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The Expansion of Education in the Qing Dynasty. Confucian Indoctrination as Ideal and Reality
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The Expansion of Education in the Qing Dynasty:
Confucian Indoctrination as Ideal and Reality
The expansion of education in China during the Qing dynasty is a topic of ambiguity. This ambiguity starts with the term ‘education’, for, in order to speak about an expansion of it in China one has to be aware of the fact that there are different forms of education and that these forms incorporate different prerequisites, applications, and goals. In Qing China, where ‘imperial Confucianism’ was established as the “absolute criterion for thought and conduct”[1], Confucian ideals were forced upon the people via different media, ranging from oral transmission for the illiterate to primers for boys attending elementary school to the canonized Four Books and Five Classics for civil service examination candidates. There could be no distinct ‘general education’ in our modern sense for all Chinese strata. Thus, the Chinese government had to employ different strategies among the range of social strata in order to achieve a dissemination of Confucian ideals with the ultimate goal of social stability.
In this essay I will discuss the different approaches to this task and the ways in which the ideals of the ruling elite were reflected in the reality of the people.
Forms of education
Defining the term ‘education’ for Qing China is not a trivial task. In contrast to our sense of a ‘general education’ that permeates all social realms, only possible because of a certain amount of minimal standardization, equal education for all inhabitants of the Chinese empire was never intended by the ruling elite.[2] Therefore, education had entirely different meanings for a Chinese peasant and an official at court. One might be inclined to see literacy as a prerequisite for education. However, being illiterate did not preclude education per se.
One example of a means to educate illiterate villagers to some degree can be drawn from the Xiangyue lecture system. The Xiangyue lectures were initially inaugurated in 1652 because of the Shunzhi emperor’s intention to proclaim his Six Maxims of a Hortatory Edict [3] . These maxims were extended on several occasions: In 1670, the Kangxi emperor wrote a set of sixteen maxims (The Sacred Edict of Kangxi) and in 1724, the Yongzheng emperor wrote The Amplified Instructions of the Sacred Edict amounting to about 10,000 words.[4] These oral lectures were given by shengyuan scholars over the age of 59 at fixed intervals and open to attend for people of any social or ethnic status.[5]
Another level of education was attempted to be achieved by expanding the network of schools accessible to more than already educated scholar and elite families. These schools were to widen the geographical as well as the social scope of education, but were by no means a novel concept in Qing China. However, the fact that their general number significantly increased compared to the preceding Ming dynasty, while not noticeably changing in commercial centers, reveals their rising presence in the countryside.[6] The most important of these schools were the so-called “charitable schools”, comparable to public elementary schools[7]. Ideally, spreading elementary schools across the empire meant the expansion of at least a certain form of literacy among the people and, more importantly, helped create a mindset of possible improvement of one’s own situation, which was, in case of the peasants, characterized by hardship and constant struggle for survival. While the schools’ curriculum involved functional contents to allow members of the peasant stratum to engage in activities and to simply do the accounting of their farms, it mainly rested on three primers throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties: Sanzijing (Trimetrical Classic), Qianziwen (Thousand Character Classic), and Baijiaxing (The Hundred Names), also collectively known as the San Bai Qian. [8]
[1] Hsiao (1960), p. 184.
[2] I equate Elman’s mention of literacy with education here, because any kind of ‘equal education for everyone’ would have never meant ‘illiterate education’ for the Chinese government. Woodside & Elman (1994), p. 547
[5] Ibid., p. 185, 191.
[6] Woodside & Elman (1994), p. 526.
[8] Rawski (1985), pp. 29-30.
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Robbie Stevens June 16, 2019 59 0
Legends of Aria is still in the early-access phase of things, yet already there is a great deal to admire about this charming MMORPG. Where it truly shines is in the creativity department and the extensive range of crafting options available to the player.
This fresh and flexible approach to world-building aspects is reminiscent of the style found within old-school MMO’S of the by-gone era. That said, this early access release shows plenty of promise in the early stages. Overall, it’s a welcome sea-change from the norm, that fashions together a fun and rewarding adventure.
How to Download Legends of Aria
The planned release date for Legends of Aria is currently set to Spring, 2019 (and while we are updating this text it the second half of June!), while the game was originally planned to become available on December 4, the previous year. To download the game, click on the link below the review.
The Review: Time to Play God
Above all else, Legends of Aria promotes player freedom and a wealth of choice. Typically, games within the role-playing genre tend to stick to a specific skill mold, and this can be restrictive at times. So then, it is refreshing to play an RPG which allows the player to increase skills by sheer action alone.
For instance, abilities only improve by carrying out that said action. As they say, practice makes perfect. Moreover, honing various skills as you go is, for the most part, an enjoyable pastime.
Your Own World of Legends of Aria
Another vital feature of Legends of Aria is the world creator whereby players set the realm in which they wish to roam. What’s impressive, is the volume of options open to the player. Ultimately, it’s this sense of liberty that pushes the limits of your imagination. Initially, players must choose the type of world, as there are no fixed criteria.
As a result, the player decides on various worldly themes such as a fantasy, magical, steampunk or mythology-based setting as the backdrop. Furthermore, the options to lay down a unique story and set character bios means each creation is personally relevant. Soon enough, you will find yourself emotionally attached to your divine design.
… and Your Home
Also, there is a system which allows the player to build their very own home. Within the games, vast terrains are large swaths of unclaimed land up for grabs. Once, you have found a suitable area on which to build, a fully customizable home editor opens, allowing for the construction of homes. What’s more, these builds are shareable with the game’s healthy online community.
The Game Mechanics
Legends of Aria entails most of the traits found within a regular online role-player. For instance, defeating monsters, engaging in p-v-p duels and collecting rare loot makes up large parts of the game. What’s more, players can explore a large map, which includes beast to slay and dungeons to explore. There is also a host of locales to visit, and bosses to beat.
Also, the crafting system morphs, to complement the nature of each specific world. Meaning, all craftable items differ depending on world genre. To illustrate this point, let’s look at the following examples. Blades and armor are the focal choices of a Medieval setting, while potions and spells are made available in a high-fantasy realm.
Legend of Aria is an MMORPG set in a fantasy open world. Download it, choose your path and embark on an adventure.
Legends of Aria Review Summary
In a nutshell, Legend of Aria is a well-rounded role-playing game, which excels within the aspects of creativity and player choice. Better still, its world creator and crafting system gives hours of enjoyment. On the other hand, the simple, battle-based elements don't do much to help set itself apart from the others. With that in mind, it's still early days, so let's see how it fairs when the full release shows up next year.
Extensive world - creator
Engaging environments
Non-restrictive ability ladder
Underwhelming combat
Enemy difficulty
Citadel Studios
www.legendsofaria.com
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1 Comment Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2014 Sunday, November 2, 2014 Connected Tairāwhiti, Cultural Capital, Educated Tairāwhiti, Employment, Empowered Tairāwhiti, Healthy Tairāwhiti, Local Issues, Prosperous Tairāwhiti, Regional Economy, Regional Infrastructure, Social Development
Gigtopia
Gisborne/Tairāwhiti is fighting hard to win the Chorus Gigatown competition that ends this month. Like many around the country, I’ve been a bit cynical about the way Chorus decided to start Gigabit Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) rollout and the competition hasn’t helped my feelings much.
Having said that – while some of the social media and news stories almost seem to suggest that with the gig that no one will ever cry, no one will ever die in our special community should we win – I can see some real benefits if Gisborne is successful in securing the gig speed connection first.
So as Project Manager for the Tairāwhiti Technology Trust, I’ve been keeping track of #gigatowngis social media progress and helping with the top secret ‘Plan for Gig Success’ that each of the final five ‘towns’ have to prepare and will be judged on by the country and an expert panel of judges.
As you do in such situations, I’ve been doing a little online research on the topic and found a few articles of interest related to gigabit internet services, particularly the US experience to date – and more broadly, which I am most interested in, efforts to close the Digital Divide that seems to be increasing as fast as technology develops:
How Cities Are Fighting to Close the Digital Divide: Mashable. A short list of awesome initiatives to close the technology gap.
The Transformational Use
of Information and Communication Technologies in Africa : African Development Bank. A milestone report suggesting Africa may leapfrog more developed countries in the information technology sectors, largely due to the lack of reliance on copper cables that ‘First World’ countries may be encumbered by.
Technology and Inequality : MIT. A report examining why the disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. Concludes pretty much that new information technologies are likely to continue increasing inequalities rather than reducing them.
Centre for Online Health : University of Queensland. A leading ‘IT for health sector’ research and development organisation.
What Good is a Gigabit? : Huffington Post. “In the 1970s, many doubted there were uses for even 50-kilobit-per-second Internet. But soon application explorers came up with remote login, file transfer, and email.”
Looking to Get a Gig? You Don’t Have to Wait for Google [or Chorus] to Build it : Huffington Post. An interesting article on how citizen-owned public utilities companies (like Eastland Group) can do it themselves for our communities (in the US at least).
With Google Fiber Sign-Ups Behind Schedule, Google Lowers Pre-Registration Thresholds : TechCrunch. Article reminiscent of the NZ experience where Chorus UFB take-up where it has been available, has been much slower than hoped for (by Chorus shareholders at least).
Users don’t want gigabit Internet speeds, Time Warner Cable exec says : PC World. Article showing how some old-school corporate execs don’t get it, or don’t want to admit that if you build it, they will come (eventually).
What Do You Do With the World’s Fastest Internet Service? : Slate. An overview introduction to Google Fiber Space showroom in Kansas City, the first city to get Google Fiber’s 1Gbps service. A weird video too.
FCC chief calls for gigabit Internet in all 50 states by 2015 : ComputerWorld. 2013 article outlining the US equivalent of our Minister for Communications and Information Technology wants every state to have at least one city with the gig service by next year.
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Rebels Against The Future
As a regular promoter of new technology (renewable energy generation and use as a replacement for fossil fuels), it’s a little ironic to be called a Luddite.
I would however wear the label proudly, but compare myself to my Dad who has never owned a car, computer or cellphone.
I do try to avoid the self-service checkouts at supermarkets, I know it’s a futile effort but trying to keep local people in a job just a little longer seems worth the extra few seconds waiting in line.
The Luddites were passionate about keeping people in meaningful employment and sustainable communities. If they were around today I guess they might be protesting about our obsession with speed and digital technology at the expense of traditional jobs and a more human pace of life.
A few years back I bought Dad a book about the Luddites called ‘Rebels Against the Future‘. The author Kirkpatrick Sale suggests that the Luddites did not want to turn the clock back. They said, “We want to cling to this way of life; we don’t want a life in which we’re forced into factories, forced onto machines we can’t control, and forced from village self-sufficiency into urban dependency and servitude.”
A modern Luddite is also trying to hold to certain elements of the past to resurrect the community. Neo-Luddites wish to resurrect some values of the past such as communitarianism, non-materialism, an understanding of nature, and a meshing with nature. These things have been largely taken from us in the last 200 years and we must fight to preserve them.
Sale believes “sustainable” is essentially the opposite of “industrial.” Sustainability implies a non-exploitive relationship with nature and a basic self-sufficiency in life. Industrialism can’t allow that to exist because that kind of living would not create, manufacture, use or consume. Sustainability, community and self-sufficiency are antithetical to industrialism.
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Reflections on Tuol Sleng (S-21)
Miria outside ‘Building B’
I’m sure millions of important words have been written about Tuol Sleng, the notorious prison of the Khmer Rouge that is now a museum commemorating the horrors that took place there and across Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. I think it’s important for me to record some of my reflections, if only for my own sake, but others may care to add their own comments.
The night before we visited Tuol Sleng, our family shared a meal with a couple from New Zealand who live and work in the slums of Phnom Penh. Craig and Nay both grew up in Auckland but Nay was born in Cambodia during the civil war, her father was killed after the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 and Nay’s mother fled with her children first to a refugee camp on the border with Thailand and eventually they were supported by a Presbyterian church in Manurewa to come to New Zealand.
I remember my mother being involved with our Methodist church in Tauranga that was supporting refugees fleeing conflict in South East Asia in the late 70s and it was impressive to meet someone like Nay who has chosen to leave the comforts of life in New Zealand to come back with her own children to live and work with poor children in Cambodia.
I asked Craig if there had been a national or local reconciliation process to help heal the country – it seems not much has happened in that space. School textbooks only recently started including any reference to the conflict of the 1970s and it seems most of the younger generation born after the conflict has little knowledge about what happened in the communities of their parents and grandparents during that time.
Miria looking over the climbing frame converted to gallows and dunking pots to ‘Building A’.
We took our 11 year old daughter to Tuol Sleng, I wanted her to know a bit about what happened, even if she didn’t really understand why it happened. Growing up in New Zealand, most children are thankfully protected from the worst excesses of human violence – of course we benefit in many ways from the violence done against the poor in places like Cambodia, but it’s not something we are exposed to other than through television news, documentaries, books and works of fiction (of course Jean Baudrillard would say its all fiction for us).
Her grandparents were a bit reticent about us taking Miria to a place where such horrific acts were committed and commemorated by stark photographs and displays of torture tools and testimonies. I told myself that Miria is mature enough to visit such places – after all, the sites are often not as immediately confronting, but we have plenty of places of mass execution and brutality around Aotearoa that children are encouraged to visit and learn from. It was a calculated risk but I think it was the right decision to take her.
One of the real tragedies of Tuol Sleng is its original purpose as a high school built in the 1950s – seeing how classrooms and children’s play equipment were perversely converted into places of imprisonment and tools of torture must break the heart of most visitors. The heaviness of the place overtook me before I even entered a building – the place has been left largely as the Vietnamese soldiers found it in January 1979 and first thing you see are the fourteen graves of the final victims found bolted to torture racks inside Building A.
In ‘Building B’ haunting photos taken by the captors of thousands of victims stare back at visitors from display boards. I felt obligated to look each one of them in the eye as we passed through room after room – many looked like they were in their early teens, children were also brought to S-21 but most were not photographed in the formal portraits imposed on older victims. Some faces were battered and bruised, many looked petrified while others were expressionless – either they didn’t know what was going to happen to them, or seem to have a resignation and calm about their fate that must have come from a place most of us will not know.
Paintings by an inmate of the torture and killing techniques line the walls of classrooms and present a graphic depiction of how the senseless violence was inflicted on people who usually had no idea what the crime was they were accused of. Inmates at prisons similar to Tuol Sleng all over the country were tortured until they confessed whatever the Khmer Rouge wanted them to say, which inevitably led to a conclusion of guilt as an enemy of the revolution and execution at one of the many ‘killing fields’ that became mass graves across Cambodia.
Miria asked the inevitable questions about the motivations of the Khmer Rouge, the failure of their version of radical Communism and establishment of Capitalism and inequality since the demise of the regime from 1979. She didn’t seem traumatised by the experience and was certainly engaged by the gravity of the place, the unforgettable images of victims and particularly by the written narratives of both survivors and those who perished.
The perennial question of how could otherwise ‘good’ people do such terrible things to others has been asked and answered for many similar contexts.
It is important that these memorials to 20th Century genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda and Europe exist. Such memorials to atrocities often provide important opportunities for the families of victims to get information on what happened to their loved ones – the Khmer Rouge left all the documentation on their victims. The faces of many Khmer Rouge leaders have been scratched out on the displays but the families and decedents of victims come from across the country and around the world to S-21 as part of their healing.
Most of the visitors to Tuol Sleng are foreign tourists and the $2 entry fee for foreigners seems a wasted opportunity to raise desperately needed funds to develop the facilities as the custodians have a stated goal of returning the former high school to a proper place of learning that can develop more educative resources about what happened there and during the 1970s in Cambodia. I think most foreigners would pay at least $50 for the opportunity to visit Tuol Sleng.
The ethics of genocide tourism are interesting, I’m sure plenty has been written about this popular practice that could be considered a privileged kind of voyeurism that revictimises the Cambodian men, women and children who suffered under the Khmer Rouge. On the other side of the argument, the descendants of survivors and victims want more people to know what happened in the hope that there will be some justice for those who have suffered and an perhaps opportunity for reconciliation when the truth however painful is acknowledged rather than ignored.
There were a range of other personal experiences and reflections for each of us – that won’t be shared in this format – needless to say the visit will inform our lifelong learning about the problems and power of evil, ideology, propaganda, ignorance, apathy, memory and forgetting.
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The Jim Clegg laboratory has worked on the biochemical and biophysical mechanisms that allow certain invertebrates to live in what we consider to be highly stressful environments. Some of these animals can be said to be “extremophiles” because they thrive under conditions that kill most animals. These conditions include extremes of temperature and pressure, desiccation, anoxia, various forms of radiation and very high salinity.
The favorite animal extremophile of the Clegg lab is the primitive crustacean known as Artemia, also called the brine shrimp. Although their interest in them concerns basic science, they are also of considerable commercial importance to the aquacultural and aquarium industries. The encysted embryos of Artemia, also called cysts, are arguably the most stress resistant of all animal life history stages and the motile (swimming) forms are among the most salt tolerant aquatic animals. Clegg and others working in this area have identified several proteins that act as “molecular chaperones” that protect macromolecules in the embryos from damage and destruction due to these various severe stresses. These molecular chaperones are clearly the products of evolution that enable these embryos to be extremophiles. Their goals include an understanding of the mechanisms by means of which this protection occurs.
Among Clegg lab collaborators are two Canadians, Tom MacRae (Dalhousie University) and Alden Warner (University of Windsor), Ralph Schill (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Wei-Jun Yang (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China) and Lynda Beladjal, Johan Mertens and Patrick Sorgeloos, all at Ghent University in Belgium. These highly respected scientists, and their students and colleagues are in the process of studying various aspects of animal extremophiles.
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An interview with Don Dokken of Dokken
Posted on January 5, 2017 by Julian Douglas
Q & A with “Mr. 80’s”… Julian Douglas: An Interview with Don Dokken of Dokken.
Back in 1984, my senior year of high school, I was with a group of friends driving out to Las Vegas for a road trip when our car broke down in the middle of the desert. After hours sweating in the blistering sun a tow truck arrived. He spent over 30 minutes trying to hook the car on to his truck, when finally he said “You know what the problem is you guys, there’s no metal in there.” Instantly one of my crazy buddies shouts out at the top of his lungs… “Are you kidding, there’s some fucking Dokken in there !!!”. The tow truck driver looked perplexed and we all held in our laughter, however from that point on I had no idea that the name Dokken would forever be etched in my brain.
Don came down to check out George Lynch’s latest project at the BriXton – South Bay back in August of 2009, which lead to this awesome picture.
Well only a few years later I met Don Dokken, living in the South Bay of Los Angeles, which surprisingly was the home to members of many of 80’s bands, including Motley Crue, Ratt, Warrant, Great White, Bullet Boys, Silent Rage and Dokken to name a few. By that time of course, the band Dokken had become one of the worlds most known Heavy Metal bands of the 1980’s. By the decades close, Dokken had been nominated for a Grammy Award, had multiple Gold albums, 3 Platinum albums and sold over 10 million records. Not to mention one of Metal’s coolest honors of the 80’s, having a top selling single from a major motion picture, that being Dokken’s hit single “Dream Warriors” from “Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors”.
My wife Nicole & I hanging with Don after his show at the House Of Blues – Anaheim, November 2009.
Don Dokken can be proud of his work with Dokken, the band he founded back in 1978 and to this day, is still performing and recording with Dokken as strong as ever. In fact, Dokken released it’s late album on September 25th, 2012… My Birthday (to which I was flattered for the preset, lol). Dokken’s songs are etched in Heavy Metal, especially Don’s vocal style, which has carried over with his solo career as well. Then add in his years of producing with great bands as well. Needless to say, I’ve been a great fan of Don Dokken, but where I’ve been honored, is to of been able to call Don a friend for over 20 some years. Exactly why I couldn’t wait to sit down with Don for my first Q & A with “Mr. 80’s” for Listen, Journey, Savor.
Having drinks at Saint Rocke while watching George Lynch’s show, August 2009.
1) Back in the late 1970’s when you were playing the clubs in Los Angeles, if someone would of told you, going into 2015, you would be touring and performing in some of the greatest venues around the world, what would you of said AND how does that feel to be doing that now?
Don Dokken: … I would have never believed it. I owned an auto body shop and playing was just for fun on the weekends. Looking back, I thought if we could sell out the Whisky A Go-Go, we would have accomplished our goal.
2) Like many musicians, you’ve covered other artists songs which have landed on various albums of yours. Are there any songs you’ve always wanted to cover, that you haven’t yet and might do?
Don Dokken: … I love doing songs from the British Invasion days. That’s why we’ve done “Bus Stop” by The Hollies, “Lies” by The Knickerbockers, “One” by Three Dog Night and so on. I’d like to do a The Beau Brummels song “So Tired”, that would be fun. Mick and myself are huge fans of this era, basically The Beatles era.
Rocking the goods times before Don’s firsat show at the BriXton – South Bay, March 2009.
3) The 80’s had their versions of the “Super-Groups” and projects, such as Bad English, Damn Yankees, Mr. Big, Contraband, Arcade etc. If you could of put your own “Super-Group” together, who would of been in it?
Don Dokken: … That’s a hard call. There are to many musicians that I respect to pick.
4) An unpopular trend for the fans these days, is seeing many bands from the 80’s tour as 2 different versions, such as Great White, L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat, Bullet Boys & Bang Tango to name a few. What’s your take on this?
Don Dokken: … They have to make a living. I understand when original members can’t pull it together. I’m an expert on that issue unfortunately.
Feeling happy to say the least, lights on & 2am after Don’s last show at the BriXton – South Bay, December 2011.
5) Many people might not know that back in 1981, while in Germany, you sat in on rehearsals for the Scorpions “Blackout” album because Klaus Meine was having vocal cord problems. Though Klaus recovered to record the album, your background vocals were still used on the LP.
You yourself have also had to have vocal surgery to fix problems with nodes and tears in your vocal chords. How are you these days and any worries about dealing with it again down the line?
Don Dokken: …I worry about it every show. Some singers are blessed, like Bruce Dickinson, Ronnie James Dio, Glen Hughes and others, they all kept there range and so on. But like Pavoratti, who never smoked and took really good care of his voice, he lost his range when he got older. It’s just the luck of the draw. My range was all there until I was almost 50, but I took my gift for granted and paid the price. I had surgery in the 80’s from cronic sinus infections, and no it wasn’t from doing coke, LOL.
6) Some people might not know that you’ve been a producer for much of your career too. Over the years, who have been some of musicians you’ve really enjoyed working with AND some you hope to one day?
Don Dokken: … I liked working with them all. I was trying to help bands that needed a break, some made it some didn’t. XYZ was one of my best producer efforts. I would like to produce Michael Schenker !!!
Getting a photo-op during Don’s Meet & Greet after his Saint Rocke show, December 2012.
7) Who were some of your favorite singers and musical influences growing up?
Don Dokken: … Dio, Rob Halford and Ian Gillan had a big impact on me. When I first heard Judas Priest’s “Sad Wings of Destiny”, it blue my mind. I loved Saxon too.
8) That being said, what modern singers these days are some of your favorites?
Don Dokken: … The guy in Nickleback (Chad Kroeger) rocks, Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) also !!!
9) Any quick advice to all those young singers out there?
Don Dokken: … Most important… don’t smoke. Always warm up before a show and don’t talk loudly ‘ever’. All of these things I’ve done and paid for it. I’ve found that talking loud in a bar or in a crowd really kills your voice. I’ve even heard you hoarse from talking in a loud club all night.
10) You’ve always been one to never seem to slow down, so what’s next with Don and/or Dokken, we can all look forward to?
Don Dokken: … I’m too old to work on cars, so I guess singing and writing songs is my future until my voice gives out completely, which I hope won’t be for a while. I can name a dozen awesome famous singers that don’t have there complete range anymore, its just life. But they keep going. Its a rush to be on stage, there’s nothing like it, so I keep on going. Music is my life, as was my father and grandfather, its in the Dokken genes.
In the Green Room prior to Don’s show at the BriXton – South Bay, November 2010.
Bonus Question #1) With all the interviews you’ve done over the years, what’s a question you would like to be asked, that you never are? And of course, answer that.
Don Dokken: … The question would be… Did you succeed from your talent or was it just luck? The answer would be 50/50.
Knowing you since the 80’s, we’ve had lots of great times together. One of my favorite memories came in November of 2001, when Silent Rage was opening for you at the Galaxy Theatre in Orange County. Somehow the backstage fun found us ending up at Mr. J’s at last call for drinks & dancers… I’ll leave it at that, lol.
Bonus Question #2) Are there any fond memories of all your years in the business, with all the people you know, that come to mind?
Don Dokken: … Playing “Monsters of Rock” with the Scorpions, Van Halen and Metallica, that was awesome. We were all friends and it was interesting that in 1977, we played with Van Halen at the Starwood. Then in 1981, I sang on the Scorpion’s “Blackout”. Then I was with my manager watching Metallica at the Troubador the night he signed them. So then almost 10 years later we were all sharing a stadium stage in front of a 100,000 people a day… fate is truly stranger than fiction.
Don Dokken
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One last drink after another fun night with one of Don’s shows at the BriXton – South Bay, November 2010.
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10 Absurdly Crazy Jewish Conspiracy Theories
Marc V. February 9, 2014 0
Few people in history have been the target of conspiracy theories as often as the Jews. From well-poisoning to take-over-the-world plots, the Jews have it all planned—according to racists and conspiracy theorists. Yet in the vast potpourri of already-crazy Jewish conspiracies, a few have stood out due to their sheer insanity. These are conspiracies so insane that even the most fanatical believers would find them hard to believe.
10 The Stab-In-The-Back Legend
According to this myth, Germany lost World War I not because of the lack of soldiers and resources, but because the nation had been “stabbed in the back” by conspiratorial organizations at home. Militarists and right-wing groups—and, later, the Nazis—maintained that these organizations effectively broke the fighting will of the people and caused the Germans to accept the humiliating terms of the armistice. The ones who singlehandedly engineered the collapse of the German war effort were none other than the Communists, Jews, and various defeatists. The Jews were particularly vulnerable—for the Germans they exemplified the perfect traitors, just like Judas Iscariot.
Of course this legend was just a ruse to find a scapegoat for Germany’s impending military defeat. Although the German army remained highly organized and even occupied large swaths of enemy territory near the end of the war, they lacked enough reserves and material to defend it. Conversely, fresh American troops were reinforcing Allied lines and were in the process of retaking German-held areas. Rising casualties, a flu epidemic, and an economic blockade also added to the German woes—simply put, they were just in no shape to continue the war any further.
9 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty Brought Diseases To Egypt
Remember when a Saudi cleric announced that women who drive risked destroying their pelvises and ovaries? As it turns out, he wasn’t the only one who excelled at putting his foot in his mouth. Back in August 2012, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood named Ahmed Subei stated in an interview on Iranian television that Egypt’s Camp David Accords and the resulting peace treaty with Israel increased the incidence of diseases among the Egyptians. Since the peace treaty of 1979, more Egyptians have been afflicted with “endemic diseases, such as various types of cancer, hepatitis, and kidney infections.”
Subei attributed this to the influx of pesticides from Israel to Egypt, which he believed led to the gradual deterioration of the country’s agriculture and the current trend of diseases. To solve this dilemma, he recommended that the Egyptian government review and amend the “unfair” provisions of the treaty.
In spite of their regular anti-Semitic slurs, the Muslim Brotherhood itself isn’t immune to such conspiracies—the group itself is alleged to be an Israeli front.
8 Host Desecration
Host desecration—one of the oldest (and most serious) accusations against Jews—refers to the alleged Jewish practice of desecrating the host (or bread) used by various Christian groups that represented the body of Jesus Christ. The Jews would mutilate the host in a manner similar to Jesus Christ’s torture and crucifixion. Accusations against the Jews began after the Catholic Church established the doctrine of transubstantiation in 1215. Afterward, Jews were frequently charged and persecuted for this practice. Later on, the accusation became the perfect excuse for people to kill and expel the Jews from the community.
The Reformation of the 16th century alleviated the suffering of the Jews somewhat—when the Protestants denied the doctrine of transubstantiation, the whole thing became moot and academic. However, isolated cases of host-desecration accusations continued well into the 19th century—the last known incident happened in Romania in 1836.
7 The Kosher Tax Conspiracy
According to believers of this conspiracy, kosher-certified foods are one way the Jews collect money from unwitting consumers around the world. Proceeds then go to Israel and various Jewish organizations for their nefarious purposes. In the West, the belief in a kosher tax took root during the 20th century, when Jewish organizations gave out kosher certifications to food manufacturers. And since kosher-certified foods are priced higher than non-kosher ones, well, that extra money has to go somewhere.
Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, the truth couldn’t be any more mundane. While kosher-certified foods are indeed expensive, virtually all the profits go to the manufacturer. A small portion goes to the salaries of the kosher-accrediting organization’s members (most groups work as non-profit).
Historically speaking, a kosher tax has existed before—on the Jews themselves. Several European states imposed different variations of the kosher tax on the Jews. The Russian Empire in particular established the Box Tax—so called because the Jews had to put their money in a collection box.
6 Israel Caused 9/11
No, it wasn’t the US government who attacked the World Trade Center in New York; it was Israel—or at least that’s what a good number of Muslim conspiracy theorists believe. According to them, Israel initiated the attacks with the hope that the West would launch a military intervention against what they perceived to be rogue Islamic states.
Rumors of the Israeli connection began shortly after the attacks when Middle Eastern newspapers cited a report that said some 4,000 Israelis did not go in to work at the Trade Center on that fateful day. They also pointed out the extremely low casualty rate the Israelis took in comparison to other nationalities in the attack.
In reality, the 4,000-person figure represented the number of Israelis believed to be in the vicinity of the attacks. Also in stark contrast to the low-casualty rumor was the fact that hundreds of the dead or wounded during the attack were of Jewish origins. Sadly, the figure became subverted by some Muslims who did not want to face the fact that it was Islamic terrorists who spearheaded the attack that took thousands of innocent lives.
5 Jews Keep Switzerland Neutral
Ever wondered how Switzerland has managed to remain neutral, avoid major wars, and still remain such a rich and powerful country? Apparently, it’s all thanks to the Jews. A Saudi journalist named Fahd ‘Amr Al-Ahmadi wrote that the Jews were the moving force behind Switzerland’s centuries-long neutrality. He contended that Switzerland provided the perfect place for the Jews to hoard their wealth and plan their next move for world domination. Through their machinations, Switzerland became a neutral and extremely wealthy country while the rest of the world burned around them.
As with most conspiracy theorists, Al-Ahmadi left out a few important notes, most notably the fact that Switzerland connived with the Nazis during World War II in order to remain neutral. That collaboration included harsh laws against Jewish refugees and the storage of ill-gotten Nazi loot.
4 Judeopolonia
Will there really be a future Jewish homeland in Poland? In a book written by Polish writer Julian Niemcewicz in 1858, by the year 3333 A.D., the Jews will have total control over Poland through deceit and treachery. Judeopolonia—as it will be known—will consist of Jews ruling over the Gentiles from their capital of Moszkopolis (formerly Warsaw). The bottom of the new social order of Judeopolonia will consist of the rest of the Polish population. The aristocrats especially will be forced to serve the Jewish ruling class. Judeopolonia will be run like a dystopian wasteland—all buildings and structures will either be defaced or destroyed, while the streets will be littered with dirt.
The book sparked great paranoia against Polish Jews for several years. A similar fear rose up during the pre-World War II years with the belief in “zydokomuna,” or a Jewish-Soviet collaboration—a fear made more realistic after the Soviets fought and occupied several parts of Poland in the 1920s and ’30s.
3 The Andinia Plan
Argentina is another alleged preferred destination for a Jewish state. According to the Andinia Plan, the Jews mapped out Patagonia in Argentina for the creation of an independent Jewish Republic of Andinia—effectively, a state within a state. The main author of this belief—an Argentinian politician named Walter Allende—alleged that during the 1970s, the Israelites were searching for a second Jewish homeland far away from the turmoil in the Middle East. Argentina, with its large Jewish population, would have been the perfect settlement.
During the reign of the military junta, large numbers of Jews were often abducted and tortured because of their supposed invasion plan. As Jews, they were subjected to greater physical and psychological abuse than usual—one form of torture involved the jamming of small animals into the bodily orifices of Jewish prisoners. All told, more than a thousand Jews disappeared, along with several thousand dissidents, during that time period.
2 Jerry The Mouse Is A Jewish Invention
At some point in our childhood, most of us have watched at least one episode of Tom And Jerry. Although the show did have its fair share of controversies (including some politically-incorrect episodes), the lighthearted cat-and-mouse capers have remained a hugely popular (and relatively harmless) show for generations of children. Enter Iranian professor Hasan Bolkhari, who basically ruined it for every kid on the planet when he implicated Jerry as nothing more than a tool for the Jews.
In a lecture he gave in 2006, Bolkhari outlined his belief that Jews created Jerry for the purpose of changing how Europeans perceived mice. According to him, Europeans began calling the Jews “dirty mice” during the Nazi era. To counter this, the Jews created the show and have been using it ever since to flip the common perception of the “stupid” mouse. Maybe this revelation also justifies the totally insane fatwa issued by a Saudi cleric that called for the killing of not only Jerry, but Mickey Mouse as well.
1 The Jews Dominated The Slave Trade
Were the Jews responsible for New World slavery? The Nation Of Islam seems to think so. In their book, titled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks And Jews, it was the Jews who financed the operations that saw millions of African natives shipped from their homes to the Americas up until the Civil War. From the ports to the ships, the Jews were in control of everything—not only that, but they also personally owned thousands of slaves and vast plantations. Accordingly, the NOI contended that without support of the Jews, the vast slave network would have essentially collapsed on itself.
Several scholars disputed the NOI’s assertion and stated that the participation of the Jews in the slave trade was “minimal” at best. While some Jews did own slaves and engaged in the trade, their involvement paled in comparison to that of the Europeans. Also conveniently forgotten was the fact that the Jews themselves were subjected to slavery multiple times throughout their history. Conclusively, while the Jews were guilty of slavery, they were not the only ones—virtually everyone was in on this horrid practice at some point in time.
Marc V. is always open for a conversation, so do drop him a line sometime.
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10 Brutal Little-Known Trials Of The Egyptian Afterlife
Mark Oliver December 15, 2017 0
Death, for the ancient Egyptians, meant a lot more than just mummies and pyramids. The Egyptians had a terrifying vision of what awaited them after death. The souls of dead Egyptians didn’t just drift on to eternity—they had to fight for it.
After death, the Egyptians had to battle their way through the 12 lands of hell. They had to pass through rings of fire, sneak past gods, and hide from serpents and crocodiles that would try to devour their souls. It was a brutal, horrific journey, and it was a lot more exciting than your history teacher let on.
10 Fighting Through The 12 Lands Of Hell
Like most religions, the Egyptian faith promised a land of eternal paradise. They called it Aaru, the field of reeds, where endless crops grew in an unceasing abundance. Getting to Aaru, though, wasn’t exactly easy. To make it in, you’d have to battle your way through a place they called Duat: the 12 lands of hell.
Duat (also spelled Tuat and a number of other ways) was the netherworld that they believed waited above them in the sky. It was a massive, mystical world where you could find forests of turquoise trees, lakes of fire, and walls of iron. The Egyptians had the whole afterworld mapped out—literally. They had maps of Duat, showing it as a land divided into two paths by a lake of flames that consumed the souls of the damned.
The biggest threats, though, were the creatures that lived there. The land was filled with gods, demons, and monsters, most of which would annihilate the eternal soul of anyone who tried to pass through their domains. As the dead traveled through Duat, they would be pursued by serpents and crocodiles that would try to devour their souls.[1] If they wanted eternal life, they’d have to get past them all. If they failed, they would suffer through an eternity of oblivion.
9 The Dead Had To Make It Through Before Their Bodies Decayed
There was a reason the Egyptians mummified their dead. The souls of the dead, they believed, needed their bodies while they fought their way through Duat. A decaying body was a ticking clock. If their bodies decayed before they reached paradise, they would run out of time.
The soul, the Egyptians believed, split into two parts at death: the personality, which they called the Ba, and the vital essence, which they called the Ka.[2] It was their vital essence that traveled up into Duat, fighting for a chance at paradise. If it made it through, the two parts of the soul would be reunited and live forever—but only if the Ka could make it in time.
The Ba would spend the day flying around the world. At night, though, it needed to return to the body to rejuvenate its energy, and it could only return to the body if it could recognize it. If the body decayed into a skeleton, the Ba would drift about aimlessly, unable to find the other part of its soul, until its energy ran out.
The pharaohs bought time by getting mummified, ensuring that their souls would always be able to recognize their own bodies. For the poor, though, that wasn’t always an option. Their best hope was to be buried in a shallow grave in the desert, where the dry air would slow the decay of their bodies—and to rush through Duat’s 12 lands as fast as they could.
8 The Dead Still Needed To Eat
Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
Even after death, an Egyptian soul still needed to eat. They needed to pack food for their long journeys through Duat, and they needed to make sure they could eat it—and that meant somebody needed to stuff food into them.
After the body of the dead was mummified, the Egyptian priests would start a ritual called the Opening of the Mouth and the Eyes. This was meant to ensure that the spirit could be given food and drink as well as see.[3]
To feed it, they’d build a statue in the dead person’s likeness. Then, they would chip mouth and eye holes into the statue. Until the soul made it through Duat, the priests would have to feed it—and that meant literally stuffing beef into the statue’s mouth.
It was more than just a ritual; it was a matter eternal life and death. If you didn’t have someone who cared enough about you to stuff beef into a statue’s mouth, your shot at eternal life was doomed. Your soul would starve in Duat, your eyes would be sealed shut, and you would have no chance of making it past the 12 gates of hell.
7 Traveling To Space In A Pyramid
The soul, once released, still needed to find its way into the netherworld. Duat, the ancient Egyptians believed, was in the sky—and if you weren’t buried in a massive pyramid, it was nearly impossible to reach it.
Pyramids, in early Egyptian culture, were probably built to transport the soul into outer space. The Egyptians believed that the small, dark spot in the night sky around which the stars appeared to revolve was the gateway to Duat.[4] They would build shafts extending out of their pyramids, pointed directly at that small space, meant to launch the dead pharaoh’s soul up and into the domain of the gods.
That wasn’t exactly an option for people who weren’t pharaohs—which was probably on purpose. The Egyptians only built pyramids in the earlier days of the empire, and at the time, people were told that the only person who was allowed an afterlife was the pharaoh. Later on, they opened up the afterlife to everyone else, but when the pyramids were built, they were seen as the only shot any living person had at a second life. Everyone else on Earth, they believed, was fated to simply cease to exist.
6 Servants Would Be Killed With The Pharaoh
The pharaoh wouldn’t go to the afterlife alone. He took people with him—by murdering them.
A dying pharaoh expected to enjoy all the comforts of life in the afterlife. That meant having his servants, his artists, and everyone dear to him at his side. They’d be brought into the pharaoh’s tomb on the day of his death and poisoned. Sometimes, that even included animals. In fact, one pharaoh was buried with seven lions to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife.
Some of them went wild with this idea. The most extreme was a pharaoh named Djer, who poisoned 569 people so that he could take them with him to the other side.[5] Another pharaoh named Aha only took a few dozen people with him—but he made sure that one of them was his five-year-old son. By the pharaoh’s orders, the young boy was poisoned and buried before he would ever have the chance to grow up.
5 Threatening The Gods To Get Into Heaven
A great body of water, the Egyptians believed, separated the sky from the Earth. To get into Duat, they would have to cross it—and the only way across was to convince the Ferryman of the Gods to take you.
That’s not an altogether unique idea about the afterlife, but the Egyptians handled their ferryman a bit differently than the Greeks did. They didn’t pay him a toll or treat him with the type of reverence you’d expect someone to offer the being responsible for the fate of their immortal souls. They’d just yell at him.
Egyptian priests would chant prayers to the Ferryman, first assuring him that no person accused the dead soul of misdeed and then begging him to “ferry [the dead] in this boat in which you ferry the gods.”[6]
Then the tone got dark. “If you fail,” they would warn the Ferryman, the dead pharaoh would “leap and sit on the wing of Thoth,” a god with unlimited power in the underworld who would make the Ferryman suffer for not doing his job.
4 Crossing Through The 12 Gates
Photo credit: Olaf Tausch
Getting through Duat wasn’t easy. Before an Egyptian soul could make its way to the paradise of Aaru, it would have to cross through 12 gates. Each one had a guardian, and each guardian had to be appeased if you were to get across. That wasn’t easy, though—and if a soul died in Duat, it was destroyed forever.
Priests wrote guides on how to pass through, warning the living of the dangers they would face in Duat. At one doorway, they warned, they would find two beautiful women waiting for them, who would say, “Come, we wish to kiss you.” The dead soul would have to show he recognized them for the gods they were and call them by their names: Isis and Nephthys. Otherwise, they would cut off his nose and his lips.
Every gate had a guardian, each one with its own cruel way of destroying souls. Before entering the gate that led to the desert land ruled by the god Seker, for example, the dead soul would have to create an image of the god that ruled over it. Otherwise, his soul would be hacked into pieces.[7]
3 The Sealed Thing
Photo credit: Ignati
A soul traveling through Duat would have to resist one terrible temptation. At the end of his journey, the Egyptians knew, he would be judged by the gods. Only the worthy would be allowed to move on to paradise—but if you weren’t worthy, there was another way to become immortal.
At the boundaries of the sky, the Egyptians believed, there was a land called Rosetau. This was the place where the god Osiris’s body had been buried. Anyone who could reach it, they believed, would gain eternal life.
Getting to Osiris’s body, though, wasn’t easy. His corpse was in a land of complete darkness surrounded by a wall of fire, locked inside something that they only called “the sealed thing.”[8] The Egyptian priests warned the living that this path to immortality was far too dangerous. Nobody, they said, had ever made it close enough to see inside.
2 Cannibalizing The Gods
Photo credit: Francesco Gasparetti
As terrifying as Duat was for a commoner, most of the pharaohs weren’t too worried about it. They felt entitled to eternal life. They were destined to become gods, they believed. They weren’t scared of other gods. In fact, some pharaohs threatened the gods before death.
When Pharaoh Unis (aka Unas) died, he had his priests chant to the gods that they needed to watch out. Unis was coming, the pharaohs promised, and he was going to tie them down and eat them. “Unis is he who eats men and feeds on gods,” the priests warned the gods, “who eats their entrails!”[9]
The early pharaohs believed that eating the gods would let them absorb their magical powers. Some of them were pretty confident they could pull that off—and nobody more so than Unis. Unis’s grave is full of warnings, telling the gods that if they didn’t want to get eaten, they’d have to pin down their friends and help carve them up for him.
“The big ones are for his breakfast,” Unis’s priests warned the gods, “the middle ones are for his dinner, the little ones are for his evening snack.”
1 The Weighing Of The Heart
Photo credit: Real Spirituality For Real Life
If a soul could make it through Duat without being thrown into the fire, it would get its chance to be judged worthy of paradise.[10]
The soul would come face-to-face with Osiris, the undead lord of the underworld. Before their god, the Egyptians would have to swear that they had not broken the divine laws. Then their hearts were weighed against the feather of the goddess Ma’at.
If the soul was innocent, he would be allowed to move onto Aaru, the field of paradise. A servant might be allowed to live out eternity in a world of abundance, while a pharaoh might be allowed to become a god.
But if the heart was unworthy, the dead man’s soul would be thrown to a beast called Ammitt, the Devourer. Ammitt would torture them, tear them apart, throw them in the fire, and cast their souls into oblivion.
Even after surviving the long, dangerous journey through Duat, it could all be for nothing. Nothing about the paradise on the other side was guaranteed. No matter how diligently a soul fought, it could all still end with its destruction.
Read more about ancient Egypt on 10 Ancient Egyptian Medical Practices We Still Use Today and 10 Ways Ancient Egyptians Influenced Modern Life.
Mark Oliver is a regular contributor to Listverse. His writing also appears on a number of other sites, including The Onion's StarWipe and Cracked.com. His website is regularly updated with everything he writes.
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Grammy Awards Turn 60: Every Best New Artist Winner Through the Years
What do Adele, Mariah Carey and Bette Midler have in common, aside from being wildly talented music artists and pop culture icons? At one point or another in their careers, they were all new artists... Best New Artists, to be exact.
Since its premiere in 1959, the Grammy Awards have ushered forth dozens of music industry superstars, from rock royalty like The Beatles to vocal divas like Christina Aguilera, with the category acting somewhat like a crystal ball for the future of music.
Naturally, there have been a few one hit wonders through the years (where have all the Paula Coles gone?), but for the most part, the Grammy Awards' Best New Artist category winners have become bona fide music superstars.
To celebrate 60 years of Best New Artists, check out the gallery up top to see who won the Grammy award for Best New Artist every year since the Grammys started.
Source: Grammy Awards Turn 60: Every Best New Artist Winner Through the Years
Filed Under: Adele, Amy Winehouse, Bette Midler, Carrie Underwood, Christina Aguilera, Cyndi Lauper, Grammys, Mariah Carey, Maroon 5, Meghan Trainor, Sam Smith
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Christopher Beaulieu M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology (Musculoskeletal Imaging) and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Informatics and image processing techniques that provide infrastructure for diagnosis in musculoskeletal imaging. Decision support for improving accuracy of bone tumor diagnosis. Improved methods for MRI in the musculoskeletal system.
Hans Becker
Professor of Radiology (Cardiovascular Imaging) at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Myocardial bridges (MB) with associated upfront atherosclerotic lesions are common findings on coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA). Abnormal septal wall motion in exercise echocardiography (EE) may to be associated with MB. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is considered the gold standard for the detection of MB. We investigate whether CTA is comparable to IVUS for the assessment of MB and upstream plaques in symptomatic patients with suspicion for MB raised by EE.
Francis Blankenberg
Associate Professor of Radiology (Pediatric Radiology) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Studies on apoptotic cell death in vivo using the H MRS phenomenon.
Zhen Cheng
Associate Professor (Research) of Radiology (Molecular Imaging)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests To develop novel molecular imaging probes and techniques for non-invasively early detection of cancer using multimodality imaging technologies including PET, SPECT, MRI, optical imaging, etc.
Frederick T. Chin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology (Molecular Imaging)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Our group's primary objectives are:
1) Novel radioligand and radiotracer development.
We will develop novel PET (Positron Emission Tomography) imaging agents with MIPS and Stanford faculty as well as other outside collaborations including academia and pharmaceutical industry. Although my personal research interests will be to discover and design of candidate probes that target molecular targets in the brain, our group focus will primarily be on cancer biology and gene therapy. In conjunction with our state-of-the-art imaging facility, promising candidates will be evaluated by PET-CT/MR imaging in small animals and primates. Successful radioligands and/or radiotracers will be extended towards future human clinical applications.
2) Designing new radiolabeling techniques and methodologies.
We will aim to design new radiolabeling techniques and methodologies that may have utility for future radiopharmaceutical development in our lab and the general radiochemistry community.
3) Radiochemistry production of routine clinical tracers.
Since we also have many interests with many Stanford faculty and outside collaborators, our efforts will also include the routine radiochemistry production of many existing radiotracers for human and non-human use. Our routine clinical tracers will be synthesized in custom-made or commercial synthetic modules (i.e. GE TRACERlab modules) housed in lead-shielded cells and be distributed manually or automatically (i.e. Comecer Dorothea) to our imagers.
Hongjie Dai
The J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor in Chemistry
Bio Professor Dai’s research spans chemistry, physics, and materials and biomedical sciences, leading to materials with properties useful in electronics, energy storage and biomedicine. Recent developments include near-infrared-II fluorescence imaging, ultra-sensitive diagnostic assays, a fast-charging aluminum battery and inexpensive electrocatalysts that split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuels.
Born in 1966 in Shaoyang, China, Hongjie Dai began his formal studies in physics at Tsinghua U. in Beijing (B.S. 1989) and applied sciences at Columbia U. (M.S. 1991). His doctoral work under Dr. Charles Lieber at Harvard U. (Ph.D. 1994) focused on charge-density waves and superconductivity. During postdoctoral research at Rice U. with Dr. Richard Smalley, he developed carbon nanotube probes for atomic force microscopy. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1997, and in 2007 was named Jackson–Wood Professor of Chemistry. Among many awards, he has been recognized with the ACS Pure Chemistry Award, APS McGroddy Prize for New Materials, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics and Materials Research Society Mid-Career Award. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AAAS and National Academy of Sciences.
The Dai Laboratory has advanced the synthesis and basic understanding of carbon nanomaterials and applications in nanoelectronics, nanomedicine, energy storage and electrocatalysis.
The Dai Lab pioneered some of the now-widespread uses of chemical vapor deposition for carbon nanotube (CNT) growth, including vertically aligned nanotubes and patterned growth of single-walled CNTs on wafer substrates, facilitating fundamental studies of their intrinsic properties. The group developed the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons, and of nanocrystals and nanoparticles on CNTs and graphene with controlled degrees of oxidation, producing a class of strongly coupled hybrid materials with advanced properties for electrochemistry, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis. The lab’s synthesis of a novel plasmonic gold film has enhanced near-infrared fluorescence up to 100-fold, enabling ultra-sensitive assays of disease biomarkers.
Nanoscale Physics and Electronics
High quality nanotubes from his group’s synthesis are widely used to investigate the electrical, mechanical, optical, electro-mechanical and thermal properties of quasi-one-dimensional systems. Lab members have studied ballistic electron transport in nanotubes and demonstrated nanotube-based nanosensors, Pd ohmic contacts and ballistic field effect transistors with integrated high-kappa dielectrics.
Nanomedicine and NIR-II Imaging
Advancing biological research with CNTs and nano-graphene, group members have developed π–π stacking non-covalent functionalization chemistry, molecular cellular delivery (drugs, proteins and siRNA), in vivo anti-cancer drug delivery and in vivo photothermal ablation of cancer. Using nanotubes as novel contrast agents, lab collaborations have developed in vitro and in vivo Raman, photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging. Lab members have exploited the physics of reduced light scattering in the near-infrared-II (1000-1700nm) window and pioneered NIR-II fluorescence imaging to increase tissue penetration depth in vivo. Video-rate NIR-II imaging can measure blood flow in single vessels in real time. The lab has developed novel NIR-II fluorescence agents, including CNTs, quantum dots, conjugated polymers and small organic dyes with promise for clinical translation.
Electrocatalysis and Batteries
The Dai group’s nanocarbon–inorganic particle hybrid materials have opened new directions in energy research. Advances include electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and water splitting catalysts including NiFe layered-double-hydroxide for oxygen evolution. Recently, the group also demonstrated an aluminum ion battery with graphite cathodes and ionic liquid electrolytes, a substantial breakthrough in battery science.
Heike Daldrup-Link
Professor of Radiology (General Radiology) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests As a physician-scientist involved in the care of pediatric patients and developing novel pediatric molecular imaging technologies, my goal is to link the fields of nanotechnology and medical imaging towards more efficient diagnoses and image-guided therapies. Our research team develops novel imaging techniques for improved cancer diagnosis, for image-guided-drug delivery and for in vivo monitoring of cell therapies in children and young adults.
Bruce Daniel
Professor of Radiology (Body Imaging) and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
Current Research and Scholarly Interests 1. MRI of Breast Cancer, particularly new techniques. Currently being explored are techniques including ultra high spatial resolution MRI and contrast-agent-free detection of breast tumors.
2. MRI-guided interventions, especially MRI-compatible remote manipulation and haptics
3. Medical Mixed Reality. Currently being explored are methods of fusing patients and their images to potentially improve breast conserving surgery, and other conditions.
Adam de la Zerda
Assistant Professor of Structural Biology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Molecular imaging technologies for studying cancer biology in vivo
Utkan Demirci
Professor of Radiology (Canary Cancer Center)
Bio Dr. Demirci is currently a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine with tenure at the Canary Center for Early Cancer Detection. Prior to his Stanford appointment, he was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology serving at the Division of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Infectious Diseases and Renal Division. He leads a group of 20+ researchers focusing on micro- and nano-scale technologies. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999 as a James B. Angell Scholar (summa cum laude) from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his M.S. degree in 2001 in Electrical Engineering, M.S. degree in Management Science and Engineering in 2005, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2005, all from Stanford University.
The Demirci Bio-Acoustic MEMS in Medicine Lab (BAMM) specializes in applying micro- and nanoscale technologies to problems in medicine at the interface between micro/nanoscale engineering and medicine. Our goal is to apply innovative technologies to clinical problems. Our major research theme focuses on creating new microfluidic technology platforms targeting broad applications in medicine. In this interdisciplinary space at the convergence of engineering, biology and materials science, we create novel technologies for disposable point-of-care (POC) diagnostics and monitoring of infectious diseases, cancer and controlling cellular microenvironment in nanoliter droplets for biopreservation and microscale tissue engineering applications. These applications are unified around our expertise to test the limits of cell manipulation by establishing microfluidic platforms to provide solutions to real world problems at the clinic.
Our lab creates technologies to manipulate cells in nanoliter volumes to enable solutions for real world problems in medicine including applications in infectious disease diagnostics and monitoring for global health, cancer early detection, cell encapsulation in nanoliter droplets for cryobiology, and bottom-up tissue engineering. Dr. Demirci has published over 120 peer reviewed publications in journals including PNAS, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Small, Trends in Biotechnology, Chemical Society Reviews and Lab-chip, over 150 conference abstracts and proceedings, 10+ book chapters, and an edited book. His work was highlighted in Wired Magazine, Nature Photonics, Nature Medicine, MIT Technology Review, Reuters Health News, Science Daily, AIP News, BioTechniques, and Biophotonics. He is fellow-elect of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering (AIMBE, 2017). His scientific work has been recognized by numerous national and international awards including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2012), the IEEE-EMBS Early Career Achievement Award (2012), Scientist of the year award from Stanford radiology Department (2017). He was selected as one of the world’s top 35 young innovators under the age of 35 (TR-35) by the MIT Technology Review at the age of 28. In 2004, he led a team that won the Stanford University Entrepreneur’s Challenge Competition and Global Start-up Competition in Singapore. His work has been translated to start-up companies including DxNow, KOEK Biotechnology and LEVITAS. There has been over 10,000 live births in the US, Europe and Turkey using the sperm selection technology that came out of Dr. Demirci's lab. He has been cited over 3000 times within the last two years (H index, 60).
Cancer Imaging & Early Detection
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December 19 2018, 11:31
State of the Sanderson 2018
Another year has passed, and Koloss Head Munching Day is upon us again. It’s been a fun year, full of me working on interesting side projects, so expect quite the list of updates in this (very long) post. But first, let me give a hearty thank you to the community of readers that continues to put up with my sometimes insane writing process. I realize it results in me having a lot of projects, necessitating posts like this one to keep everyone up to date. For many writers, this might be an overwhelming number of irons in the proverbial fire—but it is exactly what I need to keep me excited about the process, and to keep me from burning out.
Know, however, that I realize this can be a little frustrating if you’re waiting for one specific update that keeps not happening. It’s quite the challenge to keep all this straight, but I do my best to keep in mind that by beginning something, I make an implicit promise that I will finish it. I take this promise seriously. I will do my best to balance my artistic needs with the trust you’ve all shown me by continuing to support my work. I consider this post, along with updates on places like my subreddit, to be essential parts of this process. I often cannot rush the artistic process, but I can keep you all informed of what is causing delays, or what projects I find exciting. This is how I make myself accountable to you, as you are the means by which I even get to do this wonderful job in the first place.
So, introduction done, here we go! Let the circus commence.
My Year
January-March: Skyward and Legion Revisions
I kicked off the year quickly doing a second draft of Skyward. Pulling The Apocalypse Guard from the publisher, then promising them Skyward to publish in the fall of 2018, meant that I had to scramble. It wouldn’t do to pull a book I judged it to be of inferior quality, only to replace it with a book that I didn’t have time to revise up to my standards. So you’ll see a number of months dedicated to Skyward. (Which, if you somehow missed it, did come out—and is still sitting quite happily on the New York Times bestseller list many weeks later, so thank you all very much!)
Another thing I’d been putting off for months was the necessary revisions of the third Legion story. Tor was quite patient with me on this one, considering the Legion collection was scheduled for publication in the fall as well. But during these three months, I did multiple revisions of both books, eventually getting Legion into a polished state. (There was one more draft of Skyward still to do.) Legion Three, Lies of the Beholder, can be found in the Legion collection that was published earlier this year.
Finally, somewhere in here, I squeezed in an outline and world guide for Death Without Pizza. (Yes, that’s a name change—no it’s not the final name, but just a placeholder.) More on that later.
April: Children of the Nameless
Sometime around March of last year, Wizards of the Coast sent me an exploratory email. It being the 25th anniversary of their card game, they were wondering if I’d be interested in doing a story with them. As most of you know, I’m quite the fan of Magic: The Gathering. It’s my primary hobby, and I have way too many cards. (Which still aren’t enough, of course.) I was enthusiastic, and you can read more about the process I used to approach the story in this blog post.
I knew that by doing so, and by writing the story as long as it ended up, it would make getting to some of my other projects later in the year more difficult. (Namely, the fourth Wax and Wayne book, which I’ll talk about shortly.) But this was kind of something I had to do, so I ask your forgiveness in taking this detour to Innistrad. I’m exceptionally pleased with the story and the response it has gotten, so if you haven’t read it, I present it to you here! Reading it requires no prior knowledge of the card came or the lore surrounding it.
May: Skyward Final Draft
How long it takes to write a story depends on a lot of factors, but in general, three months gets me around 100k words. Shorter stories, with fewer viewpoints, tend to be faster—while longer stories with more intricate plotlines (like Stormlight) tend to take longer. But that’s just for the rough draft. Generally, doing all the other drafts takes an equivalent amount of time to the first draft. (So, if the first draft takes three months, the second through fourth drafts will together take another three months.) You can see this at play in Skyward, which took about three months to write in the end of 2017, then took three additional months of revision to polish up.
I did sneak in a little time to do an outline for a piece called The Original in here as well, which took about a week. I’ll update you on that in the secondary projects section.
June–August: Starsight First Draft
And, speaking of three month first drafts, here we get me buckling down and doing the sequel to Skyward. It’s finished in its first draft form, and dominated my summer. In here, I also did detailed outlines for the third and fourth books of the series. (And this is where I determined for certain that the series would need to be four books instead of three.)
September–October: Odds and Ends
In these months I had some travel to record episodes of Writing Excuses, I did a quick second draft of Starsight to send to my publisher, and I did some revisions to Children of the Nameless. I also did more work on The Original, Death Without Pizza, and Alcatraz Six (AKA Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, or Alcatraz vs. His Own Dumb Self). Finally, I slipped in some brainstorming with Dan Wells on how to fix The Apocalypse Guard.
Basically, I knew that November would be mostly lost to touring, and I was scrambling to get some work done on small projects to clear my plate for 2019, which will be dedicated to working on Stormlight Four.
November: Skyward Tour
I spent most of November on tour for Skyward, and quickly finishing up final revisions on Children of the Nameless. I got to see a lot of you while touring for the book, and had a blast—but these tours get more and more difficult as the lines get longer and longer. The tour for Stormlight Four in 2020 might require me to do some things I’ve been dreading, such as limit the lines to a certain number of tickets. It makes me sad to contemplate, but I’ll keep you all in the loop about what we decide to do.
That said, here are some pictures from my tour! Let the costume parade commence:
Syl – Barnes & Noble, El Cerrito
Mistborn – University Bookstore, Seattle
Shallan and Jasnah – University Bookstore, Seattle
Cobalt Guard – University Bookstore, Seattle
Spensa Nightshade – Anderson’s Bookshop, Chicago
Mistborn – Barnes & Noble, Atlanta
Wax – Barnes & Noble, Atlanta
Shallan – Murder by the Book, Houston
Australia(?) and Bastille – Murder by the Book, Houston
Mistborn – Murder by the Book, Houston
December: Death Without Pizza
I needed a break from all the other things I’ve been doing, so in classic Brandon style, I worked on something fresh and new to give myself a breather. This was where I was going to do Wax and Wayne Four, but doing Children of the Nameless meant that instead of three months extra space at the end of the year, I only had one month. (As CotN had taken one month to write, and one month to revise.) I had the choice of pushing back the start of Stormlight Four, or doing something else for this month and trying to sneak in W&W 4 sometime next year. I chose the latter. It’s important to me that I let myself do side projects to refresh myself—but I also think it’s important to keep to my Stormlight schedule. It would be too easy to keep putting off the big books until they stretch to years in the making. I told myself I was going to divide my time in half between Stormlight and other projects.
The truth is, I’m getting really anxious about getting back to Stormlight. That’s a very good sign, as once I finish a Stormlight book, I’m usually feeling quite burned out on the setting, and need a number of months to recover.
Anyway, that’s where the year went! Now, on to the exciting part. The big list of projects and updates to them.
Updates on Main Projects
Stormlight
As you just read about above, I am on track for starting this book on January first. I’ll begin with a reread of the first three books, as I find I need a periodic refresher, even on my own novels. This will also be important for helping me really nail down the outlines for books four and five.
As I’ve worked on the Stormlight series, I’ve shifted a lot of things around in the outlines. Famously, I swapped Dalinar’s book and Szeth’s book (making Book Three have Dalinar’s flashbacks instead of Szeth’s). But along the same lines, I moved a chunk of Book Three into Book Two, and then moved around smaller arcs for Three, Four, and Five.
The Stormlight series has a very odd structure. Each novel is outlined as a trilogy plus a short story collection (the interludes) and is the length of four regular books. This lets me play with narrative in some interesting ways—but it also makes each volume a beast to write. The other superstructure to the series is the spotlight on the ten orders of Radiants, with each book highlighting one of them while also having a flashback sequences for a character tied to one of those orders. If that weren’t complicated enough, the series is organized in two major five-book arcs.
What this means is that I need to do some extra work on books four and five, as they together tie off an arc. There are some small plot lines I’ve been pushing back from book to book as I nail down what each volume will include—but I can’t do that with Book Five, as it will be the capstone of this sequence. So I need the outlines to be tight to make certain I get everything into them that needs to be there.
Anyway, that’s a long way to say, essentially, I’ll start posting updates to the Stormlight subreddit in January, and you can follow along there or on the progress bar we’ll post here on my website on January first. I’ve commissioned a special piece of artwork to be used in Stormlight Four blog posts, which we should be able to reveal next year. (I’m pretty excited about it.) So you have that to look forward to as well!
Note that while I’m optimistic about this being my fall 2020 release, delays could happen if the book doesn’t come out smoothly on the first draft. I’ll keep you updated with regular posts. A lot will depend on how long the revisions take.
Status: Book Four is my main project for 2019, for an anticipated 2020/2021 release.
My big failure in 2018 was not getting to Wax and Wayne Four. But all is not lost! I am going to do whatever I can to squeeze this in next year. I’m feeling I might need a break in the middle of Stormlight Four, as I sometimes do. If so, I might squeeze this in there. But it will depend on a many factors. So, we’ll have to take a wait-and-see attitude.
I’m going to try to hold myself back from doing any other side projects, like Children of the Nameless or The Original from this year, until Wax and Wayne is finished. Book Four will be the conclusion of their story, and the wrap-up of era two of Mistborn. (And I have big things planned for Era Three, which I am planning to write between Stormlight Five and Stormlight Six.)
Status: Pushed off for now, but to be written very soon. No release date yet.
Book Two, Starsight, is done, and I’ll be noodling on revisions for it in the early part of next year while I write the Stormlight Four and Five outlines. It’s scheduled for October of next year.
Stormlight Four taking all of my 2019 will likely mean that Skyward Three won’t be written until 2020, for a spring 2021 release. (At least, that would be my best guess at this point.) So you’ll have a larger-than-usual wait between Books Two and Three, unless something happens to let me squeeze Book Three in early. As I mentioned above, it’s a four-book series, and when I get back to it, I anticipate doing Book Four soon after Book Three. (Like I did in writing Books One and Two very close to one another.)
Status: Book Two ready to go in 2019. Book Three likely in 2021, Book Four likely in 2022.
Death (Without Pizza)
A major bombshell update here: we have finished a first draft of this book! I’m moving this up to major projects, as I anticipate a release of this novel in the coming two years. It is a Dresden Files-esque urban fantasy series set in London, starring a necromancer. (With a very Sanderson-style take on necromancy.)
Many of you have been following along with this project, which I’ve mentioned for many years in the State of the Sanderson posts. I wrote a rough draft of a big chunk of this book back some years ago now, but didn’t like how it was going, so I shelved it. The idea stuck with me though—and I really wanted to give it another chance. Over the years, one part I didn’t like was actually the pizza aspect. The original pitch was for a pizza delivery man who became a necromancer.
Well, over the years, I found I wanted a stronger character for the protagonist. Starting with the title Death by Pizza had pushed me to make the story more jokey than I wanted, and had led me to cut corners on the worldbuilding in ways I didn’t like. So when I went back to the drawing board, I started going in different directions with the storytelling. A more intricate, interesting magic system. And a character with more heart. Where I eventually ended up going was studying metal music culture.
The subculture of heavy metal music is fascinating to me. I really like how passionate the fans are about it, and how often outsiders are wrong about those inside it. (Do a little reading on the topic, and you might find that a lot of your stereotypes of metal fans are wrong—like mine were. The more I read about and talked to metal fans, the more fascinated I became by the subculture.) It seemed to me that a metalhead who finds out he’s a necromancer could be a cool hook.
Well, around the time I was really getting into this, I was chatting with Peter Orullian, a novelist who is a friend of mine. He’s mostly known for his epic fantasy series The Vault of Heaven, but he also happens to be a metalhead and a musician. (He’s toured internationally fronting metal bands, and recently composed an entire rock opera in the style of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He’s even written a book with the band Dream Theater, in conjunction with one of their concept albums.)
Well, the match seemed perfect. He could bring the expertise on metal music, and I could provide the worldbuilding. So we jumped into a collaboration. I wrote out a lengthy world guide and outline, and Peter did a lot of experimenting to find the right voice for our character. We worked on the first volume all during the summer and fall, and the resulting book is quite promising. It’s the story of an American metal singer living in London whose day goes from bad to worse as he gets kicked out of his band, then makes his way to his favorite pub to lick his wounds—only to end up getting shot in the head during an apparent robbery. And after that, things start to go really badly for him.
Peter finished the first draft in November, and I’ve been spending my December doing a second draft. After that, I’ll kick it back to him for a third draft so that we can make sure our different voices are smoothed out. We’ll see where it goes from there! In any case, though, Death Without Pizza will not be the final title for the story. We’ll pick something a little less silly; I’m a little worried people will expect something over-the-top metal like Brütal Legend—which was great, but not the direction this story ended up going. Anyway, I’ll post updates as we go along!
Status: Being revised. After that, we’ll look for a publisher.
Updates on Secondary Projects
I’m moving this novella (which I don’t think I’ve mentioned before in a State of the Sanderson) into the Secondary Projects section. A while ago I had an idea for a story about a world where, if you committed a crime and went on the run for it, the government could create a clone of you (with your memories and personality) to hunt you down. After all, who better to hunt a criminal than a copy of that criminal? The copy would have strict controls in place so they could be killed by the government with the press of a button, but would be given the promise that they could take their Original’s place if they succeeded in hunting them down and killing them.
Earlier this year, the idea developed into a full-fledged outline, which I wrote out during time when I needed a break from other things. It worked out well, and so you might see progress on this in future years. Right now, I like the idea of doing it as an audio original, perhaps with a coauthor who is more experienced in audio or voice acting. So watch for updates here.
Status: Outlined.
The Apocalypse Guard
I do someday want to do something with this book. I’ve given it to Dan Wells, my long-time friend and sometimes partner in crime. He’s come back with some suggestions on how I could fix it, along with some brainstorming on where it could go as a series.
I’m going to give you fair warning, though. Every time Dan and I brainstorm together, weird things happen. Legion was the result of one of those sessions, as was Dan’s book I Am Not a Serial Killer. (Which you should all go read, if you haven’t.) The two of us are odd enough on our own, but together we’re downright strange. (You should see the two of us in role-playing sessions, where we constantly try to out-bizarre one another with our character concepts.)
I fully expect something to come out of The Apocalypse Guard sessions I’m doing with Dan, but…well, don’t expect it to be normal by any stretch of the word.
Status: In revisions, getting weirder.
I’ve been tweaking Alcatraz Six. I did a partial draft a few years ago that went off the rails, and this year, I trimmed that back with some help from a friend into the parts that worked. From there, we’ve been trying to figure out how to get Bastille’s character voice right. It’s moving. Slowly, but it’s moving. Book Six, written from Bastille’s viewpoint, will be the end of the series.
Now that Legion is done, the next series I want to make sure gets tied up is Alcatraz. It shouldn’t be too much longer.
Status: Book Six made some small progress this year.
Graphic Novel Two came out this year, and was very well received. (Save for the forced artist change, something I hated to have to do. That said, the new artist is doing a fantastic job.) Graphic Novel Three is the end of this sequence, and is well on its way to being completed.
The prose version is still available if you sign up for my mailing list. Though remember, we’ve made numerous updates to the story during the adaptation process.
I have no immediate plans to do sequels to this in graphic novel form, though you can expect stories set on Taldain to happen in the future.
Status: Final graphic novel is well under way. Release in 2019 or early 2020 likely.
Dark One
My outline for this drew a lot of buzz around both Hollywood and New York. The story, if you aren’t familiar with it, is about a young man in our world who discovers that a fantasy world has declared him to be the Dark One, and starts sending hit squads into our world to assassinate him. Pitched as “Harry Potter from Voldemort’s viewpoint,” the story follows this young man as he is forced to confront the possibility that he might do what the prophecies say.
We have a graphic novel in the works, and I’ve been doing pitches in Hollywood for a potential television show. So movement is certainly happening here.
Status: Going well. Might have art to show soon from the graphic novel.
Elantris, Warbreaker, Rithmatist
No updates from last year, I’m afraid. There was no intention to make progress on these this year. Once Alcatraz is wrapped up, I’ll turn my attention back to The Rithmatist as the last looming series that needs a wrap-up that hasn’t gotten one. Elantris and Warbreaker sequels aren’t to be expected until Stormlight Five and Wax and Wayne Four are done.
Status: Keep waiting. (Sorry again.)
Updates on Minor Projects
The Reckoners, Legion
These are both finished, and I don’t foresee any future updates anytime soon. Do note, however, that the Reckoners board game has been shipping, and it turned out great. You should soon have a chance to buy copies if you missed the Kickstarter, and I suspect there will be expansions in the future.
