ''Turkey has very serious and concrete relations with Caucasian and Central Asian countries.''
Addressing a television program on the state-run TRT-1 channel, Cem gave information about Turkey's foreign policy regarded with Caucasus and the Central Asia under the light of Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to Turkmenistan.
Cem said, ''Russia's policies concern itself. Russia wants to protect its interests. But Turkey has very serious and concrete relations with Caucasian and Central Asian countries. For these countries, Turkey is a guarantee of their independence and well-being. For instance, the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline project will guarantee independence of not only Azerbaijan and Georgia, but of Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries.''
Cem said, ''we are equal and friendly republics. Turkey has come to the forefront in investments in these countries. We will further improve our relations with them. Our competition with Russia is a peaceful one. Speculations about Turkmen natural gas do not reflect the truth. Turkey closely monitor developments in the region.''
Stressing that they had recorded serious progress in relations with the European Union (EU), Cem said, ''we explained to our European counterparts that the issues such as human rights and minorities were not a group matter for Turkey. We told them that these issues were matter of individuals, rights and freedoms of citizens. They are not connected with concepts of ethnic backgrounds or races. They have begun to understand us.''
Noting that he aimed at setting up direct relations with the European Parliament, Cem said that the issue would be high on his agenda as from September.
Referring to the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI), Cem said, ''I held my most difficult consultation during the NATO Summit in Washington, the U.S., in April 1999. I do not exaggerate. 18 countries were opposed to me. Eventually principles were included in the NATO's document in a way we wished. Afterwards, these principles were confirmed in Brussels in December 1999. But our works have not finalized yet. We are aware of the draft EU wants to put forward. But this draft are in contradiction with NATO's principles. NATO will assume an attitude against them. But we will assume an attitude before NATO. We are trying to change the faremework EU wanted to put forward. Our priority will be Turkey's benefits.''
-PRESIDENT SEZER: ''TURKISH DIPLOMACY SHALL CONTINUE TO
CONTRIBUTE TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY''
ANKARA (A.A) - President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said on Monday, that Turkish diplomacy shall continue to contribute to international peace and security.
According to the Presidential Press Center, Sezer said in his message, that Turkish diplomacy had honored Turkey countless times with its loyalty to Ataturk's principle ''Peace at Home, Peace in the World'', and its successful defense of Turkey's national interests at international levels.
''Our diplomats have been serving for our country with a superior consciousness of duty and patriotic feelings, and have been representing our country successfully. However, they have become, at times, targets of those, uncomfortable with Turkey's power. As a result, many of our diplomats representing our country in missions abroad, have fell martyrs in terrorist attacks.
Turkish diplomacy, which has taken very important responsibilities concerning the peace and stability of a wide geography stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, at the intersection of three continents, shall continue to contribute to internaional peace and stability.
The Republic of Turkey shall preserve its quality of being the guarantor of peace and stability in the 21st century.
I express my feelings of gratitude to all Foreign Ministry staff on behalf of the Turkish nation and the State,'' Sezer said in his message and sent his condolences to the families of the Foreign Ministry Martyrs.
-PRIME MINISTER ECEVIT: ''I HOPE THAT CIRCLES HAVING EVIL
INTENTIONS AGAINST TURKEY, WOULD GIVE UP SUPPORTING TERRORISM''
ANKARA - Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said on Monday, ''Turkey has always attributed great importance to international rules and good neighbourly relations. It has made a considerable contribution to stability and prosperity of the region. I hope that circles having evil intentions against Turkey, would give up supporting terrorism.''
Prime Minister Ecevit issued a written message to mark the Foreign Ministry Martyrs Day.
In his message, Prime Minister Ecevit said, ''we commemorate members of the Foreign Ministry and other public institutions who were killed in terrorist attacks while working abroad, with great respect. Our nation will always remember these 34 people who lost their lives in terrorist attacks. Turkey has always attributed great importance to international rules and good neighbourly relations. It has made a considerable contribution to stability and prosperity of the region. I hope that circles having evil intentions against Turkey, would give up supporting terrorism.''
Prime Minister Ecevit also implored God's strength upon all who are grieving for their beloved ones.
''PRESIDENT OF WORLD BANK CONSIDERS THE
POINT REACHED IN ECONOMIC PROGRAM VERY SUCCESSFUL''
ANKARA (A.A) - Sumer Oral, the Finance Minister said on Monday that the World Bank President considers the point reached in economic program very successful.
''But we want the Turkish people and the Turkish women also to see this success,'' told Oral in a panel discussion on ''Recent Economic Policies and Tax.''
The economic program has a political character and the owner of it is the government, said Oral.
The targets in the economic program are realistic, said Oral and added that ''but the implementation is more important.''
Describing the strong parliament behind the economic program as a great chance, Oral said that ''we must abide by the necessary criteria in these days when we opened the way to the European Union.''
The inflation started to decrease, the expenditures are controlled and targets were reached in non-interest surplus, he said.
Oral pointed out that the government tries to correct this wrong structure, adding the interests rates can't be decreased in a short time.
''The vital points of the program are finance policies and budget policy. We can't be succesful in our program if we can't be successful in them,'' said Oral.
The program consists of three parts namely tax, privatization and expenditure, said Oral adding that the public expenditure reform is about to finish.
The state tender draft law will bring honesty and transparency and the costs will decrease in the public sector, he said.
The finance experts have a great role to play particularly in implementation of the economic program, added Oral.
DEVIATION FROM PROGRAM TARGETS FOR CURRENT BALANCE''
ANKARA (A.A) - Recep Onal, the Minister of State for Treasury, said on Monday that any real valuation exceeding a reasonable level in foreign currency was not expected in the current stage of the program, and there was not any serious deviation from program targets for current balance.
Addressing a panel discussion on ''Latest Economic Policies and Tax'', Onal said the foreign currency policy which had been planned to overcome inflationist pressures and the strategy that had been announced at the beginning of the implementation constituted the guarantee of the program.
Onal stated that the transition into new currency policy in mid-2001 would increase the flexibility in this field.
Noting that the macro economic developments had been positive, Onal stressed that the most important point was the determination in not loosening the discipline in public finance.
Onal said that the consolidated public sector basic balance target for the first quarter had been achieved.
''The developments in April indicated that we can easily acvieve our targets as of end-second quarter. We have totally reached these positive results in the measures like foreign currency, privatization and structural reforms and in the measures aimed at providing financial harmony. An important discipline has been foreseen in consolidated public budget expenses and realistic estimation have been made for revenues. The influence in control of non-budgetary funds and financial structure of public economic enterprises has been increased. This positive development in consolidated budget implementations will gradually increase within framework of the measures taken by the government, and reflect in influence in tax management, control of unregistered economy, enlargement of tax basis and removal of losses in public revenues,'' he added.
ANKARA (A.A) - The Foreign Ministry personnel who were killed in terrorist attacks while they were working in Turkish representations abroad, were commemorated on Monday in Cebeci Graveyard.
State Minister Sukru Sina Gurel said in the ceremony held in the Foreign Ministry Martyrs Monument, that they came together to commemorate the Foreign Minstry and other civil servants officials.
''Our pain can't be described, but our memories are alive. The Turkish nation and the Foreign Ministry have never been daunted by terrorist attacks,'' said Gurel and added that the struggle will be carried out against these cricles which take as target the unity and territorial integrity of Turkey.
This is a spiritual duty towards martyrs, said Gurel and added that ''the efforts of Turkey, which has always defended peace and stability and which is a democratic, secular, social and legal state can't be prevented by some unpleasant incidents or by distorting historical incidents.''
Gurel said that history shouldn't be used to support hatred and violence, adding there are some countries which extend support to Armenian terrorism. ''We call these countries to give up their wrong and hostile attitude,'' he said.
Speaking in the name of the Foreign Ministry personnel, Sukriye Bayar said in his part that they've taken the Ministry martrys as models.
THOSE WHO TORTURE PEOPLE''
ANKARA (A.A) - Hikmet Sami Turk, the Justice Minister, said on Monday that they will not hesitate to punish those who torture people.
Sema Piskinsut, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Comission, visited Turk and submitted six reports prepared by the commission.
Following the meeting, Turk told reporters that Turkey will impose sanctions on those who violate human rights.
Turk noted that the commission investigated the human rights violations in the police stations and prisons in recent years and that it prepared six reports following this investigation.
Turk continued, ''the reports of the commission will shed a light on our initiatives. We will impose sanctions on the human rights violations. These reports will be examined by the Punishment Affairs, Prisons General Directorate and Inspection Board.''
The target of all these initiatives is ending the human rights violations in Turkey, Turk said.
Turk emphasized that torture in Turkey in 21st century cannot be accepted.
The punishments given to torture and maltreatment are increased, Turk stated.
Turk stressed that what is more important is everybody's accepting that torture is a crime of humanity.
The judicial system will fulfil its responsibilities to end the human rights violations, Turk said.
Turk continued, ''Turkey will solve this problem. We are determined to investigate the torture allegations. Torture has never been a state policy.''
The Constitution prohibited the torture, and they aim at making Turkey an example country in human rights, Turk added.
Piskinsut said that their reports depend on concrete evidence and that they will prepare three more reports in the following days.
CLEARLY PUT FORWARD THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE THE TARGETS FOR END-2000''
ANKARA (A.A) - Recep Onal, the Minister for State for Treasury, said on Monday that the inflation rates in Wholesale Prices Index (TEFE) and Consumer Prices Index (TUFE) in first four months of the year had clearly put forward that they could achieve the targets for end-2000.
Addressing a panel discussion on ''Latest Economic Policies and Tax'', Onal said he believed the continuation of determination in struggle against inflation would be the most appropriate approach in spite of considering the progress recorded up until today as sufficient.
''This approach is supported by the speed of reconstruction in quake-hit area and recovery in agriculture and tourism. Besides the decrease in interest rates would lead to an increase in private sector's loan demand. Consequently, nobody is doubtful that we can easily achieve the growth performance foreseen in the program,'' he said.
Onal said that the macro economic decision taken up until today and their results and structural reforms that had been put into practice were very important for development of Turkey's economic power and stability during EU full-membership process.
Noting that public finance and tax management was one of the keys in program, Onal said that the government was preparing and putting into practice important structural reforms aiming at preparing, implementing and controlling budgets, increasing their transparency and recovering tax system and management.
''WE'LL LEAVE TURKEY PROBABLY ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY''
ANKARA (A.A) - Carlo Cottarelli, the IMF Turkey Desk Chief said on Monday that they will leave Turkey probably on Thursday or Friday earlier than planned as their contacts in Turkey extended.
Speaking to A.A correspondent, Cottarelli said they work on the details, adding the IMF Executive director Willy Kiekens who came to Turkey on Sunday, joined them.
Cottarelli added that the negotiations on the IMF experts' working in World Bank Representation in Turkey are underway and no concrete result has been taken.
The IMF delegation was expected to leave Turkey on Tuesday.
HANDS OVER TORTURE DEVICE TO PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
ANKARA (A.A) - Sema Piskinsut, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission, handed over the torture device called ''Hook'', which is a wooden pole that is placed under prisoners arms and used to suspend them in the air, to the Ankara Republican Chief Prosecutor's Office.
Piskinsut handed over the wooden pole to the Ankara Prosecutor's Office to be submitted to the Gaziosmanpasa Republican Chief Prosecutor's Office.
The commission found the 2.15 metre long wooden pole in Kucukkoy Police Station in Istanbul.
Piskinsut later submitted six reports on torture allegations which was prepared by the commission, to Yildirim Akbulut, the Parliament Speaker.
Piskinsut said that they tried to be objective when preparing the report in the end of their two-year investigation, and not to politicize the issue.
The reports regarding Elazig and Batman, will be concluded in the following weeks, Piskinsut noted.
Piskinsut requested Akbulut to take this issue to the agenda of the Parliamentary General Assembly.
The report will also be sent to the leaders of the political parties and all deputies, Piskinsut added.
Akbulut said that he is ready to contribute to the efforts of the commission.
Although Turkey has taken significant steps in democratization, it has not reached the desired level yet, Akbulut noted.
Akbulut stated that the target of the parliament and Turkish nation is ensuring the rule of law and respect to human rights and that Turkey cannot reach a modern level unless it does not ensure these two conditions.
When a journalist said, ''you said that there was not torture in Turkey when you were the Interior Minister. Was there torture then or was torture disguised?'', Akbulut said that handling this issue in this way has no use.
Torture is not systematic in Turkey, Akbulut also said.
Akbulut added, ''if these reports indicate that torture is systematic, then we will take measures.''
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A Year and a Bit: The Good, The Bad, and the Mugglesy
Seems it’s turning out to be hellova year here, and we’re only 4 months in. So far in 2017, here at MBD we’ve had Digital-Fiction-Award-shortlisted projects, and honorable mentions, and theorising all over the MDB shop: most of which have been centered on the release of “All the Delicate Duplicates”, on which we hit the big red Steam publish button in February.
But the thing I wanted to bang about right now is just how easy it is to forget what achievements and career progression you can manage to stuff into a year. It’s easy to think “So I guess I’ve done sweet-f*-all this past year, cept work on commercial projects and bingewatch the crap outta Star Trek’s TNG”, but in reality a year includes such a crazy amount of workstuff that’s it almost impossible to remember it all, unless you’re forced to document it all because…reasons [ie being interviewed, or beefing up your resume/CV for funding submissions]. Then it all jumps out in sharp “omg-did-that-really-happen-in-the-space-of-ONE-YEAR!?” relief, alrighty.
So, in the spirit of a creative who is part good, part bad, and part Muggle, here’s a list of just *some* of the work + achievements that have peppered 2016 + part of 2017 [ie prepare for a mammoth-ego-onslaught]:
In May 2016, authors of the book “Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon” were kind enough to call my codeworks “…provocative examples of nonfunctional pseudo-code” + Nathan Jones regaled students from the LJMU Art & Design Academy with a selection of MBD games/writing.
In June 2016, “The Biopolitics of Electronic Literature: On the Writings of Mez Breeze” gave a good crack at analysing our anti-surveillance game #PRISOM, with the author, Kent Aardse, writing: “If #PRISOM were to only accomplish one thing (and to be clear, it accomplishes much more), it is to foster a more discerning, critical player; in this case, the goal is for the user to walk away from the experience more aware of her interactions and experiences online”. Also in June my interactive fiction “A [[Non]] Guardian Age”, commissioned by if:book Australia, was shortlisted in the Western Australian Premier Book Awards in the Digital Narrative category [woop woop!].
July 2016 saw our Inanimate Alice team being twinkle-graced with an Honorable Mention for all our hard work on “Inanimate Alice, Episode 6: The Last Gas Station” as part of The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature.
From July – October 2016, I had the pleasure of performing as a Juror for the Exhibition arm of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, with standout works selected including Walden – A Game, Nevermind, and Pry.
In August 2016, twas invited by AltspaceVR’s Community Manager to present a practice based social VR-based talk + was interviewed by the academic James O’Sullivan for an upcoming book about digital pioneers [during which, James described #PRISOM as: “…the digital equivalent of George Orwell’s 1984.”]
Also in August 2016, on the strength of the Beta version of the “All the Delicate Duplicates”, Valve’s Business Development department provided both Vive Pre developer kits and direct publishing access on Steam [the term “gobstonked” in no way adequately captures how much happy-dancing we did over this!].
In September 2016, I talked an audience’s collective ears off during a guest lecture + Tilt Brush VR demonstration as part of the “Future Possible” lecture series [as well as being interviewed on ABC radio about my involvement]. In April 2017, a version of this yakk-talk was published via the journal AXON as part of their “Creative Play” Edition.
In October 2016, my AR/VR Treatise “T[he]Issue” was showcased at the Paris 2016 Computer Art Congress called “Digital Art: Archiving and Questioning Immateriality”. October also saw “All the Delicate Duplicates” being awarded the Open Arcade Best Overall Game Award at the Game City Festival [+ in April 2017 it was shortlisted alongside another co-produced MBD project “Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads” for the Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition], with beta versions/demos also whizz-bang-showcased at the following events in 2016/2017:
2017 Other Codes: Digital Literature in Context Conference [upcoming]
2017 Frozen River Film Festival
2016 EGX Event at the Leftfield Collection
2016 ACM Hypertext Conference Exhibition
2016 Game City Festival: Open Arcade Section
2016 Electronic Literature Conference Exhibition [*wipes brow*].
In November 2016, I did a weird double-take when receiving an invite from the digital arts organisation Rhizome to have works memorialized in their Net Art Anthology, a project that: “…takes on the complex task of identifying, preserving, and presenting exemplary works in a field characterized by broad participation, diverse practices, promiscuous collaboration, and rapidly shifting formal and aesthetic standards.” [Rest assured I said “Yes yes YISS” quick-smart afterwards.]
In January 2017, I was shock-slung an “Unsung VR/AR Heros of 2016” Honourable Nomination from DevDiner for contributions to both the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality industries [whoo!] + my second deadtree-media book “Attn: Solitude” was perfection-published by Cordite Poetry Books.
In February 2017, we were so deliciously swamped with oodles of “All the Delicate Duplicates” reviews, streaming, and general feedback that we decided to release a new bunch of shiny updates ASAP [nearly done]. Just a flattering smattering [heh] o’ that feedback includes:
“…incredibly effective storytelling that will stick with you long after the credits roll…All the Delicate Duplicates is one of the best games of the year.”– Rated “A” by Defunct Games:
“There’s so much here. This is not layers of an onion. This is a fully deconstructed onion that’s had, like, parts cooked, raw, digested. This many-layered onion has time in it.” – Feed Me Pixels
“Stunning and dramatic. You won’t be able to look away as this story unfolds around you.” – Rated 8 out of 10, The Digital Fix
“This game is super-bizarre. I love everything about it, I just don’t know what’s happening…Shout out to the BBC for funding [it]. This game is the perfect F-U-up game. I’ll simply say you should play this.” – Jesse Cox and Jared Rosen [watch the entire hilarious streamed review here]:
“All the Delicate Duplicates has certainly left a mark. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time with a game that I could see kick start a new form of storytelling.” – Rated 9.3 out of 10, N3rdabl3
“Spanning 19 years, the All the Delicate Duplicates story tells how Charlotte begins to find artistic comfort in the late Mo’s artifacts and unique scientific theories…with the vibes of Gone Home, Firewatch and the like… there is also a smidgen of Kitty Horrorshow‘s eerie tales what with all the creepy ambient music, surreal landscapes and handwritten scrawls…” – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
“Those familiar with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter or Dear Esther will find themselves feeling at home…until the game takes on a style of its own that is truly a marvel. All The Delicate Duplicates offers the kind of intrigue and immersion that so many of this genre of game strive for yet sadly fall short in.” – Rated 8 out of 10, Screenjabber
“The more short games that I play, the more I’m really coming to appreciate little interactive fictions and experiences that can be completed in one sitting. Luminaries of such form might include Journey and Limbo and Firewatch, and it’s safe to count All the Delicate Duplicates amongst such company as well. All The Delicate Duplicates is refreshing simply because it works the brain in ways that few other games even bother to try. It’s certainly a game that sticks with you.” – Rated 8.2 out of 10, Fuzzy Pixels
In March, Mezangelle got a nod in the article “IBM Poetry: Exploring Restriction in Computer Poems” by the lovely Chris Funkhouser.
In April 2017, a book chapter outlining the development cycle and evolution of #PRISOM was approved for publishing in #WomenTechLit, a book that: “…brings together pioneering and emerging women whose work has earned international impact and scholarly recognition. It extends a historical critical overview of the state of the field from the diverse perspectives of twenty-eight worldwide contributors.”
March/April 2017 were also months for head-tilting-pleasantness all due to AJ Carruthers waxing lyrical in Southerly and Jacket2 Magazines: “The close study of contemporary Australian experimental poetry does away with these assumptions because open and attentive reading (the researcher’s best tools), rather than caricature or dismissal, has led us to the most intriguing works, like the singular innovations of Mez Breeze.”
April 2017 [a huge month all round really] also sprang the goodly-bordering-on-unbelievably-great news of snagging an Honorable Mention as part of the 2017 Microsoft MCV Pacific Women In Games “Game Changers” list.