No change from last year. This space opera series of novellas is in limbo until I find the right time to work on them. It will happen eventually.
Status: No movement.
No motion on this space opera that I might rename Starburner once I get around to doing something with it. I have a cool worldbuilding document, but no novel specifically. I’ve been tempted to see if it would work for a video game setting.
Potential Cosmere Stories
Keep the following on your radar, as they may happen someday. However, as I’ll be knee-deep in Stormlight in 2019, don’t expect anything to happen on any of them until it is done. The list includes: Dragonsteel/Liar of Partinel, Sixth of the Dusk sequel, Silverlight novella, Threnody novel, Aether of Night, Silence Divine.
Movie/Television Updates
So, let’s talk about movies.
People tend to get really excited about news of my books being adapted—and rightly so. I’d be very excited to someday see one of my properties turn into a film, and I think it’s inevitable that some day, we’ll see it happen. However, the process of a book becoming a film or television show is a long one, involving the input of a lot of people. And fans tend to get very excited when something is being developed, but often don’t realize that the stages of development can often take a long time.
I thought it might be helpful here to go over what some of those steps are, so you can get a better idea of how far along my various properties are. Understand that this is a rough guide, and individual properties might follow a different route. This is also kind of an outsider’s take on it all, as I don’t consider myself an expert in Hollywood. Those who know more about the ins and outs of the business would probably consider this a gross over-simplification.
Step One: Producers Option a Story
In Hollywood terms an “option” is kind of like a rental agreement. The most common way a story starts on its path to an adaptation is with an option. (Sometimes, there’s even a step before this called a Shopping Agreement.) Basically, someone (usually a producer, but sometimes a studio) comes in and offers to pay an author every year to “option” their work, meaning the producer/studio gets exclusive rights to make a film on that work. They don’t buy the rights completely, however. Usually, they set a buyout price, then pay 5/10% of that price every year or so to keep the option locked up. This gives them time to put all the other pieces together for a film without needing to commit to paying the full buyout price until they’re certain the film is going to happen.
My agent once told me that about 1 out of 30 of the properties he saw get optioned eventually got made into a film or show. An option is absolutely an important step, but a lot of times fans see an option agreement in place and start expecting a film any day—when really, this is just the first exploratory step in the process. Sometimes, producers even option rights they never intend on making into films. (I once had a producer brag to me that he—in order to make sure nobody in town was trying to sell something similar to his property—had bought up all rights to similar books for cheap, with the intention of sitting on them for five years to make sure he didn’t have any competition. I was not impressed, to say the least.)
Step Two: Screenplay
Usually, after the option agreement is signed, a screenplay is commissioned for a film. For a television show, it will either be a screenplay for a pilot, or some kind of series bible or “treatment,” a kind of outline that talks about the process the group would use in adapting the property.
This screenplay, treatment, or bible is what the producers will take around town to try to get studios, directors, and actors interested in a property. A book being successful is interesting to Hollywood, but what they rightly want to see is if that book can be made into a workable screenplay. Often, this process takes years, as a screenplay/teleplay will be commissioned—then go through several rewrites. Sometimes, the producers will decide to hire a second or even third screenwriter to do a pass on the script, if they decide it needs another take or specific revisions.
Step Three: Studio Interest
With screenplay in hand, the producers will approach the studios or larger production companies. (Or sometimes content distributors, like Netflix.) The goal here is to get interest from parties with deep pockets and the power to actually make a film. This step can occasionally be skipped if a studio was involved from the beginning. (This has happened with several of my properties.) Sometimes, the studio might be interested—but send the producers back to step three to do more revisions before offering any kind of official deal or promise of distribution. Sometimes, the producers will need to secure promises from multiple parties—like, for instance, they might get a smaller studio in the US interested, then have to get a foreign partner interested to provide funding for overseas distribution promises.
Step Four: Attaching Talent
With a screenplay in hand and the backing of a studio or similar group, the producers can now try to get a director or actor on board with the film. This crucial step will have a big influence on how/if the film will get made. Obviously, if you get a major director interested, that makes the studios sit up and take notice. Likewise if a major actor attaches to the project. For television, this often involves getting an established show runner attached. (In my experience, with television, sometimes sort of thing happens in Step Two instead—with the showrunner being involved in the pitch documents. In that case, Step Three is the big one: getting someone big in the business to fund a pilot.)
Step Five: Actual Green Light
Finally, if all the pieces come together, you get what is called a green light. The film is scheduled for shooting, the studio commits a large chunk of money to the project, and people start getting hired. This is when the option actually gets exercised, and the author gets the payment for the contract they likely signed years and years ago. Once in a while, a group of producers will decide that the property they hold is big enough that (once their option period runs out) they decide to pay the buyout price to get more time to try to get the film made. Sometimes, instead, they’ll just agree with the author to extend the option period for another payment.
Step Six: Film Gets Made
I’ve never gotten here, but I hear it’s a lovely experience.
So, with that in mind, I can tell you where each of my properties are. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to name a lot of names. For instance, if a director is interested but hasn’t signed on officially, it’s not my place to announce them as being involved. Likewise, if some producers have offered to option something, but we don’t have signed paperwork, it’s generally best if I stay quiet about the details so that they can do publicity on the deal in the way they would like.
Anyway, here’s where we stand for each of my properties.
It might be odd to see this one at the top of the list, but I think right now the best chance we have at a film would be one based on my story Snapshot. MGM announced their option of the rights almost two years ago, which is great—because it meant that we already had studio backing, cutting out one of the steps in the process. The producers were impressive in their enthusiasm, and they jumped right into commissioning a screenplay with a very talented writer.
I’ve read the screenplay, and consider it the best I’ve ever read based on one of my books. It helps that Snapshot itself is a shorter work, more easily adapted to a film. The Snapshot screenplay is an improvement on my story in virtually every way, something that I discovered with both joy and a little bit of shame. (Really, the screenwriter did some things with the story I probably should have figured out myself.)
With this great screenplay, I hope there will be a lot more good news to share really soon.
The Cosmere
DMG Entertainment optioned the rights to the Cosmere, and they have been wonderful to work with. They commissioned screenplays for The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn, and The Way of Kings. They’re currently in Step Three above, trying to get studio interest for the properties. Mostly, they’ve been pitching Mistborn as a film series and The Way of Kingsas a television series.
Likely, the success of things like the new Lord of the Rings show and the Kingkiller Chronicle will influence how this goes in the future.
The Reckoners series was optioned some years ago now by 21 Laps, Shawn Levy’s company, using backing from Fox. We were happy when they renewed their option this past summer, as we weren’t certain what the status of this would be in light of the Fox–Disney merger. It seems they’re planning to take the Reckoners with them through the process, which is good news.
This was an exciting deal, as Mr. Levy has done some great work—including the film Real Steel, which was an excellent adaptation of the original story. (And, of course, he was heavily involved with Stranger Things on Netflix.) Beyond that, it came with the implicit promise of support from Fox, meaning that we could skip the “finding a studio” step. That said, this is still in the screenplay stage.
Stephen Leeds/Legion
The Stephen Leeds stories have recently been optioned for a television series by a new production company. This is the property’s third time being picked up for an option, so I’m hopeful we’ll make it work this time. I don’t believe the company has been announced officially yet, so we’ll hold off on mentioning them for now. But we’re probably in the middle of Step Two for this one.
Dark One, based on an outline and worldbuilding guide from me, is being shopped (in a Step Three kind of way) by a production company, with an impressive showrunner attached. Unfortunately, since none of this is completely announced yet, I need to remain quiet on how it is going other than to tell you where we are in the process.
Bonus Mention: The Wheel of Time
As The Wheel of Time does not belong to me, I like to be careful about what I do and say with it. I don’t want to overstep my bounds. But for those who haven’t been paying attention, this series has progressed into a full-blown green light at Amazon Studios—with actual episodes being written and filming soon starting.
I don’t know what role, if any, I’ll have in this. Like I said, I like to be respectful of Team Jordan. It’s not my place to try to muscle in and pretend I’m in charge. At the same time, I do think I could offer something to the production, and the showrunner (who is quite sharp) has reached out to me multiple times for conversations about the adaptation. I’m impressed with everything I see, and hope to at the very least be able to pop over to the set when filming happens and grab some photos for you all.
For most of my own properties, I’d say to not hold your breath. I think they’ll happen eventually, but you shouldn’t start to get hyped up until Step Five happens for something. Well, we’re past Step Five with the Wheel of Time, and you can officially begin to feel hyped. It’s actually happening, and it looks great so far.
Games and Other Licensed Work
I’m interested in doing some more video game work. Ever since I got to be part of the Infinity Blade games, I’ve had the itch to do this again. Right now though, there is nothing in the works that I can announce—I’ve had some short preliminary conversations with game studios, but no contracts. I’ll continue to look at doing this, and will announce what I can, when I think something might actually be happening.
Unfortunately, Mistborn: Birthright never came together. (Though I’m on very good terms with the folks there.) And you can ignore any rumors about CD Projekt Red. Some fans got hyped when I said I liked them as a studio—and some news sites even picked it up as a story, for some reason. But that was just me mentioning in a random post that I think they do good work. I’ve never met with them—or talked to them—and have no reason to believe they even know who I am.
Video games aside, we do have some exciting and fun licensed properties that we’ve been working on, and I figured I should have a section in the State of the Sanderson for updates on these.
We’ll keep looking at doing more board games. The Reckoners game, from Nauvoo Games, and Mistborn: House War, from Crafty Games—who also developed the Mistborn Adventure RPG—all of which turned out very well, and (equally important) were shipped in a reasonable timeframe to the backers on Kickstarter. We had a Stormlight game in the works, but have backed up a few steps on that one for various reasons. I hope to have one of those finished at some point. You may have seen my announcement from a few months ago, but we’ve partnered with Brotherwise Games to bring you the Call to Adventure: Stormlight expansion that should be out fall of 2019. I would also be interested in doing a deckbuilding card game based on my works eventually. (After all, you know how addicted I am to Magic: The Gathering.)
Badali Jewelry continues to do an excellent job creating a variety of awesome artwork pieces based on my various books. They approached me to do this way back when I was basically a nobody, and have been with me all this time, creating beautiful and detailed works.
Shire post, creator of many fantasy-themed coins for various different properties, did a very successful Kickstarter for Mistborn coinage, and I’m quite pleased with both their professionalism and artistry. We here at Dragonsteel did the designs so that they’d be 100% in continuity with the books. We’re looking at doing more with Shire Post in the future.
Black Piper’s Kaladin album has been shipping its physical rewards for backers, and are finishing up the last steps of their Kickstarter. I’m very pleased with the music, which you can find on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon MP3, and many other digital outlets. I think they did a great job, and suggest that it would make a great accompaniment to your next Stormlight reread. Due to the complexities of fitting in the album around the windows for some of our other licenses, if you’re interested in owning this we’d encourage looking at it before year-end.
We’ve recently partnered with Amazon to help bring you more apparel options. As of now, it’s the only place other than my website store to sell officially licensed clothing. And in the not-to-distant future we’re going to expand our selection to include hoodies and other things as time allows.
Projected Schedule of Releases
Starsight (Skyward Two): November 2019
White Sand Three: Sometime 2019–2020
Stormlight Four: Fall 2020
Skyward Three: 2021
Wax and Wayne Four: Sometime 2020 or 2021
Conclusion and TL;DR
Whew. That’s quite the list, eh? This post gets longer and longer each year. The short version is actually very simple. I’m dedicating most of my efforts to Stormlight Four next year, with occasional short deviations to work on Skyward or Mistborn.
Once again, thank you all for joining me on this journey.
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TV icon Norman Lear focus of ‘Detropia’ filmmakers–opens Friday
Arriving Friday at the Detroit Film Theatre, a documentary on TV auteur-turned-citizen-activist Norman Lear. Still going strong at 94, Lear is best known as the producer of game-changing sitcoms like “All in the Family,” “Maude,” “Good Times” and “The Jeffersons.”
The opening film of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and also part of this year’s Cinetopia International Film Festival in Detroit and Ann Arbor, filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (“Detropia,” the Oscar-nominated “Jesus Camp”) interviewed everyone from Mel Brooks to George Clooney for this fascinating documentary.
“Norman Lear-Just Another Version of You”: Aug. 5-7 at the Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dia.org, $11.50.
For an interview with these two filmmakers.
http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/2016/08/04/norman-lear-documentary-detroit-film-theatre-heidi-ewing-detropia/88065718/
Actor Anthony Mackie joins growing cast of Detroit 1967 riot film
Calendar: What’s happening in film in the Mitten State through August (at least as far as we know)
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Documentary is being made on Detroit’s monumental bankruptcy
Work is under way on “We Are Alive: A Grand Bargain for America’s City,” a feature-length documentary about Detroit’s bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history by debt, estimated at $18–20 billion
Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the city of Detroit’s filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the movie will follow the example of 2015’s “The Big Short” by telling a complex financial tale in a clear, gripping way.
Both inspiring and cautionary in detail, “We Are Alive: A Grand Bargain for America’s City,” could have a “canary-in-a-coal-mine” implications for the rest of the country.
Produced and directed by documentary filmmaker Sam Katz of the Philadelphia-based History Making Productions, Katz has an unusual combination of economic and creative expertise; he has worked for 25 years as a financial adviser to state and local governments.
Nathan Bomey, who covered the bankruptcy for the Free Press and went on to write the 2016 book “Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back.” is the film’s lead screenwriter.
Members of the “We Are Alive” production team have strong ties to Detroit. They include co-director James McGovern, associate producers Chastity Pratt Dawsey of Bridge Magazine (and formerly the Free Press) and WDET-FM’s Sandra Svoboda, and senior historical advisor Thomas Sugrue, the author of the influential book “The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.”
About 50 on-camera interviews have been done, with 50 to 75 to go, and will feature the perspectives of players, from big names like emergency manager Kevyn Orr, bankruptcy judge Steven Rhodes and Gov. Rick Snyder to numerous Detroit citizens — retirees, artists, activists and more — who were part of the effort that resulted in Detroit exiting bankruptcy in 2014.
How did Detroit go broke? The answers may surprise you. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2013/09/15/how-detroit-went-broke-the-answers-may-surprise-you-and/77152028/
“We Are Alive: A Grand Bargain for America’s City” expected to be completed by late 2019.
Flint Michigan Films announces downtown studio opening to tell more stories for Flint people by Flint people
All the Web’s abuzz about new version of RoboCop with Motor City serving as troubled setting
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As a kid, I had a hard time reading. I really did. I used to struggle with my reading. But now I have this ability to look at things differently as a result of what I thought was a handicap. Now it's really a strength.
A'ight. Let's jump in this thing.
Now as a result of what I thought was a handicap, I just get these random thoughts popping in my head, and people like them. It's dope, like for instance.
Why are stay-at-home moms always gone?
If we only use 10% of our brain, how do we know that we're only using 10% of our brain?
Is the word "tofu" short for "trying to fool you"?
Is it okay to re-gift a gift card as long as there's still a little something on it?
When it comes to sharks, what's so great about the white ones? Dun, dun dun, dun dun, dun dun. (Shark warning music)
85% of people admit they're not good at math. I'm glad I'm part of the other 22%.
Do vegetarians really love animals as much as I do? I could eat them up.
Can I call a white duck a "Quacker"? I know. Only a white duck can call a white duck a quacker.
Should you tell people you go to private school?
If you're attracted to someone of a different nationality, are you having mixed feelings?
Why is "Abbreviation" such a long word?
Is it considered natural childbirth if the baby comes out with an Afro?
I met a woman who had one callous on her foot. Does that I met a unicorn?
If you say that somebody is unbelievable, are you technically calling them a liar?
What do you say when an atheist sneezes? "Good luck with that, dog."
Why are there no mirrors in the self-checkout?
For every single person subscribed, a child in Africa ... don't nothing happen.
When someone from Mexico visits America, do their friends say to them, "Whatever you do, be sure to drink the water."
If I had a nickel for every time somebody told me my math was wrong, I'd have $2.83.
When you buy a guitar, does it come with a free pair of skinny jeans?
I think sometimes, people take marble for granite.
I noticed that no one seems to care about the outer city youth.
If a woman gets pregnant in Vegas, does the baby have to stay there?
If God clapped his hands, wouldn't that make a big bang?
We all have some sort of setbacks. What I like to say is that your setback is part of your set-up, so you can deliver what you're called to deliver. So if you just recalibrate and look at it differently, you're probably gone pull some strength from that thing. I love you. I'm out.
$100 Made in One Day
I'm about to tell you how I made $100 in one day when I was 11 years old.
Growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it's kind of cold outside during the winter. And by the way, growing up, we didn't have a lot of money. We had no money. I was actually being sponsored by a family from Haiti.
So it's December, it's Michigan. Normally, you've got five feet of snow. For some reason it was 35 degrees. I even pulled my bike out.
Let me tell you about my bike. It was really a Schwuffy. Half Schwinn, half Huffy. It was a bike that I kind of put together. Back wheel was a 26-inch dirt bike wheel. But inside of it was a 29-inch 10-speed inner tube. And then if I did a catwalk long enough, the ride would be really smooth.
Every once in a while my chain would pop. Most of the time you've got your right leg in the air, you're putting all this pressure on the pedal trying to catch up with your friends who've got really good bikes. And then the chain, boom, comes loose from the sprocket. But you don't have enough time to react. Both of your feet hit the ground. And you're lucky if you've got a boy's bike because now you've got that bar to catch you. In retrospect, I'm just amazed that I've got kids right now!
Then my cousin comes over on a BMX Predator, completely chrome. It had snake-belly tires on it that were red. When the tires would roll, it would hum at everybody like, "Oooh, look at me. Look at me. Look at me."
His bike was so awesome. Kids were lining up so they could lay down and just see the predator fly over them. Everybody would be under the bike like, "Whoa." Bang. I got on my bike, on the Schwuffy, all the kids scattered like roaches when you turn on the lights. Nobody was there. Ain't no ice cream truck. Where you all going?
I said, “you know what, enough is enough.” I scrumbled up the courage ... Scrumble's a word, you just gotta look it up. But not right now because you might get confused. I scrumbled up the courage to approach my dad, "Excuse me, father." That's what I would say whenever I had a request.
"I want you to buy me a Predator."
My dad was like, "How much is a Predator?"
A Predator was $200 at the time. And when he was done laughing he said to me, "If you want that bike, here's what you do. If you come up with half the money, I'll put in the other half, and you can get the bike."
I'm 11 years old. Something welled up in a brother like, "We about to do this thing!"
The next day I wake up, it's seven inches of snow outside. I start knocking on doors and asking people if they want their snow shoveled. I went next door to this lady who was 97 years old.
I'm like, "Excuse me, ma'am. Would you like me to shovel your snow for you?"
She said, "Yes I would."
I had on the snowsuit, so I'm shoveling, shoveling, got all of the snow off, knocked on her door, and for real, she gave me 60 cents and an orange.
Here's what I learned, you gotta negotiate beforehand. Get my shovel, go to the next houses. I'm out all day. I come home exhausted. And I made $91.
I remember my dad looking at me saying, "You know what, son, that's close enough. Tomorrow we're gonna go get that bike you want."
And the first thing I thought and said to my dad was, "I ain't spending all this money on no bike. I worked too hard for this money."
My dad looked at me, he was like, "Exactly."
I took $20 of that money and I put it on my Schwuffy. I got a brand-new inner tube. I fixed some brakes on the back of that thing. And the bike was so much better. In fact, Devon challenged me to a race, the whole neighborhood was there. We raced around the block. Guess what happened? Yeah, that dude smoked me like it didn't make sense. He literally ran circles around me. My chain popped two times. It was really bad. And I understood from that point on, the more work I put in to what I already had, the more valuable it became.
So here's what I want you to run with. What do you have already around you that if you put more work into it, it will become more valuable? Now I'm not just talking about things. I'm specifically talking about relationships. If you spend all your time on social media, flipping through Instagram and Facebook and whatnot, what you're really doing is you're looking at somebody else's grass noticing how green it is. And in doing so, you're not watering your own grass. A bird in the bush is better than two hands. You know what I'm talking about.
Marry Me...at a Comedy Show?
We’re in Anaheim, we finish up the show, people are buying merchandise, and I sometimes do an autograph line. I notice this dude standing over to the side. He's just holding people's coats and their jackets. He's just being a really nice dude.
While I'm talking to him like, "Hey man, who's the cute little girl? Is this your daughter?"
He's says "Ah no, that's my girlfriend's daughter?"
So I'm like, "Yo, how long you been going out?"
He says, "10 months."
And I could see by looking at this beautiful little girl, that she's really attached to this guy. Anyway, I know this is going to be weird for some people because I don't even know this dude's first name yet, but I feel like I'm supposed to challenge him.
So, I pull him to the side and say, "Hey man, I understand kids and that little girl, in her eyes, you're her dad. I think you need to step up and marry this little girl's mom or get out the way so whoever her husband is, he can show up."
Dude looks at me kind of startled and he said, "I want to marry her, I just don't know what to do." I was like, "I got another show, you got a ring?"
So, I'm sitting with my team and we're kinda cultivating the plan because it could get messed up -- like it's happened before. I don't wanna get too far into this without knowing for sure if Jamie is still onboard or not. So I give Jamie a call.
I tell him, “I just wanted to make sure you're making a decision based off of just how you feel like it should happen.”
Jamie tells me,” So yeah, I'm nervous. I feel like I wanna throw up, but I think that's how I'm supposed to feel.”
That's what he feels like, but he loves her though.
Now when you come up with a plan like this, you gotta get the audience thinking in one direction and then when you change that direction in a way they're not expecting, boom! It makes the biggest impact.
Now I'm excited about the marriage. I'm excited about the proposal, but at the same time, there's like two thousand people here, so I wanna make sure everybody's getting what they want.
So, I’m telling Jamie on the phone, “We're gonna set it up so she has no idea. I can't really pull you away from her during the show because it'll make her think that there's something sneaky going on.”
Jamie: “Right.”
Me: “So what we're gonna do is we're gonna have probably three couples come up on stage.”
Why am I bringing up three decoy couple? Well, actually it's just two decoy couples and then the real couple. Let me explain. At a comedy show, on the stage, with a microphone, if you bring a couple up and people know they're girlfriend and boyfriend, everybody will jump the punchline. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring three couples up, then that way, nobody has any idea what's going on including Jamie’s fiancé, Allison.
Alright, here's how we’re gonna use these decoy couples. I'm putting the audience under the impression that I'm just bringing them up because they were at a different show and they were moved by it because again, at my shows, there's funny, but the name of my recent tour is called, More Than Funny. So I want to talk to these couples and see how they might have been inspired or whatever. What I'm really doing is I'm creating a pattern in the audience's mind, also in Allison's mind, on how this works. So first thing I do is I talk to the woman, right? And then I talk to the guy and ask, “is there anything you wanna say to your wife?” I established that with couple number one. Move to couple number two, talk to the lady and then say to the guy again, "Is there anything you wanna say to her?" Boom! He says what he has to say and the pattern is set in the audience’s mind, but in Allison's mind as well. Now, it's time to talk to the real folks.
So here's the thing, I clearly told Jamie, we gonna have three couples up. Couples, meaning two adults. Jamie brings up the little girl. What is the little girl doing on stage? I don't understand! The plan was clear. It's a couple, not a “trouple.” Don't get me wrong, I love kids. In fact, I used to be one. But kids are unpredictable. You don't know what they're gonna do, how they're gonna respond.
Speaker 1: So what'd you think about the message there?
Allison: He's hard to receive. He doesn't receive things well, but the message that you gave him, just shook him and the way he received it, had an impact on me. So it helped me receive ...
So at this point I can clearly tell, by the look in Allison's eyes, she has no idea what's going on. I'm also doing the math on the audience and they don't have a clue either. Now, the question is, because Jamie is still looking a little nervous, is he gonna follow the instructions? Our biggest punchline, our truest punchline is for that brother to bend the knee and drop down.
I look at Jamie and say, “So, we've gotten to the message and what we talked about, is there anything that you wanna say to her?”
Jamie: “Yeah.”
Jamie says, “Can I marry you and your mom?”
Little girl, “Mm-hmm” (affirmative).
Jamie: “Can I be your daddy forever?”
Little girl: “Uh huh.”
Jamie to Allison: “Will you marry me?”
Allison: “Yes!”
For clarity, I'm the one who told him that he should bring the little girl. It was my idea. I just ... Yeah.
Yo, one of the things I enjoy most about this story is the fact that Jamie, admitting that he was fearful, he didn't know exactly what it was gonna look like, decided to step up and do what he knew was right. He decided, "Yep, I'm gonna be a husband. I'm gonna be a father to some people who really need me and who I care for." I have a heart for fathers and even kids who don't necessarily have a father around. Fellas, in what area, what relationships are you in right now that you're not stepping up and being fully committed to and what can you do to turn that around? How you wanna live? You wanna live with fear? Or you wanna live bigger, you wanna step out there and get it done? I'm out.
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16 New ‘Sky High’ Character Profiles
16 New Sky High Character Profiles
We've got your first look at some character profiles from the upcoming Disney adventure, Sky High. The film comes to theaters on July 29th and stars Kelly Preston, Lynda Carter, Michael Angarano, Danielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bruce Campbell, Dave Foley, Steven Strait and Kurt Russell.
CLICK HERE for access to the high or low-res version of our new 'Character Profiles' image gallery!
When you're the son of the world's most legendary superheroes The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), there is only one school for you - Sky High, an elite high school that is entrusted with the responsibility of molding today's power-gifted students into tomorrow's superheroes. The problem is that Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano) is starting with no superpowers of his own and, worst of all, instead of joining the ranks of the Hero class, he finds himself relegated to being a "Sidekick." Now he must somehow survive his freshman year while dealing with an overbearing gym coach (Bruce Campbell), a bully with super speed and an dangerous rebel with a grudge (and the ability to shoot fire from his hands)... not to mention the usual angst, parental expectations and girl problems that accompany teenage life. But when an evil villain threatens his family, friends and the very sanctity of Sky High, Will must use his newfound superpowers to save the day and prove himself a Hero worthy of the family tradition.
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‘Bad Lieutenant: Special Edition’ Brings the Action Back to DVD on July 28th
Bad Lieutenant: Special Edition Brings the Action Back to DVD on July 28th
You can bring a 1992 Harvey Keitel classic back home on DVD this July. Bad Lieutenant: Special Edition will come back to DVD on July 28. This new DVD will be priced at $19.98 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The film stars Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo and Paul Calderone.
Keitel is a nameless New York cop, hopelessly addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex. As he makes his way to various crime scenes, he is concerned only with taking bets from his fellow cops on the outcome of the ongoing National League playoffs. As his bad decisions drive him deeper into debt, his life becomes a surreal hell, with a constant intake of crack, coke, heroin, and booze eroding what remains of his sanity. An investigation into the rape of a nun leads to his spiritual breakdown at the church crime scene, where he sees Jesus and the road to his salvation. This gutsy, highly original tale is one of Ferrara's most perfectly realized films and a pinnacle in the career of Keitel, whose performance transcends the screen in its sheer bravery.
Audio commentary with Director Abel Ferrara and Director of Photography Ken Kelsch
- New retrospective documentary featuring exclusive interviews with the cast and crew.
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‘Borat’ Prank Caused Pamela Anderson & Kid Rock's Divorce According to Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat Prank Caused Pamela Anderson & Kid Rock's Divorce According to Sacha Baron Cohen
— May 31st, 2019
Borat was the straw that broke the camel's back for Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock. Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 mockumentary comedy is still shrouded in mystery after all of these years, but in a new interview, the comedian has started to pull back the curtain a bit. He now admits that Anderson was in on the gag from the start and the only one in the movie who was. This has been speculated for years, but the former Baywatch star would never confirm.
Another thing that has been speculated about for years is whether or not Borat was the cause of Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock's marriage ending. Now, Sacha Baron Cohen is confirming that it really was. At the time, tabloids widely reported Kid Rock was not happy with Anderson after seeing the movie for the first time where he reportedly said, "You're nothing but a whore! You're a slut! How could you do that movie?" This has never been confirmed to be true, but Baron says the movie was the end of their relationship. He said that he texted Anderson afterwards and got this response.
"How did it go? What did he think? And she texted back, 'He's getting divorced.' I was like, why? And she goes, 'The movie.' And I thought it was a joke, but then a few weeks later they got divorced and they put as a reason for divorce, Borat."
Sacha Baron Cohen is still highly secretive when it comes to answering questions about how he makes his projects and what goes on behind-the-scenes. However, after talking about Pamela Anderson's divorce, he finally revealed that she was in on the joke the whole time, "Otherwise it would have been kidnapping," says Cohen. He then went into details about how it all went down on the set.
As it turns out, they had to shoot the Pamela Anderson scene twice because Sacha Baron Cohen wasn't able to get the reaction he wanted initially. On the second attempt, the crowd ran after them, but Anderson accidentally "clipped her jaw," according to Cohen. The comedian had this to say about Anderson's cameo and the first time they shot it.
"And we did that scene twice, actually. The first time we did it at a book signing and I grabbed her over my shoulder and ran out with her and no one did anything. I was like, 'what kind of fans are these?'"
Sacha Baron Cohen laughs about the situation now and says Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock, who he mistakenly called Tommy Lee, weren't a good couple anyway. "She lost two things. One, she lost a tiny bit of bone from her jaw," Cohen said. He then concluded by saying, "And secondly, she lost a husband." The interview with Cohen is from an upcoming podcast from The Daily Beast, which premieres in full next Tuesday on the site.
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CONTEST: Win ‘That 70's Show: Season 2’ on DVD!
CONTEST: Win That 70's Show: Season 2 on DVD!
In celebration of the second season of the beloved Fox TV series, That 70's Show, coming to DVD in it's second season, we're giving away copies of the set to some lucky MovieWeb readers!
CLICK HERE to enter our contest today!
CLICK HERE for more info on the disc plus some new clips from the set!
Far out! The hilarious hit TV series is back for a second spin on DVD with the debut of Carsey Werner's "THAT ‘70s SHOW" THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON, arriving April 19, 2005 as a must-own 4-disc DVD set from Fox Home Entertainment. Showcasing a hilarious all-star ensemble cast including Ashton Kutcher
(Just Married), Topher Grace (In Good Company), Wilmer Valderrama (Party Monster),
Mila Kunis (Tony ‘n' Tina's Wedding & "Family Guy"), Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith, Don Stark and many more, the acclaimed show follows the lives of high school friends and their growing pains throughout the grooviest decade ever. Spotlighting all 26 episodes from season two, and featuring second season cast-member Tommy Chong (After Hours), "THAT ‘70s SHOW" THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON offers never before aired bonus material including optional commentary, six behind-the-scenes featurettes, and overview featurettes for Season One and Season Two. "THAT ‘70s SHOW" THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON is priced at $49.98 US/$69.98 Canada and Prebook is March 23, 2005.
Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom starring Ashton Kutcher (Just Married, Dude, Where's My Car? and TV's "Punk'd") and Topher Grace (In Good Comany ). For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric's basement, life in the '70s isn't always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they've learned one thing for sure: they'll always get by with a little help from their friends.
DVD Special Features:
"THAT ‘70s SHOW" THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON four-disc set is fully-loaded with six never before aired featurettes, as well as two season overview featurettes including "Season One: A Look Back" and an exclusive interview with director David Turner in "Season Two: A Talk with Director David Trainer." The series is presented with English subtitles and English Dolby Surround. The following is the breakdown for each disc:
- "Garage Sale"
- "Red's Last Day"
- "The Velvet Rope"
- "Laurie and the Professor"
- "Halloween" with optional commentary by Director David Trainer
- "Vanstock"
- "I Love Cake"
- "Season One: A Look Back" featurette
- "Sleepover"
- "Eric Gets Suspended"
- "Red's Birthday"
- "Laurie Movies Out"
- "Eric's Stash"
- "Hunting" with optional commentary by Director David Trainer
- "Red Gets A Job"
Disc Three:
- "Burning Down The House"
- "The First Time"
- "Afterglow"
- "Kitty and Eric's Night Out"
- "Parents Find Out"
- "Kiss Of Death"
- "Kelso's Serenade"
- Behind the Scenes Featurette: "Kelso's Serenade"
Disc Four:
- "Jackie Moves On"
- "Holy Crap!"
- "Red Fired Up"
- "Cat Fight Club" with optional commentary by Director David Trainer
- Moon Over Point Place
- Behind the Scenes Featurette: "Jackie Moves On"
- Behind the Scenes Featurette: "Holy Crap!"
- Behind the Scenes Featurette: "Red Fired Up"
- Behind the Scenes Featurette: "Cat Fight"
- Behind the Scenes Featurette: "Moon Over Point Place"
- "Season Two: A Talk With Director David Trainer
Carsey-Werner has been one of the leading independent studios and worldwide suppliers of programming for over 20 years. With current hit, "That '70s Show" and a library of classics that include: "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne," "3RD Rock From The Sun," and past hits such as, "Grounded For Life," " A Different World," "Grace Under Fire," "Cybill," and "Cosby," Carsey-Werner programs are seen in over 175 countries and heard in 50 different languages.
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Director Joseph Kosinski Talks ‘Oblivion’ Casting and Story Details
Director Joseph Kosinski Talks Oblivion Casting and Story Details
/oblivion-trailer-starring-tom-cruise/Last weekend, Universal Pictures debuted the Oblivion trailer to much fanfare. People seemed to really dig the look and style of this sci-fi epic starring Tom Cruise as a trash collector on a decimated, abandoned earth. Joseph Kosinski is directing the movie from his own original idea, and he recently paid MTV a visit, to chat about the story and the casting.
The movie is based on a graphic novel that Joseph Kosinski concocted during the writers' strike of the late 00s. Here, he tells how it all came together.
"I started writing this small character-driven science fiction story that was in the vein of those science fiction films of the 1970s that involved this lone survivor among the ruins of civilization, like The Omega Man or Silent Running...It was kind of in that vein. I thought if it was going to be my first movie it would have to be something very small and contained in order to even get a chance at pulling it off. So it's the story of a drill repair man, Jack Harper, who is one of the last human beings left on earth after a massive war, which was the result of an alien invasion. Even though humankind won the war, Earth was left in such a state that we had to look for another place to settle, and Jack is left behind to monitor and secure the resource gathering operation that's happening where we're gathering the last bit of energy out of the earth's seawater in order to move onto the next step.
[The graphic novel] was the original treatment, the story. At the time I was ready to turn it into a screenplay, WGA went on strike and we couldn't actually hire a screenwriter to work on a screenplay at that point. So in order to keep the process moving forward I teamed up with Radical Comics to develop and illustrate a novel in parallel based on this story. And we did that over a couple years, and then I got pulled into Tron: Legacy which was a couple years, and as Tron: Legacy was in post [production] I had enough between the story and the illustrations I had done with Andre, the artist, I had enough of a package to go out and set the project up at a studio which is what I did. And then I went into feature mode so, we never actually finished the graphic novel because once it got picked up I realized that the way I wanted this story to be experienced was on the big screen and not out of the book."
The director also talked about getting Tom Cruise to sign on as Jack Harper.
"It was our final Comic-Con for Tron: Legacy, and while I was showing the big Comic-Con trailer and we were doing our big song and dance for Tron: Legacy, I was also launching an ashcan for Oblivion, which was just kind of like an introductory chapter with eight images at the Radical [Comics] booth. And the day after I got back from Comic-Con, I got a call from Tom's agent saying that Tom had seen the ashcan and wanted to meet me and talk to me about it. I went over and met him at his hanger and I pitched him the full story 'cause he had just read that introductory beat, there wasn't a script at that point it was a story in my head. And I pitched him the whole story over about two hours and at the end of the meeting he said, 'Let's do this. I want to do this. I want to do this movie with you.' ... The role fits him like a glove. I just can't imagine anyone else playing this character."
He also hinted at what is not in the trailer.
"I think the trailer does a good job at hinting that the film does have a number or twists and turns and there are hard questions being asked and there is a character who is under pressure. But I don't really want to say much more than that as to what the plot of the movie is."
To read more from Joseph Kosinski about his original sci-fi epic Oblivion: CLICK HERE You can also watch the Oblivion trailer again, or maybe you missed it because you had better things to do last Saturday. It's quite amazing.
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‘Sushi Girl’ Blu-ray Trailer
Sushi Girl Blu-ray Trailer
— February 5th, 2013
Magnolia Home Entertainment has released the Blu-ray trailer for Sushi Girl, which debuts on Blu-ray and DVD February 19. Noah Hathaway stars as Fish, who spent six years in prison after a robbery gone bad, never once spilling about his friends who were also there. Upon his release, he reunites with his partners in crime over a meal of sushi, served off the body of a subservient, naked girl. Before long, tempers flare, with the others wanting to know where Fish hid their missing loot all those years ago. Take a look at the first footage from this crime thriller, also starring Mark Hamill, Tony Todd, James Duval, and Sonny Chiba.
Fish has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery, about the other men involved. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl seems cationic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Sure enough, the four unwieldy thieves can't help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot.
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Timothy Olyphant Is Set to Make ‘A Perfect Getaway’!
Timothy Olyphant Is Set to Make A Perfect Getaway!
— January 16th, 2008
Timothy Olyphant, who starred in HBO's Deadwood, will now star in the action packed thriller A Perfect Getaway. According to Variety, the film is about a newlywed couple that has the misfortune of encountering two strange hikers.
David Twohy, whose film credits include The Fugitive, is taking on the role of both screenwriter and director of this film. It will be produced by Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh with Tucker Tooley and Robbie Brener. MGM is lined up to distribute the action thriller.
A Perfect Getaway begins shooting March 17th on location in Puerto Rico.
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Home » Musicians » Lucinda Williams
Three-time Grammy Award winner, Lucinda Williams has been carving her own path for more than three decades now. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Williams had been imbued with a “culturally rich, economically poor” worldview. Several years of playing the hardscrabble clubs gave her a solid enough footing to record a self-titled album that would become a touchstone for the embryonic Americana movement – helping launch a thousand musical ships along the way.
While not a huge commercial success at the time Lucinda Williams (aka, the Rough Trade album) retained a cult reputation, and finally got the reception it deserved upon its reissue in 2014. Jim Farber of New York’s Daily News hailed the reissue by saying “Listening again proves it to be that rarest of beasts: a perfect work. There’s not a chord, lyric, beat or inflection that doesn’t pull at the heart or make it soar.”
For much of the next decade, Williams moved around the country, stopping in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, and turning out work that won immense respect within the industry (winning a Grammy for Mary Chapin Carpenter’s version of “Passionate Kisses”) and a gradually growing cult audience. While her recorded output was sparse for a time, the work that emerged was invariably hailed for its indelible impressionism — like 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which notched her first Grammy as a performer.
The past decade brought further development, both musically and personally, evidenced on albums like West (2007), which All Music Guidecalled “flawless…destined to become a classic” and Blessed (2011), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed “a dynamic, human, album, one that’s easy to fall in love with.” Those albums retained much of Williams’ trademark melancholy and southern Gothic starkness, but also exuded more rays of light and hope. This all lead to the 2014 release of Williams’ first double studio album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone. The album received overwhelming praise from the media and fans, thus proving that Williams’ songwriting is as strong and important as it has ever been.
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Posts Tagged ‘All the Birds Singing’
Posted in Literary Festivals, Sydney Writers' Festival, tagged All the Birds Singing, Evie Wyld, SWF, SWF2015 on May 19, 2015| 4 Comments »
The theme of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival is ‘how to live’, and this question came up in an unexpected way in Evie Wyld’s conversation with Clementine Ford about All the Birds, Singing (my review here), winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award. It is the story of Jake, who lives on an island off the coast of the UK. Jake has a herd of sheep and something (or someone), some monster, is eviscerating her flock. It’s a powerful book, and I admired the craft Wyld displays throughout, from the opening scene of another dead sheep right through to the gripping and wonderful final pages.
The structure of the novel is a split narrative, with one arc of chapters moving forward while the other arc moves backward to a cataclysmic event in Jake’s childhood. Wyld was asked how she devised this structure. She said she works in a ‘messy way’, and didn’t plan the structure from the start. Rather, she wrote about 60,000 words, looked at what she had, and, in an organic process, rearranged things as the idea for the structure took hold. It was the best form to tell the story she had. In this way, form meets and matches the needs of the story.
For her, writing is about what you decide to leave out, (which has been on my mind after my recent reading of Favel Parrett’s When the Night Comes), and also what the reader brings to the table. She likes writing ‘echoes’ that the reader doesn’t pick up right away. She said she receives some rather pointed emails from readers asking for exact clarification of the ending of the novel, but even with these emails, which she quite welcomes, she is of a mind to trust the reader to complete the story in their own mind. As for her, there are some days she thinks ‘X’ happens at the end, while other days she sees something else. For her, the best monster or ghost stories are the ones in which you don’t find out the absolute full story about the monster. Not surprisingly, she is a ‘big fan of open endings’, preferring a story to trail after you when you’ve finished it, leaving you with that after-taste you can’t shake.
Ford raised the topic of the misogyny in the book, with the ‘suffocation of being a woman’ captured well. Wyld said she is quite angry about the objectification of young girls, their sexualisation, and the ‘apologetic’ female experience. However, the cruel men in the story were not born monsters, they were damaged at some point and became monsters. Of course, sometimes this damage is self-inflicted, and as one audience member noted, the story for her was about Jake’s guilt, a point I agreed with.
The gender discussion delved further into the sort of pressure and resistance female authors have when writing male characters as opposed to when male authors write female characters, and also about the average male response to finding Wyld’s book in her London bookstore: ‘I’ll buy it for my wife/girlfriend’, rather than ‘I’ll buy it for myself’. I don’t doubt all these problems, but as a male reader who bought the book for myself, I felt a bit lost. But I guess that (hopefully) makes be, um, not average? (Sadly, by the standards set by the men in this story and with violence against women such a problem in society generally, it seems this isn’t too difficult.)
Interestingly, when Ford said it was a ‘lingering’ book, and wanted to know whether it lingered for Wyld herself, Wyld said ‘I absolutely hated it when I finished. I was embarrassed by it.’ She said you ‘feel a disappointment when you finish a book’ because you wanted it to be X and it turned out to be Y. She thought it was so bad she had trouble giving it to her editor to read, and thought it wouldn’t amount to anything(!).
One audience member asked her how to go about writing strong female characters, and she made the point that you wouldn’t set out to write strong male characters, you would just write a male character, a real person. That in essence is what a writer should do when creating a female character, ‘simply’ create a person, write them as neither good nor evil, strong or weak, but merely human.
Wyld said she is a huge fan of Tim Winton and, like him, found it easier to write about Australia when overseas (she lives in London). Australia, a place she spent many years in as a child, is a place of nostalgia for her, something that clearly comes through in her writing.
Right at the end of the session, Wyld said she started the story after reading about the infamous Parker-Hulme murder in New Zealand, committed in 1954 by two girls aged 15 and 16, which the movie Heavenly Creatures is based on. Because they were so young, when found guilty the girls ‘went to juvi’, basically a slap on the wrist, and then moved separately to the UK. One lives on an island with some cattle, and has become religious. The other also moved to the UK, changed her name and is now a very successful novelist(!) and is also now very religious. The question came to Wyld: what happens if you’re an atheist and do something unforgivable? Who can forgive you? Can you forgive yourself? How do you live? This was perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the talk, as the question of where authors get the germ of an idea for a book always interests me. And it very aptly dovetailed with the theme of this year’s festival.
On that note, bring on the rest of the festival!
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Posted in Reviews, tagged After the Fire a Still Small Voice, All the Birds Singing, Evie Wyld on September 25, 2013| 20 Comments »
Something, or someone, is chasing Jake Whyte, hounding her, haunting her. When we meet her she’s living on a remote farm on an unnamed UK island, her only company a dog named Dog and a herd of sheep. A loner, her only interaction with the locals is gained at the shop or with the one neighbour she speaks to, an older man named Don. She is also an outsider, having come from the equally remote Australian north (Darwin, Port Hedland, Marble Bar, and before that Queensland).
Told in first person, the story opens with the horrible death of one of her sheep:
Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding. Crows, their beaks shining, strutting and rasping, and when I waved my stick they flew into the trees and watched, flaring out their wings, singing, if you could call it that. I shoved my boot into Dog’s face to stop him from taking a string of her away with him as a souvenir, and he kept close by my side as I wheeled the carcass out of the field and down into the woolshed.
I love the way Wyld uses the bird call/singing motif throughout the story. More on that later, but note the lovely use of the word ‘wheeled’ here, which is usually used in describing a bird’s flight, how Wyld attaches it to Jake instead, how birds are almost a part of her. This is important because while the sheep are being picked off by some creature or person unknown, Jake is fleeing from something else too, some unspeakable event in her past that has scarred her both physically and mentally.
Wyld grew up in rural New South Wales but has spent her adult life in the UK and identifies as British. Earlier this year she was part of the fourth Granta list of 20 Best British Writers under 40. She won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her fabulous debut After the fire a still small voice, which I read recently (not reviewed here). After the fire used a split narrative to good effect in a story that focussed on successive generations of men from the same Australian family, two of whom had been scarred by the horrors of war. There was a palpable sense of loss and pain in that work, and they are again in evidence here, in spades, along with another split narrative, albeit one with a different flavour. (There is another, more subtle link between the two books, but to tell would spoil things for you!)
All the birds, singing flits back and forth, chapter by chapter, between the present in the UK and Jake’s troubled past in Australia. What’s unique about the chapters set in Australia is that they are presented in reverse chronological order. The book’s second chapter is Jake as a shearer on a remote station in the Kimberly region of north-west Australia, and ends with her wanting to escape, fearing that whatever is chasing her has found her. Subsequent Australian chapters travel back toward adolescence, with horrors mounting toward the unspeakable event from which she is running. The structure is beautifully conceived and impressively executed.
Meanwhile, back in the present, another loner enters Jake’s life. He is Lloyd, who is travelling to the four corners of the UK in order to distribute the ashes of someone or something that was dear to him. Of course, Jake wants to get rid of him, but events conspire to prevent this. Together they are forced to confront both present and past.
When you take on a structure like this you need to be in full control and Wyld is precisely that. Her prose is precise; nothing is wasted. The way she works together details of past and present, all the subtle touch-points, is marvellous. One example is the way Jake always picks out the birds she sees, together with their calls (or silences); they are present from the opening paragraph; and these calls gradually build into the event in her past that caused them all the sing together.
There’s some lovely wordplay; at one point Jake hears someone say ‘carry-on’, but although she hears it correctly, she instantly thinks of ‘carrion’. It’s not wordplay for the sake of it—it serves to reinforce the bird motif and the theme of death/loss all in one go. It’s wonderful writing, beautiful ‘craft’.
Wyld knows how to write pain and loss. She also knows her characters intimately. Their voices are utterly believable, from the rough and ready Aussie shearers, the terrifying old Otto, all the way through to the well-educated but somewhat uncertain Lloyd. Jake’s voice is finely honed; it (almost imperceptibly) changes from adult to teenager the further back in time we travel.
The troubled relationship Jake has with her family is deftly constructed and provides a further unsettling tone. We wonder throughout why her sister Iris can’t abide Jake, and why Jake hasn’t called home in so long she’s unaware of her father’s death in an unspecified ‘accident’ at his place of work. The climax packs a real punch, but it’s deepened when you finish and think back on some of these minor things, which are thrown into a new light.
Wyld captures the landscapes beautifully, and smells both good and bad are a real feature of her writing. The difference between the UK’s cold, bleak hills to baking hot north-west Australia with all its flies and deadly animals is stark:
Wet wool and rain-dampened sheep shit were aliens to the dust-dry smell of the carpet sheep in their wide red spaces back home. The land [in the UK]… seemed to be watching me, feeling my foreignness in it, holding its breath…
The vast difference highlights the length to which Jake has gone to outrun the past. And I love the way Wyld uses Jake’s outsider status to further show her sense of unease about the thing that might be watching her, preying on her sheep.
And what about the birds? I love birds—and I love the way Wyld uses them, (and by them I mean: crows, blackbirds, currawongs, ‘white’ galahs, butcher birds, magpies, seagulls, a barn owl, merlin, curlew, whistler, starlings and sparrows!). As I write this muse dusk is flaring in Sydney on a perfectly blue spring day where the temperature nudged 29° C; the sun is dipping into the Blue Mountains in a showy molten mass, and the magpies are singing to each other. (Soon the kookaburras will start up.)
In Wyld’s novel, the birds feature in ways that highlight the mood of the scene. There are the crows after carrion in the disturbing open, Jake and her one-time boyfriend gabbling like magpies in a scene of solidarity and warmth, butcher birds calling as a phone line goes dead, a drilling nightjar causing nightmares, an unknown bird ‘cry[ing] in the night … like a fire horn’ when Jake feels trapped, and a barn owl flying over the lonely UK farm: ‘break[ing] up the dawn, a lone swimmer in an empty sea’. At other times there are no birds singing at all, replaced instead by harrowing dead birds, like a kookaburra, honeyeater and bowerbird. (And yep, my kookaburras here are calling out now!) Each of Wyld’s birds plays a part, and I love the way she evokes human words and thoughts in some of their calls, further underscoring their relationship with Jake. It’s another highlight.
All that’s left for me to say, in a week where the Man Booker announced it’s going global in 2014 (sigh), All the birds, singing is a contender for next year’s prize no matter what it comes up against. Granta had it right. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it!
Source: the bookshelf rainbow (aka purchased!)
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Devlin's honour at X Factor Ball
X Factor finalist Janet Devlin is set to perform at this year's The X Factor ChildLine Ball.
The Irish singer, who made it through to week eight in last year's series, will team up with Diva Fever (Craig Saggers and Joe Al-Smadi) for the glitzy bash, which takes place at London's Savoy Hotel on October 18.
"To be performing at this year's X Factor ChildLine Ball is a real privilege and I'm really looking forward to it," she said.
"All children need to have someone they can turn to when times are tough, and money raised through events such as this helps ChildLine be there for vulnerable children and young people in need of advice and support."
Hosted by The Xtra Factor's Caroline Flack, the ball aims to raise funds for ChildLine - the UK's free, confidential 24-hour helpline and online service for vulnerable children and young people provided by the NSPCC.
"We have so much respect and admiration for all the ChildLine counsellors who volunteer their time to provide round-the-clock support to those in need and help protect vulnerable children and young people from abuse and neglect. We're delighted to be performing at what promises to be a wonderful event, raising vital funds for a very worthy cause," said Diva Fever.
Following the champagne reception and three-course dinner, there'll be a live auction where guests can bid for a luxury holiday to Mauritius and VIP tickets to The X Factor live final.
Jennifer Aniston and Mad Men star Jon Hamm have helped belt out a rendition of The Beatles' hit Hey Jude.
Veteran country music star Emmylou Harris is teaming up with London folk band Mumford & Sons to explore their shared love of high harmony, sad songs and the…
Members of One Direction are to co-host a show each on Radio 1 next month as they take over the airwaves for 10 hours.
Moon River singer Andy Williams has died aged 84.
Mumford And Sons have declared that their current success is "a bit of a dream come true".
Adele's song for the new James Bond film will be called Let The Sky Fall, it has been suggested.
Jessie J has insisted that she will return for the second series of The Voice.
Usher has pulled the plug on his UK and European gigs after landing a role as a coach on the US version of talent show The Voice, and being given the care of his two sons.
Katy Perry has been named Billboard's Woman of the Year.
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Ferrari unveils new 200 mph convertible
by Peter Valdes-Dapena @peterdrives August 23, 2017: 2:52 PM ET
Ferrari's better, faster supercar
Ferrari has released photos of the new convertible model it will unveil at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. The V8-powered Ferrari Portofino will replace the California T, Ferrari's entry-level model.
Entry-level for Ferrari (RACE), however, is still over $200,000. Pricing for the Portofino will be announced in Frankfurt but it's expected to be similar to the California's, which is about $203,000.
The Portofino will be powered by 552 horsepower turbocharged V8 engine, an improved version of the one used in the California. The Portofino's engine will provide better responsiveness and improved fuel economy, Ferrari claims.
Ferrari promises that the engine's sound, with its characteristic snarl, has been enhanced so that it can be better enjoyed with the roof down. The body is also lighter and stiffer for improved handling. The car's top speed will be 199 miles per hour.
The Ferrari Portofino is replacing the Ferrari California T, the brand's most affordable car.
How Ferrari maintains its mystique
Like the California, the Portofino will have four seats, including two back seats "suitable for short trips," and a folding hard roof. A new design for the front seatbacks allows more legroom for occupants in those small backseats. A new wind deflector will calm the airflow inside the cabin when the top is down.
The Portofino has a folding hard top and a turbocharged V8 engine.
The California was named for the western U.S. state that has long been one of Ferrari's most important markets. The name was first used on a convertible version of Ferrari's 250 GT sports car in the late 1950s and early '60s. Those cars were originally designed for export to the U.S., and they can be very valuable as collectible cars today.
The new name, Portofino, refers to a resort town on the coast of the Italian province of Genoa.
CNNMoney (New York) First published August 23, 2017: 2:52 PM ET
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Benedetta Tagliabue
CEO of Miralles Tagliabue EMWT, founder and CEO of Foundation RIWA Stirling Prize
Benedetta Tagliabue is a director of the international architecture firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, founded in Barcelona in collaboration with Enric Miralles in 1994 and opened its office in Shanghai since 2010. She is also the director of the Enric Miralles Foundation, founded in 2011, whose goal is to promote experimental architecture in the spirit of her late husband and partner Enric Miralles. Her studio works in the fields of architecture, design of public spaces, rehabilitation, interior and industrial design. Among her most notable urban scale projects are Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona, the New Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Diagonal Mar Park in Barcelona, the University Campus of Vigo, the public spaces of the large area of revitalization of HafenCity in the Port of Hamburg, the Park of Colours in Mollet del Vallès and the Gas Natural Building in Barcelona. Her first project in Asia was the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai China which was awarded the prestigious RIBA International “Best International Building of 2011” award. In academia, Benedetta has been a visiting professor at Harvard University (2012), Columbia University (2010) and Barcelona ETSAB (2002 – 2008), lecturing regularly at architecture forums and universities. In 2004 she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.
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State Landscape
Considering the needs of students with disabilities in the design of the personalized learning systems requires honest conversations and dedicated action, not only about the benefits personalized learning can offer these students, but also about the challenges. To identify the challenges and opportunities inherent in personalized learning, NCLD set out on a yearlong exploration of personalized learning in three states: New Hampshire, Colorado, and North Carolina.
These states not only reflect geographic and demographic diversity, but are at different stages of implementing personalized learning. New Hampshire has had over two decades of experience in implementing their competency-based initiatives, while efforts in Colorado and North Carolina are more recent. Each state reflects different histories, contexts, and policy environments.
Personalized Learning for All: Actions for States to Make Aspirations a Reality
Considering the needs of students with disabilities in the design of the system requires honest conversations and dedicated action, not only about the benefits personalized learning can offer these students but also about the inherent challenges. The benefits and challenges often end up being two sides of the same coin—the potential of personalized learning and the work necessary to achieve that potential.
Through constructive conversations with close to 100 key leaders across all three states, several action steps emerged to ensure the success of students with disabilities in personalized learning systems:
ACTION STEP #1 Establish an inclusive vision for personalized learning efforts from the beginning of design and planning.
ACTION STEP #2 Ensure sufficient resources to provide accommodations and supports to help students with disabilities fully participate in personalized learning efforts.
ACTION STEP #3 Train general and special educators to implement personalized learning inclusively.
ACTION STEP #4 Use comprehensive accountability and support systems to ensure access to and rigor of quality learning experiences for all students.
ACTION STEP #5 Invest in pilot programs that test strategies around personalized learning, and ensure that pilot programs have a means to learn and disseminate learning around implementation opportunities and challenges for students with disabilities.
ACTION STEP #6 Communicate with and engage families from program initiation to implementation of personalized learning efforts.
Strategies associated with personalized learning can support clearer, higher expectations for all students, empower student agency and self-determination skills that can positively impact postsecondary outcomes, and direct opportunities and supports to both address student needs and build on their interests. Achieving these benefits requires states, districts, schools, and educators to address both the unique challenges and the benefits that personalized learning initiatives and programs present to students with disabilities.
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Personalized Learning in Practice
More than 40 states have some sort of policy to advance personalized learning, ranging from pilot programs and waivers to broader policy changes. None of these policies look exactly alike and none would define the notion of personalized learning in exactly the same way. If implemented effectively, this vision of learning can have transformative effects on the learning of all students.
NCLD collected three stories from each state of the different approaches schools are taking to implement personalized learning systems, and developed recommendations for the states to enhance opportunities for students with disabilities.
Use the menu below to read case studies and policy recommendations for each state.
“New Hampshire takes the lead!” New Hampshire has been a national leader in moving toward flexible systems of teaching and learning in which students can demonstrate mastery of knowledge, skills, and dispositions without being limited by place or mode of learning. We explored how New Hampshire students with disabilities could maximize the benefits of the state’s efforts, ensuring they are graduating prepared for success in college, careers, and civic life.
Read below for examples of how students with disabilities are benefitting from approaches to personalized learning in New Hampshire and recommendations for how the state can continue to support students with disabilities in their efforts to customize learning.
Extended Learning Opportunities at Hinsdale High School
Tierney Iman, a graduate of Hinsdale High School, has a diagnosed intellectual disability.
Many schools might have suggested that Tierney couldn’t achieve the regular high school diploma and should settle for a lesser diploma or a certificate of attendance. That’s not what Tierney wanted—she wanted to attain a regular high school diploma. Tierney had trouble demonstrating mastery in some of the requirements in a traditional classroom environment.
The Vision: To provide all learners—whether advanced or struggling, with a disability or without—multiple and diverse learning opportunities that would engage and inspire them to succeed in college, career, and civic life.
The Strategy: Hinsdale High School has a strong extended learning opportunity (ELO) program that allows students to demonstrate competency in multiple ways—not just in a classroom, but also through internships, projects, and other means.
The district has developed a set of rubrics to guide educators and ensure that, regardless of how students choose to demonstrate a competency, their demonstration meets rigorous standards. This program is available to any student—those with disabilities and those without— and is customized for each student.
“I remember Tierney and her parents coming to us, adamant that Tierney must do what it takes to get the 20-credit diploma. It was a wake-up moment
for us. We all looked at each other and thought, ‘Who are we to tell this student she can’t?’”
–Karen Thompson
ELO Coordinator, Hinsdale High School
At Hinsdale, every ELO must meet four criteria:
Quickly, Tierney, her teachers, and Karen Thompson, the school’s ELO coordinator, got together to strategize ways the ELO project could be tailored for Tierney.
In the spring of 2016, after completing an internship and demonstrating mastery of specific state civics competencies, Tierney walked across the podium with her peers and received her 20-credit diploma, knowing objectively that she had done the work and mastered the skills represented by that diploma.
Learn more about the ELO program at Hinsdale High School and how they are working to support students like Tierney:
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Implementing UDL at D.J. Bakie Elementary School
Jake Nash doesn’t find school an easy place to be. Diagnosed with an emotional and behavioral disorder, Jake struggles to get along well with peers in group settings, and he is frustrated by “one size fits all” paper-and pencil tests on things he’s not interested in.
The Vision: Students will not just be prepared for a single test, but will instead have the full range of knowledge, skills, and dispositions essential to their success.
The Strategy: D.J. Bakie Elementary in Kingston, New Hampshire, is implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to offer students multiple ways to represent, express and engage in learning.
Educators at schools like D.J. Bakie know that the equity and access of personalized learning are only achieved through a series of often-difficult conversations, dedicated action, and effort. But the fruits of this effort are quite real. Jake—who in fourth grade had felt despondent and who had been difficult for his teachers and peers—began to understand himself and own his learning.
Learn more about the implementation of UDL at D.J. Bakie Elementary School and how it helped Jake and his peers:
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New Hampshire’s PACE Assessments: Learning From the Ground Up
Jenny Deenik, a high school biology and chemistry teacher at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire, has a grounding professional philosophy: With the right supports, all students can learn.
For her students with disabilities, this means that rather than “modifying expectations,” Deenik looks to “accommodate needs.” Deenik’s high school is part of the Souhegan Cooperative School District, which is participating in a new effort in New Hampshire to redefine what assessment is and how it is used.
The Vision: Students will be college and career ready, and the system must advance students based on mastery of knowledge, skills, and dispositions, using a comprehensive system of educator and school support.
The Strategy: The Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) allows students to craft their own responses to a problem by demonstrating deep learning that goes beyond most traditional multiple-choice exams. Educators implementing PACE come together and develop both a set of performance tasks designed to reflect that a student has mastered a competency—the key knowledge, skills, and dispositions in a specific discipline (reading, math, and science)—and rubrics that objectively reflect whether a student’s achievements on that performance task reflect mastery of the competency.
Learn more about PACE and how it’s helping New Hampshire’s educators and students:
Download PDF of New Hampshire’s PACE Assessments: Learning From the Ground Up
Policy & Practice Recommendations for New Hampshire
NCLD identified significant issues confronting the state, and key actions to ensure that personalized learning efforts more fully meet the needs of New Hampshire students with disabilities. By taking these actions, we hope the state’s efforts will continue to extend rigorous and inclusive learning opportunities that prepare all students for college, career, and civic success.
1. Teachers, school leaders and paraprofessionals are trained to effectively include students with disabilities in personalized learning systems
2. The New Hampshire Department of Education, districts, and schools invest in systems of accommodations and provide guidance to schools that ensure inclusion of students with disabilities in personalized learning efforts.
3. The New Hampshire Department of Education ensures that efforts around innovation, scaling, and information dissemination explicitly include work and reflection on strategies to ensure that personalized learning efforts fully meet the needs of students with disabilities.
4. The New Hampshire Department of Education, school districts, and schools develop a plan and subsequent resources on communicating with parents of students with disabilities about personalized learning.
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Practice Recommendations for New Hampshire
Three factors reflect the hallmark of Colorado’s present education system: diversity, local control, and turnover. With its geographic, cultural, and demographic diversity, Colorado has long been a microcosm of the educational landscape now emerging in other states across the country. Against this backdrop, we explored whether and in what way statewide efforts and interest in personalized learning could translate to positive experiences for students with disabilities.
Read below for examples of how students with disabilities are benefiting from approaches to personalized learning in Colorado, and recommendations for how the state can continue to support students with disabilities in their efforts to customize learning.
Leveraging Design Thinking to Advance Change for Trailblazer Elementary School
Ann Yenne, a veteran teacher at Trailblazer Elementary School in Colorado Springs, wants to do well by her students—all of her students.
Yenne works hard to create a classroom that fosters engagement and a love of learning, but she often finds herself in a game of tug-of-war. When it comes to students with disabilities and other struggling learners in her classroom, she feels like she’s dragging them into learning rather than inspiring them to drive the learning process. She has struggled with an issue of mindset: How do you design systems that work for all students, especially for those who have varied learning needs? And how do adults think about what students can and can’t do?
The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI)—one of Yenne’s partner organizations in this work—struggles with a related issue: How do you obtain buy-in and help develop a mindset of full inclusion and continuous learning within partner schools and districts?
The Vision: All students will develop five competencies—academic, professional, entrepreneurial, personal, and civic—that are essential to future success.
The Strategy: The SpaceLab project infuses design thinking into the practices of Next Generation Learning and CEI’s other initiatives. In design thinking, leaders and practitioners collaboratively brainstorm and build solutions that are tailored to improve the outcomes and experiences of each student in every classroom.
SpaceLab infuses design thinking into practices through 5 steps:
Schools and districts implementing Next Generation Learning Systems have these features in common:
Personal and personalized: Educators use a variety of means to best meet the needs of each learner.
Competency-based: Student progress is dictated not by grade levels and seat time, but by mastery of assessed competencies.
Co-created: Students take greater ownership of learning.
Safe and healthy: Students learn in safe, welcoming, and healthy learning environments.
Time-, talent-, and technology-enabled: Students have greater flexibility in where, when, how, and through whom their learning takes place.
The UCCS B.A. In Inclusive Elementary Education
Though it’s not what she originally intended, Kailey Hogan, a junior at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), wants to be a teacher.
When she started at UCCS as a freshman, she was a business major planning on eventually taking over her dad’s fiber optics business. Sitting in her undergraduate business classes, she quickly realized that it wasn’t her passion—she wanted to teach. But she didn’t want to be part of a school that followed a model that separated students with different needs from each other. In elementary school, she, herself, had been one of those students: falling behind in reading, getting pulled out of class to receive specialized instruction, and ultimately missing out on the experiences her peers were having.
The Vision: UCCS College of Education believes educators can meet the needs of all students from the first time they walk into a classroom and do so by seeing themselves as part of a team of teachers, knowing who to reach out to when they’re struggling.
The Strategy: The UCCS College of Education offers a Bachelor of Arts in Inclusive Elementary Education. The school takes a comprehensive approach to equity by focusing on co-teaching, offering inclusion courses, and placing teacher candidates in inclusive classrooms for their field experience. was intentional about placing Kailey and her peers in an inclusive classroom for their field experience.
The goal is for all undergraduate students to be prepared to meet the needs of all students.
Kailey will graduate from UCCS with three different credentials: a K–6 elementary initial license, a K–12 culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) endorsement, and a special education generalist endorsement. These credentials not only provide Kailey and her peers a leg up in the job market, qualifying them for multiple positions, but also set them up for success in the increasingly fluid, diverse classrooms of the 21st century.
Learn more about the B.A. in Inclusive Elementary Education and how it helps aspiring teachers like Kailey:
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Westminster’s Interventionist Framework
When 5-year old Mauricio Avila stepped into Sherrelwood Elementary School, he had already been identified with a developmental delay.
Mauricio’s disability made it difficult for him to follow multi-step directions, recall information, and verbally express himself. He also had a speech and language impairment which added complexity to how teachers approached Mauricio’s needs. His strengths were apparent: his teachers described him as kind, friendly, and resilient. Still, his parents wondered whether the education system would see their son’s strengths—or would they separate him from his peers, exposing him to lower expectations and frustrating him?
The Vision: To prepare students to succeed in postsecondary education, careers, and civic life, learning should be measured by a competency-based system (CBS) that enables students to progress upon mastery of distinct knowledge, skills,
and dispositions associated with a standard
The Strategy: Sherrelwood Elementary School has two unique approaches to learning and student support:
A Move Away From Age-Based Grade Placement: Students at Westminster aren’t all in the same age- and grade-based class for all subjects. Younger and older students work together in a classroom based on their level of competency in that subject. A 5-year-old like Mauricio may be working on foundational skills in reading and language while advancing faster with the right supports in his math class.
The Use of Interventionists: Rather than pulling students out of class to give them specialized instruction, the district has interventionists go into classrooms. They work with teachers to design and support instruction for students who might be struggling in a particular area and for those who might be more advanced, helping create educational experiences that meet all students’ different learning needs and interests.
Teachers at Sherrelwood design curricula and facilitate general instruction as well as small group instruction. This allows Mauricio to learn in a small group setting and to master content and develop personal and social competencies essential to his long-term success. Mauricio no longer feels singled out because every student’s instruction is tailored to their unique learning needs, strengths, and interests.
Learn more about Westminsters Interventionist approach and how it helps students like Mauricio:
Download PDF of “Westminster’s Interventionist Framework”
Policy & Practice Recommendations for Colorado
NCLD identified significant issues confronting the state, and key actions to ensure that personalized learning efforts more fully meet the needs of Colorado students with disabilities. By taking these actions, we hope the state’s efforts will continue to extend rigorous and inclusive learning opportunities that prepare all students for college, career, and civic success.
1. In collaboration with districts and schools, the state outlines the knowledge, skills, and dispositions personalized learning systems should achieve for all learners, and aligns reporting requirements, technical assistance, and other supports to this vision.
2. The state invests in programs that ensure that implementation of competency-based education efforts are fully inclusive of students with disabilities.
3. Both pre-service and in-service educator preparation and training emphasizes the skills educators need to implement personalized learning strategies inclusively.
4. Personalized learning stakeholders and advocates ensure that innovation, learning, and the means by which best practices are communicated account for the perspectives and needs of students with disabilities and their families.
Practice Recommendations for Colorado
North Carolina is making a bet on personalized learning. In late 2015, the North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE) passed a credit flexibility policy and adopted a new strategic plan that emphasized personalized learning. The state also emphasized approaches related to personalized learning in its most recent Every Student Succeeds Act plan to the U.S. Department of Education.
Read below for examples of how students with disabilities are benefiting from approaches to personalized learning in North Carolina, and recommendations for how the state can continue to support students with disabilities in their efforts to customize learning.
Personalized Interventions at Landis Elementary School
Grasping certain literacy and math concepts felt impossible to 8-year-old Beth Phillips.
Beth was bright and motivated. She worked hard on everything she was assigned. But she still had trouble with decoding, reading, and she couldn’t process foundational math. She was falling further and further behind and she needed customized learning strategies.
The Vision: To connect students to each other and to community members, and to deepen their own personal investment in learning. This vision is guided by four principles: Collaborative, Connected, Relevant, and Personalized (CCRP).
The Strategy: Landis Elementary found a tool that allows teachers and intervention teams to pinpoint student challenges and identify research-based interventions to address those challenges using a collaborative approach.
Using the platform Branching Minds, Beth’s teachers were sent a survey designed to identify her needs and strengths. Based on the survey results, this tool gave her teachers a list of options and approaches to meet Beth’s needs. As a team, her teachers determined which approaches to take and were empowered with strategies to support her success. Throughout the school year, Beth continued to make academic progress. Her learning path no longer seems like a mystery to her or to the adults who work with her.
The program and the accompanying structures empower staff to more effectively work together, communicate with families on their children’s needs, and strengthen relationships with the student. Through these deepened human relationships and the district’s vision of Collaborative, Connected, Relevant, and Personalized education, the teachers of Rowan–Salisbury are transforming learning and helping students like Beth succeed.
Learn more about the personalized learning systems at Landis Elementary School and how they’re helping children like Beth:
Download PDF of “Personalized Interventions at Landis Elementary School”
Lake Wylie Elementary School’s K-1 Combination Class
Dante Samuel didn’t have an easy start in life.
He was born 16 weeks premature and spent the first four months of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit. By age 5, Dante struggled with communicating, had overall cognitive and social functioning issues, and lacked important pre-academic skills. Dante was diagnosed as developmentally delayed. In many educational settings, Dante’s unique gifts and strengths may go unrecognized. Though he is eager, and a good role model for his peers, many people often focus on his challenges. A student like Dante may be separated from peers, retained, and held back by lower expectations. But luckily for Dante, his school, Lake Wylie Elementary in Charlotte, North Carolina, is taking part in a personalized learning initiative—an effort in the Charlotte–Mecklenburg Schools that aims to address each student’s needs.