And finally in May 2017, the amazing elit champions Davin Heckman (Winona State University) & James O’Sullivan (University of Sheffield) drafted the sparklingly relevant article “Electronic Literature: Contexts and Poetics” containing the following: “[All the Delicate] Duplicates is as beautiful as it is technically impressive, and it is a signal of how artists like Breeze and Campbell are drawing electronic literature in from the outskirts of the canon—this is a work that has been recognised with mainstream accolades…These are both the present and future of electronic literature—a future that possesses forms we cannot even begin to anticipate.”
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Mental Health, Autism & Learning Disabilities in the Criminal Courts
Information for magistrates, district judges and court staff
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Autism summary
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability.
People with autism will have difficulties in the areas of communication, interaction and imagination, despite their level of intelligence.
Around 2% of the general population have autism. The prevalence of people with autism who offend isn’t known and more work needs to be done in this area.
Many people with autism who come in to contact with the criminal justice system will not have a diagnosis of autism.
Autism is not a learning disability or a mental health condition. Some people with autism may have a learning disability and/or a mental health condition; this is sometimes referred to as co-morbidity.
Autism: Guide for criminal justice professionals (2011)
Criminal Justice pages on The National Autistic Society’s website
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Capuano has office in RCC library
by Rebeca Oliveira • August 10, 2012 • 0 Comments
U.S. Representative Michael Capuano has a little-known part-time community office in Roxbury Community College’s (RCC) library.
While the office mostly works through booked appointments, the door is open to deal with anything a constituent would want, said Capuano District Rep. Dan Ryan.
With the Internet and faxes, the office “doesn’t get utilized as much as it did 10 years ago,” Ryan said. “But there’s always a lot of people who prefer interacting in person.”
Ryan added that Capuano has always had an office in Roxbury to better cover the district. The office was moved to the RCC library about eight years ago, he said.
The office is open 20 to 25 hours a week. Hours are posted on Capuano’s website at house.gov/capuano/contact/massachusetts.shtml.
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Revamping The Poultry Sector In Ghana
Livestock production is an important feature of the country’s agriculture, and accounts for 14% of agricultural GDP.
It is also a major source of income for farmers in the country. Its socio economic importance in the reduction of rural poverty cannot be over emphasized.
According to the Animal Production Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana currently imports over 240,000 MT of meat that is, chicken, beef and others to make up for its meat deficit costing the country over USD375 million annually.
The National demand for poultry meat alone is about 400,000Mt with local production of just about 57,871MT an indication that, imports of poultry meat is about 180,000MT with a shortfall of 162,129 MT.
It has been identified that broiler meat importation constitutes over 80% of total meat imports into the country and broiler production has also been identified as the fastest means of reducing meat imports through local production or import substitution.
Considering the above situation of high import bills, it behooves on us Ghanaians, to develop a competitive and efficient livestock industry that will revitalize the broiler industry and increase domestic production, reduce importation of livestock products and contribute to employment generation to improve livelihoods and the national economy.
To achieve this, H.E the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 25th June, 2019 launched the Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ) Initiative at Wa, Upper West Region under the theme “Self-Sufficiency in Meat Production - a Must”
The RFJ initiative is to modernize and transform agriculture for food, jobs and foreign exchange through the rearing of livestock such as poultry cattle, sheep, goats among others. The target of this initiative for the poultry sector is, to produce 40,000MT of broiler meat on a pilot basis in 2020 and scale up production in subsequent years.
Getting the Rearing for Food and Jobs to work
In line with the above, two months ago, Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto held a meeting in his office with some selected Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives across the country to discuss targets and ongoing implementation strategies for the poultry sector.
The Hon. Minister indicated that, the Panting for Food and Jobs has over the period yielded lots of feed such as soya and maize for a successful implementation of RFJ particularly for poultry.
He therefore challenged MMDCs to take ownership of the initiative and select prospective poultry farms to participate in the programme.
The Minister indicated that, MoFA will release its lands to start the processes. He equally urged all MMDCEs to acquire lands for the construction of farm houses within their administrative areas.
Ministry of Food & Agriculture (MoFA) and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) collaboration
To achieve the above, MoFA is collaborating with MLGRD through 60 selected (4 Metropolitan, 36 Municipal and 20 District Assemblies) in Southern Ghana to produce 40,000MT of broiler meat (20,000,000 birds) on a pilot basis for the first year. In total 247,480 MT is expected to be produced in 5 years
Metropolitan/ Municipal /district Chief Executives will be empowered to select prospective beneficiaries/farmers and group them into clusters to enhance monitoring and distribution of inputs.
A cluster will be made up of one hundred (100) farms (33 clusters for project) subject to selected MMDAs. MMDCEs will locate parcels of land/ farms within their jurisdiction for the project
Construction of the poultry housing structures will be the responsibility of the Metro, Municipal and District Assemblies, also individual farmers with their own capital could construct their poultry structures or existing poultry farm structures will be enrolled into the project.
It is expected that, local artisans will be engaged to construct these poultry housing structures to create jobs in the Metropolis, Municipalities and Districts.
Government Subsidy
The Sector Minister has also indicated that, the project will benefit from a 40% subsidy from the Government of Ghana for a period to attract farmers into the dying broiler production sub sector Government through MoFA will subsidize the cost of 1,000 - 2000 day old chicks, vaccines and feed for the first two weeks of production by 50%.
There will be strict monitoring and supervision from the Metro, Municipal, District, Regional and National levels to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the project to deliver on its goals.
Youth, women and other beneficiary farmers will be given practical hands- on training in poultry production techniques prior to their engagement as beneficiaries of this project.
Processing and Marketing
Government is also bring in Processing plant which will consist of slaughtering, cutting and packaging unit, Cold van and Refrigerated kiosk (mobile slaughtering plant) with a capacity of 300 birds per hour per truck.
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American Museum of Natural History Displays Kimberley Diamond
Editor . July 14, 2013
The American Museum of Natural History is currently displaying the 55.08-carat, champagne-colored Kimberley Diamond.
Cut from a 490-carat crystal, which was found in the 19th century at the Kimberley Mine in South Africa, the Kimberley Diamond was originally cut as a 70-carat gem in 1921. To improve on the gem’s proportions and to increase its brilliancy, it was cut to its present emerald cut in 1958.
The Kimberley Diamond exhibit is overseen by George Harlow, curator in the Museum’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Harlow also curated The Nature of Diamonds, a past Museum exhibition that included much about the origins of diamond—the transparent form of true carbon—and about diamond-mining. www.amnh.org
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HSC3011 - Contemporary health challenges
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Dr Charles Livingstone
First semester 2016 (Day)
The unit explores global and local health challenges that are at the forefront of Australia's health sector. Students will critically examine the construction of contemporary health challenges including: the implications of global inequalities in health and health problems arising from war and terrorism and political violence such as the refugee crisis.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:
Discuss in depth some key contemporary health challenges demonstrating awareness of multiple perspectives, including the ways in which different health professions approach the issues and exploring how integrated approaches to addressing the issues may be mounted across disciplines;
Demonstrate understanding of key global determinants of health;
Consider the common and specific factors involved in the construction of various contemporary health challenges as being of 'high priority', particularly in the context of the role that evidence and other factors, including the media, play in this process;
Demonstrate understanding of the complex interplay of political, economic, legal and socio-cultural frameworks in shaping contemporary health challenges and how they are responded to;
Identify and discuss the implications of ideology, values and power bases in determining our understanding (and prioritising) of contemporary public health challenges;
Explore specific case studies of contemporary health challenges (global or local) and critically reflect on current strategies and approaches to responding to them.
Written outline of research topic (500 words) (15%)
Literature review (1,500 words) (25%)
Research essay (3,000 words) (50%)
Class presentation (in class oral presentation) (10%)
Hurdle: 80% attendance at tutorials.
3 contact hours (1 hour lecture and 2 hour tutorial) plus 9 hours of private study per week.
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Church Statement on DOMA and Prop 8 rulings questions judicial & democratic processes of the U.S.
After fighting against same-sex marriage for over 20 years, the LDS church released a statement about the Supreme Court's rulings on Prop 8 and DOMA, saying they raised "troubling questions about how our democratic and judicial systems operates" suggesting many will wonder if "there is something fundamentally wrong" when a popular vote is found unconstitutional.
DOMA, Prop8 struck down by supreme court
Excerpts of Joy, jeers as Supreme Court gives gay marriage a boostby Tomas Burr, Matt Canham and Isobel Markham, Salt lake Tribune
Washington • Married gay couples can file taxes together and share health benefits, while, in the nation's most populous state, same-sex partners will once again be legally able to say "I do."
In a pair of landmark 5-4 rulings Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed gay-rights supporters major victories and also signaled that it could, in the immediate future, take up the question of whether state bans — like Utah's — on same-sex unions violate the Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process.
Mormon History Association Best Book & Article Awards
Excerpts from 2013 MHA Award Winners, Christopher @ Juvenile Instructor
Best Book Award
• Brandon Plewe, S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson, eds., Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-Day Saint History. Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 2012.
Best Biography Award
• John G. Turner, Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Best Documentary History /Bibliography Award
• Joseph Smith Jr., The Joseph Smith Papers, Histories Vol. 1, 1832-1844, eds. Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen. The Joseph Smith Papers: Histories, Volume 1. Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2012.
• Joseph Smith Jr., The Joseph Smith Papers, Histories Vol. 2, Assigned Histories, 1831-1847, edited by Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jenson, and David J. Whittaker. Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2012.
Best International Book Award
• Marjorie Newton, Tiki and Temple: The Mormon Mission in New Zealand, 1854-1958 (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2012).
Best First Book Award
• J. Spencer Fluhman, A Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
Best Article Award
• Christopher C. Jones, “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace, James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39-40,” BYU Studies Quarterly 51:1 (2012), 67-98.
Best Article on Mormon Women’s History
• Lisa Olsen Tait, “The Young Woman’s Journal: Gender and Generations in a Mormon Women’s Magazine,” American Periodicals 22.1 (2012): 51-71.
Best International Article Award
• Ronald E. Bartholomew, “The Role of Local Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century England,” in Reid L. Nielson and Fred E. Woods, eds. Go Ye Into All the World: The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2012).
Article Awards of Excellence (2)
• Adam Jortner, “Solomon Spaulding’s Indians, or, What the ‘Manuscript Found’ Really Tells Us,” Journal of Mormon History 38:4 (Fall 2012): 226-247.
• Benjamin E. Park, “(Re)Interpreting Early Mormon Thought: Synthesizing Joseph Smith’s Theology and the Process of Religion Formation,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 45:2 (Summer 2012): 59-88.
Best Family and Community History Award
• Stephen G. Schwendiman, The Mendon Saints: Their Lives and Legacy, Vol. 2 (Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2012).
Missionary efforts shift towards Internet
Excerpts of Mormon missions: Door-to-door approach is out; Internet is in by Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune
In what was billed as a "historic" meeting Sunday, Mormon apostle L. Tom Perry announced that the Utah-based faith's largest missionary force ever — more than 70,000 strong — will tap online tools to help them connect with and teach their "investigators."
Elizabeth Smart calls for change in LDS teachings about sexuality
Excerpts of Mormon Feminism: Elizabeth Smart calls for change, by Holly Welker, City Weekly
At a human-trafficking forum at Johns Hopkins University in May, Elizabeth Smart said she didn't try to escape after being kidnapped at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City home, both because she feared reprisals from her captors and felt worthless after being raped, thanks in part to abstinence-focused "object lessons" about premarital sex. Whether she realized it or not, Smart is part of a growing movement of LDS female activists, members anxious for cultural and practical changes within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in areas ranging from how girls learn about modesty and sex to ordaining women to the priesthood.
Church supports BSA proposed acceptance of gay scouts & denial of gay scout leaders
Mormon Church to accept gay Boy Scouts, by Mark Trumbull, Christian Science Monitor
In a major step regarding openness in the Boy Scouts of America, Mormon Church officials have approved the scout organization's acceptance of gay scouts. Still, the new ruling remains controversial because it bans gay scout leaders.
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PHISH, SATURDAY 08/19/1989
COLLIS CENTER, DARTMOUTH COLLEGECOLLIS CENTER, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
SET 1: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu, AC/DC Bag, Punch You in the Eye, Rocky Top, Bold As Love, The Mango Song, The Lizards, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Split Open and Melt, Take the 'A' Train, Divided Sky, Bathtub Gin, Funky Bitch, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, David Bowie, Undun[1], Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, You Enjoy Myself, Harry Hood
[1] Fish on trumpet.
This show is often mislabeled as August 19, 1987 and August 19, 1988 but is definitely from 1989. Fish was introduced as Marco Esquandolas before and after Undun as well as after Letter to Jimmy Page. The theme to Barney Miller was teased in the Bowie intro. Undun and the pause after Letter To Jimmy Page featured Fish on trumpet.
Overall: 3/5 (10 ratings)
Theme from Barney Miller tease in David Bowie
Aug 19, 2016: George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners - Burlington, VT
Aug 19, 2012: Phish - San Francisco, CA
Aug 19, 2006: The Rhythm Devils - Mariaville, NY
Aug 19, 2001: Jazz Mandolin Project - Mariaville, NY
Aug 19, 1992: Phish - Tucson, AZ
Aug 19, 1992: Santana - Tucson, AZ
This show was part of the "1989 Tour"
2016-08-19 11:27 am , attached to 1989-08-19
Review by david_bowie
27 years ago today. Damm. Happy anniversary to me.
This was the first time I saw this amazing band and I was blown away. It was my sophomore summer (a required, but delightful semester) at Dartmouth College. There were probably only about 1500 students on campus. Phish already had quite the following in Burlington, and I had heard of them, but alas had not had the chance to check them out. We had a couple of tapes and Junta floating around the house, but the Dead was still the shit during this era.
It was like pulling teeth trying to get folks to leave the comfort and free flowing beer of our fraternity basement on a hot Saturday night to go to a *free* concert. The action was already in progress when a few of us ambled in. Back in those days, Collis, which still serves as the Dartmouth student center, contained a small cafe and a dance floor more suited to a high school band. No way there were 300 ppl at the show. It was more like 80-100. I remember thinking how sad it was that such talented musicians were ripping it up for such a small, subdued crowd. There were a few "followers" shaking their bones, but otherwise it was pretty lame crowd.
Despite the turnout, I reveled in the goofy energy and raw power of the band, especially my new guitar hero. Honestly, I still prefer this era of Phish to the self-indulgent, tripped out, incessant noodling of 96/97. The Bowie, the following comedy act led by Fish, as well as the Mike's Groove to end the first set, all left a permanent impression on me. I recall 2nd set trampolines, during YEM I believe. I left this show thinking, "What a friggin talented and crazy band! Too bad they are so out there. They'll never make it big." LOL. A few New Years shows later, the Santana and Horde tours, Jerry dies, and the rest is Phishtory.
In the early days, the p fish did not need much of an audience to have a good time.
2014-07-04 2:41 am , attached to 1989-08-19
Review by kipmat
I recently participated in a thread [http://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1375431294] on the phish.net Forum asking about the trumpet player during the 8/26/89 Antelope. 'Twas a mystery that appears to be revealed with a listen to "Undun" from the second set of this show, as well as the show notes. The rest of the show , IMO, pales in comparison to the classic 3-sett show at Townsend Family Park one week later, though early versions of Oh Kee Pah, PYITE, and Rocky Top are worth a listen.
Review by TheEmu
Not much I can find to say about this one. Avenu M. is pretty tight, there's a good Bag and decent Mango and Melt. A Train is pretty short, Mike's is egregiously cut. All in all, pretty average. 3 Stars.
Review by Thunder
This was a hard show to review as about half of it does not exist in recorded history, although the bulk of the first set does. This show was the third trip back to Hanover this year (Jan, May and August). From what I can tell from some internet researching, this would have been a 300 capacity show. My guess is far less than that, but really need someone who was there to comment on attendance. I imagine this was a fun place to play with some loyal fans from the area that attended or made the trip. At any rate, it must have been a blast!
My general thoughts are they came out smoking and I really liked the first set as it flows really well and nicely balances vocal duties. The second set is so incomplete it’s just too hard to say much about it. But as for the first set at least, this was an “on” night for the band in 1989. There’s not really much on the recording in the way of improvisation, but as stated, half of the show isn’t represented on tape. There is nothing here that is “must hear” material, but if you love Phish and want a different 89 show to check out besides the rightfully classic 8/26/89, the first set is a good mid 89 representation.
Oh Kee Pa > Suzy is the perfect start to any show IMHO. Although Fishman is not flawless in this Suzy, he still tears it up. Dissolves wonderfully into TMWSIY. Two instrumentals in the first 3 songs of the show, nice! This is just beautiful. The expected segue into Avenu Malkenu. Great energy. Smoking. Trey quickly counts off and we’ve entered Gamehenge via AC/DC Bag. Next is a brief dedication to two Dartmouth students for winning the Phish quiz (they go unnamed on my copy), one of whom apparently has graduated and seems is not even present. PYITE. Trey runs into some problems here, which I think it can be forgiven, as according to phish.net stats, this is the second version ever of this incredible tune. This would have floored me if I had been in attendance. It was played 4 more times in 1989 and then not again until after Page scored his baby grand in 93, when the Landlady/Punch dance was unveiled for the first time by Trey. Trey just nails his solo in Rocky Top. Scorching. Just as I’m noticing a great back and forth flow of songs sung by Trey and Mike, Page steps up to the plate with his vocal lead for Bold as Love. Perfect timing. Just ask the axis, he knows everything-g-g-g. Hilarious. Mango. Ok, great. Very jazzy feel. Loving everything Trey and especially Fish are doing. Lizards. And we’re back in Gamehenge. Mike would probably say Trey is playing too many notes leading up to his solo, I’d tend to agree. Again, quickly forgotten by the typically gorgeous composed solo part of the tune. Mike’s. Again, love the back and forth vocal sharing. H20 and Weekapaug are missing off my copy and that ends the first set.
Split, A-Train, Divided, Gin is all that exists from set two and is the opening stanza. To my ears everything is played well. Sandwiching A-Train in between Split and Divided really showcases their diversity. I really love the jazz standards and you can hear it come out in a lot of their playing from this era. About the only things I didn’t like was during the outro Gin segment when Trey intentionally plays behind the beat, as he will often do. One of those things that I find hard to enjoy on an early sbd recording like this because there’s just so much of Trey’s attack in the mix. This is something that just sounds much better in concert or on an audience pull than a sbd copy. Although I know what Trey is trying to do, it doesn't play back well.
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Tag: spacesuits
PoSSUM Completes First Commercial Gravity-offset EVA Spacesuit Test at CSA
November 20, 2019 November 19, 2019 News 0
EVA suit test (Credit: Project PoSSUM)
Project PoSSUM scientist-astronaut candidates complete first gravity-offset tests of the Final Frontier Design EVA space suit prototype with the collaboration of the Canadian Space Agency.
MONTREAL (Project PoSSUM PR) – A team of sixteen Project PoSSUM citizen-scientists recently completed a series of gravity-offset tests and evaluations of an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) space suit prototype at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) headquarters near Montreal, Quebec. The space suit was developed by Final Frontier Design of Brooklyn, NY and these series of tests mark the first gravity-offset tests of a commercial EVA space suit, an essential step towards its certification.
October 16, 2019 October 15, 2019 News 0
Orion Suit Equipped to Expect the Unexpected on Artemis Missions
NASA is building the Orion Crew Survival System spacesuit to protect astronauts during launch, reentry and emergency situations during Artemis missions. (Credit NASA)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — When astronauts are hours away from launching on Artemis missions to the Moon, they’ll put on a brightly colored orange spacesuit called the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) suit. It is designed for a custom fit and equipped with safety technology and mobility features to help protect astronauts on launch day, in emergency situations, high-risk parts of missions near the Moon, and during the high-speed return to Earth.
NASA is building the Orion Crew Survival System spacesuit to protect astronauts during launch, reentry and emergency situations during Artemis missions.
Many missions require two spacesuits – one worn outside a spacecraft during spacewalks that is designed as a self-contained personal spaceship, and another worn inside a spacecraft during high-risk parts of a mission, such as inside Orion during launch and reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. NASA is building both for Artemis missions. Drawing on six decades of spaceflight experience, NASA is developing its Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or xEMU, for moonwalks, and has reengineered elements of the crew survival suit worn on the space shuttle to enhance range of motion and improve safety for the astronauts who will wear it to get to the Moon and back to Earth.