The Vision: To provide an educational environment that prioritizes “maximizing achievement in a personalized 21st century learning environment for every child” and “inspiring and nurturing learning, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship through technology and strategic school redesign.”
The Strategy: Lake Wylie Elementary uses an inclusive K–1 combination class as one way to address the needs of all students through their whole-child model. With two teachers in the classroom, all students’ individual learning goals are examined and different instructional paths are designed to achieve those goals.This inclusive learning environment has yielded substantial learning gains for Dante: He made 17 points of growth on the Math MAP test and 13 points of growth on the Reading MAP test. He is living up to the high expectations his family and educators hold him to.
Inclusion is a key tenet of our nation’s special education law, but it can be challenging for schools to effectively educate students with disabilities alongside their peers. Personalized learning offers an approach that honors inclusion while addressing each student’s unique needs.
Learn more about the Lake Wylie Elementary School’s K-1 Combination Class and how it’s helping student like Dante:
Download PDF of “Lake Wylie Elementary School’s K-1 Combination Class”
The Role of Project-Based Learning at Warren New Tech High School
For as long as he can remember, James Woodall has found the traditional classroom experience frustrating.
A teacher gives a lecture, but he can’t concentrate. He fidgets, he can’t keep his mind on the topic, and he’s distracted by a number of things around the room. James was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but even with the accommodations and protections he is entitled to under the law, the traditional classroom structure still impedes his educational success.
The Vision: Students will be active owners and creators of their learning rather than passive recipients of it. They will get more individual attention, more opportunities to collaborate with peers, and more opportunities to practice skills essential to their future success, such as written and oral communication,
collaboration, citizenship and work ethic, technology literacy, and critical thinking.
The Strategy: Using project based learning (PBL), students will gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.
Recently, his history teacher, Michael Williams, assigned James and his classmates a project that connects events in the Civil War with key events in North Carolina’s local history. James was able to take a leadership role in this collaborative group project, conduct interviews with local community members, and present his findings to those community members, his classmates, and teachers. James and his classmates thrive in this environment where learning is relevant and engaging. One hundred percent of students in the class—including others with ADHD—will go on to some form of postsecondary education this year. James plans to enter a two-year program at Vance Granville Community College and later transfer to a four-year school to study broadcast communication and journalism.
PBL should not be seen as an intervention of choice for some students, but as a best practice for all students. Even so, to be sure this approach meets the aspiration of inclusivity, educators and schools must approach it with intentionality.
Learn more about how project-based learning is helping students like James:
Download PDF of “The Role of Project-Based Learning at Warren New Tech High School”
Policy & Practice Recommendations for North Carolina
NCLD identified significant issues confronting the state, and key actions to ensure that personalized learning efforts more fully meet the needs of North Carolina students with disabilities. By taking these actions, we hope the state’s efforts will continue to extend rigorous and inclusive learning opportunities that prepare all students for college, career, and civic success.
1. The North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE), higher education institutions, educators, parents, and other key stakeholders collaboratively develop a clearer vision and definition of personalized learning, and work to align existing initiatives to this vision.
2. The state invests in professional learning for teachers and school leaders to ensure that both have the skills necessary to implement personalized learning inclusively.
3. State and district leaders collaborate on an assessment, accountability, and intervention system that is more actionable and responsive to student and school needs.
4. State and district leaders leverage policies and processes to communicate with and engage students with disabilities—and their families and communities—in personalized learning implementation efforts.
Download PDF of Policy & Practice Recommendations for North Carolina
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Purple Heart medal bestowed on Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton
Issued by
United States Army, American, founded 1775
Received by
Sergeant Charlton, Cornelius H., American, 1929 - 1951
metal, enamel, bronze, ribbon
Purple Heart Medal (2.1): 3 3/8 × 1 9/16 × 3/8 in. (8.6 × 4 × 1 cm)
Case (2.2) - Closed: 1 3/8 × 3 9/16 × 6 9/16 in. (3.5 × 9 × 16.7 cm)
Case (2.2) - Open: 7 × 3 9/16 × 6 7/8 in. (17.8 × 9 × 17.5 cm)
The Purple Heart award is a heart-shaped medal within a gold border, 1 inch (35 mm) wide, containing a profile of General George Washington. Above the heart appears a shield of the coat of arms of George Washington (a white shield with two red bars and three red stars in chief) between sprays of green leaves. The reverse consists of a raised bronze heart with the words FOR MILITARY MERIT below the coat of arms and leaves. The ribbon is 1 inch (35 mm) wide and consists of the following stripes: (3 mm) white 67101; (29 mm) purple 67115; and (3 mm) white 67101.
Korean War, 1950-1953
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ray R. and Patricia A.D. Charlton in memory of Cornelius H. Charlton
Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton Collection
Double Victory: The African American Military Experience
NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 053
James Monroe High School Hall of Fame coin honoring Sgt. Cornelius H. Charlton
James Monroe High School, American, 1924 - 1994
Diameter: 2 × 1/8 in. (5.1 × 0.3 cm)
Bronze colored coin with [James Monroe High School/June 6, 1969] in a square frame surrounded by a laurel and oak wreath on recto. On verso is a Greek woman holding a torch in her left hand with [HALL OF FAME/Cornelius Charlton Posthumously] inscribed.
Purple Heart medal awarded posthumously to Tuskegee Airman 2d Lt. James McCullin
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775
Second Lieutenant McCullin, James L., American, 1919 - 1943
Tuskegee Airmen, 1941 - 1946
99th Pursuit Squadron, American, 1941 - 1949
cardboard , paper, metal and ribbon
H x W (Medal): 3 × 1 3/8 × 3/16 in. (7.6 × 3.5 × 0.5 cm)
H x W x D (Closed): 1 x 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (2.5 x 8.9 x 16.5 cm)
H x W x D (Open): 7 x 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (17.8 x 8.9 x 16.5 cm)
cases (containers)
A Purple Heart medal and case awarded posthumously to Tuskegee Airmen 2 Lt. James McCullin.
A Purple Heart medal. The medal is purple and heart-shaped with a gold border. There is a raised profile of George Washington in the center of the medal. At the top of the medal there is a small white shield with three red stars above two red horizontal lines. On either side of the shield is a green vine with leaves. There is a purple ribbon with white border attached to the medal at the top. On the back of the medal is the inscription: [FOR / MILITARY / MERIT/ JAMES L. / MCCULLIN]. The dedication is in raised gold letters and the name is etched into the medal.
A case for a Purple Heart. The outside of the case is dark-colored with gold-colored designs along edges. The top of the case also has gold-colored designs creating two squares. The case opens to a 90 degree angle from hinges on the back short edge. In center of the top of the case gold letters read: [PURPLE HEART]. The interior of the case is lined with yellow fabric. The fabric in the top part of the case looks like satin and the bottom part of the case the fabric looks like velvet.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the McCullin Family, in memory of Second Lieutenant James L. McCullin
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Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey
Whitehead & Hoag Company, American, 1892 - 1965
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey, American, founded 1845
ribbon, metal
2 3/4 × 1 11/16 × 3/16 in. (7 × 4.3 × 0.5 cm)
medallions (medals)
Place depicted
Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Place collected
Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
A commemorative medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey. The medal is circular and bronze colored with a bar at the top where a purple ribbon has been looped through. The ribbon is also looped through a pinback clasp. The front of the medal is decorated with two concentric circles. The inner circle features raised masonic symbols, including the compass, seeing eye, and columns. The outer circle features raised text reading [PRINCE HALL GRAND LODGE F. & A.M. / STATE OF NEW JERSEY]. The back of the medal is smooth with raised lettering reading [100TH / ANNIVERSARY / 1848-1948 / BURLINGTON, N.J. / JUNE 12TH] and a small manufacturer's mark along the bottom face.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
Community Spirit award in memory of Emmett Ashford
California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, American, founded 1930
Los Angeles Dodgers, American, founded 1883
Ashford, Emmett Littleton, American, 1914 - 1980
silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper , plastic , metal on wood
12 × 9 1/16 × 15/16 in. (30.5 × 23 × 2.4 cm)
gelatin silver prints
Emmett Ashford was the first African American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). Ashford umped from 1966-1970 and was known for his animated calls and dress. After retiring as an umpire in 1970, Ashford continued his relationship with MLB and was hired by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn as a public relations advisor in 1971.
A wood plaque with a black and white photograph of Emmett Ashford umpiring. Also attached to wood plaque is a black metal plate with an inscription. The photograph features Ashford at center with his left side facing the viewer. Ashford is gesturing wildly and appears to be calling an out during a baseball game. His left arm is extended out in front of him with his hand clutched in a fist. His right arm is bent close to his torso. His left leg is bent and raised above the ground. Ashford stands in an outdoor field with trees in the background. The photograph is situated underneath clear plastic that attaches to the plaque with four conical shaped studs. Below the photograph in the lower half of the plaque is a black metal plate with several lines of text. The text reads: [EMMETT ASHFORD / COMMUNITY SPIRIT AWARD / ORIGINATED APRIL, 1981 / AN AWARD ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF / MAJOR LEAGUE UMPIRE EMMETT ASHFORD, RECIPIENTS WILL / BE SELECTED BY THEIR DISPLAY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS / THAT WERE A PART OF EMMETT'S DYNAMIC PERSONALITY / CO-SPONSERS: / CAHPERD MULITCULTURAL DYNAMICS SECTION / LOS ANGELES DODGERS BASEBALL TEAM / CALIFORNIA ANGELS BASEBALL TEAM]. The back of the plaque has two beveled section where it could be mounted on a wall.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Frederick A. King and Family
Unknown - Restrictions Possible
Patch for the International Lawn Tennis Club of the United States
International Lawn Tennis Club of the United States
Gibson, Althea, American, 1927 - 2003
H x W: 2 3/4 × 2 7/16 in. (7 × 6.2 cm)
patches (costume accessories)
Gray patch in the shape of a shield. Across the upper right to the lower left quadrant are three (3) narrow diagonal lines in pink. In the upper left corner is a pair of crossed tennis rackets with two (2) tennis balls. In the lower right corner is the logo of the International Lawn Tennis Club.
Associations and institutions
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Donald Felder and family
2014.205.19.4
Key to the City of Detroit presented to Althea Gibson
2 × 6 1/4 × 1/8 in. (5.1 × 15.9 × 0.3 cm)
Key to the City of Detroit presented to Althea Gibson. Gold colored metal key with decorative engraving on one side. Handle of key is a "D". Raised type along side of key reads, [CITY OF DETROIT].
Aircraft observer badge owned by Fenton B. Sands
United States Air Force, American, founded 1947
Dr. Fenton B. Sands, American, 1918 - 1998
H x W x D: 7/8 × 3 3/16 × 1/2 in. (2.2 × 8.1 × 1.3 cm)
Utica, Oneida County, New York, United States, North and Central America
An Aircraft observer badge. The badge features a pair of horizontally extended wings with a central round insignia. The center is a heavily bordered circle with small, parallel horizontal lines featured within. On the back there are two (2) small spikes for the pin backs. Stamped on the back of the wings is: [STERLING / AE CO. / UTICA / N.Y.].
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Sands Family
Bombadier wings owned by Fenton B. Sands
H x W x D: 1 × 3 1/16 × 5/16 in. (2.5 × 7.8 × 0.8 cm)
A bombardier wing insignia. The insignia has a pair of horizontally extended wings with a central round piece with a bomb overlaid on top. The center has two (2) concentric rings behind the bomb. The bomb is pointed down with tail wings at the top. Two (2) spikes on the back tips of the wings for pin backs.
Navigator wings owned by Fenton B. Sands
H x W x D: 13/16 × 3 1/16 × 5/16 in. (2.1 × 7.8 × 0.8 cm)
A navigator insignia. The insignia features a pair of horizontally extended wings with a central round piece featuring the earth surrounded by crisscrossing rings at various latitudes and longitudes. The outer ring of the center is notched. On the back is one (1) small spike on the proper right side of the back wing tip for the pin back. Stamped on the back of the wings is: [STERLING].
Bronze participation medal for the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Placzek, Otto, German
International Olympic Committee, Swiss, founded 1894
H x W x D: 2 13/16 × 3/16 in. (7.1 × 0.5 cm)
Berlin, Germany, Europe
A round bronze medal commemorating participation in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. The front of the medal features five men standing in a line and stepping up on to a ledge. Written vertically on the left side of the medal's front is: [XI / O / L / Y / M / P / I / A / D / E]. Written vertically on the right side of the medal's front is: [B / E / R / L / I / N]. Written at the bottom of the medal is: [1936]. The back of the medal features a bell with an eagle holding the Olympic rings at center. On the edge of the bell there is type. Type on the bottom right of the medal's back reads: [OTTOPLACZEK].
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
© International Olympic Committee. Permission required for use.
Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
Platinum Record Award for the album 1999 given to Prince
RCA Records, founded 1901
Prince, American, 1958 - 2016
plastic, glass, paper, metal, and wood
H x W x D: 21 × 17 × 1 1/8 in. (53.3 × 43.2 × 2.9 cm)
multimedia works
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
A framed award commemorating the sale of over one (1) million copies of the album “1999” by Prince from the Recording Industry Association of America. The award features a platinum record album with the “1999” center label attached. The label depicts Prince’s proper left eye and eyebrow, with the spindle hole in the center of the iris. Affixed at the bottom of the record is one half of a cassette tape, also covered in platinum. In the label area of the cassette a plaque is attached that is engraved with the text: “PLATINUM SALES AWARD”. Below the cassette tape is a silver plaque divided into thirds. On the left side of the plaque is a small image of the “1999” album cover. In the middle section the plaque is engraved with text that reads: “PRESENTED TO / PRINCE / TO COMMEMORATE THE SALE OF MORE THAN / 1,000,000 COPIES OF THE / WARNER BROS. RECORDS / ALBUM, CASSETTE AND C.D. / ‘1999’”. On the right side of the plaque is a holographic sticker that reads “RIAA / CERTIFIED SALES AWARD”. The album, cassette, and plaque are mounted on dark blue paper, which is covered with black matting board so that only a thin frame of the blue paper is visible as an outline around the items. The wood frame is covered in black vinyl on the left, right and top edges. The verso is covered in brown paper and a metal self-leveling sawtooth picture hanger is stapled at the center top of the frame.
Rock and roll (Music)
Musical Crossroads
NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 053
Bayou Classic trophy awarded to Southern University Jaguars
Waterford Crystal, Irish, founded 1783
Bayou Classic, founded 1974
Odums, Dawson, American
Grambling State University, American, founded 1901
Southern University at New Orleans, American, founded 1956
crystal (lead glass) , metal , wood and felt
H x W x D (trophy): 22 × 8 × 8 in. (55.9 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm)
H x W x D (base): 3 3/4 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (9.5 × 26.7 × 26.7 cm)
H x W x D (Trophy on base): 25 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (64.8 × 26.7 × 26.7 cm)
trophies (prizes)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
Crystal vase/urn-shaped trophy (2015.149a) with metal plaque adhered to side. Plaque has image of a jaguar and a tiger biting a football, with black type that reads, [BAYOU CLASSIC/SINCE/1974/GRAMBLING SOUTHERN]. Crystal trophy sits on a square base (2015.149b) with a felt top. Base has brass plaque at front with black type that reads, [2014 BAYOU CLASSIC/CHAMPIONS/SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY JAGUARS/DAWSON ODUMS, COACH].
United States--Social life and customs
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Southern University System, Southern University and A&M College, University of Louisiana System, Grambling State University
Medal commemorating Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole as President of Spelman College
Holloway, Charnelle
Dr. Cole, Johnnetta Betsch, American, born 1936
Spelman College, American, founded 1881
H x W x D: 19 3/4 × 8 × 1/2 in. (50.2 × 20.3 × 1.3 cm)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
A silver medal commemorating the inauguration of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole as the seventh president of Spelman College. The circular medallion reads "SPELMAN COLLEGE" in gold lettering relief circling the top, with a downward pointing blue triangle with a smaller downward pointing silver triangle at its center with a gold 5-point star in the middle. The school motto "OUR WHOLE SCHOOL FOR CHRIST" is etched around the triangle. The year "1881" in gold lettering relief at the bottom center outside the triangle. All of the above is encircled in a gold band with the exterior an undulating line. The outer edge of the medallion is silver with alternating shiny and matte lines pointing towards the middle of the medallion, resembling rays. The reverse of the medallion is silver with engraved text reading "PRESENTED TO / SPELMAN COLLEGE / NOVEMBER 6, 1988 / IN HONOR OF / THE INAUGURATION OF / JOHNETTA BETSCH COLE / SEVENTH PRESIDENT". The medallion is attached at the center top to a wide silver chain featuring alternating grooved stripe rectangles and hexagons with raised centers attached by a double-line of chain link.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Olympic Diploma for Bronze Medal in the 400M Hurdles awarded to Richard Howard
Dick Howard, American, 1935 - 1967
Brundage, Avery, American, 1887 - 1975
Andreotti, Giulio, Italian, 1919 - 2013
Tomei, Elio, Italian
H x W: 16 1/8 x 20 1/16 in. (41 x 51 cm)
Rome, Roma, Italy, Europe
A diploma from the 1960 Olympics in Rome awarded to Richard Wayne Howard. The diploma is a color print of a stone plaque on a stylized brick wall. The plaque is central with the logo of the 1960 Olympics on the left side. The logo features the Olympic rings capped with a statue of the Capitoline Wolf and the date in Roman numerals [MCMLX]. Text is printed in Italian in the central panel that recognizes Howard as the winner of the Bronze Medal in the Men's 400 M Hurdles. The diploma is signed by the International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage and by the Organizational Committee president Giulio Andreotti. The back of the diploma is blank.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Howard Family
Documents and Published Materials
Three framed medals won by Carl Lewis in Spartakiad and Pan American Games
Pan American Sports Organization, founded 1940
Lewis, Carl, American, born 1961
wood, glass, metal, cloth, gold, bronze, ribbon
Frame: 38 3/4 x 25 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (98.4 x 63.8 x 4.1 cm)
H x W (Spartakiade Relay Medal): 19 1/2 x 2 in. (49.5 x 5.1 cm)
H x W (Pan American Games Medal): 19 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (49.8 x 6.7 cm)
H x W (Spartakiade Long Jump Medal): 19 1/2 x 2 in. (49.5 x 5.1 cm)
H x W (Medal Plaques, Each): 1 1/4 x 3 in. (3.2 x 7.6 cm)
H x W (Carl Lewis Plaque): 2 1/2 x 3 15/16 in. (6.3 x 10 cm)
Moscow, Russia, Asia
San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
Three framed medals awarded to Carl Lewis. The medals are housed in a large metal gold-painted frame. Each medal sits in a cut out space from a red cloth background, bearing a plaque describing the event beneath it. At the center bottom of the display is an engraved plaque that reads [CARL LEWIS / FIRST INTERNATIONAL / MEDALS].
On the left is a gold medal won for the 4x200 meter relay at the Moscow Spartakiade, 1979. The obverse of the medal features a female figure standing in front of a male figure, both are in left profile and lean dramatically forward with their left leg raised and their arms stuck out behind them. The numeral [VII] appears in relief below their knees. Three swooping lines terminating in a star appear behind them. The piece of metal which attaches the medal to the red ribbon is decorated with a leaf design as well as Cyrillic letters.
In the center is a bronze medal for long jump won at the 1979 Pan American games in Puerto Rico. The obverse of the medal features a running male figure in right profile carrying a flaming torch. The flames of the torch extend to a series of concentric circles which appear behind the figure. On either side of the runner are brick or stone walls rising from a sea, above which he is suspended. Type appears along the upper and lower edge of the medal. The attached ribbon is colored with green, yellow, white, blue, and purple stripes.
On the right is a bronze medal won for the long jump at the Moscow Spartakiade, 1979. The obverse of the medal is decorated exactly the same as the gold medal. The piece of metal which attached the medal to the green ribbon is decorated, however, with the numeral [III].
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Carl Lewis Estate
Most Valuable Male Athlete Award received by Carl Lewis
Woodbury Board of Education, American
All-Star Awards & Trophies, American
13 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (33.7 x 14.6 x 16.5 cm)
Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Collingswood, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
A trophy awarded to Carl Lewis featuring a male figure on top of a wooden base. The figure is gold toned and in a running pose and sits on a wooden cube with an inscribed plaque attached to its front. The black plaque is etched with gold type. It is not fixed to the base and sits in its slot quite loosely. The base is hollow.
Olympic Spirit Award trophy awarded to Carl Lewis
United States Olympic Committee, American, founded 1894
Olympic Spirit award, consisting of silver and gold colored metal, awarded to Carl Lewis. The trophy's top has a design resembling a horseshoe shape, with pointed tips. One of the tips is taller and thinner than the other. The base of the trophy is round and cylindrical. The trophy is supported at its center by a gold toned cylindrical piece. The plaque on the front of the trophy is shallowly etched and is very worn and tarnished.
USA Track & Field Jim Thorpe Award received by Carl Lewis
USA Track & Field, American, founded 1992
Medallic Art Company, Ltd., American, founded 1903
15 x 11 1/16 x 1 1/4 in. (38.1 x 28.1 x 3.2 cm)
Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
A rectangular wooden plaque decorated with engraved bronze awarded to Carl Lewis. The plaque is dominated by a large circular bronze piece engraved with men performing various athletic feats, with latin words and phrases surrounding them. Below this disc is a rectangular plaque engraved with [JIM THORPE AWARD / CARL LEWIS / 1987]. The back of the plaque is undecorated. A hook is positioned at the center top and a small embedded metal disc just below the hook with the manufacturer's information engraved on it.
Case for the key to the City of Detroit presented to Althea Gibson
Miriani, Louis C., American, 1897 - 1987
box lid: 8 7/8 × 2 3/8 × 7/16 in. (22.6 × 6 × 1.1 cm)
box: 8 7/8 × 2 7/16 × 11/16 in. (22.5 × 6.2 × 1.7 cm)
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
Case for the key to the city of Detroit. The case has a lid and a base. the inside of the lid has gold and black text that reads "This Key to the City of Detroit is presented to / Althea Gibson / Honorary Citizen / May 19, 1961" Hand written in blue ink is "Louis C. Miriani." On the left side of the box lid is the seal for the City of Detroit.
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Griefbusters
We can't prevent earthquakes. But technology and techniques now exist to save lives after such tragedies, and that is why it has been so disturbing to witness trained rescue workers arriving in Mexico City too late to help many trapped in collapsed buildings. Members of a French team complained bitterly that they could have saved dozens, if not hundreds, of additional lives if they had been called to the scene promptly after the disaster struck. By the time Mexican officials got around to requesting their presence two days after the quake, far more of the bodies pulled from the rubble were lifeless.
A week after the first tremor, television was still broadcasting the same desperate images: untrained civilians digging through masses of concrete and twisted steel with garden tools or their own hands; international rescue crews screaming at each other about how to approach the collapsed buildings so as not to finish off those who might have survived. Mexico still lacks the manpower and heavy equipment it needs to unearth bodies and demolish dangerous buildings left partially standing. At first the Mexicans were too proud to ask for help. When they finally admitted their need, they issued an appeal for equipment, not knowing which countries could supply the dogs, cranes, and electronic sensors required to find and extricate the victims.
Confusion, lack of coordination, and costly errors are generally accepted as the natural aftermath of tragedies like the Mexico City earthquake. After the devastating quake that struck Managua in 1972, the Somoza government issued a confused request for aid that resulted in a tremendous duplication of efforts. Nicaragua said it needed two mobile hospitals, which cost $500,000 each. The United States, France, and Cuba all responded to the same distress signal; they sent two extra hospitals, which remained in their cartons. After the Guatemalan earthquake in 1976, pharmacists wasted the first precious weeks trying to make an inventory of drugs shipped by well-meaning but uninformed donors. One hundred tons of medicine eventually had to be buried. No failure so dramatic has occurred in Mexico thus far, perhaps because the government has insisted that it doesn't need food, clothing, or medical help.
Governments and private organizations like the Red Cross know that relief efforts have a tendency to turn into minor disasters themselves. Debate about the failure of relief for the Peruvian earthquake of 1968 and the East Pakistan cyclone of 1970 got world leaders thinking about the problem, and in 1971 the United Nations General Assembly created the United Nations Disaster Relief Office. UNDRO was not intended as another relief agency, but as a clearinghouse that would match the abilities of donor nations to the needs of countries struck by a disaster. In theory, UNDRO would find out exactly what a country like Mexico needed, and arrange for governments and private agencies to provide effective help.
In practice, however, UNDRO is a cumbersome bureaucracy, which further delays the response to urgent requests, if it does anything at all. If a country chooses to proceed through U.N. channels for disaster assistance, it must make a request through the resident representative of the United Nations Disaster Program, a separate but related agency. The resident representative refers the request to the UNDRO office in Geneva, which sends an investigator to assess the needs. UNDRO then goes to its computer to find out what nations or private organizations can help, and issues formal requests for aid to those potential donors. While this finely tuned machine hums and buzzes, evaluating alternative responses, the misery continues. Many U.N. officials and outside evaluators such as the United Nations Association of the United States have criticized UNDRO as ineffectual and too slow. Usually, as in the case of Mexico, nations don't even ask for UNDRO's help. Beleaguered governments choose to go directly to the sources of aid rather than tackle the workings of an independent bureaucracy. When this happens, UNDRO laments that it is prohibited from doing anything but sit- ting on its hands.
Even when it functions as it is supposed to, UNDRO's ability to cope is extremely limited. Its sponsors envisioned UNDRO directing aid as a policeman directs traffic—he doesn't tell drivers where to go, he advises them how to get where they are already going. The United Nations act creating the agency mandates that UNDRO cannot supply anything itself (except food under rare circumstances). The organization doesn't own any equipment, and has no trained rescue workers on its payroll. They may know where to find each of these, but the UNDRO technocrats don't dirty their hands in the rubble.
Our own Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the Agency for International Development suffers from similar structural limitations. The office can't send Mexico a crane to knock down buildings. Rather, after finding out that Mexico needs a crane, OFDA can see which U.S. department has one and “task” that agency with the response to a specific request. OFDA knows what resources are at its disposal and does a good job of channeling requests rapidly, but its bureaucratic structure inherently slows the response to a crisis in which speed is critical.
The various skills and equipment needed in a disaster are by their nature widely dispersed among the nations of the world. Mexico's quake is an instructive example. The rescue and relief effort still under way includes Israeli demolition experts who received state-of-the-art training in Lebanon, and technicians from the U.S, Bureau of Mines, which has developed sensitive equipment to determine whether trapped coal miners are still breathing. Because it is especially vulnerable to earthquakes, Mexico itself has trained many of the world's foremost seismologists, and has volunteered them in the past to help out in disasters in Central and South America, All of these far-flung experts and tools are needed whenever a major earthquake strikes an urban area. There are similar basic requirements for responding to a flood, a drought, a famine, a cyclone, and a chemical leak.
This makes most relief efforts today a little like jigsaw puzzles with pieces missing. And they wouldn't fit together even if the parts were all there. Rescue crews arrive at different times, speak different languages, and usually have no one giving them orders. Even if UNDRO directs the right crews to the right place, there isn't anyone there to tell the demolition experts to wait for rescue workers. This is precisely what happened in Mexico City because French and local teams weren't working together. Logic suggests a better way. The workers and equipment that are always needed in a disaster like an earthquake ought to be deployed as a single team from a central location, One international crew with all the necessary skills could save far more lives than the tragicomic failures we have come to accept as inevitable.
Governments like our own whose foremost concern is helping disaster victims should circumvent the clumsy mechanism of UNDRO. The United States should take the lead in establishing a multinational disaster rapid deployment force, which would stand ready to intervene anywhere in the world at any time. The amount we spend annually on the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance ($160 million this year) could be better employed as a contribution to a "Griefbusters" force, trained and equipped to respond to natural and manmade disasters. A flexible rapid deployment force would report to a single director. More important, it would know what each kind of disaster called for, and would either possess or have immediate access to the basic required equipment. The force could employ a semi-military structure, with reservists from member nations who could be called up at a moment’s notice. It could descend from the skies with the needed tools without having to wait for a formal plea.
This kind of multinational force would be likely to run into trouble with countries that object to having their sovereignty encroached upon. Throughout the current Ethiopian famine, the government has demonstrated that it considers keeping foreigners out more important than saving the lives of its own people. When a nation is simply unwilling to tolerate assistance, there is no practical way for outsiders to help short of military invasion.
But we can and should make it easier for governments to accept disaster assistance, Mexico, which has been too proud to ask for help, gladly receives all that is sent unsolicited. If we made a prior agreement with other nations, promising to help each other in case of disaster, the bur- den would be to refuse aid rather than to ask for it. Were Mexico a party to such an agreement, French rescue workers would have been on their way as soon as they learned of the quake. If an earthquake struck the United States, Mexican technicians would rush here. We might someday need them as much as they need us now. We might also discover that we have similar qualms about "begging." A reciprocal treaty would remove the sting of pride that keeps nations from asking each other for help.
One major objection to a disaster relief force would doubtless be that it would limit its membership to our allies. The failures of United Nations forces around the world ought to demonstrate the need to exclude hostile nations. Foreign aid is essentially political. At one level we may offer our help from "pure" motives, but we hope to win friends and improve our stature in the world as fringe benefits. Hence nations compete to provide the best foreign aid. This impetus seems essential to disaster assistance. Thus the Griefbusters force should be under the political control of the United States and our allies. If the Soviet Union decides to create an Eastern bloc rescue team, no harm will be done. It would be better for the superpowers to compete for the affections of the world with aid to disaster-stricken nations than by supplying arms. The Soviet Union's past failure to provide major disaster assistance indicates, however, that their interest in the field is limited.
The burden of paying for the force wouldn't have to fall exclusively on our shoulders. We could contribute the budget of the OFDA, and convince our European allies to pitch in with the sums they contribute to parallel agencies. The cost should be distributed more equitably among wealthy nations than the NATO budget. We could also ask Japan to bear a disproportionately large share of the burden. Japan spends slightly more than one-tenth per capita what the United States does on our common defense—the nuclear umbrella. As an excuse, they hide behind a clause in the constitution we wrote for them, which prohibits significant military expenditures. But they could have no plausible objection to contributing to lifesaving instead of defense. And it would help bolster Japan's sagging international image.
UNDRO could continue to assist in predicting and preventing disasters and in coordinating long-term redevelopment plans with the U.N. Disaster Program. Griefbusters need not address the larger issues of long-term development; that should remain the province of USAID, The force would simply respond to the immediate imperative of saving as many lives as possible in the wake of a tragedy. If such a crew were around today, we might be listening to Mexico's thanks—instead of its requests for more body bags.
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Plant Biologist Works to Support Biodiversity
By Patrick Verel on March 28, 2011 Faculty Profiles, Inside Fordham
James D. Lewis, Ph.D., studies both man-made and natural threats to biodiversity.
Photo by Patrick Verel
Sometimes, a wingless insect that’s only slightly larger than the period at the end of this sentence is all it takes to throw an ecosystem out of whack.
Take the hemlock woolly adelgid. The insect, which is similar to an aphid, is ravaging Eastern hemlock forests by sucking nutrients from trees and simultaneously injecting them with a toxin against which they have no natural defense.
James D. Lewis, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, said this activity has the potential to disrupt a lot more than just the life of one type of plant.
“If we lose the hemlock, we’ll see a potentially dramatic shift in the structure of the forest. We’re going to lose a habitat for animals; we’re going to lose the coolness that’s associated with hemlocks in the summertime and the warmth that’s associated with hemlock in the wintertime,” he said.
Thanks to the research that Lewis and his colleagues are conducting at the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., people have a better understanding of threats to biodiversity such as the woolly adelgid. When a hemlock dies, for instance, it sets off a domino effect, much of which is hidden from the naked eye.
On the trees’ roots are mycorrhizal fungi, which help them absorb minerals in exchange for carbohydrates. If the trees die, the fungi starve, and with fewer fungi in the system, trees that are not hemlocks have an increasingly difficult time growing.
Then there’s the nitrogen released by the dead tree. It can be a valuable nutrient for other plants, but too much can pollute water systems. Excess nitrogen, Lewis said, is one of the biggest threats to the reservoirs that supply New York City.
“It’s part of the reason they’ve discussed building a $10-20 billion filtering plant,” he said.
If hemlocks do not survive adelgid infestations, they’ll join elms and chestnuts on a list of species that were once plentiful in the Northeast but now are rare. When it comes to invasive species, there is no shortage of subjects to study, as even maple trees, the source of fall foliage and syrup, are being attacked by Asian long-horned beetles.
In addition to invasive species, Lewis focuses on man-made threats to biodiversity, from the mundane (people trampling plants) to the massive (global warming). All pose threats that are poorly understood but potentially have grave consequences.
“Typically, communities that have more biodiversity are more stable,” Lewis said. “They persist for longer and they’re more capable of withstanding disturbances like a hurricane or a drought. Communities that have very little biodiversity are much more prone to going extinct if disturbed by climatic events, fires or humans.”
Along with nitrogen, phosphorus is the other key plant nutrient that Lewis has studied. A paper he co-wrote, “Phosphorus Supply Drives Nonlinear Responses of Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) to Increases in CO2 Concentration from Glacial to Future Concentrations” (New Phytologist, 2010), has received a great deal of attention in Australia and Africa, where phosphorus, in contrast to North America and Europe, is more commonly limiting than nitrogen.
He wanted to know how cottonwood—a tree widely used for paper and pulp—reacts when levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) rise but supplies of phosphorus dip. Experts predict that at the current rate it is being mined, phosphorus supplies will be exhausted in 20 years, so Lewis said it’s important to know if the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere—which have been rising—might help offset this loss.
“Cottonwood exists from the East Coast all the way to the West Coast, so we thought to look at that as a potential canary in the coal mine,” he said. “If we start seeing phosphorus limitation become an issue, what might happen, and how might the forest respond to it?”
The study, which took 20 years to complete, revealed that increased CO2 does not make a very large difference in dogwoods with poor levels of phosphorus, a finding that should serve as a wake-up call, he said.
Increased urbanization is another challenge to biodiversity, and for this research, Lewis said New York City is a great laboratory. From the heat island effects of concentrated asphalt, steel and glass to increases in nitrogen from industry and CO2 from vehicles, the influences that cities have on plants is voluminous.
“You have all these indirect effects from people, so teasing those things apart can be really challenging. But that’s what makes it exciting, because then you have all these things you can look at. It’s not just that we’re going to look at how water or nitrogen affects plants. We have all these things we can play with to determine how plants are being affected by humans.”
Lewis said working with local land managers also gives them a chance to make a real difference in the quest to preserve biodiversity.
“They’ll say, ‘We have a preserve that’s 50 acres and surrounded by subdivisions. What can we do to protect the species that are there? What do we do to manage the plants so we can have birds and butterflies and bees and the things that people really enjoy seeing?’” he said.
“We can go in and start to tease apart the threads, and start to see what the key things are they have to focus on.”
As for future research, Lewis is interested in the effects of droughts on local ecosystems. Although droughts are mostly a West Coast phenomenon in the United States, they do happen periodically in the East.
“If we have a drought, and then we layer on top of that the heat island effect, and we layer on top of that a temperature change associated with climate change, we’re potentially pushing these plants beyond what they can handle,” he said.
“We’ve started looking to see to what extent is drought killing the trees around here, and to what extent does drought make trees more susceptible to pests like the emerald ash bore and the hemlock woolly adelgid?”
“We deal with a lot of really morbid issues in the lab,” he joked. “We should call it the plant morbidity lab.”
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Fordham Campuses Recall Victims of 9/11
By Patrick Verel on September 12, 2011 In the News, Inside Fordham, University News
Cait Hynes, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education Photo By Michael Dames
On a day when the entire country came together to mourn those lost in terrorist attacks a decade ago, the Fordham University community marked the occasion with full slate of memorials and masses.
While the ceremonies on Sunday, Sept. 11, focused on remembering the 39 Fordham students and alumni who died that day, they likewise emphasized Christian messages of peace, forgiveness and love.
More than 1,500 people gathered at masses at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses for anniversary remembrances and a traditional Mass of the Holy Spirit celebrated by Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham.
On what he called the “solemn and somber day for our nation,” Father McShane drew his homily from the Book of Sirach and the Gospel of Matthew, declaring that “living well is the best revenge.”
“God’s first impulse is always to show mercy, and to act with compassion. God is quick to forgive those who forgive others and reach out and love,” he said.
“In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, we are all of us called to live life not with conspicuous consumption, and not to engage in the wrath of shock and awe. Rather we are called to live lives of conspicuous compassion, to give ourselves over to programs of charity, self sacrifice and love. If we live our lives in this way, I assure you that the terrorists of Sept. 11 win nothing.”
At Rose Hill, the University church was filled beyond capacity with students, community and members of the Security Traders Association of New York (STANY), who had attended a memorial luncheon hosted by John Tognino (FCLS ’75), chairman of Fordham’s Board of Trustees.
The luncheon honored some 44 STANY members who were killed, and another 164 who were inducted posthumously into STANY from firms like Cantor Fitzgerald, Keefe Bruyette & Woods and the New York Stock Exchanges. For Arthur Pacheco, a senior managing director for Bear Stearns at the time, it was a time for personal catharsis.
“I hired some of those kids; they were like my own children,” he said. “We may never have closure for what happened, but we all need consolation as we continue to make sense of it.”
John Tognino, chairman of Fordham’s Board of Trustees. Photo By Bruce Gilbert
Tognino, former executive vice president of global sales and member affairs at NASDAQ, described the chaos of that day and the shutdown of the nation’s trade and financial houses following the attack. He recounted the extraordinary efforts by STANY and the financial communities—some of which lost entire offices of employees—to get back up and running.
“Hundreds of our colleagues were missing,” said Tognino, who was in lower Manhattan on 9/11. “But the tragedy brought out the best in us. There was no shortage of heroes.”
After the mass, a procession of alumni, students, faculty, administrators and community members led by a color guard stretched from one end of the campus to the other. Those wishing to pay respects at Fordham’s 9/11 memorial in Finlay Gardens carried white carnations and yellow roses along a walkway lined with American flags. Students from Fordham’s interreligious council read the names of all 39 alumni and students who were killed on that day.
At Lincoln Center, community members attended an evening mass at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle and then walked silently to the 9/11 memorial on the Robert Moses Plaza for a candlelight vigil.
In addition to a reading of the names of those who perished that day, those assembled listened to Cait Hynes, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education, speak publically for the first time about her father Walter Hynes.
Hynes, a captain from Ladder 13, Engine 22 of the New York City Fire Department, was one of 343 members of the FDNY to die in the collapse of the World Trade Center. After a decade of silence, she said she decided to speak so as to better preserve the memory of him.
“I was only 12 years old when my dad died, but I will never forget the type of person he was and what he meant to me” she said, noting that he was also a lawyer and an owner of the Harbor Lights Pub in Rockaway, Queens.
“Even though he was always busy, he always had time for me and my sisters. He was always there to cheer us on at our soccer games, treat us to ice cream, take the family to Disney world or just help me with my math homework,” she said. “My dad was the type of person who truly lived his life for others.”
Eight men in her father’s fire company died that day, and Hynes said it was important to note that the bravery and selflessness they displayed that day was not unusual. That knowledge, and the love and compassion that everyone from fellow community members to total strangers have shown her, have helped tremendously, she said.
“I believe that through the people I have met, I have come to know the bond of human love,” she said.
“You will never hear me say I am glad 9/11 happened. I would give anything to go back in time and see my dad again. But for all the pain and all the tears, I can still appreciate the good things that came from that day. Over the past ten years, I have met people who I may have never otherwise known—people of every color, creed, age, nationality and walk of life. The stories of their generosity and compassion are far too numerous to tell.”
At a reception afterward, Joseph Pellicone, a senior at Fordham College at Lincoln Center from Monmouth County, N.J., reminisced about how he was attending fifth grade at the time. Although no one from his family was killed, a classmate’s father was on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pa.
“I just remember confusion. We saw some kids going home, and not knowing what was the cause of it, and at the end, we found out about the trade center going down,” he said.
“My uncle worked right near there, and I remember him telling us how he ran from the towers. My uncle has always had problems with his legs, and the fact that he was able to keep running and he made it out okay, is just a miracle.”
Chantal Freeman, an FCLS junior from Chicago who sang in the choir at the mass, felt she needed to spend the day coming together and sharing with other people.
“It’s a time when we have to really take a step back and realize how we were in the world, and how consumed we are with ourselves in a way,” she said. “But it also brought us together, made us a stronger country in terms of loving our country.”
On Saturday, the University celebrated a Day of Service, in keeping with the call byPresident Obama “reclaim that spirit of unity” in the country.
Some 130 students from Rose Hill volunteered in the Bronx doing gardening, hosting a car wash and working in local soup kitchens. Before heading out to work on projects at the New York Botanical Garden, the Bainbridge Garden, Crotona Point Park and the Moshulu Parkway, they listened to talks by the Reverend Erika Crawford, Protestant chaplain in the department of campus ministry and Orlando Rodriguez, Ph.D., a professor of sociology who lost his son in the attacks and was the subject of a forthcoming documentary, In Our Son’s Name.
Heidi Hynes, executive director of the Mary Mitchell Center in the Crotona section of the Bronx also spoke, and she appealed to students to think of violence outside the confines of the one-on-one type exemplified by 9/11, and think about persistent inequality as a form of social violence.
(Inside Fordham senior writer Janet Sassi contributed to this story.)
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First billionaire Soros – now Rockefeller also enters the world of crypto
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Big investors seem to think that cryptocurrencies are becoming more and more interesting.
Although he said that cryptocurrencies are a bubble just a few months ago, it was recently revealed that the legendary investor and billionaire George Soro’s investment firm are getting ready to start trading cryptocurrencies.
Now another giant seems to be preparing to throw themselves into the world of crypto.
It is the venture capital company Venrock, which is owned by the wealthy American family Rockefeller, that is looking into investments in the crypto world. Venrock has since they started their business for about half a century ago focused on investments in technology and science. Famous companies like Apple and Intel are among the ones they have invested in, writes Bitcoin News.
Venrock has announced a partnership with Coinfund, an investor group that focuses exclusively on newly started cryptocurrency companies.
“There are a lot of crypto traders in the market. There are a lot of cryptocurrency hedge funds. This is different. In fact, to us, it looks a little bit more like venture capital”, said David Pakman, a Venrock partner, in the show “Balancing The Ledger” at Fortune.
Pakman sees great potential in the blockchain technology, not least because it enables cutting out the middle hand. According to Pakman, Venrock is in crypto for the long term.
“Gatekeepers tend to charge rent or toll on users. The benefit of the advent of crypto is that we have fewer gatekeepers”, said David Pakman.
He believes that today there are only a few people in the venture capital industry, which he calls gatekeepers, who calls the shots. This is something that he wishes would change.
“I don’t believe that a small group of people should make the decisions about which projects can raise some money and get off the ground”, he said in the show.
Previously, other macro managers also have begun to look into investing in cryptocurrencies.
John Burbank, who closed his main fund last year, plans to raise $150 million for two crypto funds.
And billionaire Alan Howard has, separate from his firm, invested big sums in cryptocurrencies last year, and plans continue with that, writes Bloomberg.
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Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to the United States to Address Students, Public at UHD
François Rivasseau, Ph.D., deputy head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to the United States, will address UHD students and the Houston community at a public reception Tuesday, June 23, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the UHD Library.
The event, hosted by the French Consulate of Houston and the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) will provide attendees the opportunity to learn about current international relations and ask a world leader about the future of trans-Atlantic operations, particularly at the close of President Obama's presidency.
Rivasseau has spent much of his career working on disarmament, security and multilateral affairs. Prior to joining the Delegation, he served as deputy head of Diplomatic Mission at the French Embassy to the U.S.
Rivasseau received the Chevalier of the French Order of the Legion of Honour, the Officer of the French Order of Merit, and the Chevalier of the German Order of Merit (second degree). He holds degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux and the University of Bordeaux III, as well as a doctorate in law from the University of Bordeaux I.
Due to limited space, RSVP by Friday, June 19 to ensure a seat.
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What’s Going On In … Kampala, Uganda
by Audrey McGlinchy
Founded as the Buganda kingdom, Kampala is the present-day capital of Uganda and home to 2.5 million people. It was severely damaged during the Uganda-Tanzania war under Idi Amin in the late 70s, the urban center has since been reconstructed. The city’s limits form a circle into which Lake Victoria juts, carving out a hole in the southeastern portion of Uganda’s largest city.
The Goodlyfe Crew is part of the digital reggae scene (sometimes referred to as dancehall), an ever-popular genre in Uganda. The duo, made up of Moses Radio and Weasel, got their start as backup singers for Jose Chameleone, a hip-hop artist whose work has seen international attention since the early 2000s. In 2008 Radio and Weasel broke off to make their own sound, such as in “Kuku.”
This year, Kampala will bid to be called a UNESCO City of Literature. The city’s application stands, in part, on the work of Okot p’Bitek, a Ugandan poet who passed away in 1982. Born in northern Uganda and later a professor in Kampala, p’Bitek’s “Song of Lawino” denounces Western influence and the loss of storytelling and singing in traditional cultures.
The emphasis on oral traditions in P’Bitek’s work laid ground for the subject of “Somebody Clap for Me,” a short film that documents the budding performance poetry scene in Kampala. Watch the 10-minute work of Qatari filmmaker Luciana Farah above.
Unofficially a capital of pork, roasted and fried varieties of the meat are widely available throughout Kampala. The East African, an online news publication based in Kenya, writes “there are probably as many roast pork joints as there are bars in Kampala.” Read more here.
The Ggaba section of Kampala bounds a northern portion of Lake Victoria and serves as the city’s landing port for ships. Here you can grab fresh tilapia from the market and count the boats as they file into the dock at sundown.
Samson Mwaka, 2011
Since taking office as President of Uganda in 1986, Yoweri Museveni has been diverting his country away from chaos, and is often praised for his effective response to the region’s full-blown HIV/AIDS crisis. Following claims of bullying during the 2006 election, Museveni’s re-election campaign in 2011 took on a more playful tone: the incumbent made a rap video, while supporters held up posters of Museveni depicted as Rambo.
Luggage: Isabella Bishop Bird
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Section's Big Gift Brightens Welding's Future
The American Welding Society and the AWS Foundation announced June 13 that the Lou DeFreitas $60,000 scholarship fund, endowed by the Santa Clara Valley Section, will enable the foundation to award $3,000 in scholarships to welding students in the section annually. This is the largest original section-endowed scholarship in the society's history.
The Santa Clara Valley Section is responsible for the awards process, including setting the criteria for the grants and selecting the awardees. "We are honored that our Santa Clara Valley Section has committed their time and funds to establish this significant scholarship and assist AWS in our mission to help aspiring welders become trained," said Sam Gentry, the foundation's executive director. "In addition, with this endowment, this section celebrates a man who is a true inspiration to the current and future welders of this country. Louis DeFreitas made significant contributions to the welding industry, not only as a published author and teacher, but also as a mentor, role model, and an active volunteer member of the American Welding Society."
DeFreitas learned welding at a Massachusetts vocational high school and later became a professor and chairman of the Welding Technology Department at the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, Calif, where he taught more than 3,000 students and graduated more than 350 with B.S. and engineering degrees, AWS said. Since its inception in 1989, the foundation has awarded some $3.4 million to nearly 2,200 students seeking careers in welding and allied processes. Its most significant scholarship fund, the Ronald C. and Joyce Pierce Mobile Section Named Scholarship, was established by a $50,000 initial sponsorship. "With only four section-named scholarships in existence, this group has become a model for other sections in the AWS family to follow and demonstrates the power that exists at the section level," Gentry said. "Our sections' efforts not only drive this widespread and dynamic industry forward, but also help to solve a critical skills shortage across the country by providing for the recruitment, mentoring, and career development of welding students."
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EU Foreign Policy Chief Wants European Coast Guard to Protect Migrants
Federica Mogherini said that she is most concerned with migrants' rights, as Europe has been overwhelmed with foreigners pouring into the continent.
Federica Mogherini, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, said at a press conference on Monday that Frontex, the European coast guard, should protect migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa and the Middle East to enter Europe.
A reporter at the event asked Mogherini about Frontex’s practice of detaining migrants attempting to sneak into Europe.
“We are working so much with the IUM and the UNHCR to guarantee that [migrants] have access to these centers where living conditions appear to be inhumane, to improve the living conditions of the migrants, to protect their lives and their rights,” Mogherini said to the press.
Mogherini cited UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi, saying that the EU needed to change the “logic of detention,” and she criticized the EU for not following Grandi’s words.
The EU’s foreign policy chief lamented the conditions that migrants face as they cross into Europe and called for the continent to do more to help those to cross from Africa and the Middle East. “The work the European Union is doing with the UN agencies, with the international NGOs, is exactly to protect the migrants,” she said.
In order to alleviate the crisis, Mogherini said the EU would help those who wanted to “voluntarily return” to their home countries, but made no mention of those who wished to stay in Europe.
Europe has experienced a migration crisis for years as countries in North Africa and the Middle East collapse into civil war, with millions of migrants pouring into European countries every year. The crisis has fueled a nationalist backlash across the continent as voters seek to more effectively close their borders.
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New Year’s Luck—and How to Keep Safe, 1950s Style
Posted on January 8, 2014 by nyamhistorymed
Bert Hansen, professor of history at Baruch College and author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America, wrote today’s guest post. Dr. Hansen will give a Friends of the Rare Book Room talk, “Louis Pasteur: Exploring His Life in Art,” on January 14. Join the Friends and register for the talk by clicking here.
At the start of every New Year, people’s attention turns to health and safety (a popular New Year’s resolution is to lose weight). And as we again confront the passage of time, thinking about what’s permanent and what is not, ephemera come to mind. Printed materials of temporary use, when they have luckily been saved and not casually discarded, are especially important for historians as sources to understand ordinary people’s life in the past.
In that spirit, it is a pleasure to share with blog followers a sampling of Lucky Safety Cards from the 1950s, recently donated to NYAM’s Rare Books and Special Collections.
Card 45, featuring Popeye. Click to enlarge.
Distributed free in newspapers around 1953, these 2-by-4-inch cards featured characters from popular comic strips and offered ways to be smart and prevent accidents.1 Although children appear in the frame with such cartoon characters at Popeye, Dagwood Bumstead, and the Katzenjammer Kids, it seems likely the messages were aimed at adults as well since people of all ages read newspaper comic strips assiduously.
With vivid two-color printing and graphic styles characteristic of the time, these little collectibles vividly illustrate the history of a popular public health campaign in the decade after World War II. It may not be a coincidence that during the war, cartoon and comic strip figures had been used on health and safety posters and in military instruction and recruitment.2
Modern readers may be struck by the formality of language and styles of dress, quite different than the comics’ drawing styles and casual language used from the 1960s onward. And if the points appear less flashy than modern public service announcements, we would still do well to heed most of their concerns. Each card supplements the illustration with two short texts: a very brief general rule at the bottom (suitable for memorization, perhaps) and a more concrete explanation within the frame. The rules were often puns or contained a rhyme.
“Caution, care, and common sense / eliminate home accidents.”
“Use your ears, eyes, and knows.”
“The right-of-way isn’t worth dying for.”
“Don’t learn the traffic laws by accident.”
“A slip for a trip / may break a hip.”
Each card carried a safety slogan number from 1 to 48 identifying its message (and perhaps encouraging people to collect a complete set), along with a unique serial number. The serial numbers were part of a lottery offering cash prizes. Readers were advised to check for the winning numbers in the newspaper.
It is not clear how many newspapers distributed Lucky Safety Cards. All the examples in NYAM’s collection come from three newspapers: the Albany Times-Union, the Baltimore News-Post and American, and the New York Journal-American.
The Academy holds 31 of the 48 published cards. Missing numbers are 5, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 37, 39, and 40. If you have one of the missing cards and want to help fill the seventeen gaps in the set, donations will be warmly received and greatly appreciated.
Card 1, with Jiggs from “Bringing Up Father.”
Card 2, with Dagwood Bumstead from “Blondie.”
Card 3, featuring the Katzenjammer Kids.
Card 4, featuring Little Iodine.
Although in the truest sense of the word, these cards were ephemeral, historians and artists now—and long into the future—will have permanent access to them thanks to modern conservation and preservation practices in the Academy Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections.
April 2014 update:
Thanks to a “New Yorker who enjoys flea markets,” our set of Lucky Safety Cards is one card closer to completion. Here’s card No. 24 from the set.
Lucky Safety Card 24. Click to enlarge.
Our collection now includes cards 13, 17, 29, and 39, thanks to Diane DeBlois and Robert Harris. Just 12 more cards to go!
1. For a handy orientation to the wide range of advice and information in comics formats, see Sol Davidson, “Educational Comics: A Family Tree,” in the open-access journal ImageTexT 4:2, Supplement (2008) at http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v4_2/davidson/.
2. Michael Rhode, “She may look clean, but. . . . Cartoons Played an Important Role in the Military’s Health-Education Efforts during World War II,” Hogan’s Alley, 8 (Fall 2000).
Two entries in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine ed. by Michael Sappol, Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine / New York: Blast Books, 2012: “Malaria Pinup Calendars (1945): Frank Mack, for the U.S. Army,” on pp. 172-173, by Sport Murphy, and “Commandments for Health (1945): Hugh Harman Productions, for the U.S. Navy,” on pp. 174-175, by Michael Rhode.
Many fascinating examples are listed in a ten-page finding aid for materials in the Otis Archives Collections, “Cartoons and Comics in the National Museum of Health and Medicine” by Michael Rhode, which may be accessed in PDF format at http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm?p=collections.archives.collections.index.
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joannevalentinesimson on January 11, 2014 at 4:57 PM said:
Fascinating! I don’t have any of those cards, but I do have a book by Munro Leaf, “Health Can Be Fun” done with that two-color (black and red) printing) in cartoon style from 1943. I remember reading through it many times as a child.
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The Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the “Gospel of Rehabilitation”
Posted on August 27, 2018 by nyamhistory
Today we have a guest post written by Ms. Julie M. Powell, 2018 recipient of the Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health. Ms. Powell is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University, her dissertation topic explores the growth of wartime rehabilitation initiatives for disabled soldiers and the rhetoric that accompanied and facilitated this expansion.
In May 1917, one month after the United States joined the First World War, the American Red Cross created the Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men to “build up re-educational facilities which might be of value to the crippled soldiers and sailors of the American forces.”[1] To this end, Director Douglas McMurtrie (1888–1944) collected approximately 3,500 separate books, pamphlets, reports, and articles from the European continent, North America, and the United Kingdom and its Dominions. He and his research staff pored over the documents, authoring reports, news articles, and lectures that were subsequently fed back into circulation both in the United States and abroad. A look at the collection and the work of the Institute provides a window into the development of rehabilitative care in the early twentieth century, demonstrating that transnational medical networks operated and expanded throughout the war and that the transmission of information and ideology often went hand in hand.
The Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, 1918.
The proliferation of literature on rehabilitation (including surgical amputation, orthopaedics, prosthetic design, physical therapy, and vocational re-education) can be attributed both to a sense of urgency—20 million men were wounded in the war—and to the relative newness of the field. The first orthopaedic institute was created in Munich in 1832 and the next in Copenhagen in 1872 but these, and others that followed, focused exclusively on care for disabled children. The first significant moves toward the retraining of adults were taken up in the two decades before the war. In 1897, in Saint Petersburg, disabled men began to be trained in the manufacture of orthopaedic devices and in 1908, with the founding of a school in Charleroi, Belgium, the industrially maimed were taught bookbinding, shoe repair, basket making, and more. The first retraining school for invalided soldiers was created in December 1914 in Lyon, France, four months after the outbreak of hostilities. The school provided the inspiration for over 100 similar schools throughout France. The period 1915–1917 saw a proliferation of orthopaedic and re-education institutions throughout Europe and the western world. It was on these models that the Red Cross Institute was founded.
The first institution of its kind in the United States, the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men resided at 311 Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South) in New York. Disabled men, either funded by the U.S. Army or attending through no-interest loans, trained in four trades: welding, mechanical drafting, printing, and the manufacture of artificial limbs. McMurtrie and his staff hosted meetings of disabled men—punctuated by cake and ice cream—wherein testimonials from the recently rehabilitated served as recruitment tools for the Institute.
But the broadest impact of the Institute came from its crusade to spread what McMurtrie referred to as the “gospel of rehabilitation”—an insistence on returning the disabled man to independence and self-sufficiency that he might eschew charity and compete fairly in the labor marketplace. Such notions were deeply rooted in classical liberalism, a foil to large-scale social welfare programs that would only emerge in the wake of the Second World War. In The Disabled Soldier, McMurtrie wrote plainly:
When the crippled soldier returns from the front, the government will provide for him, in addition to medical care, special training for self-support. But whether this will really put him back on his feet depends on what the public does to help or hinder, on whether the community morally backs up the national program to put the disabled soldier beyond the need of charity… In light of results already obtained abroad in the training of disabled soldiers, the complete elimination of the dependent cripple has become a constructive and inspiring possibility. Idleness is the great calamity. Your service to the crippled man, therefore, is to find for him a good busy job, and encourage him to tackle it. Demand of the cripple that he get back in the work of the world, and you will find him only too ready to do so.[2]
A reproduction (right) of part of McMurtrie’s poster exhibit for the Institute featuring the liberal “gospel of rehabilitation”: self-sufficiency, competition, and independence from charity.
McMurtrie’s gospel sounded the same notes as the works of U.S. Allies across the pond, whose material he’d spent years collecting. In 1918, famed novelist, advocate of the war wounded, and editor for the rehabilitation journal Reveille, John Galsworthy warned against the perils of charity, of “drown[ing] the disabled in tea and lip gratitude” and thereby “unsteel[ing] his soul.” Rather, he wrote:
We shall so re-create and fortify…[the disabled soldier] that he shall leave hospital ready for a new career. Then we shall teach him how to tread the road of it, so that he fits again into the national life, becomes once more a workman with pride in his work, a stake in the country, and the consciousness that, handicapped though he be, he runs the race level with his fellows, and is by that so much the better man than they.[3]
John Galsworthy, Wikipedia.org.
Douglas McMurtrie, LibraryThing.com
Such rhetoric was of a piece with appeals from British Minister of Pensions, John Hodge, for the restoration of men to “industrial independence,” that they might “hold their own in the industrial race.”[4]
When McMurtrie invited the world’s newly-minted experts in rehabilitation to New York in 1919, they shared—as they had through pamphlets, pictures, and films—not just information but ideology. Discussions on war surgery and the organization of rehabilitation schemes unfolded side-by-side with talks on public education and encouragement of the disabled to train.
Such propaganda efforts were critical. According to McMurtrie: “The self-respect of self-support or the ignominy of dependence—which shall the future hold for our disabled soldiers?” The credit or blame, he held, would rest with a public that either demanded self-sufficiency or patronized its men with charity.
[1] Douglas C. McMurtrie, The Organization, Work and Method of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men (New York: The Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, 1918).
[2] Douglas McMurtrie, The Disabled Soldier (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919), 37.
[3] John Galsworthy, “Foreword,” The Inter-allied Conference on the After-Care of Disabled Men: Reports Presented to the Conference (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1918): 13–17. Reprinted in his book of essays Another Sheaf (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919).
[4] John Hodge, “The Training of Disabled Men: How We Are Restoring Them to Industrial Independence,” Windsor Magazine no. 281 (1918): 569–571.
[5] McMurtrie, The Disabled Soldier, 75.
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Side Effects May Include
By Emily Miranker, Events & Projects Manager
You’re curled up on your couch watching the latest episode of a favorite show when a commercial break comes along. An actor with amazingly white teeth goes from an unhappy to a happy face suddenly able to go about their regular life without discomfort, all thanks to Some Medication. As the ad spot wraps up, a soothing and fast-talking voice rattles off a litany of side effects: dizziness, loss of appetite, dry mouth, nausea, indigestion, insomnia, and so on.
Finding and Learning About Side Effects, FDA.gov.
I grew up used to the recitation of possible side effects and long lists of them stapled to prescriptions from the pharmacy. “Yeah, yeah; might get a headache…” But there is huge importance in a regular headache and a headache that presages something medically serious. Mrs. Anne St. C. of Buffalo, NY was not used to these warnings in the 1960s. Because they didn’t exist.
The inclusion of side effects, also called adverse events by the Food and Drug Administration, was an incredibly important milestone for patients and informed consumer choice. We owe these warning labels to another milestone event in public health; the oral contraceptive, the first of which was Enovid, approved for prevention of pregnancy in the United States in 1960.[1] This was a game changer for American women, and within two years 1.2 million women were taking the pill.[2]
Advertisement for Enovid. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 83 No. 3, February 1, 1962.
One of those women was Anne St. C.
Wife of a professor at a local [Buffalo, NY] university, mother of three and a user of the pill, [she] called her gynecologist and asked, “Is the pill safe? Should I be taking it?” Dr. K. snapped, “Of course, it’s all right for you to take the pill. If it weren’t, I’d never have prescribed it.” Anne did not tell the doctor the real reason why was she calling. In the preceding two weeks she had experienced several attacks of dizziness and double vision. She had also suffered from stiffness in the neck. If she had not been cowed by her doctor’s brusqueness, she might have detailed her symptoms. In that case, the doctor’s reaction might have been quite different. As it was, Anne had a stroke exactly eight days later.[3]
In that Anne survived her stroke, she was lucky. For other women, the side effects were fatal.
Two points about the world in which the oral contraceptives came to market. First, in assessing the safety of the pill, regulators focused on its “ability to prevent pregnancy because pregnancy and delivery were inherently medically risky”[4] and since the pill was effective in that objective, it met the law’s safety requirement. Second, the pill was approved before the dangers of thalidomide‑ discovered to cause birth defects in children whose mothers took it for morning sickness‑ were known and the consequent Kefauver Harris Amendment (“Drug Efficacy Amendment”) of 1962 passed.[5]
When Anne St. C. was taking the pill, doctor-patient relationships existed in the context of the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. That act required pharmaceutical companies to make information about drug safety available to physicians. When patients got information it was “through the filters of the prescribing physicians and the dispensing pharmacist.”[6] The balance of power rested with the medical practitioner. Come the late 1960s, the burgeoning feminist and consumer rights movements challenged the status quo of the doctor-patient relationship. The balance of power was questioned and began to shift.
Barbara Seaman, Alliance for Human Research Protection.
Journalist Barbara Seaman, exposed the dangers of the pill in her 1969 book The Doctors’ Case Against the Pill. She wrote that “a typical package insert that is supplied with one of the most popular oral contraceptives…lists more than 50 side effects of the pill, including a number that can be fatal…Relatively few women ever see these warnings because they are written for physicians; doctors or pharmacists usually remove them from the pill packages,” advocating that it was the patient’s privilege to decide. A woman was “entitled to know the risks and give her informed consent.”[7]
Seaman’s book brought the issue to the attention of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson (organizer of the first Earth Day). In January 1970 Nelson instigated Congressional hearings on the safety of the pill and the sufficiency of information about its side effects.[8] Attending the hearings, Seaman and fellow activist Alice Wolfson (both future founders of the National Women’s Health Network) were struck by “the fact that there were no women testifying and that there are no women on panel.”[9] Wolfson’s collective, D.C. Women’s Liberation, organized women to position themselves in the hearings’ audiences and outside the Capitol to voice their twofold concerns; the dangers of the pill and the exclusionary structure of the hearings. The feminist activists’ strategic interruptions at the hearings and protests outside the Capitol captured media attention.
D.C. Women’s Liberation demonstrators at the Nelson Hearings, 1970
Amid the media coverage the feminists brought, FDA Commissioner Dr. Charles Edwards announced on the final day of the hearings “that his agency planned to require a … package insert in every package of birth control pills … written by the FDA in lay language and directed to the patient.”[10] While compromise about the writing and scope of the inserts continued, the activists’ efforts laid the groundwork for the warnings that come with all prescription packages today. And today’s pills contain lower doses of hormones than the first Enovid pill.[11]
We continue this important work in increasing the public health literacy and access at the Academy with our Language Access in Chain Pharmacies project, which supports multilingual medication labels. Being able to understand firsthand how to use and any risks or side effect is immensely empowering for a patient and goes a long way to fostering trust in the healthcare system.
Special thanks to Allison Piazza for research assistance with this post.
[1] Suzanne White Junod. FDA’s Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive, Enovid. Update. 1998, July-August. https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/ProductRegulation/UCM593499.pdf Accessed July 9, 2018.
[2] Alexandra Nikolchev. A brief history of the birth control pill. Need to Know on PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/a-brief-history-of-the-birth-control-pill/480/ Published May 7, 2010. Accessed July 10, 2018.
[3] Barbara Seaman. The Doctors’ Case Against the Pill. New York: Peter H. Wyden, Inc., 1969: 109.
[4] Junod. https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/ProductRegulation/UCM593499.pdf Accessed July 12, 2018.
[5] Sam Peltzman. An Evaluation of Consumer Protection Legislation: The 1962 Drug Amendments. The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 81, No. 5. 1973 Sept-Oct.
[6] Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. Expanding Consumer Information: The Origin of the Patient Package Insert. Advancing Consumer Interest, Vol. 10, 1. 1998.
[7] Seaman, 9 & 15.
[8] Nikolchev. A brief history of the birth control pill. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/a-brief-history-of-the-birth-control-pill/480/ Accessed July 10, 2018.
[9] National Women’s Health Network. https://nwhn.org/pill-hearings/ Accessed July 12, 2018.
[10] Watkins. Expanding Consumer Information. 1998.
[11] Pamela Verma Liao. Half a century of the oral contraceptive pill. Can Fam Physician, Vol. 58, No. 12. 2012 December. Accessed August 24, 2018.
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Jenny Holzer’s piercing beacons of truth light up Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Tom Seymour Wallpaper* 29 March 2019
Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (22 March–9 September 2019). © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: José Miguel Llano.
Jenny Holzer was 26 when she arrived in New York. The freshman art student at the Whitney Museum had grown up in Gallipolis, Ohio, a sleepy town in America's Midwest, and had spent her early twenties jumping from place to place in search of her artistic identity. She started out as an abstract expressionist. Then she tried to capture the human form at its most explicit. But she was frustrated; the themes that animated her – sexual and physical violence against women, systemic abuses of power, meditations of love, lust and longing – could not be properly evoked by her canvas.
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Artist Profile Jenny Holzer
For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Her medium, whether formulated as a T-shirt, as a plaque, or as an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and up to her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and moral courage.
Holzer received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in 1996. She holds honorary degrees from Ohio University, Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New School, and Smith College. She received the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011.
Holzer lives and works in New York.
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Hong Kong’s online TV shambles
Posted: August 15, 2014 | Author: hongkongblogger | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 4G, broadband, HKTV, hong kong, internet TV, IT Pro Hong Kong, net TV, online TV, ricky wong, smart TV | Leave a comment
I’ve just finished a feature slightly out of my comfort zone – Hong Kong’s online TV market, or lack thereof.
The Chinese SAR has a huge appetite for net TV – you just have to get onto an MTR, visit a dim sum restaurant or try and get past a local ambling on the pavement whilst staring at their phablet, to realise that.
The former colony also has an ideal set-up – 4G is commonplace; the locals are pretty tech-savvy early adopter types relative to the rest of Asia; and broadband penetration is amongst the highest in the world.
Yet thus far it still doesn’t have its own online TV service. Hongkongers have to get their content from mainland China or further afield to satisfy their lust for internet telly.
Local entrepreneur Ricky Wong tried his best with HKTV but hit a brick wall in the form of a government shamelessly protecting the vested interests of the region’s incumbent broadcasters.
It’s a shame because this model of broadcasting, whilst probably never fully replacing traditional modes, will definitely come to play a major part in our content consuming lives over the next decade.
Gartner’s Terick Chiu explained to me that it’s not just the online TV players and content producers who stand to benefit.
“In their efforts to drive engagement with consumers, both incumbents and new entrants are likely to invest in the technology of second-screen applications. These applications are built on top of automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies, which enable an application to detect content metadata — usually contained in a digital watermark — and synchronise the application with the on-screen programming,” he said.
“For service providers and advertisers, these second-screen apps will become an important element of the future of TV, given their ability to provide an ongoing stream of information about consumer preferences and interests. These apps also enable a form of e-commerce or ‘embedded merchandising’, which links a viewer to products/services that are featured in video programming”.
IDC’s Greg Ireland, meanwhile, argued that internet TV would “usher in a new wave of competition” in the broadcast industry – which should spell good news for viewers.
“One item to watch is how these services, or other new services, emerge as ‘true’ competitors to traditional pay TV,” he told me. “That is, will any begin to license linear content and offer a pay TV service of live and on-demand content entirely over the internet?”
It’s going to happen sooner or later in Hong Kong, as around the world, so the government might as well get out of the way and let it happen now.
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Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in college admissions scandal, faces months behind bars
The charge carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison, though federal sentencing guidelines can bring that number down significantly for parents who acknowledge their crime, have a clean record and meet other criteria
Felicity Huffman faces months behind bars after the TV star pleaded guilty to a fraud scheme in the U.S. college admissions scandal, admitting she paid $15,000 to cheat on her eldest daughter’s entrance exam.
Huffman, who issued a pained apology last month, wept as she discussed her daughter’s learning disability with U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston. Prosecutors have said some parents falsely claimed their children needed extra time on the test as part of the scheme to boost their scores. In court Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen said they weren’t making such a claim about Huffman.
Huffman, 56, told Talwani: “We have been working with a neuropsychiatrist since my daughter was eight years old. She, like my daughter, didn’t know anything about this.”
Just before Huffman’s appearance, Devin Sloane, 53, a Los Angeles-based water-services executive, pleaded guilty. Five parents have now entered guilty pleas in the biggest college admissions scam the U.S. has ever prosecuted.
“Do you understand, then, that I may impose a sentence more severe than you anticipated?” Talwani told Huffman and Sloane in turn.
“Yes, your honor,” both responded.
Criminal Bookends
Like all 14 parents who have agreed to plead guilty, Huffman and Sloane are charged with a single count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest-services mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison, though federal sentencing guidelines can bring that number down significantly for parents who acknowledge their crime, have a clean record and meet other criteria. At least eight other parents are scheduled to plead guilty next week.
Huffman, who became famous starring in the eight-season ABC series “Desperate Housewives,” and Sloane make an odd pair of criminal bookends.