NASA Developing Next Generation Spacesuit Artemis Moon Program
Artist’s conception of astronaut in an advanced spacesuit working on the moon. (Credit; NASA)
WASHINGTON, DC (NASA PR) — At first glance, NASA’s new spacesuit that will be worn on Artemis missions might look like the suits that astronauts use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station today. However, 21st century moonwalkers will be able to accomplish much more complex tasks than their predecessors, thanks to strides in technological advances that started even before the Apollo program.
ILC Dover Introduces Line of Adaptive Commercial Spacesuits
August 29, 2019 August 30, 2019 News 0
Astro™ EVA (R), and Sol™ LEA (L) spacesuits. (Credit: ILC Dover)
FREDERICA, Del., August 28, 2019 (ILC Dover PR) — Space. Vast and unknown. Commercial spaceflight might barely make a dent in the enigma with more visitors but ILC Dover, maker of the spacesuits that took the giant leap on the Moon in 1969, is ready. The company recently rolled out its first line of commercial spacesuits this month with the launch of Astro™, the EVA (Extravehicular Activity) spacesuit, and Sol™, the LEA (Launch, Entry and Abort) spacesuit.
“These suits mark the next generation for ILC Dover,” said CEO Fran DiNuzzo. “We were at the forefront during the first manned space missions and helped change the world. We’re excited to do it again as we go back to the Moon and on to Mars.”
Building a More Personalized Spacesuit
Beyond Boundaries™ is more than just a saying for ILC Dover; it’s the foundation. Its engineers recognize that innovation, curiosity and the drive for excellence are at the forefront of human endeavor.
Collins Aerospace, ILC Dover Unveil Next Gen Space Suit
July 30, 2019 News 0
Prototype spacesuit (Credit: Collins Aerospace)
Companies funded and designed the suit system with NASA and commercial customer applications in mind
Suit system could be used for lunar surface missions in partial gravity, orbital space station missions in microgravity and future planetary missions
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Collins Aerospace PR) – Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), joined with ILC Dover today [July 25] to unveil a Next Generation Space Suit system prototype designed for future missions. The unveiling took place at a United Technologies event on Capitol Hill featuring the company’s past, present and future contributions to manned space exploration as part of a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar mission.
Final Frontier Design Receives NASA Funding to Develop Lunar Boot
June 24, 2019 June 21, 2019 News 0
NASA has selected Final Frontier Design of Brooklyn, NY, for funding to develop an advanced boot for astronauts to walk on the moon.
The award under the space agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program is worth $125,000 over six months.
The Surface Space Suit Boot (SSSB) “leverages decades of Lunar boot development and includes an advanced ankle mobility joint, a unique closure system, next generation outer garment materials, and an advanced polymer that will withstand the harsh environment of the moon,” the company said in its proposal summary.
The proposal summary follows.
Florida Tech, Embry Riddle to Collaborate on Spaceflight Research
November 11, 2018 November 9, 2018 News 1
A spacesuit is tested as part of the collaboration between Florida Tech and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. (Credit: Florida Tech)
Goal to Improve Human Performance on Flight Decks, in Cabins
MELBOURNE, FLA. (Florida Tech PR) — Florida Institute of Technology and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have announced a year-long collaboration on research involving spaceflight with the goal of improving human performance inside spacecraft.
The joint effort involves Florida Tech’s Human Spaceflight Lab, or HSF, directed by Ondrej Doule, and Embry-Riddle’s S.U.I.T. (Spacesuit Utilization of Innovative Technology) Lab, and its principal investigator, Ryan Kobrick.
NASA Funds Final Frontier Design for Low-Cost Personal Life Support System
June 10, 2018 June 6, 2018 News 4
Spacewalker Kate Rubins works outside the International Space Station with the SpaceX Dragon space freighter just below her. (Credit: NASA TV)
Final Frontier Design (FFD) has been selected for NASA funding to develop a low-cost personal life support system for spacesuits that would use commercial off-the-shelf components and be discarded after use.
The space agency selected the Brooklyn-based company’s proposal for funding under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 program. The contract is worth up to $125,000 for as long as 13 months.
A Look Back at the Space Year That Was
Total solar eclipse photographed from NASA Armstrong’s Gulfstream III. (Credit: (NASA/Carla Thomas)
I realize it’s a bit late, but here’s a look back at the major developments in space in 2017.
I know that I’m probably forgetting something, or several somethings or someones. Fortunately, I have eagle-eyed readers who really seem to enjoy telling me just how much I’ve screwed up. Some of them a little too much….
So, have at it! Do your worst, eagle-eyed readers!
Final Frontier Design Completes Testing & Validation of IVA Suit
IVA spacesuit in a “float” test. (Credit: Final Frontier Design)
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, December 20, 2017 (FFD PR) – Final Frontier Design (FFD) completed 4 microgravity research flights on Zero Gravity Corporation’s (ZERO-G) Boeing 727, in November 2017, to evaluate and qualify their Intra Vehicular Activity (IVA) space suit for the dynamic environment of space flight.
The testing marks the culmination of a NASA Flight Opportunities Program cooperative agreement with FFD, and was supported by Integrated Spaceflight Services (ISS) of Boulder, Colorado. A team of 15 people from FFD and ISS assisted to safely execute the mission.
Another Orion Worry: Spacesuits
April 27, 2017 April 26, 2017 News 21
The NASA Office of Inspector General has published another audit of the agency’s human spaceflight effort, and the watchdog has found yet another area of concern: spacesuits being developed for Orion deep-space missions and the aging ones on the International Space Station.
“Despite spending nearly $200 million on NASA’s next-generation spacesuit technologies, the Agency remains years away from having a flight-ready spacesuit capable of replacing the EMU or suitable for use on future exploration missions,” the audit states. “As different missions require different designs, the lack of a formal plan and specific destinations for future missions has complicated spacesuit development. Moreover, the Agency has reduced the funding dedicated to spacesuit development in favor of other priorities such as an in-space habitat….
Boeing Unveils Starliner Spacesuit
January 26, 2017 January 25, 2017 News 41
By Steven Siceloff,
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Astronauts heading into orbit aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will wear lighter and more comfortable spacesuits than earlier suits astronauts wore. The suit capitalizes on historical designs, meets NASA requirements for safety and functionality, and introduces cutting-edge innovations. Boeing unveiled its spacesuit design Wednesday as the company continues to move toward flight tests of its Starliner spacecraft and launch systems that will fly astronauts to the International Space Station.
Final Frontier Design Delivers MCP Gloves to NASA
Closeup screenshot of FFD’s pressure visualization and video documentation setup. (Credit: Final Frontier Design)
BROOKLYN, NY, October 28, 2016 (FFD PR) – Final Frontier Design (FFD) has delivered a pair of functional Mechanical Counter Pressure (MCP) gloves to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This marks a major milestone in FFD’s fixed-price contract with NASA for MCP gloves and represents a promising alternative in space suit pressure garment design.
FFD Completes Round of Spacesuit Testing with Project PoSSUM
May 4, 2016 May 3, 2016 News 2
Infrared cam shot of PoSSUM Academy participants Michael Long and Abdelraouf Elwaqad testing FFD space suits in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s suborbital spaceflight simulator. (Credit: Nicholas Mercury Carlstrom)
BROOKLYN, NY, May 3, 2016 (FFD PR) – Last month, Final Frontier Design (FFD) completed another round of space suit testing in Daytona, Florida as part of Project PoSSUM, in conjunction with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU).
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1st Assistant Chief Chris Ceccarelli
2nd Assistant Chief Jeff Antal
Captain Mike Ceccarelli
3rd Lieutenant Kolton Ramsdell
Fire Fighter Ken Ramsdell
Fire Fighter Shelby Ferguson
Fire Fighter Justin Kon
History of the Leather Helmet
Jacobus Turck of New York City is credited with inventing the first fire cap around 1740. It was round with a high crown and narrow rim and was made of leather. Improvements on his design were made by Mathew DuBois, who sewed iron wire into the edge of the brim to give the helmet shape and strength, and to provide resistance to heat, moisture and warping. The leather helmet, as it is known today, came from a very modest and non-fire related beginning. The year that the traditional fire helmet was invented is mired in speculation and debate however it is generally agreed upon as sometime between 1821 and 1836. The gentleman credited with it's founding is Henry T. Gratacap. Gratacap was a volunteer fireman in New York City. His made his living as a luggage maker who made a name for himself because of his innovative luggage specifically designed for ocean transit. It was made of leather that was specially treated to offer unparalleled durability and withstood wetness without rotting. These qualities were very desirable in a fire helmet as well. Gratacap incorporated eight (8) combs [ a design of eight (8) segments ] into his helmet for extra strength. It was adopted for official use by the New York City Fire Department in the late 1800's and given the name the 'New Yorker".
The New Yorker helmet has remained virtually unchanged throughout approximately 168 years of faithful and steadfast service. The New Yorker helmet retains the same look and quality that generations after generations of firefighters have relied on. They are made of stout tanned Western cowhide, one quarter of an inch thick, and reinforced with leather strips which rise like Gothic arches inside of the crown. The long duckbill, or beavertail, which sticks out at the rear, is designed to keep water from running down the wearer's neck. Originally, the helmets were sometimes worn backwards so that the beavertail would protect it's wearer from the intense heat from the fire. Additionally, some tillermen would also wear them backwards to protect their faces from rain and snow.
During this time, two brothers named Cairns were operating a metal badge and insignia business in New York City. The Cairns brothers are credited with the idea of mounting an identification badge to the front of Gratacap's helmets. Today these are known as "Front Pieces".
The two companies operated cooperatively until Gratacaps retirement sometime in the 1850's. This led to the birth of the Cairns & Brother legacy which has pioneered firefighter helmet technology ever since. Cairns and Brother's commitment to protecting fire fighter's lives is evident in their systems, where engineered components synergistically work together for unparalleled protection in harsh environments. The original OSHA compliant leather helmet, it remains individually hand-shaped, hand-trimmed and hand-stitched to meet the strenuous demands of todays most dangerous profession.
The "Leatherhead" is a term used to individualize a firefighter who chooses the leather helmet for protection from the hazards we face daily. The leather helmet is an international sign of a firefighter, a symbol that is significant in not only tradition from the early years of fire fighting, but one of bravery, integrity, honor and pride. This helmet is a sign of who we are - not what we are.
Although several types of components exist to attach the front piece to the helmet, fire fighters who truly live the tradition wear a carved brass eagle to adorn the top of the helmet. The eagle has it's own significance in history but no traceable story through the fire service. In approximately 1825, an unknown sculptor made a commemorative figure for the grave of a fire fighter. It remains in New York's Trinity Churchyard today. It shows the fire fighter issuing from the flames, his trumpet in one hand, a sleeping baby in the other and atop his helmet - an eagle. Fire Fighters were not wearing eagles at the time and it was a flight of pure fancy on the part of the sculptor. As the image was viewed and word was spread, the idea was widely adopted. It has remained a traditional component of the helmet ever since.
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High and dry: Alpine resorts grapple with climate change
Tuesday, 16 July 2019 06:01 GMT
Parts of the Gurschengletscher glacier are covered with tarps near the peak of Mount Gemsstock (2,961 m/ 9,715 ft) in Andermatt, Switzerland July 5, 2019. Picture taken July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
About our Climate coverage
We focus on the human and development impacts of climate change
With global warming widely expected to slash snowfall, the Swiss tourism industry is looking for ways to preserve a lucrative business
* Thought of bare mountains sends shiver through winter resorts
* Campaign is on to attract more summer visitors
* Bears, bikes on the tourism menu
* Economics of transition are tricky
By Michael Shields
AROSA, Switzerland, July 16 (Reuters) - The prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change.
With global warming widely expected to slash snowfall, especially at lower levels, the Swiss tourism industry is looking for ways to preserve a lucrative business brutally exposed to the weather.
Enter Napa, Serbia's last circus bear.
The Arosa ski resort in eastern Switzerland has created a$6.5 million refuge hosting Napa and two other bears rescued from cages at restaurants in Albania to help draw summer visitors and reduce its reliance on skiers and snowboarders.
School classes, families and a group of army veterans celebrating an 80th birthday were visiting one recent summer day, helping the park towards what Arosa tourism director Pascal Jenny said was a target of 50,000 visitors this year.
Arosa has reinvented itself before - moving to winter tourism in the 1930s after decades as a health resort for tuberculosis patients. But with nearly 620,000 overnight stays in winter last year, more than three times the summer total -- it will not be easy.
Jenny, who fears a sharp decline in snowfall over the next 20 or 30 years, is hedging his bets.
"What gives us some hope is that artificial snow is making strong technical advances. I can make snow now at 5 degrees above freezing," he said, standing on an observation platform beside the Weisshorn cable car which gives a sweeping view of the snow-capped Alpine valley.
His two-pronged approach highlights the dilemma faced by mountain resorts -- how to retain profits as they embark on what the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) says needs to be a global rethink of tourism.
"The consequences of climate change will be felt across the travel and tourism sector over the coming decades," the OECD, whose member countries represent 80% of the world's trade and investment, said in a 2018 study of megatrends in tourism.
Storms, flooding and tidal surges will threaten coastal regions, southern destinations face extreme heatwaves and northern ones will see shorter periods of snowfall, it said.
DANISH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE?
Mountain resorts tend to be higher in Switzerland than in Austria or France, giving them better chances as snow becomes scarcer.
But even at 3,000 metres, pistes could see snow depths more than halved by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, a report in The Cryosphere, a peer-reviewed geosciences journal named after the frozen water parts of the Earth, said.
Resorts below 1,200 metres - as about a quarter of Alpine ones are - might get almost no snow, said the 2017 report, whose title starts "How much can we save?". Snow levels will gradually stabilise if global temperature rises are contained, it says.
Arosa is 1,775 metres up but Jenny worries that a loss of snow in the lowlands will cost it visitors because people will lose their emotional connection with snow.
"That is almost more dangerous for the sector," he said.
Hence his interest in an industrial estate in Denmark, where Arosa is cooperating on a project to make artificial snow so that urban dwellers can learn to ski and then, he hopes, go on to hone their skills in the Alps.
The economics are clear: a daily lift pass for skiers in Arosa costs 79 Swiss francs($), while a summer hiker or mountain biker typically pays 18 francs for a pass that lets them use a rope park, a swimming area and paddle boats on the town's lake.
Hotels and restaurants charge more in winter too, but the strong Swiss franc has priced many people out.
Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and the Swiss government says the long-term outlook for tourism is healthy. "Mountain summers can position themselves as an alternative to the Mediterranean regions," a 2017 report said.
Summer tourism already accounts for 60% of overnight stays across Switzerland, but the season brings in only 18% of revenue, said Therese Lehmann, an economist at the University of Bern's Centre for Regional Development.
Government data already shows a 24% drop in skiers in the decade to 2016, with other factors as well as climate change.
"The decline of ski tourism -- a powerful economic engine -- will have more of an impact than the additional revenue in summer," said Dominik Siegrist, director of the Institute for Landscape and Open Space at Switzerland's University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil.
Europe's population is ageing and younger people are less interested in skiing. Snowshoeing, winter hiking, sledding and ski touring -- in which people hike up mountains, are on the increase, industry lobby Swiss Tourism says.
Consolidation of winter tourism is on the horizon, with overnight stays in bigger Swiss resorts up 1 percent in the decade to 2015, but down 17 percent in smaller ones.
"Lots of smaller ones are grasping at straws, trying to survive as long as they can because the valleys depend on this tourism," Siegrist said.
SNOW HARVESTS, GLACIER COATS
Large resorts in the Swiss cantons of the Grisons and Valais, Austria's Tyrol province and France's Savoie region have the marketing pull to survive, Siegrist said, listing high- altitude Andermatt, Zermatt and St Moritz in Switzerland.
The Andermatt Swiss Alps resort, in central Switzerland, is targeting cyclists in summer, and has also built new lifts to lure winter sports fans.
It covers a nearby glacier with strips of artificial fleece in spring to help reduce melting and creates piles of snow higher than houses to deploy on ski pistes as early as November to avoid having to use expensive artificial snow.
The strong Swiss franc has hit ski lifts focused on winter business from European visitors hard in the past 10 years, the government says, but the minority of lifts with strong summer business are booming thanks to visitors from overseas.
Many smaller lift firms get cheap loans and, increasingly, state subsidies to help balance the books, said Lehmann.
Roughly a third are debt-free, but depend on long-haul tourism, which she said was not ideal from an environmental point of view, because flights are a major contributor to holiday carbon emissions.
"Maybe we have to get away from focusing solely on growth, and promote Alpine areas as good habitats for living, not just for tourism," she said.
Listed cable car companies Bergbahnen Engelberg Truebsee Titlis Bet AG and Jungfraubahn Holding AG, cite year-round visitors from Asia - especially China and India - as important sources of income.
Asked about sustainability, Titlis marketing director Peter Reinle said the firm's prospects were good for the next 50 years. "We as a single entity can not solve the whole climate problem. Politicians have to provide framework conditions."
Jungfraubahn's Corporate Secretary Christoph Schlaeppi said it employed 800 local people, helping to make life in the mountains economically sustainable for a new generation.
The government says it is up to individual resorts to decide how much they want to attract Asian groups, but focuses its own promotion efforts on individual travellers and sustainability, noting Japanese tourists now come independently and stay longer.
"We have to see that guests from Asia making the long flight to Europe or Switzerland stay as long as possible," Richard Kaempf, head of tourism policy at the State Secretariat of Economic Affairs, told Reuters.
While the government encourages year-round use of mountain infrastructure, he said it is not giving up on winter sports, a deep cultural touchstone for the Swiss. But he acknowledged the growing challenge of lowlanders losing the "winter feeling".
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To end slavery, free 10,000 people a day for a decade, report says
by Ellen Wulfhorst | @EJWulfhorst | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 17 July 2019 04:01 GMT
A survivor of slavery who wished to remain anonymous poses for a picture in New Delhi, India March 7, 2018. Picture taken March 7, 2018. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
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More than 40 million people have been estimated to be captive in modern slavery, which includes forced labor and forced marriage
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK, July 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ten thousand people would need to be freed every day to eliminate modern slavery over the next decade, according to research on Wednesday showing countries making little or no progress in efforts to end forced labor.
Less than half of countries rank forced labor as a crime and most do not regard forced marriage as a crime, said the report by the Walk Free Foundation, an Australia-based anti-slavery group.
More than 40 million people have been estimated to be captive in modern slavery, which includes forced labor and forced marriage, according to Walk Free and the International Labour Organization.
Ending modern slavery by 2030 was one of the global goals adopted unanimously by members of the United Nations four years ago.
But at today's rate, achieving that goal is "impossible", the report said. It would require freeing some 10,000 people each day for the next decade, it said.
"At current progress, we will not be able to eradicate modern slavery by 2030," Katharine Bryant, research manager at Walk Free, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The group assessed 183 governments on such factors as the identification of slavery survivors, criminal justice, support systems and efforts to clean up supply chains.
The worst countries for modern slavery were North Korea and Eritrea, where governments are complicit in forced labor, the report said.
It singled out Libya, Iran, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Russia and Somalia for lack of action on ending slavery.
Wealthy countries that have taken little action were Qatar, Singapore, Kuwait, Brunei, Hong Kong and Russia, it said.
Some countries have slowed or slipped backward in their efforts by reducing the number of victims identified, decreasing anti-slavery funding or cutting back on support systems, the report said.
While an estimated 16 million people are trapped in forced labor, only 40 countries have investigated public or business supply chains to look at such exploitation, the report said.
In nearly 100 countries, forced labor is not considered a crime or is a minor offense, it said. About a third of countries ban forced marriage.
On the other hand, Georgia, Nigeria, Ukraine, Moldova, Ethiopia and Mozambique were notable for taking steps to end modern slavery despite their limited resources, it said.
Walk Free called on governments to measure the extent of slavery within their countries as a necessary step toward eradication.
"Ten thousand a day is massive, but a government can eradicate slavery by the hundreds of thousands in strokes," said Andrew Forrest, founder of Walk Free.
(Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst, Editing by Claire Cozens. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights and climate change. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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US House passes Uighur bill urging sanctions on Chinese officials
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WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that would apply sanctions against senior Chinese officials, triggering a furious response from Beijing.
The legislation adds to tensions between the two superpowers just as they are locked in negotiations to finalize a "phase one" deal to resolve their protracted trade war.
Washington had already angered Beijing when President Donald Trump signed legislation supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, prompting China earlier this week to impose sanctions on US-based NGOs and suspend future visits by US warships to the semi-autonomous territory.
The Uighur Act of 2019 condemns Beijing's "gross human rights violations" linked to the crackdown in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where upwards of one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in re-education camps.
The measure, which passed 407 to 1, is a stronger version of the bill that cleared the Senate in September. The texts must be reconciled into one bill for Trump's signature.
The latest House measure condemns the arbitrary mass detention of Uighurs and calls for closure of the re-education camps where, according to rights groups and US lawmakers, they have been held and abused.
The bill notably urges Trump to slap sanctions on Chinese officials behind the Uighur policy, including Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party chief for Xinjiang.
"Today the human dignity and human rights of the Uighur community are under threat from Beijing's barbarous actions, which are an outrage to the collective conscience of the world," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues shortly before the vote.
Congress "is taking a critical step to counter Beijing's horrific human rights abuses against Uighurs," she said.
"America is watching."
Pelosi lashed out at Chinese authorities for orchestrating a crackdown that includes pervasive mass state surveillance, solitary confinement, beatings, forced sterilization "and other forms of torture."
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Beijing called on the United States to prevent the bill from becoming law and warned -- without elaborating -- that it would respond "according to the development of the situation."
The bill "deliberately denigrates China's human rights situation in Xinjiang, wantonly smears China's efforts to eliminate extremism and combat terrorism (and) viciously attacks the Chinese government's policy of governing Xinjiang," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement.
The Chinese state-owned tabloid The Global Times quoted experts as saying Beijing will take "strong countermeasures" including releasing an "unreliable entity list" that could sanction and restrict some US entities in the country and impose sanctions on US officials.
Last month two huge leaks of official documents offered more details about China's network of internment camps in Xinjiang.
Government papers obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) outlined the need to prevent escape, double lock doors and constantly monitor detainees -- even during toilet breaks.
The New York Times reported, based on internal papers it had obtained, that Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered officials to act with "absolutely no mercy" against separatism and extremism in Xinjiang in 2014 following a deadly knife attack blamed on separatists.
Rights groups and witnesses accuse China of forcibly trying to draw Uighurs away from their Islamic customs and integrate them into the majority Han culture.
After initially denying the camps' existence, Beijing cast the facilities as "vocational education centers" where "students" learn Mandarin and job skills in an effort to steer them away from religious extremism, terrorism and separatism.
'WIPE OUT UIGHUR IDENTITY'
The House bill would require the State Department to produce a report within one year on the crackdown in Xinjiang.
And it would require the Commerce Department to ban US exports to entities in Xinjiang that are known to be used in the detention or surveillance of Muslim minorities, including facial recognition technology.
Thomas Massie, the sole member of Congress to vote against both the Hong Kong and Uighur bills, said he did so because he considered the issues to be Chinese domestic affairs.
"When our government meddles in the internal affairs of foreign countries, it invites those governments to meddle in our affairs," he said in a tweet.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio warned that China's government and Communist Party are "working to systematically wipe out the ethnic and cultural identities" of Uighurs.
Advocacy organization The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), said the US action "paves the way for other countries to act."
"Each and every speech on the House floor tonight was a forceful indictment of crimes against humanity," said UHRP executive director Omer Kanat.
"Tonight's action gives Uighurs hope."
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Israel, Turkey Deepen Energy Ties As Relations Resume After Six Year Rupture
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz attends a news conference after their meeting with Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak in Istanbul, Turkey, October 13, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
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ISTANBUL, Oct 13 – Israel and Turkey agreed to deepen cooperation in the energy sector on Thursday, taking a further step towards normalising their relations during the first Israeli ministerial visit to Turkey since ties were ruptured six years ago.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said he would welcome more involvement by Turkish firms in the Israeli energy sector, particularly in gas exploration, and said “detailed dialogue” between the two governments would begin in the coming months.
After meeting in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Berat Albayrak, President Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, Steinitz said the two had discussed the possibility of building a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey.
“Exporting gas to our neighbours in the region or to Europe through different pipelines, this is of course very important, and of course one of the important options is connecting to Europe through a pipeline to Turkey,” he told reporters.
“We discussed other issues of energy cooperation, but this is the most vital … We are ready to engage in the specific detailed dialogue between our two governments in the next coming months,” Steinitz said.
Relations between the two regional powers crumbled after Israeli marines stormed an aid ship in May 2010 to enforce a naval blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, killing 10 Turkish activists on board.
But they announced in June that they would normalise ties, a rare rapprochement in the divided Middle East, driven as much by the prospect of lucrative Mediterranean gas deals as by mutual fears over growing security risks.
At stake are reserves of natural gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars under the waters of Israel and Cyprus. To exploit them, Israel will likely require the cooperation of Turkey.
“So far we discovered approximately 900 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas. But next month, we’ll open Israeli economic water for further exploration and the scientific estimate is that the most of the natural gas is yet to be found, another 2,200 bcm,” Steinitz said.
“This is a lot of gas, much more than we can consume.”
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Amalgam, University of Alberta BFA Grad Show 2007
There is nothing resembling an alloy or mixture of edge and otherness in the 2007 BFA group Grad show. Unfocused tangents of subject and media, self-reflexive nods of acknowledgment, and other forgettables graced the FAB Gallery walls showcasing the products of this past semester's labours. Memory came into play, predictably, but reminisces of childhood dreams and blurred memories coming from 20 year olds fail to bear much weight.
What does this show say about the group? The focus of what art could mean to them? Adam Waldon Blain's "NRMLS WLCM (22 December 2006)", a document of an early kHz night, says it all: a shoddy acrylic photo-representation of vacant stares of semi-stylish boys and girls frozen in motion, faces blank of emotion or thought, incompetence captured for a moment, unable to transfer the immediate thrill and fleeting joy, but still carries residues of contentment, a complacency in knowing that they are being seen by peers who are just as interested as being seen themselves, even if it is just based on style in void of substance.
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I saw the show and agree it's very vacant. This begs the question, what's going on at the institutional level? Is it a result of poor intruction, an art department that's archaic and un-innovative? I'm thinking an enema might do that place some good.
There is no universal recipe for all paths. In the first place there is only the path of the individual answerable to himself. He may remain a lone traveller, or his path may become a highway. The originial is usually identical with the elementary and the latter with the simple. We can always begin over again with the ABC, we can always reconsider the elements of art, because in simplicity there is a strength in which every true innovation is rooted. Simplicity, understood as what is elementary and typical, out of which diversity and individuality evolve organically, simplicity understood as tabula rasa and a general purging of all the eclectic accessories of every style and period, must surely guarantee that path we call the future!
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I guess it's a little late to be talking about this now, but: If the memories of 20 year-olds are inadequate for "bear[ing] weight", what can 20-year-olds accomplish in art at all? I can appreciate that the show failed to communicate any kind of unified statement, but I don't think any of us expected it to, given the make-up of the class and the limitations of the format. I can easily accept that the limited wallspace for each idea made it hard to appreciate the value of some of the work, but extrapolating that into "style in void of substance" is a little bit of a stretch, even leaving aside the prejudicial nature of that statement and any attempts to escape its self-important aesthetic-as-taste trap.
I'm just having a poke around the site, Amy, I hope that's ok. I thought this was an interesting post, so I thought I'd toss in my two cents (no provocations intended here!, I swear!)...
I didn't see this show, so I can't speak about it specifically from any personal experience. That being said, I think it's fair to say that BFA shows, in general, are rarely stellar, and so one should view them with an appropriate level of expectation... it is all 'student' work, after all, and as such, may have served a greater purpose as an educational excercise, rather than an ultimate statement of any artists' potential.
I think it's great that you're looking, and writing, critically about art in Edmonton, Amy. I hope you keep it up.
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“On Wednesday, the court extended the house arrest of Viktor Grebnev until late November upon the investigators’ request that was supported by the prosecutor’s office,” the source said.
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TMK said it failed to pay 96 million rubles ($1.5 million) in wages to workers because of the alleged embezzlement. Investigators claim that Grebnev used the money to buy yachts and a mansion.
He was released on bail of 1 million rubles ($15,200) in April.
Last February, the Federal Service of Labor and Employment revealed the failure to distribute over 30.5 million rubles ($464,000) to 1,262 TMK employees working at the cosmodrome. Also, in December 2014, the company was ordered to pay over 61 million rubles ($928,200) of the debt to its staff.
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So, to that end, I went on a bit of a bender this week and want to share the spoils. I’m assuming most of these sale prices will be done by the end of the day — or the end of the week at the latest (the $5.00 deals tend to be refreshed on the 1st and 15th of each month) — so grab em today.
OMD — “English Electric” — $5.00
This delicious disc featured prominently in Popdose’s “10 Most Awesome New Wave Comebacks Ever” round-up a few months back. You can also grab the 10-track b-sides collection here for $6.99. So you’re all in (more than 20 tracks) for a hair more than what they’re charging for the single-disc album on iTunes.
M.I.A. — Matangi — $7.99
I was kinda over M.I.A. after the whole Madonna/Super Bowl sell-out, but when it comes to seizure-inducing, politically-charged audio collage death matches, nobody does it better. Total earphone candy. In a rare turn, Amazon gets an exclusive track, ‘Like This’, that iTunes does not have. So you save four bucks and get an extra track. What’s not to love? Well, except for the digital booklet which is unreadable because my vision has gone to crap.
The Vaccines — Come of Age — $5.00
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The blue group’s leading man, David Schelzel, chatted in depth with Popdose right before the release of The Ocean Blue’s first album in more than a decade (click here for the interview). What a beautiful album Ultramarine turned out to be — a true return to form and a bold step forward. Hopefully you’ve caught them on tour, if not, keep an eye out.
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Let’s face it, Gagaloo over-hyped this album since the day after Born This Way dropped. The hover dress. The Miley-eclipsed VMA performance. The tepid first single, ‘Applause’. But she is still one of the most talented musicians on the planet and her albums tend to deliver. I am listening to it as we speak and while it’s no home run, it’s definitely a line drive down the center (if that’s even a baseball term). She sings about what she knows, fashion and fame, but if Bowie can do it, why not her? It’s $14.99 on iTunes and only $5.99 this week here, so shake your kitty and get it fast.
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Cilmi chatted with Popdose live from the studio while she was recording The Sting (click here to read it). Like Gaga, this is Cilmi’s third at bat and she’s aiming for the fences after a bit of a misfire second outing (the commercially weak but creatively awesome, Ten). Whereas Gaga is treading water to some degree, Cilmi stretches her range and the result is very sophisticated and exciting record. If you’re still mourning Amy Winehouse, Cilmi’s sultry voice is sweet, sweet proof that life goes on.
Not from the album, and probably not official, but here’s a pretty sweet remix of new track, ‘Symmetry”:
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The 1975 — The 1975 — $3.99
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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts — Unvarnished — $5.00
I’ve been a Jett fan for 33 years — but her latter-era output tended to deliver great singles more than great albums. Until now. Unvarnished gets a boost from Dave Grohl (on the decent ‘Any Weather’) and Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace (on the excellent ‘Soulmates to Strangers’), but it’s the original ‘TMI’ that really plants Jett back into the street fighting spirit we haven’t seen since ‘Nag’ 30 years ago. A very winning album from a beloved, ageless icon.
Mazzy Star — Seasons of Your Day — $5.00
If they ever weaponized the dreaminess of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval and the Sundays’ Harriet Wheeler, entire cities could be felled into never ending daydreams. After far too long out of the spotlight, Mazzy Star returned this year with an album that sounds as if it was recorded the same day as ‘Fade Into You’. Lovely, hazy and yet modern, fresh and captivating. On tour now.
Sara Bareilles — Kaleidoscope Heart — $5.00
Every hipster likely has a romantic partner who prefers mainstream pop, so it’s best to keep a few tolerable discs on ice in case of emergency. My wife keeps Sara Bareilles on near constant rotation and I couldn’t be happier. Sara climbed out of the clubs in LA. I saw her play Hotel Cafe years before ‘Love Song’ took over the world. This second major-label outing includes the hit ‘King of Anything’.
Minor Alps — Get There — $6.99
Minor Alps is a collaboration between Matthew Caws of Nada Surf and Juliana Hatfield. Whereas other dynamic duos, Susanna Hoffs/Matthew Sweet and Billie Joe Armstrong/Norah Jones went the covers route (on the charming, 80’s themed Under The Covers Volume #3 and Everly Brothers tribute, Foreverly, respectively), Minor Alps is 100% original. A perfect mix of delicate harmonic ballads intermixed with full-blown indie rockers. 20 years into their respective careers and they sound as fresh and urgent as any breakthrough indie buzz band as SXSW.
The Wild Swans — Coldest Winter For a Hundred Years (Deluxe Edition) — $17.98
This album inspired my “New Wave Comebacks” story — and yet, I forgot to put it in. Why? Cuz I’m an idiot. Or perhaps a genius, because this 2011 humdinger was just expanded and reissued. $18 might seem expensive for a digital album, but try tracking down these tracks any other way. The limited edition vinyl box set costs a fortune and was instantly sold out. For fans of lush, melodic, 80’s new wave Brit pop, this is a stunning return to form. I discovered the Wild Swans at the height of the Sire Records heyday on one of their “Just Say” compilation discs (the stellar ‘Bible Dreams’). 30 years later, the band hasn’t aged a day.
Courtesy of our friends at Slicing Up Eyeballs, here is the complete story on the 2013 reissues and a free download of the heavenly ‘In Secret’:
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Throwing Muses — Purgatory/Paradise — $8.99
Kristen Hersh’s collective rarely disappoints. This is the one album of the bunch I think I’m gonna wait and get on CD — since it comes out with an entire book and the whole thing will be less than $20. But if digital is your thing, you can’t go wrong with 32 tracks for less than $10.
Visage — Hearts & Knives — $9.49
And finally, another one of the year’s best new albums comes from a band I have not heard from in 30 years, and to be honest, didn’t pay that much attention to the first time around — my bad, I now plan on revisiting the entire back catalogue. Steve Strange’s voice hasn’t aged a day and his album sounds both like fresh modern dance music AND the album Human League has been trying to make ever since Crash. If you like new romantic and new wave, this album and the OMD disc are the perfect one-two punch.
Tour the entire album in this Soundcloud mix:
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And then enjoy this strange and wonderful non-album track — unlike the polished perfection on the album, this song sounds like the Residents meets Kraftwerk meets Visage’s cover of the Stones’ “In the Year 2525″ — I love it.
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Kurt Busch to test Indy car, could run Indy 500 someday
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INDIANAPOLIS — Kurt Busch will test an Indy car for Andretti Autosport at Indianapolis Motor Speedway next week.
The 2004 Sprint Cup champion was at Indy this week testing tires for Goodyear with Furniture Row Racing. An agreement was apparently made with Michael Andretti to return next Thursday and turn laps at the famed speedway two days before the track opens for Indianapolis 500 practice.
“I have always enjoyed racing at Indianapolis, and when IMS and Michael presented me with the opportunity to test an Indy car prior to opening day of practice of the Indianapolis 500, I jumped at it,” Busch said in a statement. “The Indianapolis 500 is an iconic event and having an opportunity to go through the testing process with Michael and Andretti Autosport, the defending series champions and two-time winners of the race, is pretty cool.”
Andretti, who won the IndyCar championship with Ryan Hunter-Reay last season, will be on hand to get Busch up to speed. Busch will drive Hunter-Reay’s No.1 Chevrolet.
“I had the chance to get to know Kurt last year when we were working on another racing project,” Andretti said. “I respect his talent and am happy to give him the opportunity to experience the raw speed of an Indy car. It’s a unique feel and perspective — it will be totally different than what he is used to driving each week on the Cup circuit.”
Busch, who tested a Champ Car at Sebring in 2003 for Bobby Rahal, said he’s interested in exploring the possibility of someday running the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. Only John Andretti, Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon have attempted “The Double.”
AJ Allmendinger, who replaced Busch at Penske Racing last year, is running the Indy 500 this year for Roger Penske. Though Allmendinger is running a part-time Cup schedule for Phoenix Racing, he’s not running the Coca-Cola 600.
“I am looking forward to this test and experiencing IMS at the speeds the Indy cars run,” Busch said. “Let’s see how the test goes, and then I can look at the opportunities that could be beyond this coming Thursday. Running the Indianapolis 500 would certainly be a highlight, and doing another 600 miles in a Cup car on the same day would make for a special weekend.”
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Author Topic: Electric Vehicles (Read 15780 times)
Re: Electric Vehicles
Agelbert NOTE: Republicans in Georgia are finally starting to smell the Renewable Revolution coffee.
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May 1st, 2019 by Jake Richardson
House Bill 732 anticipates that electrification is not just a trend but a massive, long-term market opportunity for the State of Georgia, and ...
May 3rd, 2019 by Paul Fosse
Breaking! Tesla Slashes Leasing Costs On Model 3 — $399 A Month! 👍
Agelbert COMMENT: In a sane country, the Federal Reserve would be tasked, for the good of society and the environment (SEE: "Common welfare" clause of the U.S. Constitution), with providing zero interest loans for EVs. They would also be tasked with covering all capital costs of long term leasing for EV manufacturers.
For example, the Tesla Model 3 EASILY lasts ten years. Lease payments for ten years, even in the most expensive LR Model 3, would be within the reach of most Americans.
But we do not live in a sane country.
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VW ID 3 racks up 10,000 deposits in first day
Eric C. Evarts
17 CommentsMay 10, 2019
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Three years after Tesla started taking $1,000 reservations for its Model 3, Volkswagen is racking up similar orders for its upcoming ID 3 hatchback in Europe.
Perhaps not to the degree, sure. Tesla amassed 180,000 orders for its "affordable" long-range electric car in one day in the US, while VW took 10,000 first-day deposits on the day it opened reservations for the ID 3 hatchback.
DON'T MISS: VW names fully electric hatchback ID 3, starts taking deposits in Europe
Still, the advanced orders are a hopeful sign for VW, after Tesla, Nissan, GM, and other automakers got a head start in building long-range electric cars.
Volkswagen said the orders exceeded its expectations, and said that in some cases its computer systems couldn't keep up with the deposits.
READ MORE: VW releases video of electric ID hatchback testing in South Africa
The company is booking reservations for the first edition of the ID 3, the ID 3 1ST, which comes with the long-range 62-kilowatt-hour battery pack, as well as 2,000 kwh of free public charging at Ionity fast charging stations around Europe.
The 62-kwh battery is expected to give the ID 3 a range of 260 miles on the notably generous European WLTP driving cycle. A shorter range, 48-kwh, is expected to deliver closer to 200 miles.
CHECK OUT: VW ID Buggy teases potential of electric-car platform with some beach fun
VW says the ID 3 will go into production by the end of 2019—about six months later than its original estimate—and the first cars will be delivered in Europe in mid-2020.
Volkswagen has no plans to sell the ID 3 the US, though it does plan to import future electric cars based on the ID 3's platform to the US, starting with the ID Crozz later in 2020.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123022_vw-id-3-racks-up-10000-deposits-in-first-day
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Getting back to Subhuman, he/she/it summarized on hypothesis like this: “This is Big Oil’s last chance to try and kill Tesla before it gets to the point of no return. Some would argue that we have already reached the point of no return but vested interest have not excepted that yet.”
There are a couple of things to consider with that inference. One is that Big Oil is directly or indirectly funding much of the Tesla smearing you see out there in the media. That’s possible. There are indeed oil-funded Tesla and EV smear campaigns. (This is not debatable.) But how much that drives the narrative is uncertain and is highly debatable.
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/23/2013-2019-tesla-sales-jump-from-20000-per-year-to-20000-30000-per-month-but-tesla-stock-tsla-barely-up/
May 25th, 2019 by Kyle Field
BYD Delivers The First Fleet Of Electric Buses To Argentina
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“The pace of change and consumer interest in electrified vehicles is gathering real momentum and it’s essential we work across industry to advance the technologies required to deliver this exciting future,” said Jaguar Land Rover’s engineering director Nick Rogers.