The star, with her A-list actor husband, William H. Macy of the Showtime series “Shameless,” allegedly paid ringleader William “Rick” Singer one of the smallest sums in the $25 million admissions-cheating ring. Sloane, the founder of the drinking- and waste-water company AquaTecture LLC, was accused of paying Singer $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as an international water polo player, when his school didn’t even have a team.
The evidence against Sloane includes what may be one of the most remarkable of the email conversations Singer had with clients, or the telephone calls he secretly recorded for the FBI before agreeing to plead guilty in return for leniency.
‘It’s Outrageous!’
When a guidance counselor at the high school Sloane’s son attended asked how the boy had been accepted as a water polo player, Sloane grew indignant at the question, according to an April 2018 email he sent Singer.
“The more I think about this, it is outrageous!” he wrote Singer. “They have no business or legal right considering all the students privacy issues to be calling and challenging/question [my son’s] application.”
A false athletic biography for Sloane’s son, allegedly drafted by a USC staffer, boasted he spent summers playing for the “Italian Junior National Team” and played in tournaments in Greece, Serbia and Portugal.
“He is small but he has a long torso but short strong legs plus he is fast which helps him win the draws to start play after goals are scored,” it read, according to court documents.
The endorsement was written by Donna Heinel, USC’s former senior associate athletic director, according to court documents. In exchange, Sloane wrote a $50,000 check to USC Women’s Athletics, prosecutors say.
When a USC official asked Sloane why he’d made the donation, Sloane bragged to Singer, he claimed it was to honor his late mother, an Olympic athlete he said had inspired his son’s interest in women’s athletics, according to a transcript.
Heinel has pleaded not guilty.
Huffman arrived at court without Macy, who isn’t accused of wrongdoing — although prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that the couple participated in the scheme together, making the payment in the guise of a donation “to provide educational and self-enrichment programs to disadvantaged youth.”
In a plea deal worked out just weeks after she was charged in March, prosecutors said they’re recommending Huffman serve four to 10 months in prison. Her lawyers said they’ll argue she should serve as little as no time at all and at most six months, since her payments didn’t exceed $15,000. Under Sloane’s plea deal, the government agreed to recommend 12 months.
Huffman is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 13. Sloane will face the judge on Sept. 10.
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Piché: Here's why we should stop planning for a new jail
Justin Piché
Barbed wire tops the fences of the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre on Innes Road. Wayne Cuddington / Postmedia
As one of many organizations that has called on the Ontario government to enact meaningful reforms to the penal system, The Criminalization and Punishment Education Project is pleased that Attorney General Yasir Naqvi is proceeding with measures designed to reduce the number of accused awaiting trial in remand centres. We’re also happy with his directives to limit the conditions imposed on those granted bail as a means of reducing breaches that often result in the unnecessary placement of people behind bars.
We hope Queen’s Park will continue with the work needed to diminish our province’s reliance on incarceration – including revisiting whether Ottawa needs a new and bigger jail.
If, as Naqvi himself recognizes, “even a brief period of detention in custody affects the mental, social and physical life of the accused and his family”; and if “jails are not the places you send somebody to get better. The right kinds of supports are in the community,”; then why are hundreds of millions of dollars that could otherwise be spent on addressing social inequality, preventing harm and supporting neighbourhood conflict resolution capacity being diverted – under the watch of his Cabinet colleague, Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde – towards building infrastructure that will sustain the proven failure of imprisonment for generations to come?
As more details about the new “multi-purpose” jail emerge in the weeks and months ahead, its proponents will continue to claim that the expansive and expensive facility will benefit our community by meeting the needs of prisoners, contributing to their rehabilitation and reintegration. During this process, new-jail supporters need to face the futility of their pursuit. They need to face the fact that this community has been here before.
For instance, when the decision to build the Innes Road jail was made, Progressive Conservative Allan Grossman – then Ontario’s minister for the department of Reform Institutions – declared that new regional detention centres would open “broad horizons for the introduction of intelligent and humane methods of meeting the needs of those who enter this door.” We don’t have to look very far to see how past visions of progressive humanization were run into the ground once implemented behind the razor wire.
If a greater emphasis on bail is to translate into less of a reliance on jail, Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre, and Lalonde, MPP for Ottawa-Orléans, need to get on the same page, and put in place the necessary community infrastructure to support this vision. Plans to build a new and bigger jail need to be thrown into the dustbin of history. There is a lot for us to learn from the past, and a lot we ought not to repeat.
Justin Piché, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, is a member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project and the No On Prison Expansion (#NOPE Initiative).
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Category Archives: Arizona
Aaron Hill, Arizona, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baseball, Blue Jays, MVP, Second base, Sports
Searching for Johnny Utah (aka Aaron Hill)
Aaron Hill might never be an MVP and his numbers have been in decline for a few years - he's still a damn likeable guy.
McGILLIGAN: When the 1991 action classic Point Break is on TV, which it seems to be every other weekend, I can’t help but watch. I’m compelled to do it. I know director Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker, but it doesn’t have the unbridled enthusiasm of Point Break.
Are there plot holes? For God’s sake its Keanu Reeves playing an ex-college football star turned FBI agent named Johnny Utah hunting down a pack of bank robbing surfers who dress in masks of ex-President’s to commit their crimes. Is the acting good? Who cares, it stars Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey – not to mention a weird cameo by Red Hot Chili peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis.
Despite some hilariously bad scenes (firing the gun in the air by Reeves is priceless), the thing Point Break has that most other movies don’t is likeability. You can so easily overlook all of its flaws because it’s desperately trying to entertain you.
The entire film feels like it would have been fun to make. I picture everyone on the set having a good time and laughing.
With these factors in mind, I would suggest Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Aaron Hill is the baseball equivalent of Point Break. If Hill is at bat in a game on TV, granted this doesn’t happen often living on the East Coast, I will stop and watch. I know the D-backs have Justin Upton, but I will stop for Hill. This is the equivalent of Point Break vs. The Hurt Locker.
Are there problems in Hill’s game similar to plot holes in Point Break? Absolutely. Hill has never been able to put together a season like he did in 2009 hitting .286 with 36 homeruns and 108 RBI. After missing time with a concussion, Hill has seen his average and power decline dramatically. He’s always been a pretty solid defender. However, he puts together flashes of brilliance every once in a while that makes you forget about some issues. His most recent was a two homerun, three RBI game April 7 in a 5-4 win over the rival San Francisco Giants. Unlike The Hurt Locker, Hill isn’t going to win the MVP/Oscar, but he’s still capable of carrying you threw a tough Saturday just like Point Break on a rainy weekend.
Finally, Hill has the same likeability as Point Break. In the same way I picture everyone laughing it up on set, I picture Hill going to the ballpark with enthusiasm each day. He just seems like the type of guy who gets it. He knows how privileged he is to play the game for a living, works hard at it and appreciates it. I always get the impression that some players view it as a right and think they actually deserve the gobs of money thrown their way to play a game. Hill always appears to be a professional, out there playing hard and giving a solid effort. Just like Point Break never disappoints. You know what you’re getting from both and as long as you’re aware of it, you should get plenty of entertainment from watching.
Tagged Aaron Hill, Arizona, Bad movies, Baseball, Blue Jays, Diamondbacks, Fantasy baseball, Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Point Break, World Series
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Category Archives: LA Dodgers
Dominican Republic, Giants, LA Dodgers, Moto, Pitcher, San Francisco
Guillermo Mota, welcome to the Hall of Shame
Giants pitcher Guillermo Mota was handed a 100-game suspension for a second violation of the MLB’s drug policy. Well done Mota.
LIVINGSTONE: Congratulations, Guillermo Mota, on your recent entry into the history books – of embarrassment.
Not just personal embarrassment, but embarrassment to a professional sport trying to move on from a dark period where the asterisk could be applied to many records and individual player statistical lines for about two decades (see: Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Lenny Dykstra, etc.)
So you’re the third player in baseball history to test positive for a banned substance twice. The other two? Oakland A’s outfielder Manny ‘I’m going to quit baseball abruptly instead of facing another embarrassing moment in my career’ Ramirez and former Detroit Tiger Neifi Perez. Yeah, I don’t really know the latter either, he apparently made some big double play on a Justin Verlander no-hitter in 2007, a month before being nailed for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.
So, Mota, you’re now, again, among the most dishonorable in baseball. In fact, you’re among an elite group of players who thought they wouldn’t get caught a second time. You’re 38 years old, so the excuse of ‘I didn’t know what was being injected into me’ or ‘I thought it was just vitamins’ doesn’t really fly. You’ve been around long enough to know when something is wrong and, I’d hope, ask questions when someone is about to inject you with something. However, it’s quite possible you just turned a blind eye and said ‘whatever, I’ve got to keep playing’.
Either way, you are among the embarrassing few in baseball who continue to remove a little bit of what purity in the sport is left. Thankfully, you’re not a big name player, like Rodriguez or Clemens or Manny, who have helped lead teams to the promise land. Well, you did win the World Series in 2010 when you were with the Giants, but you struggled and didn’t really help out in winning that series. Thankfully, you fall into the category of semi-no names like Jay Gibbons and former Colorado Rockies pitcher Dan Serifini who were handed 50-game suspensions after failing drug tests.
It’s sad really. In 2012, after all that has gone on with steroids and performance-enhancing drugs – and watching Roger Clemens drag his whole image through the mud being the stubborn man he is – you’d think players would want to avoid this kind of embarrassment – not only for themselves but for their teams, the players and all of professional baseball. The bad example players like Mota set, the win at all costs way of life, will fall on impressionable young players to seek out the same products to make them better ball players.
Whatever the case may be, Mota is another one of those guys we just can’t wait to retire, disappear into the sunset, never to be heard from again.
Tagged Dodgers, Giants, Manny Ramirez, Mets, Moto, PEDs, suspension
Andre Ethier, Dodgers, Joe Maddon, LA Dodgers, Matt Joyce, Matt Kemp, Rays, Tampa Bay
Andre Ethier and Matt Joyce two big surprises in young season
Andre Ethier is benefiting from Matt Kemp's Superman start to the season - and if it continues, he could be one of the biggest surprises of the season come September.
McGILLIGAN: This season has been full of surprises. It’s May and the Baltimore Orioles are still playing well, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim look terrible and none of the early season favourites – the exception being the Texas Rangers – look like the teams everyone expected them to be.
I know it’s early, but here are two players having surprising seasons that aren’t getting a lot of talk for different reasons.
The first is outfielder Andre Ethier. While he’s a been a solid major leaguer for several years, he’s off to a great start in 2012. While his solid play is not shocking, the tiny amount of fanfare its received is.
With Matt Kemp playing like Clark Kent’s alter ego, Ethier has been in the shadows hitting in the slot behind Kemp. Ethier is benefiting from Kemp’s great start, but has also played an intricate role in it. His ability to drive in runs means pitchers simply can’t intentionally walk Kemp because Ethier will burn them. His average with runners in scoring position this season is .391. He’s also amassed the National League’s second most RBI with 24, just one behind Kemp.
Ethier is on pace to break his personal best season of 2009 when he lit up NL pitching with a .272 batting average, 31 home runs and 106 RBI. If it weren’t for the all-world numbers of Kemp, it’s likely more people would be raving about Ethier’s play.
If the Dodgers keep on winning, is possible the Kemp-Ethier combination might become the most formidable in NL and MLB this season.
The second surprising start of the year is outfielder Matt Joyce of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Hitting .294 with five homeruns and 9 RBI, Joyce has been a revelation in Tampa. Having never got a chance for a full season of steady at bats, Joyce mashed the ball when he got his opportunity this season. However, the return of BJ Upton to the lineup and Joyce’s career struggles against left-handing pitching will see him ride the pine when the Rays face a southpaw.
Far be it for me to question Joe Maddon, the guy is one of the best managers in the game, but how does a guy ever get better at hitting left-handers if he doesn’t face them. Joyce’s career numbers are not good versus lefties (.198 in 162 at bats). But he’s only faced a lefty in 15 percent of MLB at bats.
The Rays have a potential break out star on their hands, maybe an everyday outfielder in the making, but he won’t get to that stage without letting him learn against MLB-calibre left-handers.
*All numbers current as of 8 a.m. EST
Tagged Andre Ethier, Angels, Dodgers, Joe Maddon, Los Angeles, Matt Joyce, Matt Kemp, Mattingly, NL West, OF, Rays, Tampa Bay
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Interview with Points of Light Award Winner Elliot Vaughn
Em Rubey - Executive Assistant at OutRight
Elliot Vaughn is a board member of OutRight Action International and a partner at Boston Consulting Group in London. Earlier this week he was recognised by the UK Prime Minister with the Points of Light award for founding GiveOut, a new charity in the UK supporting LGBTIQ activists around the world.
Em Rubey, Executive Assistant at OutRight Action International, caught up with Elliot to talk about his work supporting the global LGBTIQ movement.
Em Rubey: What motivates you to support global LGBTIQ advocacy?
Elliot Vaughn: In Europe, North America and parts of Latin America there has been incredible progress in the recognition and protection of the human rights of LGBTIQ people. Ranging from anti-discrimination laws, to continuously evolving and improving legal gender recognition processes, from efforts tackling so-called “conversion therapy” to ever more countries recognizing same-sex partnership. The achievements of our movement across the world have been incredible. But at the same time there is much to be done to secure foundational human rights around the world. Around 70 countries in the world still criminalize same-sex relations, the death penalty is imposed in a number of places, there are no legal or policy protections at all in others.
I’m in a position of privilege to support human rights work, and I feel a real sense of obligation, and a strong desire to stand in solidarity with advocates around the world.
There are brilliant LGBTIQ advocates doing important, ground-breaking work that just needs funding. As far as I'm aware, only a tiny proportion of LGBTIQ philanthropy goes to global causes beyond the United States and Western Europe. And while there is lots going on in domestic politics in US and in Europe and while there is certainly more progress needed for LGBTIQ people there too, if we turn away from supporting global human rights, isn’t that what winning looks like for populist and nationalist forces? Isn’t that playing into their hands?
Em Rubey: You have been a board member of OutRight Action International since 2017. Why do you support OutRight?
Elliot Vaughn: OutRight is a brilliant organisation, with a fantastic team of staff and board members who are just a delight to work with. It works for the human right of LGBTIQ people globally, and at multiple levels: through the United Nations, regional governing bodies and country partners. I thoroughly believe in the working model of the organization which prioritises and amplifies voices of LGBTIQ advocates from the Global South and East, and provides direct support to them. For example, OutRight supported four Caribbean LGBTIQ groups to become legally registered non-profits this year, partnered with 150 organisations and trained nearly 5,000 people. Moreover, the ground-breaking, impactful research conducted by the organization is crucial to the global LGBTIQ movement. Plus, there is room to grow its impact multiple times over with more funds, and that inspires me!
Em Rubey: Congratulations on your recent award from the British Prime Minister. What are you proudest of in GiveOut’s journey so far?
Elliot Vaughn:I’m proud of GiveOut’s values in providing resources, donor leadership and growing the available funding opportunities for LGBTIQ movement leaders. GiveOut works in partnership with the movement. We’ve done incredible work to become a sustainable force by bringing on Rupert Abbott as Executive Director, building a strong board for transparent governance and diversifying our base of core support. Plus, we are starting to see impact from the first grants we’ve offered. We emphasize core operating support to organizations, which is essential to supporting their programmatic work.
Em Rubey: You lead the Pride@BCG network globally. How do you see the role of business developing in support of LGBTIQ human rights?
This is such an exciting moment for the private sector to engage in LGBTIQ human rights, with the launch of Open for Business, the UN Free & Equal Campaign and now the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality at the World Economic Forum. However, many businesses are still uncertain about how to approach the topic, and each Pride season brings examples of missteps. There is loads of potential to move the needle, and this often starts with ensuring that there are internal employee standards for LGBTIQ rights. Right now, leading businesses must step up to define best practices, use leverage in supply chains to encourage diversity, and take action externally to express support vocally and financially. Put money where your values are by financially supporting the movement!
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paola paleari
writer, editor & curator
Lewis Bush
War Primer 3: Work Primer (self-published, 2015)
War Primer 3: Work Primer by Lewis Bush is a reworking of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s War Primer 2, itself a reworking of the 1998 English edition of Bertolt Brecht’s Kriegsfibel.
In this unique examination of war and photography, Brecht sought to extract the hidden meanings behind images of conflict with short poems modeled on the funerial epigrams of the ancient world. Broomberg and Chanarin in turn updated Brecht’s book by introducing images from the War on Terror, each intended to resonate with Brecht’s original text. While in some respects brilliant, in other ways Broomberg and Chanarin’s followup was also deeply problematic.
In response to these concerns, and in the spirit of Brecht’s playful invocation not to ‘start with the good old things but the bad new ones’ Bush decided to rework Broomberg and Chanarin’s book into a work primer, a meditation on inequality, labour and capital. By “restructing” the book around the text of his poem A Worker Reads History, and adding new images and text to those added by Broomberg and Chanarin, Bush sought to produce a book which would be a small tribute to the unacknowledged workers, labourers, and slaves who keep the engines of the world turning.
Paola Paleari: You’re a writer and a photographer rather than a photo-based artist. Why did you feel the urge of re-making War Primer 2? Should War Primer 3 be considered more as a creative act or as a statement of claim?
Lewis Bush: Without getting too deep into the backstory behind War Primer 3, which can be read about on my site, I made the book because I wanted to make a point about the way politics is often appropriated in an inconsistent or incompatible way by artists. Politics, of a very particular sort, seems to have become a trendy, saleable commodity for many artists, not something they employ and champion through their work because they believe in it. Indeed to be a political artist today is quite often seen as being rather naive.
In this sense, War Primer 3 is certainly a statement of a sort, hopefully it can also be seen as a creative act. That though is much more down to the individual viewer and it is interesting to hear the reactions of different people to the work. There remain a significant number of people for whom “photography” still means to actually take photographs, and to whom War Primer 3 is not at all creative, but rather plagiaristic. I’m glad to say they seem to be increasingly in the minority, and more and more people seem open to the idea that one can be a creative photographer without ever touching a camera.
PP: In War Primer 3, the aspect of appropriation, which is often embedded in artistic practices that deal with archival material, is put under examination. What is your point of view on this kind of action?
LB: Appropriation is a problematic practice, and I say that even if I have made extensive use of it. Putting aside the legal aspects, when you engage in appropriation there are all sorts of ethical issues you have to consider about whose work you are appropriating, and what wider good or bad your use of those images might be doing. With War Primer 3 I rationalised the act of appropriation in that I felt the problem of appropriating imagery and using in the book was maybe outweighed by the case the book had to make. I’m sure some would disagree with that, but that is how I rationalised it to myself.
On a rather pedantic side note, I don’t like the term “appropriation” very much, since it is loaded with certain negative connotations. There is a related word in English, “expropriation”, which is where an organisation, usually a government, appropriates private property for the public good, for example during a war or disaster. Without at all suggesting that the end justifies the means, I prefer to think of what I do as a form of expropriation, where the act of taking something over might be problematic, but it is done with the intent of achieving a wider rather than narrow good.
PP: From which sources did you draw the images you used in War Primer 3? Which criteria did you follow in their selection and editing?
LB: The images in the book come from a very wide range of sources. As in the original two books some are press images, others are produced by campaign groups and non-governmental organisations as part of evidence gathering against exploitative work practices, several are screenshots, others are images taken by citizens and bystanders, and a few indeed are from government institutions like police forces and militaries. Returning again to the idea of appropriation, all of these different image sources present different problems when you appropriate them. In each case you’re weighing up things like the original purpose of the image, the original producer, and your intent for it, and thinking about how these things relate. Things are even more complex because the “owner” of a given image is often far more transparent.
In terms of selection and editing of the images, the selection was defined by the text on each page, text drawn from Brecht’s poem A Worker Reads History. I had this bare skeleton of a narrative from very early on, and then it was just a case of searching for images and themes which resonated with both the texts and the existing images on each page. Sometimes the right image appeared very quickly, other times I would find images which were along the right lines but not quite right, and so I would keep searching and sometimes go through many very similar images searching for one that was just right. In a few cases I had to settle for one which maybe wasn’t perfect or a strong image in itself, but which facilitated the overall effect of the book.
PP: Both Kriegsfibel by Brecht and War Primer 2 by Broomberg & Chanarin are constructed on the relationship between word and image. As you said, you also retraced this technique by combining new images to one of Brecht’s poems. Why did you take this decision? Do you think the photographic image that is decontextualized always needs some kind of caption to be fully understood?
LB: Rather than retain the original structure of Kriegsfibel as Broomberg and Chanarin had done for War Primer 2, I decided the narrative needed to be changed in order to reflect the change of focus I wanted the book to have. The poems in Brecht’s original book were unambiguously about war, and I wanted to talk about economics. Using one of Brecht’s other poems seemed like a good compromise between achieving what I wanted to achieve with the book while also keeping his voice at the core of it. At the same time, I hope the way text is paired back to just a handful of words also create an interesting balance between image and text, where it is unclear which is dominant, or which one of the two is explaining the other.
In terms of context, photographs always need additional information to be understood, whether that information comes in a caption or in another form. I think we remain so seduced by the photograph, so ready to believe that what we are looking at is some sort of window through space and time to another moment and place. We readily forget that a photograph is just a pattern of dark and light on a piece of paper or a monitor, and that to interpret even the most basic of information in that pattern requires all sorts of existing information which we carry around in our heads, or glean from other sources. The idea that photographs alone speak some universal language or mean the same thing to everyone who looks at them is one of the great delusions of our otherwise very visually literate culture.
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CZECH FUNDAMENTAL
Roland Lüthi, Ursula Sulser & Linda Jensen
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The Populist Fight Against Corporate Power Circa 1892
Populism is an ideological chameleon—often supplemented with whatever authoritarian, nationalist or socialist inclinations held by those leading the particular movement—populist victories can (and often do) manifest in all manner of terrible ways around the world. Other times, they change the political realm for the better.
March 5, 2017 John Collins In These Times
"The Bosses of the Senate" by Joseph Keppler depicts corporate interests as giant money bags looming over senators at their desks. It was published in 1889., Wikimedia Commons
“Populism” (according to the most readily accessible digital dictionary) means “support for the concerns of ordinary people” or, defined even more generally, “the quality of appealing to or being aimed at ordinary people.” Political populism, as we saw last year, has no allegiance to a specific ideology (or party). Donald Trump rode a populist wave into the White House, but Bernie Sanders spent two years generating an impressive swell of his own. In other words, populism is the vehicle with which a significant number of everyday people set out to teach the elites of an era a lesson—but it’s not the destination.
In “What Is A Populist?” published earlier this week in The Atlantic, Uri Friedman explains the phenomenon’s flexibility this way:
No definition of populism will fully describe all populists. That’s because populism is a “thin ideology” in that it “only speaks to a very small part of a political agenda,” according to Cas Mudde, a professor at the University of Georgia and the co-author of Populism: A Very Short Introduction. An ideology like fascism involves a holistic view of how politics, the economy, and society as a whole should be ordered. Populism doesn’t; it calls for kicking out the political establishment, but it doesn’t specify what should replace it. So it’s usually paired with “thicker” left- or right-wing ideologies like socialism or nationalism.
When studying populism, socialism, nationalism, fascism or any other ism for that matter, the United States is getting old enough to provide us with historical parallels—candidates, elections and social circumstances that can be mined for relevant national comparisons. In the fullness of time, some are more relevant than others. Last June, for example, before Donald Trump won the 2016 election and when many were speculating he wouldn’t, Forbes published “Before Donald Trump, There Was William Jennings Bryan” in which author Tim Reuter’s writes:
Imagine the following scenario. Years after the stock market has crashed, millions remain unemployed. Severe political polarization has paralyzed the federal government. As the country enters a presidential election year, populists sense their moment has arrived. They not only attack accepted economic doctrines, but one populist wins the presidential nomination of a major political party.
What year is it? It is 1896…
Unlike Donald Trump, William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat, ultimately lost that election—sending the party into an electoral tailspin that took nearly 40 years to correct—but Reuter’s comparison is still insightful as is his account of the rise and fall of populist movements in the United States. Of particular interest to Rural America In These Times, is Reuter’s analysis of presidential politics four years earlier, in 1892—a time when, in his words, “The first rumblings of the populist insurgency that would reshape American politics went largely unnoticed.”
In the summer of 1892, farmers and labor activists met in Omaha, Neb., for a political convention. On July 4, the People’s Party issued its platform. It denounced the division of society into “two great classes—tramps and millionaires.” The list of proposed remedies included government control of the railroads, a “graduated income tax,” and a “national currency” that was “safe, sound, and flexible.” The convention nominated James B. Weaver, a former congressman and presidential candidate for the short-lived Greenback Party. On Election Day, Weaver won twenty-two electoral votes and 8.5 percent of the popular vote.
Though I’d not seen the above story at the time, I posted a similarly themed and titled article last November, “Before Bernie Sanders: A 19th Century Populist’s Run for the Presidency,” in which I noted the striking similarities between the economic rhetoric (and subsequent popular support) of Weaver and Bernie Sanders (who was in the process of giving Hillary Clinton a run for her money).
In short, Weaver and the People’s Party (known as the Populists, from which the word “populism” derives) were the product of a grassroots farmers movement that began decades earlier, in the wake of the Civil War. In the South, the crop-lein system had farmers trapped in a perpetual cycle of poverty and never-ending debt. Meanwhile in the North farmers found themselves at the mercy of excessive price fixing, hostile bankers and a monopolistic railroad. Something had to give. Twenty-seven years after the war, Weaver published (as politicians with presidential aspirations often do) a political manifesto—A Call to Action—in which he excoriates the increasing role that wealthy elites and the corporations of his time were playing in politics.
James B. Weaver, the People's Party candidate for president in 1892, was was born in Ohio in 1833 and raised in Iowa. (Images: britannica.com)
The language is often times intense. In fact, it makes most contemporary fat-cat-trash-talk sound tame. Keep in mind this was published 125 years ago in a time of massive income and social inequality, technological change, simmering racial tensions and during a presidential election. Here’s an excerpt:
The slave holding aristocracy, restricted both as to locality and influence, was destroyed by the war only to be succeeded by an infinitely more dangerous and powerful aristocracy of wealth, which now pervades every State and aspires to universal dominion. Its first conquest was the subjugation of the dominant political party of the nation, while it required the other to keep the peace, under the threat that if it did not succumb it should never come into power.
Next it secured control of State politics, and finally found expression in a vast network of corporations which have seized upon almost every field of labor and every department of human effort. Neither the military achievements of Caesar, the exploits of Cyrus, Hannibal, Alexander, nor the dazzling conquests of Napoleon in the fields of war, can compare with the stupendous victories of organized capital in this country during the past 25 years. They have outstripped the imagination, rendered fiction dull and uninteresting, and robbed romance of its charms. The chief spirits through whose agency all these things have been accomplished are not unmindful that they are in conflict with both private right and the public welfare.
They, above all others, know the extent of their wrong doing, and they fear reprisals at the hands of the people. To prevent remedial legislation they have filled the Senate of the United States with men who represent the corporations and the various phases of organized greed. The ideal Senate, longed for by Mr. Dickinson [one of the wealthiest founding fathers and 5th president of Pennsylvania who died in 1808]—a Senate composed of men of wealth and resembling the British House of Lords—has been realized and has long been in full operation. The method of selection was found to be peculiarly well fitted to their scheme. There is one characteristic common to all wrong doers—they work in the dark and conceal their motives. You know nothing of their purpose until the stab is inflicted. Like the cat, they walk in quest of prey with velvet feet; and like the assassin, they lie in wait and spring upon you without warning.
The corporations never make public their purpose. They hold no public meetings. Their plans are laid in the counting room, around the lunch table, and in the secret meetings of their directors away from the public. When the plan is matured, a skillful agent is employed to carry it out, and a check is drawn to cover expenses. The people at large are about their daily toil in the field and the workshop. They are honest, unsuspecting, patriotic, and devoted to their respective parties. The work that is to rob and ruin them is being done under cover.
The corporations—apparently wholly indifferent—having determined whom they wish to elect to the United States Senate, the next thing in order is to secure the nomination of suitable Legislative candidates—men who can be trusted to do their bidding. Secure in this, no effort or expense is spared to insure a triumph at the polls. Usually the name of the man whom they intend to elect to the Senate is kept in the background. The canvass is made wholly with reference to other issues. But as soon as the election is over, a venal subsidized press which has been party to the concealment during the campaign, suddenly throws off the mask and discovers that the senatorial question is all important and you then hear of nothing else.
They suddenly discover that Mr. A or B is just the right man for the position, and the one above all others whom the party and the State should delight to honor. At the proper time headquarters are opened at the State Capital, and a lavish expenditure of money begins, while the people look on with amazement and wonder where the money comes from. The local manipulators, many of whom were parties to the conspiracy from the beginning, are sent for and kept upon the ground as a guaranty that the various bargains made throughout the State, shall be carried out. Then comes the party caucus, which all must attend and to whose decrees all must submit or lose their party standing. Finally the majority of the caucus, which is usually a minority of the Legislature, nominates the corporation candidate and the drunken brawl that has rendered the State Capital disorderly for a fortnight or more, is at an end and the people are betrayed.
Weaver, of course, lost. But the accusations he leveled at the 1892 status quo (including the revelation that corporate interests were purchasing Senators) resonated with enough Americans at the time to earn him 22 electoral votes, the most any third party candidate had received since the Civil War. Many of the social policies he proposed, furthermore, did not go away. Indeed, sometimes populists win even when they lose by making it impossible for the powers that be to continue ignoring the people and issues the movement mobilized in its prime. If Donald Trump’s record shattering stock market, for example, ultimately fails to turn into jobs that pay more Americans a livable wage, it’s likely Bernie Sanders’ core economic message—that government should work for the people not Wall Street, and that no one working full-time should be living in poverty—will be echoed again, all the more loudly, in four years.
As Uri Friedman’s piece in The Atlantic does a thorough job of explaining, precisely because populism is an ideological chameleon—often supplemented with whatever authoritarian, nationalist or socialist inclinations held by those leading the particular movement—populist victories can (and often do) manifest in all manner of terrible ways around the world. Other times, they change the political realm for the better.
Once populism's power has been successfully harnessed, progress for "the people" depends on how that group is defined and the trustworthiness of the populist leading the charge.
John Collins is the editor of Rural America In These Times. He lives between Seattle and La Pointe, Wisconsin, a village on Madeline Island in Lake Superior.
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Thank you to our awesome team for making the Powerhouse Angel Tree a huge success this year. We have literally decked the halls of our office. Your support is amazing! Merry Christmas from our family to yours & thank you for continuing to believe in our mission as a company, to make a positive & lasting impact on people every single day.
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Thank you to our Powerhouse staff who took time to help pack lunches & thank you to everyone at the Center for ASD for believing in giving back to our community.
About Center for ASD – Founded in March of 2009, the Center for ASD was formed to assist families affected by Autism, both emotionally and financially. Since this time, the grass roots organization has seen over 100 families affected by Autism and that number is rapidly growing. The Center for ASD firmly believes that children with Autism learn and grow more with experience – They strive to find real world situations and community service opportunities for them to take part in that lead to strong foundations for a happy life.
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77% of Gen Z Shoppers Prefer Brick & Mortar
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Generation Z to Switch the Majority of Purchases to Retailers That Provide the Newest Digital Tools and Channels, Accenture Research Reveals
Young consumers seek voice-activated ordering, curated subscriptions and automatic-replenishment shopping models
NEW YORK; Mar. 1, 2017 – Retailers looking to capture share of wallet and brand loyalty from the next generation of consumers – Gen Z – will need to step up their focus on new ways of engagement. This group is looking for enhanced digital tools such as the ability to purchase directly via visual social platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, according to new global consumer research from Accenture.
The research, based on a survey of nearly 10,000 consumers across 13 countries, examines the attitudes and expectations of millennial and Gen Z consumers along the path to purchase. The survey revealed some distinct shopping habits and preferences among Gen Z consumers, which make it imperative for retailers to further rethink and redesign their digital shopping capabilities and methods.
Social media is set to become a major direct shopping channel for Gen Z with more than two-thirds (69 percent) of them interested in purchasing via social media directly. In addition, more than four in 10 Gen Z’s (44 percent) cite social media as a popular source for product inspiration, and more than one-third (37 percent) have increased their use of social media for purchase decision-making in the last year.
“Social media has emerged as a real disruptor in targeting Gen Z shoppers, who are true digital natives,” said Jill Standish, senior managing director of Accenture’s Retail industry practice. “To succeed in this increasingly digital world, retailers must understand Gen Z’s’ expectations, influencer circles and behaviors – especially their social-media habits and how they differ from those of millennials. If they are spending their time on social platforms, this is where they want to be buying their products.”
At the same time, however, the findings show that retailers cannot afford to neglect the physical store, since 60 percent of Gen Z shoppers still prefer to purchase in-store, and nearly half (46 percent) will still check in store to get more information before making an online purchase. In the U.S., over three-quarters (77 percent) of Gen Z respondents said that brick-and-mortar stores is their preferred shopping channel.
The research also revealed that Gen Z shoppers are interested in new shopping methods. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of Gen Z shoppers are interested in curated subscription-type offering for fashion, and 71 percent are interested in automatic-replenishment programs, with an overwhelming majority willing to shift more than half their purchases to a retailer offering this service. Additionally, 38 percent of Gen Z’s are willing to try voice-activated ordering, while 25 percent of them said they can’t wait to use it and 10 percent of them said they are already using it.
“The ability to provide reliable and accurate product delivery and a great consumer experience requires retailers to enhance their capabilities in digitization, innovation and harnessing consumer data. Gleaning insights successfully can increase the lifetime value of each customer,” Standish said. “The fact that Gen Z shoppers are open to new shopping methods is a real opportunity for retailers to secure new consumer data and get closer to this generation.”
Other key findings regarding Gen Z shoppers:
They are all about visuals – videos and pictures. YouTube is the most-regularly used social media platform, cited by 84 percent of Gen Z respondents, while Facebook is still the most-popular social platform for both younger (21-27 years old) and older (28-37 years old) millennials. Two-thirds (66 percent) of Gen Z shoppers regularly use Instagram, compared with only 40 percent of millennials, and Gen Z shoppers are more than twice as likely as millennials to use Snapchat (54 percent versus 38 percent for younger and 22 percent for older millennials).
They regularly turn to their ‘influencer’ circles. Gen Z consumers are more likely than both younger and older millennials to purchase an item due to: what their family thinks; recommendations from watching YouTube videos; what their friends think; and comments on social media. In addition, when shopping online Gen Z’s are usually more likely than both younger and older millennials to: chat with an online sales assistant; check in store for more information; ask friends’ opinions via social media, text or phone; and ask family members’ opinions via social media, text or phone.
They haven’t formed strong brand loyalty. Only 16 percent of Gen Z’s shop at a single store for clothing/fashion (compared with 26 percent of older millennials); only 19 percent shop at a single store for health and beauty items (compared with 34 percent of older millennials); and fewer than 38 percent shop at a single place for groceries (compared with 55 percent of older millennials). In the United States, brand loyalty among Gen Z is even weaker, with only five percent of U.S. Gen Z’s shopping at a single place for clothing.
They are impulsive buyers and willing to pay for speedy delivery. Gen Z shoppers are more likely than millennials to make a purchase because: they just wanted to buy something; they randomly saw something they liked; or it was recommended by a friend or family member. In addition, Gen Z’s crave speedy delivery more than millennials do and are willing to pay for it. In fact, more than half (58 percent) of Gen Z respondents said they would pay more than $5 for one-hour deliveries.
“Gen Z is the next big consumer market and purchasing powerhouse,” said Standish. “Retailers need to invest in the digital tools that will enable them to speak to Gen Z through visuals, collaborate with them across multiple channels and devices, and make them feel part of their brand. Offering services such as crowd-sourcing, customization and hyper-personalization are a must-have capability for reaching a generation that is shaping and commanding today’s digital retail landscape.”
View research infographic here.
Accenture surveyed 9,750 respondents from 13 countries across six continents who have shopped both online and in stores within the three months prior to the survey, which was conducted in October and November 2016. Survey respondents were selected and vetted by ESOMAR, which adhered to strict international guidelines for market research. To be included in the survey, respondents must have shopped both online and in stores in [at least] one of the following retail categories: apparel, consumer electronics, groceries, home goods, and health and beauty. All shoppers also confirmed that they access the internet and use their smartphones regularly.
Respondents came from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom. Respondents belonged to one of three age groups; Gen Z (18 to 20 years), young millennials (21 to 27 years) and older millennials (28 to 37 years) and each of these three age groups accounted for approximately one-third of all respondents.
Note: The Gen Z sample included only consumers between the ages of 18 and 20 because we are not allowed to survey minors.
From: www.accenture.com
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Ray Lewis Tyreek Hill Sports Football NFL football Professional football College football College sports
Baltimore Ravens Kansas City Chiefs
Former Pro Bowler Dexter McCluster now indoor player
By BARRY WILNER - May. 30, 2019 02:33 AM EDT
The competitive juices still flow for Dexter McCluster . So he's back to playing pro football — in the National Arena League.
Earlier this month, the former NFL running back and kick returner with three teams following a highly productive college career joined the Massachusetts Pirates of the six-team league. In his first appearance, he scored a touchdown and the Pirates got their second victory after four defeats, taking down the New York Streets 70-51 At the Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York.
"Physically, I wasn't that sore after the game," McCluster says with a laugh. "Now, thinking about it, maybe I can go a little harder the next time."
Going harder always has been an apt description of McCluster, whose dynamic style should fit well in the indoor game. Think Tyreek Hill on the field: short, compact, with light-it-up speed and moves. During his years at Mississippi, he was among the nation's most dangerous players with the ball in his hands.
McCluster notes he still has those attributes as he approaches age 31.
"After playing seven years in the NFL and being around all of that talent and all of those professionals, I kind of paid attention and took heed of how they doing it, keeping their bodies in shape," he says. "I tried to do that myself, and I work out like a maniac. I feel 22. For me to be able to compete at a high level, my key is I never let up.
"I'm not old at all ... but I am not 22 anymore. It goes to show if you have the competitive edge and still want to chase your dream or compete in the game you love, take care of your body."
It didn't take long for McCluster to show he can help the Pirates — and the NAL, which is in its third season. He scored on a 40-yard reception built on speed against New York.
And speed is what this sort of football is all about. Played on carpet on a relatively narrow 50-yard field with walls on the sidelines — it is indoors, after all — the game takes some adjustment. McCluster, who spent 2018 in the Canadian Football League after sitting out 2017 to be home with his wife and four daughters, recognized that before signing on with the Pirates, who play out of Worcester, Massachusetts.
"It's definitely different, more condensed," he says. "You score faster and more often, you get open quicker. Me coming in at the bye week was an extra advantage to get used to it, acclimated to indoors, learn the playbook and allow me to have a pretty good game.
"But walls? Ray Lewis is the hardest wall I ever hit."
McCluster's immediate adjustment surprised his coach, Anthony Payton.
"He is the perfect body type, brings an added element to the game the way he can find spaces," Payton says. "This is a guy who can make you miss at the level he has done it before, that's almost impossible to find. I was eager to see how he'd respond to the walls, and the first catch he made, no problem. I am waiting for him to take a shot and he ran through the guy. I was impressed by that.
"Dexter brings an element you don't see much. He has all you need because he can run around, through and by people."
There's another element that Payton and McCluster himself believe can be a critical component for the Pirates: leadership.
"He has that on the team and off the field," Payton says, "and the bigger thing I am seeing is the players are starting to move around faster with him being around. Dexter is a no-excuse kind of guy. When I have to correct him on anything he does wrong, which is hardly anything, the way the players see him respond, it kind of humbles them a little bit.
"He is all ears, and wants to be the best player in this league."
McCluster sees leadership as a major contribution he can make. He has designs on a coaching career after he's finished playing, and already has done some high school coaching.
"Leaders can come in all types of different ways," he says. "You can be vocal, or lead by example, and I kind of find myself as doing both. Early in my career would kind of lead by example, let guys see how hard I work to compete on a high level. Now I will speak up when something needs change or something is being taken for granted. I feel I can bring a competitive edge and show these guys what it is like to be a pro."
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Sex Scandals in Protestant religions
Sample protestant sex scandals that the main newspaper publications do not publish in the headline news. The media is so bias against the Catholic Church because they don’t publish protestant sex scandals in the front page. If you find one you will read it in the back page and with few description.
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT AN OFFENSIVE SITUATIONAND THEREFORE CONTAINS OFFENSIVE MATERIAL. PARENTALDISCRETION IS HIGHLY ADVISED.
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He was held on $300,000 bond on two counts of possessing child pornography and one charge of promoting child pornography.
Smith was fired from Exel, a Fort Worth-based computer logistics company. He also resigned Wednesday as pastor of Landmark
Baptist Church, where he had served for 31/2 years. His wife of 13 years, Julie Smith, said the allegations stunned her.
“He’s never hurt our children. As far as I know he’s never hurt anyone’s children,” she said.
source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/11/22/national1324EST0630.DTL
PASTOR BOOKED FOR MOLESTING SCHOOLGIRL. A girl, 15, was molested at a church-run school in Birmingham by Rev. James E.
Johnson, of Ensley, according to police. He was charged with 2nd degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor.
Source: _Birmingham News_ 11/21/92.
BAPTIST VOLUNTEER PREYED ON GIRLS? Thomas Road Baptist Church in Phoenix failed to screen churchvolunteer John Herman Kuiper
for a criminal record when it permitted him to drive a church bus & volunteer at youth events. Kuiper, who had been convicted
in 1991 of a felony charge of 3rd degree sexual assault, was arrested in Phoenix for molesting 5 girls. As a church bus
driver in Fort Collins, Colorado, he had received a deferred sentence for molesting a little girl, 5. Rev. Ken Adrian, church
pastor, complained to media that the publicity was not good for his Phoenix church.
Source: _Arizona Republic_ 11/4/92.
LUTHERAN COUNSELOR NABBED. St. Paul Lutheran Church youth counselor John Wayne Nase, 40, Phoenix, was accused of multiple
counts of child molesting, sexual conduct with a minor & kidnapping. Police say he ordered a boy, 12, into the choir loft &
performed sex acts on him after Nase’s Sunday confirmation classes.
Source: _Arizona Republic_ 7/21/92.
REDEEMER CHURCH SETTLES SUIT. Redeemer Lutheran Church, Redwood City, made a secret settlement to a victim of youth counselor
James A. Weller, who had sought $25,000. The victim said the pastor and other church officials interrupted Weller when he was
molesting the victim, then 13, but failed to report it. Weller had been dishonorably discharged from the Navy for sexual
molestation and had a record when he was hired by the church. He was convicted in 1990 of 27 counts of sex crimes against 4
boys and a girl, including oral sex, rape and pornography. He is serving a 4-year prison sentence.
Source: _Redwood City Tribune_ 5/19/92.
PROMINENT EVANGELICAL RESIGNS; NO CHARGES? Prominent Sunday-school teacher/leader James C. Truxton, 77 resigned his
positions at the 5,000-member First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton. The founding president of Mission Aviation
Fellowship admitted he was stepping down because of “molestation perpetrated by me in the past upon young girls within &
outside this congregation”. Truxton & his wife’s memberships were revoked They were told not to set foot on church property
again. Both had been teaching second-graders; the wife was called “culpable”. At least 7 church members in their 20s & 30s
said they were molested by Truxton as children. The statute of limitations has expired; no criminal charges were filed. When
parents 20 years ago complained to Mission Aviation Fellowship officials about Truxton, they were told a psychologist at
Fuller Seminary evaluated him, concluding he was in no need of help.
Source: _National & International Religion Report_ 10/19/92.
PASTOR OUSTED FROM 4,500-MEMBER CHURCH. Pastor David Hocking of Calvary Church in Santa Ana was forced to resign after
confessing to an affair with a married woman. Hocking, 51, is married with grown children.
PASTOR GETS 13 YEARS FOR INCEST. Springfield Baptist Church pastor Jon L. Walker, 43, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for
molesting a relative for 2-1/2 years, beginning when she was 13. Twenty persons pleaded for leniency, including the local
NAACP president. Walter’s defense was to accuse his wife of concocting the charges to get even with him because he had an
affair with a young church member! Deputy DA Karen Gray said the letters of support were “a sad testimony to the fact that
Mr. Walter’s life has been a fraud”.
Source: _San Luis Obispo Telegram Tribune_ 8/5/92.
VICTIM SUES CONVICTED MINISTER. Rancho Cucamonga pastor John Marshall, convicted of sexually battering an ill man, 25, is
being sued for $1 million by victim Kirk Judy, along with his church, the American Baptist Churches of USA & of the Pacific
Southwest. The 6’2″, 200-lb pastor overpowered the 5’6″, 140-lb victim at a bedside counseling visit. He got only 2 years of
probation. The suit alleges that Marshall had committed other crimes, & that the 2 Baptist groups should have known about
Source: _Ontario Daily Bulletin_ 7/29/92.
CHARGES AGAINST JUBILEE CHRISTIAN CENTER. Two assistant pastors at Jubilee Christian Center, San Jose, were charged with 4
felony counts of lewd & lascivious conduct with children, stemming from assaults on 4 boys, ages 10-15, at the church between
September 1988 & February 1992. Charged are Pablo Geraldo Boas, 28, & David Ernest Brimmer, 39.
Sources: _L.A. Times_ 12/19/92, _San Francisco Examiner_ 1/10/93.
MORMON TEACHER GETS 30 YEARS. Sobbing Mormon Sunday School teacher John Allen Midgett asked for God’s forgiveness before
being sentenced to 30 years in state prison for molesting & terrorizing 8 girls, ages 5-10. A parent testified Midgett turned
her cheerful, trusting daughter into a frightened, scarred recluse. He was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution
Source: _San Diego Times Union_ 1992, _Los Angeles Times_ 9/12/92.
CANCER VICTIM ALLEGES MISCONDUCT. Carolyn Kruse, Aurora, filed suit against her minister and church, saying he coerced her
into a sexual relationship when she went for counseling while ill with Hodgkin’s disease. Sued is John R. Leonard, pastor of
Harvest Christian Center, who told the congregation Kruse was possessed by a demon.
Source: _Rocky Mountain News_1/1/92.
EPISCOPAL PRIEST SETTLES. Episcopal Rev. Paul Robinson agreed to pay $575,000 in damages to Mary Tenantry, mother of 5, for
luring her into an extramarital affair while counseling her.
Source: _Reuters/Boston Globe_ 8/92.
COUNSELING VICTIM GETS $300,000. The Bear Valley Church of Christ & its former minister Homer Wolfe agreed to pay $300,000 to
a man whom Wolfe sexually assaulted during family counseling sessions. Earlier, a boy, now 17, was awarded $450,000 by a jury
for similar charges. Wolfe, 59, has not been criminally charged. He told parishioners to undress & massage themselves, &
masturbated during counseling sessions, also touching parishioners. The fundamentalist Church of Christ teaches that
nonchurch members will go to hell. Wolfe now lives in Texas.
Source: _Rocky Mountain News_ 8/2,29/92.
FUGITIVE RELIGIOUS LEADER NABBED. Fugitive religious leader James Randazzo, convicted in 1989 of sex crimes, had skipped the
country in 1990 & was nabbed in Hungary after a manhunt. He will now be sentenced on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of
children & drug use. Randazzo founded Spiral of Friends Church in Molina.
Source: _Pueblo Chieftain_ 10/29/92.
CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER RENEGES CONFESSION. Facing 11 felony counts stemming from molestations of 2 young brothers since
1987, Rev. Boardman Kathan says a damaging statement he gave police in July was coerced. Former chair of the Region 16 Board
of Education, Kathan retired last summer as associate minister of the First Congregational Church of Cheshire in Waterbury.
Police say their investigation shows he molested a boy, 17, numerous times over the past 5 years, & once molested his
brother, now 12.
Source:(Waterbury) _Republican American_ 1/23/93.
Holy Way leader Clarence “Brother Will” Williams was arrested after a 19-year-old woman said he brainwashed her into having
sex starting when she was 15. The member of the sect said he forced sex upon her and other women more than 40 times between
1987-1990. Williams, who pleaded guilty 5 years ago to “cleansing” underage members by ordering them to bare their breasts,
was 2 months short of completing his 5-year probation. Terms of probation prohibited practicing aspects of his religion such
as nudity, fondling children, and having non-related children spend the night. In 1986 prosecutors interviewed about a dozen
girls and their mothers who described a religious ritual in which they would strip and fondle each other at Williams’
command. Williams claimed thiswas _Bible_-based: “Our belief is that biblically if you have a problem within yourself, it is
because of sin or weakness, and about the only thing that’s goingto cleanse you of that is if you expose it before the
Lord.”
Source: _Palm Beach Post_ 2/26/92.
ACCUSED PASTORAL COUNSELOR A PHONY. Port Charlotte church school principal Albert Joseph Clerico Jr., 47,charged with sexual
misconduct by a psychotherapist by means of therapeutic deception, claims to be licensed by a nonexistent “scripturally
based” group, National Christian Counselors Association & to have attended the nonexistent Carolina University of Theology.
State investigator Robert Ford charged that Clerico “did cloak himself in the guise of Christianity & did represent to the
female defendant that sexual contact” was part of the treatment. Clerico maintains his position as “pastoral counselor”
exempts him under state law from charges. Police miked the victim & recorded Clerico making sexual advances, soliciting her
comment on his graphic fantasies & telling her to perform oral sex. He was arrested after the 75-minute “counseling session”.
He has been suspended as principal of Community Christian School of First Baptist Church in Port Charlotte, & as minister of
First Baptist Church, which operates the school.
Source: _Sarasota Herald-Tribune_ 8/4/92.
MINISTER GUILTY. Murrayville minister L.G. Gilsrap pleaded guilty to 2 counts of child molestation after the state high court
in 1991 overturned a 1989 conviction for molesting young boys at church.
Source:_USA Today_ 3/6/92.
“WOUNDED SOLDIER” LEAVES CHURCH. Senior pastor of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, with 12,000 members oneof Atlanta’s largest
churches Q stepped down, admitting an “improper” relationship with a female church employee. Charismatic Rev. Don Paulk, 53,
sermonized, “I am not here today as a martyr or hero, but as a fallen, wounded soldier … My family’s forgiveness was second
only to the forgiveness of God.” His brother, Bishop Earl Paulk, berated the media for exposing the “weaknesses” of others,
an blamed “Satan”, promising Don would return.
Source _Atlanta Constitution_ 5/11/92.
DEKALB CHURCH BLESSES COVER-UP. A sex scandal, now encompassing 4 ministers from one family, has been uncovered at the
Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in DeKalb, Georgia, praised by former President Bush as one of his “1,000 Points of Light”. The
$12 million racially diverse 7,700-seat church with a TV program, social services, lost half of its 12,000 members following
revelations that its minister, Bishop Ear Paulk, had an adulterous affair. Other church employees or members have stepped
forward to say they had affairs with the bishop’s brother, Rev. Don Paulk, & his nephews Rev. Duane Swilley & Rev. Alan
Mushegan. Women charge the ministers coerced them into having sex in order to “serve God.” The church filed, then dropped a
slander/libel suit against several former members & staffers, resulting in a gag order by a DeKalb judge forbidding them to
discuss thei allegations of sexual misconduct. It promotes a doctrine of “covering”, blessing cover-ups of sexual misconduct
& requiring submission to authority. Don Paulk accuses former church schoolteacher Rebecca Moses of seducing him, saying “I
know now what it was like for Samson to place his head in the lap o Delilah.” Six victims have not filed suit, but are asking
for legislation making it a felony in Georgi for clergy to have sex with members of their congregations.
Sources: AP/_Atlanta Journal/Constitution_ 11/14/92; _USA Today_ 12/18/92; _Boston Globe_ 1/9/93.
DAVIS FACES MORE CHARGES. Rev. L.R. Davis, charged in Illinois with criminal sexual misconduct, child pornography, and
perjury, was also charged with assaulting a teenage boy in San Diego. Davis, 57, is a prominent Waukegan minister with
Christian Fellowship, Inc. Two fellow ministers, Michael Camer, 30, and David Annstrong, 33, are indicted on lesser charges
Young boys may have been brought from Tijuana, Mexico to Davis’ San Diego church for molestation. AIR FORCE CHAPLAIN
COURT-MARTIALED. Capt. Perry W. Bell, 37, pleaded guilty to adultery with 6 women, conduct unbecoming an officer, and
bringing discredit upon the armed forces. He was also convicted o attempted seduction of a 19-year-old Air Force cadet who
fought off advances in his chapel office. The Scott Air Force Base chaplain was court-martialed and given 3 months in jail.
He could have been sentenced for up to 12 years. In exchange for guilty pleas, the Air Force agreed to a brief sentence and
dropped other charges of indecent advances, possession of a pornographic videotape while in the United Arab
Emigrates during the war against Iran, ordering an enlisted man to obtain a pornographic tape, and dereliction of duty. Three
of the victims were Air Force Officers, others were a sergeant, a sergeant’s wife seeking counseling, and an enlisted woman.
The senior Protestant chaplain sought out vulnerable women seeking help for emotional upsets.
Source: _Edwardsville Intelligencer_ 2/19/92.
DAVIS GETS 31 YEARS, CLEMENCY ASKED. The founder of the notorious First Christian Fellowship Church of Waukegan, Rev. Lloyd
Davis, 57, flanked by many supporters, was sentenced to 31 years in prison for criminal sexual assault, child pornography &
sexual abuse. He imported teenaged boys from Mexico for sex. Lake Co. Judge Christopher C. Starck said: “The burning question
in this case is whether this man is a minister or a monster, a pastor or a pedophile.” Starck said he is all of those things.
Davis is believed to have molested children since the 1960s. Former church members accuse him of running a cult making sexual
demands on supporters & locating all churches near Naval bases, where he is known for trying to lure young sailors into his
churches for sexual purposes. About 374 persons wrote letters to the judge asking for mercy. “He is the greatest person there
is,” insisted Martha Allsopp, a Kenosha church member. He faces more charges in California. Two other ministers from his
Waukegan church, David Lee Armstrong & Michael Carner, go on trial in March. In January, 200 supporters led by Rev. Peter
Paine of the Christian Fellowship Church presented a request for clemency for Davis to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. “I
believe L.R. Davis may be the most sexually dangerous man to have ever walked the streets of Lake Co.,” maintains Assistant
State’s Attorney Jeff Pavletic.
Sources: _Chicago Tribune_ 8/15/92, AP/
_Quad-City Times_ 8/15/92, _News-Sun_ (Lake Co.) 1/15/93.
LUTHERAN PASTOR CONFESSES TO 13 YEARS OF CRIMES. The 500 members of Christ Lutheran church in Palatine were sent a letter
informing them that Rev. Wayne Tellekson has confessed to sexual misconduct while he was pastor from 1975 to 1988. He was
removed from his current St. Paul, Minn. church when a former victim confronted Tellekson.
Source: _Chicago Sun-Times_ 1/15/93.
LAWSUIT ALLEGES CLERGY MALPRACTICE. David S. Guppy filed a civil suit for clergy malpractice, misrepresentation, fraud &
other counts against Rev. F. Scott Luthy, resigned pastor of St. Stephen Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rockford. Guppy says
the minister seduced his wife, a parishioner, than misused his counseling relationship with Guppy to conceal the
affair, urging him to have an affair of his own.
Source: _Jackson Citizen Patriot_ 7/31/92.
2,000 SUPPORT MINISTER MOLESTER. About 75 supporters from the Christ Universal Church picketed before the Criminal Courts
Building in Chicago in support of Rev Paul Hall, 47, convicted of sexually abusing a boy, 13, in 1989. He had been free on
appeal since then. His 4-year sentence began in January. The Illinois Appellate Court, which denied him a rehearing, received
more than 2,000 letters in his behalf.
Source: _Chicago Sun-Times_ 9/3/92, 1/8/93.
LUTHERAN PASTOR NABBED. Dirk van der Linde, 43, pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Waterloo, was charged with intent to
commit sexual abuse of a boy, 14. He is affiliated with the Missouri Synod. Relatives complained about a 2 month delay in
arresting him. An aunt said she believed the delay stemmed from racism, because the victim is black & the minister white. “It
would not be this way if it had been a black minister molesting a white child,” she said.
Source: _Waterloo Courier_ 9/23/92, _Des Moines Register_ 9/24/92.
“SOUND DOCTRINE” PASTOR QUITS. After nearly 20 years as pastor, Rev. Wendell Beets, of Sound Doctrine Church, resigned
following a claim of sexual impropriety with a female church member, 19. A married couple who were also ministers at the
church expressed indignation that “he would attack a 19-year-old girl”, & concern that Beets will tart a new church &
continue preying on the congregation. Louise & Clarence Ellis of Cedar Rapids say others have criticized them for speaking
out against Beets.
Source: _Cedar Rapids Gazette_ 8/29/92.
BAPTIST YOUTH PASTOR NABBED. Youth minister-Sunday School teacher William Speaker, 21, of First Baptist Church in Excelsior
Springs, was charged with a felony for sexually molesting a boy, 14, while chauffeuring him to church activities.
Source: _Kansas City Star_ 8/21/92.
JURY ACQUITS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. A Louisville jury of 6 men & 6 women found in favor of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in
a $5 million sexual-harassment suit brought by Janet Gellhaus. The employee claimed her superior Nagy Tawfik sexually
harassed her, pressuring her into a sexual relationship by threatening to fire her. Church attorney Michael Valenti,
apparently conceded the relationship when he said after the acquittal (shades of the U.S. Senate): “The lesson should be you
need to immediately tell people about it, you need to immediately investigate your rights, you need to use some common sense
& say ‘no’.”
Source: Presbyterian Outlook_ 9/7/92.
BAPTIST PASTOR GOES TO TRIAL. Indicted for 6 counts of aggravated sexual battery & 5 counts of sexual battery was Rev. George
Walker, 64, of New Tazewell, who has pastored a number of area Baptist churches. He is accused of victimizing a female piano
student instructed by his wife for 4 years.
Source: _The Daily News_ Middlesboro, 12/24/92.
PRESBYTERIAN REFORM URGED. The Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in Baltimore in June, voted 446-78 to recommend
abolishing the statute of limitations for reporting sexual misconduct by clergy. The church, citing critical proportions, has
a 3-year time limit for reporting sexual misconduct by church officials. The vote must be ratified by 2/3 of the church’s 171
regional presbyteries. It also voted 491-26 to establish a policy on sexual misconduct, advising local churches to set up
“sexual misconduct response teams” & notify secular authorities “when appropriate”. The adopted policy said there is evidence
that “10-23 percent of clergy nationwide have engaged in sexualized behavior or sexual contact with parishioners, clients,
employees, etc., within a professional relationship”.
Source: AP 6/12/92.
UNITARIAN GUILTY ON 6 CHARGES. Northboro minister Mack W. Mitchell, 56, was convicted on 6 of 23 charges of sexual assault
involving a Tibetan woman who testified he sexually abused her as a teenager after offering to sponsor her education in this
country. “I came her with a lot of wonderful dreams, and my dreams were shattered,” said the victim, now 23. With the
conviction, “I can dream again and become a whole person again.” Rape and assault-battery charges are still pending against
him by another Tibetan woman.
Source: _Worcester Telegram & Gazette_ 5/15/92.
RAPIST-MINISTER GETS 12 YEARS FOR INCEST. Suspended associate rector of a Tucson Episcopal church, Stephen P. Apthorp, 56,
pleaded guilty in Massachusetts to repeatedly raping his stepdaughter between her 10th and 16th birthday, an estimated 830
incidents of abuse. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Charges included indecent assault and battery, rape and
distribution of pornographic materials to a minor. The assaults began in 1980 when a Lincoln, Mass. congregation asked him to
leave because he was abusing alcohol, ignoring their problems, and “using the women of the parish like they were some kind of
fringe benefit”, Apthorp said. He was suspended from the Tucson church. His contract as a counselor for Tucson General
Hospital’s Westcenter was not renewed. He gave nationwide worships and lectures based on a book of advice for clergy with
alcohol and drug addictions. The 21-year-old victim, who publicly identified herself as Mimi Coleman, noted the betrayal made
her suicidal, gave her eating disorders and nightmares, shameful feelings over sex, continuing gynecological problems,
feelings of someone always watching her, feelings of panic whenever she sees a man in a clerical collar, and feelings that
she is a freak. “Never have I seen him practice what he preached, and I heard him preach a lot.”
Source: _Arizona Daily Star_ 3/13/92; _Boston Herald_ 5/7/92; _LincolnJournal_ 5/14/92.
LUTHERAN MINISTER REMOVED. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America removed Rev. Wendell Henkenmeier of Marblehead from the
ministry after a panel found him guilty of sexual misconduct & destructive practices during counseling of 5 victims.
Source: _Union-News_5/30/92.
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER IMPRISONED. Groton Sunday School teacher Leslie Richard Danielson, 63, was sentenced to 5-10 years
after pleading guilty to sexually abusing 6 children under 14 years. He is already serving up to 10 years for a 1991
conviction involving 4 other children, but will be eligible for parole in 4 years.
Source: _Boston Herald_ 5/22/92.
BAPTIST CONVICTED OF RAPING BOY. A jury convicted Baptist minister Edward Quakenbush, of New Testament Baptist Church, town
of Wyoming, of raping & molesting a teenage boy in his church over a 4-year period, starting when he was 12. Members of his
church & family sobbed & shouted at jurors & a police detective who testified that the pastor had confessed to the
molestations. Quakenbush later denied confessing.
Source: AP/_Daily Telegram_, Adrian, Ml 9/12/92.
BRONSON MINISTER ARRAIGNED. First Congregational Church minister David Covert Moore was charged with 5 counts of criminal
sexual conduct of 4 children under the age of 15. In July he checked himself into Pine Rest Christian Counseling Services in
Grand Rapids.
CHURCH EVANGELIZERS PREYED ON LOW-INCOME KIDS. Menfrom a rural Baptist church known for its aggressive evangelizing of
children are suspected of molesting as many as 22 boys & girls. The associate pastor, volunteer bus driver & a third church
member are believed to have fondled some & raped others, ranging in age from 3 to 10, on church buses & property. Charges
involving 10 victims were brought against Associate Pastor Timothy Lee Leonard, 32, of North Sharon Baptist Church near Grass
Lake, & volunteer Sunday school bus driver, church deacon Mark Foeller. Three other church members are being investigated.
The suspects went to low-income housing projects or trailer parks in 4 counties, telling parents they would “take the
children to church & teach them about God”, according to Det. Robert Fitzpatrick, Jackson Co. Men would walk up to children
in their yards, coaxing them with treats to come to weekend services or summer _Bible_ school. Leonard was relieved of church
duties involving children in August, after police started investigating him when a doctor reported suspected abuse in a child
with a sexual disease. He also worked as instructor & gym teacher in the North Sharon Christian School, enrolling about 65
students. Church members were not informed, even after the arrests. In November, Gail Ganger, who lives 5 houses from the
church, organized a Sunday morning picket after learning that the church secretary knew about the allegations, yet still
recommended Leonard as a babysitter for her children. He & his wife Nadine had babysat for her 3 children 7 times since Oct.
1. About 2 dozen protesters carried signs saying “Clos It Down.” “The church knew about the allegations of child molesting,
but nobody told me about it. This church should not be able to carry on business as usual,” she said. “What a wonderful thing
it is to be part of a church where adversity happens,” said Rev. Bill Wininger, senior pastor. In January, Leonard was
released after 72 days in jail after 10 charges were dropped over the objections of the DA by Washtenaw Co. Dist. Judge
Thomas Shea, saying victims were either too young to testify or could not pinpoint the time of their assaults. Leonard still
faces 2 2nd degree criminal sexual conduct charges. Although he resigned from the church, church funds are being used to help
support his family & pay his legal expenses. The pastor said if he is acquitted, “I’m sure he would be welcomed back with
open arms.”
Sources: _Ypsilanti Press_ 11/12/92, _Detroit Free Press_ 11/12/92,
_Toledo Blade_ 11/18/92, _Jackson Citizen Patriot_ 11/16/92, 2/1/93.
LUTHERAN LEADER ADMITS CHARGES. Lutheran pastor David L. Anderson admitted having sexual relations with a number of boys and
young men while pastor of a leading Lutheran congregation in Moorehead, Minn. He resigned from the clergy of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America and as vice president for college relations in St. Olaf College in April, admitting sexual
misconduct with minors, college students, and male parishioners from 1973-1985. He confessed only after a parishioner
approached a staff member at the 4,000 member church with allegations in March.
Source: _Star Tribune_ 4/20/92.
LUTHERAN PASTOR RESIGNS. For the third time Rev. Rod Broding has left a job after being accused of sexual improprieties. The
Lutheran pastor resigned from First Lutheran Church in Pine River following accusations he admitted to sexual misconduct
there, but denies earlier accusations. Bishop Roger Munson, who oversees the Northeastern Minnesota synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, said, “The church will assist in providing counseling to work through this turmoil & pain so that
healing & wholeness can be experienced in their lives.”
Source: _Star Tribune_ 10/22/92.
AIR FORCE CHAPLAIN RAIDED. Deputies raided the home of Veterans Administration chaplain Rev. Donald G. Phillips, of Butler
County, seizing 500 video tapes, movie equipment and restraints following a tip that he produced pornographic movies with
young girls. The Baptist minister recently received the highest recognition awarded a VA chaplain, “the Award for Excellence
in Chaplain Service”.
Source: _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ 2/19/92.
BAPTIST VOLUNTEER CONVICTED. Granite State Baptist Church volunteer David Kirsch, 39, of Salem, was convicted of sexually
assaulting 6 young girls through the church from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.
Source: _USA Today_ 9/25/92.
CLERIC FACES INCEST, RAPE CHARGES. Rev. Eugenio Matos of Spanish Mennonite Church, Trenton, father of 12, was charged in
March with raping his daughter from the time she was 5 to 15 years. In April he was charged with endangering welfare of a
child and 2 counts of aggravated sexual assault when a 23-year-old woman told investigators he repeatedly raped her while she
was between the ages of 8 and 10.
Source: _Trenton Times_ 4/28/92.
MINISTER & GIRLFRIEND INDICTED. Trenton pastorFranklin Tucker, 37, Final Call Ministry, was indicted for molesting his
girlfriend’s daughters, 9 & 15. His girlfriend was indicted for forcing her daughters to recant the allegations to police.
The abuse came to light when the 9-year-old told a school official, who contacted police.
NUDE MINISTER CONVICTED. Rev. Bruce Rentz, found guilty of indecent exposure after a state trooper saw him jogging naked and
chased him to his home, has resigned as minister from Greenbush Presbyterian Church. He was ordered to perform community
service, pay a $50 fine, and get counseling.
Source: _Union News_ 5/14/92.
TOP EPISCOPAL PRIEST RESIGNS AMID SEX SCANDAL. The highest-ranking U.S. Episcopal priest, who ironically headed a national
committee examining the church’s position on sexuality, resigned in October following charges he sexually abused young men in
his congregation. Rev. Wallace A. Frey, rector of St. David’s Church in DeWitt, is married with 2 grown children. A church
official said he had been involved in “sexual misconduct over a lengthy period with some male, young adults & a teenager
under his pastoral care”. The official said the number of victims appears to be “less than 10”.
Source: NYT News Service/_Chicago Tribune_ 10/7/92.
CIVIL SUIT: 11-YEAR-OLD MOLESTED. A family in Dare County, North Carouna is suing Methodist minister Carl M. Eller for
abusing their daughter, 11, as well as the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, a bishop and a reverend
for knowing of his history of sexual misconduct but doing nothing about it. The family says she was molested when her father,
a carpenter, was installing cabinets in the parsonage. Eller pleaded no contest to a charge of criminal assault on a female.
However, the family said that in 1987 Eller had molested or made lewd comments to 4 women at his church, and forcibly kissed
and touched 2 girls age 13. Three women had lodged formal complaints with the church, but the only action was to transfer him
from Aurora to Hamlet.
Source: _News & Observer_ 1/15/92.
SUPPORTERS GATHER FOR CONVICTED “FRIEND”. Pastor Roy McKinley, 45, who stepped down from Milan Friends Church after being
charged with molesting a teenage girl, pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition and related charges. Supporters, including a
minister, crowded the courtroom where McKinley pleaded for mercy.
Source: _Toledo Blade_ 5/25/92.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT HITS CHURCH. A female employee at World Harvest Church in Columbus has filed a lawsuit saying the
father of the pastor sexually harassed her, also naming the church & its pastor as defendants. Naomi Endicott, 48, said Rev.
Rodney L. Parsley knew about the harassment but did nothing to stop it. James G. Parsley, his father, was her supervisor &
made unwanted sexual advances, even offering money for sex, she said.
Source: _Columbus Dispatch_ 10/17/92.
WOMAN SUES EPISCOPAL PRIEST. A Fostoria woman is suing Rev. Douglas Hodges, of Trinity Episcopal Church, Bishop James Moodey
& the owner of a counseling center, alleging the priest forced her to have sex as “treatment”. The abuse occurred at a
counseling center & the church. Shelley & Daniel Lebay seek more than $700,000 in damages.
Source: _Columbus Dispatch_ 10/9/92.
CHURCH SUED FOR NEGLIGENCE. One of several girls who said Alva minister Rev. Robert Bruce Brigden molested her is suing the
First Presbyterian Church for failingto check his background before hiring him. Allegationsof sexual crimes were made at his
former position in Kansas. Charges allege that he molested Alva church girls, ages 4 to 14. The church posted his bond.
Source: _Tulsa Tribune
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER GETS 40 YEARS. Rev. Robert Bruce Brigden was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting young girls
in his congregation, convicted on 8 counts of lewd molestation & 1 count of rape by instrumentation involving a girl, 7.
Bridgen, 57, was accused of molesting 11 girls, aged 4 to 14, during the 4 years he was at the Alva church. His congregation
put the church up as bond, insisting he was innocent. He was placed in protected custody. Brigden blamed his arrest on a
girl, 4, whose parents were the first to take the children’s allegations seriously. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,”
Brigden wrote his wife about the 4-year-old, whom he described as “4 going on 400 years old”, saying she invited him to spend
the night in her bed, & was mad that he declined.
Source: _Tulsa Tribune_ 8/92, _Tulsa
World_ 9/3/92, _Daily Oklahoman_ 6/14/92.
MINISTER MOLESTER OF 400 SENTENCED. Eugene Church for the Deaf minister Joseph Bernard Ponder, 47, was sentenced to 2 years
for violating probation in 2 felony convictions of 1st degree sexual abuse of boys. He had received a year in jail for 2nd
degree sexual abuse of a boy, 14, in 1988. Officials believe an estimate that he molested 400 boys may be low. “Thismay be
the most prolific abuser of young boys who has ever stood in this court,” said prosecutor Kent Mortimore. “His whole life has
revolved around this his ministry, his choice of careers to put himself in contact with potential victims.” Ponder denies
abusing the boy during a swimming incident, and failed to complete court-ordered sex offender treatment. Source:
_Register-Guard_ 3/5/92.
CHURCH VOLUNTEER CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Church volunteer Seven Jon Long, 41, was arrested for sodomy and taking
pornographic pictures of young girls under 12 from Assembly of God Church in Rogue River, where he was a youth volunteer. He
told detectives his pictures were art.
Source: _Daily Courier_, Grants Pass, 4/17/92.
CONVICTED PASTOR “RIGHT WITH LORD”. Rev. Virgil Carpenter, 48, pastor of Bible Missionary Church in Ontario, was convicted of
sodomy & sexual abuse of a girl, 9, over a 1-1/2 year period. A jury convicted Carpenter of 2 felony counts of sodomy & 4
felony counts of sexual abuse. He faces 5 additional felony charges in 2 upcoming trials. “I’m really not worried,” he told
supporters who had gathered in the
courtroom before the verdict. “I’m right with the Lord.”
Source: _Corvallis Gazette-Times_ 10/11/92.
LAY PREACHER WITH AIDS TRIED TO INFECT KIDS? Lay preacher Adam Brown, of Roseburg, Oregon, infected with HIV, was indicted
Nov. 13 for sexually abusing children to infect them with AIDS, including 5 counts of attempted murder, 9 counts of sodomy, 4
counts of rape, 5 counts of reckless endangerment, & 3 counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object. Boys & girls
told police he molested them repeatedly, threatening them with knives, scissors & matches. One boy said Brown rubbed semen
into a scratch on his arm. Another said Brown burned a _Bible_, warning that Satan would come unless the child stopped
resisting. Alleged victims include a 3-year-old girl, 7-year-old girl & 8-year-old boy. AIDS tests so far for the children
have been negative.
Source: AP/_Boston Globe_11/29/92.
YOUTH PASTOR JAILED FOR ABUSING GIRL. Sentenced to 60 days in jail for molesting a young girl was Michael Wayne Cross, 32,
youth pastor of Oregon City Evangelical Church. He must undergo a sex offender treatment & register with the state for life
as convicted sex offender. The girl, now 17, said he sodomized her numerous times over a year. An officer said the crimes
occurred at the church or at church functions.
Source: _Oregonian_ 10/29/92.
PROMINENT METHODIST PASTOR WITH AIDS EXPLOITED PARISH? Following the death on July 4 of Rev. William O. Walker, a prominent
Eugene pastor at First United Methodist Church, it was discovered he not only died of AIDS but had used his ministerial
position to make sexual advances to at least 12 men, including 6 ministers. Walker infected his wife Carol with AIDS; she
died in 1990. In November a church superintendent told parishioners that Walker had been accused of making sexual advances to
2 male teenagers at a Methodist church camp 17 years earlier.
Source:_Register-Guard_ 12/6/92.
CHURCH COUNSELING TURNED ABUSIVE. A Fairless Hills couple filed suit against a church counselor and Calvary Full Gospel
Church, alleging the pastor referred them to abusive Aldo Maselli. The depressed woman said he told her he “had prayed about
it and that God told him that it was OK for him to express his feelings of love”, initiating a 2-year sexual relationship.
The suit by Rebecca and Steven Hicks charges negligent, reckless practices contrary to accepted counseling standards, and
battery and sexual abuse.
Source: _Bucks County Courier Times_ 5/20/92.
DEACON ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING 8 GIRLS. Victory Baptist Church deacon Daniel Eaves, 34, was arrested for sexually assaulting 8
girls, ages 3 to 14, at his Springfield home and during youth groups last year.
Source: _Philadelphia Inquirer_ 4/25/ 92.
PRESBYTERY REMOVES PASTOR. The Pittsburgh Presbyteryremoved the associate pastor of the prominent East Liberty Presbyterian
Church on charges of sexual misconduct. Rev. Howard Eybers, 43, is accused by 3 women of making sexual overtures.
Source: _Pittsburgh Post- Gazette_ 3/7/92.
SEXTON GETS 35 YEARS. A sexton at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Whitehall Township was sentenced to 35-70 years in jail
for molesting boys. Adam Tannous, 61, of Allentown, agreed to plead guilty to 7 merged charges of involuntary deviate sexual
intercourse, after originally being charged with more than 4,000 crimes. One victim said Tannous bragged of having sex with
400 boys over the past 40 years. He was removed as pastor of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Hellertown in 1970 because of
similar allegations. In 1972, he was arrested on a morals charge in Emmaus. He was “treated”, not jailed, then expelled from
the ministry. Despite this record, St. Stephen’s hired him in 1976 to be custodian, saying he was rehabilitated. Many victims
say Tannous caused them alcohol problems by plying them with liquor.
Source: _Express-Times_ 12/17/92.
CULT PASTOR NOT PROSECUTED. Officials in Clearfield & Delaware counties won’t prosecute doomsday pastor Anthony Marcolongo of
Johnstown, despite allegations by 6 women followers of sexual assault. “We thought this wasn’t the type of case that tax
dollars should be spent on,” said Assistant DA Sheldon Kovach. The women said the minister broke them physically, making them
work 18-hour days, & filled them with fear of doom in Hell if they did not have sex with him.
Source: _Clearfield Progress_ 9/1/92.
METHODIST MINISTER PLEA BARGAINS. Rev. Wally Walton, Grace United Methodist, Pierre, pleaded no contest to felony charges of
incest & sexual contact with a minor, & was immediately jailed. Walton has agreed to provide details of “sex crimes & illicit
sexual activities” against latchkey kids, Girl Scouts & otherchildren. Additionally, Walton’s wife Betty was charged with
sexual contact with a child, incest, & failure to report a felony. Also indicted are Walton’s adopted twin daughters &
son-in-law, facing similar charges. Walton drove a bus for a local latchkey program. Mrs. Walton worked with the Girl Scouts.
Fellow minister Rev. J. Edwin Coates of the First United Methodist Church in Mitchell, accuses social workers of being
overzealous, & said the arrests were indicative of a “police state” & a witchhunt. Prosecutor Mark Moreno excused the delay
in charging Walton by saying: “If you charge a minister as I’ve done, you’d better be sure that you have some concrete
evidence, because it’s going to totally annihilate his future.” Walton voluntarily surrendered his ministerial credentials.
Methodists dropped a 2-year statute of limitations on disciplinary problems in May 1992, with no time limit on sex offenses.
Source:_Rapid City Journal_ 7/28,29,31/92, 8/1/92.
METHODIST COVER-UP ALLEGED. No charges were broughtwhen youngsters in Piedmont told police & social services they were
molested in 1983 by Rev. Wally Walton (see above) at Piedmont Grace United Methodist Church. After a 2-year sabbatical,
Walton became pastor at Grace United Methodist in Pierre, where he has been charged with sex offenses against children.
The Methodist hierarchy decided he was “not a danger to anyone”, permitted him to give sermons during his 2-year break, &
“felt he should be given another chance”, said Rev. Dick Fisher, formerly Westem Dist. superintendent of the Methodist Church
in Rapid City. “We had two concerns at the time: to protect the people & save a person for the ministry.”
Source: _Rapid City Journal_ 7/29/92.
MOLESTING MINISTER-BROTHERS CONVICTED. Youth ministerDon McCary, 48, was sentenced to 72 years of prison for molesting 4 boys
at his Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. His twin brother Ron McCary, a Christian comedian and pastor, is in prison after
committing aggravated rape on a boy, 6. Their older brother Richard McCary spent 2 years in the California prisons in the
1980s after conviction on 6 charges of child molestation. Explains sex offender therapist Deloris Roys, Don McCary “had a
perfect camouflage … For the person who uses religion as a camouflage, it gives them the mantle of being an OK or holy
person. We all imbue religious people with the idea they wouldn’t hurt us. They have instant authority, a power we don’t
have, a mantle of respect.” Don McCary had been youth/choir director for 15 years at Central Baptist Church of Hixson, Tenn.
He recorded lewd conversations with young boys and gave copies to his brother Ron in jail.
Source: _Birmingham News_ 5/9/92.
$10 MILLION SOUGHT FROM BAPTISTS. Five civil lawsuits asking for $10 million in damages were filed against the Southern
Baptist Convention for sexual assaults by convicted minister Donald McCary, of Chattanooga, sentenced in April to 72 years in
prison for assaulting 5 boys. James Guenther, general counselor for the SBC in Nashville, shrugged off the suits: “We’ve
probably had a dozen of these cases where a plaintiff has undertaken to show that SBC controls a minister.” He says no SBC
agency beyond the level of the congregation has legal or disciplinary authority over pastors. McCary’s twin brother is also
in prison for abusing children; their older brother is on parole for similar charges.
Source: _Birmingham News_8/21/92.
BAPTIST CHARGED WITH INDECENCY. Charged with indecency for fondling a preteen girl in 1991 was Norman “Buddy” Wilcoxen, 60,
former pastor of Calvary Baptist Churc in Bastrop.
Source: _Austin American-Statesman_ 10/17/92.
POLYGAMOUS HILLBILLY PREACHER CHARGED. The leader of the Evangelistic Tabernacle in Martinsville was charged with felonious
seduction & taking indecent liberties with a minor when he “married” a 16-year-old high school junior. Although already
married, he was not charged with polygamy since he did not legally marry the teenager. Rev. Elwood Gallimore, 42, was also
charged with performing marriage ceremonies without a license. His favorite topic for sermons is polygamy, citing such
polygamous biblical characters as David & Solomon. He said the _Bible_ will be his only defense during the trial. Gallimore,
whose dutiful 42-year-old wife was hospitalized for “nerves” after the second “marriage” was proposed, says he is being
prosecuted by “jealous” men. A magistrate ordered him to stay away from the teenager on Jan. 19.
Source: _Washington Post_ 1/21,27,28/92.
PROMINENT EPISCOPALIAN REMOVED. Nationally known Rev. W. Graham Pulkingham, now living in Virginia, wassuspended temporarily
from the Episcopalian priesthood after admitting he initiated a sexual relationship with a man he was counseling, destroying
the man’s marriage. Church officials asked everybody to pray.
Source: _Denver Post_ 8/92.
METHODIST LEADER ADMITS IMPROPER RELATIONS. Newly retired Rev. Edward W. Bauman, once named one of the country’s top
preachers by _Time_ Magazine, admitted in a September letter to the Foundry United Methodist Church in D.C. to “relationships
of a sexual nature … with several women in the congregation”. Bauman, 65, has a TV show, “Bauman _Bible_ Telecast”, airing
worldwide. The admission came only have 2 women filed grievances with Bishop Joseph Yeakel; one had sought counseling from
Bauman. Bauman agreed to seek counseling at Johns Hopkins Hospital & to retire. After a 3rd woman came forward. Bauman agreed
to write a letter to the congregation & make financia restitution to 2 women. Bauman insists the relationships were “fully
consenting” & “could not be interpreted as harassment”. Among Bauman’s congregants were Sen. Bob Dole & Elizabeth Dole, &
former Sen. George McGovern. According to the national United Methodist newsletter, 13% of pastors in 5 Protestant
denominations acknowledged having intercourse with parishioners.
Source: _Washington Post_ 9/18/92.
LUTHERAN PRINCIPAL ACCUSED. Denying charges of indecent liberties with a student is John P. Rossow, who resigned in March as
principal of Central Lutheran Christian School, Tacoma. Now a senior, the youth said Russow took him on outings and French
kissed him for hours when he was a 5th grader, and tried to masturbate him at a state park after plying him with whiskey. A
teenager said, “He had kids at his house a lot.”
Source: _Morning News Tribune_ 4/8/92.
METHODIST MINISTER PLEADS GUILTY. Rev. Lawrence “Larry” E. Trim, 55, of Evangelical Methodist Church in Methow, pleaded
guilty to 3rd degree rape of a child, in connection with an assault of a boy, then
13. Source: _Wenatchee World_ 9/17/92.
CONVICTED MOLESTER RECRUITING BOYS. A convicted child molester barred in Pennsylvania from recruiting choirboys to tour in
Europe is now operating out of Morgantown, WV. John B. Shallenberger, 74, was convicted in 1985 of indecent assault, indecent
exposure and corrupting the morals of a Dutch choirboy, 11. He was convicted in 1961 and 1975 on similar charges. In 1990, a
judge ordered him to reveal his criminal record while recruiting boys and to pay a $5,000 fine for violating a 1978 agreement
with the Bureau of Consumer Protection to reveal his background. He has not paid the fine or signed the petition.
Shallenberger insists, “Every choirmaster and every music teacher in the country knows of my criminal record … You would be
surprised at how many parents beg me to take a second brother on tour.” His July in Paris tour was handled through the
Children’s Choir Federation.
Source: _Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_ 2/15/92.
CONVICTED MOLESTER STOPS TOUR. Following an investigation by the West Virginia attorney general’s office, convicted child
molester John B. Shallenberger, 74, folded his Children’s Choir Federation, soliciting boys from grades 4-7 to take 2-week
singing tours in Europe. He had been convicted in 1975 & 1961 for child molestation. In 1991, Pennsylvania authorities
charged him with ignoring a court order to reveal his child molestation
convictions to the parents of recruited children, so he moved to West Virginia. Shallenberger has moved back to Pennslyvania
& is running an elevator repair company.
Source: _Charleston Gazette_ 7/8/92.
MINISTER PLEADS GUILTY TO ABUSING NIECE. Baptist minister Rev. Ernest Lee Rowsey, 51, of Wharton Missionary Baptist Church in
Bim, pleaded guilty to 1count of 1st degree sexual abuse, involving his niece. Originally, he was charged with molesting 2
nieces between 1976-1982, but they agreed to drop all but onecharge against their uncle. The kids were molested for 6 years
starting from ages 5 & 7. Rowley’s sister also said he molested her as long ago as 1969, but at that time, child sexual abuse
was a misdemeanor, & the statute of limitations has expired.
Source:_Charleston Gazette_ 11/1/92.
“NOT A TIME FOR JUDGMENT.” The arrest of Brookfield minister Richard O. Bidwell for lewd & lascivious conduct is “not a time
for judgment” but “a time when we in the Christian community need to offer our support & our prayers,” opines Rev. Kenneth
Wheeler, an official with the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Bidwell, pastor of
Calvary Lutheran Church, married with children, was arrested at a park in the afternoon with his genitals exposed, in the
company of another exposed man.
Source: _Milwaukee Sentinel_ 7/14/92.
NEW BRUNSWICK PREACHER CONVICTED. Calling his crimes a “most sick, disturbing and tragic matter”, Justice Thomas Riordon
convicted Pentecostal preacher Rev. Aubrey McCallister of touching, fondling and sodomizing a young girl for 10 years,
beginning when she was 7. The assaults took place at his home and church Sunday school in Minto, New Brunswick. He was
convicted of the same offense 2 years ago and sentenced to 5 years in jail but was granted a new trial. His loyal
congregation packed the courtroom during both trials, and had to be warned not to repeat their angry outburst. Followers
shook the convict’s hand and said they were sticking by him. The victim, now 20, was jeered by the minister’s congregation.
McCallister called her “daddy’s little girl” and rewarded her with Oreo cookies or told her to pray for
forgiveness after each encounter. “Aren’t we sneaky? If we ever get caught, mom would kick us both out,” he
told her.
Source: _Telegraph Journal_, Saint John, N.B., 3/6/92.
“GOD HAS FORGIVEN ME FOR WHAT I’VE DONE.” Nova Scotia religious leader Harold Jollimore, 63, convicted in December of sexual
and indecent assault of young girls, was sentenced to 2 years in prison. He preached biblical passages while sexually abusing
neighbor girls. One 9-year-old who had a breakdown after 8 years of abuse has been in therapy since 1978. He attracted
children by running a candy and soda postore on his property. He told the judge, “God has forgiven me for what I’ve done,”
saying he doesn’t understand why the victims haven’t been able to “put this behind them”. He was also ordered to take
psychiatric counseling during a 3-year probation.
Source: _The Spectator_ 2/11/92.
“HORRIFIC” HARASSMENT IN CHURCH OF CANADA PROMPTS STUDY. The task force on sexual abuse, exploitation, and harassment urged
the Church of Canada to develop a code of ethics for ministers because of ~horrific proportions” of sexual harassment in the
church. The panel said women are more likely to be sexually harassed in the church than in the workplace. “A
five-denominational study [in the U.S.] conducted in 1987 found 5.5% of therapists had sex involving intercourse with their
clients, while 12.6% of clergy admitted to sexual involvement including intercourse with their parishioners,” reported Rev.
Peter Lougheed of Evanville, Ontario. Many ministers are engaging in personal counseling without any training or codes of
ethics, said Walter Faquharson, moderator of the United Church. LUTHERAN TEACHER CHARGED. Arrested for sexually assaulting
boys at John Calvin Christian School in Burlington, Ontario is Theodore Richard Vanderveen, 30, who taught 4th grade for 4
Source:_Spectator_ 3/2/92.
CHURCH SUED FOR CHOIRMASTER’S ASSAULTS. St. George’s Cathedral & the Anglican church are being sued over a choirmaster’s
sexual assaults on choirboys. John Gallienne is serving a 6-1/2 year sentence for abusing boys. Now 17 plaintiffs are suing,
claiming damages, plus interest & costs. The suit in part claims church officials were aware of Gallienne’s misconduct & held
at least 5 meetings over a 6- year period to discuss them, yet took no action to protect boys.
Source:_Ottawa Citizen_ 11/11/92.
ANGLICAN PRIEST SUSPENDED WITH PAY. Owen Sound minister Jim Francom was suspended With pay from St. George’s Anglican Church
after being charged in July with rape & assault of a girl under 14. The assaults were alleged to have occurred in London,
Ontario between 1975-1984
Source: _Ottawa Citizen_ 8/18/92.
PASTOR GETS 6 MONTHS. Pastor Ed Brennan, 45, of Whitehorse Christian Bible Fellowship Society, got 6 months in jail and 3
years’ probation for sexually assaulting a young married parishioner in the Yukon.
Source: _Spectator_ 12/17/91.
ANGLICAN BISHOP CHARGED FOR SOLICITATION. Anglican Bishop Owen Dowling, 57, of Canberra and Goulburn, was recently charged
with soliciting a male off-duty cop for prostitution.
Source: _Christian Century_ 5/13/92.
New South Wales Anglican priest Eric William Griffith, 50, of Gratton, was jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to 3
counts of indecent assault & 4 counts of gross indecency against a boy, 14.
Source:_Courier-Mail_ 11/15/92.
SETTLEMENT SHROUDS BAPTIST CASE. A secret settlement was reached just before a civil suit went to jury against Moffett Road
Baptist Church minister Henry Hobson, Mobile, for sexually abusing a girl, 14. Hobson admitted having sexual intercourse with
the girl he referred to as an adopted daughter, once when she accompanied him on church “visitation”. He admitted she “wanted
out”, but called her a “pleasant diversion”. At first he denied her accusations and asked her to say she had lied, for
“damage control”. He resigned in April 1991 after a suicide attempt when the girl confided in the youth pastor about him.
Attorney Robert Cunningham, Jr. told jurors that many church members shunned the 9th grader, blaming her. His attorney
argued, “It certainly was not part of his job to have sexual intercourse with her, and therefore the church is not
responsible,” adding: “He thought it was better she learn about sex from him rather than some young boy at school.”
Source: _Mobile Register_2/12/93.
CULT LEADER GETS 16 YEARS. Fugitive religious leader James Randazzo, convicted in 1989 of sexual exploitation of children,
was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Founder of Spiral of Friends cult, he videotaped sex sessions with teenaged children
during “therapy”. His wife Colleen is serving an 8-year prison term. Randazzo had skipped the country, but was
nabbed last fall in Hungary.
Source: _Rocky MountainNews_ 1/30/93.
MAYER (FINALLY) GETS 3 YEARS. The Rev. Robert E. Mayer, 53, implicated in numerous cases of sexually abusing minors, was
sentenced to 3 years in prison for molesting a girl, 13. Four men also testified during the trial about Mayer’s advances
toward them 9 years ago, when they were 13 and 14. “The evidence indicates a long history of sexually inappropriate conduct
with children and adults,” said prosecutor Mark Cavins. “This crime was not committed on impulse or spur of the moment.”
Mayer is the first priest in Cook Co. tobe sentenced to prison. He continued to maintain his innocence, pleading for mercy:
“As God is my witness I was never alone with the girl,” Mayer told thejudge. Judge Thomas Durkin replied, “God is not your
judge today.”
Source: _Chicago Tribune_ 2/6/93.
YOUTH MINISTER CHARGED. Garden City Church of Christ youth minister Rev. Cameron K. Huffman, 41, was charged with 21 counts
of child molestation for molesting a young boy for a year. Huffman had admitted to being a pedophile during a counseling
session. When the church in Columbus was notified of Huffman’s admission, it fired him and informed the congregation, also
calling police. Police received complaints against Rev. Huffman from other Indiana cities and states, but the 5-year statute
of limitations hashampered some investigations.
Source: _Indianapolis Star_ 1/28/93.
METHODIST MINISTER ASSAULTS DEPRESSED TEENAGER? A lawsuit filed in February accuses United Methodist minister R. Gene Voss of
sexually assaulting a female teenager during counseling sessions for depression at the First United Methodist Church,
Crawfordsville. In 1984 her minister began fondling the 15-year-old, initiating intercourse when she was 16. “Over the next
four years Gene Voss raped the plaintiff over 60 times,” says the lawsuit. The woman has incurred more than $65,000 in
treatment for abuse. Voss gave up his minister credentials in 1991. She is also suing the Crawfordsville church and the
United Methodist South Indiana Conference. “You can say anything in a lawsuit,” was the cavalier response of the conference’s
legal advisor.
Source: _Indianapolis Star_ 2/4/93.
LUTHERAN TEACHER CHARGED. St. Paul’s Lutheran elementary school teacher Gerald J. Bauer, Jr., 31, was charged with molesting
a student, 12, during a visit to his home. The Farmington Hills teacher was charged with 1st and 2nd degree criminal sexual
conduct. Source: _Detroit Free Press_ 2/13/93.
MORE CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST BAPTIST. Washtenaw Co. Dist. Judge Thomas F. Shea threw out 2 charges of 1st-degree criminal
sexual conduct against Baptist deacon Mark Foeller, leaving 6 counts of criminal sexual conduct. The deacon and bus driver at
North Sharon Baptist Church is accused of raping a boy, 9, twice, at the church, which has a campaign to bus low-income
children from 4 counties to its Sunday school and church camp. The dismissals follow earlier dismissals against assistant
pastor Timothy Lee Leonard, 33, originally charged with 12 similar counts. Judges dismissed all his charges, saying the
alleged victims were either too young to testify or that their testimony was too vague. At least one family will file a civil
lawsuit against the North Sharon Baptist Church and Leonard, according to Ann Arbor attorney Mark A. Hopper. “We will sue the
church for negligent hiring and negligent retention of those workers.” Leonard has been invited back to the church and is
directing its music programs. A mother told a reporter she was “stunned” and “numb” by the judge’s decision. Shea ruled
that a 9-year-old could not testify about being raped in the church nursery, because she couldn’t say on which day it
happened.
Source: _Jackson Citizen Patriot_ 2/5&18/93.
MOLESTER STILL LISTED IN CHURCH ANNUAL. A LutheranChurch-Missouri Synod pastor who admitted to sexually molesting a Duluth
boy and who is being sued for molestation by 3 others, is still listed as a pastor in good standing in the synod’s 1993
Lutheran Annual. Rev. Daniel Reeb admitted in 1991 that he molested a parishioner, 13, several times in the 1960s, and made
official testimony about it to church officials. His victim and several others have filed lawsuits. Reeb resigned a year ago,
but was put on “restricted status” and can still preach. He moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Source: _News-Tribune_ 3/3/93.
LUTHERAN PASTOR ADMITS SEX WITH BOY. Cloquet pastor Wayne Vetter of Zion Lutheran Church pleaded guilty to 1st degree
criminal sexual contact with a juvenile. He is in counseling for sexual abuse and is expected to be sentenced to a
correctional center. He served ministries in Madison, Wis., and Grand Forks, N.D. A man came forward to say Vetter had
molested him in Grand Forks, but the statute of limitations has expired. Vetter admitted to a habit of anonymous Sex
in public places.
Source: _Duluth News-Tribune_3/19/93.
POLL REVEALS WIDESPREAD ABUSE. 7% of Minnesotan protestants personally know someone who has been sexually abused by a member
of the clergy, while 5% of Catholics did, and 2% say they have been touched by a clergyperson in a way that made them
uncomfortable, according to a _Star Tribune_/WCCO-TV Minnesota Poll phone survey of 1,222 Minnesotans was taken from Jan. 26
to Feb. 5. 1991 survey of Minnesota clergy showed 15% of mainline Protestant clergy admitted to an affair outside of.
Source: _Star Tribune_ 2/21/93
CHARGES REDUCED FOR PASTOR. Third-degree sexual assault charges were reduced to attempted contributing to delinquency of a
minor against Beatrice pastor Rev. Norman Scott Callahan, 50, associate pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church. He is
accused of sexual contact with a boy, 15, and was suspended for 60 days from his post.
Source: _Omaha World-Herald_3/20/93.
MENNONITE REV. RAPED DAUGHTER? The Rev. Eugenio Matos, 61, was charged with 18 counts of repeatedly raping his daughter over
an 11- year period. The pastor of the Spanish Mennonite Church in Trenton has 12 children. He is accused of sexually
assaulting the girl when she was 5 in 1981, continuing the abuse until his arrest in March, 1992. Source: _Trenton
Times_ 2/4/93.
EPISCOPAL PRIEST CHARGED WITH SEXUAL BATTERY. An Episcopal priest, Douglas Hodges, 57, was charged with sexual battery, a
3rd-degree felony, in a 1991 incident involving a parishioner in counseling. A Fostoria woman and her husband, who said
Hodges had sexual intercourse with her during counseling, had previously filed a civil suit against Hodges, Bishop James
Moodey of the Episcopal diocese of Ohio, Trinity Episcopal Church, Fostoria, and the owner of the counseling center. An
episcopal official says Hodges is no longer a priest, but declined further comment.
PARISH SUPPORTS PORTLAND PREYING PASTOR. Prominent pastor Rev. Willie B. Smith, 64, former president of Ecumenical Ministries
of Oregon, is accused of sexually abusing 3 teenage girls at First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He was charged
with 11 counts of 1st degree sexual abuse, a felony, and 1 count of 3rd degree sexual abuse, a misdemeanor. Pastors in the
community werequick to speak about his “exemplary” work. Two of the victims told police Smith had cornered them in his church
office and groped them. A third said she was repeatedly abused by Smith for 16 months, beginning in September 1990. The
victims were 12, 13, and 17 at the time of the incidents. Almost every parishioner lined up to hug,kiss and reassure Smith
following the arrest.
Source: _Oregonian_ 3/13,15/93.
EPISCOPAL PRIEST, “ABOVE REPROACH”, SUED, INVESTIGATED. Six women including one filing a $4 million civil lawsuit have
accused ByronBruce Newell, 60, former assistant pastor of Falls Church Episcopal Church, of sexual molestation or advances.
The plaintiff alleges Newell forced her into sexual activities during counseling sessions at the church for 2 years, telling
her that her sexual feelings toward him would bring her closer to God. Episcopal officials said they removed him from his
pastoral role and ordered counseling after learning of complaints by women in 1988. However, they only launched a full
inquiry last September. Newell, now a fundraiser for Trinity Episcopal School for the Ministry near Pittsburgh, is named in
the suit, along with the church, the diocese, the bishop and church pastor John W. Yates ll. According to the suit, Yates
told the woman what happened during counseling was her fault, and did not act on complaints from 5 other women that Newell
had verbally or physically harassed them. The dean of the seminary insisted Newell “has more than amply repaid our trust. His
behavior has been above reproach”.
PASTOR ADMITS ABUSE OF GIRLS. Admitting having intercourse with a female teenager and indecently touching another, Rev. Larry
G. Johnson pleaded guilty to 2 counts against him dating from 1977-79 while pastor of Buffalo Wesleyan Church. He recently
resigned his position as superintendent of the Dakota District of the Wesleyan Church
Source: _Rapid City
Journal_ 2/28/93.
1988, Lancashire, England. Congregational Church Minister Garvock convicted of raping 4 yr. old girl.
1988, Winchester, England. 2 Anglican vicars, a choirmaster, a solicitor, and an already convicted molester jailed on 21
charges of sexually abusing boys at church outings, YMCA and churchyard.
1990, Solihull, England. Pentecostal Minister D. Stenhouse jailed on 5 charges of indecent assault on boys aged 12 to 15.
1991, England. Baptist Minister Ashby Breneman jailed for molesting 6 boys at his Christian Youth camp.–
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Lake Wales, FL. The pastor at the Church of the Nazarene has been charged with sexually assaulting a male 17-year-old youth leader three times in 2001. The Rev. Gene Francis, 52, of Lake Wales, was arrested Tuesday and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 4, 2003)
Lake Wales minister arrested in sexual assault case
Tuscon, AZ. The Rev. David Valencia, 47, assistant pastor of a Pentecostal church is expected in court Wednesday on rape charges issued by Pennsylvania authorities. In Pennsylvania, Valencia was an assistant pastor at Christ Church at Grove Farm, an interdenominational church that uses Anglican liturgy. The pastor of Christ Church, the Rev. John Guest, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Valencia was dismissed in late 2001 because he was found to have pornography on an office computer after he was warned about a similar incident months earlier. (Tucson Citizen, May 31, 2003)
Rev. David Valencia allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl he was counseling
An associate pastor of a San Fernando Valley chapel was sentenced to 32 months in prison on Tuesday for failing to register as a sex offender. Ilger, a former second-grade teacher, was convicted in 1988 of molesting four students in his San Luis Obispo classroom. After being released from jail, Ilger and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he took a position with Hope Chapel of the Valley in Canoga Park. “We’ve lived and learned a painful lesson,” the Rev. Jeff Fischer of Hope Chapel said outside court. Fischer has said he and about 30 church elders knew that Ilger had molested young girls before he was hired.
Sentencing (Associated Press, April 3, 2003)
Marty A. Hynes, 33, is charged with eight counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor, three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and one count of attempted criminal sexual contact of a minor. Hynes was a youth pastor at the First Assembly of God church when the alleged incidents occurred, between July and December 2001. (Las Cruces Sun-News, March 24, 2003)
Trial of former youth pastor begins
Dayton, OH. A Trotwood minister, whose lawyer said he has been a “sex addict” since age 10, sought treatment rather than face trial in a Brookville police-run Internet sting that presented a virtual 14-year-old boy in a chat room. But a Montgomery County judge denied his plea for treatment Tuesday. Turner’s attorney, Dwight Brannon, wrote “He had his first sexual experience with another male at the age of 19 while in college. Shortly after he began surfing the Web . . . his addiction slowly began to grow.” Turner had been pastor of Anchor Community Church, 38 S. Fairgreen Drive, for seven years when he was arrested last summer. (Dayton Daily News, 01.29.2003)
Minister arrested in police-run Internet sting
Riviera Beach, FL. A prominent minister, his church and deacon have reached a $600,000 settlement with a mentally disabled man who accused the minister of rape. The Rev. Thomas Masters, pastor of the New Macedonia Church of Riviera Beach, and Church Mutual, insurer for the church, negotiated the settlement with the man, according to his attorneys and court papers filed Monday. The man, who has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, attended New Macedonia and accused Masters of coercing him to smoke crack cocaine and then raping him twice on church property over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991. (The Palm Beach Post, January 14, 2003)
West Palm Beach minister, church pay $600,000
Anaheim, CA. Anaheim pastor admitted Monday he fondled two teen-age girls 18 years ago while working as a part-time counselor at a Colorado church a decade before he was assigned to an Orange County church. “I was acting like an irresponsible teen-ager. There’s no excuse for what I did,” the Rev. Greg Tucker of Anaheim First Church of the Nazarene told The Orange County Register. The church settled lawsuits by two women, who said Tucker, then 22, molested them when they were 16. A Colorado jury sided with the women in a civil trial, ordering Tucker to pay the two $70,000. Tucker said he never told church leaders about the indiscretions before his ordination in Southern California seven years ago. In Colorado, sexual relations with a teen-ager were not considered criminal then, which led the women to sue for civil damages. The former youth pastor is now a senior pastor in a Nazarene Church in Anaheim, CA. The Nazarene General Superintendent’s remarks about the case were very telling, i.e. “This happened a long time ago. . .the man has ‘grown’ since then. . . isn’t the Christian faith all about forgiveness. . .”(North County Times, April 17, 2002)
A Christian pastor in Indonesia was sentenced to four years imprisonment for sexually abusing seven refugee children under his care, officials said Tuesday. Saderah Sudiro, a Protestant clergyman with the Foundation For the Village Bible Society, was found guilty Monday of molesting refugee children ages 14 and 15 in his house in Solo in Central Java, said prosecutor Ika Ria Wati. “For more than a year he abused the minors who sought refuge in his foundation,” said Wati. (Associated Press, April 30, 2002)
pastor gets four years for molesting refugee children
CHELSEA, VT. Pastor faces trial or stiffer sentence for child molestation. A judge on Tuesday denied a plea agreement for a former Newbury pastor accused of child molestation. The decision means Rev. Joseph A. Rinaldi may go to trial or receive a stiffer sentence on charges of molesting children while he was pastor of the Newbury Bible Church and principal of the Newbury Christian School between 1993 and 1998. “The crimes you committed are heinous crimes,” said Vermont District Court Judge Amy Davenport. “They are crimes that have left long lasting scars on their victims. And it is because of that, in the court’s view, the court cannot accept the plea agreement.” Rinaldi had pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child in exchange for a prison sentence of two years. He admitted fondling three boys in his care. (The Associated Press, December 03, 2002)
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Newbury Pastor Pleads Innocent To Molestation
South Kingstown, New Zealand. 53-year-old Bruce C. DiMaria,the pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Wakefield who also served as a teaching assistant in the South Kingstown School District’s Farm School for learning-disabled students was arrested Friday by North Kingstown police and charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault for alleged incidents involving a 17-year-old female student who has autism and cerebral palsy. (NKStandard Times, Nov. 17, 2002)
Youth Paster charged
Denver, CO. Denver police arrested a 26-year-old youth minister with St. John’s Church of God in Christ after a 15-year-old member accused him of sexual assault. (November 15, 2002, Rocky Moutain News)
Youth Paster arrested
Tulsa, OK. Son Minh Rockstroh, 48, was arrested Saturday on three counts of rape by instrumentation and one count of lewd molestation of a child. He was jailed about 2 a.m. Saturday and is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail. The allegations have no apparent link to his work as a schoolteacher but to his leadership of a small religious group called Church Life, Tulsa police said. The victim and her mother met Rockstroh through Church Life, whose members meet in each others’ homes, Detective Chuck Haywood said. “There is not a pastor of the church, but everyone considered him to be the guy in charge,” Haywood said of Rockstroh. During an interview with police, Rockstroh admitted that he had molested the girl on three occasions, jail records show. (Tulsa World, 11/12/2002)
Church Leader Arrested
TISHOMINGO, OK. Kentucky pastor accused of raping a 12-year-old Oklahoma girl has surrendered to Johnston County officials. The Rev. Chadwick L. Keathley, associate pastor of Ark of Mercy Church of God in Winchester, Ky., responded Tuesday to an arrest warrant issued Aug. 26. Prosecutors charged Keathley, 27, with lewd molestation, first-degree rape and rape by instrumentation. He was released after posting a $25,000 cash bond and an Oct. 22 preliminary hearing was scheduled. The alleged incident occurred during summer 2000 at a Church of God gathering at Camp Bond Youth Camp near Tishomingo. (The Winchester Sun, Sept. 2002)
Pastor surrenders to Oklahoma officials
Concord, NH. Charles Gravenhorst, the self-described pastor who once preached his fringe Christian ministry on Concord Community TV, was arrested again yesterday, this time by federal agents for allegedly sending obscene material over the Internet and for using the Internet to induce teenage girls to engage in sex acts. Gravenhorst, 45, was charged earlier this year with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in her Windham, Maine, home. The police said that he had met the girl over the Internet. (August 13, 2002, Concord Monitor)
Pastor arrested again on sex charges
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Cape Coral, Florida. The FBI has issued an arrest warrant for a former minister and radio evangelist after seizing child pornography, weapons and other items from his home, records show. Troy Cecil Snowden, 59, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of possessing child pornography, wire fraud, transporting a child for illegal purposes and possession of a shotgun. (August 11, 2002), AP.
Evangelist on child abuse charges
Baton Rouge, LA. A Baton Rouge minister is of jail on a $15,000 bond Wednesday following his arrest on molestation charges. Danny W. Johnson, Jr. was a youth pastor at an unknown church here in Baton Rouge where he molested a juvenile girl from 1997 to 1999, according to police. (July 9, 2002, WBRZ)
Minisiter arrested on molestation charges
WBRZ report
Charlotte, NC. A worker at a Charlotte church after school program has pleaded guilty to four counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor. Investigators said Larry McCrae, 38, fondled three boys, 10 to 14 years old during the after school program at the Chapel of Christ the King Church on East 17th Street in Charlotte. (July 2, 2002, NBC6-TV)
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Fort Waye, IN. A 65-year-old former church elder of Calvery Temple was arrested Friday and charged with molesting a teen-age boy he had taken to movies and ballgames in 2000, police said. (July 1, 2002, The Journal Gazette)
Ex-church elder charged with molesting
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NEW PORT RICHEY, FL — The mother of a 5-year-old girl has filed a lawsuit against the Gospel Outreach Church of New Port Richey, alleging that her daughter was molested because church officials failed to screen the background of a church volunteer. Alfonso Morales, 54, pleaded guilty last month to molesting the girl on a church bus in May 2001. He also pleaded guilty to molesting a second 5-year-old girl in the church parking lot in November 2000. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Morales was previously convicted in New York of sexual battery on a child. He was released from prison in 1992 after serving five years. (June 25, 2002, St. Petersburg Times)
Lake Wales, FL. William Benjamin Wells, 36, pastor of Christian Harvest Ministries, was arrested on June 6 and charged with two counts of molestation on a victim less than 12 years old, two counts of sexual assault on a victim under 18 years of age, and one count of sexual battery on a victim under 12 years old. (June 20, 2002; Lake Wales News)
Paster Wells arrested
Kansas City, KS. Reginald G. Robinson, 24, a resident of Kansas City, was charged by the Jackson County Prosecutor on Monday, May 20, with one count of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sodomy and one count of child molestation.According to the police report, most of the incidents of molestation occurred in the basement of the Beth Judah Ministries Church of God In Christ. (The Call, June 14, 2002)
Church Youth Leader Charged In Molestation Of 13 Year Old
Baker, LA. A Baker minister accused of molesting four children is being sought after failing to surrender to East Baton Rouge sheriff’s officials Thursday. An East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury indicted McFarland on Wednesday on four counts of sexual battery, two counts of oral sexual battery, four counts of molestation of a juvenile, four counts of aggravated crime against nature and two counts of second-degree kidnapping. The indictment accuses McFarland of performing sex acts with four children from 1990 through 1998. The children ranged in age from 8 to 16. Prosecutor Kim Brooks said McFarland initially met the children while working as a minister at Hightime Evangelistic Center in Baker. (June, 14, 2002, The Advocate)
Rev. McFarland arrested on multiple counts
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Dekalb, GA. A DeKalb County judge sentenced Pastor Troy Brown of the Greater Anointed Tabernacle Worship Center to 70 years in prison on 25 counts of child molestation. Prosecutors say Brown abused a 15-year-old boy who attended his church. (May 30, 2002, WSB-TV)
Troy Brown sentneced to 70 years
Troy Brown sentenced on 25 counts DeKalb minister remains defiant
Columbus, GA. After four days of testimony and lawyers’ arguments, the child molestation case against the Rev. Wilmer D. Williams will remain without a verdict through the Memorial Day weekend, Muscogee Superior Court Judge Robert Johnston decided Friday. (May 25, 2002, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
Report in Cincinnatti Enquirer
Minister on trial
England. Brother Stair Arrested: Criminal Sexual Conduct & Breech Of Trust. Mr. Stair’s wife Teresa claims “Brother” Stair admits to having sex with several “women” at the community. The claims and charges revolve around the fact that the women in question were underage, which means they were under the age of eighteen when Ralph Stair allegedly had sex with them. “Brother” Stair is sixty-nine. (May 16, 2002 ) Youth Paster charged
Payne County, OK. Former youth minister of River of Life Church, Rex Jason Sumner, pleaded guilty in Payne County District Court on Friday to four counts of oral sodomy, four counts of lewd molestation, one count of second-degree rape and one count of indecent proposal to a child. (April 16, 2002, The Daily O’Collegian, Oklahoma State Univ.)
Former Youth Minister pleads Guilty
Ex-youth leader admits abuse
Report: Sex Scandal Brewing at Riverside Church
Newbury, NH. Joseph A. “Pastor Joe” Rinaldi, 60, is charged with five counts of lewd/lascivious conduct with a child. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The charges cover a time period from 1993 to 1998 and involve three boys whose ages ranged from 10 to 15 at the time of the alleged abuse. An affidavit refers to other alleged victims, one as old as 19. Rinaldi met the boys through the Newbury Bible Church, where he was pastor, and/or the Newbury Christian School, where he was principal. (The Caledonian-Record News, April 9, 2002)
SPRINGFIELD, TN. A former youth minister was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday after he pleaded no contest to charges that he raped one of his congregation’s 13-year-old boys. Before his arrest, Spain had worked two years as a youth pastor at the First Assembly of God Church. (Tennessean.com, March 2, 2002)
Former youth minister sentenced in boy’s rape
CASSOPOLIS, MI. – A former Cass County minister was sentenced Friday to at least 10 year in prison for molesting a child. John Charles Yeager, 54, pleaded no contest to a sexual assault charge. Yeager is already serving an 8-20-year term in a case involving another sex offense. The sentences will run concurrently. In 1998, he was convicted of molesting a teenager who knew one of his daughters. Yeager was once a pastor at First Congregational Church in Constantine. (Feb. 7, 2002; WWMT TV) Convicted pastor sentenced again
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RAYMOND, NH. — A 20-year-old man who alleges a Raymond youth pastor molested him when he was 14 has told authorities that the church member often came to his house to punish him with a wooden cutting board and paddle, a police affidavit said.
Cranford was hired as a full-time youth pastor in February 2001. Despite being a registered sex offender, Cranford was hired as an associate youth pastor and the music minister at the New Life Assembly of God church. According to the affidavit, Cranford allegedly got on top of the boy, pinned him down, and performed a sexual act. Cranford was convicted of sexually assaulting a child while serving as an associate pastor at a church in Groton, Mass., police said. (Jan. 26, 2002; The New Hampshiore Union Leader)
Raymond man alleges he was molested as a teen
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Victim’s emotional scars often last a lifetime
Republic, KS. The pastor of a Republic church faces three to 10 years in prison in Kansas on six sexual abuse charges that date back to 1979. Russell Winkler, pastor at Republic’s First Christian Church for the past eight years, pleaded no contest to the charges Friday in an Atchison, Kan., courthouse. The judge found him guilty of six counts of aggravated enticement of a child. The abuse occurred between 1979 and 1981 while Winkler was associate pastor and youth director of the First Christian Church in Atchison. The victims were all boys, ages 12-13. (The Springfield News-Leader, Jan. 1, 2002)
Minister pleads no contest to sexual abuse charges that date back to 1979
Eastland, TX. Case No. 31,691-98, is set for trial 04/23/01 in the 12th judicial district of Angelina County, Lufkin Texas. Defendants in this case are e)United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) in Saint Louis MO, k)Texas District of the United Pentecostal Church,)United Pentecostal Church of Eastland Texas, n)Bobby Hart and Jonathan Mark Hart. Jonathan Mark Hart was convicted in Eastland, TX, Feb. 1999, on 3 counts of sexual assault of a minor child. The female children were 15 and 16 years of age and members of the Youth Group at Eastland United Pentecostal Church. Jonathan Hart attended Bible College at o)Gateway College of Evangelism and was acting Assistant Pastor at the Eastland United Pentecostal Church. He and his wife were the designated Youth Directors as well. Assaults on these young girls occurred on Church property and on Church related trips supervised by Jonathan Hart. Bobby Hart is the Father of Jonathan Hart and was also the Pastor of the Eastland Church at the time of the assaults. Bobby Hart appointed Jonathan Hart to both leadership positions. (2001)
Pentecostal minister Charged
MEADVILLE, LA. A Meadville minister was arrested Friday for an alleged sexual offense with a 9-year-old girl. Derwin Rogers, 43, was being held without bond Friday on charge of statutory rape of a female younger than 12 years old, said Franklin County Sheriff James Newman. Rogers, the pastor of Emmanuel Full Gospel Church in Meadville, is believed to have assaulted the girl at a house near the church that belonged to a church member, Newman said. Rogers is also being charged with sexual battery charges filed by a 19-year-old former employee at the day care. Rogers pleaded not guilty to the charges last week in Franklin County. (The Natchez Democrat, Dec. 1, 2001)
Minister charged in rape of girl
FORT WORTH (AP) – A former North Texas pastor has been indicted on counts of sexual assault and indecency with three children, and police say allegations against the man go back at least 10 years.
Evidence collected at Jon Warnshuis’ house in Argyle has led to accusations that he sexually abused at least five boys in Argyle, Grapevine and Laredo, police say.
On Thursday, a Denton County grand jury returned three indictments against Warnshuis, 41, alleging two counts of indecency with a child, eight counts of sexual assault and four counts of aggravated sexual assault, District Attorney Bruce Isaacks said.
Argyle Police Chief William Tackett said the indictments involve three children at Oak Hills Evangelical Free Community Church near Argyle, where Warnshuis was pastor for four years.
In the mid-1980s, Warnshuis moved from California to Texas, where he worked toward a master’s degree in divinity from Dallas Theological Seminary, officials have said.
Police are also investigating accusations of sexual assault of boys at a church that Warnshuis attended in the early 1980s in Escondido, Calif. Saturday, November 10, 2001.
Youth pastor faces charges, arraignment lists sexual abuse count
Church rebuilding faith after pastor’s disgrace
DENVER, CO. – A convicted child molester whose appeal of his sentence led to shorter terms for more than 1,500 sex offenders is accused of molesting a 14-year-old student from his Bible-study class. Fort Lupton police issued a warrant Monday for Vance Martin, 35, on charges he sexually assaulted the girl. He had not been arrested Tuesday. (10/30/2001) AP.
Colorado child molester accused of assaulting girl in Bible-study class
Molester in Jail on New Charges
Dark History Eludes Church’s Eyes
Church Problems
Sonoma County, CA. A judge ruled yesterday that Rev. Dick Bruner, a Petaluma resident and former pastor at Christ Church North Bay in Novato, will stand trial for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old boy. According to the alleged victim, now 16, Bruner molested him on three different occasions in 1998. Two of the alleged incidents happened at a retreat near Occidental, the youth said, and the third took place at Bruner’s home. The alleged victim said Bruner, 59, kissed him on the lips and rubbed his inner thigh in one incident. Another time Bruner, allegedly, asked the boy to sit on his lap while the pastor was wearing only a towel and kissed the boy again. (The Petaluma Argus-Courier, Oct. 10, 2001)
Petaluma pastor faces molest trial
WORCESTER, Mass. – A judge has rejected a Millbury man’s assertion that he was seeking religious solace when he confessed to church leaders that he sexually abused three girls and has refused to suppress the statements as evidence against the man. Daniel R. Ferris, 56, a former Sunday school teacher, citing the so-called ”clergy-penitent privilege,” hoped to prevent a jury from hearing his confessions. State law prohibits members of the clergy from disclosing confessions made to them in their professional capacity or any conversation made from someone seeking religious comfort or advice. Ferris is awaiting trial in Worcester Superior Court on charges of indecent assault and battery on a child, indecent assault and battery, and posing a child in state of nudity. (9/22/2001, Portsmouth Herald)
Judge refuses to suppress statements in abuse case
Bishop, GA. Minister Larry Michael Holmes, pled guilty to molesting a 14-year-old girl, and was sentenced to five years in prison followed by 15 years of probation. (Aug. 17, 2001, Athens Banner-Herald)
Boston, MA. – A popular minister credited with turning around the lives of troubled youth resigned Friday amid allegations that he fondled a teen-ager in his care. Williamson allegedly touched an 18-year-old five years ago. The man, now 23, has told police of the alleged sexual assault, according to the Rev. Gilbert Thompson, pastor at New Covenant Christian Church where Williamson was a congregation member and a deacon. (July 22, 2001, Cape Code Times)
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PERKASIE, PA. A Perkasie man who volunteered as a youth ministries leader at an Upper Bucks church faces up to 90 years in jail after admitting in Bucks County court in Doylestown yesterday that he sexually abused 20 boys.
Howard Earl White, 39, will be sentenced within 90 days, following an evaluation by the state Megan’s Law board, which will determine if he is a sexually violent predator.
County Judge Kenneth Biehn revoked White’s $375,000 bail and ordered him held in county prison until sentencing. But at the urging of White’s attorney, Richard Fink, Biehn agreed to allow White to turn himself over to prison officials Friday, so that arrangements can be made to place him in protective custody at the jail.
White, of South Main Street, hung his head and looked at the floor as the charges against him were read aloud in court. He did not testify, and refused comment as he left the courthouse. June 26, 2001; Bucks County Courier Timeshttp://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/897306.htm
A lifelong member of one of Atlanta’s largest and best known churches, the Cathedral at Chapel Hill, filed suit this week charging founding pastor Bishop Earl Paulk with child molestation. The charges are the most serious yet in a string of sexual misconduct allegations against Paulk and several other male members of his family that span decades.
Jessica Battle, daughter and granddaughter of prominent members of Paulk’s staff, said in her suit that from the time she was 7 until she was about 11 years old, Paulk “engaged in a pattern of conduct . . . that included caressing her, fondling her sexual organs, performing oral sex on her and having sexual intercourse with her.” She also charged that five years ago, when she was 17, Paulk had forcible intercourse with her. Some of the acts occurred on church property or during church-sponsored events, according to the suit, filed Wednesday in DeKalb County State Court. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Apr. 14, 2001)
Grayslake, MD. Rev. Kurt Behrel, 51, pastor of a Grayslake church, was arrested and charged with molesting two boys in the 1980s. Officers found cocaine and illegal guns in Behrel’s home during his arrest. (02.06.01, The Daily Herald)
EVERETT, WA. Forrmer youth pastor has been charged with fondling a 10-year-old boy he met at church. A charge of first-degree child molestation was filed Monday against Michael J. Babcock, 31, formerly a pastor at Sonrise Chapel. Under questioning with his lawyer present, Babcock admitted he touched the boy sexually during a sleepover at his home in July 1999, Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Tobin Darrow wrote in documents filed in Superior Court. (12/12/2000, AP) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/fndl12ww.shtml
PACE, FL. – A Panhandle minister faces a possible life sentence after he was arrested and charged with molesting children and young adults who lived with his family.
Floyd W. Linder Jr., 54, was arrested by sheriff’s investigators and charged with 9 counts of capital sexual battery and 3 counts of sexual battery. Sheriff’s investigators also obtained warrants charging 2 additional counts of sexual battery 15 years ago when Linder lived in Pensacola.
Linder, pastor of Pace Apostolic Church, was being held without bail at county jail.
Santa Rosa County sheriff’s skesman Jim Lyle said Linder has been investigated several times for sexual abuse since the 1990s, but he was able to keep his victims from talking by threatening to kill his wife. But Beverly Linder died in May of a stroke and Floyd Linder was arrested after detectives again interviewed his alleged victims, Lyle said.
Linder’s victims ranged in age from 5 to 24 years old when they were assaulted, records show. But Sherell Farmer, Linder’s stepdaughter, denies her stepfather assaulted anyone. “I live right behind him. There’s no way,” said Farmer, 33 and the oldest of eight girls and one boy raised by the Linders. AP 10/1/2000
Pace pastor pleads not guilty
Child molester preacher sentenced; Pace pastor gets 20 years
Two South Carolina preachers – the Rev. Johnny William Cabe and the Rev. Shelton Joel Shirley, both of Hisway Ministries – were charged with bilking believers out of $7 million in an overseas investment fraud(unknown 3/24/2000)
TAMPA, FL. – The search of an unpaid storage locker turned up pictures of young naked boys and led police to a church youth counselor who now faces child sex charges.
Marvin C. Thompson, 52, was being held without bond on 8 counts of sexual battery and lewd and lascivious conduct with children after his arrest in connection with sexual acts on two boys, ages 5 and 8.
Thompson had worked as a volunteer counselor for the Royal Rangers, a youth group affiliated with Temple Terrace Faith Assembly and had worked with at least one other Tampa church youth group, according to investigators.
The alleged victims, however, were not members of the church groups, they said. Police said Thompson had not paid his rental fee on a storage locker and when the owner opened it, he found hundreds of pictures of naked boys. The owner called police.
Detectives said they are searching for other possible victims and that after his arrest, Thompson told officers of sex acts with children dating back to the 1960s. AP 6/7/2000
Church counselor arrested on child sex charges(http://www.polkonline.com/stories/062200/sta_sex-charges.shtml)
CLEARWATER – A former pastor has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges he molested two young girls.
Rev. Charles Robinson, 63, former pastor of an AME Church in St. Petersburg, pleaded no contest to 5 felony charges of sexual contact with parishioners, ages 13 and 15, in 1998 and 1999.
Investigators said while sexual relations were consensual with the older girl, the younger teen told police he forced her. Under Florida law, it is illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor even if the contact is consensual.
In an agreement with prosecutors, Robinson pleaded guilty to 4 counts of handling and fondling a child under 16 and one of performing a lewd and lascivious act.
Robinson faced a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison if convicted at trial. The prosecutor said the minister was offered the plea agreement because the victims’ families wanted to avoid the trauma of trial.AP 6/7/2000
Minister gets prison in sex case (http://www.sptimes.com/News/070800/TampaBay/Minister_gets_prison_.shtml)
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FREEHOLD. NJ. – A street preacher who helped “society’s rejects” has been sentenced to six years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in his care.
Superior Court Judge Ira E. Kreizman acknowledged that Michael R. McCarthy, 56, had done some good during his years as a minister. But he told McCarthy he had done “a terrible thing” as the girl’s legal guardian.
“There are some lives you have saved,” he said. “But there is at least one life that has been ruined by what you have done.”
The victim, now 20, told Kreizman that she didn’t know what to do when the assaults started. She no longer trusts men, she said.
An evaluation of McCarthy concluded that he was not a repetitive and compulsive sex offender but that he was “opportunistic, hedonistic and exploitive,” Kreizman said. “She was the clay, he was the potter,” the judge said. “He was able to mold her in the impression he wanted. She was incapable of resisting.”
McCarthy first addressed the judge, then turned to the victim and apologized. “I am terribly sorry for what happened,” he said. “It was a horrible event in my life, and I apologize to the victim. I apologize for any hurt or harm I have done. I realize the gravity of what I have done.”
McCarthy told Kreizman he was concerned about what would happen to the people he shelters at his Set Free Ministries in Long Branch if he goes to jail. His wife works full time as a flight attendant and is the sole support of the family, he said.
“My concern is not for myself,” he said. “I understand I am responsible and have to pay for what I have done.”
Shortly after his arrest in 1996, his attorney said McCarthy denied the allegations. McCarthy said the girl – entrusted to his care at age 14 by her father because of family conflicts – invented the charges because his wife was going to punish her for refusing to do household chores. He pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in Dec. In exchange for the plea – which the victim agreed with – 7 other counts, including one of witness tampering, were dismissed.
As McCarthy was led away in handcuffs, some of his supporters who packed one side of the courtroom began to cry. Others were angry.
“You happy now?” one man said angrily to a woman sitting next to the victim. “Loser,” she replied. A court attendant called for order as the victim and her supporters were led out of the courtroom. Ashbury Park Press, 6/24/2000
GAFFNEY, NC. – A 22-year-old church youth minister has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting a teen-ager in 1998.
A jury found Chad Severance, of Bessemer City, guilty of fondling one teen-age boy. Severance is expected to be tried in two similar cases later.
All three boys were members of the New Harvest Church of God, which hired Severance as minister of music in May 1998. The boys said Severance would make excuses to spend the night with them either at their homes or at his.
Each described waking during the night to find Severance fondling them.
Severance, who serves as a minister of music at a North Carolina church, denied the charges. During testimony, he said he never slept with any of the boys when they visited his home. He said he was invited to stay at the home of one of the boys by the teen’s mother. 7/23/2000
TULSA – A former Sunday school teacher who was sentenced to more than two life terms in his state case for multiple sex crimes against children has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
John Perry Sanger, 54, of Bristow, was indicted on one count each of use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct to produce visual depiction, interstate transportation of child pornography and possession of child pornography in the July through Sept. 1999 incidents. The fourth count would require the forfeiture of his real estate in Bristow and a considerable amount of computer and electronic equipment if he is convicted of the possession count.
Sanger pleaded guilty in state court March 29 to 3 counts of rape by instrumentation and 2 counts each of lewd molestation, indecent exposure and lewd acts against a child under the age of 16. A judge ordered him to serve two consecutive life sentences, plus 20 years, as punishment.
Bristow police have contended that Sanger’s case might include up to 20 victims, although the charges stemmed from only two, a 9-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister, who attended church with Sanger.
The boy testified at the state hearing that he had on several occasions accepted invitations to go to Sanger’s home to play computer games. On one of these occasions, the boy said, he was asked to take pictures of a nude Sanger on a bed with five “grown-up” women. The girl testified at the preliminary hearing that Sanger once asked her and another girl to undress during a game of “strip” poker at his home. Other juveniles were in the house when the victim lost a card game and Sanger performed a sexual act with her, according to a court affidavit. Federal charges were alluded to in Nov. when officials revealed that the FBI was also investigating the case.
An FBI agent said then that prosecutors would not take the case before a grand jury until federal officials had investigated further. World 6/10/2000
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KNOXVILLE, TN. The former youth minister of a Powell church faces charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. The charges come after a computer consultant found pornographic images of children on a church laptop, according to the church’s senior pastor.
Jason Patrick Edelen, 24, was arrested on child pornography charges, according to an arrest report at the Sheriff’s Department.
Edelen was served with criminal warrants shortly after midnight, according to the arrest report. Edelen faces charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, the report states. Both charges are felonies.
The charges apparently stem from an investigation that began after a computer consultant scouring a church computer for viruses came across files containing pornographic images of children, according to Brian Kearns, the senior minister at Lighthouse Christian Church.
According to the Tennessee Code Annotated, both offenses deal with the possession of materials depicting minors engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity.
According to Kearns, on June 26 church officials discovered files containing pornographic images on a church-owned laptop computer. The next day, church leaders confronted Edelen, who had permission to use the machine, Kearns said.
Kearns said Edelen resigned minutes after being told he was suspended. Kearns said officials then turned the information over to authorities for further investigation. He said church officials believe the incident only concerns images obtained over the Internet.
“There’s no evidence there was physical interaction with anyone,” Kearns said, adding that he didn’t believe that any children in the church’s youth group saw any of the images.
Edelen was the first youth minister ever at Lighthouse Christian Church, which was founded in March 1998. Edelen was hired two months later.
“This is difficult to take,” said Kearns, who has known Edelen since Kearns was a youth pastor in Springfield, Kent. “We’re serious about this. Our goal is to restore him back to health and a part of that is discipline,” Kearns said. He said the church also arranged for Edelen to obtain counseling after the discovery of the files.
Records show Edelen was jailed in lieu of $7,500 bond. News-Sentinel 10/3/2000
Youth pastor faces charges
Arraignment lists sexual abuse count
HERMISTON — A youth pastor was arraigned Thursday on charges of one count of first-degree sexual abuse and eight counts of using a child in display of explicitly sexual conduct for a person to observe. The suspect is a former Hermiston School Resource Officer. Jay Brian Lynch worked for the Hermiston Police Department from January 1994 through July 1997, when he told Chief Andy Anderson that he wanted to give up his law enforcement career to seek a career in the church. He became youth pastor at Hermiston’s Church of the Nazarene. “I almost fell out of my chair when I heard about it,” Anderson said of Lynch’s arrest. Lynch is 42 years old.
The sexual abuse charge against Lynch involves a girl under the age of 14, said Chris Brauer, Umatilla County district attorney. The charges of using a child in display of explicitly sexual conduct involves two girls under the age of 14. A secret indictment on Sept. 27 led to Lynch’s arrest on Wednesday and his arraignment the following day. At the arraignment, Judge Eric Valentine appointed a public defender to represent Lynch and set bail at $250,000. A pretrial conference is scheduled for Oct. 17. (EONI, Oct. 6, 2002) Youth pastor faces charges
Rev. Marchand of New Testament Fellowship Church is convicted of sexual molestation, neglect and physical abuse of his children in 1994 (Worchester Telegram & Gazette, May 28, 2000)
Appointment of guardian may add to cycle of abuse
Los Angeles CA. Faith Healer Molests Children. Carlos Catalan, 49, a faith healer with no known religious affiliation, is being held on 15 counts of rape, two counts of sodomy, three counts of lewd acts with a child and one count of child molestation.Catalan would tell young women that having sex with him would lead to healing for family members. He told one young woman, aged 16, that unless she sacrificed her virginity to a saint channeled through him, that her father would die. (05.18.00, Reuters)
AURORA, IL. – Rev. Paul Goodman, 54, has been indicted by a grand jury on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse with 3 teenage girls. The television minister, who runs weekly church services at Provena Mercy Center, is accused of having sexual contact with the teens, ages 13, 16 and 17, according to the indictment.
His family is calling the allegations a gross misunderstanding. His wife, Arvis, said the situation began last fall when her husband wrote a letter to one of the teens. She called the note a “written lecture” on dating, with references to caressing. The minister’s family contends that the note fell into the hands of one of the girls’ aunts, who went to state authorities worried that the letter might be a sign of an abusive relationship.
Charges were leveled against Goodman after a grand jury gathered testimony from witnesses. Goodman was taken into custody without incident in Chicago. He was being held in Kane County Jail on $100,000 bond awaiting arraignment.
Arvis Goodman said she and her husband have been members of Faith Deliverance Church in Aurora. The couple run the Sinners Repentant Church of Jesus Christ, a group that Goodman said ministers to people with alcohol and drug problems. The Goodmans also are known in Aurora for their cable-access television program, “God’s Information Station.” 3/31/2000
AURORA, IL. – A self-proclaimed minister and schoolbus driver faces multilple charges with soliciting sex from two 18-year-old males assigned to court-ordered community service at the church he ran from his home. Terrance Johnson, 45, was charged also with bribery and record-tampering for allegedly offering to falsely report that the men had finished their work in exchange for sex. He resigned as bus driver when local school officials got wind of the police investigation, and after more than 50 calls from concerned residents to investigators, more charges might follow. Tribune 1/28/00, 12/28/99, 12/3/99
BOSTON – A mother, her son and another man have been charged with trying to bilk the Archdiocese of Boston out of $850,000 by claiming sexual abuse against a priest.
Sean Murphy, 35, his mother, Sylvia, 57, and Byron Worth, 41, have been indicted on conspiracy and attempted larceny charges. The trio claimed that Worth, Sean Murphy and his brother were sexually abused by a priest when they were children, said the State Attorney General. In 1998, Sean Murphy allegedly sought $850,000 from the archdiocese.
Police determined that at the time of the alleged abuse, neither Murphy nor Worth lived in the community where the abuse supposedly occurred. To support the scheme, Sylvia Murphy created phony school records showing that the family had lived in the town more than two decades ago, the DA’s office said.
An archdiocesan spokesman said no payments were made. Murphy’s brother, whose name was not released, was not charged. AP, 2/25/00
DETROIT – Kevin Cain, 37, a Salvation Army choir director, has been charged in 5 separate cases of sexual abuse involving 8 boys, all of whom are expected to testify. One case dates back more than 8 years.
He faces 21 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and 3 other sex-related charges. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of just one first-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.
Cain gave the youths money, clothes, alcoholic drinks and marijuana in exchange for sex, according to Detroit police. When police began investigating Cain last Aug., he fled but turned himself in this Jan.
He has pleaded not guilty and is being held in the county jail. The Salvation Army has fired Cain, who was a part-time employee.
Police said Cain has no known convictions. Free Press, 2/23/00
SOUTH KITSAP, WA. A youth pastor at a South Kitsap church has been charged with third-degree child molestation, alleging he had sexual relations with a 15-year-old member of his youth group. Cecil Gregory Foust, 40, a youth pastor at South Park Assembly of God, was arrested Feb. 1. He pleaded innocent at his arraignment Friday. The alleged relationship began during a youth group trip in December, Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Jim Harris said. They allegedly had sexual contact on several occasions. Those contacts occurred in the church van when he drove her home, Harris said. (2/5/2000, The Sun, Bremerton, WA.)
Youth pastor charged with molestation
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NORTHFIELD, MN. – Pastor and youth minister Grant Junior Grayson, 32, was sentenced to 9 months in jail after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy whom he took to his house and on church trips. He will be on probation for up to 25 years, must pay over $6,000 in fines and restitution, register as a sex offender, refrain from drugs and alcohol and complete treatment. AP, 2/12/00, 12/7/99
RALIEGH – Non-denominational minister Howard Hunichen, 36, pleaded for nearly an hour in his own defense, imploring a judge not to believe he is a “cruel, evil beast” who beat infants senseless and raped people. But Superior Court Judge Henry Hight Jr. imposed the maximum sentence of 6 years in prison as soon as Hunichen finished speaking and said it was not enough.
Hunichen was found guilty of shaking, stomping and hitting 7-month-old Zachary Fortner to force him to crawl and walk and be quiet. The boy was left with severely limited mental and physical abilities, and is not expected to recover.
His parents, Kevin and Lisa Fortner, face felony child abuse charges and their 2 daughters have also been removed from their custody. During the trial they testified that Hunichen assaulted them and forced Lisa to have sex with him. The district attorney, however, is not considering bringing rape charges against Hunichen. News & Observer, 1/21/00
Howard Hunichen
MARLOW Robert George, 53 Melbourne Pentecostal born again Christian and revival church member. Receives 3 year and 6 month jail sentence in VIC County Court after pleading guilty to 3 child sex offences, including 1 count of committing unlawful sexual intercourse and 2 of performing indecent act, against boy, aged 13, in 1997 during business trip to Nadi, Fiji. Court hears Marlow, of Blackburn, performed “sordid activities” on boy after giving his family gifts of money, food and presents. Judge says Marlow, who was described in court as “deeply religious”, displayed “ultimate act of hypocrisy” by baptising victim in waters of Nadi Bay. (Victoria, Australia, 2000).
SAMPSON Lloyd Luciano, 47 WA Pentecostal born again Christian and New Apostolic Church minister. Receives 10 year jail sentence in WA court after being convicted on 15 child sex charges, including 5 counts of committing unlawful sexual intercourse and 3 of indecent dealing, against 3 sisters, aged under 15, in WA. Offences surface after youngest girl complained minister was hurting her and wanted to commit suicide. Court hears minister married with 2 children. (Western Australia, Australia, 2000).
CLEVELAND – Rev. Charles O. Clarke, 74, pastor of Freedom Chapel, was placed on 5-years probation for molesting 5 boys during the last 18 years. He pleaded guilty in Oct. to 5 counts of gross sexual imposition as part of a plea agreement. Judge Janet Burnside said she gave that sentence because Clarke is not a pedophile and unlikely to repeat the offense. She said and investigation had disclosed his preference was for age-appropriate women. He does, however, have to register with law enforcement authorities every year for the next decade. Plain Dealer, 11/30/99
The Rev. Andras Pandy, a Belgian minister and religion teacher, was charged with murdering five family members and sexually molesting his daughters. (unknown, 7/3/99)
Pastor, 74, faces incest and murder charges
BERGEN, NJ. – A state judge sentenced a New York City man to 180 days in the county jail for lewdness in front of children, saying that the Salvation Army captain brought disrepute to the organization and that he still does not fully appreciate the consequences of his actions. Philip Bentley, 33, was convicted by a jury in March on counts of child endangerment, criminal sexual contact, and lewdness for masturbating in front of 3 boys who were riding their bikes in the woods.
Bentley, who also was a minister for the Salvation Army, will be required to continue counseling and will remain on probation for 5 years. He also will be required to register as a sex offender and must stay away from children.
On June 20, the 3 boys – then aged 13, 14, and 18 – were riding their bikes in the woods in a park when they noticed Bentley watching them. Bentley then removed his clothes and started masturbating, said the county assistant prosecutor. He said Bentley was in the area that day because he had been driving children from the New York Salvation Army group to a nearby camp.
The judge could have given Bentley probation but said he was concerned because Bentley admitted “acting out,” in similar ways twice after he was arrested. Bergen Record, 8/14/99
The Rev. David Kingston, a leader of the Latter-Day Church of God, a polygamous Mormon offshoot in Utah, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for marrying his 16-year-old niece against her will as his 15th wife. (unknown, 7/3/99)
ALBUQUERQUE, NM. – A former Church of Christ minister has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for torching or vandalizing 4 Mormon churches, including one where his ex-lover was the organist.
Prosecutors said Walter Grassie, 50, went on his rampage because he was upset when the organist, Sharlene Jensen, broke off their 8-year affair in 1998, saying her Mormon faith bars her from getting a divorce.
Grassie was also ordered to pay nearly $3 million in restitution to the Mormon Church. Grassie, who spent 25 years as a Church of Christ preacher, was separated from his wife and working on his father’s farm at the time of the vandalism.
He was convicted of burning a church in Roswell and splashing paint, spraying graffiti or destroying furniture at 3 other churches. Grassie also was convicted of burning a car belonging to Jensen’s son.
Prosecutors said Grassie’s actions were part of a campaign of violence against the Jensen family and Mormons in general. Grassie’s lawyers said his brain was “poisoned by love” and asked that he be sent to a prison hospital for treatment. The judge granted the request. AP 7/21/99
AKRON. OH. – The family of 15-year-old murder victim Cassandra Blondheim has filed a wrongful death suit against evangelist Ernest Angley and his various ministries. The suit says that the man accused of the murder, Shane Partin, was retained as a volunteer at the Cathedral Buffet despite repeated warnings about his behavior.