Colorado is working to convert the state’s buses, delivery trucks and vans to electric vehicles.
Governor Jared Polis doubled down on the state’s commitment to increase electric vehicles and expand charging networks. In January, he updated Colorado's electric vehicle plan so state grants to replace aging gas and diesel trucks can only be used for EVs, not newer diesel or propane-fueled vehicles as previously allowed. The typical electric delivery truck will save around $2,000 a month since it requires no gas, no oil changes, and far fewer overall maintenance costs, according to a local powertrain manufacturer. Other efforts include a push to streamline zero-emission vehicle rules and a utility effort to make it easier to charge electric trucks. (Denver Post)
Storage breaks records, offshore wind targets raised in MA and CT, and more
Contrary to what the anti-EV alligators would have you believe, plug-in vehicles produce lower emissions than dinosaur-burners over their full life cycles. That advantage is steadily growing as more and more electricity generation comes from renewable sources. A recent report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found that costs for renewable energy technologies fell to a record low last year, and that cost reductions are poised to continue into the next decade.
In many parts of the world, renewable power is already the cheapest source of electricity. IRENA says that over 75% of wind and solar PV projects due to be commissioned next year will produce power at lower prices than the cheapest fossil fuel options, without government subsidies.
Chart: Electric Cars Cutting Gasoline Use By Hundreds Of Millions Of Gallons A Year
Agelbert COMMENT: YES! The death knell of the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn from lack of gasoline (and diesel) sales is music to my ears.
Don't forget that MANY homes are no longer heating with kerosene or heating oil because of Renewable Energy based electric heat. The 'electricity is less efficient for heat' crowd ALWAYS neglects to mention hydrocarbon pollution in their MORONIC energy math.
Ignore the planet killer IDIOTS who don't want you to use electric heat. OR, just tell them that destroying the biosphere by burning hydrocarbons is REALLY inefficient!
June 14th, 2019 by Zachary Shahan
Shocker: Tesla Model 3 vs. Honda Civic — 15 Cost Comparisons Over 5 Years
When I got started on this analysis, I thought, “Well, looks like we finally have a car that is going to come out with a lower 5 year cost than a Tesla Model 3.” Nonetheless, I was super curious to see the results and see how close the Tesla Model 3 came to different Honda Civic trims. I did not expect that the Model 3 would beat the Civic on cost in several scenarios. Does it? Does it, really?
As before, all of my assumptions are included underneath the article and most are included in the charts. I try to use objective, respected, third-party sources for every factor possible. Because some factors vary so much from individual to individual, and even from state to state, I’ve run five scenarios for the Tesla Model 3 versus each of the three Honda Civic trims I chose for this analysis:
► High Gas Price, High Electricity Price
► Moderate Gas Price, Moderate Electricity Price
► Low Gas Price, Low Electricity Price
► High Gas Price, Low Electricity Price
► Low Gas Price, High Electricity Price
Of course, no financial value is put on the greater safety of the Tesla Model 3 or the fact that it’s approximately 10× more fun than a Honda Civic. Some things are simply priceless.
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/14/tesla-model-3-vs-honda-civic-15-cost-comparisons-over-5-years/
Honda E electric car: 50/50 weight distribution, “in action” tease next month 🧐
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Article with more pictures:
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123601_honda-e-electric-car-50-50-weight-distribution-in-action-tease-next-month
Sales Of Nissan e-NV200 ⚡ Electric Vans Up 200% In UK 👍
June 17th, 2019 by Steve Hanley
Electric car drivers are beset with range anxiety concerns. Even though they rarely travel more than 30 miles from home, there is still that occasional trip to the mountains, the beach, or the lake house. Most of us harbor a secret fantasy that we could wake up one morning, decide to chuck it all, climb in our car, and light out for California where the sun always shines.
Nissan e-NV200 electric van Credit: Nissan
Business people see vehicles quite differently. They know in the morning how far those vehicles will travel that day within a few kilometers. They want them to perform reliably and to do so with a minimum of fuel and maintenance costs.
e-NV200 interior cargo space
For lots of business owners in the UK, the Nissan e-NV200 is the perfect vehicle for their needs. Sales of the small delivery van, which is based on the LEAF architecture, are up 200% year on year in the UK, according to a Nissan press release.
Paolo D’Ettore, Director LCV Business Unit Nissan Europe, says “The success of e-NV200 truly demonstrates that we have the right product at the right time. The acceleration of fleet electrification — especially in city centers — is a challenge for our customers, so we recognize the need to work with them and provide the optimal ecosystem to support a smooth transition to electric vehicles.
“Thanks to its intelligent design and zero-emissions powertrain, the Nissan e-NV200 is the perfect tool to help businesses maximize their operational success and contribute to a more sustainable future.”
The e-NV200 is especially sought after in London, which imposes stiff financial penalties on gasoline or diesel powered vehicles that want to enter the most congested parts of the city. Operating costs of around 2 pence per kilometer are significantly less than those for conventional vehicles, which helps make the business case for choosing an electric vehicle.
In a survey of more than 500 UK small businesses conducted by Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi recently, 24% said they expect van fleets to be fully electric within a decade. One in three UK van fleet operators said business efficiency is their main motivation when adopting new technologies. 17% said that cost savings were an important factor, according to Automotive World.
Nissan has sold 20,000 e-NV200 electric vans throughout Europe since it was first introduced in 2014. Since the version with a 40 kWh battery was introduced last year, sales have jumped significantly. The e-NV200 is sold in 9 European countries and the UK.
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/17/sales-of-nissan-e-nv200-electric-vans-up-200-in-uk/
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Inland Waterways: New solutions for a traditional market
The electric propulsion system is a proven solution for many different vessel types. Now ABB’s electric propulsion systems can help towboat owners to solve the modern problems of a very traditional market. Many owners are facing new market challenges such as new regulations, increased CAPEX costs for new builds, increased demand to improve OPEX costs and increasing requirements for vessel reliability. ABB has taken the time to understand the demands of this unique market and create flexible but reliable solutions.
New regulations have created a disadvantage to owners looking to build new vessels. The inland river fleet is aging and as old vessels leave the market new vessels must replace them. These new vessels must comply with new costly and complicated engine after-treatment systems. ABB’s electric propulsion systems give owners less costly alternatives to the less attractive standard diesel mechanical systems. In addition ABB solutions will also significantly reduce the owners operating costs with regard to fuel usage and engine maintenance.
Towboat Operating Profiles Vary
ABB has reviewed over 500 push boat vessel profiles and learned that the true nature of a push boat is not 100% continuous duty. The market requires continues duty equipment due to the harsh environment and daily rigors but the vessel profiles vary greatly depending upon the push boat type, contract, and rivers traveled. ABB can work with owners and designers to now create an ABB ETB (Electric Towboat) design to better meet the needs of this varying operating profile. Today when a vessel propulsion system is designed it is fixed to one point, typically close to the 90% load, but with the ETB the propulsion system can be optimized to fit a wide operating profile. The ABB ETB vessel is optimized when in standby, when moving empty barges, when moving full barge load, up river, down river and even high water.
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The ABB ETB is a towboat with an ABB electric propulsion system. The ABB ETB is the perfect configuration of ABB products and ABB engineering. The ABB ETB is a customized system that includes the generators, propulsion motors, low voltage switchboards and automation. This vessel type allows owners to standardize engines through multiple horsepower vessels and due to the ABB automation vessel owners can plan engine maintenance on their own schedule. The ABB ETB increases vessel reliability due to the multiple prime movers; if an engine fails the vessel can remain in service at a reduced capacity. The ABB ETB can be designed as both a Z-Drive and conventional propeller vessel. As the diesel engine was the next generation of the steam engine, ABB ETB is the next generation of the towboat.
The advantages of the ABB ETB Towboat:
✔ All ABB systems are available to support Remote Diagnostic System and Conditional Monitoring
✔ High efficiency through a wider design point – significant reduction in fuel costs
✔ Increased vessel reliability - redundancies eliminate single point failure removing a vessel from service
✔ Lower engine maintenance requirements – reducing maintenance costs
✔ Flexible design allows for more efficient vessel designs
✔ Less vibration and no shaft lines to align
https://new.abb.com/marine/vessel-segments/special-purpose-vessels/electric-towboat
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Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic integration and modelling of oxytetracycline for the porcine pneumonia pathogens Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Pasteurella multocida
Dorey, L and Pelligand, L and Cheng, Z R and Lees, P (2017) Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic integration and modelling of oxytetracycline for the porcine pneumonia pathogens Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Pasteurella multocida. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS, 40 (5). pp. 505-516.
10631.pdf - Published Version
10631a.pdf - Published Version
Pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) integration and modelling were used to predict dosage schedules of oxytetracycline for two pig pneumonia pathogens, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Pasteurella multocida. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and mutant prevention concentration (MPC) were determined in broth and porcine serum. PK/PD integration established ratios of average concentration over 48 h (Cav0–48 h)/MIC of 5.87 and 0.27 µg/mL (P. multocida) and 0.70 and 0.85 µg/mL (A. pleuropneumoniae) for broth and serum MICs, respectively. PK/PD modelling of in vitro time–kill curves established broth and serum breakpoint values for area under curve (AUC0–24 h)/MIC for three levels of inhibition of growth, bacteriostasis and 3 and 4 log10 reductions in bacterial count. Doses were then predicted for each pathogen, based on Monte Carlo simulations, for: (i) bacteriostatic and bactericidal levels of kill; (ii) 50% and 90% target attainment rates (TAR); and (iii) single dosing and daily dosing at steady-state. For 90% TAR, predicted daily doses at steady-state for bactericidal actions were 1123 mg/kg (P. multocida) and 43 mg/kg (A. pleuropneumoniae) based on serum MICs. Lower TARs were predicted from broth MIC data; corresponding dose estimates were 95 mg/kg (P. multocida) and 34 mg/kg (A. pleuropneumoniae).
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12385
Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Pathobiology and Population Sciences
Comparative Physiology & Medicine > Reproduction and Development
http://researchonline.rvc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10631
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detail from the cover of the Australian Video Festival, 1987.
AVF '87 - Terrorising the Code - Recent U.S. Video
2 September 1987 – 27 September 1987
video exhibition, single monitor video, Sally Couacaud, Australian Centre for Photography
The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
Terrorising the Code - Recent U.S. Video, Australian Centre For Photography
2 Sept-27 Sept 1987
Curated by Sally Couacaud
Every week night at 12pm 'Good Morning America', beamed direct courtesy of your friendly satellite company, closes the day for those Sydney-siders watching Channel 7.
Channel 9's network logo constructs the Australian topology as a computer grid clone of John Carpenter's Escape from New York before giving us the latest exploits from Sydney's outer outer-west, Dallas and Miami.
Thus Australia, where the landscape for artists and writers has always been a major concern and on the whole represented as alien, other and exotic, has now become an integral part of what Paul Virilio calls the 'tele-topologie' - a television continuum which abolishes geographic and cultural distances, which effaces the notion of the antipodes and renders Australians endotic, not exotic.1
Yet if this can be seen as a concretization of Marshall McLuhan's 'global village', it is as well to remember the inherently one-way nature of television, not only in its continuous flow or distribution of content, but also in the way it shapes the very form and structure of that content - what Jean Baudrillard has called the 'terrorism of the code'.2
Moreover, as computer-generated imagery, and information storage and retrieval systems proliferate and interface with television the code as an agent of manipulation and control becomes even more pervasive.
Virilio sees the inhabitants of global tele-topologie reduced to a state of 'polar inertia'- what Baudrillard has termed the 'silent majority', rendered inert, lumpen and stoic by the terrorism of the televisual code.
Yet deep within the heart of the empire hope is at hand. Isolated sites of resistance, individual and collective, are working to disrupt and open up the homogenised structure of the code. Neither cohesive nor united by shared canons or methods, these video terrorists are characterised more by their differences than by their unities.
This exhibition of recent U.S. video aims to show the breadth and diversity of these sites of resistance, and in particular, the way in which the look, language and technology that video shares with its 'awful parent', television, is being utilised by many of these artists.
Some artists employ strategies of appropriation and deconstruction to expose the political and economic manipulation in television and cybernetics as a whole, others create expanded forms of video-television by incorporating music, dance and theatre with video technology. Some utilise the language and syntax of television to create new narratives, others explore and expose the very artifice and construction of codes, of signs and semiotic systems, of representation.
Some extend the formal properties of the video medium itself, preferring to create codes of resonance and poetics, almost like an 'aesthetics of silence' - deep spaces compared to television's shallow, saturated surface.
This exhibition developed out of a research grant from the Visual Ads Board of the Australia Council, and has been made possible by assistance from the Australian Film Commission, OANTAS, Eurovision and E.& J. Pardon.
The selection of work was chosen after many hours of video viewing. I would like to thank the following individuals and organisations in the U.S. for their assistance and advice in this process:
Anne Bray - LACE,
Barbara London - Museum of Modern Art,
John Hanhardt - Whitney Museum of Modern Art,
Amy Taubin and Robin O'Hara - The Kitchen,
Lori Zippay and Bob Beck - Electronic Arts Intermix,
Chris Hill - Hallwalls,
Christine Tamblyn,
A special thanks to Carter Hodgkin for a corner in her studio in New York, a precious gift indeed, and to Sara Hornbacher, instant friend and mentor.
Sally Couacaud
All, to return once more to Baudrillard, in their exploration and critiques of video 'bring together the spectacular and the challenge at their highest points'.3
INVITED FORUM PARTICIPANTS FROM THE USA:
Gretchen Bender.
Martha Rosler
1Paul Virilio, L'Espace Critique, Christian Bourgeois Editeur Paris 1984.
2Jean Baudrillard, “In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities”, trans. Foss, Patton and Johnston. Semiotext(e) New York 1983.
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Selected relationships
Selected objects
AVF '87 - Voice(s) and Memory
AVF '87 - The Absence of Reflection: Video, Lunacy and Post-culture Japan.
AVF '87 - Dominik Barbier: The Red Shield
AVF '87 - Allan Vizents: Asleep and Awake (1983)
AVF '87 Linea di Fuoco
AVF '87 - Tapes from Europe
List of Works shown
Gretchen Bender Dumping Core (1984)
Video-performance for multi-channel video and sound. "We run interference patterns in order to perceive structures; in order to transcend them; in order to explore fascisms."
Bender interferes and rearranges the increasingly slick and seductive iconography of corporate logos, commercial television and computer-generated imagery so that it becomes a virtual assault on the viewer, a situation of 'overdrive'.
Dumping Core is computer jargon for the dumping of data from an overloaded computer memory in order to make room for new in put. It is used metaphorically in Bender's project for the situation of artist and viewer - the absorption of massive amounts of information and images in our media-saturated life, our constant dumping and constant accretion of even more; and the need to develop a critical language that can cope with this overload of coded image-information.
Gretchen Bender is one of the guest artists of the 1987 Australian Video Festival.
Max Almy Lost in the Pictures (1985) 43 mins.
Almy describes video/computer paint and animation systems, digital effects and motion control as her "video palette". With this she ?aints" a short experimental fantasy about the seductive rush of electronic imagery.
Robert Ashley Atalanta Strategy (1984/6) 27.46 mins. (Courtesy of The Kitchen.)
The first part of a wider project of new opera-for-television, Atalanta (Acts of God). Ashley's work is at one level a visual/musical reinterpretation of myths about the ancient Greek heroine; and on another, a rambling but densely packed trip through American culture.
Judith Barry Mirage (1986) 16 mins.
A science-fiction Western, Mirage utilizes the device of the "road movie" to tell the story of an American Indian returning home to Texas after the Vietnam War only to find his memory, history and hometown replaced by a tourist historical reconstruction.
Dara Birnbaum Damnation of Faust series [(Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix)
Evocation (1983) 10 mins.
Will-othe-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal) (1983) 5.40 mins.
Charming Landscape (1987) 6.30 mins.
Birnbaum's work aims to isolate and create an "individual voice" within a mass media dominated society. Moving on from her earlier appropriation of TV imagery she seeks to construct new strategies of representation and meaning.
David Blair Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees (1986) Black and white, 5 mins.
A trailer for an on-going full-length production, Wax is an experimental narrative concerning the adventures of bee scientist and journalist A.Z. Abushady.
Hans Breder My TV Dictionary (1986) 19 mins.
Appropriating Hollywood B movie footage from television re-runs, Breder isolates and recontextualises specific elements to highlight the sexism and violence that is so often viewing fare in the TV living room.
David Daniels Buzzbox (1986) 15 mins. (Courtesy of The Kitchen)
Animated TV frenzy . . . "the ultimate 20th-century Media Hemorrhage, spewing up-chuck icons and frothing hi-resolution diarrhoea in a flutter of epileptic terror" (National Video Festival)
Juan Downey Information Withheld (1983) 28 mins.
"We are a culture of quotation" says Downey. His investigation of forms and signifiers, word and image, treks across countries and cultures in a non-linear look at the ambiguity and subjectivity of meaning.
Juan Downey J.S. Bach (1986) 28 mins.
This latest work in Downey's made-for-TV Thinking Eye series about culture as instrument of active thought uses tripartite structures of narration and image as metaphors for the structure of Bach's music.
Ken Feingold The Double (1984) 29 mins.
A barrage of fragments of cultural information snatched and spliced from television footage; the image as sign; spoken text doubling yet not replicating the image; video as thought process.
Jeanne C. Finley Risks of Individual Actions (1985) 29 mins.
Research by the medical team Cohen and Lee has determined how much life expectancy is lost due to various actions - e.g. a calorie-rich dessert takes 50 minutes off your life expectancy, while the loss of a loved one takes 40 days. TV personality Dr. David Watts, Mozart and Frank Sinatra star in this fictional illustration of factual episodes.
Mark Gilliland Chernobyl West (1986) 6.50 mins.
“Imagine what could happen if a nuclear accident like Chernobyl were to happen in your backyard . . ." Re-siting Chernobyl in the rural tranquility of up-state New York, Gilliland's experimental docu-drama blurs distinctions between the imaginary and the real.
Gary Hill Ura Aru (the backside exists) (1985) 28mins.
An exploration of the phonetic and visual forms of language, URA ARU is an intricate, origami-like construction of language, image and time. Inspired by the notion of acoustic and written palindromes, Hill uses the subtext of a Noh play and the technology of video to excavate and exorcise the "other" side.
Jenny Holzer Sign on a Truck (1984) 5 mins. (Courtesy of Video Data Bank.)
Documentation of Hoizer's 1984 presidential election project, in which a truck was transformed into a 13x18 foot street-video-spectacle. An agitprop intervention of live interviews, and artists' statements and videos.
Ken Kobland Flaubert Dreams of Travel (1986) 20 mins. (Courtesy of The Kitchen.)
Shot during the rehearsal of the Wooster Group's new piece for theatre (based on Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony), this anachronistically arranged work explores the "altered states" of perception induced by religion, art and drugs.
Tony Labat Mayami Between Cut and Action (1986) 14 mins.
The temporal dislocation or space between "cut" and "action" is explored in this rehearsal of a drug-related murder, featuring performance artist, Winston Tong.
Ardelle Lister Hell (1984) 17 mins.
Based on Dante's Inferno. Hell fast-forwards us into a contemporary hell of information storage and retrieval. where souls are stored on disc. Image processing techniques bespeak desire, torture and terminal submission.
Bizarre Love Triangle
Peace Sells But Who? Buying
Go Boy Go (1986)
More excursions into media spectacle and cult artifacts via that most postmodern of the postmodern - the music clip.
Yolanda Lopez When Your Think of Mexico (1986) 28 mins.
Lopez explores the appropriation and stereotyping of Mexican culture by American media corporations, and the consequences for Mexicans living in the U.S.
Paul Nichols How High The Moon (1986) 6 mins.
Nichols is another "TV pirate" who appropriates and reconstructs images from television to pose "other" readings and connections.