Partin has been charged in the Jan. stabbing death of Cassandra at the Cuyahoga Falls restaurant, which is own be Angley’s ministries. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Cassandra also was a volunteer there, and the suit alleges that she complained repeatedly to Angley and other ministers that she had been harassed and stalked by Partin. Plain Dealer 7/30/99
JOHNSON CITY – A monk was found guilty of indecency with a child for his relationship with a boy at a monastery in east Texas.
Jonathan I. Hitt, 38, known as Fr. Jeremiah, was convicted on 8 counts stemming from incidents at the Christ of the Hills Monastery in the summer of 1997. The monastery is near Blanco. He could face up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000.
The 14-year-old victim, who was a novice monk studying at the monastery, testified during the weeklong trial that he had several sexual encounters with Hitt. Despite feeling awkward about the episodes, the youth testified he didn’t object on the advice of Sam A. Greene Jr., the spiritual leader of the religious enclave. Greene, 54, known as Fr. Benedict, also was charged with indecency with a child. He hasn’t yet gone to trial.
The boy’s 47-year-old mother testified he had struggled in public school and that she had hoped the monks would provide individualized lessons and serve as father figures for him. The attorney for the defendant claimed during the trial that she was a “scorned woman” whose advances Hitt had rebuffed.
The Russian Orthodox Church recently broke ties with the monastery because of its refusal to let church officials inspect records and the premises. Christ of the Hills opened near Blanco in 1980 and is best known for its icon of the Virgin Mary that the monks claim weeps tears of myrrh. AP 10/27/99
WALDORF, VA. – After an emotional 6-hour court hearing, a judge sentenced a former Waldorf minister to 18 months in jail for repeatedly sexually abusing his 12-year-old stepdaughter throughout the spring of 1992.
John Joseph Damba, 42, one of the co-founders of the Gathering Place church here, was sentenced to 10 concurrent years, all but 18 months of which was suspended, for the abuse, which took place over several months in 1992 at the family’s home. The victim, who is now 20, came forward to report Damba to the police this year after the emotional effects of the abuse resurfaced during premarital counseling.
In the lengthy sentencing hearing, Judge Steven G. Chappelle heard testimony from the victim, whom he called “brave,” and from a string of Damba’s supporters and church members who described Damba’s deep anguish over the repeated incidents of sexual fondling.
Indicted in May on 8 counts of child abuse and third-degree sexual offense, Damba pleaded guilty to reduced charges of 2 counts of child abuse in Sept.
Chappelle chastised Damba at the end of the hearing, saying that any man who went into a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom to touch her sexually was committing a “cruel and evil act.” Damba told his stepdaughter that he was ashamed of what he had done.
The young woman read from a prepared text with her head bowed, frequently overcome by emotion. She said that while she had initially forgiven her stepfather for the abuse, years of hurt and confusion had followed. “Nothing healed the pain,” she said. “I still felt alone.” She said that finally confronting the abuse, going through counseling and notifying the police has been a freeing experience. “I feel like I am myself again,” she said.
His wife, Darlene Damba, described a “broken, weeping” Damba who begged for his wife’s and stepdaughter’s forgiveness shortly after the girl told her mother of the abuse in June 1992. The mother said they tried family counseling and used Christian healing books. However, the victim said she had not gone to counseling at the time.
The Gathering Place, a nonaffiliated Christian church established in 1996, has been shaken by the allegations against Damba, who was asked to step down from his position as “worship minister” shortly after the allegations surfaced this spring. The 100-member congregation has been deeply divided – with members supporting either the Dambas or the victim, who no longer attends church there.
“Mr. Damba has manipulated his religious community into shunning her,” Collins said during the hearing.
Church Pastor Paul Goodwin disagreed. “We’re really praying for the families, that there will be healing and restoration,” Goodwin said. “There are no winners in a situation like this. It saddens the whole church community.” Washington Post,11/7/99
LA CROSSE, WI. – The former pastor of a Chicago church was facing charges of sexually assaulting two teenage girls in a La Crosse, Wis., Bible class nearly 20 years ago. Richard D. Ahlberg, 47, who now lives in Minn., served as the youth pastor for the Bethany Evangelical Free Church near La Crosse from 1979 to 1982, when the criminal complaint alleged he committed numerous sex acts with the girls.
The District Atty. said one of the girls made the allegations to church officials in the mid-1980s, but law enforcement authorities weren’t notified until last year. One of the alleged victims finally stepped forward after hearing that Ahlberg wanted to return to the La Crosse church as pastor.
Ahlberg was free on bond. Chicago Tribune 7/4/99
LOS ANGELES – A synagogue official deported from Canada after mailing child pornography to an undercover FBI agent was sentenced here to 15 months in federal prison.
Stuart Friedman, 45, who served as the cantor of a synagogue in Canada, also must undergo three years of supervised release after finishing his prison term. Friedman pleaded guilty in Nov. to one count of distributing child pornography, which carries a maximum 15-year prison term. The judge ordered him to begin serving his sentence April 12.
Friedman, who is originally from Philadelphia, had been a synagogue cantor – the individual who leads a congregation in song – in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In Nov. 1996, he mailed two computer disks containing 13 images of boys having sex to an undercover FBI agent in Long Beach. He was convicted in 1997 at Nova Scotia Provincial Court of possessing child pornography and deported to the United States. Friedman moved to Baltimore, where he was arrested in Aug. on the federal charge of distributing child pornography. LA Times, 3/2/99
TAMPA – A judge has placed a church on 5 years’ probation and fined it $5,000 as part of a plea agreement over allegations of trafficking in food stamps and dealing in stolen property.
As part of the deal with prosecutors, Deeper Life Christian Church was also ordered to pay $21,710 to cover the cost of a sheriff’s office investigation into the allegations of food stamp fraud.
In exchange for the church’s guilty plea, prosecutors dropped all charges against the church bishop, Melvin B. Jefferson Sr., and his second in command, Brenda Houston Lanier. “As far as we know, this is the first time in the state of Florida that a church has been convicted as a felon,” an assistant state attorney said.
Five other Deeper Life ministers, including the sons of Jefferson and Lanier, also entered guilty pleas and were sentenced to probation. Investigators claimed that the church laundered up to $20,000 a month in illegally obtained food stamps through two meat markets it owns.
Deeper Life ministers were accused of buying meat for the meat markets that an informant had told them was stolen and of accepting food stamps as tithes and payment for services from the church. Authorities said the food stamps came from church parishioners and probationers assigned to perform court-ordered community service at the church. AP 6/8/99
LIHUE, HI. – A self-proclaimed Buddhist priest pleaded no contest to 20 counts of sexual assault involving a young girl.
Thich An Thanh, 53, had been charged with 551 counts of sexual assault against the girl. The extra counts were dropped under a plea agreement with prosecutors. An Thanh, a Cambodian national, faces a prison term of up to 400 years and a maximum fine of $1 million.
An indictment returned in March by a Kauai grand jury accused An Thanh of sexually assaulting the girl from 1996, when she was 12, until 1998. She says the attacks occurred after regularly-scheduled religious services An Than held in a Kilauea barn.
The girl was 6 years old when she and her mother met An Thanh when they began attending religious sessions he held in Los Angeles, police said, and they followed him when he moved to Kauai 6 years ago. AP 6/11/99, 5/1299
CHICAGO – A former pastor from Bridgeview has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for having sex with a 16-year-old church member. Scott A. Shelby, 30, formerly of Calvary Tabernacle Church pleaded guilty to 3 counts of criminal sexual assault against a juvenile. Sun-Times 6/99/99
FORT WAYNE, IN.- The second youth pastor from from Good Shepherd United Brethren Church in Huntington to stand trial for child molesting in just over two years has been convicted in circuit court.
A jury deliberated just under three hours before finding Bobbie Joe Parris, 35, formerly of Huntington, guilty of of child molesting. A teen-age girl testified that she was “uncomfortable” when her church youth pastor pulled up her shirt and kissed her stomach at his apartment last Aug. Journal Gazette 2/19/99
NEW YORK CITY – A prominent Hasidic rabbi has been charged with making death threats against a 22-year-old woman to keep her from testifying that her father raped her as a child.
Rabbi Bernard Freilich, 47, allegedly went to the woman’s home earlier this year and told her he “would teach her a lesson and send her to the cemetery” if she took the stand, court papers said. A grand jury indicted Freilich on felony charges of witness-tampering, witness intimidation, and harassment. If convicted, he would face up to 4 years in prison.
Freilich had pleaded not guilty in May to misdemeanor charges in the same case. His lawyer said he will enter the same plea when he’s arraigned on the more serious charges next month. The attorney described his client as a community leader who prides himself on his connections to law enforcement. Before he was first charged, Freilich had been a special assistant to a superintendent in the New York State Police.
The lawyer said Freilich does not know his accuser, whose name was not released. But prosecutors have said the rabbi and the woman’s father are close friends. The father was charged in Feb. with first-degree rape, incest, sex abuse, and harassment in the pending criminal case. He was arrested again on April 22 after allegedly violating an order of protection by pounding on his daughter’s door and warning her it would be her last day unless she withdrew her accusations.
Prosecutors say that three days later – with the daughter about to testify before a grand jury – Freilich went to her home and threatened her; allegedly repeating the threats the next day. Another Borough Park man also has been charged with trying to get the woman to drop the charges AP 6/24/99
HAMILTON, OH. – A Pentecostal minister convicted of repeatedly raping his daughter has been sentenced to 17-50 years in prison and fined $7,500. Yet the judge declined to classify Rev. Darrell Bell, 50, as a sexual predator, based on court-ordered psychological exams that concluded he has a low probability of repeating the offense. Bell has been ruled a sexually-oriented offender, which means he will have to notify local authorities where he is living and check in with them.
His daughter, Dawn Bell, asked to be publicly identified as she helped prosecute her father, including testifying against him at trail. She said her abuse began at age 10 and continued until she was 18 and moved away. She later confronted her father and went to prosecutors after he refused to get counseling. AP 6/12/99
Jury gets minister’s abuse case
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OH. – A former youth pastor who admitted to having sex with a 15-year-old member of his youth group has been sentenced to four years in prison. Matthew Eric Moore, 30, was sentenced after pleading guilty in Feb. to one count of sexual battery. Moore was originally charged with sexual battery and corruption of a minor for encounters with the girl in 1997, when he was 28 and she was a 15-year-old member of the youth group at Heritage Memorial Church.
He was sentenced to one year less than the maximum. Moore will be placed on probation after his release and must register as a sexual offender. AP 4/17/99
MANASSAS, VA. – A former minister was convicted of suggesting to a parishioner that they kill each other’s wives.
James Elrod Ogle, 46, entered Alford pleas to charges of attempted capital murder and solicitation of a felony. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence for a conviction.
Ogle, former pastor of the defunct Bull Run Bible Fellowship in Manassas, will remain jailed without bail until his sentencing. He could get up to life in prison.
Police said that during a Feb. 24 telephone conversation, Ogle suggested to Scott Jinks that they commit murders for each other. Ogle was counseling Jinks and his wife about their marriage at the time. Jinks told police, and testified against Ogle during a preliminary hearing.
Prosecutors say Ogle typed instructions on how Jinks should kill Ogle’s wife, suggesting a drive-by shooting at night while Ogle was driving and his wife was in the passenger seat.
The documents also instructed Jinks to wear gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, prosecutors said, and asked how much it would cost to buy a silencer, adding that he would “be glad to pay for it.” AP 6/28/99
TACOMA, WA. – Elders from the Bethel Christian Assembly have defended their handling of a complaint against a youth pastor now charged with eight counts of child molestation and rape, saying the allegations against Herman Glenn Jr., 34, amounted to “hearsay.”
The elders also said in a statement that Glenn was returned to his job only after they were assured he would not be a threat to children.
Prosecutors charged Glenn with 8 counts stemming from alleged assaults on two teen-age boys beginning last year. Possible cases involving as many as 16 other boys remained under investigation.
After his arrest, Glenn told authorities he’d had sexual contact with 3 youths in the Chicago area and 14 others in Tacoma. Another boy came forward recently to say he was sexually molested by the pastor, according to a police spokesman.
Glenn resigned his post at the 2,000-member Bethel Christian Assembly, citing “gross moral failures by engaging in sexual contact with minors.” He was being held on $75,000 bail in the county jail on 6 counts of third-degree rape, one count of second-degree rape and one count of child molestation. He has pleaded innocent.
The boys described a grooming process that involved passwords and progressive levels of contact between them and Glenn, prosecutors said. Glenn told authorities he would pretend to be sleepwalking or talking in his sleep to get the boys to engage in sex acts. “A lot of mind-control was involved in it,” the spokesman said. Detectives say Glenn would approach boys and tell them he needed help curing his alter personality.
None of the sexual contact involving the two boys occurred at the church but at Glenn’s home, charging papers said.
Glenn said church officials had no knowledge of what he’d done prior to his admission. In their statement, the church council of elders said Glenn came to the Tacoma church in 1991 with “glowing recommendations” from Homewood Full Gospel Church in Homewood, Ill., a Chicago suburb.
Rumors reached them that something had happened there. Although the elders did not describe the nature of the information they received, investigators said a pastor at Homewood had contacted Tacoma church officials after two boys in the Chicago area accused Glenn of touching them inappropriately when he was pastor there.
The elders asked a counselor to evaluate Glenn “We were given complete assurance that Herman was within normal sexual limits and posed no threat to children or society,” they said. The counselor told The Seattle Times that he was shocked by Glenn’s arrest. AP 6/5, Chicago Sun-Times, 6/4/99
Another teen says pastor molested him
LOS ANGELES – A priest was arrested on allegations of sodomizing a 21-year-old Colombian man at knife-point, police said. Fr. Juan Correa, 27, of Los Angeles, was being held on $200,000 bail, a LAPD spokesman said.
The man, whose name was not released, had apparently recently arrived in Los Angeles from Colombia and Correa befriended him, offering a place to stay. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said Correa wasn’t affiliated with the church. He is believed to belong to a small sect called the Old Catholic Church, which broke away from the Roman Catholic Church last century when it rejected the doctrine of papal infallibility. AP, 12/16/98
WEST PALM BEACH – A former pastor who claimed he was testing a girl’s virginity was convicted of sexually molesting the teen-ager. Rev. Joseph Millien, 51, was found guilty of felony sexual activity with the 17-year-old member of the Full Gospel Assembly Church, but acquitted of a sexual battery charge. He denied having any other sexual contact with the girl. The judge revoked Millien’s bond and ordered him to jail until sentencing scheduled a few weeks later. Under sentencing guidelines, he could get 6 to 12 years in prison as a first-time offender. AP, 10/28/98
Rev. Thomas W. Nissley on trial for molestation of a teenage girl. The girl, now 17, said in her testimony that Rev. Nissley rubbed her inner thigh just inches from her groin during the entire ride, which lasted about 10 minutes. (Feb. 24, 1999, Eagle Tribune)
Rev. Nissley on Trial for Molestation
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CHICAGO – A former pastor, arrested on charges of sexual assault and abuse of a teenage girl in DuPage County, faces similar charges involving the same 16-year-old in Will County.
Bond was set at $250,000 in Circuit Court for Scott Shelby, 30, of Bridgeview. Shelby was charged with sexually assaulting and abusing a young female parishioner at a motel last winter.
Shelby had been a minister at the Calvary Tabernacle Church. He is charged with one count of criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in DuPage County for allegedly taking the teen to motels over a six-month period in 1997 and 1998. Shelby, who left his post when church members and police began investigating his activities, is being held in county jail on $250,000 bond.
A Will County assistant state’s attorney will be assigned to help DuPage prosecutors in their prosecution of the case in DuPage County Circuit Court and vice versa. Tribune, 1/15/99
BOSTON – The state Dept. of Social Services is seeking more than 50 foster children cared for by a Worcester pastor who now stands accused of raping an 11-year-old girl and sexually assaulting two of his foster children. Rev. Jose Castillo, 52, pleaded innocent to charges of rape and abuse of a child, indecent assault and battery of a child and threatening to commit a crime. He was ordered held on $500,000 bail. Police found him hiding in the basement of the Iglesia Abrigo del Altisimo church, where he serves as pastor, when they went to arrest him.
The sexual assault allegations surfaced during the investigation into the disappearance of 5-month-old Marlon Santos, according to the assistant district attorney. The baby still has not been found.
Castillo and his wife Yolanda were the baby’s foster parents. After the baby’s disappearance, the Dept. of Social Services took custody of 2 other foster children staying with the Castillos, a brother and sister ages 23 months and 3 years. The Castillos’ 3 children were also removed in response to an abuse complaint. Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were returned to their parents, but a 17-year-old girl has been placed in a foster home in the area. AP, 12/30/98
VANCOUVER, WA. – A former pastor who pled guilty to having oral sex with one boy and trying to seduce his brother has been sentenced to 6 months in jail followed by therapy. The judge rejected a request by prosecutors thatRobert Dwayne Bennefield, 33, be sentenced to more than 12 years in prison but accepted a defense proposal that he be granted the special sex offender sentencing alternative and ordered him to pay $500 to each victim and a $250 fine, and have no contact with the victims or other youngsters.
Bennefield pled guilty in Aug. to one count of first-degree rape of a child and one count of attempted second-degree assault involving two brothers who attended Lighthouse Christian Center. He later admitted molesting 9 other youngsters. AP, 10/28/98
HAMILTON — A Butler County jury will resume deliberations today, deciding the fate of a Middletown minister accused of sexually molesting his daughter. After Thursday’s final arguments, jurors began deliberations around 11 a.m. They continued their work until 7 p.m. They will decide whether the Rev. Darrell S. Bell, a longtime preacher and steelworker, is guilty of molesting his daughter repeatedly from the time she was 10 until she turned 18 and went away to Bowling Green State University. (Oct. 2, 1998, Cincinnatti Enquirer)
Jury deliberates on charge of molestation by paster
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MILWAUKEE, WI. – A self-proclaimed pastor who held church services for children in his home was sentenced to 80 years in prison on charges of sexually molesting 4 girls. Kenneth Spaulding, 47, had been convicted in Dec. of four counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Authorities said children were molested during services at his home where he sponsored “sleepovers” at night. AP, 2/6/99
MILWAUKEE – A former pastor faces a felony theft charge accusing him of stealing money and equipment worth more than $6,000 from the congregation. Rev. Larry James Taylor Sr., 49, was charged in a criminal complaint that said the cash came from parishioners’ donations to a new building fund and the equipment, including musical instruments, came from general church funds. The complaint said the money and equipment belonged to the Word of Faith Victory Center, a nondenominational Christian church. If convicted, Taylor could be sentenced to a prison term of up to 10 years and a fine of up to $10,000. AP, 12/11/98
MILWAUKEE – Rev. Gerald Saffold, 39, a minister accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage boy waived his right to a preliminary hearing and has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
The complaint says the boy reported that he had a sexual relationship with Saffold from Jan. 1996-98, starting when he was 15. Saffold, pastor of the Foundation of Prayer Evangelistic Ministry and founder of a popular youth choir, remained free on $25,000 bond posted by supporters under orders that he remain under house arrest while his case is pending. AP, 10/29/98
MILWAUKEE, WI. – Rev. Gerald Saffold, 39, a minister accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage boy waived his right to a preliminary hearing and has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
BURLINGTON, VT. – A Greek Orthodox priest has reported to jail to begin serving a six-month sentence for fondling a 12-year-old girl, but is still claiming he’s innocent. “This is no way to treat a priest,” Fr. Emmanual Koveos, 62, said as he arrived at jail.
In lengthy statements Koveos, his wife, and his son, talked about mistakes and possible improper conduct by the judge, jury, defense attorney, police and the victim and her family. (6/18 Associated Press)
SEATTLE – Rev. Jeff Smith, 59, better known to his PBS cooking show fans as “The Frugal Gourmet” has agreed to settle sexual abuse lawsuits with 7 men before the cases could go to trial.
The lawsuits accused the chef of using alcohol, intimidation, and force to obtain sex from the mid 1970s until 1992. All the men are former employees of a restaurant Smith once ran.
No new Frugal Gourmet shows have been broadcast since the accusations surfaced in 1996. (7/5 USA Today)
Overlake Christian Church elders moved to debatable theological ground when they used the Bible to justify dismissing sexual-misconduct allegations against their pastor, other church leaders say…Many of the verses cited by the elders referred to needing more than one witness to support accusations of wrongdoing, particularly against church leaders. Others require “greater scrutiny” for allegations against leaders. Another “biblical principle” requires one who is violated to “cry out,” the elders said, though they cited no Bible reference for the principle. (Seattle Times, 5/29/98)
PASADENA – 66-year-old John Gottuso, a Pasadena psychologist who runs a church and Christian school, be sentenced for demonstrating a sex act with a teenage girl. Yet he will still be able to operate a school.
It began nine years ago when Gottuso lost his license to practice because a state agency found that he was having sex with some of his patients. Two years later, another state agency forbade Gottuso from having any involvement with his church’s preschool, partly because agency investigators said he once played “sex tag” under a blanket with two girls. In March, Gottuso settled a sexual- and psychological-abuse lawsuit by 11 plaintiffs.
A Pasadena Municipal Court judge sentenced him to 30 days house arrest and five years probation after he pleaded no contest to demonstrating a sex act with a 15-year-old girl in late 1995 in front of a class at his Christ-Bridge Academy, now based in Altadena. But because of a loophole in a state law, those legal problems have done little to restrict Gottuso’s ability to counsel and teach children. Even after the state Department of Social Services took action against his church’s license to operate a private preschool in 1989, Gottuso continued to operate. (4/28/98)
DENVER – A former minister of The Way International was sentenced to prison for 30 months and ordered to pay restitution of $528,000 to his former followers after he admitted he had bilked them out of their money, in some cases life savings and inheritances.
Richard Panyard, 45, in Jan. pleaded guilty to commit fraud. He and two followers, Jack Northart and Charles Mandrey, founded three companies in the late 1980s using money coerced out of The Way’s members. Around 1989, the struggling companies became a scheme to defraud, characterized by the judge as a classic “Ponzi scheme,” where one person’s investment is used to pay off another’s. Panyard has also been accused of sexual misconduct. One woman, who was married by him, claims she had to fight off his advances less than a year later.
The Way International, often described as a cult, was founded in New Knoxville, OH, in 1961 as a biblical research and teaching ministry. It claims that Christ is not God, there is no Trinity and the Jews are a tribe from Siberia. It has been known to arm its senior members and some wear bulletproof vests to meetings. From its height in 1985 with an estimated 100,000 members, it has dwindled to a current estimate of 20,000. A large number of followers live north of Colorado Springs where the church owns an encampment that has been the target of numerous investigations involving firearms and munitions. (3/18/98)
DENVER – One of the city’s best known ministers has resigned from the church he founded due to financial troubles.Rev. Charles Blair announced his resignation from the pastorship of Calvary Temple, an independent church he founded in 1954. In 1976 Blair was convicted of securities fraud when more than 3,000 investors lost $18 million in one or more of the institutions he controlled. He was placed on 5 years probation and find $12,750 with promises to pay back the lost money. He was taken to court again in the early 1990’s by investors who claimed they had not received any money from a fund-raising campaign to pay them off. He then agreed to pay $700,000 in a settlement, but investors are still complaining that they have received no money and that all the funds raised went to Blair and his friends. (3/7/98)
MIAMI – So sure are parishioners of Camino de Santidad church that their pastor, Rev. Daniel Garnicki, is innocent of charges of having sex with a 15-year-old girl that more than a dozen of them have declared a hunger strike. Camped out on mattresses under a large tent covering the parking lot of their church, 14 people have vowed not to eat until Garnicki is set free. Among the fasters are the minister’s wife, stepson, brother, and the accuser’s ex-boyfriend.
The church crisis stems from the September arrest of Garnicki, an evangelical minister who hosts a four-hour Christian radio program . A teenager who attended services at the church told police that, one night after service last year, Garnicki lured her to a motel in Miami Beach by saying he needed her assistance with a study on how Christian women and worldly women’s interest in pornography differed. Once there, she told police he ordered a pornographic movie and forced her to perform oral sex on him. He allegedly had intercourse with her, and then made her pray for forgiveness for having sinned.
Garnicki was charged with having sex with a minor in his custody. He is under house arrest in his West Dade home but continues to preach each night via satellite. His case is expected to go to trial in May.
Though prosecutors say they have witnesses and evidence that Garnicki signed in at the hotel and rented the movie, members of Garnicki’s church have taken their outrage to the radio waves.T hey claim the accusations are creations of a troubled and promiscuous girl who is only out for money. Parishioners believe the accusations are a conspiracy by homosexuals who resent Garnicki’s fight against gay-rights laws. (4/6/98)
CASSOPOLIS, MI. – A United Church of Christ minister convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl was to remain free on bond pending sentencing scheduled for March 27.
John Charles Yeager, 52, who was also an administrator at an Indiana center for abused children, was convicted by jury of first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct. He was found guilty of molesting the girl while he, the girl, and his own daughter of the same age, were under a blanket on a couch in his basement in August 1996. That daughter and at least two of his other 3 daughters, which he has been raising alone since his wife died in 1987, have publicly supported him.
As of publication time, it is not known what sentence was handed him. (3/4/98)
DALLAS – An 18-year-old man and his parents sued the Assemblies of God and the church’s ranch for troubled youths, claiming the youth was molested by a counselor at the center two years ago. The alleged victim was 16 when he went to Dallas Teen Challenge Boys Ranch in January 1996. According to his lawsuit, a counselor and convicted drug trafficker sexually molested him on at least six different occasions. The lawsuit further alleges that the church ranch Executive Director Paul Ecker and the ranch’s board knowingly employed men with criminal histories as counselors despite being informed by state regulators that the practice was illegal.
According to the lawsuit, most of the residents were there as a condition of probation, and had psychological or substance abuse problems. During the day, they performed chores, including caring for livestock, and took part in religious education. At night, they were “locked down” and monitored by alarm systems to prevent unauthorized departures. Among the employees and volunteers working at the ranch were men in a program called “Life Challenge,” designed for adults. Many of them had substance abuse problems and were improperly admitted to the program as part of their probation, the lawsuit states. (5/13/98, AP)
Lawsuit claims church camp hired convict who molested boy
DALLAS – A former rabbi accused by three women of improperly touching them decades ago apologized for “a very dark chapter in my life”.
Rabbi Max Zucker, the longtime head of a synagogue begged for forgiveness when confronted recently by one of the women he is accused of touching. The woman, her husband and parents said Zucker, 73, did not dispute her account that he touched her genitals.
In an interview, Zucker sometimes denied improper touching and sometimes said he couldn’t recall any. The three accusers – all middle-aged women – told the newspaper Zucker repeatedly molested them when they were between 11 and 13 years old. “I beg their forgiveness,” Zucker said. “I don’t recall any such thing ever happening. If they imagined it or if it was fact, I’m certainly sorry.”
Meanwhile the synagogue’s board has hired a lawyer to examine how its current rabbi responded to the allegations against his predecessor and longtime associate, officials said.
When the women went public they said that Rabbi Cohen seemed unwilling to investigate and offered them little help. He disputed that assertion but acknowledged that he never confronted Zucker and recently allowed him to perform a wedding at the synagogue. 5/20/98
DALLAS – A pastor convicted of assaulting two teenaged girls in his congregation has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Wendell Jones, 44, who had been on probation as a convicted sex offender since 1992 in a similar case, will be eligible for parole in 30 years. (3/24/98)
HOUSTON – A lawsuit has been filed accusing the national Jehovah’s Witnesses organization of refusing to alert authorities to the extended sexual abuse of a minor by her brother while they were both members of the church.
The plaintiff, a 19-year-old woman, said that she had been sexually abused by her brother, now 22, since the mid-1980s. In 1988, the family sought counseling by church elder Kerry “John” Landers. The suit claims that Landers was instructed by the national office to handle the matter in-house rather than to report the abuse to the authorities as required by Texas law.
Despite counseling, the brother continued to molest his sister. In 1992 the local church leadership appointed Landers and two other elders to investigate. The brother confessed to them and apologized and the elders put the matter to rest. He was convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to prison. In that trial, Landers testified under a grant of immunity about his instructions to keep it quiet.
The attorney representing the church said it strongly believes it committed no wrongdoing and said they vowed to defend themselves vigorously. (3/24/98)
BURLINGTON – A former priest of the Greek Orthodox Church will serve six months in jail for molesting a 12-year-old girl. Despite being convicted by a jury, Fr. Emmanuel Koveos, 62, continues to proclaim his innocence. He has been ordered to begin serving his sentence June eighth.
The church has gone to court trying to evict him from a parish rectory. Koveos has ignored repeated orders from his bishop to move out of the rectory, according to letters filed with court eviction papers. Koveos was asked to leave last spring, a few months after he was accused of fondling the girl he was tutoring at the church, said the lawyer for the church. Koveos was convicted of those charges earlier this year.
The parish and the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Boston are upset at Koveos’ refusal to follow the bishop’s instructions. They worry it might financially ruin the church, which is renting a home for the priest who has replaced Koveos.
An eviction hearing in Superior Court was set for late May. A tribunal of the Greek Orthodox Church will consider Koveos’ future as a priest after the sentencing. The Spiritual Court for the diocese, consisting of three to five religious members, could take a range of actions, including stripping Koveos of his priestly duties. The court also can consider other allegations that surfaced since his arrest. A New Hampshire woman has given a sworn statement about sexual misconduct, according to records. (5/22/98)
WENATCHEE – It has been more than two years since pastor Roby Roberson promised to get even. In December 1995, a jury cleared Roberson and his wife, Connie, of charges they’d raped five children in their home and small, run-down Pentecostal church. Since then, Roberson has turned his church’s food bank into a legal war room, becoming the most tenacious critic of the now infamous Wenatchee child-sex-abuse investigations. His weapons are copiers and fax machines, court hearings and media interviews. Roberson, 53, claims he is seeking justice for himself and advocating the liberty of more than a dozen people he says were targeted by a vindictive, manipulative police detective and a group of accomplices in the state’s child-welfare department.
He, his wife and six others are suing Wenatchee Police Detective Bob Perez, child caseworkers, and the city, county and state agencies where they work for allegedly violating their civil rights. The complicated case includes overlapping charges against 11 individuals. Together, the plaintiffs are asking for $70 million in damages.
The trial, after three years of media attention on Wenatchee, will take place in Seattle. The civil suit directly involves only a handful of those caught up in the investigations. But it promises answers to the lingering question: Did a routine sex investigation turn into a witch hunt against innocent adults?
It all began in 1995. The allegations of unthinkable child sex abuse, including sex parties in homes and at the Pentecostal church, first sprung up in 1995, while Perez was serving a two-year stint as Wenatchee’s only sex-crime investigator. It has since become all but impossible to tally the victims and the guilty.
The cases have touched 17 families, with nearly 40 children still separated from their biological parents, either placed in foster care, therapeutic care, adopted into new homes or living on their own.
All told, 29 adults were charged with child sex abuse in cases commonly linked by the children making the allegations. Some were accused of incest against their own children.
Others were linked to broader secrets – now widely discounted – in which adults were said to swap children in loosely organized sex rings, described by some as “The Circle.” Of those charged with various types of sex crimes, 15 pleaded guilty, five were convicted by juries and three, including the Robersons, were acquitted. Charges against six others, including Rodriguez, were dropped.
Police, caseworkers for the state’s Child Protective Services office and prosecutors say their investigations were solid. They argue that some children show medical signs of abuse, that some suspects have never recanted their confessions. Prosecutors contend that, despite wider sex-ring allegations, they limited the scope of criminal charges to gain case-by-case convictions. They argue, in other words, that something bad happened to children in Wenatchee. But the outraged protests that accompanied the arrests have only grown louder. Led by a rogue cop, critics say, authorities ran roughshod over people’s rights, then closed ranks to cover themselves. Now momentum is shifting.
There are increasing criticism that at least some of the accused, including many vulnerable by virtue of poverty and low intelligence, were victimized by an overzealous prosecutorial system. In February, an appeals court overturned the conviction of the only woman found guilty of charges that actually included allegations of the broader sex ring. A March investigative report by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer maintains that, at most, six or seven children likely were abused by parents, neighbors or school acquaintances. Otherwise, the newspaper maintains, adults were unfairly prosecuted. A judge specially appointed by the state appeals court sharply criticized techniques used by Perez and other investigators, recommending two convicted adults be retried. Perez led investigation.
Attorney General Janet Reno, whose office conducted a cursory review of the cases in 1996, has said the Justice Department will take a closer look. But critics of the investigation look to the Robersons’ upcoming civil trial as their best chance for rehabilitation. (4/6/98)
LEADVILLE, CO. – A Las Vegas, New Mexico couple has sued the Community Evangelical Free Church of Leadville alleging that a church volunteer molested their three children. The claim Brian Manuel, recommended by Rev. Geoffrey Nelson, who is accused of negligence, molested the children, who were 3, 4 and 6 years old at the time, while babysitting on New Year’s Eve in 1995. (1/4/98)
HARTFORD – A pastor who regularly sexually assaulted two teenage sisters, threatening them and their mother with deportation if they complained, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and 20 years probation. Rev. Carlos Sunun, 41, entered an Alford plea which permitted him to deny the facts of the crimes but agree he would likely be convicted at a trial.
Yet he fathered a daughter on the younger sister, a 15-year-old. His abuse of his parishioners took place regularly during 1995-6. He first started molesting the older sister, a 16-year-old, and then the younger. The attacks occurred on numerous occasions at his home and in his vehicle. The police were tipped off a year before Sunun’s arrest, but the older girl denied the allegations and did not cooperate with the investigation. It was dropped until both sisters approached the police in Nov. 1996.
Both girls said he deserved a harsher penalty, and even his lown awyer characterized him as “a horrible person.”(11/21/98)
TALLAHASSEE – Three sisters have accused their former pastor of seducing them when they were girls, including one who said she she went to him for counseling after losing their virginity. Fr. Donald McCreanor, 49 and a licensed therapist, resigned his post, was suspended, and entered a church-run treatment center after the women went public with their story. They claim they did so because they had informed the diocese of their charges 14 months previously and nothing had been done.
After the story was published, two other women told the local paper that McCreanor had made sexual overtures to them as well. One had a troubled marriage and claims he propositioned her during confession. She said he suggested that she have an affair “with someone safe, like me.”
She eventually did have a tumultuous affair with him that lasted about a year. After working out her marital problems, she complained to the state Dept. of Professional Regulation but her charges were dismissed because the affair happened before he was licensed as a therapist.
McCreanor allegedly bought the other woman, his housecleaner, risque lingerie and suggested that she wear it at his house.
The vice chancellor of the diocese said later that five women had called to accuse McCreanor since the articles ran. He would not confirm if the callers included the women who had contacted the newspapers.
The accusations were made public the same week that Fr. Rick Castillo, 43, who had enrolled himself in the same treatment center last spring, admitted sexually abusing four teenage boys several years ago. (11/21)
The accusations were made public the same week that Fr. Rick Castillo, 43, who had enrolled himself in the same treatment center last spring, admitted sexually abusing four teenage boys several years ago. (11/21/98)
ELGIN, IL. – A convicted child molester who became a self-styled psychic and spiritual healer has been convicted again of sexual abuse.
Jeffrey Knapp, 47, founder of the Inner Journey Institute for the Healing Arts in Elgin and a former schoolteacher appeared stunned when the judge read the verdict. He was convicted of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for making a 14-year-old boy touch him under the guise of an Oriental healing technique called reiki.
Knapp’s wife, three of their children, as well as the female state trooper who investigated the case all wept after the verdict was read, though for different reasons.
The key testimony was from the victim himself, who sobbed most of the way through his time on the witness stand. Later the boy said, “I don’t hate him. I just think he is really sick.” (1/17/98)
TACOMA, WA. Another teen came forward yesterday to allege he was sexually molested by a Bethel Christian Assembly youth pastor, according to Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer. Meanwhile, elders from the church defended their handling of a 1995 complaint against the youth pastor now charged with eight counts of child molestation and rape, saying the 4-year-old allegations against Herman Glenn Jr. amounted to “hearsay.” The elders also said in a statement that Glenn was returned to his job only after they were assured he would not be a threat to children. (Seattle Times, 1998)
LIVERPOOL, England – A vicar who sexually assaulted boys during holidays with a church youth group has been convicted to three years in jail. Fr. David McIntosh, 52, pleaded guilty to seven indecent assault charges. (12/13/97)style=’font-style: normal’>http://www.objectivists.org.au/May09-1999/BM.htm
A youth minister of the Church of Christ has been arrested after allegedly sending nude pictures of himself to a 14-year-old girl over the Internet. Matthew Washington, 23, was charged with distribution of harmful material to a minor. Police said Washington sent her four photos of him seated nude on an exercise bike at the church after talking to her in an Internet chat room. The girl showed them to her mother who alerted the police. Washington was released on bail but faces up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine. (Dallas, 12/22/97)
Cobb County , GA. A former Gwinnett church youth group worker accused of child molestation was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to Cobb County charges that he molested two young boys there between 1991 and 1993. Adam Lee Gilliam, who still faces charges in Gwinnett, was sentenced to serve five years in prison and 15 years’ probation and ordered to pay more than $4,000 in restitution to the boys’ families. Gilliam, 28, was out on bond awaiting trial in Cobb when Gwinnett police arrested him Dec. 8. Cobb Magistrate Judge Vic Reynolds also ordered Gilliam to undergo treatment for sexual deviancy and to avoid any contact with his victims or their families. Before he would accept Gilliam’s guilty plea, Reynolds required Gilliam to admit to prosecutors’ charges that while he was a youth minister at a Cobb church, he fondled the buttocks of one boy and the penis of the other. Gwinnett police say Gilliam, of Sugar Hill, persuaded a 12-year-old boy he met through a Cumming church to have oral sex by showing him pornographic pictures and citing biblical passages that supposedly proved “it was all right for them to be doing these acts.” Between September and December, Gilliam often took the boy to softball games with his parents’ permission, police say. He is charged with 16 counts of child molestation and aggravated child molestation and is being held without bond in the Gwinnett Detention Center. (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12-19-1997)
Man gets 5 years in abuse case: Youth worker also to pay restitution
SEX ABUSE CASE SPURS CHURCH INTO ACTION. Less than a week after one of its former youth group workers was charged with child molestation, a Cumming church held a closed meeting Sunday to reassure members. “We plan on addressing this head-on,” Drew Grubbs, the executive pastor of Calvary Chapel North, said in an interview. Grubbs said that when the church hired Adam Lee Gilliam, 28, of Sugar Hill, as a part-time administrative assistant, it did not know a Cobb County grand jury had indicted him on two counts of child molestation. “This guy had glowing references from church leaders in Atlanta,” Grubbs said. “We didn’t know what everybody knows now.” Gwinnett police say Gilliam, who also worked with youth groups, persuaded a 12-year-old boy he met at the church to have oral sex by showing him pornographic pictures and reading what he said was Biblical Scripture from his computer. The boy got permission from his parents to accompany Gilliam to softball games, police said, and Gilliam took the boy home with him afterward. The child told police that during the sleep-overs Gilliam crawled into bed with him and molested him, police said. the boy also told police that Gilliam “read Scripture off of the computer that said it was all right for them to be doing these acts,” according to a search warrant affidavit. Police said they did not know what passages Gilliam could have been citing. Gilliam was charged with 16 felony counts of child molestation and aggravated child molestation. He is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing Tuesday in the Gwinnett County Detention Center, where he is being held without bond. By Larry Hartstein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 12/15/97
A couple who coordinated youth activities at Mount Hermas Church of God in Sugar Hill, Marcus and Janice Bellew, allegedly seduced a 14-year-old girl from the church and had group sex with her, police said. Church officials did not return repeated phone messages. By Larry Hartstein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 12/15/97
Cumming, GA. A 28-year-old church youth group worker who spent nights alone with a 12-year-old boy persuaded the youngster to have oral sex by showing him pornographic pictures and reading what he said was Scripture stored in his computer, police said Tuesday. Adam Lee Gilliam of Sugar Hill was arrested Monday night and charged with 16 felony counts of child molestation and aggravated child molestation, police said. The arrest is the second Gwinnett case in two weeks where police claim a church youth group leader molested a child. Gilliam met the boy at Calvary Chapel North in Cumming, said Gwinnett police Sgt. Jeff Sligar. (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12-10-1997)
Youth worker accused of molestation: 16 felony counts: Police say church’s ex-staffer spent numerous nights: alone with 12-year-old boy
SWANSEA, England – An Anglican vicar who jumped bail and fled to the Czech Republic while awaiting sentencing after admitting taking indecent photographs of young girls in his Welsh vicarage has begun a 15-month prison term – a year for the seven counts of sexually explicit photos and another three months for fleeing. First arrested after taking film to a local photo shop to be developed, a search of the vicarage revealed thousands of photos and slides depicting nude girls and women.
Fr. Merlyn Roberts, a 62-year-old grandfather and former chaplain at two English top-security prisons, spent more than a year on the run. He was finally spotted by a Welshman working in Prague who recognized his picture in a newspaper. Roberts was arrested at an boys’ school where he worked and was extradited to Britain after being held for 18 weeks.
The sentencing judge also ordered the confiscation of Roberts’ photos and ordered him to register with the police as a sex offender upon his release.
Another Anglican priest was arrested in Romania on suspicion of having had sex with a local boy. Fr. Michael Taylor, 34, was found with a 14-year-old boy in an apartment near the Bucharest train station. Romania is said to have become a magnet for pedophiles because of the widespread poverty and the large number of runaway children who frequent the rail stations. (11/25/97)
LONDON – The Church of England is facing a series of allegations by the wives of clergy who claim their husbands violently and sexually abused them. One spoke of violence when her husband’s parochial church council meetings had not gone well, involving “smashing everything in sight,” being dragged by her hair and kicked. Another spoke of being strangled during love-making, raped, and having her body marked “in a foul way.” They claimed that their appeals for help from the church were initially ignored.
The women decided to speak out after a decision by the Church of Scotland to open a care line for the battered wives of clergy, which followed a study by Edinburgh University which suggested that clerical wives are as likely to suffer assault as those in the general population, where it is thought 1 in 10 may be abused. The report cataloged abuse by ministers and included instances of wife beatings, damage to internal organs, kickings, and sexual advances made by clergy towards other women who sought counseling.
Lesley Macdonald, author of the study, said some of the women accused the church of “closing ranks” when faced with their complaints. “The status of clergy has dropped,” she said. “Often wives take the flak for the minister’s economic inadequacy and irresponsibility. The violence has been caused in some cases by the minister’s lack of self-esteem.”
Since the study of 25 women, she has been contacted by more than 40 abused wives of clergy from other parts of Britain. (10/5/97)
Christian School Officials Face Hearing on Failing to Report Suspicions.The pair face charges in a case involving sex abuse of male students by a teacher. Prineville, Oregon — A pretrial bearing will be October 20 for two Christian school officials cited for failing to report their suspicions that a teacher was molesting male students. Sue Uptain, principal of the 180-student Crook County Christian School, and James Donohue, the school’s superintendent, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry maximum $1,000 fines. Donohue is also pastor of the First Assembly of God Church in Prineville, which opened the preschool through 12th grade school three years ago. Both claimed they didn’t know state law requires school employees to immediately report suspected sex abuse cases. School officials learned May 9 that Phillip Marland, French and physical education teacher, might have molested a boy. But it wasn’t reported to law enforcement officials until May 27, and that report was from the pastor of another church. One of Marland’s victims was reportedly molested after Crook County Christian School officials learned of the abuse but before it was reported to authorities.
Feared Attendance Would Drop: Marland had been indicted on 54 counts of sex abuse involving four boys. Last month, Marland, 42, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual abuse and was sentenced to 7½ years in prison. As a French citizen, he likely will be deported when released from prison. Crook County undersheriff Clyde McLain said there is evidence Donohue and Uptain knew they were legally required to immediately report suspected cases of sex abuse. He said Donahue was informed about the reporting requirements at a meeting last February. The meeting with area clergy was arranged by the district attorney’s office to discuss the sex abuse reporting law. McLain said one pastor reported that Uptain admitted she understood the law but delayed action out of fear attendance at the school would drop. (The Oregonian, October 2, 1997)
BAKERSFIELD, CA – A church school youth pastor will go to jail for two years for sexually molesting a 16-year-old girl. Jon Jon Jessee, 28, allegedly had sex with the girl while she was staying at the home he shared with his wife and young daughter.
The girl told police she was living with the Jessees because of family problems she was having. She said Jessee would touch her inappropriately and then pray and ask forgiveness, and that they had sex in March after he came into the bathroom while she was taking a shower. After the incident he packed her bags and asked her to move out. Jessee pled no contest to the charges. (8/8/97)
PETALUMA – A former rabbi faces up to 8 years in prison after pleading no contest to a felony molestation charge involving a 12-year-old girl.
Two misdemeanor molestation charges were dropped against Rabbi Sidney Goldenberg, 58, after the he entered the plea.
The assistant District Attorney said no deals were made on Goldenberg’s sentencing, who said he would solicit statements from several adults in New York who say they were molested by Goldenberg as children. They would be considered during sentencing. (6/19/97
Nunavik pastor charged with sex crimes against a minor The leader of Ivujivik’s evangelical congregation, the Full Gospel Church, faces trial next January in connection with incidents dating back ten years . (11/28/97, Nunatsiaq News, Iqaluit, NU, Greenland.) http://www.nunanet.com/~nunat/week/71128.html#1
BAKERSFIELD – A Mormon missionary working as a reading volunteer at an elementary school was arrested on suspicion of molesting an 8-year-old girl at the school. Jason Chad Larsen, 20, is alleged to have fondled the child in the school cafeteria which was filled with other children and reading volunteers. The girl reported the incident to a teacher’s aide. The principal called the girl’s parents and then the police.
Larsen posted bond the next night. (5/24/97)
CHICAGO – Rev. Casey January, 30, a pastor at God’s Tabernacle of Praise was charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual abuse. He allegedly assaulted a teenage girl after counseling her about a year ago in the church and her home. The alleged victim tried to commit suicide after the incidents. (8/7/97)
KOKOMO, IN. – Former televangelist William E. Tully, Sr., 51 and 5 others are awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to commit mail and securities fraud and money laundering. Tully and his Charter Financial Group, Inc., lost nearly $7 million, said by authorities to have floated a lavish lifestyle, including a 57-foot yatch, rather that the mortgages to build churches for poor congregations as claimed. His TV ministry collapsed in 1995 under the weight of a 61-count indictment. The trial, which is expected to start in Nov. and take several months, has already drawn battle lines over the use of videotaped statements from aged, frail investors and a defense fund in support of Tully. (8/22/97)
JACKSON COUNTY, MI. – Jeffrey Knapp, 47, a registered nurse who presented himself as a master spiritual healer, has been charged with molesting an 11-year-old boy under the guise of spiritual healing. He allegedly coerced the boy into fondling him during a class in “reiki,” an Asian healing technique, at his home. It was revealed that in 1977 he was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old and sentenced to 5 years probation and in 1986 had lost a job as a principal after parents complained about sexual conversations he was having with students. (8/8/97)
DECATUR, AL. – A minister on his way to County Jail proclaimed his innocence and said he was “set up” on sexual abuse charges.
Victor Young Pickett, 25, was charged after an indictment by a grand jury with first-degree sodomy, first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree sexual abuse, records showed. The charges stem from a June 19, 1999, offense involving two males, ages 10 and 14, police said.
According to police, the investigation of Pickett spanned six months and revealed that he allegedly had sexually molested other young males also but it is unknown if other charges will be filed.
A police investigator said Pickett ran a church out of his apartment. “He’d go around and pick them up and take them to his church. He’d take them to movies or out to eat and that’s when he would molest them.”
As he was being led to jail, where he was to be held in lieu of bonds totaling $150,000, Pickett said he was an ordained minister and ran the Pentecostal Church of Truth, an outreach ministry, which has about 15 members. He said he had been in the ministry since he was 12 and that he worked with adults and young adults.
Pickett said he thinks one of the families he’s been helping set him up. He alluded to discovering that some of the people he was helping were “drug users and criminals.” He said, “When you help people and you stop, this is what happens.”Daily 5/9/2000
PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia – A 5,000-member Anglican diocese may face bankruptcy if it is forced to pay major damages as a result of a series of court cases on sexual abuse.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled that the Diocese of Cariboo, the Anglican Church of Canada and thefederal government were jointly liable for compensation in the case of Floyd Mowatt, who was sexually abused 30 years ago at a church residential school in British Columbia.
The amount of damages has not yet been made public, but the Anglican Journal, the church’s national publication, estimated the church’s portion of the award at about C$200,000 (US$135,000). Although the Diocese of Cariboo has sufficient resources to pay its share of damages, there are 4 more actions pending related to the same offender. It is expected that the award will be the same in each of the cases, which are likely to be dealt with quickly in the courts because they are based on the evidence already presented in the Mowatt case.
Derek Clarke, a residence supervisor at St George’s residential school in Lytton, was convicted in 1993 and jailed for sexually abusing the plaintiff and several other boys. The issue before Justice Dillon was to determine who the employer was and who should pay the damages. She found the church, which ran the institution and had hired Clarke, 60% responsible and the government, under whose mandate the school operated, 40% responsible. She found they both breached their duty, but that the church, in a position of trust, had greater liability for failing to protect the children in their charge.
The diocese might be faced with bankruptcy, Abp. David Crawley said. He said: “The Primate [Archbishop Michael Peers, head of the Canadian church] has publicly apologized for our involvement in the residential school business and what happened at them. The church will pay its obligations.”
This is the first decision involving residential schools and the Anglican Church. The church still faces more than 200 similar lawsuits involving hundreds of plaintiffs. ENI, 10/5/99
OTTAWA. Ontario — A landmark court ruling that ordered the federal government and the United Church of Canadato compensate victims of sexual abuse at a church-run native school could be a devastating blow to Canadian churches and social agencies, observers said.
“This is a major threat to every church in the country,” said Gerry Kelly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. “The potential costs are exceedingly high. I don’t really know what’s going to happen. The number of cases has just grown and grown.”
In Ottawa, federal bureaucrats met with officials from several churches, trying to determine what should be done in the face of what appears to be a staggering number of claims. At the moment, churches and the federal government face at least 1,000 abuse cases from native Canadians who attended the schools, and lawyers connected with the issue say the number may escalate.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien said that Canada, which has been asked to defend its treatment of native children at the schools before a United Nations tribunal, is ready to accept its responsibility, although it will review each case separately.
“It looks like the court has attributed to the federal government some responsibility,” he said. “If we have responsibility, we have to meet our responsibilities.”
In a court ruling dealing with a residential school in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, the B.C. Supreme Court found that both the federal government, which financed the school, and the United Church, which ran it, were jointly liable and must compensate those who were sexually assaulted at the school by Arthur Plint decades ago. The ruling is considered a landmark because it transfers accountability from Mr. Plint to his employers. Although it has been cheered by victims, others warn that the ruling could have far-reaching effects.
Observers say the crucial aspect of the decision is the way it extends the concept of vicarious liability, which determines where an employer’s accountability ends and an individual’s begins. Until now, the courts have generally ruled that an employer can’t be held liable for their employees’ actions if there was no way to anticipate them. One expert warned it could mean the end of girl’s soccer and the Boy Scouts.
More than 80 residential schools for native children were set up in the past century in almost every province. Officials estimate that up to 125,000 native children passed through the system before it was closed in the mid-1980s.
In June, the Prime Minister or a senior government representative has been asked to appear before an international human-rights tribunal to defend Ottawa’s record on caring for the children at the schools. An international court, convened by tribal leaders from across North America, was to hold three days of public hearings in Vancouver as a response to complaints of sexual abuse, assault and cultural genocide at the schools and pleas for justice.
The testimony is mainly for the benefit of the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, which is formally affiliated with the UN. The association is expected to report to the UN Secretary-General. It is believed to be the first time that the non-governmental organization has investigated a situation in Canada. Although the tribunal does not have the force of law behind it, the association’s findings could embarrass Canada at the UN, where Canada often criticizes other countries over human rights. (6/9/98 Canadian Press)
A teen-age girl testified in Provo, Utah, that her father, John Chaney, leader of a Mormon polygamy sect, repeatedly had sex with her and forced her to marry a middle-aged man when she was 13. (unknown, 6/27/97)
Universal Church of God pastor Ellis Butler of Shirley, Arkansas, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for raping three church school girls. (unknown, 5/31/97)
The Rev. Jeffrey Horton of Liberty Christian Center in Michigan was sentenced to jail for planting hidden video cameras in women’s restrooms. (unknown, 4/97)
The Rev. Bryan Buckley of Christ Community Church in St. Charles, Ill., drew a seven-year prison term for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. (unknown, 2/97)
Tulsa, OK. A Tulsa jury on Wednesday handed a 79-year-old Oakhurst preacher prison terms totaling 30 years upon convicting him of molesting and sodomizing a 5-year-old girl. William Euel Riley received 10 years on each of two counts of lewd molestation, and one count of forcible sodomy. Jurors acquitted him of another sodomy count. Riley, pastor of Mission of Love Pentecostal Church in Oakhurst, denied the allegations. Formal sentencing is set for Feb. 15, one day before his 80th birthday. (Tulsa World, 01/11/1996)
Preacher Sentenced in Molestation
Lancaster. PA. A Lancaster man who helped teach Bible study for teenagers planning to join a church was arrested and charged with 2 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. The victim, 15, was in the process of becoming a member of the Conestoga Valley Church of Christ. John Mark Nadeau, 44, allegedly assaulted the boy during “one-on-one” study sessions. Nadeau turned himself in after a child abuse prosecution unit began investigating the alleged assaults. He waived a preliminary hearing and was freed on $10,000 cash bail. Nadeau faces a maximum penalty of 20-40 years in prison if convicted. Each charge of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse carries a maximum penalty of 10-20 years, said a detective from East Lampeter. (New Era, 8/9/95)
Round Lake, MI. Bible Teacher Had Prior Sex Offenses Round Lake Community Church Sunday and vacation bible school teacher Joseph Escalera, 51, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexually molesting a boy, 10. In return for a guilty plea to aggravated criminal sexual abuse, other charges against Escalera were dismissed. The boy and Escalera’s mentally disabled roommate participated in the church’s youth group. In June and July of ’94 the boy befriended the roommate and slept over about once a week. Police say Escalera admitted he fondled the boy and masturbated while the boy undressed. At the time of his arrest, Escalera was on 4 years probation for a 1988 conviction of 3 counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault for incidents in Mount Prospect. (Waukegan News Sun 12/22/95)
MINISTER PLAYING DOCTOR An assistant minister and youth choir director at First Church of God has been charged with practicing medicine without a license and criminal sexual conduct for the rectal exam of a male and pelvic exams on women involving penile catheters. Dean Willoughby, 29, was apparently practicing medicine from his apartment on homeless people, including children. HIV+ blood samples were found there, also apparently drawn from “patients”. Willoughby’s attorney says, “All he’s ever done is do community work … with street people, with the homeless, with AIDS patients. He has not a blemish in his background. He’s very highly respected in his church.” (Lexington Herald-Leader 4/8/94)
DAVIS FACES MORE CHARGES. Rev. L.R. Davis, charged in Illinois with criminal sexual misconduct, child pornography, and perjury, was also charged with assaulting a teenage boy in San Diego. Davis, 57, is a prominent Waukegan minister with Christian Fellowship, Inc. Two fellow ministers, Michael Camer, 30, and David Annstrong, 33, are indicted on lesser charges. Young boys may have been brought from Tijuana, Mexico to Davis’ San Diego church for molestation.
L.R. DAVIS LOSES APPEAL. The Illinois Appellate Court upheld the conviction and 31-year prison term of Rev. L.R. Davis. His conviction for child pornography was reversed, but his 15-count conviction for child sexual abuse of 2 boys was upheld. The Illinois Supreme Court will review the dismissal of Davis’ perjury charges in a related civil suit. Source: _News-Sun_ 3/29/94, 4/9/94.
RELIGIONIST MOLESTS GIRL, 6, IN CHURCH NURSERY. A church member of the Christian Fellowship Church, founded by L.R. Davis (see above) has pleaded a stipulated guilty plea to the charges of sexually molesting a girl, 6, in the church nursery. Michael Larson, 27, awaits sentencing. Source: _News-Sun_ (no date).
DAVIS GETS 31 YEARS, CLEMENCY ASKED. The founder of the notorious First Christian Fellowship Church of Waukegan, Rev. Lloyd Davis, 57, flanked by many supporters, was sentenced to 31 years in prison for criminal sexual assault, child pornography & sexual abuse. He imported teenaged boys from Mexico for sex. Lake Co. Judge Christopher C. Starck said: “The burning question in this case is whether this man is a minister or a monster, a pastor or a pedophile.” Starck said he is all of those things. Davis is believed to have molested children since the 1960s. Former church members accuse him of running a cult, making sexual demands on supporters & locating all churches near Naval bases, where he is known for trying to lure young sailors into his churches for sexual purposes. About 374 persons wrote letters to the judge asking for mercy. “He is the greatest person there is,” insisted Martha Allsopp, a Kenosha church member. He faces more charges in California. Two other ministers from his Waukegan church, David Lee Armstrong & Michael Carner, go on trial in March. In January, 200 supporters led by Rev. Peter Paine of the Christian Fellowship Church presented a request for clemency for Davis to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. “I believe L.R. Davis may be the most sexually dangerous man to have ever walked the streets of Lake Co.,” maintains Assistant State’s Attorney Jeff Pavletic. Sources: _Chicago Tribune_ 8/15/92, AP/ _Quad-City Times_ 8/15/92, _News-Sun_ (Lake Co.) 1/15/93.
Militant Moralist is a Molestor; Gets Eight Years. Brisbane, Australia — Keith Wright, a former member of Parliament, born-again Christian, antiporn crusader, and militant moralist was handed an eight-year prison sentence for molesting and raping a teenage girl during the years 1983 through 1986. Wright faces additional charges of sexually abusing two other young girls between 1984 and 1990 — a period during which he actively campaigned to have the town of Rockhampton declared a “porn-free zone.” (January, 1994)
Christian televangelist William Wasmus of Church of the Living Savior: convicted of having sex with children and video-taping it on church equipment. (Columbus, Ohio, 1994)
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Reverend Richard Jones of Family Life Church: molested boys and told them the Bible sanctioned the abuse (Park Hills, Missouri, 1994)
MINISTER GETS 189 YEARS. For the sexual assault of 2 boys, both 15, the minister of the now-defunct Family Life Church in Park Hills has been sentenced to serve at least 28 years in prison before he is eligible for parole. Rev. Richard L. Jones, 30, was sentenced to 189 years for sexually assaulting the boys in his home and car in 1990- 91. He told them it was sanctioned in the _Bible_. In court Jones claimed the boys were trying to seek revenge when he confronted their drinking and sexual activities. Source: _News-Leader_ 3/16/94, AP 2/8/94.
ST. LOUIS, MO. A judge’s decision to sentence Thomas Jolly to five years’ probation has outraged the victims and their parents, who argue that the 83-year-old defrocked minister should have gone to jail for molesting three girls. Jolly was accused of molesting three girls, ages 9, 13 and 16, between September 1987 and August 1988 at the Gospel Assembly Church, a nondenominational church at 13169 Tesson Ferry Road in southwest St. Louis County. Jolly was minister for the congregation of 600. . (St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 11, 1993 By William C. Lhotka )
Probation For Abuser Stirs Anger Minister Molested Girls Who Sought Counseling
MAYER (FINALLY) GETS 3 YEARS. The Rev. Robert E. Mayer, 53, implicated in numerous cases of sexually abusing minors, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for molesting a girl, 13. Four men also testified during the trial about Mayer’s advances toward them 9 years ago, when they were 13 and 14. “The evidence indicates a long history of sexually inappropriate conduct with children and adults,” said prosecutor Mark Cavins. “This crime was not committed on impulse or spur of the moment.” Mayer is the first priest in Cook Co. to be sentenced to prison. He continued to maintain his innocence, pleading for mercy: “As God is my witness, I was never alone with the girl,” Mayer told the judge. Judge Thomas Durkin replied, “God is not your judge today.” Source: _Chicago Tribune_ 2/6/93.
YOUTH MINISTER CHARGED. Garden City Church of Christ youth minister Rev. Cameron K. Huffman, 41, was charged with 21 counts of child molestation for molesting a young boy for a year. Huffman had admitted to being a pedophile during a counseling session. When the church in Columbus was notified of Huffman’s admission, it fired him and informed the congregation, also calling police. Police received complaints against Rev. Huffman from other Indiana cities and states, but the 5-year statute of limitations has hampered some investigations. Source: _Indianapolis Star_ 1/28/93.
CULT LEADER GETS 16 YEARS. Fugitive religious leader James Randazzo, convicted in 1989 of sexual exploitation of children, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Founder of Spiral of Friends cult, he videotaped sex sessions with teenaged children during “therapy”. His wife Colleen is serving an 8-year prison term. Randazzo had skipped the country, but was nabbed last fall in Hungary. Source: _Rocky Mountain News_ 1/30/93.
POLL REVEALS WIDESPREAD ABUSE. 7% of Minnesotan protestants personally know someone who has been sexually abused by a member of the clergy, while 5% of Catholics did, and 2% say they have been touched by a clergyperson in a way that made them uncomfortable, according to a _Star Tribune_/WCCO-TV Minnesota Poll phone survey of 1,222 Minnesotans was taken from Jan. 26 to Feb. 5. 1991 survey of Minnesota clergy showed 15% of mainline Protestant clergy admitted to an affair outside of. Source: _Star Tribune_ 2/21/93
CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER RENEGES CONFESSION. Facing 11 felony counts stemming from molestations of 2 young brothers since 1987, Rev. Boardman Kathan says a damaging statement he gave police in July was coerced. Former chair of the Region 16 Board of Education, Kathan retired last summer as associate minister of the First Congregational Church of Cheshire in Waterbury. Police say their investigation shows he molested a boy, 17, numerous times over the past 5 years, & once molested his brother, now 12. Source: (Waterbury) _Republican American_ 1/23/93.
2,000 SUPPORT MINISTER MOLESTER. About 75 supporters from the Christ Universal Church picketed before the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago in support of Rev. Paul Hall, 47, convicted of sexually abusing a boy, 13, in 1989. He had been free on appeal since then. His 4-year sentence began in January. The Illinois Appellate Court, which denied him a rehearing, received more than 2,000 letters in his behalf. Source: _Chicago Sun-Times_ 9/3/92, 1/8/93.
DEKALB CHURCH BLESSES COVER-UP. A sex scandal, now encompassing 4 ministers from one family, has been uncovered at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in DeKalb, Georgia, praised by former President Bush as one of his “1,000 Points of Light”. The $12 million, racially diverse 7,700-seat church with a TV program, social services, lost half of its 12,000 members following revelations that its minister, Bishop Earl Paulk, had an adulterous affair. Other church employees or members have stepped forward to say they had affairs with the bishop’s brother, Rev. Don Paulk, & his nephews Rev. Duane Swilley & Rev. Alan Mushegan. Women charge the ministers coerced them into having sex in order to “serve God.” The church filed, then dropped a slander/libel suit against several former members & staffers, resulting in a gag order by a DeKalb judge forbidding them to discuss their allegations of sexual misconduct. It promotes a doctrine of “covering”, blessing cover-ups of sexual misconduct & requiring submission to authority. Don Paulk accuses former church schoolteacher Rebecca Moses of seducing him, saying “I know now what it was like for Samson to place his head in the lap of Delilah.” Six victims have not filed suit, but are asking for legislation making it a felony in Georgia for clergy to have sex with members of their congregations. Sources: AP/_Atlanta Journal/Constitution_ 11/14/92; _USA Today_ 12/18/92; _Boston Globe_ 1/9/93.
Pablo Geraldo Boas, 28, charged with sexual molestation. Assistant pastor at Jubilee Christian Center, San Jose, was charged with 2 felony counts of lewd & lascivious conduct with children, stemming from assaults on 4 boys, ages 10-15, at the church between September 1988 & February 1992. Sources: _L.A. Times_ 12/19/92, _San Francisco Examiner_ 1/10/93.
Brentwood Man Held in ’90 Molestation
David Ernest Brimmer, 39. Charged with sexual molestation. Assistant pastor at Jubilee Christian Center, San Jose, was charged with 5 felony counts of lewd & lascivious conduct with children, stemming from assaults on 4 boys, ages 10-15, at the church between September 1988 & February 1992. Sources: _L.A. Times_ 12/19/92, _San Francisco Examiner_ 1/10/93.
PASTOR BOOKED FOR MOLESTING SCHOOLGIRL. A girl, 15, was molested at a church-run school in Birmingham by Rev. James E. Johnson, of Ensley, according to police. He was charged with 2nd degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor. Source: _Birmingham News_ 11/21/92.
PROMINENT EVANGELICAL RESIGNS; NO CHARGES? Prominent Sunday-school teacher/leader James C. Truxton, 77, resigned his positions at the 5,000-member First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton. The founding president of Mission Aviation Fellowship admitted he was stepping down because of “molestation perpetrated by me in the past upon young girls within & outside this congregation”. Both had been teaching second-graders; the wife was called “culpable”. At least 7 church members in their 20s & 30s said they were molested by Truxton as children. The statute of limitations has expired; no criminal charges were filed. When parents 20 years ago complained to Mission Aviation Fellowship officials about Truxton, they were told a psychologist at Fuller Seminary evaluated him, concluding he was in no need of help. Source: _National & International Religion Report_ 10/19/92.
PASTOR OUSTED FROM 4,500-MEMBER CHURCH. Pastor David Hocking of Calvary Church in Santa Ana was forced to resign after confessing to an affair with a married woman. Hocking, 51, is married with grown children. Source: _National & International Religion Report_ 10/19/92.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ McALESTER, OK. A man who said he was former pastor was in the Pittsburg County Jail on Tuesday on charges of rape and sodomy of three boys. A preliminary hearing is scheduled Sept. 22 for Kenneth Raymond Dewoody, 50, of Crowder. He was charged with nine counts of rape and sodomy. The boys, ages 14 to 17, allege Dewoody raped and sodomized them, sometimes in front of other boys, sometimes while watching pornographic movies, authorities say. Two of the boys met Dewoody at Ask Creek Church, where Dewoody was a pastor, authorities say. (Tulsa World, 07/29/1992)
Pastor Accused of Raping Boys
CANCER VICTIM ALLEGES MISCONDUCT. Carolyn Kruse, Aurora, filed suit against her minister and church, saying he coerced her into a sexual relationship when she went for counseling while ill with Hodgkin’s disease. Sued is John R. Leonard, pastor of Harvest Christian Center, who told the congregation Kruse was possessed by a demon. Source: _Rocky Mountain News_ 1/1/92.
COUNSELING VICTIM GETS $300,000. The Bear Valley Church of Christ & its former minister Homer Wolfe agreed to pay $300,000 to a man whom Wolfe sexually assaulted during family counseling sessions. Earlier, a boy, now 17, was awarded $450,000 by a jury for similar charges. Wolfe, 59, has not been criminally charged. He told parishioners to undress & massage themselves, & masturbated during counseling sessions, also touching parishioners. The fundamentalist Church of Christ teaches that nonchurch members will go to hell. Wolfe now lives in Texas. Source: _Rocky Mountain News_ 8/2,29/92. Denver, CO. A Dever woman and her son were awarded $450,000 by a Denver District Court jury. The woman, who son was a minor at the time, claimed the Church of Christ minister, Homer Wolfe, inappropriately massaged and fondled him during counseling sessions for five years. That case is before the Colorado Court of Appeals. ( Denver Post 18-May-94)
CHURCHES SHIFT ABUSE DEFENSES
FUGITIVE RELIGIOUS LEADER NABBED. Fugitive religious leader James Randazzo, convicted in 1989 of sex crimes, had skipped the country in 1990 & was nabbed in Hungary after a manhunt. He will now be sentenced on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of children & drug use. Randazzo founded Spiral of Friends Church in Molina. Source: _Pueblo Chieftain_ 10/29/92.
Holy Way leader Clarence “Brother Will” Williams was arrested after a 19-year-old woman said he brainwashed her into having sex starting when she was 15. The member of the sect said he forced sex upon her and other women more than 40 times between 1987-1990. Williams, who pleaded guilty 5 years ago to “cleansing” underage members by ordering them to bare their breasts, was 2 months short of completing his 5-year probation. Terms of probation prohibited practicing aspects of his religion such as nudity, fondling children, and having non-related children spend the night. In 1986 prosecutors interviewed about a dozen girls and their mothers who described a religious ritual in which they would strip and fondle each other at Williams’ command. Williams claimed this was _Bible_-based: “Our belief is that biblically if you have a problem within yourself, it is because of sin or weakness, and about the only thing that’s going to cleanse you of that is if you expose it before the Lord.” Source: _Palm Beach Post_ 2/26/92.
Sex abuse and mind control in the name of Jesus was uncovered at the Holy Way religious commune in Florida. “Brother Bill” Clarence E. Williams, its leader, was convicted of sexually abusing two girls during church ceremonies; inducing the sexual performance of children and other indecent assaults. Williams’ commune was established on strict adherence to traditional sex roles and patriarchal rule. (Source: Palm Beach Post, 3/13/86; Tampa Tribune, 4/5/87)
“WOUNDED SOLDIER” LEAVES CHURCH. Senior pastor of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, with 12,000 members one of Atlanta’s largest churches Q stepped down, admitting an “improper” relationship with a female church employee. Charismatic Rev. Don Paulk, 53, sermonized, “I am not here today as a martyr or hero, but as a fallen, wounded soldier … My family’s forgiveness was second only to the forgiveness of God.” His brother, Bishop Earl Paulk, berated the media for exposing the “weaknesses” of others, and blamed “Satan”, promising Don would return. Source: _Atlanta Constitution_ 5/11/92.
AIR FORCE CHAPLAIN COURT-MARTIALED. Capt. Perry W. Bell, 37, pleaded guilty to adultery with 6 women, conduct unbecoming an officer, and bringing discredit upon the armed forces. He was also convicted of attempted seduction of a 19-year-old Air Force cadet who fought off advances in his chapel office. The Scott Air Force Base chaplain was court-martialed and given 3 months in jail. He could have been sentenced for up to 12 years. In exchange for guilty pleas, the Air Force agreed to a brief sentence and dropped other charges of indecent advances, possession of a pornographic videotape while in the United Arab Emigrates during the war against Iran, ordering an enlisted man to obtain a pornographic tape, and dereliction of duty. Three of the victims were Air Force Officers, others were a sergeant, a sergeant’s wife seeking counseling, and an enlisted woman. The senior Protestant chaplain sought out vulnerable women seeking help for emotional upsets. Source: _Edwardsville Intelligencer_ 2/19/92.