Paper Tiger Television
“It's 8.30. Do you know where your brains are?" Each Wednesday night on New York public access television, Paper Tiger, a loose collective of about 25 people, produce a prime-time show consisting of critical readings of the culture industry magazines, news and television. The look of the show is low-budget and non-technocratic. Springing from the "guerilla" video movement of the late 60's and early 70's, the show often details how much each production costs e.g. tapes $60, magic markers $5 ... and utilizes wide-angle shots that sometimes include the production crew in the act of making the show itself.
Paper Tiger Collective Joan Does Dynasty (1986) 30 mins.
"Have I a got theory for you ... if you've this many sky-scrapers, you can forget castration anxiety. In the modern world only power is real pleasure." Noted performance artist Joan Braderman takes a close look at the 'architecture' of the TV soap Dynasty.
Paper Tiger Collective Portrait of a Terrorist (1986) 30 mins.
Ellen Ray and Bill Schaap of Covert Action investigate and expose Reagan's role in the Libyan crisis. The studio is transformed into a jumbo-liner and "official" news is presented as the inflight movie.
Dan Reeves Music for the Kali Yuga (1986) 5 mins. (Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix.)
A short, dense work which is concerned with the state of society in the face of information overload and the manipulation of image and language. The title refers to a Hindu text which describes a state of existence devoid of spirituality.
Martha Rosler If Its Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be Disinformation (1985) 17 mins.
Rosler's multilayered, disjunctive use of text, image and voice creates dissenting spaces in television's continuous flow - deconstructed spaces which reveal underlying constructions of ideology and economics in Reagan's neo-conservative America.
John Sanborn and Mary Perillo with David van Tiegham Galaxy (1987) 5 mins.
In creating innovative, experimental and popular work that seeks to breach what Sanborn calls the separate ghettoes of art and television, Sanborn has been acknowledged by Jean Paul Fargier in Cahiers du Cinema as the "unparalleled master of the video medium".
Bill Viola I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986) 90 mins. (Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix)
Viola's epic mapping of the inner languages of perception and cognition, of metaphysical connections and resonances, and of collective memories that refer back to the beginnings of consciousness,
Teri Yarbrow Popular Thought (1984) Black and White, 7 mins.
What separates the Radical Right in 30's America from the Moral Majority in the 80's? Yarbrow's experimental social docu-drama suggests that history is in danger of repeating itself.
Teri Yarbrow Atomic Dreams (1986) 5 mins.
Recurring nightmares of nuclear anxiety - the possible future as imaginedlimaged by computer Paintbox graphics, Mirage and digital effects, with music by Marc Ream.
Bruce and Norman Yenemoto Vault (1984) 12 mins.
Traditional cinema and television themes of romance and desire are deconstructed in this ironic, non-linear narrative about a cellist/pole vaulter who falls in love with a cowboylartist. The formal tropes of TV and cinema are employed to illustrate and reiterate their Freudian s u btexts.
All works courtesy the artists except where indicated.
Selected events
The Second Australian Video Festival
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Understanding muslim ethnic communities
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:00 DCLG
The Change Institute (CI) was contracted in 2008 by Communities and Local Government to undertake the research project Understanding Muslim Ethnic Communities. Communities and Local Government recognised that its understanding and knowledge of the Muslim population in England had been skewed towards the larger Muslim ethnic communities of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin or heritage. This left critical gaps in knowledge and understanding of smaller Muslim ethnic communities.
The aim of the research was to identify the key characteristics of these Muslim communities in England in order to guide Communities and Local Government’s work and delivery of projects within England as well as informing its international engagement programme.
Editor's comments - [ Wider than sport; This report synthesises the findings of separate research and reports on thirteen Muslim ethnic communities in England undertaken for Communities and Local Government in 2008. The reports covered communities originating from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Turkey. This is a useful summary for those working with Muslim ethnic communities. ] Reference this?Cryer, J. (Year). This page title in italics. Retrieved date, from <this page's full URL>
Reference : DCLG. (2009). Understanding muslim ethnic communities. London: DCLG
1203896.pdf DCLG. (2009). Understanding muslim ethic communities. London: DCLG
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Passing TDs: N. Stanley 16
Rushing Yards: T. Goodson 638
Rushing TDs: T. Goodson 5
Receiving Yards: I. Smith-Marsette 722
Receiving TDs: B. Smith 5
Interceptions: M. Ojemudia 3
Date Opponent Result / Time
8/31 vs. Miami (OH) W 38 - 14
9/7 vs. Rutgers W 30 - 0
9/14 at Iowa State W 18 - 17
9/28 vs. Middle Tennessee W 48 - 3
10/5 at 19 Michigan L 3 - 10
10/12 vs. 10 Penn State L 12 - 17
10/19 vs. Purdue W 26 - 20
10/26 at Northwestern W 20 - 0
11/9 at 13 Wisconsin L 22 - 24
11/16 vs. 8 Minnesota W 23 - 19
11/23 vs. Illinois W 19 - 10
11/29 at Nebraska W 27 - 24
12/27 vs. 22 USC W 49 - 24
Conference Overall
2 Ohio State 9-0 13-1
10 Penn State 7-2 11-2
14 Michigan 6-3 9-4
Indiana 5-4 8-5
Michigan State 4-5 7-6
Maryland 1-8 3-9
Rutgers 0-9 2-10
8 Wisconsin 7-2 10-4
18 Minnesota 7-2 11-2
16 Iowa 6-3 10-3
Illinois 4-5 6-7
Nebraska 3-6 5-7
Purdue 3-6 4-8
Northwestern 1-8 3-9
Offense (FBS Rank)
Yards: 4765 (88)
Passing Yards: 2976 (63)
Rushing Yards: 1789 (91)
Points per game: 25.8 (87)
Yards per game: 366.5 (99)
Touchdowns: 33 (99)
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Rikugi-en: A Purely Japanese Garden in Tokyo Built by a Poetry Lover
Tokyo was the center of power in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868) as the shogun resided. And today there are many scenic spots and famous landmarks reminiscent of the power of influential daimyo lords.
Rikugi-en is well known among them as a grand garden once belonged to a powerful daimyo, Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa (1659-1714), who was a close entourage of the fifth shogun, Tsunayoshi Tokugawa (1646-1709). It is in Toshima Ward of Tokyo and known as Garden of Waka Poetry, where you can enjoy beautiful scenery from season to season while walking around the pond.
This time I would like to bring to your attention the charm of Rikugi-en, which is rich with beauty of nature together with the mood of Edo culture. It is a popular sightseeing spot in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, and surely interesting for foreign people, too.
What is Rikugi-en?
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You would probably like to know how this name came about and what it means.
Waka is a form of classic Japanese poetry that started around 8th century, in which words are grouped in short phrases that consist of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 sounds.
“Rikugi” of Rikugi-en refers to 6 types of waka, a classical concept of dividing waka poetry into 6 groups. One group is expressing emotion, another is describing objects and observations directly, yet another is using analogy, and so on.
This pattern of grouping was derived from a classification method used in the study of poetry in ancient China, and Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa, who commissioned the construction of the garden, loved writing waka himself and authored a book titled “Rikugi-en-no-ki” (Story of Rikugi-en).
Three Poems Demonstrating the Character of Japan’s Three Great Shogun
After the Edo period ended (1868) and the Meiji period started, Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi zaibatsu group purchased the garden as his secondary residence.
Later in 1938, Iwasaki family donated the garden to Tokyo municipal government, and it was designated as a special scenic spot of the country in 1953.
It is now loved by tourists from all over the world as a valuable cultural asset showing beauty of the pure Japanese style remaining from the Edo period.
Wonderful View from So-called Fujimiyama
Fujishiro-toge ridge is at the highest altitude in the garden and it is also known as Fujimiyama. From the altitude of 35 meters above sea level, you can capture the whole view of tree-lined beautiful garden and modern buildings of Tokyo in the background all at once.
With a concert of the nature and modern in front of your eyes, you will surely taste the depths of Edo culture.
Shinjuku Gyoen; Nature within the Heart of the City
Tired? Drop by Tea Houses
When you feel like taking a break from walking in the garden, let’s visit one of the three tea houses I will describe next. All of them offer elegant rest spaces that are unique to the garden.
1. Tsutsuji Chaya (Azalea Tea House)
This tea house was built during the Meiji period (1868-1912), using aged azalea timber. In autumn you can enjoy the scenery of fall leaves spreading all around you from this place.
2. Fukiage Chaya
If you feel like filling your stomach lightly, you should go to Fukiage Chaya. You can relax and enjoy the deep taste of green tea and dango dumpling while treating your eyes with the view of the pond.
3. Takimi no Chaya
This tea house is a gazebo built near a creek. The stream runs through rocks that divide the flow and there is Chidori-bashi Bridge in front of you. It is known as one of the most scenic spots in the garden.
Recommended for Foreigners! Wear Happi Coat and Take Pictures
There is a place in Rikugi-en where you can take a picture with a happi coat on.
Happi is a short coat worn by gardeners and firefighters in the Edo period, and it will let you enjoy the feeling of Edo culture just by wearing it.
It is especially recommended for those who love traditional Japanese culture.
Rokugi-en is a place where you can enjoy the view of the seasons and world view expressed in Japanese gardens. You can learn about unique Japanese culture and its healing effects on tired mind/heart is outstanding, too. When you visit Tokyo for sightseeing, please don’t forget making a stop here.
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Access: Tokyo Station on JR Yamanote Line -> Komagome Station (about 18 minutes), Map
Open: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Entry is up to 4: 30 PM)
Closed: Around New Year (12/29-1/1)
Guide in Japanese: Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. (Twice a day at 11 AM and 2 PM)
Guide in English: First and third Sundays of the month (Twice a day at 11 AM and 2 PM)
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Swiss prepare to vote on corporate tax unification
Reforms to sweep away attractive deals for multinationals head for referéndum
by: Ralph Atkins in Geneva
It is not only Geneva’s lakeside setting that multinational companies find idyllic.
Switzerland has a long history of offering preferential fiscal terms to international investors, and low tax rates have helped to attract companies such as Caterpillar and Japan Tobacco.
But the country faces a huge challenge if it wants to retain those companies. Under international pressure, voters are being asked in a national referendum next Sunday to approve reforms that would sweep away selective tax deals and introduce unified low rates for all companies.
The vote is on a knife-edge. Supporters of reform say Switzerland cannot afford to be so generous. But rejection could prompt other countries to retaliate for the continued tax breaks, creating economic uncertainty and instability.
“It is very important for Geneva,” says Serge Dal Busco, the canton’s finance minister, who backs the reforms. “Some 62,000 jobs in the canton rely directly or indirectly on multinationals.
If they don’t have a favourable tax environment, we could lose at least some of those jobs.”
Switzerland, one of the most affluent countries, has had to rethink its economic model during the past decade. US-led legal action against banks that helped overseas clients to evade taxes has led to greater transparency in the financial system.
Threats of retaliatory action by trading partners led Bern to agree to corporate tax norms set by the EU, with which it has vital business links, and the Paris-based OECD.
“The Swiss government had to recognise that instruments which worked well for many years could no longer be used,” says Peter Uebelhart, head of tax at KPMG Switzerland.
The reputation for being attractive to business started after the second world war. Switzerland gave international companies special status, with cantons competing to offer the best tax breaks.
Multinationals with “auxiliary status” in Geneva pay an average corporate tax rate of 11.6 per cent, compared with the 24.16 per cent for ordinary businesses, one of the highest rates in Switzerland.
Under the proposed reforms international and domestic companies would pay the same rates. Rather than multinationals paying significantly more, cantons would slash standard corporate tax rates.
Geneva’s main corporate tax rate would almost halve to 13.49 per cent.
Business wants the referendum to pass. “Keeping the jobs, keeping the companies — that is what is at stake,” says Blaise Matthey, director-general of the Federation of Romandy Business, which represents companies in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, including Geneva.
“We are rethinking our economic model and it is changing quite rapidly. People complain but there is no choice. If you don’t abide by international standards, you get put on a blacklist.”
Although the federal government has promised to help the cantons to bridge any revenue shortfalls from the unified lower rate, the implications for local budgets alarm opponents.
“The reforms will cost much more than the [federal] parliament thinks,” says Sandrine Salerno, Social Democratic finance director in the Geneva city government. “For sure the level of tax is important for companies, but it is not the only reason why they come to Geneva and Switzerland. They also come because of the good quality infrastructure — the schools and safety, for instance.”
Fuelling voter suspicion is the complexity of the reforms, which opponents argue will line the pockets of tax advisers and lawyers. The new system would introduce an internationally approved “tool box” of tax relief measures that cantons could offer companies. These would include incentives for research and development, relief for income from patents and tax breaks on shareholders’ equity.
Supporters of the reforms point out that while multinationals will face slightly higher rates, for ordinary companies tax bills will be much lower. That could stimulate investment and job creation, which in time would boost cantons’ coffers, though the impact is hard to predict.
Geneva scores highly for its qualified workforce and transport connections, says Jan Schüpbach, economist at Credit Suisse. The tax reforms would remove “its main disadvantage — a relatively high corporate rate”.
Opponents say the package could easily be made more acceptable. “Everyone agrees on the main principle that all companies should pay the same tax rates,” says Ms Salerno.
But those who worked on the proposals say they took years to negotiate and finally balance Switzerland’s attractiveness as a business location with international requirements and pressures on public finances. “This is the best possible package you could have within the limits,” says Mr Uebelhart.
Mr Matthey says: “Multinationals want a stable tax framework, they want a solution that is agreed with the EU . . . If we can’t do this, they will leave, because you can’t do business in an unstable environment.”
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Reporting on La Horla in Paris: Part One
Richard Flynn — November 9, 2015
Edgar Sarin and the French Artist Ryan H., in front of the Cercle de La Horla (Photo credits : Jovita Zavi)
First Chapter : Des Absents
Cercle de la Horla
16, rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris
Within this heavy breathing world of ours, there do exist some very particular projects; naive, genuine yet somehow scientifically organised projects, that attempt to give you an altogether different experience of what is already in front of you. The Paris-based Cercle de La Horla project—The Horla Circle—is one such project. Orchestrated by the French Engineer Edgar Sarin, this project, beyond questioning the exhibition space itself, aims to blend together the space for showing and for creating.
The crowd is dramatically involved in the exhibition, which inexorably offers another level of attention to the artworks—to consider them almost as sacred entities—and, last but not least, gives opportunity to randomness and coincidence. The first chapter of La Horla is what it will become. One simple idea is at the core of the project; for 56 days, “place nine different artworks in an room, and observe what happens.”
The door of Cercle de La Horla, 2015. Photo credit: Jovita Zavi.
I first encountered Sarin’s work a year ago, through his first solo show in Paris, called Introduction to the Problematic Entity. Among other works, Sarin showed a few of his Lifetime Concessions pieces which struck me instantaneously. These pieces are pictorial compositions locked up in wooden boxes and wrapped in kraft paper. On the day of Sarin’s death, the owner of the piece will receive a letter allowing him to open the box and finally see the artwork he has owned. Sarin is one who believes that desire stimulates one’s brain more than anything, and that genuine art is contained within this tensioned process of creation.
On the wooden stand: an Anonyme granite sculpture, late 18th century. At the back, Edgar Sarin’s One Midnights Paradox, concrete, 2015. Photo credits: Jovita Zavi.
As I arrived to the rue du Vertbois for the inauguration of the show, the walls of the gallery were empty. We could notice some staging items here and there such as a wooden stand in the middle of the room, a woman and a man dressed with aprons and white gloves standing against a wall, and another woman standing in an arched niche in the wall, holding in her right hand a bottle of champagne and in her left a bottle of red wine. Everything in the gallery, besides the questions and conversations of the people in attendance, remained still.
Suddenly, a tall man entered the room ringing a tuning fork. As the fork resonated, the gallery all at once came alive. The movement began at first with the aproned couple walking from the wall where they stood to the back of the gallery, retrieving the first artwork to be hung on the walls, Nicholas Korody’s. As the piece was being installed, a speech was given about the piece in three different languages—French, English and German.
This scenette was revealed in 22 minute intervals until each of the artworks were revealed, and thus properly opening the exhibition.
Gaspard Maîtrepierre, acrylic and gold leaves on wood, 2015. Photo credit: Jovita Zavi.
Among the artists introduced were the autodidact painter Gaspard Maîtrepierre, whose personal mythology demonstrates a research beyond all cultural and historical authorities; the well known Pierre Huyghe, with a spider that has been left to autonomy in the space; Blind Symbols, known as an artist collective that blindfolds the statues of Paris with red velvet; Ryan H., with a sample of his 99 representations of the Bicephale; and Edgar Sarin, presenting One Midnight’s Paradox, a concrete triptych in which has been poured a pictorial composition “discretized in elementary items.” The owner of this piece will receive, within seven years, a Lapis Lazulis to break the concrete panels and reconstruct the original work.
Also introduced were three tubes of paint that used to belong to the impressionist Édouard Manet, in a retroactive Joseph Beuysish manner, as if the future Art History could have, at the time, interfered with the ancient painter.
Blind Symbols, The red string, 2015. A piece that connects a wall of the gallery to a point in the city, half a mile away from its beginning. (Photo credits : Jovita Zavi)
“It is our belief that humankind stays calm only in movement; certain only in the flow of the possible,” Sarin says. Therefore, this show can be seen as an attempt to give up an ancient and obsolete static thought process (very fragile indeed) to leave room to a contemporary and organic vision of things, as each thing is an evolving and mutating system and one can’t predict it before it actually happens. Isn’t this the original definition of the word sustainable?
Very careful in exploring and reversing the way of showing art within a gallery space, Sarin proposes a mature snapshot of the world and its current problematic essence to be explored and explored again. The inauguration has already been followed by a few performances, including an experimental ultramusic gig and hypnosis experimentations.
I leave them now to their effervescent state and will report you the further evolution of the show a month from now.
Another very interesting point in this show will be its archiving. As said in the préface, it will go beyond photography or video, reaching the flesh of its protagonists through skills and knowledge learning. One can follow the daily updated diary of this Gesamtkunstwerk project on the Cercle de La Horla website.
Description of the process of the inauguration. at Cercle de la Horla. Courtesy of Edgar Sarin
Tags: 56 daysAnonymearchivingautodidactBlind SymbolsdramaEdgar SarinÉdouard ManetGaspard MaîtrepierreGesamtkunstwerkhypnosisJoseph BeuysmythologyNicholas KorodyParispierre huygheRyan H.sustainablethe flow of the possible
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About the Author Richard Flynn
Richard W. Flynn is an Art Historian based in Geneva and Paris. He mostly focuses on the interaction between Art and Society and its impact on aesthetic evolution. He graduated from the École du Louvre in Paris.
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Section ⅠVocabulary (10 points)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one to complete the sentence .Then blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.
1.Oil is an important __________ material which can be processed into many different products, including plastics.
A. raw B. bleak
C. flexible D. fertile
2.The high living standards of the US cause its present population to __________ 25 percent of the word’s oil.
A. assume B. consume
C. resume D. presume
3. You shouldn’t be so__________—— didn’t mean anything bad in what I said.
A. sentimental B. sensible
C. sensitive D. sophisticated
4. Picasso was an artist who fundamentally changed the __________ of art for later generations.
A. philosophy B. concept
C. viewpoint D. theme
5. Member states had the option to __________form this agreement with one year’s notice.
A. deny B. object
C. suspect D. withdraw
6. The two countries achieved some progress in the sphere of trade relations, traditionally a source of __________irritation.
A. mutual B. optional
C. neutral D. parallel
7. Williams had not been there during the __________ moments when the kidnapping had taken place.
A. super B. rigorous
C. vital D. unique
8．Travel around Japan today, and one sees foreign residents holding a wide __________ of jobs.
A. range B. field
C. scale D. area
9. Modern manufacturing has __________ a global river of materials into a stunning array of new products.
A. translated B. transformed
C. transferred D. transported
10. Lightning has been the second largest storm killer in the US over the past 40 years and is __________ only by flood.
A. exceeded B. excelled
C. excluded D. extended
11. Voices were _________as the argument between the two motorists became more bad-tempered.
A. swollen B. increased
C. developed D. raised
12. Some sufferers will quickly be restored to perfect health, __________ others will take a longer time.
A. which B. where
C. when D. whereas
13. My brother likes eating very much but he isn’t very __________ about the food he eats.
A. special B. peculiar
C. particular D. unusual
14. Britain might still be part of France if it weren’t __________ a disastrous flood 200,000 years ago, according to scientists from Imperial College in London.