“SOUND DOCTRINE” PASTOR QUITS. After nearly 20 years as pastor, Rev. Wendell Beets, of Sound Doctrine Church, resigned following a claim of sexual impropriety with a female church member, 19. A married couple who were also ministers at the church expressed indignation that “he would attack a 19-year-old girl”, & concern that Beets will tart a new church & continue preying on the congregation. Louise & Clarence Ellis of Cedar Rapids say others have criticized them for speaking out against Beets. Source: _Cedar Rapids Gazette_ 8/29/92.
UNITARIAN GUILTY ON 6 CHARGES. Northboro minister Mack W. Mitchell, 56, was convicted on 6 of 23 charges of sexual assault involving a Tibetan woman who testified he sexually abused her as a teenager after offering to sponsor her education in this country. “I came here with a lot of wonderful dreams, and my dreams were shattered,” said the victim, now 23. With the conviction, “I can dream again and become a whole person again.” Rape and assault-battery charges are still pending against him by another Tibetan woman. Source: _Worcester Telegram & Gazette_ 5/15/92.
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER IMPRISONED. Groton Sunday School teacher Leslie Richard Danielson, 63, was sentenced to 5-10 years after pleading guilty to sexually abusing 6 children under 14 years. He is already serving up to 10 years for a 1991 conviction involving 4 other children, but will be eligible for parole in 4 years. Source: _Boston Herald_ 5/22/92.
BRONSON MINISTER ARRAIGNED. First Congregational Church minister David Covert Moore was charged with 5 counts of criminal sexual conduct of 4 children under the age of 15. In July he checked himself into Pine Rest Christian Counseling Services in Grand Rapids. Source: _Jackson Citizen Patriot_ 8/29/92.
MINISTER & GIRLFRIEND INDICTED. Trenton pastor Franklin Tucker, 37, Final Call Ministry, was indicted for molesting his girlfriend’s daughters, 9 & 15. His girlfriend was indicted for forcing her daughters to recant the allegations to police. The abuse came to light when the 9-year-old told a school official, who contacted police. Source: _Trenton Times_ 9/15/92.
SUPPORTERS GATHER FOR CONVICTED “FRIEND”. Pastor Roy McKinley, 45, who stepped down from Milan Friends Church after being charged with molesting a teenage girl, pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition and related charges. Supporters, including a minister, crowded the courtroom where McKinley pleaded for mercy. Source: _Toledo Blade_ 5/25/92.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT HITS CHURCH. A female employee at World Harvest Church in Columbus has filed a lawsuit saying the father of the pastor sexually harassed her, also naming the church & its pastor as defendants. Naomi Endicott, 48, said Rev. Rodney L. Parsley knew about the harassment but did nothing to stop it. James G. Parsley, his father, was her supervisor & made unwanted sexual advances, even offering money for sex, she said. Source: _Columbus Dispatch_ 10/17/92.
MINISTER MOLESTER OF 400 SENTENCED. Eugene Church for the Deaf minister Joseph Bernard Ponder, 47, was sentenced to 2 years for violating probation in 2 felony convictions of 1st degree sexual abuse of boys. He had received a year in jail for 2nd degree sexual abuse of a boy, 14, in 1988. Officials believe an estimate that he molested 400 boys may be low. “This may be the most prolific abuser of young boys who has ever stood in this court,” said prosecutor Kent Mortimore. “His whole life has revolved around this his ministry, his choice of careers to put himself in contact with potential victims.” Ponder denies abusing the boy during a swimming incident, and failed to complete court-ordered sex offender treatment. Source: _Register-Guard_ 3/5/92.
CONVICTED PASTOR “RIGHT WITH LORD”. Rev. Virgil Carpenter, 48, pastor of Bible Missionary Church in Ontario, was convicted of sodomy & sexual abuse of a girl, 9, over a 1-1/2 year period. A jury convicted Carpenter of 2 felony counts of sodomy & 4 felony counts of sexual abuse. He faces 5 additional felony charges in 2 upcoming trials. “I’m really not worried,” he told supporters who had gathered in the courtroom before the verdict. “I’m right with the Lord.” Source: _Corvallis Gazette-Times_ 10/11/92.
LAY PREACHER WITH AIDS TRIED TO INFECT KIDS? Lay preacher Adam Brown, of Roseburg, Oregon, infected with HIV, was indicted Nov. 13 for sexually abusing children to infect them with AIDS, including 5 counts of attempted murder, 9 counts of sodomy, 4 counts of rape, 5 counts of reckless endangerment, & 3 counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object. Boys & girls told police he molested them repeatedly, threatening them with knives, scissors & matches. One boy said Brown rubbed semen into a scratch on his arm. Another said Brown burned a _Bible_, warning that Satan would come unless the child stopped resisting. Alleged victims include a 3-year-old girl, 7-year-old girl & 8-year-old boy. AIDS tests so far for the children have been negative. Source: AP/_Boston Globe_ 11/29/92.
YOUTH PASTOR JAILED FOR ABUSING GIRL. Sentenced to 60 days in jail for molesting a young girl was Michael Wayne Cross, 32, youth pastor of Oregon City Evangelical Church. He must undergo a sex offender treatment & register with the state for life as a convicted sex offender. The girl, now 17, said he sodomized her numerous times over a year. An officer said the crimes occurred at the church or at church functions. Source: _Oregonian_ 10/29/92.
CHURCH COUNSELING TURNED ABUSIVE. A Fairless Hills couple filed suit against a church counselor and Calvary Full Gospel Church, alleging the pastor referred them to abusive Aldo Maselli. The depressed woman said he told her he “had prayed about it and that God told him that it was OK for him to express his feelings of love”, initiating a 2-year sexual relationship. The suit by Rebecca and Steven Hicks charges negligent, reckless practices contrary to accepted counseling standards, and battery and sexual abuse. Source: _Bucks County Courier Times_ 5/20/92.
CULT LEADER’S SON GETS YEAR. The son of Connecticut religious cult leader “Brother Julius” was sentenced to a year in prison for sexually abusing 4 children, ages 7, 9, 10, & 17. His father claims to be God & a “sinful messiah” & has also been accused of molesting children. His civil suits have been settled out of court, but he has never been criminally indicted. (Boston Globe 9/20/92)
CULT PASTOR NOT PROSECUTED. Officials in Clearfield & Delaware counties won’t prosecute doomsday pastor Anthony Marcolongo of Johnstown, despite allegations by 6 women followers of sexual assault. “We thought this wasn’t the type of case that tax dollars should be spent on,” said Assistant DA Sheldon Kovach. The women said the minister broke them physically, making them work 18-hour days, & filled them with fear of doom in Hell if they did not have sex with him. Source: _Clearfield Progress_ 9/1/92.
POLYGAMOUS HILLBILLY PREACHER CHARGED. The leader of the Evangelistic Tabernacle in Martinsville was charged with felonious seduction & taking indecent liberties with a minor when he “married” a 16-year-old high school junior. Although already married, he was not charged with polygamy since he did not legally marry the teenager. Rev. Elwood Gallimore, 42, was also charged with performing marriage ceremonies without a license. His favorite topic for sermons is polygamy, citing such polygamous biblical characters as David & Solomon. He said the _Bible_ will be his only defense during the trial. Gallimore, whose dutiful 42-year-old wife was hospitalized for “nerves” after the second “marriage” was proposed, says he is being prosecuted by “jealous” men. A magistrate ordered him to stay away from the teenager on Jan. 19. Source: _Washington Post_ 1/21,27,28/92.
CONVICTED MOLESTER RECRUITING BOYS. A convicted child molester barred in Pennsylvania from recruiting choirboys to tour in Europe is now operating out of Morgantown, WV. John B. Shallenberger, 74, was convicted in 1985 of indecent assault, indecent exposure and corrupting the morals of a Dutch choirboy, 11. He was convicted in 1961 and 1975 on similar charges. In 1990, a judge ordered him to reveal his criminal record while recruiting boys and to pay a $5,000 fine for violating a 1978 agreement with the Bureau of Consumer Protection to reveal his background. He has not paid the fine or signed the petition. Shallenberger insists, “Every choirmaster and every music teacher in the country knows of my criminal record … You would be surprised at how many parents beg me to take a second brother on tour.” His July in Paris tour was handled through the Children’s Choir Federation. Source: _Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_ 2/15/92.
CONVICTED MOLESTER STOPS TOUR. Following an investigation by the West Virginia attorney general’s office, convicted child molester John B. Shallenberger, 74, folded his Children’s Choir Federation, soliciting boys from grades 4-7 to take 2-week singing tours in Europe. He had been convicted in 1975 & 1961 for child molestation. In 1991, Pennsylvania authorities charged him with ignoring a court order to reveal his child molestation convictions to the parents of recruited children, so he moved to West Virginia. Shallenberger has moved back to Pennslyvania & is running an elevator repair company. Source: _Charleston Gazette_ 7/8/92.
NEW BRUNSWICK PREACHER CONVICTED. Calling his crimes a “most sick, disturbing and tragic matter”, Justice Thomas Riordon convicted Pentecostal preacher Rev. Aubrey McCallister of touching, fondling and sodomizing a young girl for 10 years, beginning when she was 7. The assaults took place at his home and church Sunday school in Minto, New Brunswick. He was convicted of the same offense 2 years ago and sentenced to 5 years in jail but was granted a new trial. His loyal congregation packed the courtroom during both trials, and had to be warned not to repeat their angry outburst. Followers shook the convict’s hand and said they were sticking by him. The victim, now 20, was jeered by the minister’s congregation. McCallister called her “daddy’s little girl” and rewarded her with Oreo cookies or told her to pray for forgiveness after each encounter. “Aren’t we sneaky? If we ever get caught, mom would kick us both out,” he told her. Source: _Telegraph Journal_, Saint John, N.B., 3/6/92.
“GOD HAS FORGIVEN ME FOR WHAT I’VE DONE.” Nova Scotia religious leader Harold Jollimore, 63, convicted in December of sexual and indecent assault of young girls, was sentenced to 2 years in prison. He preached biblical passages while sexually abusing neighbor girls. One 9-year-old who had a breakdown after 8 years of abuse has been in therapy since 1978. He attracted children by running a candy and soda pop store on his property. He told the judge, “God has forgiven me for what I’ve done,” saying he doesn’t understand why the victims haven’t been able to “put this behind them”. He was also ordered to take psychiatric counseling during a 3-year probation. Source: _The Spectator_ 2/11/92.
RELIGIOUS BROADCASTER MOLESTED GIRLS. Well-known former broadcaster Tom Speed, 35, for Billings Christian radio pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 6 girls ranging in age from 4 to 14, who were at his home for day-care or piano lessons. (Missoulian 1/18/92)
Christian Fundamentalist school operator Reverend Duane Smith: molesting children (Laporte, Indiana, 1992)
PASTOR GETS 6 MONTHS. Pastor Ed Brennan, 45, of Whitehorse Christian Bible Fellowship Society, got 6 months in jail and 3 years’ probation for sexually assaulting a young married parishioner in the Yukon. Source: _Spectator_ 12/17/91.
1991, England: Pentecostal Religious teacher who already had convictions for indecency against chldren was allowed to teach bible classes at a Cornwall church and used his position to sexually assault an 8 year old boy who attended his classes.
1991, England: Minister Alfred Gatehouse 62, sentenced to 10 years for sodomy and soliciting paid sex with teenage girls.
1991, England: Reverend S Pusateria 40, sentenced to 6 years for criminal sexual assault. He molested his victim repeatedly for over a year.
1991, England: 51 yr old Minister’s Wife convicted of inducing a minor in her foster care to engage in sexual intercourse.
1991, England: Evangelist preacher Alan Bradley of Skipton convicted of indecent behaviour. Caught by police after revealing himself to young girls wearing a rubber penis and false breasts.PAUL ROSS INGRAM, 43, who formerly ran the Four Square Gospel Church. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/4/89)
Christian deacon Henry Meinholz: raping and suffocating to death a 13-year-old girl. (Kingston, Massachusetts, 1991)
A 14-year-old girl in foster care is raped and impregnated by Deacon Stephen Andrews of the Advent Christian Church in Kennebunk, Maine, a trusted figure. She gives birth. Andrews gets 5 years in prison, 3 of them suspended, despite the protests of the prosecutor. (1990)
Chaplain assistant Steven Ritchie: convicted of raping a six-year-old girl. (Fort Lewis, Wash-ington, 1990)
Born-again Delaware preacher William J. Keichline, Sr. is commended by the legislature for running Mission of Care ministry for the homeless. As a landlord he assaults and rapes a girl for 3 years starting when she is 7, threatening to evict her family if she tells. He gets eight 20 year prison terms for rape, bondage and child pornography. (1990)
Rev. Thomas Welsch 39, and his wife accomplice were sentenced to 30 years in prison for a string of abuses on twin sisters (13) and a 17 year old girl, both members of his congregation. (1989, England)
Minister Bernard Ponder 46, already on probation for the sexual abuse of boys now accused of sexually abusing a deaf boy. (1989, England)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Evangelist TONY LEYVA received a 20 year prison sentence on March 28 for child molestation and running a child prostitution ring. Federal Dist. Judge James Turk called him and his 2 partners ” bad to the core.” Leyva was previously sentenced to 2.5 years for sexually abusing 2 boys in Virginia. His religious accomplices RIAS EDWARD MORRIS, 27, got 15 years, and FREDDIE H. HERRING, 50, got 12 years. All were fined $5,000. Agents located at least 30 boys, some as young as 8, molested by Leyva in the past 20 years; some put the total at 800 victims. (New York Times, 3/29/89)
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Evangelist Freddie M. Herring convicted for running a child prostitution ring. (New York Times, 3/29/89)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Evangelist Edward Rias Morris convicted for running a child prostitution ring. (New York Times, 3/29/89)
Indianapolis music minister REV. CLAYTON DUANE HEIL, 42, employed by Lighthouse Tabernacle, is being sued by a 14 year old choir girl for rape over a 3 month period in 1985. The suit also names REVS. WILLIAM W. and DAVID TOTMAN. Said a church official, ” they’re not just fighting us, they’re fighting God.” (Carmel News- Tribune, 4/5/89)
” Popular, dedicated” youth pastor DOUGLAS BOUDINOT, 39, married with children, has been charged with 2 counts of rape while leading a Christian youth group in California. Santa Cruz authorities charged him with rape when a young woman reported that Boudinot had sexually assaulted her in 1983, when she was 17 and a member of Young Life. Professing medical expertise, he reportedly committed many of the assaults under the guise of conducting medical examinations. Washington police have also located victims reportedly abused while Boudinot worked as youth pastor at Kent Covenant Church, taking youth groups on overnight outings and trips to Germany and Mexico. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/23/89)
Radio preacher REV. FRED KENTON BESHORE, 63, of Newport Beach, Calif., was charged with influencing the testimony of a witness, a felony. He is accused of phoning the father of a girl reportedly molested by neurosurgeon Dr. Francis Williams, offering him $1,500 a month for 2 years if he would stop his daughter’s testimony. Police taped offers. Charges against the neurosurgeon for molesting preteen and adult patients were dropped, but could be reopened. Beshore runs Bible Institute of the Air, buying bibles to smuggle into communist countries. (Orange Co. Register, 2/28/89; 3/1/89)
PAUL SLATER, 64, a traveling evangelist, was charged with 4 counts of sexual battery after 8 and 12 year old sisters reported being molested and raped by him. Slater, a ” trusted neighbor,” befriended their family. An investigator said, ” We encourage people to listen to what their children have to say. Many of these cases go on for months and years. ” (Ocala Star-Banner, 2/18/89)
REV. ROBERT G. HALVERSTADT, 61, of Victory Center Church, Pueblo, CO, was sentenced to a year in jail, after admitting he used games, coercion and drugs to sexually molest 3 girls in his congregation. Charges involving 4 other victims were dropped when he pleaded guilty to reduced counts. He was given credit for 135 days already spent in jail, plus 4 years’ probation. Halverstadt assaulted a girl, 9, who volunteered to help him clean his church. Another girl said he gave her something to drink that made her fall asleep. She woke up naked with pain in her groin area. (Chieftain, 12/15/89)
STANLEY DENNIS CUMMINGS, 34, a bible school teacher, was sentenced to more than 2,000 years in prison after being convicted of 60 counts of child molesting and sexual exploitation of a minor. Cummings befriended 8 boys he met through church, friends and employment, molesting, sodomizing and photographing them in sexual acts. He beat one victim, tape-recording it for sexual gratification. ” Ten seconds of indiscretion is ruining my entire life,” he complained, referring to oral sex with a boy, 10. He told the judge: ” But I have an illness. You cannot make me a criminal.” (Arizona Daily Star, 9/19/89)
REV. JOHN MICHAEL LIADIS, 56, of Largo, FL, was sentenced to 10 years’ probation after a no-contest plea to 1 count of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 16. He was also fined $500, told to stay away from children, and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. He grabbed a girl, 15, the daughter of friends, at a church retreat. Liadis was relieved of his duties at the church camp. (NT Times, FL, 11/4/89)
MARY LOU GALLUP, 61, was sentenced to 2 years in prison for child molestation, and must pay for counseling for her victim, a 4 and a half year old girl. Her husband, Edward Sr. and son, were convicted of molesting kids at the family’s two Christian preschools in Portland. (Register-Guard [Eugene, OR], 12/5/89)
REV. WALTER N. STONE, pastor of Rollstone Congregational Church in Fitchburg, MA, was sentenced to 7-15 years in prison after being convicted by a jury of 8 counts of molesting 2 boys. Two victims, now 18 and 21, testified Stone befriended them during church counseling and activities. Stone, 56, is married with 4 children, an Air Force veteran, with a doctorate in theology from Boston University. Several friends and colleagues wrote letters of commendation for him. (Worcester Telegram, 11/10/89)
REV. ROBERT DUANE SCHULTZ, 52, of Washington, Iowa, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after confessing to acts described as ” horribly perverse” on boys under age 12, involving 1 count of sexual abuse and 3 others of lascivious acts. Officials are giving him polygraph tests and blood tests in an effort to identify other victims. The married minister was a foster parent honored in 1989 by Gov. Terry Branstad for volunteer service. Victims included foster children; five were removed from his home upon his arrest. The prosecution said a law preventing prosecution for sex assaults occurring more than 4 years ago should be changed, and would have resulted in more charges against Schultz. Rev. John Bennett told Schultz’ congregation at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), ” Bob has fallen…into a deep pit of despair. But Bob has not fallen from the grace of God.” Church policy requires that he be defrocked for committing a felony. (Des Moines Register, 10/30- 11/3/89; AP/Clinton Herald, 10/30/89)
JOHNNIE VERNON WOODS JR., 36, a lay minister at a North Little Rock church, got 3 consecutive sentences for abducting and raping a girl, 9. A jury found him guilty of 2 counts of rape and 1 count of kidnapping. (Tulsa World, 10/29/89)
BRUCE KRAHN, 37, pleaded guilty to molesting a student, 15, at Calvary Academy where he taught math. He got 1 year probation, a $500 fine, and a possible 60-day jail sentence. He asked her to stay after school, turned off the lights, shut the door, asked her questions about sex education she got in the public schools, hugged, fondled her and asked her to touch him. She reported it to her parents. He was fired and the state will revoke his teaching license. (Journal-Register [Springfield, IL], 10/25/89)
GEORGE DEGOLYER, 42, pastor of Verona Christian Fellowship, WI, was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 5 years’ probation after pleading no contest to 1st degree sexual assault of an 8 year old girl visiting his home. He carried the girl upstairs, pulled down her pants and molested her. He was ordered to have no unsupervised conduct with minors except his children. The DA agreed to ask the court to amend the charge to 4th degree if he does not violate probation. (Wisconsin State Journal, 11/1/89)
REV. L.G. GILSTRAP, 54, an Assemblies of God minister, was convicted by a jury on 3 counts of child molestation and sentenced to 33 years in prison for a string of fondling incidents in 1988 involving brothers aged 10 and 13. The older boy said Gilstrap once tried to have sex with him in the shower. Eight men testified during the trial that they too were molested by the minister when they were boys. Three said they were also abused by the Sunday school teacher, who was not tried. Gilstrap denied the charges but corroborated their accusations against the teacher. The prosecutor called Gilstrap the ” Pied Piper of pedophilia.” Gilstrap, defrocked, started a new church, New Hope Ministries. Married, he was a former clerk for the Georgia House of Representatives. (Atlanta Constitution, 9/22/89)
Ex-Minister Gets 33-Year Sentence In Child Sex Case: Gilstrap Guilty of 3 Molestation Counts
REV. ROBERT A. KULZER, 65, was convicted of molesting 2 boys at Faith Temple Church, in Brighton. He was sentenced to 1 to 3 years in prison but it was stayed pending appeal, meaning if he can make $10,000 cash bail he will not serve time yet. The married grandfather was convicted of 3 counts of sodomy and 1 count each of promoting prostitution, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child involving boys aged 12 to 16. Abuse included oral sex with a 16 year old boy, putting a condom on a 12 year old boy during a discussion about ” the facts of life,” and arranging for a boy to have sex with a 62 year old woman in the parsonage. Defense involved Kulzer’s ” good deeds,” including being a missionary in Africa. (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, 12/13/89)
It took a jury only 28 minutes to find ANTONIO S. MARTINEZ, 59, a Pentecostal evangelist from Mathis, FL, guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a girl, 12. He claimed they had a common-law marriage. He first assaulted her when she was 11 and in 5th grade. Her grandmother forced her into the arrangement. A doctor turned Martinez in after Martinez asked him why she didn’t become pregnant. (Corpus-Christi Caller Times, 9/27,28/89)
REV. JIM ” PAPA” CATER, 50 founder and head of Living World Church in Dickson Co., TN was indicted on 6 new counts of child sexual abuse, for a total of 56 charges. The crimes reportedly occurred at the church compound during April, May and June 1989. The state raided the church in June, taking 11 children into protective custody, ordering him to close his illegally operating residential child-care facility. Cater became a minister after converting while serving time in Florida for strong-armed robbery and forgery. His ministry specialized in helping recovering alcoholics & addicts. Following the arrests, he was injured in the county jail after inmates attacked him, calling him ” baby raper.” (Huntsville Times, 11/9/89)
WALTER HEROLDO SOLIS, 54, charged with molesting 3 girls at Glendale Spanish 7th-day Adventist Church in Glendale, was killed Nov. 29 after stepping into a traffic lane in what police believe was a suicide. (LA Times, 12/8/89)
ROY YOUNG, 29, charged in Washington state in 3 molestation cases, is now suspected of molesting dozens of boys in Austin, TX, whom he befriended as a volunteer for youth programs at 2 churches. He lived in Austin for 8 years until moving to Washington 18 months ago, where he was busted for molesting boys in bible study groups he formed. Police seized a collection of photographs, some pornographic, involving as many as 65 Texas boys (ages 8 to 13). At least 4 Texas youths say they were molested. Police regard the photographed boys as suspected victims. Young, who is not married, is accused of performing sex acts in front of Austin children, showing them adult movies, giving them massages, photographing some in the nude and providing some with alcohol. For years he took young boys to movies, dinner, roller-skating, camping and on motorcycle rides, buying kids watches, boots, bracelets & gifts. He also invited youths to spend the night with him. “He gained the confidence of the parents by pretending [1] to be a devout Christian who wanted to enhance the spiritual life of the kids, ” said a detective. (Austin-American Statesman, 12/8/89)
REV. ANGEL CANDALARIA, 70, was charged with sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a girl, 10, at his church in Vineland, NJ. (Daily Journal, 11/15/89)
Todd S. Clark, 26, youth leader of the Royal Rangers boys’ program at First Assembly of God church, Albany Oregan, was INDICTED for sexual abuse and sodomy of young boys. (Hamiltin Spectator (Canada) 7/9/88)
Ralph W. Gantt, 26, youth leader of the Royal Rangers boys’ program at First Assembly of God church, Albany Oregan, was INDICTED for sexual abuse and sodomy of young boys. (Hamiltin Spectator (Canada) 7/9/88)
Rev. Russel Nicolle, 50, an Anglican minister from Elliot Lake, Ontario, received 8 months in jail for “repulsive, disgusting and degraded” sexual abuse of a 12 year old and 16 year old boy. Judge M.C. DiSalle said he “seriously breached” his position of trust as rector of St. Peter the Apostle Anglican Church. (Hamilton Spectator 6/30/88)
Rev. Ronald Terry Litz, 50, of Riverside, Penn., sentenced to 2-5 years in jail for morals offences in Luzerne, Co., was sentenced in June to 6-23 months in the Northumberland Co. Prison on similar charges. He pleaded guilty Feb. 4 to 3 counts of corrupting the morals of minors. Litz, former pastor of the Danville Apostolic Church, molested 2 boys at a church camp. His sentences are concurrent. (Scrantonian Tribune 6/29/88)
Richard J. Wagner, 26, a volunteer youth leader at the Warminister Hts. Community Church in Philadelphia, was charged with assaulting a 14 year old boy and 3 others between the ages of 7 and 15 years of age, all part of the church youth program. (Philadelphia Inquirer 6/27/88)
Rev. Randall Wayne Brewer, a youth minister of Faith Community Church in West Covina, Calif., is charged with 3 counts of oral copulation with a Redlands teenager who said he was bribed and molested after being befriended at home Bible studies in 1985. The youth, now 17, testified that Brewer gave him $200 from a church checking account for running naked across an empty church hallway in a game called chicken. “I was told to tell everyone that I got the money for doing work at the church.” (San Gabriel Valley Tribune 6/18/88)
George Degoyler, 42, pastor of Verona Christian Fellowship, WI, was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 5 years’ probation after pleading no contest to 1st degree sexual assault of an 8 year old girl visiting his home. He carried the girl upstairs, pulled down her pants and molested her. He was ordered to have no unsupervised conduct with minors except his children. The DA agreed to ask the court to amend the charge to 4th degree if he does not violate probation. (Wisconsin State Journal 11/1/89)
Rev. Cleveland “Rapper” Mack, 24, of Tampa. Fla., was charged with sexually abusing 2 young boys during “Bible lessons”, including a charge of sexual battery which carries a possible death sentence. He struck a boy in the face when he tried to flee. (Tampa Tribune 5/31/88)
Rev. Thomas Streitferdt, 59, a white Pastor in charge of the mostly black 700-member True Church of God in Harlem, was charged with rape and sodomy of two young sisters (ages 14 and 16) in his congregation. Law enforcement officials charge that Streitferdt told females worshippers that they could end up in hell if they refused his sexual advances, and raped at least one woman during premarital counseling…. Members were told that if they were not buried under church auspices at an additional fee in the church cemetery that “they would not go to heaven.” (New York Times 5/23/88)
Rev. Joe Marino, host of Christian talkshow “Inner Visions” in Jacksonville, Fla., and youth minister/counselor at Beaches Chapel in Neptune Beach, plead no contest to custodial sexual battery and soliciting sex from a 16 year old member of his church. Other charges were dropped. The abuse was disclosed after a victim from the church had attempted suicide. (Florida Times-Union 5/13/88)
The notorious Community Chapel & Bible Training Center, a sect based in Burien, Wash. near suburban Seattle, not only mentally abused children with doctrines of demonology and stunted education in their backward and repressive classrooms, but involved children in sexual abuse, according to reporter Mary Rothchild. The Center, besieged by civil suites by ex-members claiming abuse, including women charging sexual exploitation, recently deposed it founder Rev. Donald Lee Barnett on charges of promiscuous adultery. In 1986, after followers complained, Child Protective Services met with Burien officials, spelling out guidelines, for example, that the church policy condoning French kissing of children was unacceptable. Three counselors were convicted of failing to report child sexual abuse in 1987. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer 3/23/88)
Youth minister Richard Cole of Community Chapel and Bible Training Center in Burien, Washington, received prison time for molesting a 14 year old boy. A psychologist’s report said Cole’s religious beliefs allowed him to shirk responsibility for his own actions. (Source: Seattle Times, 7/29/87)
Lawsuits were filed against REV. ALBERT C. MAGNUSON, pastor, Redeemer Covenant Church, Brooklyn Park, MN, for molesting 3 brothers, their sister, seminary student nearly 20 years ago when they went to him for counseling. Church, church’s Northwest Conference likewise sued for negligence. (Star Trib., 6/89)
Born Again Christian Tate who works for a religous magazine, confesses to seducing ten year old girl. (1988, England)
SAVANNAH, GA. Life was hard the year Larry and Betty Martin pressed charges against a minister of their church for sexually molesting their two sons. The wounds of the trauma itself were fresh and raw, the legal and psychiatric expenses were gutting their bank accounts and the cold shoulder from many former friends in Clayton County was almost unbearable. But after Jerry Sidell, the 26-year-old youth minister of the First Christian Church of Jonesboro, was convicted in the fall of 1983 after authorities said he confessed to molesting nine children, the Martins were confident the schism in their community would heal. (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 10-06-1985)
Family heals wounds over molesting case, reaches out to others
The Martin family of Savannah, Georgia was hounded when they charged their youth minister, Rev. Jerry Sidell, First Christian Church of Jonesboro, with molesting nine children, including their two sons. “They just wanted us to keep it quiet, to let the church elders deal with it in their own way. It made me sick to think that if they hadn’t gone to the police, that Jerry could go somewhere else and start raping more kids,” said Mrs. Martin. A “friend” visited them to suggest they consider “sacrificing a few [their sons] for the good of all [the church].” She told the press, “I don’t think it would be right for me to sacrifice my boys by clamming up, keeping quiet, moving out of the city, not doing anything in order to save the reputation of the church. I couldn’t sacrifice my two boys for the sake of that church or anybody else.” Sidell had molested their sons for two years. He pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation and one count of enticing a minor for indecent purposes and was sentenced in September 1984 to 10 years. The Martins and another family sued the church and Sidell for $3 million to pay for psychiatric rehabilitation plus damages but settled with the church for less than $5,000, agreeing to seek no further legal action. On April 25, 1984 Sidell pleaded guilty to another count of abuse, stemming from an incident in which he had taken the older Martin boy to Stone Mountain Park and molested him in 1981. He received another 10 year sentence to run concurrently. Following the convictions, the Martins received abusive and threatening phone calls from church members. The family has since become active in the California-based Society’s League Against Molestation. (Source: Atlanta Constitution, 4/26/84)
Decatur, GA. DeKalb County police arrested a man Thursday who allegedly kidnapped and raped an 11-year-old girl and held her prisoner in his attic. James Pearson, 45, of 2938 Dale Place in Decatur, was charged with aggravated child molestation kidnapping, possession of cocaine, aggravated assault and three counts of rape. (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 08-02-1985)
Suspect held in alleged rape of 11-year-old
Griggin, GA. The leader of a fundamentalist church remained behind bars on child molestation charges Wednesday, the eve of a court hearing on allegations by church officials that law enforcement officers searched the “world headquarters” of the denomination without a warrant. The Rev. Norman LeGallienne, 47, general overseer of the Union Gospel Holiness Church of God, which claims 1,000 affiliate churches nationwide, was arrested at a revival meeting April 12 and charged with child molestation and aggravated sodomy. He has been unable thus far to post a $17,600 bond. (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 04-25-1985)
Griffin minister held on molestation charge
Church leader jailed on molestation charge
“HORRIFIC” HARASSMENT IN CHURCH OF CANADA PROMPTS STUDY. The task force on sexual abuse, exploitation, and harassment urged the Church of Canada to develop a code of ethics for ministers because of ~horrific proportions” of sexual harassment in the church. The panel said women are more likely to be sexually harassed in the church than in the workplace. “A five-denominational study [in the U.S.] conducted in 1987 found 5.5% of therapists had sex involving intercourse with their clients, while 12.6% of clergy admitted to sexual involvement including intercourse with their parishioners,” reported Rev. Peter Lougheed of Evanville, Ontario. Many ministers are engaging in personal counseling without any training or codes of ethics, said Walter Faquharson, moderator of the United Church.
Christian minister and evangelist Tony Alamo recently went to prison for tax evasion. During his trial it was discovered that he had “married” two fifteen-year-old children and was abusing them.
Rev. Wilputte Alanson Sherwood admitted recently to having sex with 1,800 males since 1984, at least 22 of whom were under 18. He also kept records and videotapes of the sexual encounters. He was sentenced July 29 by Superior Court and was on PAID LEAVE until then.
In Indiana, Rev. Raymond Weber is being sued. He allegedly used LSD and alcohol to seduce a teenage boy.
In Iowa, the pastor of the Wesleyan Church is accused of placing an ad under the name “Diamond Dreams” and agreeing to sex for $150 with an undercover officer while DRESSED IN DRAG. Rev. Jennfrey Dean McKelvey quit his job after his arrest.
In Kentucky, Rev. Earl Bierman attempted to seduce two boys by telling them all about other parishioners’ confessions of sexual aberrations. He pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of 6 boys and was sentenced to 20 years.
Shawn Charles “Brother Dusty” Williams, 50, got 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to showing pornography and fondling 2 young boys. The preacher-plumber worked as a volunteer bus driver for the New Covenant Fellowship Church of San Antonio, picking up stray kids to take them to church. He blamed the ” devil” for his crimes. (San Antonio Light 4/6/89)
In January in Palm Harbor, Fla., a 41-year-old ex-pastor pleaded guilty to persuading his daughter, then age 6, to touch him sexually while he videotaped her.
Church of Christ settles: The Rocky Mountain News reported that a Church of Christ church and & its former 59 year-old minister agreed to pay $300,000 to a man whom the former minister sexually assaulted during family counseling sessions. Earlier, a boy, now 17, was awarded $450,000 by a jury for similar charges. The minister has not been criminally charged.
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Group provides blankets, winter coats
Julia Vail
GREENVILLE, N.C. – In an era when aid organizations scramble for the latest advancements in medicine and technology, it’s easy to forget that something as simple as a blanket can save a life.
Marji Forrest, founder of Restoring the Hoop, got a harsh reminder when she learned that as many as eight elderly Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota freeze to death every year during the winter months.
“This is absolutely not acceptable,” Forrest says. “These are the elderly, the people that hold all the history of the tribe.”
Driven to help others who share her Lakota heritage, Forrest launched an effort in 2003 with her friend, Resa Crane Bizzaro, to gather new and slightly-used blankets to distribute to residents of the reservation.
Since that time, Greenville-based Restoring the Hoop has sent about 200 blankets to the reservation each year, as well as children’s coats and school supplies.
The organization, which has had to contend with rising shipping costs, is trying to generate enough income to become a nonprofit. Most of its funding comes from donations collected at a semi-annual powwow at East Carolina University sponsored by Epsilon Chi Nu, the first Native American fraternity in the country.
The organization has a board of six women and about 20 volunteers.
“We’re just crawling, hoping to walk upright by the end of this year,” Forrest says.
Restoring the Hoop got its name from a Native American symbol of unity and wellness: a hoop divided into black, yellow, white and red quarters. Instead of forming a harmonious whole, the white and red quarters, representing white and Native American people, are split apart.
By giving blankets and warm clothing to Native Americans in need, the organization hopes to help mend the rift that was made almost 200 years ago when white settlers forced Native Americans from their land onto reservations.
The second-largest reservation in the country, Pine Ridge is home to about 46,000 indigenous people in the southwest corner of South Dakota.
Amy Wilson, secretary for Restoring the Hoop, began volunteering at the organization about two years ago when her son Dustin, then 10 years old, raised questions about his heritage while working on a school genealogy project. Since his Native American father had been adopted at a young age, he knew little about his Apache ancestry.
“I wanted him to get some sort of ties to his culture that he would understand,” Wilson says.
This summer, Wilson and her son took their first trip to the Pine Ridge Reservation to see first-hand how the people were benefiting from the group’s services.
Wilson came away with an image that still haunts her. Many residents live in abject poverty with no access to running water or health care. Life expectancy on the reservation is 20 years lower than the national average, she says.
“This is the United States,” Wilson says. “You’d think we’d take care of our own people.”
The unemployment rate on the reservation is a staggering 73 percent to 85 percent, compared to the national average of 6.1 percent. The nearest city, Rapid City, S.D., is about 120 miles away.
“People think, ‘They should get a job,'” Wilson says. “But it’s so isolated and it’s so cold in the wintertime, I can’t even imagine them getting access to transportation.”
Restoring the Hoop’s volunteer staff aims to establish a scholarship in the future for Native American students studying health care or education in hopes they will return to the reservation and serve its people.
For now, the organization is focused on its upcoming blanket drive, which will be held at the Nov. 1 powwow at East Carolina University.
Dustin, now 13, delivered a speech at last year’s powwow calling on attendees to take care of their elders.
“It may not have been his tribe or his people,” Wilson says. “But we’re all people.”
Features, Human Services, Philanthropy Journal
Julia Vail, Marji Forrest, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Resa Crane Bizzaro, Restoring the Hoop
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Refugee Girls, Hoping for More Than Survival, Need Education – Malala
By Thomson Reuters | Sep 19, 2016
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has called on world leaders to provide education to girls in refugee camps to avoid them being forced into early marriage or child labour.
Yousafzai’s statement comes a week before U.S. President Barack Obama hosts the first U.N. summit on refugees in New York where he is expected to urge leaders to do more to help refugees in countries like Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Kenya.
“Why do world leaders waste our time with this pageant of sympathy while they are unwilling to do the one thing that will change the future for millions of children?” Yousafzai said in a statement ahead of the Sept. 20 summit.
She said refugee girls were wondering how long they can stay out of school before they are forced into early marriages or child labour.
“They’re hoping for more than survival” she said. “And they have the potential to help rebuild safe, peaceful, prosperous countries, but they can’t do this without education.”
Fighting in Syria, Afghanistan, Burundi and South Sudan has contributed to a record number of people who were uprooted last year, according to the U.N. refugee agency, which estimates there are 21.3 million refugees worldwide, half of them children.
Almost 80 percent of all refugee adolescents are out of school, with girls making up the majority of those excluded from education, according to a report issued by the Malala Fund, which campaigns and fundraises for educational causes.
It also blamed donor countries for failing to provide adequate funding for secondary education, and failing to deliver on funding pledges made earlier this year.
The report also criticised wealthy donor countries for diverting resources away from host countries in developing regions, such as Turkey and Lebanon, to meet their own domestic refugee costs.
The report concluded by urging donors to commit to providing $2.9 billion by September 2019 to the Education Cannot Wait Fund, a new body to raise finance for the education of refugee children.
Yousafzai, 19, rose to international fame after surviving a 2012 assassination attempt by the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat valley to continue her fight for girls’ rights.
A regular speaker on the global stage, Yousafzai visited refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya in July to highlight the plight of refugee girls from Burundi and Somalia.
In 2014, Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner for her work promoting girls’ education in Pakistan.
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February 19, 2019 February 19, 2019 by renaissanceidealLeave a Comment on The end of an era- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85. Famous for his groundbreaking designs at Chanel and Fendi, died after a short illness today.
Picture source: Getty Images
Karl Lagerfeld was born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt in 1933 in Germany. He removed the ‘t’ from his surname as he believed it sounded more commercial. He moved to Paris when he was a teenager, then became a design assistant for the legendary designer Pierre Balmain. Lagerfeld then went on to work at Fendi and Chloe. He is most famous for being the Creative Director at Chanel in 1983, ten years after Chanel’s founder Coco Chanel died. Karl Lagerfeld is celebrated and will be revered forever for bringing back Chanel into the forefront of luxury fashion in the 80s. The iconic designer dressed celebrated figures like Princess Diana, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Madonna, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Minogue. He is most famous for updating and modernising the classic Chanel tweed suit. The fashion genius was uncompromising in his work which earned him the nickname ‘Kaiser Karl’. Lagerfeld took Coco Chanel’s fashion house and reinvented into his very own. In his book, The world according to Karl, he said “I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else”. Karl Lagerfeld had his own era at Chanel and can be debated to be (in my opinion) as iconic as Coco Chanel herself.
Lagerfeld was also an accomplished photographer who had Andy Warhol and Helmut Lang as friends and was also early on the designer x high street collaborations with H&M. He also shot many of Chanel’s advertising campaigns himself and was a book publisher.
One of my favourite quotes from Karl Lagerfeld was, “I am very much down to earth. Just not on this earth”. This quote alone gives you a deep insight into his character and his views. He was a larger than life character, one with very strong views, at times extremely controversial. My favourite moment from Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, or moments shall I say were watching his collections at fashion week knowing that the set production designs were going to be better than the last. Who remembers when Karl Lagerfeld took us to Chanel’s supermarket during Paris Autumn/Winter 2014/15 fashion week? His set designs were literally works of art.
At the end of his career, Karl Lagerfeld was head of Chanel, Fendi & his own label. Though controversial for his remarks against celebrities such as Adele, his genius is unmatched. He will be remembered for his creative inventiveness but also his problematic remarks. Rest in Peace Lagerfeld. The end of the Lagerfeld Chanel era.
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Almeida, Deirdre A.
Dr. Almeida holds a doctorate in Education, with a focus on cultural diversity and curriculum reform from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has a Bachelor’s in History/Education also from University of Massachusetts and a Master’s in Education from Stanford University, in Cultural Pluralism. Dr. Almeida has offered courses and lectures on Indigenous education and Indigenous women’s issues at Eastern Washington University, the University of Massachusetts, Harvard University, and Mount Holyoke College.
Dr. Almeida has presented at the National Indian Education Association’s annual conference and the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE), and a participant at the World Conference on Indigenous People’s Education.
Dr. Almeida is the Director of American Indian Studies at Eastern Washington University, and was the 2013-14 Executive Director for the Race and Culture Studies major. Dr. Almeida is a tenured Associate Professor in American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty in Race and Culture Studies and Women and Gender Studies.
Alvarez, Sonia
is Director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies and Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before coming to UMass, she taught Politics and Latin American Studies the University of California at Santa Cruz. Alvarez has written extensively on social movements, feminisms, NGOs, transnational activism, and democratization. She has taken part in Latina/women of color feminist, social justice, international solidarity, and anti-racist activism since the 1980s and since then also has maintained manifold connections with Brazilian, Latin American, and global feminist movements, while theorizing with/about them.
Amster, Randall
J.D., Ph.D., is Director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University, and serves as Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association. His articles have appeared in journals including Peace Review, Contemporary Justice Review, and the Journal of Peace Education, and he has been a regular contributor to online publications including Common Dreams, Huffington Post, and Truthout. Among his recent books are Peace Ecology (Paradigm Publishers, 2014), Anarchism Today (Praeger, 2012), and the co-edited volume (with Elavie Ndura) Exploring the Power of Nonviolence: Peace, Politics, and Practice (Syracuse University Press, 2013).
Bayat, Asef
the Catherin & Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, teaches Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught at the American University in Cairo for 16 years, before assuming the directorship of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in the Netherlands in 2003. His broad research areas range from social movements and social change, religion and society, to Islam and the modern world, and urban space and politics. His most recent books include (with Linda Herrera) Being Young and Muslim (ed. Oxford University Press, 2010), Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (ed. Oxford University Press, 2013), and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2013, 2nd edition).
Baaz, Mikael
Mikael Baaz (PhD, LLM, MA, BSc, BA) is an Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research interests include International Public Law in general and the regulation on the use of force in particular, Critical International Criminal Law as well as Law and Resistance. He is the author of, The Use of Force and International Society (Stockholm: Jure, 2009) as well as numerous papers, published in, inter alia, Journal of International Relations and Development, Security Dialouges, Asian Politics and Policy, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of Political Power and Global Public Health.
de la Cadena, Marisol
is an anthropologist. Born in Peru, she teaches permanently at UC Davis, and itinerantly in Colombia and Peru. Her interests include race critical studies, political ontology, and de-colonial studies of nature and political ecology.
Her work on race includes the book Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco (Duke Unviersity Press, 2000) and the edited volume Formaciones de Indianidad en América Latina (Bogotá: Envión 2007.) Her new book Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds (Duke University press 2015) is an ethnographic exploration of the indigenous and non-indigenous encounters at the ontological boundaries of modern politics. Her current research “Provincializing nature and the Human” takes ontological politics to the discussion of universal and provincial notions of ‘nature’ and into the exploration of the tensions between the neo-liberal ethics of corporate extractivism and peasant life in the anthropocenic Andes.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. In 2012-2013 she convened Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues Towards the Reconstitution of Worlds a John. E Sawyer Seminar for the Comparative Study of Cultures.
She was co-founder of the World Anthropology Network, an intellectual collective that has launched a number of initiatives in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Carter, April
was involved in nonviolent action in the 1950s in the direct action wing of the nuclear disarmament movement, and has written on nonviolent resistance since the 1960s. She has lectured in politics at the universities of Lancaster, Oxford and Queensland, and was a summer scholar at SIPRI (Stockholm). She was a senior editor for the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford University Press, 2010) and has collaborated on several bibliographies on nonviolent protest, including A Guide to Civil Resistance (Merlin Press, 2013). Her most recent books are: Direct Action and Democracy Today (Polity, 2005) and People Power and Political Change (Routledge, 2012).
Chabot, Sean
is a professor in Sociology at Eastern Washington University. He teaches power and resistance in courses such as Sociology of Revolutions, Sociology of Politics, and Contemporary Sociological Theory, and contests administrative reason as department chair. He is author of a book, Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire; various articles in journals like Mobilization, Theory and Society, Critical Sociology, and Societies Without Borders; and book chapters in Globalization and Resistance, The Diffusion of Social Movements, and other edited volumes. He also contributes to the online journals Interface and Resistance Studies Magazine.
Cherry, Janet
is a South African human rights activist and academic. She is Associate Professor in Development Studies at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. She has a PhD in political sociology from Rhodes University. Her main areas of research are sustainable development, democratic participation, social history, gender and human rights. She is an international trainer in strategic nonviolence, human rights and participatory development and an activist in many organisations and campaigns including the United Democratic Front, the End Conscription Campaign, the Black Sash, the International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict, the Nelson Mandela Bay Transition Network and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance.
Darweish, Marwan
is a Principal lecturer at the Centre for Trust, Peace and social Relation, Coventry University, former academic director of the MA in Peace and Reconciliation Studies and co-director of the Post Graduate Certificate Course in conflict Resolution Skills.
He has research interest in peace processes, conflict transformation and nonviolence. He has extensive experience across the Middle East region and a special interest in the Palestinian Israeli conflict. He led a team of researchers and experts to conduct a comprehensive survey about the nonviolent movement in the oPt and the role of Israelis of internationals. He has considerable experience in leading training courses in conflict transformation and peacebuilding, and in undertaking consultancies in strategy development to intervene and transform conflict and he lead conflict transformation programmes in East and Central Africa. Before joining Coventry University in 2009, Dr Darweish worked as a Senior Peace and Conflict Advisor at Responding to Conflict (RTC) and Director of the Middle East programme.
Dudouet, Véronique
is senior researcher and programme director at the Berghof Foundation (Berlin), where she manages collaborative research and capacity-building projects on civil resistance, non-state armed groups, conflict transformation and post-war governance. She also carries out consultancy projects for various civil society organisations and international agencies (e.g. UNDP, European Parliament, EU Commission), and currently edits the Berghof Transitions publication Series. She holds a PhD in Conflict Resolution from Bradford University (UK). Her latest publications include two edited books: Post-war Security Transitions: Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts (Routledge 2012), and Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle (Routledge 2014).
Duncombe, Stephen
teaches the history and politics of media and culture at New York University, where he is an Associate Professor. He is the author and editor of six books, including the Cultural Resistance Readert and Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, and writes on the intersection of culture and politics for a range of scholarly and popular publications. Duncombe is a life-long political activist, and is presently co-founder and director of the Center for Artistic Activism.
Goodwin, Jeff
is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He earned his baccalaureate and doctorate at Harvard and has taught at NYU since 1991. His writings focus on social movements, revolutions, and political violence. He is currently finishing a book titled A Theory of Terrorism. His book No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge, 2001), won the Outstanding Book Prize of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. He is the coeditor of Contention in Context (Stanford, 2012), The Social Movements Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Passionate Politics (Chicago, 2001).
Holloway, John
is a Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Rhodes, South Africa. He has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His books Change the World without taking Power (Pluto, London, 2002, new edition 2010) and Crack Capitalism (Pluto, London, 2010), have stirred international debate and have been widely translated.
Jackson, Richard
is Professor of Peace Studies and Deputy Director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and has written 8 books and more than 50 articles and book chapters on terrorism, political violence and conflict resolution. His latest book is a research-based novel entitled, Confessions of a Terrorist (Zed, 2014) which explores themes of resistance, violence and radicalisation. He is currently embarking on a major research project to understand pacifism and nonviolence as a form of subjugated knowledge in society, and how to de-subjugate it.
Kullenberg, Christopher
(PhD) is a researcher in Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg. He defended his dissertation The Quantification of Society in 2012. He has been involved the activist group Telecomix since it was founded in 2009, and he has written on digital resistance for a number of years. Currently, Kullenberg is also conducting research on citizen science and happiness research together with research groups based in Gothenburg.
Lilja, Mona
has a PhD in Peace and Development Research and is a senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has conducted fieldworks in Palestine, Japan and Cambodia and her research interests cover the concepts of power and resistance. In this, Lilja has a special focus upon the linkages between resistance and social change as well as the particularities – the character and emergence – of various forms of resistance. In centre are the discourses, performances and identities of those engaged in resistance practices. What relationships enable or constrain articulations of resistance? Lilja’s publications on resistance and contemporary politics have, among other things, appeared in Resistance Studies Magazine, Feminist Review, Asian Perspectives, Journal of Political Power and in the monograph Resisting Gendered Norms: Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia (Ashgate.) as well as in a number of edited books.
MacLeod, Jason
is an educator, organiser and researcher. He has previously taught at The University of Queensland, Sydney University, University of New England, Christian Heritage College and was an honorary research fellow at Monash University. Jason coordinates a civil resistance training and education programme in nondemocracies in Asia and Oceania. His research interests include civil resistance (specifically struggles for self-determination), conflict transformation, contentious politics, community development, community organising, popular education, and politics in Indonesia and the Pacific. He lives on Jagera and Turrbal land in Brisbane, Australia.
Martin, Brian
is professor of social sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of 14 books and hundreds of articles on nonviolence, dissent, scientific controversies and other topics. He has a special interest in tactics against injustice and is vice president of Whistleblowers Australia. Web: www.bmartin.cc
Maye-Banbury, Angela
Angela Maye-Banbury is an academic leader, teacher and researcher based in the Department of the Natural and Built Environment at Sheffield Hallam University in England. Angela is a sociologist with a particular interest in urban planning and social history. She obtained her masters degree in Housing Studies and her PhD in Sociology (Social Policy) from De Montfort University in Leicester. She is a member of the British Oral History Society and the Oral History Network of Ireland. Angela’s research focuses on the theme of housing and socioeconomic inequalities in the urban context. Her research has been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Policy Press and Habitat for Humanity amongst many others. As a mentor, Angela has worked with numerous authors, graduates, masters students, PhD students and early career researchers to help develop their writing and research skills. Angela is her department’s research ethics lead and vice chair of her Faculty’s research ethics committee. Her current research, using oral history, explores how residents of Beijing resisted Maoist driven housing reforms in early Communist China. She is also examining the modes of resistance used by Irish emigrants in England when negotiating everyday life in the low budget boarding houses of Leicester, Sheffield and Manchester.
Ndura, Elavie
Elavie Ndura is a professor and an international education expert with over 20 years of experience in developing, implementing and managing intercultural education, educators’ professional development, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages programs. She is the founder and coordinator of the Shinnyo Fellowship for Peacebuilding through Intercultural Dialogue at George Mason University. Her signature interdisciplinary research and scholarship that unites intercultural education, peace education, and conflict transformation highlight the central role of formal and non-formal education in advancing equity, social justice, and sustainable peace. She has published six books and more than 30 book chapters and professional journal articles.
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson
is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder and has held visiting scholar positions at Princeton and Notre Dame. Her research focuses on social movements and civil resistance. She is the author of several books including: Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics of Civil Resistance (Oxford, forthcoming in 2015); Nonviolent Revolutions (Oxford, 2011); Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (Cambridge, 2008); and Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity Movement (Oxford, 2008).
Randle, Michael
has been involved in the peace movement since the 1950s and was one of the organisers of the first Aldermaston March against nuclear weapons in 1958. Chair War Resisters International 1966-73; Chair of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, 1958-61; Coordinator of Bradford University-based Alternative Defence Commission, 1979-86. BA Hons English, University College London, 1966; M.Phil Bradford 1980; PhD Bradford, 1994. Lecturer and Research Fellow, Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 1973-2008. Publications include Civil Resistance, Fontana, 1994; How to Defend Yourself in Court, Civil Liberties Trust, 1995; Challenge to Nonviolence, (ed),Bradford University Press 2002. Co-compiler with April Carter and Howard Clark, People Power & Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action, Housmans, 2006, and of Guide to Civil Resistance, Merlin Press, Vol 1, 2013, Vol 2, 2015.
Rank, Carol
is a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in the UK. She has been teaching Peace Studies since the 1980s including in the U.S. (University of California, Berkeley and Colgate University in New York) and Europe (University of Oslo, Norway) and has been a visiting lecturer in Peace Studies in China (Nanjing University). Her areas of expertise include conflict transformation, nonviolence, peace education, and the role of the arts in peacebuilding. She also has extensive experience in peace education at the community level in the UK.
Richmond, Oliver
Oliver Richmond is a Research Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also International Professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tromso. His publications include Peace Formation and Post-Conflict Political Order, (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2016), Failed Statebuilding vs Peace Formation (Yale University Press, 2014), A Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, 2014), A Post Liberal Peace (Routledge, 2011), Liberal Peace Transitions, (with Jason Franks, Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Peace in IR (Routledge, 2008), and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005/7). He is editor of the Palgrave book series, Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, and co-editor of the Journal, Peacebuilding
Rigby, Andrew
taught peace studies at various places around the world before becoming Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Coventry University, UK. He has been associated with the radical pacifist publication Peace News since the 1960s and has published widely on different aspects of nonviolent action for change – including alternative lifestyles, pacifist movements in 20th century Britain, the post-Independence Gandhian movement in India, and popular unarmed resistance in Palestine. He has an ongoing interest in the emotional dynamics of conflict transformation. His most recent publication was a study of maritime nonviolent intervention (‘sea-dogs for peace’) and in 2015 a co-authored full-length study of popular resistance in Palestine will be published.
Roy, Nalanda
Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Asian Politics at Armstrong State University. She has published a book titled Bitter Moments- The Story of Indonesian Fragmentation by Minerva Publications in 2015, and The South China Sea Disputes- The Past, Present, and Future by Rowman & Littlefield in 2016. Nalanda holds an MA in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Toledo and a Ph. D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey. She also has an M. Phil, an MA and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Jadavpur University, India. Nalanda serves on several editorial boards and has also published a number of articles to her credit. Her research interests lie in global and comparative politics, Area studies (South and Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific), security and immigration, conflict resolution and international law, Globalization and social change, social movements and human rights.
Schock, Kurt
is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, USA. He has published numerous journal articles, chapters and books on social movements, civil resistance, and violent political conflict. His book, Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), was awarded Best Book of the Year by the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association, and published in Spanish as Insurrecciones No Armadas: Poder Popular en Regimenes No Democráticos (Editorial Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008). He is also the author of Civil Resistance Today (Polity, 2015) and editor of Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). He served as the convener of the Nonviolence Commission of the International Peace Research Association from 2008 to 2014 and currently serves as director of the International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University, Newark.
Schulz, Michael
is associate professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, and Sweden. He focuses his research mainly on civil society resistance, peace building and conflict transformation in the Middle East, and his most recent publications are ‘The League of the Arab States, The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab Civil Uprisings, 2011-13’, in Wallensteen, & Bjurnern (eds.) 2014, Regional Organizations: New Actors in International Peacemaking, “Palestine” in Joel Peters (ed.) 2012, The European Union and the Arab Spring, “Palestinian Civil Society“, in Peters and Newman (eds.) 2012, The Routledge Handbook of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and “Palestinian public willingness to compromise: torn between hope and violence” (Journal of Security Dialogues, 2010.
James Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. His publications include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Yale University Press, 1985, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Yale University Press 1980, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale University Press, 1998; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, Yale University Press, 2008; and Two Cheers for Anarchism, Princeton University Press, 2012.
Schweitzer, Christine
Ph.D., *1959 in Hamburg, is a researcher at the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation which she co-founded, Executive Secretary of the Federation for Social Defence (www.soziale-verteidigung.de), editor of the magazine “Peace Forum” , and, since 2014, Chair of War Resisters’ International. Christine holds a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of Cologne and a PhD from the University of Coventry, and has published on conflict transformation, nonviolence, unarmed civilian peacekeeping, civilian-based defence and conflicts in various regions – the Balkans, Middle East, Eastern Europe and South East Asia. She resides in Hamburg, Germany. Email: CschweitzerIFGK@aol.com.
Seppälä, Tiina
holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Lapland, Finland, where she works as a researcher. She is the author of Globalizing Resistance Against War? Theories of Resistance and the New Anti-War Movement (Routledge, 2012), several book chapters in edited volumes and articles in journals such as, inter alia, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies and Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society. She has edited and co-edited special issues for Journal of Resistance Studies, Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration and Kosmopolis: Peace, Conflict and World Politics Journal.
Seppälä is one of the co-founders of the research collective Bordering Actors (2014). She has held visiting scholar positions at Nepal Institute of Peace (Nepal), Calcutta Research Group (India) and Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh). She is interested in resistance, social movements, development, displacement, decolonial theory, feminist theory and politics of knowledge. She has worked with anti-war and peace movements in Europe, anti-land grabbing and anti-eviction movements in India and slum activist and women’s rights movements in Nepal and Bangladesh. Her current work focuses on feminization of resistance, decolonial feminist solidarity and collective co-construction of knowledge.
Sombutpoonsiri, Janjira
, PhD, is lecturer of International Relations at Thailand’s Thammasat University, and co-Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association. Her most recent publications are; “ ‘If You Use Nonviolence, I will Respond with Nonviolence’: A Nonviolent Conflict in the case of the 2007 Pattani Protest, Southern Thailand,’ in Conflict Transformation: New Voices, New Directions, eds. Rhea DuMont, Tom Hastings, and Emiko Noma (NC: McFarland, 2013); and “Playful subversion: Red Sunday’s Nonviolent Activism in Thailand’s Post-2010 Crackdown,” Journal of Peace & Policy Vol. 20 (2014, forthcoming). Her current research, funded by Thailand Research Fund, looks at nonviolent policing of protests.
Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff
is Senior Lecturer in Peace and Development Studies / International Relations at Gothenburg University and a Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). He received his doctorate in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. His research interest is on liberal governing rationalities with focus on biopolitics, development and security. A central theme is post-conflict intervention and state-building. Other general interests include critical political economy, neoliberalism in theory and practice, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism, and the Balkan region. Publications include ‘State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery’ (Berghahn Books 2009); and (edited) ‘Challenging the Aid Paradigm: Western Currents and Asian Alternatives’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) and (co-edited) ‘The End of the Development-Security Nexus: Towards Global Disaster Management’ (Development Dialogue 58/ 2012). Prior to research (1994-2000) he worked for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sida, the OSCE (Organisation for Security- and Cooperation in Europe) and EUMM (European Union Monitoring Mission). In 2007 he founded the research network INDESENT (International Development-Security Network) and he was member of the Swedish Research Council’s advisory group on civil society 2010-12. Jens has lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia for several years. Jens is a representative for Academic Rights Watch, an organization founded in 2013 with the objective to monitor and promote academic freedom and freedom of speech, core values he considers under pressure in the neoliberal university.
Sørensen, Majken Jul
PhD from University of Wollongong, Australia, wrote her thesis on humour as method in political activism. Majken holds an MA in peace and reconciliation studies from Coventry University, UK and a bachelor degree in sociology from the University of Tromsø, Norway. She is the author of a book in Danish about nonviolence and alternatives to war: On the Barricades for Peace – Inspiring Stories of Nonviolence. She has also published a number of articles about humour as a strategy for nonviolent resistance, social movements, nonviolent revolutions and peaceful societies. Together with Ellen Elster, Majken edited Women Conscientious Objectors – An Anthology (London: War Resisters’ International, 2010) and also contributed a chapter.
Until recently Thomas Weber taught Peace Studies and Politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University where he is now an Honorary Associate of the Politics Program. He is a frequent visitor to India and a regular writer on Gandhian topics. His Gandhi-related books include Gandhi at First Sight (in press); Going Native: Gandhi’s Relationship with Western Women; The Shanti Sena: Philosophy, History and Action; Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians; Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor; and On the Salt March: The Historiography of Gandhi’s March to Dandi.
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Return to Freedom: Our Team
Photo Credit: Norma Fries
The Return to Freedom Team
NEDA DEMAYO
Neda DeMayo, president and founder of Return to Freedom, has worked for over twenty years on wild horse and burro issues with a focus on solutions, and is a recognized authority on wild horse behavior. Neda works nationally to elevate the status of America’s wild horse and burros through advocacy, education, media, programs, and events.
With a vision to create a sanctuary model to explore minimally invasive wild horse management that could be viable on the range, she founded Return to Freedom in 1997. She speaks at national press conferences, educational venues, rotary clubs, public and private venues, and she has held government contracts to remove horses on horseback to sanctuary so they would not be dispersed or slaughtered.
Neda has also been a hired consultant for a feasibility study for a large preserve in the state of New Mexico. In 2004, after a trek into some of Nevada’s public land Herd Management Areas (HMAs), Neda founded the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) to protect the free-ranging lifestyle of America’s wild horses on the range for generations to come as part of our national heritage.
She recruited attorney Virginie Parant to help her create a coalition of a diverse range of public interest groups, animal welfare and environmental organizations, to share a unified voice and coalition to support America’s wild horses and burros on federal and state lands. The AWHPC was conceived, not as a new group nor a fundraising entity, but as a united platform to engage a firm grassroots base.
Prior to devoting her life to wild horse and burro preservation, Neda was successful both in the Holistic Healing arts and later in fashion and costume for theatre, film, and print. Her clients included A-list actors and working with publicity teams developing actors from unknown or character actor to lead.
In 1998, Neda began developing Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary on a 300-acre ranch located in the rolling, coastal hills of Lompoc, California. With the help of family, friends, and volunteers, she was able to launch a model for minimally intrusive wild horse management and ecotourism to build a small support base. After a few years, Return to Freedom was able to hire staff and, with limited funding, maintain a high standard of equine care and ranch management. The facility, once run down and used for chicken breeding and cattle, has been transformed into a humble but enchanting sanctuary and educational center hosting over 1,000 guests annually and reaching tens of thousands of people every year through advocacy, programs, and events.
Today, Return to Freedom (RTF) provides care and refuge in three locations for over 400 wild horses and 29 burros who have been captured and removed from state or federal lands. RTF has pioneered minimally-intrusive, natural management of wild horses utilizing Native PZP fertility control, a method that has allowed the sanctuary to maintain horses in their natural social bands.
Neda is currently focused on strengthening Return to Freedom’s educational programs on and off the range, and establishing a self-sustaining Wild Horse and Burro Conservancy and Wilderness Preserve with the support of the RTF Board of Directors and friend and actor Robert Redford.
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CORY GOLDEN
Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator
Cory Golden is a Nebraska native with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter. For the Bellevue Leader (NB), The Lincoln Journal Star (NB), and The Davis Enterprise (CA) newspapers and other publications, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including environmental issues, politics, courts, education, agriculture, public safety, and sports. He later spent two years working both as a policy analyst and in member services for the League of California Cities.
SUSAN BRANDT
Administrative Operations Coordinator
Susan comes to Return to Freedom with over 12 years of non-profit operational management experience as the Finance Manager for one of the largest volunteer-based United Nations-affiliated NGOs in the US. She supported the outreach activities of thousands of volunteers in overseeing 2,700+ annual courses and events. Prior to her non-profit work Susan spent time in the medical device manufacturing industry in clinical research.
Susan earned a B.A. degree in Environmental Studies, with an emphasis in Resource Management, from UC Santa Barbara. While studying under Roderick Nash she was inspired by his work in environmental ethics, preservation of wilderness, the rights of nature, and shaping environmental law. Susan interned with the National Park Service in residence on a remote BLM Herd Management Area in southeastern Utah supporting Canyonlands National Park’s conservation activities. While there she witnessed firsthand the complex range management issues related to livestock and wild horses and burros.
Susan is a Connecticut native and 30-year resident of Santa Barbara County. She is a life-long lover of horses and all things equine. In her free time Susan enjoys hiking trips in our national parks and exploring the canyon country of the southwest. She’s extremely excited to have the opportunity to share her non-profit and environmental experience in support of Return to Freedom’s important mission.
KAREN DESCAMPS
Database and Program Management Assistant
Karen worked on horse ranches and farms in her younger years. As an adult she enjoyed a long career in banking. A few years ago, Karen began her relationship with Return to Freedom as an office volunteer.
She joined the Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary staff as Office Manager in 2011. Karen has a profound love for all animals and enjoys working with them. She is particularly devoted to the ranch cats and at any given time you will see a few of them lounging on various perches around her office!
DIANNA DAWSON
Dianna is a San Luis Obispo County native and has loved caring for animals since she was young. Her first exposure to animal care was as a toddler watching her grandmother rehabilitate animals at the Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara. Dianna chose to follow in her grandmothers footsteps and continue to care for animals. Growing up Dianna enjoyed her time riding her paint horse Comanche, the horse that showed her how amazing and caring horses truly are.
Her deep passion for animal welfare shows through the years she has spent volunteering in animal husbandry and wildlife rehabilitation focusing on rescue, rehabilitation and release. During her time volunteering, she was a member of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network as a responder to oil spills that affect aquatic birds along the central coast of California. Aside from volunteering, Dianna has also worked at a small animal practice where she cared for hospitalized animals and assisted veterinary technicians.
Dianna has a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where she focused her studies on animal health, behavior and welfare. While at Cal Poly, she devoted her time creating a body condition score guide for Safari West Wildlife preserve. The guide was created for seven different exotic species to help animal caretakers better visually asses the health of an animal to ensure proper welfare.
Dianna has always been driven to make a positive impact for animals. She is excited to continue to express her passion for animal welfare through working with Return to Freedom. She cares deeply for Return to Freedoms mission of making an impact on the wild horse issue, along with preserving the American history of these beautiful animals.
Ranch and Equine
JASON BUCKINGHAM
Ranch Manager
Jason Buckingham joins Return to Freedom with a lifelong experience with ranch management, and decades as a professional cowboy, teacher and trainer internationally.
He began his life with horses at a very early age. Growing up on a large ranch in the great basin of southern Idaho (Owyhee County) riding colts, branding calves, halter training the babies, feeding, caring for thousands of cows and horses all under the direction and supervision of some of the greatest horsemen and women in the world. During the summers he was taking outside horses in for training and problem solving.
This powerful experience provided him with a way life that can be considered truly one of a kind.
After attending Boise State on a football scholarship, obtaining an education in Political Science, he started his own business training horses and competing in all roping disciplines. Several horses he bought or rescued from slaughter were successfully brought back from a place that for most trainers was too far to bring the horse back to trust again. These horses were able to be homed with the right person and become successful in many arenas.
After winning numerous rodeos and shows a natural transition began and he started teaching roping (team and ranch), colt starting and problem solving. This led him to a life change: a great move to Europe where his influence and experience changed the way Europeans thought of the American west with one success story after the other in all fields of the international equine industry.
Reaching a plateau with people and horses another life change occurred: to move back to the States and truly give himself to the horse this time, joining others who stand with wild horses that need a voice and who hear what they have to say.
ELENA BAJONA
Equine Management Consultant
Elena Bajona is an Equine applied behaviorist & therapist, specialized in equine welfare, cognitive behavioral therapies and equine massage. Elena is a talented trainer with a strong background in the horse industry internationally.
With extensive experiences abroad (USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia, UK and Germany) in 2002 she founded Animantia, a private Academy of equine behavior studies based in Italy with a branch in Idaho.
As a teacher and Applied Equine Behaviorist she dedicated more than 15 years in teaching equine behavior through specialized courses for individuals and professionals. Elena founded the first ethological equine facility in Italy where she worked with thousands of horses: training, natural foal starting and problem solving through behavioral therapies.
She attended the Academy of Equine Dentistry in Idaho as a free-lance professional in supporting the teaching for equine dentistry students and she organized courses on equine applied behavior in relation to horse handling during dental work to reduce stress on the horses and humans.
In 2010 she discovered some wild horses in Italy and she spent the years after teaching natural behavior to her students, underlining the importance of observation within herds of wild horses in their natural environment to understand and learn their unique behavior and emotional/social life.
Her equine specialization continued few years ago in the USA when she became an equine massage therapist and focused on rehabilitation and physiotherapy for horses with both physical and psychological problems.
A fervent believer of the preservation of all creatures in the wild she joined Return to Freedom to share her knowledge and experience in order to improve the welfare and quality of life for rescued wild mustangs and burros.
SARAH ROMBERGER
Barn Manager
The physical and mental well-being of animals and the protection of the environment have always been the subjects of Sarah Romberger’s passion and focus. While studying ecological, organismal, and evolutionary biology at California State University, Fresno, she began her professional experience in animal care as a zookeeper, caring for over 100 different species which included tigers, orangutans, sea lions, and a multitude of others. Over the course of her decade-long zookeeping career she became Lead Zookeeper and Scuba Diving Safety Officer, advocating for the protection of natural habitats, educating the public, and focusing her efforts on the health and welfare of the animals in her care and their counterparts in the wild. Upon returning home to Lompoc, she volunteered to help at Return to Freedom and never left! She could not be more thrilled to now be caring for the amazing, inspirational animals at RTF and advocating for the protection and preservation of wild horses and burros and their habitats. Sarah’s upbeat personality and enthusiasm is refreshing and we are all so happy to welcome her to the team!
PAULIN TAGLE
Paulin and his brother, Merced, have been the rock of maintaining the daily operations of the sanctuary for over 10 years. They make it look easy. They know the horses and pace themselves with confidence and good humor.