A. upon B. with
C. in D. for
15. The Water Prize is an international award that __________ outstanding contributions towards solving global water problems.
A. recognizes B. requires
C. releases D. relays
16．In its 14 years of __________, the European Union has earned the scorn of its citizens and skepticism from the United States.
A. endurance B. emergence
C. existence D. eminence
17. His excuse for being late this morning was his car had __________ in the snow.
A. started up B. got stuck
C. set back D. stood by
18. __________ widespread belief, cockroaches (蟑螂) would not take over the world if there were no one around to step on them.
A. In view of B. Thanks to
C. In case of D. Contrary to
19. Consciously or not, ordinary citizens and government bureaucrats still __________ the notion that Japanese society is a unique culture.
A. fit in with B. look down on
C. cling to D. hold back
20. As you can see by yourself, things __________ to be exactly as the professor had foreseen.
A. turned in B. turned out
C. turned up D. turned down
Section Ⅱ Cloze (10 points)
Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.
Olympic Games are held every four years at a different site, in which athletes 21 different nations compete against each other in a 22 of sports. There are two types of Olympics, the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.
In order to 23 the Olympics, a city must submit a proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) .After all proposals have been 24 , the IOC votes, If no city is successful in gaining a majority in the first vote, the city with the fewest votes is eliminated, and voting continues. With 25 rounds, until a majority winner is determined. Typically the Games are awarded several years in advance, 26 the winning city time to prepare for the Games. In selecting the 27 of the Olympic Games, the IOC considers a number of factors, chief among them which city has, or promises to build, the best facilities, and which organizing committee seems most likely to 28 the Games effectively.
The IOC also 29, which parts of the world have not yet hosted the Games. 30, Tokyo, Japan, the lost of the 1964 Summer Games, and Mexico City, Mexico, the host of the 1968 Summer Games, were chosen 31 to popularize the Olympic movement in Asia and in Latin America.
32 the growing importance of television worldwide, the IOC in recent years has also taken into 33 the host city’s time zone. 34 the Games take place in the United States or Canada, for example, American television networks are willing to pay 35 higher amounts for television rights because they can broadcast popular events 36, in prime viewing hours.
37 the Games have been awarded, it is the responsibility of the local organizing committee to finance them. This is often done with a portion of the Olympic television 38 and with corporate sponsorships, ticket sales, and other smaller revenue sources. In many 39 there is also direct government support.
Although many cities have achieved a financial profit by hosting the Games, the Olympics can be financially 40. When the revenues from the Games were less than expected, the city was left with large debts.
21. A. in B. for C. of D. from
22. A. lot B. number C. variety D. series
23. A. host B. take C. run D. organize
24. A. supported B. submitted C. substituted D. subordinated
25. A. suggestive B. successful C. successive D. succeeding
26. A. letting B. setting C. permitting D. allowing
27. A. site B. spot C. location D. place
28. A. state B. stage C. start D. sponsor
29. A. thinks B. reckons C. considers D. calculates
30. A. For instance B. As a result C. In brief D. On the whole
31. A. in time B. in part C. in case D. in common
32. A. Since B. Because C. As for D. Because of
33. A. amount B. account C. accord D. acclaim
34. A. However B. Whatever C. Whenever D. Wherever
35. A. greatly B. handsomely C. meaningfully D. significantly
36. A. live B. living C. alive D. lively
37. A. Until B. Unless C. Whether D. Once
38. A. incomes B. interests C. revenues D returns
39. A. cases B. conditions C. chances D. circumstances
40. A. safe B. risky C. tempting D. feasible
Section III Reading Comprehension (40 points)
Direction: There are 4 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions of unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. you should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.
Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:
Last weekend Kyle MacDonald in Montreal threw a party to celebrate the fact that he got his new home in exchange for a red paper clip. Starting a year ago, MacDonald bartered the clip for increasingly valuable stuff, including a camp stove and free rent in Phoenix flat. Having announced his aim (the house) in advance, MacDonald likely got a boost from techies eager to see the Internet pass this daring test of its networking power. “My whole motto(座右铭) was ‘Start small, think big, and have fun’, ” says MacDonald,26, “I really kept my effort on the creative side rather than the business side.”
Yet as odd as the MacDonald exchange was, barter is now big business on the Net. This year more than 400,000 companies worldwide will exchange some $10 billion worth of goods and services on a growing number of barter sites. These Web sites allow companies to trade products for a virtual currency, which they can use to buy goods from other members. In Iceland, garment-maker Kapusalan sells a third of its output on the booming Vidskiptanetid exchange, earning virtual money that it uses to buy machinery and pay part of employee salaries. The Troc-Services exchange in France offers more than 4,600 services, form math lessons to ironing.
This is not a primitive barter system. By creation currencies, the Internet removes a major barrier-what Bob Meyer, publisher of BarterNews, calls “the double coincidence of wants.” That is, two parties once not only had to find each other, but also an exchange of goods that both desired. Now, they can price the deal in virtual currency.
Barter also helps firms make use of idle capacity. For example, advertising is “hugely bartered” because many media, particularly on the Web, can supply new ad space at little cost, Moreover, Internet ads don’t register in industry-growth statistics, because many exchanges are arranged outside the formal exchanges.
Like eBay, most barter sites allow members to “grade” trading partners for honesty, quality and so on. Barter exchanges can allow firms in countries with hyperinflation or nontradable currencies to enter global trades. Next year, a nonprofit exchange called Quick Life Two (QL2) plans to open in Nairobi, offering barter deals to 38,000 Kenyan farmers in remote areas. Two small planes will deliver the goods. QL2 director Gacii Waciuma says the farmers are excited to be “liberated from corrupt middlemen.” For them, barter evokes a bright future, not a precapitalist past.
41. The word “techies” (Line 4, Para.1) probably refers to those who are ________.
A. afraid of technology B. skilled in technology
C. ignorant of technology D. incompetent in technology
42. Many people may have deliberately helped Kyle because they________.
A. were impressed by his creativity B. were eager to identify with his motto
C. liked his goal announced in advance D. hoped to prove the power of the internet
43. The Internet barter system relies heavily on ______.
A. the size of barter sites B. the use of virtual currency
C. the quality of goods or services D. the location of trading companies
44. It is implied that Internet advertisements can help__________.
A. companies make more profit B. companies do formal exchanges
C. media register in statistics D. media grade barter sites
45. Which of the following is true of QL2 according to the author?
A. It is criticized for doing business in a primitive way.
B. It aims to deal with hyperinflation in some countries.
C. It helps get rid of middlemen in trade and exchange.
D. It is intended to evaluate the performance of trading partners.
The lives of very few Newark residents are untouched by violence. New Jersey’s biggest city has seen it all. Yet the murder of three young people, who were forced to kneel before being shot in the back of the head in a school play ground on August 4th, has shaken the city. A fourth, who survived, was stabbed and shot in the face. The four victims were by all accounts good kids, all enrolled in college, all with a future. But the cruel murder, it seems, has at last forced Newarkers to say they have had enough.
Grassroots organizations, like Stop Shootin’, have been flooded with offers of help and support since the killings, Yusef Ismail, its co-founder, says the group has been going door-to-door asking people to sign a pledge of non-violence. They hop to get 50,000 to promise to “stop shooting”, start thinking, and keep living.” The Newark Community Foundation, which was launched last month, announced on August 14th that it will help pay for Community Eye , a surveillance (监视) system tailored towards gun crime”
Cory Booker, who became mayor 13 months ago with a mission to revitalize the city, believes the surveillance program will be the largest camera and audio network in any American city. More than 30 cameras were installed earlier this summer and a further 50 will be installed soon in a seven-square-mile area where 80% of the city’s recent shootings have occurred. And more cameras are planned.
When a gunshot is detected, the surveillance camera zooms in on that spot. Similar technology in Chicago has increased arrests and decreased shootings. Mr. Booker plans to announce a comprehensive gun strategy later this week.
Mr. Booker, as well as church leaders and others, believes (or hopes) that after the murder city will no longer stand by in coldness. For generations, Newark has been paralyzed by poverty-almost one in three people lives below the poverty line-and growing indifference to crime.
Some are skeptical. Steve Malanga of the conservative Manhattan Institute notes that Newark has deep social problems: over 60% of children are in homes without fathers. The school system, taken over by the state in 1995, is a mess. But there is also some cause for hope. Since Mr. Booker was elected, there has been a rise in investment and re-zoning for development. Only around 7% of nearby Newark airport workers used to come from Newark; now, a year later, the figure is 30%. Mr. Booker has launched a New York-style war on crime. So far this year, crime has fallen 11% and shootings are down 30% (though the murder rate looks likely to match last year’s high).
46. What happened in Newark, New Jersey on August 4th?
A. The Newark residents witnessed a murder.
B. Four young people were killed in a school playground.
C. The new mayor of Newark took office.
D. Four college students fell victim to violence.
47. Judging from the context, the “Community Eye” (Line5, Para. 2) is _______.
A. a watching system for gun crime B. a neighborhood protection organization
C. an unprofitable community business D. a grassroots organization
48. We learn from the passage that Newark has the following problems EXCEPT .
A. violence B. flood
C. poverty D. indifference
49. Mayor Booker’s efforts against crime seem to be
A. idealistic B. impractical
C. effective D. fruitless
50. The best title for the passage may be
A. Stop Shootin’, Start Thinking’, and Keep Living’ B. Efforts to Fight against Gun Crimes
C. A Mission to Revitalize the City D. Violent Murders in Newark
According to a recent survey on money and relationships, 36 per cent of people are keeping a bank account from their partner. While this financial unfaithfulness may appear as distrust in a relationship, in truth it may just be a form of financial protection.
With almost half of all marriages ending in divorce, men and women are realizing they need to be financially savvy, regardless of whether they are in a relationship.
The financial hardship on individuals after a divorce can be extremely difficult, even more so when children are involved. The lack of permanency in relationships, jobs and family life may be the cause of a growing trend to keep a secret bank account hidden from a partner; in other words, an “escape fund”.
Margaret’s story is far from unique. She is a representative of a growing number of women in long-term relationships who are becoming protective of their own earnings.
Every month on pay day, she banks hundreds of dollars into a savings account she keeps from her husband. She has been doing this throughout their six-year marriage and has built a nest egg worth an incredible $100,000 on top of her pension.
Margaret says if her husband found out about her secret savings he’d hurt and would interpret this as a sign she wasn’t sure of the marriage. “He’d think it was my escape fund so that financially I could afford to get out of the relationship if it went wrong. I know you should approach marriage as being forever and I hope ours is, but you can never be sure.”
Like many of her fellow secret savers, Margaret was stung in a former relationship and has since been very guarded about her own money.
Coming clean to your partner about being a secret may not be all that bad. Take Colleen, for example, who had been saving secretly for a few years before she confessed to her partner. “I decided to open a savings account and start building a nest egg of my own. I wanted to prove to myself that I could put money in the bank and leave it there for a rainy day.”
“When john found out about my secret savings, he was a little suspicious of my motives. I reassured him that this was certainly not an escape fund and that I feel very secure in our relationship. I have to admit that this it does fell good to have my own money on reserve if ever there are rainy days in the future. It’s sensible to build and personal financial security.”
51. The trend to keep a secret bank account is growing because
A. “escape fund” helps one through rainy days
B. days are getting harder and harder
C. women are money sensitive
D. financial conflicts often occur
52. The word “savvy” (Line 2, para.2) probably means
A. suspicious B. secure
C. shrewd D. simple
53. Which inference can we make about Margaret?
A. She is a unique woman. B. She was once divorced.
C. She is going to retire. D. She has many children.
54. The author mentions Colleen’s example to show
A. any couple can avoid marriage conflicts
B. privacy within marriage should be respected
C. everyone can save a fortune with a happy marriage
D. financial disclosure is not necessarily bad
55. Which of the following best summarizes this passage?
A. Secret Savers B. Love Is What It’s Worth
C. Banking Honesty D. Once Bitten, Twice shy
“The word ‘protection’ is no longer taboo(禁忌语)”. This short sentence, uttered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy late last month, may have launched a new era in economic history. Why? For decades, Western leaders have believed that lowering trade barriers and tariffs was a natural good. Doing so, they reasoned, would lead to greater economic efficiency and productivity, which in turn would improve human welfare. Championing free trade thus became a moral, not just an economic, cause.
These leaders, of course, weren’t acting out of unselfishness. They knew their economies were the most competitive, so they’d profit most form liberalization. And developing countries feared that their economies would be swamped by superior Western productivity. Today, however, the tables have turned-though few acknowledge it. The West continues to preach free trade, but practices it less and less. Asia, meanwhile, continues to plead for special protection but practices more and more free trade.
That’s why Sarkozy’s words were so important: he finally injected some honesty into the trade debate. The truth is that large parts of the West are losing faith in free trade, though few leaders admit it. Some economists are more honest. Paul Krugman is one of the few willing to acknowledge that protectionist arguments are returning. In the short run, there will be winners and losers under free trade. This, of course, is what capitalism is all about. But more and more of these losers will be in the West. Economists in the developed world used to love quoting Joseph Schumpeter, who said that “creative destruction” was an essential part of capitalist growth. But they always assumed that destruction would to lose faith in their principles. Things have yet to reverse completely. But there’s clearly a negative trend in Western theory and practice.
A little hypocrisy (虚伪) is not in itself a serious problem. The real problem is that Western governments continue to insist that they retain control of the key global economic and financial institutions while drifting away from global liberalization. Look at what’s happening at the IMF (International Monetary Fund). The Europeans have demanded that they keep the post of managing director. But all too often, Western officials put their own interests above everyone else’s when they dominate these global institutions.
The time has therefore come for the Asians-who are clearly the new winners in today’s global economy-to provide more intellectual leadership in supporting free trade. Sadly, they have yet to do so. Unless Asians speak out, however, there’s real danger that Adam Smith’s principles, which have brought so much good to the world, could gradually die. And that would leave all of us worse off, in one way or another.
56. It can be inferred that “protection” (Line 1, Para.1) means_______.
A. improving economic efficiency B. ending the free-trade practice
C. lowering moral standard D. raising trade tariffs
57. The Western leaders preach free trade because_______.
A. it is beneficial to their economies
B. it is supported by developing countries
C. it makes them keep faith in their principles
D. it is advocated by Joseph Schumpeter and Adam Smith
58. By “the tables have turned” (Lines3-4,Para.2) the author implies that_______.
A. the Western leaders have turned self-centered
B. the Asian leaders have become advocates of free trade
C. the developed economies have turned less competitive
D. the developing economies have become more independent
59. The Western economists used to like the idea of “creative destruction” because it ________.
A. set a long-term rather than short-term goal
B. was an essential part of capitalist development
C. entailed a positive rather than negative mentality
D. was meant to be the destruction of developing economies
60. The author uses “IMF” as an example to illustrate the point that ____.
A. European leaders are reluctant to admit they are hypocritical
B. there is an inconsistency between Western theory and practice
C. global institutions are not being led by true globalization advocates
D. European countries’ interests are being ignored by economic leaders
Directions: In this section there is a paragraph in English translate it into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.
The term “business model” first came into widespread use with the invention of the personal computer and the spreadsheet (空白表格程序).Before the spreadsheet, business planning usually meant producing a single forecast. At best, you did a little sensitivity analysis around the projection. The spreadsheet ushered in a much more analytic approach to planning because every major line item could be pulled apart, its components and subcomponents analyzed and tested. You could ask what-if questions about the critical assumptions on which your business depended-for example, what if customers are more price-sensitive than we thought?—and with a few keystrokes, you could see how any change would play out on every aspect of the whole. In other words, you could model the behavior of a business. Before the computer changed the nature of business planning, most successful business models were created more by accident than by elaborate design. By enabling companies to tie their marketplace insights much more tightly to the resulting economics, spreadsheet made it possible to model business before they were launched.
Directions: In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following information. Make comments and express your own opinion. You should write at least 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
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The Interview: Law Firm Masters Book 1
A laid off legal secretary curious about the B.D.S.M. lifestyle responds to an ad in a lifestyle magazine placed by a law firm seeking a "submissive legal assistant" and gets more than she bargained for. This short story is the kickoff to a series about a law firm that has quite a bit going on behind closed doors. Stay tuned for the remainder of the Law Firm Erotica series.
The Interview: Law Firm Masters Book I (Audiobook)
The Interview: Law Firm Masters Book I is a short story about a laid off legal secretary who, curious about the B.D.S.M. lifestyle, responds to an ad in a lifestyle magazine placed by a law firm seeking a "submissive legal assistant" and gets more than she bargained for. This story is the kickoff to a series about a law firm that has quite a bit going on behind closed doors.
The Admin: Law Firm Masters Book 2
After a successful interview, Laura Hobbs gets the job as Phillip Dunbar’s “submissive legal assistant.” She’s not looking for love and she knows better than to fall for the powerful head Dom with a reputation for not keeping admins longer than a year. As she undergoes training at his very firm hand, however, they find themselves drawn to each other. If she gets too close, will she find herself out of a job?
The Admin: Law Firm Masters Book 2 Audiobook
Genres: Erotic Romance, Erotica
She got the job, will she get the boss too?
After a successful interview, Laura Hobbs gets the job as Phillip Dunbar’s admin. She’s not looking for love and she knows better than to fall for the powerful head Dom with a reputation for not keeping admins longer than a year. As she undergoes training at his very firm hand, however, she finds herself drawn to him.
Phillip Dunbar likes to keep it in the office where he’s in complete control. A very busy man who’s been burned before, he’s not in the market for a committed relationship. Something about Laura, however, intrigues him, and brings out feelings he thought long dead. If she gets too close, will he send her packing like the others?
This is the second installment in the Law Firm Erotica series - a BDSM romance series about a Law Firm with quite a bit taking place behind closed doors.
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The UN General Assembly is due to vote on a second draft resolution stipulating the removal of President Assad to end the spiraling violence in Syria. It is the second attempt at passing a resolution after China and Russia vetoed the first document.
The new resolution supports the Arab League initiative to facilitate transition to a democratic government will be put to vote later on Thursday.
Russia objects to the paragraph demanding the resignation of President Assad and wants amendments to the draft calling for the disarmament of opposition groups as well as government forces. Arab delegations have dismissed the Russian amendments as unacceptable, claiming they undermine the draft resolution’s message..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/general-assembly-syria-resolution-assad-443/
Battlefield USA in 2012 (w/ Video)
Battlefield USA in 2012
In 2012 America will become a battlefield of the will of the people against the will of the government, proclaims Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the Trends Journal.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global and that is evidence that “people a keep kind of latch on to it”.
“Even though you think the American spirit is dead, the whole world kind of focuses on the US for the center of social, economic, geopolitical and cultural change,” claims Celente, who said OWS inspired people in an estimated 80 countries and 120 cities. And police brutality only brought it to the forefront..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/usa-battlefield-2012-celente-473/
FBI might shutdown the Internet on March 8
Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked off from the Internet as early as March 8 if the FBI follows through with plans to yank a series of servers originally installed to combat corruption.
Last year, authorities in Estonia apprehended six men believed responsible for creating a malicious computer script called the DNSChanger Trojan. Once set loose on the Web, the worm corrupted computers in upwards of 100 countries, including an estimated 500,000 in America alone. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation later stepped up by replacing the rogue Trojan with servers of their own in an attempt to remediate the damage, but the fix was only temporary. Now the FBI is expected to end use of those replacement servers as early as next month and, at that point, the Internet for millions could essentially be over..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-internet-server-servers-409/
Abortion — 1 VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/16/2012
Abortion — 1
“The State …shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception.” (Philippine Constitution: Section 12).
Thus reads the categorical State policy on the protection of the “life” of the “unborn” from the moment of “conception.” The more salient observations that can be drawn from the above cited constitutional provision are the following: That in the order of nature, the essential sequence is conception that brings forth life which in turn ushers forth the unborn — all as one composite reality. That without life, there is nothing really worth to talk about, nothing truly important to bother with. That intrinsic right of the unborn is premised on the fact that it is only there from that someone is born..... MORE
Nothing but a fairy tale LETTER 02/16/2012
Nothing but a fairy tale
In the Feb. 13, 2012 issue of The Daily Tribune, Mr. Charlie V. Manalo alleged (Prosecution spokesman also building house in ritzy village, Page 1) that I own what he described as a multimillion-peso three-story house in Varsity Hills, Quezon City, quoting unnamed sources. A picture of said house with a specific address at 152 B.Gonzales St., Varsity Hills, Loyola Heights, Quezon City was also provided.
This is totally untrue and nothing but a fairy tale.
I do not own the mentioned property. I have never been to Varsity Hills and in fact I do not even know where it was located until yesterday morning. Neither do I, my spouse nor any of my children own a property in Xavierville or Varsity Hills Subdivision..... MORE
US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes By Michaela P. del Callar 02/16/2012
US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes
American military bases seem to be returning to the Philippines under President Aquino’s government, despite the 1987 Constitution banning the stay of foreign military bases
It is being done in such a circuitous way that circumvents the constitutional proviso on military bases.
The United States is eyeing the transfer of some of the thousands of American troops stationed in Okinawa to the Philippines as Washington reduces its military presence in the Japanese island, where residents have called for the shutdown of its large military base..... MORE
RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Argentina recalled 02/16/2012
RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Argentina recalled
Argentinian officials in Manila yesterday apologized to the Philippines after a Filipino boxer was attacked by enraged fans moments after winning over his local opponent in Buenos Aires, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said, adding a protest has already been lodged to the government of Argentina conveying its dismay over the incident.
The DFA also said Argentinian boxer Luis Alberto Lazarte, who lost his International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-flyweight title to Johnriel Casimero in a bout Saturday, personally apologized to the Filipino boxer and his team.
Outraged Philippine senators demanded the recall of the Philippine Ambassador to Argentina Rey Carandang, accusing him of failure to protect the welfare of the Filipino boxing delegation..... MORE
PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’ By Angie M. Rosales 02/16/2012
PRESIDENT, MANAGER ORDERED TO PRODUCE PESO ACCT ORIGINALS
PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’
The presiding judge of the Senate Court has spoken and his order must be complied with by the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) officials called upon as witnesses for the prosecution.
Bank executives, appearing as witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, yesterday stood their ground in their declaration that the prosecution panel’s alleged evidence is a “fake.”
If it is proven that the documents pertaining to some alleged undisclosed bank accounts of the chief magistrate in the PSBank which two members of the House prosecution panel claimed to have been produced by an “anonymous source,” members of the lower house defending the case face serious sanctions..... MORE
Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for lack of leads By Arlie O. Calalo 02/16/2012
Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for lack of leads
The Office of the Ombudsman said yesterday it could not be able to conduct an inquiry on the alleged non-disclosure of statements of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn) of the prosecutors involved in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona due to “lack of sufficient leads.”
The supposed probe will also involve the prosecution spokesmen as well as the senator-judges of the impeachment court, said Edgardo Diansuy, director of the Ombudsman’s media bureau.
He said in a statement emailed to Tribune that Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales would not initiate an inquiry because there were no enough leads to push through with it..... MORE
Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort shift to rehab 02/16/2012
Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort shift to rehab
Retrieval operations at the landslide-hit villages in Negros Oriental province were extended up tomorrow after which the areas will be declared as common memorial sites for the 63 people who remained unaccounted for after the Feb. 6 magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Visayas region.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos said the local government officials set the retrieval operations in Guihulngan City and La libertad town until yesterday to focus more to the rehabilitation efforts.
“Until Friday, it should be today (Thursday) as requested by the mayor, so I extended it for another day tomorrow. We have not recovered additional (victims)…63 remained missing and 42 are dead,” Ramos said..... MORE
Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga By Mario J. Mallari 02/16/2012
Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga
Four brand new night-capable, combat utility helicopters arrived in the country on Tuesday night as part of the ongoing multibillion-peso capability upgrade and modernization program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
AFP deputy chief of staff for plans and programs Maj. Gen. Roy Deveraturda said the four Polish-made Sokol utility helicopters, which are part of the eight helicopters purchased from Augusta PZL Swidnik of Italy and Poland, arrived in Clark Air Base in Pampanga.
“We are presently inspecting them…they will be assembled in Clark Air Base by our assessment of the Philippine Air Force. So, as soon as possible we could use them,” Deveraturda said..... MORE
Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — archbishop By Efren B. Chavez 02/16/2012
Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — archbishop
By Efren B. Chavez 02/16/2012
The historic Manila Cathedral will officially close indefinitely to give way to a structural retrofitting amid concerns that the “liquefaction” in the soil on which it stands could render it at risk in a strong earthquake, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (RCAM) chief announced Monday.
At a press conference, newly appointed Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle said since last Tuesday the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception has been closed due to some structural concerns.
The 441-year-old church will not accept any bookings of weddings, christenings and funeral Masses for the next seven months or even one year..... MORE
Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil depot, hold rally 02/16/2012
Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil depot, hold rally
The Manila Police District (MPD) was surprised when members of militant group Gabriela stormed on Valentine’s Day the heavily secured Pandacan oil depot and staged a rally to denounce the unabated increase in petroleum prices. According to the group, the .85 centavos increase in the price of diesel products and .50 centavos in gasoline after successive price increases are too much for the poor who are the most affected.
“Linta (leeches) ang mga kumpanya ng langis kung sumipsip ng tubo mula sa mamamayang hindi na makaagapay sa pagkamahal-mahal ng langis, sa walang patid na pagtaas ng presyo ng langis ay unti-unting pinapatay ang mamamayang Pilipino,” Salvador, deputy secretary- general of Gabriela, said..... MORE
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Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent. Devil-Devil Kella and Conchita Mysteries 1 3. It's not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cargo cult uprising, and failed to It's not easy being Ben Kella.
In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cargo cult uprising, and failed to find an American anthropologist who had been scouring the mountains for a priceless pornographic icon. Then, at a mission station, Kella discovers an independent and rebellious young American nun, Sister Conchita, secretly trying to bury a skeleton.
The unlikely pair of Kella and Conchita are forced to team up to solve a series of murders that tie into all these other strange goingson. Set in the 60's in one of the most beautiful and dangerous areas of the South Pacific, Devil-Devil launches an exciting new series. Hardcover , pages. Kella and Conchita Mysteries 1. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Devil-Devil , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This started off really strong and I loved learning about the different cultures of the Solomon Islands, but I didn't get those feelings of shock, thrill and excitement that I would normally expect from a book of this genre murder mystery and it seemed almost anti-climactic.
This book was perfect for Singapore. I couldn't quite get my head into a space with Norwegian Wood , where I could imagine snow. This book filled it. So what about it? This book had 1 major error that I had problems getting past. All these intelligent islanders, were sent to Australia for an educat This.
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Not, definitely not, 4X. Because Queenslanders can't spell Beer! So with all that aside. Traditional culture vs colonial culture clash. Hiking around the bush in the heat and the humidity. The fact that there were too many fallible characters that any one of them could be the killer. You like the main character Ben Kella. He is straddling a world that is drastically changing, which he knows and has to balance them both. He is the traditional peace keeper of his traditional culture, yet a policeman of the new world order. You respect him and empathise with him. Same with Nun-face yes I called her nun-face.
I call everyone whats-his-face if I don't know their name and I have no idea how to pronounce the rest of her South American name, so nun-face will have to do. You respect her for what she is doing and where she is. Also, as much of me resents it, in the s it was probably the most amount of independence she was going to get as a woman, to become a nun and end up in the Pacific.
Nice Pacific Island read? It gives you perspective, and education it comes with a map inside! For more reviews visit http: Feb 20, Shomeret rated it really liked it Shelves: I was fascinated by the idea of a mystery taking place in the Solomon Islands, so I couldn't wait to read this one.
I loved both the protagonists. Both Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita are mavericks who do what's right even if they get into loads of hot water as a result. I also really liked the customs and rituals from the native culture which Kent shares with us in this book. It reminded me of The Coroner's Lunch which takes place in Laos and also has a protagonist who participates in traditi I was fascinated by the idea of a mystery taking place in the Solomon Islands, so I couldn't wait to read this one.
It reminded me of The Coroner's Lunch which takes place in Laos and also has a protagonist who participates in traditional practices like Sergeant Kella. Yet I felt that Kent is more distant from his characters than Colin Cotterill. So it lacked immediacy and dramatic intensity for me. Oct 05, Josie rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed reading this "who dunnit" murder mystery set in the Solomon Islands.
Having been to Honiara this year it was easy for me to picture the scene. I loved the rebellious young American nun, Sister Conchita. Always good to have a spunky nun in a story! The writing for me was enjoyable in a relaxed narrative. I also enjoyed the mystical side intwined into the story along with the goodies and the baddies. Will certainly look for the other books in this 3 part series. Oct 08, Dlmrose rated it liked it Shelves: Feb 28, Pamela Bronson rated it it was amazing.
I love this book because it has a slew of interesting, believable characters, two very likable protagonists, a intriguing, complicated plot, and a fascinating setting: Sergeant Ben Kella uncomfortably bridges two worlds and two worldviews as the highest ranking native policeman in the islands, as well as the aofia, or hereditary peacemaker and effectively head of his tribe. His British bosses don't know quite what to do with him: He has a new acquaintance, the brash, curious, young American nun Sister Conchita, who shares his independence of mind, desire to right wrongs, and tendency to stick one's nose into everything.
Someone is trying to kill Sister Conchita, and since the aofia is charged with protecting the defenseless, Sgt Kella must find out who and stop him; he also needs to solve several murders and find a missing anthropologist. I enjoyed this book so much that I immediately started reading it again, though part of that is because the plot is so tricky I didn't quite get it the first time. It has inspired me to learn everything I can about Solomon Islands, though this book is still my best source for such knowledge. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel One Blood soon.
Despite its educational value, I personally probably wouldn't give this book to a young teenager because of the suggestion bolstered by a Catholic priest that all faiths are valid, and the implication that recreational sex is fine. There are two sex scenes, not really explicit. Think of Sister Bertrille and Carlos from "The Flying Nun" set not that much later in an "exotic" tropical location also and you'll get the idea, though that's not an exact parallel. Sister Conchita is very much the pre-feminist model of the early 's, dodging bullets, engaging generally in events more suited to Mrs.
Pollifax than the Singing Nun. Kella, the local bi-cultural between two worlds super cop, didn't impress me all that much; then again, I find "dual identity" angst grati Think of Sister Bertrille and Carlos from "The Flying Nun" set not that much later in an "exotic" tropical location also and you'll get the idea, though that's not an exact parallel. Kella, the local bi-cultural between two worlds super cop, didn't impress me all that much; then again, I find "dual identity" angst grating in general. The one character whom I particularly liked was Father Pierre, who'd lived in the islands for many years, and was suspected as having "gone native" in his respect for indigenous beliefs.
Cardboard British officials, and nasty, violent villains round out the lot. I'm not sorry I bought the book, just that I don't see myself going on with the series. So, this one's recommended At Your Own Risk if you're interested in trying out a series set in a remote locale. As a note on the audio narration, Price-Lewis does a decent job with local and English voices, but her American repertoire seems limited to a Boston accent for Sister Conchita that sounded almost Brooklyn-ish to me. She re-uses almost the exact same voice for the two American males who appear later in the book, making them seem almost cartoonish, especially since one is an academic, and the other specifically identified as being from Chicago.
The exotic setting of the Solomon Islands lends enchantment to this thriller and the pairing, albeit tentatively, of the native Sergeant Ben Kella and the American nun, Sister Conchita, works well. Their relationship is often puzzling but there is plenty of humour and also mutual respect.
Set in the miscellaneous array of characters is sometimes difficult to take in and what they are doing is also sometimes confusing. But perhaps the latter is what we should expect from a thriller! Sergeant K The exotic setting of the Solomon Islands lends enchantment to this thriller and the pairing, albeit tentatively, of the native Sergeant Ben Kella and the American nun, Sister Conchita, works well. Sergeant Kella sets out to find an American anthropologist who has disappeared in the hinterland while searching for a priceless erotic icon. It turns out that there is smuggling ring dealing in artefacts and Kella and Conchita eventually uncover it and arrest the main man, despite attempts being made on their lives along the way.
In addition a series of seemingly unconnected murders take place and it is all credit to Sergeant Kella that he discovers what they are all about, something which could, possibly, escape the reader, including this one! But overall the setting and the strange array of characters keeps the attention until the end. Apr 04, Holly rated it it was ok. This book started really well and promised to be an interesting read but ultimately let me down.
I loved the historical and cultural context and background to the story, would have liked a bit more focus on that. However, the plot was fairly random and complex with a whole load of characters that I couldn't keep track of, few of whom seemed realistic or relatable. About half way through I became bored and spent the rest of the book looking forward to finishing it Feb 17, Phair rated it really liked it Shelves: While the mystery itself was almost hum-drum complex but far from exciting , I loved the unusual setting and time period. These are characters and a culture I will enjoy getting to know as the series progresses.
Loved the south-seas feel of it. This is going to be an interesting series to follow. Jun 02, Beth rated it it was amazing. He is a member of the Solomon Islands Police Force and he is an aofia, a spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, a role for which he was chosen when he was a child. Kella is an educated islander, hand-picked by his teachers at the Catholic school to attend a university in Australia. All of these steps have guaranteed that Kella is accepted by neither the islanders nor the whites, especially those members of the British government who still control the Solomon Islands.
Sister Conchita of the Marist Mission Sisters has no such conflicts. An American and a Catholic by birth, she is a missionary by choice, a choice made willingly and bolstered by a deep commitment to the people she serves in the Pacific Islands. Bound by a vow of obedience to her bishop and to the director of her order, she is, nonetheless, blatantly outspoken and inclined to act before giving full consideration to the consequences.
Believed by her bishop to be fully occupied by her various duties — looking after the native sisters, exporting the carvings made by the boys in the mission school, keeping the books for the mission station, supervising the medical center, inspecting the other schools in the region, and running the farm — Sister Conchita has no time to get into trouble. Sister Conchita and Ben Kella could not be more different in their approaches to life but when they are brought together through strange circumstances, they make a formidable pair.
The American nun, new to the islands, makes an interesting first impression when she takes on John Deacon, one of the few white ex-patriots living in the Solomons. John Deacon smuggles antiquities by mixing priceless objects with copies made by school boys destined to be sold in down-market gift shops in Australia and Hawaii. Being called out by a nun, a Praying Mary, in front of his hirelings earns Sister Conchita a powerful enemy.
Ben Kella has a very different problem.
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Professor Mallory, an American anthropologist, is missing. It is while Kella is watching the mission cemetery, looking for whoever was unearthing bones for the curse, that he meets Sister Conchita smuggling a skeleton into the cemetery, rather than out of it. There is just too much trafficking in bones, curses and all.
The story is full of interesting people living in a part of the world very much underrepresented in crime fiction. Graeme Kent provides an absorbing look at the world in , a world only fifteen years beyond World War II. The Allies were successful in driving the Japanese out of Guadalcanal but only after six months of heavy fighting.
Ben Kella is in his early thirties in the book but was a soldier fighting with the British against the occupying Japanese forces when he was only fourteen. Communication among the far-reaching communities in the Solomon Islands are conducted by radio each night. The British still control the islands as part of the British empire.
The author makes frequent reference to the Marching Rule, which may be a corruption of the term Maasina Ruru which refers to emancipation from the colonial government by the British. The movement may well have grown out of the respectful treatment the islanders received from African-American soldiers with whom they worked. The islanders formed the Solomon Islands Labor Corps which assisted with the allied war effort between and Airfields were built on the islands to allow tanks, refrigeration units, guns and ammunition, communication instruments, clothes, and food to be delivered to support US troops.
Later, some of the same things were dropped from cargo planes onto the islands.
The dark skin natives believed all these benefits came from black American soldiers who marched off the islands to battle but would be reborn and return to lead the islanders against their oppressors. I do love the internet and I love writers who love the countries about which they write and so teach their readers about the people and their customs. Who says mysteries are mindless entertainment?
Soho publishes books that are unfailingly entertaining and absorbing, showcasing the works of authors who live and breathe the atmosphere of the countries they bring to life on the pages of their books. If it is from Soho, it is worth reading. Enjoyable mystery set in the s Solomon Islands. Ben Kella is a man between two worlds. He is the aofia or peacemaker for his tribe on the island of Malaita, but has also received a western education and chosen a career in the colonial police force and his traditional religion.
Sister Conchita is a mission sister from Boston whose overactive curiosity is frowned upon by the order. When a traditional ghost speaker pronounces the death of an old man to be murder Kella knows the police commissio Enjoyable mystery set in the s Solomon Islands. When a traditional ghost speaker pronounces the death of an old man to be murder Kella knows the police commissioner isn't going to take it seriously, unlike the discovery of the skeleton of a white man who went missing during WWII. And when the old man's grandson is found dead in the holy sanctum of a neighbouring tribe, Kella also knows that the events are related because this many events just don't happen in quick succession on Malaita.
And why is someone trying to kill Sister Conchita? I quite enjoyed this although I am not a crime novel person. But to learn something about islands far far away is always worth reading. I really liked Kella.. Bonus was the map which I used quite often: May 19, Emmaa22 rated it liked it Shelves: Read this, the first of 3, out of order, but actually enjoyed this more than the first one Iread no.
The island setting is fascinating and intriguing and the characters are interesting and engaging. I enjoyed this - looking forward to reading more of this series. A wonderful read, the story just flies along. It very vividly recreates an atmosphere of s South Pacific to me. Decent start to the series. I'd like to see more heart, but the sense of place was there. Too much focus on local language, traditions etc that could not relate to. Mar 01, Susan rated it really liked it. As these conflicts play themselves out between the characters they are internalized by police Sergeant Ben Kella.
This is the first of a very unusual series that also portrays the development of a young missionary in her sensitivity to the spirit of place. Dec 02, Felice rated it liked it. My affection for reading about other countries and cultures often leads me to mystery novels. This time my search led me to Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent. A first for me this mystery is set in the Solomon Islands. Could this be a win-win for me? No additional import charges on delivery.
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Aloha Surf to be sold unit by unit | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Aloha Surf to be sold unit by unit
By Andrew Gomes
The recent buyer of the Aloha Surf Hotel plans to renovate the 204-room property fronting the Ala Wai Canal and resell the investment room by room.
The Waikiki hotel at 444 Kanekapolei St. is the latest in a booming trend of so-called "condotel" sales by real estate investment firms selling upgraded hotels by the room, typically to small investors and frequent visitors who usually keep their units in a hotel rental program.
An affiliate of Carmel Partners, a San Francisco-based real estate firm that owns more than 30 multifamily apartment projects on the Mainland, bought the hotel in December for $15.7 million, according to property records.
Carmel has retained Aqua Hotels & Resorts to manage the property and oversee a $2.5 million renovation anticipated to be complete by mid-summer while the hotel remains open.
Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties expects to market the rooms and begin sales in the next month or two at prices roughly ranging from $90,000 to $200,000.
The Aloha Surf will be added to about 3,000 rooms at Hawai'i hotels that have been sold or are for sale since the recent wave of condotel sales began about four years ago.
Some industry observers question how such a large number of individual owners of hotel rooms might affect Waikiki's hotel industry, but condotel operators say 90 percent or more of the rooms continue to be rented to vacationers through hotel management companies.
Mike Paulin, managing director of Aqua Hotels, said the repositioning of the Aloha Surf will improve another small piece of Waikiki's aging visitor plant, which for several years has undergone a gradual renewal as tourism improves and property owners renovate or redevelop their holdings.
"The visitor plant's getting better and better," he said. "You get a better overall product when it's over."
The Aloha Surf, formerly managed by Aston Hotels & Resorts as the Aston Aloha Surf, is a budget-class property that will be upgraded to a "mid-price" product, according to Aqua.
The 15-story hotel built in 1967 underwent a more modest renovation in 2000 after LaeRoc Partners of Manhattan Beach, Calif., bought the property for about $5 million in 1999 from Southern Cross USA Inc.
Southern Cross, once known as Kitamura Hawaii Inc., bought the hotel around the height of the Japanese investment bubble, paying $22.3 million in 1990.
Reach Andrew Gomes at agomes@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8065.
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