CELESTE CARLISLE
Conservation Science Program Consultant
Celeste is a biologist who started her career studying marine ecology at University of California, Santa Cruz (BA Biology, 1994). She spent years working with marine mammals and invertebrates along the California and Oregon Coasts. Environmental outreach and science education were a large part of her focus while working for South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and then Oregon State Parks. Her passion for horses eventually outweighed her love of marine mammals and she returned to Oregon State University to acquire a post-baccalaureate degree in Animal Science with an equine emphasis. She has worked alongside Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation to oversee and implement the fertility control program since 2010, and more recently, RTF’s on-range public-private partnership programs for wild horse and burro management. She quite enjoys the combination of education, horses, and meaningful scientific work towards the best in-the-wild management we have available today. One foot is squarely planted in the world of science and the other in the world of horse conservation.
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July 2, 2015 - Updated on January 20, 2016
Disturbing threats and harassment in wake of European games
Europe - Central Asia
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about an increase in government harassment of independent journalists in Azerbaijan in the wake of the Baku European Games, which ended on 28 June. The authorities seem above all to be targeting journalists working for Meydan TV, a Berlin-based online TV station and news website run by Emin Milli, an Azerbaijani journalist now living in Germany. Azerbaijani officials prevented four Meydan TV journalists – Natig Javadli, Elnur Mukhtarov, Ayten Alekperova and Shirin Abbasov – from crossing the border into neighbouring Georgia on 30 June, telling them they were banned from leaving the country. They have yet to receive an explanation. Most of the journalists who were prevented from leaving the country in 2014 were subsequently arrested or placed under investigation. The border incident came just four days after Milli reported from Berlin that he had received threats from an Azerbaijani government minister. “We fear that this growing harassment is a forerunner of a new crackdown targeting Meydan TV’s staff,” said Johann Bihr, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk. “Enraged by the failure of their European Games media plan to conceal their massive human rights violations, the authorities apparently want to scapegoat Meydan TV. International attention must not let up now that Azerbaijan is out of the spotlight. On the contrary, the international community must make it clear to President Ilham Aliyev’s regime that it continues to follow developments closely.”
Leading source of news about Azerbaijan
Founded in 2013, when an unprecedented crackdown on civil society was getting under way in Azerbaijan, Meydan TV quickly established itself as a leading independent source of information about this authoritarian country. It offers investigative reporting, news coverage and news analysis that contrast starkly with what the tightly controlled media based in Azerbaijan provide. In particular, it provides a great deal coverage of corruption and human rights violations. In October 2013, Meydan TV revealed that the results of the presidential election had been determined in advance by software developed by the Central Electoral Commission. During last month’s European Games, Meydan TV repeatedly reported stories that were embarrassing for the government, including the serious injuries sustained by three Austrian athletes when hit by a bus, and state TV’s use of a fake British tourist to sing Azerbaijan’s praises in an interview.
Grave threats against two journalists
Milli, who fled to Germany in 2012 after 18 months of arbitrary imprisonment, has given many interviews to the international media about the corruption surrounding the Baku European games and the way the authorities have tried to use them improve their international image and divert attention from the disastrous human rights situation inside Azerbaijan. He reported on 26 June that an intermediary had passed him a message from the sports minister promising that “the state will punish you for this smear campaign against the state that you have organized.” Reporters Without Borders takes this threat very seriously because such a message is not usually issued in Azerbaijan unless it has been approved at the highest level, and calls on the German authorities to do everything necessary to ensure that Milli is protected. Yafez Akramoglu, who used to work for the Prague-based Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, said on 29 June he also had received repeated threatening calls from the provincial headquarters of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) in the autonomous province of Nakhchivan. He said his caller told him he was “under surveillance” and that he and his relatives who were still in Azerbaijan would soon be “punished” if he did not stop investigating the business activities of those close to the head of the provincial government. The authorities closed down the Baku bureau of RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani service last December. Azerbaijan is ranked 162nd out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.
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Pitching Primer: Week 13
Sat Jun 15 10:21pm ET
By MIKE BARNER
There is no shortage of two-start pitchers for Week 13. Whether it is big-time aces or streaming options, there are a lot of players who could provide significant value. However, there are also a few to stay away from based on their matchups. Let’s break down what the schedule looks likes for five starters and discuss whether they should be started or benched in most fantasy formats.
Mike Clevinger, Cleveland Indians: at TEX, vs. DET
After not doing much to help their lineup during the offseason, the Indians were clearly planning to lean on their starting rotation to get them back into the playoffs. Several key injuries have dealt that strategy a serious blow, one of which was to Clevinger (back). Even though they might have dug themselves a hole that they can’t climb out of, they will at least get Clevinger back Monday.
The bad news for Clevinger is that his first start comes at hitter-friendly Globe Life Park in Arlington. It wouldn’t be surprising to see him on a limited pitch count considering he’s been out for over two months and made only two rehab starts. Luckily his second outing is about as favorable as it gets against a Tigers team that has scored the second-fewest runs (233) in baseball. If you’ve waited this long to get him back into your lineup, that game against the Tigers alone probably makes him worth starting.
Cole Hamels, Chicago Cubs: vs. CWS, vs. NYM
As bad as the Yu Darvish acquisition has been for the Cubs, their addition of Hamels has proven to be huge. He’s loving his time back in the National League, recording a 2.98 ERA that is supported by a 3.43 FIP across his first 14 starts. Even though his 23.6 percent strikeout rate is nothing to write home about, he’s done a tremendous job of keeping hitters inside the park by allowing seven home runs over 84 2/3 innings. That shouldn’t be a big surprise, either, since he’s allowed 1.0 HR/9 for his career.
Hamels will look to keep things rolling with a two-start week that includes a matchup against the White Sox, who are in the bottom third of the league in both runs scored and OPS. Tipping the scales even more in Hamels’ favor is that they have struck out the ninth-most times (620). The Mets have a much tougher lineup, but a lot of their best hitters are left-handed. That’s key for Hamels, who has allowed a .252 wOBA against lefties this season. Make sure he’s locked into your lineup.
Brandon Woodruff, Milwaukee Brewers: at SD, vs. CIN
After spending most of his time in the majors last season as a member of the Brewers’ bullpen, Woodruff has been given an opportunity to start this year. He’s taken the job and run with hit, posting a 3.87 ERA and an even more encouraging 3.06 FIP. Add his 28.9 percent strikeout rate with the fact that he’s allowed 0.9 HR/9 and he’s proven to be a gem for those who drafted him.
His strikeout upside should be off the charts in his first start considering the Padres have struck out the second-most times (674) in baseball. The Reds haven’t been nearly as strikeout prone, but they do have the fifth-lowest wRC+ (81) against right-handed pitchers. Look for Woodruff to continue to provide significant fantasy value based on these matchups.
Brad Peacock, Houston Astros: at CIN, at NYY
Another pitcher who was mainly a reliever last year and is now starting is Peacock. He’s excelled in his new role, posting a 3.53 FIP and a 1.08 WHIP. His strikeout rate has fallen from 35.3 percent last year to 24.4 percent this season, but no one expected him to keep punching out hitters at such a lofty pace now that he is starting. The one concern with him is that he’s already thrown 71 innings after logging just 65 innings last year. It seems unlikely that the Astros will push him to pitch anywhere near 200 innings as a result.
His first start against the Reds is definitely favorable, especially with it being in Cincinnati and their being no DH. However, his second start against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium is very worrisome. They already have Aaron Hicks and Didi Gregorius back from injury and there is a chance that Giancarlo Stanton (shoulder) could also be activated by the time this game rolls around. As good as his matchup with the Reds is, benching him this week might be correct route to take.
Merrill Kelly, Arizona Diamondbacks: vs. COL, vs. SF
Kelly has had his share of rough outings this season, which included allowing four runs across 1 2/3 innings against the lowly Padres less than a month ago. He followed that up with a tough start in Coors Field, bringing his ERA all the way up to 4.83. Luckily for the Diamondbacks, he’s rebounded to allow two runs and record 18 strikeouts across 22 1/3 innings in his last three starts.
Now the question is, can he keep things rolling? He dodges a bullet by facing the Rockies at home. As potent as their lineup has been at Coors Field, they have the second-lowest wRC+ (72) on the road. The Giants are near the bottom of the league in most major offensive categories, leaving Kelly as one of the top streaming options to target.
Mike Barner has been covering fantasy sports since 2007. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, SportsLine and RotoWire. Mike was also a finalist for the 2018 FSWA Basketball Writer of the Year award. Follow Mike on Twitter @rotomikebarner.
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Florida governor confirms Zika transmission in Miami Beach
Council provides Nigerian teachers seeking appointments abroad with professional standing letters
Abubakar, former military Head of State, commends Gov. Obiano over improved security in Anambra
A former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Saturday in Awka commended Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra for his efforts in ensuring improved security in the state.
Abubakar made the commendation when he paid a courtesy visit to the governor, noting that Anambra stood out as one of the best states in the country in the area of security of lives and property of residents.
He called on the people to support Obiano to enable him to complete the impressive plans that he had for the speedy development of the state in other sectors.
“From the time Obiano took over the mantle of leadership in the state the people of this state have witnessed a great transformation.
“ Anambra stands out as one of the best states in Nigeria in the area of security.
“I also observe that from the moment we crossed the boundary into this state, there are visible signs of development.
“Your Excellency, I want to congratulate you and the people that made this possible.
“I urge the people living in this state to continue to support you so that they will continue to enjoy the great atmosphere of security in this state, “ he said.
Abubakar said that his visit to the state was to inaugurate a project built by one of his friends, Dr Ben Aghaji, in Nnewi before he decided to pay the governor a courtesy call.
He further commended the governor’s efforts at improving the state’s economy beyond what he inherited from his predecessor.
Responding, Obiano said he was elated at the unannounced visit of the former head of state.
He described the visitor as a great Nigerian leader who midwifed the present democracy in the country and wished him well.
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Pastor To Be Prosecuted For Invading Traditional Worshippers’ Shrine
Ogun signs agreement for second largest refinery in sub-Saharan Africa
Assist local manufacturers with loans, Reps. urge BoI
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, mandated the Bank of Industries (BoI) to assist the garment, shoes and other apparel manufacturers in procurement of modern machines and soft loans to produce wears in the country.
The House also mandated its Committee on Defence and Industries to ensure that uniforms and other wears of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Air Force, Customs, Immigration, Police, Civil Defence, Prisons and Fire Service were produced in the country.
The House further mandated health institutions to produce and purchase their wears in the country.
These resolutions followed a motion moved by Rep. Prestige Ossy (APGA-Abia), under matters of Public Importance, which were unanimously adopted by members through a voice vote.
According to Ossy, the adverse effect of executing multi-billion Naira project such as the procurement of military and paramilitary uniforms and sundry clothing items using foreign currency has negative effect on the Nigerian currency.
He said that “the rate of over-dependence on foreign markets for the procurement of uniforms and other wears of military and paramilitary services as contained in the 2015/2016 Appropriation Bill is alarming.”
He added that the total amount of money spent by the military and paramilitary in purchase of wears in 2015 amounted to N4.3 billion, while in 2016, it amounted to N1.6 billion.
The lawmaker observed that the practice of importing military and paramilitary uniforms was in sharp contrast with what was obtained in other countries of the world.
He said some countries produced and manufactured uniforms and sundry wears for their military and paramilitary personnel.
“We are aware that there are good clothes, shoes and sundry wears manufacturers in Nigeria that can produce quality uniforms and sundry wears for officers and men of Nigeria military and paramilitary.”
According to Ossy, direct support in form of grants and loans should be given to indigenous cloth manufacturing industries in order for them to
“Government should provide grants to local manufacturers through BoI and other financial institutions at a single digit interest rate,” he stressed.
He added that if these uniforms were produced in the country, it would improve the productivity of local cloth manufacturing factories, which may enable them to produce such uniforms to neighbouring countries.
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Psychedelics are About to Transform Mainstream Medicine and the World
Psychedelic medicine, long taboo, is moving toward the mainstream. Medical marijuana recently became legal in 28 states, and now doctors at prestigious medical institutions are studying the effects of magic mushrooms and ecstasy on depression and anxiety with fantastic results.
Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)
Recent studies show a single dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms provides months of relief for cancer patients suffering with severe depression and anxiety.
The studies involved 29 patients at New York University and 51 patients at Johns Hopkins University. During their several-hour mushroom trips, patients wore eye masks, listened to relaxing music and were encouraged to lie back and “direct their attention inward,” reports USA Today.
Patients reported dream-like visions and heightened emotions. Therapists helped them sort through what many saw as “mystical experiences” of “connection, love and selfless unity.” One man described becoming “one with everything in the universe” another said he “met himself” while watching “spirals of iridescent spheres folding in on themselves.”
Nearly half of all cancer patients suffer related psychological distress, which is often resistant to conventional therapy. Antidepressants can take weeks to stabilize a patient’s mood, if they work at all. But the relief provided by mushrooms is immediate and lasting in most patients, said Dr. Stephen Ross, chief of addiction psychiatry at N.Y.U.
Cancer patients with anxiety and depression have a higher risk of committing suicide and therefore “need help immediately,” Ross said.
Psilocybin trials are also underway for alcoholism, tobacco addiction and treatment-resistant depression.
Ecstasy (MDMA)
The FDA also recently approved a large-scale trial investigating the use of MDMA in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, The New York Times reports.
Smaller studies (totaling 130 patients) conducted in 2013 focused on combat veterans, sexual assault victims, police and firefighters, whose PTSD had not responded to conventional drugs or psychotherapy.
After three doses, two-thirds of patients no longer met the criteria for having PTSD.
Research has shown escstasy causes the brain to release a flood of hormones that “evoke feelings of trust, love and well-being, while muting fear and negative emotional memories that can be overpowering in patients with PTSD,” the article says.
Patients say the drug gave them the courage to face and work through their trauma.
The article tells the story of one man who was “sleepless and on edge” for years after combat, with nightmares of explosions and death. The Army gave him sleeping pills and antidepressants, but they weren’t enough to numb him. So he turned to alcohol and withdrew from the world.
“I just felt hopeless and in the dark,” he said. “But the MDMA sessions showed me a light I could move toward. Now I’m out of the darkness and the world is all around me.”
Since the trial, he has gone back to school and remarried.
The wife of a firefighter, who also participated in one of the trials, said her husband wouldn’t be here today if not for MDMA.
“We can sometimes see this kind of remarkable improvement in traditional psychotherapy, but it can take years, if it happens at all,” said Dr. Michael Mithoefer, the psychiatrist who conducted the trials. “We think it works as a catalyst that speeds up the natural healing process.”
The researchers are so optimistic they’ve applied for “breakthrough therapy” status with the FDA, which would fast-track the approval process. If approved, the drug could be available by 2021.
The future of psychedelics
Psychedelics – like psilocybin, peyote, ayahuasca and cannabis – have all been used in shamanic rituals for thousands of years to achieve transcendence and “generate the divine within.”
Magic mushrooms were used all over Mesoamerica for spiritual communion, divination, and healing, until they was suppressed by Catholic missionaries who believed the Aztecs were using them to “communicate with devils.”
Psychologists have known since the 1940s about the miraculous effects of psychedelic therapy on obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, depression and cluster headaches. Yet these gifts of nature remain illegal and their benefits unknown to the masses almost 80 years later.
But the dark ages of modern medicine are coming to a close. The zealots who oppose real science can no longer hide the healing powers of plants.
“Medical marijuana got its foot in the door by making the appeal that ‘cancer patients are suffering,'” warned Dr. William Breitbart, chairman of the psychiatry department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “‘They’re near death, so for compassionate purposes, let’s make it available’ – and then you’re able to extend this drug to other purposes.”
Let’s hope these drugs do get used for non-medical purposes, Mr. Breitbart! Let’s hope they get used for awakening!
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Long gone from their home in San Francisco, the California pipevine swallowtail is back thanks to one man transforming his yard into a habitat for them
The iridescent blue wings of the California pipevine swallowtail are considered by collectors to be among the most magnificent in North America.
For centuries the beautiful butterfly thrived in the San Francisco and around the Bay Area. But as the region became increasingly urbanized in the early 1900s, the pipevine swallowtail began to disappear. Today it’s an extremely rare sight.
Aquatic biologist Tim Wong at the California Academy of Sciences has made it his personal mission to bring the butterfly back, and he’s off to a very promising start.
In 2012, he set out on a quest to find California pipevine , the pipevine swallowtail’s sole food source, which had disappeared in tandem with the butterfly in the city.
“Finally, I was able to find this plant in the San Francisco Botanical Garden,” Wong tells Vox.com. “And they allowed me to take a few clippings of the plant.”
Wong propagated the plant in his backyard, weeding, watering and tending it until he had created a pipevine swallowtail paradise.
“I built a large screen enclosure to protect the butterflies and to allow them to mate under outdoor environmental conditions — natural sun, airflow, temp fluctuations,” he says.
“The specialized enclosure protects the butterflies from some predators, increases mating opportunities, and serves as a study environment to better understand the criteria female butterflies are looking for in their ideal host plant.”
After their habitat was ready, Wong scouted our 20 caterpillars from a few residences outside the city with more vegetation and collected them (with permission).
He carefully transported them home and set them loose in their new feeding and mating grounds.
About 6 weeks later, the hungry caterpillars turned into butterflies, and the females began laying tiny red eggs on the stems of the pipevine plant. Success!
After several generations, the butterflies began to multiply exponentially.
Having more than he knew what to do with Wong stared donating caterpillars to the Botanical Gardens, where their food originated from.
At first he brought them in by the hundreds. Now, he brings them in by the thousands, every few months.
While other conservationists have repopulated the pipevine butterfly in neighboring Santa Cruz and Sonoma counties, Wong has made the first and only successful attempt in San Francisco. In the late 1980s, a woman named Barbara Deutsch tried to reintroduce the species with 500 caterpillars, but they vanished after a few years.
Wong attributes his success to the habitat he’s created for the caterpillars. In the past 7 years, he’s cultivated more than 200 California pipevine plants , with no herbicides or pesticides and lots of weeding by hand.
“Improving habitat for native fauna is something anyone can do,” Wong says. “Conservation and stewardship can start in your very own backyard.”
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On March 29, 2017 March 28, 2017 By James CastroIn Reviews, TV Shows
Galavant was one of those shows that came on TV and everyone I know told me I needed to watch it. Unfortunately for both me (and the show if I represent its target audience) I’m not the kind of person to watch programmed TV. I’m in the streaming video generation.
Luckily for people like me, the show is now on Netflix and even though it represents essentially everything I don’t like in a show…I can honestly say it’s one of the best new IPs I’ve seen in years.
What don’t I normally like that this show somehow masters? Well…
It’s a Musical: I’ll just say it: I don’t like musicals. Sometimes the music is ok, but mixed into the story I’m often too much of a realist to suspend disbelief long enough to understand why all these characters are suddenly singing. I can count the number of musicals I like on essentially one hand and not even use most of the fingers…but Galavant somehow makes musical work. Partially (like one of the musicals I do like, Candide) it works because it knows it’s ridiculous and embraces it. It keeps the premise simple but makes the details absurd but unlike a lot of absurdist storytelling it doesn’t just behave like the dodo from Loony Tunes and sticks to its narrative. Also the songs are quite excellent and remarkably in character. They remind me of the songs from Futurama or David Brent: Life on the Road. The joke isn’t that the songs are bad, but the characters singing the songs sing them from their own perspective without snarky irony. One of my favorites is when meat-headed henchman Gareth (portrayed by tough-guy Vinnie Jones) sings the most stereotypical love song in the most literal way possible and it’s lyrics and performance are entirely in character. It’s the kind of show that can have a comedy king sing about self-esteem to a bearded dragon and make you cheer.
Fourth Wall Breaks: For those who don’t know, a fourth wall break is when the characters in the show break the reality of the narrative to acknowledge they are fictional characters in a fictional world. It can be as simple as a classic wink to camera, or as blatant as mentioning production details of their show. The classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon used to do it all the time to get a quick laugh (often inaccurately spouting off incorrect show titles or details). The character of Deadpool is essentially based around fourth wall breaks and I’m one of the few people in the world who can’t stand the character. I think of this kind of snark as “internet storytelling” where storytellers have the chance to do everything as a cliché then make fun of it for being a cliché…while still doing the cliché. Breaking the fourth wall is often a cheap way to get a joke. And Galavant does it and gets some cheap jokes, but it is done less for snarky cheap reasons than it is just to point out absurdity in an absurd story. It’s hard to fully explain why it works in the show to have the narrator sing of the cliffhanger, to hear a character chime in that they can’t die because there’s one more episode left, or have someone comment that it’s awfully early in the season for a main character to almost die. But it does. It works because of the production and delivery. It’s not done as a wink to camera or a “ha-ha look at us pointing this out” with the comedy pause. Essentially all of the characters are anachronistic for the supposed 13th Century vaguely European setting. And when one of them says something equally anachronistic or out-of-narrative it fits. The jokes are often also subtle and not dwelt upon. They are usually just part of the dialogue thrown in casually and quickly passed over. It’s the kind of narrative treatment that so many have tried and failed to do…and Galavant does so well.
Network TV: When was the last time I saw something on network TV worth watching? Call it a prejudice but I can’t think of a show I tuned into on the big networks in the last decade. Most of what I watched have been cable shows or smaller network shows (Monk, Psych, Supernatural, River Monsters) and syndicated shows re-run on cable networks (Futurama, The Simpsons, etc…) To think a Network produced this show for TWO seasons is SHOCKING. They found some budget in between reality TV, contest shows, and legal dramas to make something unique, risky, and entertaining. The entire first show of the second season is dedicated to the idea that they can’t believe they’re back for a second season. If networks would take more risks to produce more content like this maybe they’d win back some of the viewers who have defected to other forms of entertainment…like me.
Those are the main reasons the show shouldn’t have worked but did. The straight positives are far too numerous to list. The ENTIRE cast is brilliant. Stand outs for me are Timothy Omundson as King Richard (he is legitimately show-stealing…), Mallory Jansen as Queen Madalena (who is both hilariously evil and remarkably sympathetic…and who has joined the list of fictional characters I want to marry), and Vinnie Jones as Gareth (who somehow creates a character who is a self-described “horrible person” but isn’t “entirely evil.”) Add to that all the cameos from amazing guest stars just kind of thrown in (Weird Al AND Ricky Gervais?! Yes please) and you get one hell of a show gone far too soon.
Who knows maybe it’ll gain traction from viewers like me who missed it the first time and we’ll get an even more unexpected THIRD season!
Right now its episodes are 18 perfect little jewels and definitely not to be missed.
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Posted on April 15, 2014 by Richard Detrich
I’ve been all over much of the world, but I’ve never been to Washington, D.C. Why? I just never had reason to go, and, deep inside I felt that I would be very disappointed. I would like to see the Wall, but only if I could go at night when there aren’t many people there, and the Wall is open 24 hours a day.
I’ve never been to Viet Nam. Not as a soldier nor as a tourist. My daughter, Rebecca, spent time in Viet Nam last year and loved it. Almost the entire Vietnamese population alive now was born after the Viet Nam War. For me “Viet Nam” has always represented horrible foreign policy, misguided and politically motivated decisions by old men in positions of power, and the total loss of an estimated 1,102,000–3,886,026 people on both sides. For many of my generation it is still an open wound. The Wall memorializes young Americans who did what they were called upon to do, served their country, and died in the process. It is also a tribute to those who served and were physically and or emotionally wounded. Hopefully as a country we will never forget and learn from their sacrifice.
Thankfully the names of my friends who served are not on the wall. One of those friends, who still bears the wounds of war, forwarded this valuable post.
A little history most people will never know.
Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Viet Nam Memorial Wall.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Viet Nam.
1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Viet Nam.
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia.
I wonder why so many from one school. 8 Women are on the Wall, nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Viet Nam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci – they led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci’s mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale – Leroy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Viet Nam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. Leroy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s
assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day.
The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.
The most casualty deaths for one month was May 1968 – 2,415 casualties were incurred.
For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.
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Jesus Cuartas
Mr. Jesus “JB” Cuartas serves as the Chief of Operational Planning for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region II covering New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
As the Chief of Operational Planning, Mr. Cuartas manages deliberate catastrophic planning and the Regional Hurricane Program for Region II. Mr. Cuartas is also a member of FEMA’s Field Leadership Apprenticeship Program (Federal Coordinating Officer option) Pilot Cohort. Mr. Cuartas has held leadership positions in multiple Presidentially-declared disasters and national and international crisis operations including Branch Director during the response to Hurricane Maria and Infrastructure Directorate Deputy Director responsible for leading Federal infrastructure recovery operations in Puerto Rico. Additionally, Mr. Cuartas served as the Region II Exercise Director for the 2017 National Level Exercise Gotham Shield. Prior to joining FEMA Region II, Mr. Cuartas served as the Chief of Operational Planning for FEMA Region III where he managed catastrophic planning including Improvised Nuclear Device Response Plans for the National Capitol Region and Philadelphia, chaired the Consequence Management Subcommittees for multiple National Special Security Events (NSSE) occurring in the Region to include the World Meeting of Families-Papal Visit, and oversaw the Regional Emergency Communications Program, Regional Geospatial Information Systems Program, and Regional Hurricane Program.
Mr. Cuartas served nine years in the US Army, including two combat tours in Iraq totaling 29 months of combat operations conducting Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) operations. He served as a Combat Engineer and Explosives Ordnance Clearance Agent with the 111th Sapper Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division and Technical Rescue Operations/Planning Section Chief for the 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company, Military District of Washington. Following his military service, Mr. Cuartas took on the role of Emergency Preparedness Program Manager for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Mr. Cuartas then transitioned into the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination serving as a senior continuity policy analyst drafting multiple Department-wide policies and plans. Mr. Cuartas joined FEMA in 2013 as the Regional Continuity Manager where he worked with multiple States and Federal Departments and Agencies to develop plans and policies, execute continuity exercises, and served as course manager and instructor for FEMA emergency management and continuity courses within the Region and at FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute.
Mr. Cuartas holds an Executive Master’s in Emergency and Disaster Management from Georgetown University, Bachelor of Arts in Emergency and Disaster Management, is a graduate of FEMA’s Emergency Management Academy and Master Continuity Practitioner Level II, was awarded the FEMA Administrator’s Award for Excellence in Emergency Management and holds numerous certifications in the fields of emergency management, continuity, technical rescue and fire services.
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Social Tables CEO Discusses Entrepreneurship, Managing Millennials, and Shaking up Hospitality
When it comes to running his innovative, cloud-based hospitality business, Social Tables CEO Dan Berger doesn’t just want to be a “disruptor”—he wants to be an “obliterator.” Instead of simply challenging industry assumptions, Berger wants to redefine the industry itself.
In his interview with Gray Shealy, executive director of Georgetown University’s Hospitality Management program, Berger shares the inspiration behind his business, his thoughts on the future of hospitality, and his predictions of the challenges that lie ahead.
As Founder and CEO of the hospitality software company Social Tables, Dan Berger has been described as a “relentless and focused entrepreneur” and recognized 40 Under 40 in the meetings industry by Collaborate Magazine and Connect Meetings, Event Innovator by BizBash, and named to Successful Meetings Magazine's "Most Influential" list.
Gray Shealy: Was it always your plan to start a company in the hospitality industry? Are you a tech company? Or are you the future of hospitality because you combine all three disciplines into one?
Dan Berger: I was at a Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) event yesterday and a lot of kids got up and said they always wanted be an entrepreneur. That’s beautiful, but that was never me. Starting a company was a very organic process for me and it’s taken me four years to get here. We started in the meetings and events industry, and ended up in the hospitality industry, which is kind of all-inclusive of meetings and events.
The idea for Social Tables came in 2008. I was going to a wedding in Miami and I didn’t know a soul there. I thought, “I could have a much more engaging experience if I could see the seating chart before the wedding.” If there were Facebook profiles around a table instead of just names, I’d be able to have a more engaging conversations and more engaging experience.
GS: How would you describe what leadership is? What are the traits of that?
DB: I think really good leaders know when to use different styles. That being said I think the number one skill is being motivational. You have to motivate customers to pay; you have to motivate employees to join you; you have to motivate people like you to have me at an event. It’s just a really important trait.
Being able to insert yourself into different parts of the business is really important because you can camouflage to help that part of the business that needs attention. A lot of the skills that are required in leadership are learned; people are not coachable. Sure, I can teach anybody anything; the question is how coachable are you?
GS: Let’s talk about the people. I am assuming that your employees are mostly millennials? How do you manage the millennial workforce?
DB: Millennials are interesting – I’m a millennial. It’s tough but you have to embrace it because there’s no way out. The reason I say it’s tough is because there’s such tension in millennial management. They want empowerment and they want feedback. There’s tension between getting praise all the time and being sensitive. Millennials want to experience something. They want the experience of owning something, without actual ownership. They are not as materialistic as previous generations. Understanding [that] is an important part of understanding millennials.
I find it refreshing to have millennials – it’s easy to build a startup and then have a bunch of people want to work there. Most people want to work at a startup at a young age. The key is: how do you get people to work at a startup and understand hospitality? I can make you fall in love with a startup; I cannot make you fall in love with hospitality … or can I?
GS: A lot of people say hospitality is an innate trait.
DB: Right. I think hospitality and entrepreneurship have a lot in common. I just heard the son of Ben’s Chili Bowl’s founder speak, and he said entrepreneurship is about hospitality because it’s about service. When you’re an entrepreneur, you make something, and when you’re a maker, you’re serving other people with what you’ve made. Hospitality is a service industry; you’re serving people. So, entrepreneurship and hospitality actually have a lot in common.
GS: Since “disruption” is all the rage these days with Airbnb and Uber taking the limelight, what is disruption and what makes a disruptor? Do you see yourself as a disruptor?
DB: Disruptor means you take something and you kind of shake it up a bit. I would actually argue Airbnb and Uber are obliterators. They’ve shattered our reality and done something completely different. Government can’t even keep up with technology; they can’t even make up regulation in time. I was talking to an Executive Vice President at Interstate Hotels and Resorts over lunch: he was telling me that 5% of hotel stock in New York is Airbnb. New York couldn’t regulate it to save their lives. It’s past the point of disruption; it’s completely obliterated.
My view is obliterate not disrupt. I want to be an obliterator. We’re still working on it.
GS: What does Social Tables look like in 5-10 years?
I’m doing vivid vision, which is writing a memorandum to the entire company describing the company in three years. Describing what we smell, what we see, what we hear, what people are saying about us, and providing an extremely detailed look into the company in the future. I can’t answer it in detail, but our vision is a world where people get together to achieve great things.
GS: What value has education played in your life, and what would you tell our audience about how your experiences have been shaped by what you learned in a master’s program?
I think a good education program teaches you a lot of skills. When you’re getting a master’s degree, you don’t see a lot of value in what you’re doing. Then as time goes on, once you get it, you start realizing the value of degree more and more. And only 5-10 years out do you start to see the value in what you did, because anything good is going only to get better after time.
GS: What challenges do you face as a growing company? How do you learn?
We’re what I call a “deliberately developmental organization.” It’s not just a learning organization. That means that everything we do not only promises employees that they’re going to become better professionals, but [also that] they are going to become better people. And that's the promise I make to people that come to work at Social Tables: I say it’s not going to be the easiest job in the world and you’re probably going to have to ask for forgiveness a lot. But we will accept you for who you are and realize that you’re constantly trying to become a better version of yourself.
[We are facing the] challenges of an industry that’s not always welcoming to the kind of things we’re doing, especially the things we’re trying to do next. This industry needs a culture change, everything from unethical fads that are going on, to lack of reviews, to lack of third-parties transparencies with intermediaries that don’t care about the success of a meeting. There are so many problems in the meetings industry, but we’re excited about that because at the end of the day we want to improve meetings and events.
Learn more about Georgetown's Master's in Hospitality Management >>>
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Home > Wine Chemicals > Tannins, Enzymes & Gums > Lafazym-CL, 100Gram
Lafazym-CL, 100Gram
LAF-003105
Lafazym CL
100 Gram ($32.99)500 Gram ($139.99)
Purified enzymatic preparation in cinnamyl esterase activity (FCE) Qualified for the elaboration of products for direct human consumption in the field of the regulated use in Oenology. In accordance with the current International Oenological Codex, Food Chemical Codex V and JEFCA.
Aspect .................................. granulates
Color ................................... amber
Insoluble matter .....................none
Standard activity
-Pectinase (PGU/g) ............... 1,000
-Cinnamyl Esterase (CINU/1000PGNU) .......... < 0,5
Biological & chemical analysis
Heavy metals ................................... < 10 ppm
Lead ...................................................... < 5 ppm
Arsenic ................................................ < 3 ppm
Mercury ............................................... < 1 ppm
Toxins & mycotoxins not detected
Total viable germs /g ................................ < 5 x 104
Coliforms /g ......................................................... < 30
E. Coli /25 g .......................................... not detected
Salmonellas /25 g ................................ not detected
Oenological use
Properties: Purified and concentrated enzymatic preparation (secondary activities controlled) for
the depectinization of musts and the clarification of white or rosé wines. Allows the reduction of
fermentation time and reduces turbidity and viscosity.
Depectinization in white and free-run juices : 0,5 to 1 g/hL (5 to 10 ppm)
Rosés and press juices : 1 to 2 g/hL (10 to 20 ppm)
Preparation: dissolve in 10 times its weight in water
· Use an inert and clean container.
· Do not mix with bentonite and avoid direct contact with sulfurous solutions.
· Use the products within 6 to 8 hours after preparation.
Storage – Optimal Date Of Use
- Store in original packaging at room temperature (0 to 25°C) in a dry and odorless room.
- Optimal date of use : 4 years after packing date. 1 month after opening (if the tin is
properly sealed)
100 g tins / 500 g tins
Buffer Solution pH-7 500ml
Buffer Solution
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Tag Archives: songleaders
Grateful for Musicians, Singers, Musical Leaders who “keep on keeping on” in “The Movement(s)”
Grateful for Musicians/Singers/Leaders
who “keep on keeping on” in “The Movement(s)”
from http://www.lovethispic.com/image/150339/keep-on-keeping-on
I spent a wonderful (but kind of sad; see below) evening last week (Friday, May 4), at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Chapel in St. Charles, Missouri, USA, listening to the fabulous Roy Zimmerman sing, talk, and cleverly satirize many social, political, cultural and legal developments and issues from the last several decades.
Roy Zimmerman, ReZist show, performing in St. Charles, MO, 5/4/18
Roy Zimmerman is the most recent addition to my life’s intentional collection of dozens of extremely talented and special musicians, writers, filmmakers, poets, playwrights, other artists and performers and, of course, political/social leaders who continue to inspire, encourage and demonstrate commitment to whatever movements they believe most in. These often outspoken heroes and heroines also collaborate with and support others day after day, week after week, year after year, decades on decades.
Is there a category—a title—for such a role in our culture? I wish I knew what it is or could invent one. IDEAS HERE, please: http://www.sallyember.com/blog
I wanted to take a moment, here, to name the ones I can remember best who have personally inspired, entertained, encouraged and led me, and without whom I would certainly have given up feeling optimistic and collectively working for positive change a long time ago.
“Big Mike” Lainoff
—My first and most treasured inspiration is the recently-deceased and much-missed former director of the four JCCA (Jewish Community Center Association [of St. Louis]) summer camps I attended as a child and teen: Camp Council (a day camp), and residential Lake of the Ozark area camps, Camp Hawthorn, Red Bud Camp and their successor, Camp Sabra, Harold “Big Mike” Lainoff (I wrote about him prior to this). In addition to being a recreation manager/leader, Big Mike was a gifted guitar player/singer/songleader and storyteller who could captivate, involve and educate a mess hall or a campfire of over a hundred rowdy kids, teens and staff for long periods of time despite pouring rain, high humidity, blazing heat and roaring wind. Amazing.
“Big Mike” Lainoff, circa 1965, Camp Hawthorn, Kaiser, MO (Lake of the Ozarks)
When I first heard Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie‘s songs and stories, I thought they had stolen them from Big Mike (I was 7 when I met Big Mike…). Later, I realized it was the other way around. But, who cares? Big Mike brought Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul & Mary, Phil Ochs, John Lennon, Tom Paxton, Donovan, Jackson Browne, Tom Lehrer, Judy Collins, Odetta, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell and many more USA civil rights’ and social activists’ songwriters’ lyrics and melodies directly to us—mostly Jewish kids, from the suburbs of St. Louis, in the 1960s—while we learned to swim, make campfires, pitch tents, hike, canoe, sail, waterski and so much more.
I grew to love these songs whose lyrics explained class differences, racial injustices, yearnings for peace and equality, deep and abiding love for each other and for a special person, recognitions of mistakes and ways to rectify them, inchoate longings for a better world and to be a better person. I learned the words and melodies and sang them to myself all year long, for decades. I still remember most of them: “Banks of Marble,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Respect,” “The Song is Love,” “Both Sides Now,” “Fountain of Sorrow,” “Changes,” “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Reel, Oh Reel,” “Oleanna,” “Ain’t Gonna Study War No More,” “Summertime,” “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane,” “If I Had a Hammer,” “We Shall Overcome,” “There But For Fortune,” “The Draft Dodger’s Rag,” “Imagine,” “One Tin Soldier,” “The Sounds of Silence,” “This Land Is Your Land,” “Universal Soldier,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Black and White,” “What Have They Done to the Rain?” “Oh, Freedom,” “Hair,” “The Power and the Glory,” “I Ain’t Marchin’ Any More,” “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” “Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends,” “The Circle Game,” “Fixin’ to Die Rag,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!” “We Shall Not Be Moved,” “Four Strong Winds,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” “I Can’t Help But Wonder (Where I’m Bound),” “The Last Thing on My Mind,” “Ramblin’ Boy,” “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream,” “Eve of Destruction,” “How Can I Keep From Singing?” “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” I can’t ever list them all.
Big Mike helped create and then raised my social consciousness, informing without indoctrination so that we became subliminally aware of social/political music and key movements: 1963 was the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA, and the middle- to late 1960s were the Vietnam War’s protests’ heydays.
I hadn’t yet heard of the Freedom Riders (which was going on every summer I was first at camp!), I was too young to march in anti-war protests (14 in 1968) even if I had known about them. I was old enough to understand “Jim Crow” segregation and discrimination laws in St. Louis, Missouri, and HATED them. Big Mike and other camp songleaders chose songs whose lyrics’ sentiments felt right to me. I needed to sing, to protest, to be wishing and working for everyone’s equality and freedom. I was excited that more people felt that way I did than I had ever known existed.
At the above-mentioned camps, joining and adding to Big Mike‘s contributions, were several talented musical counselors and staff: special shout-outs to the Kean brothers, Ron and the late Mike (“Nix”); the cook, Maxine; “Fitz“; “Howdy” (Howard Schwartz) and “Twinkle” (Laura Resnick), for international and Israeli folk dancing fun; and, so many more, for adding to the songs and artistic experiences.
Big Mike‘s stories and songs my nascent ideas about social justice, fairness, anti-racism, anti-war, collaborating for peace and practicing nonviolence were developed and nurtured first. Blessings on Big Mike and his inspirations as well as his heirs and successors, forever.
Some places and people are pivotal in our lives, right? These people formed the foundations for mine, preparinhg me for the ones who came later.
Further creating a foundation and launching me into adulthood was a group of people I met in several places in the late 1970s in New England. Many of these key people lived at/founded or attended events at Boston’s mid-1970s spin off of Project Place, the Another Place Conference Center in Greenville, New Hampshire, and its spin-off, Spring Hill, Massachusetts, were then and later became great leaders of artistic social and political movements, personal growth and community-building for me and many others. Here are the “stars,” below.
Robert Gass
—It was through Another Place that I got to go to Spring Hill and meet Robert Gass and The Wings of Song band. Briefly, I performed with and sang in the band’s chorus (I am listed as “Sallie Fleishmann [neither name spelled correctly] on their first album, Many Blessings, pressed in 1980). Singing with this chorus was my first experience of spiritual uplifting through song. It had happened without my understanding it through some camp songs; Robbie‘s songs were intentionally written and selected to raise up the singers and the listeners, the audience and the dancers. We were inspired, connecting, infused with desires to serve and to love.
Robbie and his wife, Judith Ansara (Epstein) and a few others, created the formats for the popular personal growth Opening the Heart workshops (which I attended with my then-partner in 1979) which morphed into their current work, Sacred Union. Robert (as he became known, later) still sings, makes albums and leads people to inner and outer growth (now living in Colorado). Judith is also a dancer and a poet.
Robert Gass, circa 1989
I still hum and sing some of Wings of Song‘s tunes/songs to myself, but I can’t find my favorite anywhere online or for sale. Sad.
“Not My Will, but Thine” is the first line of the chorus, but I don’t know what title the song actually has. Perhaps “Teach Me to Love,” or “Kindle my Heart’s Flame” (all in the lyrics)?
If you know where to find a recording of this song, please email me at sallyember AT yahoo DOT com
Medicine Story
—I also met Medicine Story (Manitonquat, Francis Story Talbot) at Another Place in 1978. He is an author and storyteller as well as Native American activist who also lived at Another Place. Story, with his then-wife, Emmy (Emilia) “Rainwalker” Ianniello and their first son, formed the nucleus of the second of my many communal households in New England. Story and Emmy introduced me and dozens of others to Native American sweat lodges (building, experiencing ceremonies in, learning about) and to living in wiki-ups (outdoor structures more sturdy than tents), as well as to praying and connecting with the earth and animals and many other sacred rituals, origin songs and songs/chants.
Add these sweat lodge experiences to my Finnish saunas in Rhode Island (1977-78) and the Dutch-esque saunas at Stepping Stone Farm in the 1980s. When I went camping with some friends in the 1980s and 1990s (before hypertension took me out of the game) who were offering sweat lodges, they wondered how a Jewish girl from St. Louis knew so much about how to build them, use them, be in them? Why was I so comfortable with nudity in high heat and various ceremonial rituals that involved sweating and chanting? I mentally thanked Emmy and Medicine Story.
We would go into the sweat lodge to settle conflicts, build teams, get inspiration, celebrate a birth or birthday, prepare for a marriage, strengthen commitments, purify, cleanse, dream, remember, honor, be grateful, grieve, pray, sing and chant. Some participants used mind-altering substances in small amounts before or during; I did not. Many would fast beforehand; it’s recommended not to go into a sweat lodge on a full stomach.
This photo, below, is of a sweat lodge that looks a lot like the ones we built.
image from and FMI: https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/sweat-lodge.htm
If you’ve never built, prepared and then been in a sweat lodge, it’s probably impossible to imagine how close relative strangers can get and the kind of bonding that occurs during such experiences: unmatched.
Story and his second wife, Ellika Lindén, a playwright, actor, director, and collaborator, created Circle Way and currently travel around the globe to raise awareness of earth-related preservation and community-building.
Medicine Story and Ellika Linden
Bill Whyte and Katie Schwerin
—Several other songleaders, ritual organizers and community activists lived at and were my friends from that era, including those who shared our first New Hampshire collective household with Story, Emmy and their first son. Katie Schwerin and Bill Whyte and Katie’s daughter joined our group to live in Sharon, NH, in 1978-79.
In addition to learning many songs and chants from each of them, I also credit them with showing me how to live collectively, since we shared a household for two more years after that in several SW NH locations. We were pregnant at the same time and had our two home births (Katie‘s second; Bill‘s first and my only) in one of those homes in 1979-80 in Stoddard, NH. Katie and Emmy, with Cindy Dunleavy, all lay midwives, then (Cindy still delivers babies), attended the homebirth of our son.
Katie, along with director an co-creator, Pamela Faith Lerman (also someone I met in 1978 at Another Place), with about eight other women and I were in a show in Peterborough, NH, in 1980 that included poetry, songs and dramatic scenes from many feminist artists and sources, a fundraiser for a women’s health center we were trying to start for the Monadnock region.
Katie and Bill also founded and, with two of their adult daughters, operate the family-friendly Badger Balm, a “B” (Benefit” Corporation, that “makes certified organic and all-natural body & skin care products including healing balms, natural sunscreens, skin moisturizers, muscle rubs, aromatherapy and other personal care products,” Bill Whyte and Katie Schwerin, who run the business with their award-winning two daughters, Emily Schwerin-Whyte and Rebecca Hamilton.
Badger Balm‘s 2016 founders, family and staff
Katie and Bill taught me a lot about organic food (gardening and cooking), herbal and natural healing, nutrition, raising children respectfully and living collectively, starting me on a life-long path in those areas, beginning in 1978. Bill also introduced me to creative visualization and “green” building via his company, Whyte Light Builders.
Additionally, Katie brought Waldorf education (Rudolf Steiner’s schools) and the Unitarian Universalist (UU) community into our family’s life. Because of her influence and connections, I was hired to accompany the Eurythmy movement program classes for one year, in 1987, at the newly created Monadnock Waldorf School in Keene, NH, where we then lived. The following year, our son attended the Monadnock Waldorf School from 3rd – 8th grades (1988-1994). I took over the Director of Religious Education (DRE) position at the Keene UU Church in 1988 from her when Katie left on maternity leave and then to go back to school for her master’s in Waldorf education, where I stayed until 1990, when I decided to return school to get my master’s and doctorate in education myself.
1) The Monadnock Waldorf School‘s Eurythmy teacher then is the mother of ER and The Good Wife star, actor, Julianna Margulies;
2) Before he became my Buddhist teacher, Wyn Fischel (Lama Drimed)’s first wife, Susan, was a Eurythmy teacher;
3) Before I met him, Wyn taught woodworking at the other nearest Waldorf school, Pine Hill, in Wilton, NH.
4) For several dramatic productions, both I and my then-partner, Christopher Briggs Ember, helped with music, blocking, directing, make-up and other aspects of the plays for Monadnock Waldorf School.
It is not an exaggeration to say that my entire adult life would have been different (and much smaller and less satisfying) had I not had the great good fortune to become involved with the Schwerin-Whyte family. I am so grateful to know them. We all had so much hope, optimism, energy, faith…
Mario Cossa
Katie is also a performer whose interest in drama brought me to my long-time collaboration with Mario Cossa, playwright, actor, performer, dancer, singer, lyricist, songwriter, director, choreographer, and nonprofit manager who became a counselor and then psychodramatist.
—Mario Cossa is yet another person I met at Another Place in 1978 whose contact with me altered my life’s trajectory profoundly and for the better.
Because of and often with Mario, I was able to earn money through part-time and full-time work in areas I loved and have many amazing experiences, including:
working in several youth-serving nonprofits;
co-writing and -directing, performing in, narrating/facilitating audience-interactive performances for and touring with several plays and dozens of improvisational scenes (the play I wrote, Crystal Dreams, won a prize that featured a performance of it at a professional public theatre, the Portsmouth Theatre-By-The-Sea, in 1984);
Cast of Crystal Dreams, 1984
learning to tap dance;
learning some A.S.L. (American Sign Language) and using it in a few plays;
learning to and performing as a clown;
becoming involved in Co-Counseling International (CCI);
meeting Caroline Myss, who became a close friend of mine for many years;
practicing and learning more about conflict resolution and mediation;
improving my storytelling and writing;
expanding my repertoire for improvisational acting;
learning about and leading prevention/mitigation and education groups on topics ranging from substance/alcohol abuse/use, pregnancy postponement, HIV/AIDs, suicide, teen homelessness/running away, Tourette’s Syndrome, learning and behavioral disorders to family systems conflicts;
co-leading groups for kids, youth & adults/families that utilized expressive arts;
participating in collaborations with other organizations and individuals;
becoming more familiar with and meeting/working with interns and faculty at Antioch/New England Graduate School who were part of the Dance Movement Therapy profession (which my daughter-in-law graduated from in 2016, over twenty-five years after my first exposure to it);
taking groups of students to see live musical theatre productions in Boston and New York City for several years (we saw Rent, Big, Miss Saigon, and a murder mystery audience-interactive play whose name I can’t remember);
conducting ethnographic research on gender and sexual orientation social identities that became the basis of my dissertation for my doctorate degree;
co-writing, editing and figuring out how to get our nonfiction book about improvisational scenework for educational groups published, in 1996 (my first traditional publishing credit): Acting Out: The Workbook–A Guide To The Development and Presentation of Issue-Oriented, Audience-Interactive, Improvisational Theatre
editing and assisting with other pieces and books Mario wrote which also were published in the 1990s and 2000s;
Acting Out book cover
learning to write grants (to solicit funding from individual donations and family foundations for as low as $50 to multi-million/multi-agency federal proposals);
developing/designing and implementing program evaluations;
preparing and managing budgets; and,
working in outreach/marketing for nonprofits (something I did for many years for several other nonprofits).
Mario founded and runs Motivational Arts Unlimited, based in Bali, Indonesia, and travels around the globe doing psychodrama and sociodrama trainings, educational programs and certifications.
Mario Cossa, circa 2008
More in each about the impact, feelings, uses, singing spiritually
Ellen Fleischmann, my singer/songwriter, conductor/pianist middle sister, introduced me to Holly Near in 1978. THANK YOU, again!
I had told my sister that I was bored and needed music because I worked as a packer for a wholesaler/warehouse that packaged and shipped herbs, spices and essential oils to specialty and health food shops all around the USA, Attar, in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. I spent 30 hours each week NOT using my college degree in elementary education, having been burned by several jobs and needing a break. All day, I hefted huge barrels, bags and bottles and wrestled their contents into smaller containers/bags, boxed, labeled and prepared the boxes for shipping. I was usually there alone since it was a “mom-and-pop” shop and they had a young child. So, very under-stimulated, I craved music. Ellen sent me tapes from her dorm room at Brown University to play on my boom box.
—Oh, Holly! What a revelation it was to hear Holly Near‘s amazing voice, lyrics and energy pouring into my otherwise silent space. She also sent me tapes of James Taylor, Carole King and a few others, but it was Holly I kept coming back to and memorizing. “It Could Have Been Me,” from A Live Album, 1974, inspired by the government-sanctioned murders of college students at Kent State University in Ohio during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in 1970, made me cry, rage and want to continue to/return to ACT UP.
Her songs included sentiments about being bisexual and discovering her love for women for the first time in “Imagine my Surprise,” moved me because it spoke directly of my experiences. After my male partner and I had a child, her song “Started Out Fine,” made me laugh and cry. So many songs, so many inspirations, such great lyrics.
Holly‘s songs have supported and propelled movements, such as the “zipper” song (we can insert other lyrics in key places and keep singing): “We are a gentle, angry people, and we are singing, singing for our lives,” which became the AIDS’ activists’ anthem and the LGBT-rights’ marching song. I also memorized and sang, often:
We will have peace;
we will because we must;
we must because we cherish life, and believe or not, as daring as it may seem, it is not an empty dream, to walk in a powerful path;
either the first nor the last, on the Great Peace March:
Life is a great and mighty march.
Forever, for love and tor life, on the Great Peace March.
from “The Great Peace March,” by Holly Near
I listened to Holly for several more albums/years, but never got to see her live. UNTIL I found out that my good friend, the dearly missed Jaye Alper (her death anniversary/Yahrzeit was this past Tuesday, 5/8/18; gone 6 years; I miss her all the time), had a connection. Her mother, Jackie Alper, had been an original member of the singing group, The Weavers, which had included Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman , and Pete Seeger (Jackie had left the group to stop touring when she became pregnant with Jaye and to help fight the HUAC (McCarthy-era “witch hunts”).
Jackie Alper, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger,
the remaining Weavers, reunited, circa 1998.
Jackie had stayed active in the social justice/women’s music scene, having her own radio show (“Mostly Folk” on WRPI) for decades, helping start and run the Old Songs Festival (see below) in the Albany area, and staying friends with “Aunt” Ronnie, as Jaye knew her.
In the 1990s, Jaye contacted Ronnie, since Ronnie was performing, making albums and touring with Holly, and they were coming to the Boston area (where Jaye then lived). Jaye brought me backstage to meet them. I stood, starstruck, as Jaye and Ronnie hugged and talked. Holly was standing in the doorway, smiling at me and eating spaghetti, which she offered (I declined).
Holly Near, 1970
Holly started Redwood Records in 1972, “to produce and promote music by ‘politically conscious artists from around the world.'” She has included so many political activists/musicians on her albums, tours, and concert stages over the decades, many of which I was lucky enough to attend.
I learned a lot more about or heard for the first time the musicians affiliated with dozens of worthy causes around the world, their songs and political/social movements in the USA and elsewhere, that I never would have, otherwise, through Holly and her musical colleagues, including:
—the late Pete Seeger,
—Arlo Guthrie,
—the late Mercedes Sosa,
—Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock),
—Bonnie Raitt,
—Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert and Pete Seeger performed as HARP to raise money for various causes,
—Meg (Shambhavi) Christian,
—Cris Williamson,
—Linda Tillery,
—Joan Baez,
—the late Phil Ochs,
—Harry Belafonte,
—Emma’s Revolution (which includes Pat Humphries), and
—Inti-Illimani.
Beyond being a renowned and beloved singer songwriter, Holly is a former TV/film/Broadway star and ongoing political activist, still going strong at age 68. Holly Near has mentored dozens of others (see below) and continues to fill my life with inspiration and songs. THANK YOU!
In addition to introducing me directly to Holly Near, Jaye and Jackie Alper had invited me and my family to the Albany-area’s annual Old Songs Festival (officially, the Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance in Altamont, NY) where we got in free to help Jaye (as “Crystal,” the name she had gone by in the 1970s) sell iced tea and her famous baklava, chocolava and maplelava each June. The musicians there played music which has often been featured or discussed in Sing Out! magazine walked amongst and camped with us. We encountered, met, had lunches with and heard the late Utah Phillips, Sally Rogers, The Amidon Family, Arlo Guthrie, Pat Humphries, Cheryl Wheeler, John McCutcheon, Tom Chapin, and many more. Quite a scene, for a folk music lover like me!
Olivia Records
Beyond and including Holly Near, I met fans of “women’s music” through friends, lovers, colleagues and family members throughout the 1980s and 1990s, attending many concerts/performances and enjoying festivals outdoors when possible, which expanded my repertoire to include Margie Adam. “The Unicorn Song,” “We Shall Go Forth,” “We Are The Women We’ve Been Waiting For,” “Sweet Friend of Mine,’ and many excellent piano-accompanied songs became favorites I learned to sing and play on the piano (and lead in sing-alongs, sometimes).
After I moved to California in 2002, I went to many concerts and performances that featured Holly 9she lived about an hour from where I lived) and felt lucky to be able to see her perform and hear her speak so often. She was always on top of knowing what cause needed championing, available for fundraisers, awareness-raising shows and gatherings of all kinds. Holly always remembered me; in the smaller venues, she would smile and come over to say “hello” after her last encore. Before the spring of 2012 (when Jaye passed away), she had always asked about Jaye.
Both Jaye and Jackie had passed on before Pete Seeger (who left us in the winter of 2014), so I went to the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley to attend the tribute concert for Pete, which Ronnie, ill and using a cane, also performed in and which Holly was the emcee and main performer for; Holly and Ronnie had organized most of it. During intermission, Holly came over to me and we shared a few tears and a hug. What treasures these people are/were!
—Cris Williamson, solo and with Meg Christian, Teresa Trull, Tret Fure, Barbara Higbie, Linda Tillery, Lucie Blue Tremblay, and many more great women musicians, brought me and my family the inspiring and beautiful, fun-to-sing songs from Cris‘ albums, The Changer and the Changed and the musical play, Lumiere, and other amazing songs, like “Waterfall,” “The Changer and The Changed,’ “The Rock Will Wear Away,” “Lullaby” (“Like a Ship in the Harbor”), and “Lean On Me (I Am Your Sister).”
Meg & Cris at Carnegie Hall, 1982, album cover
I learned so much about feminism, bisexuality, intersectionality, positive parenting, social activism, many types of love, community and collective efforts from these wonderful musicians.
—The talented brothers, the late Happy Traum and the late Artie Traum were some of the musicians I met when I worked at Camp Med-O-Lark in Washington, Maine, in the early 1980s, because of my enduring friendship with yet again a contact from Another Place from 1978, Zea Moore. In addition to getting me and my then-partner two wonderful summers with jobs at this camp (because her then-partner, Neal Goldberg, owned and directed it), Zea introduced me to Wiccan & Goddess Chants, Libana, and so much more of the newly emerging women’s spirituality music and rituals.
Civil Rights, Environmental/Social Activist Musicians & Storytellers
Thanks to these live music venues, without whom I would not have heard most of these singers live: The Folkway (Peterborough, NH), The Iron Horse (Northampton, MA), The Colonial Theatre and the Keene State College’s 1990s Coffeehouse (Keene, NH), The Common Ground (Brattleboro, VT), Temple Mountain Ski Area (Temple, NH, outdoor concerts in the not-snowy weather), Passim Coffeehouse (Cambridge, MA), Brighton Music Hall (Brighton, MA), The Freight & Salvage (Berkeley, CA), ACTING OUT’s 1990s coffeehouse series (Keene, NH), and many more.
PLUS, radio stations that play and support “Americana,” “Women’s Music,” “Folk Music,” and many other overlapping genres that play music to inspire and activate us all. Here are some: KPFA (“Across the Great Divide” and “American’s Back 40” are my favorites, there); KRCB (used to have many shows; now, not so many); other NPR affiliates, everywhere; KDHX; WRSI; college/university radio stations also often have shows/D.J.s that feature great music like this. Check our your local or online options.
SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC!
—If you haven’t heard Christine Lavin‘s story songs, parodies and other political music, please give her a listen!
Please also go find and listen to the songs of any of the amazing individual singer/songwriters/activitists who also sometimes play as the group that includes Lavin, 4 Bitchin’ Babes:
4 Bitchin’ Babes (Christine Lavin, Sally Fingerett, Megon McDonough, Julie Gold), 1993
Patty Larkin (“Not Bad for a Broad,” “Metal Drums”)
Megon McDonough (“Amazing Things,” “Wake Up And Dream”)
Sally Fingerett (“Home is Where the Heart Is,” “Here’s to the Women”)
Julie Gold (“From a Distance,” “America,” “The New World,” “Love is Love is Love,” “Goodnight, New York/Ellis Island”)
and others have comprised this fun, talented quartet.
Also, these musicians/singers/songwriters are great to find/remember:
—Nanci Griffith (“Cold Hearts/Closed Minds,” “If These Old Walls Could Speak”),
— Fred Small (who began his career as a lawyer and later became a Unitarian Universalist minister and climate change activist/leader; “Peace Is,” “Only Love,” “No More Vietnams,” “The Peace Dragon”),
—Judy Small (unrelated to Fred, and a judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia who was previously an Australian entertainer, folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Known for her feminist, often patriotic, and political songs, usually following a traditional theme, she produced twelve albums) (“You Don’t Speak for Me,” “How Many Times?” “Montreal, December ’89 (What is it about men?”),
—the late Rosalie Sorrels (“I am a Union Woman,” “Always a Lady,” “The Baby Rocking Medley”),
—the late Stan Rogers (“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” “The Mary Ellen Carter”),
—RosenShontz, Bill Shontz and the late Gary Rosen (“Hugga Hugga,” “Share It!”)
—Betsy Rose (“I Can’t Imagine Life Without … (Popcorn),” “For the Mothers,” “Welcome to the Circle,” and who shares others’ songs, such as, “Return Again,” “Sending You the Light”),
—the late Malvina Reynolds (“Little Boxes,” “It Isn’t Nice,” “Turn Around,” “What Have They Done to the Rain?” “Magic Penny”),
—the late Peggy Seeger (half-sister to Pete, full sister to Mike) (“I Want to be an Engineer”),
—the late Dave van Ronk,”The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” who re-arranged and covered many “traditional” and others’ songs so well,
—Gould and Stearns (Stephen Stearns and Peter Gould),
—Ani DiFranco, founder/owner of Righteous Babe record label, a la Redwood Records and Oliva Records,
—Ruth Pelham, founder of “The Music Mobile,” which “brought singalongs, simple musical instrument construction, merriment and a message of hope to generations of youths at inner-city parks” in the Albany area for 39 years (“Look to the People,” “The Turning of the World,” “Under One Sky”),
—Bill Staines (“The Roseville Fair,” “A Place in the Choir,” “Child of Mine,” “River”),
—David Mallett (“The Garden Song,” “Open Doors and Windows,” Parallel Lives”),
—The Roches–Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche (“Dear Mr. Sellack,” “Another World”),
—Eric Bogle (“The Band Played ‘Waltzing Matilda,'” “No Man’s Land/The Green Fields of France”),
—Cosy Sheridan (“Quietly Led,” “The Losing Game,” “Sharp Objects”)
—Catie Curtis (“People Look Around,” “Truth from Lies”),
—Dar Williams (“When I Was A Boy,” “The Christians and the Pagans”),
—Lucy Kaplansky (“This Morning I am Born Again,” “Reunion”),
—Susan Werner (“Sunday Morning,” “Help Somebody,” “Heaven So Small,” “Did Trouble Me”),
—Cry Cry Cry, = Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell, with many others accompanying/doing back-up vocals (“Arrowhead,” “Ascent” — Shindell; “I Know What Kind of Love This Is,” “Fall on Me”—Cry Cry Cry),
—Molly Scott—not the politician! (“Centering Home,” “We Are All One Planet”),
—Si Kahn (“Gone, Gonna Rise Again,” “Aragon Mill”),
—Sarah Pirtle (“Earth, My Body” and more, here: http://sarahpirtle.com/hope-sings/index.htm)
—Susan Osborne, Paul Winter, David Darling and the rest of the Paul Winter Consort,
image of Paul Winter Consort band, circa 1978, from http://www.paulwinter.com/the-consort/
and many others previously mentioned in this post or which you find while wandering around YouTube and the internet listening to these. These singers/musicians share songs that are inspiring, moving, intelligent, funny, thought-provoking and insightful as well as musically very fine.
—There are many ministers, singers and song leaders I met through the Unitarian Universalist (UU/UUA) Association’s events and fellowships/churches, starting with Rev. Rick Paine (co-founder of Spring Hill and co-creator of the Opening the Heart workshops, with Robert Gass, Judith Epstein and others) and Rev. Sydney Amara Morris (co-founder of Another Place, with Bill Whyte and Mark Sarkady). Later, I met and sang with Nick Page (who doesn’t love to sing “More Love”?), and so many others. In 2011, the UUA published a great compilation of their music, 50 YEARS OF UU MUSIC, available here: https://www.uua.org/ga/past/2011/worship/185029.shtml , which features “Let It Be a Dance”). Also, check here: https://www.uua.org/worship/music and here: http://www.recessionals.org/ and here: https://www.uua.org/worship/music/hymnals
—Have to mention the great storyteller, singer, performer, Jay O’Callahan, since his stories and songs kept us happy on long car trips across the country in the 1980s, and we got to see him perform live in Boston during that time.
A Cappella Women’s and Other Choruses Respecting Socially Conscious Diversity
—I sang with and joined several choirs that are part of the Threshold Choirs as founded and formatted by Kate Munger,who led two groups I was part of in California in the mid 2000s. If you know someone ill, dying, or giving birth, that is the time these singers will come when asked (if there is a choir near you): A Capella singing at its best.
—The A Cappella singing of the singers of Sweet Honey in the Rock inspired many women to start community women’s choruses, and I was lucky enough to belong to two: the /Brattleboro Women’s Chorus, founded and conducted by Becky Graber, and Keene, NH’s Animaterra Women’s Chorus, founded and conducted by Allison Aldrich Smith (but now also conducted by Becky since 2016, after Allison moved to Maine), in the 1990s.
I miss those groups a lot and have never found any like them since then that met close enough to other places I have lived. If you are looking for a women’s chorus like these, check out this site and see if you get fortunate enough to live near one!
The Sister Singers Network is an international, “cooperative web of feminist choruses and ensembles, composers, arrangers, and individual singers working together to support and enrich the women’s choral movement.”
http://www.sistersingers.net/index.shtml#.WvNEeKQvypo
The Threshold Choirs (see above) are a part of this network, but have a specific mission.
[NOTE: I found and temporarily joined Charis: The St. Louis Women’s Chorus here in St. Louis, MO, and it is all females (except for the conductor, which I found odd), but the style, the music, the format, the ambiance weren’t at all like the A Cappella choirs in New England that I’d loved, so I dropped out after a few months. Not for me. Many love it, though, so if you’re local, you should try it out!]
As I said at the beginning of this post, this is what I meant when I said that attending and listening to Roy Zimmerman‘s lyrics and being at that performance was somewhat sad, bittersweet, in this horribly disappointing, discouraging, horrifying period in our lives.
Our generation, and specifically, some of the people I knew and admired enough to mention in this and other posts, HAVE accomplished a lot. However, so much of what we fought for and won is threatened, unraveling, already destroyed beyond repair: it’s happening RIGHT NOW.
What else can do besides sing, listen to and make music? VOTE! ORGANIZE! MARCH! OBJECT! RESIST! Please?
I end with this, one of my favorites, written by Sally Rogers, who also gives us “What Can One Little Person Do?” “In the Name of All of Our Children,” and so many more great songs,
“Love Will Guide Us”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xWMnf9SYjo or
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Regional themes > HIV/AIDS Last update: 2019-07-15
Coordinating with communities. Part A: Background to involving communities, 2007
Coordinating with communities. Part B: Taking action to involve communities, 2007
Internet tool supports youth reproductive health and HIV/AIDS policy development and implementation, May 2006
Como Viver de Forma Positiva: Um manual prático para facilitar a acção comunitária nas áreas afectadas pelo HIV/SIDA, Apr 2006
Comment Vivre Positivement: Un manuel pratique pour faciliter l'?action communautaire dans les zones affectées par le VIH/SIDA, 2006
How to live positively: a pratical manual for facilitating community action in HIV/AIDS affected areas, Jul 2003
Mitigation of HIV/AIDS-Impacts through Agriculture and Rural Development - success stories and future actions -, 27 May 2003
HIV/AIDS and the Food Crises in Southern Africa: An Agenda for Action Research and for Learning How to Respond, 13 May 2003
Learning to live positively:
A key development tool for promoting "treatment preparedness" amongst HIV/AIDS-affected rural communities in Africa
Sam Page1, Brice Gbaguidi2 & Fortunate Nyakanda3
CABI UK, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, African Farmers' Organic Research and Training (AfFOResT)
SARPN acknowledges Dr. Sam Page as the source of this document:
Community learning processes are crucial to increasing resilience to HIV/AIDS in Africa’s remote rural areas: This paper describes our experiences of using the “How to Live Positively” discovery-learning process to empower rural communities in Benin, Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe to reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, improve household nutrition and clean up their environment to reduce opportunistic infections. This process also promotes “treatment preparedness” amongst resource-poor farmers and should, therefore, be implemented alongside national and international programmes to roll out anti-retroviral drugs across Africa.
The extent of the AIDS problem in Africa
According to UNAIDS (2005) the HIV/AIDS epidemic killed more than 2.4 million people in sub-Saharan Africa last year, while an estimated 3.2 million more people acquired HIV during this time. This means that there are currently 25.8 million Africans, 57% of them women, who are living with HIV/AIDS. Most of these people live in remote rural areas and depend on subsistence agriculture for their survival. Extreme poverty is driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic: the poverty that forces men to leave their wives for many months at a time in order to find work and the destitution that forces women and girls to indulge in “survival sex” (De Waal and Whiteside, 2003). The deaths of so many men and women is thus plunging whole communities into destitution as their labour capacity weakens, incomes dwindle and assets are depleted (FAO, 2003)
Whereas much attention has been focussed on prevention of infection in young people and home-based care for patients with full-blown AIDS, little has been done in Africa to address the needs of millions of apparently healthy people who are still in the early stages of the disease. This is despite the fact that life expectancy for people living with HIV in Africa is comparatively short as a result of chronic malnutrition and ignorance of the underlying causes of opportunistic infections. African women are particularly vulnerable due to their continued subjugation at both family and societal levels. The premature deaths of these women are having terrible consequences on young children who are being orphaned prematurely. Such orphans are severely traumatised and, without guidance from a caring adult, are likely to grow up displaying anti-social behaviour, which will increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS (Page, 2001). Women are also the guardians of household food security and with their passing, indigenous knowledge on the production of food crops in Africa’s diverse and hostile environments, that has taken thousands of years to accumulate, is also lost.
Almost everyone in sub-Saharan Africa is now either affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS:
People are affected by HIV/AIDS either directly or indirectly. This could be because of the need to share household resources with orphans or someone who is dying of AIDS, or by being part of a community that is severely impacted by the pandemic.
Infected people are HIV positive and in the early stages of the disease can pass it on unwittingly unless they have access to voluntary counselling and testing. These people are susceptible to opportunistic infections and will quickly develop full-blown AIDS, in the absence of basic health care, a balanced diet and emotional support. This situation puts a great strain on the household and their contribution to the well-being of the community (Gari, 2001)
In the absence of a national welfare system, the impacts of HIV/AIDS become progressively severe in terms of increasing poverty and labour constraints, as time goes by. These impacts can be described as “moderate”, where affected households are barely able to cope with caring for orphans or a sick relative, to “severe” where a single adult is taking responsibility for the orphans or sick relative and “very severe”, where the carers are becoming sick and the surviving children begin fending for themselves (see Table 1). In Africa’s rural areas, households that are severely impacted by HIV/AIDS suffer from food insecurity and extreme poverty, together with the stress associated with these conditions. Such households are no longer able to be self-reliant due to fatigue, reduced access to land, declining soil fertility, erosion of indigenous knowledge, lack of appropriate seed and an inability to generate income. Systems of good agricultural practise must be developed to address all these problems at no cost and without increasing the demand for labour.
CABI UK, Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7TA, UK.
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 08 B.P. 0932 Tri Postal, Cotonou, Benin.
African Farmers’ Organic Research and Training (AfFOResT) P. O. Box WGT 1320, Westgate, Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Kaiser Chairman and CEO shares his experiences – offers ideas “to revolutionize” race relations
December 19, 2014 / How We See It
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When Bernard J. Tyson, the Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, accepted our invitation to speak at our upcoming CityBeat Breakfast, we were thrilled. We secured an industry leader who would share his insights into the future of health care and tell us how an organization with 175,000 employees attracts and develops talent.
What we didn’t know was that he would enter the national debate over race relations following nationwide protests over the Ferguson decision. Or that he would lay out a plan to improve race relations in America.
Why is this important? Because he has a message that should resonate with anyone who cares about the future of America. I encourage you to read it and to share it with your networks with the hope of starting positive conversations.
The following was first published by Mr. Tyson on LinkedIn on Dec. 4, 2014:
It’s Time to Revolutionize Race Relations
With the entire country seeing demonstrations following the Ferguson decision, I’ve had colleagues and business partners ask me my thoughts — not from my perspective as the Chairman and CEO of a $55 billion organization — but as a black man in America.
You would think my experience as a top executive would be different from a black man who is working in a retail or food service job to support his family. Yet, he and I both understand the commonality of the black male experience that remains consistent no matter what the economic status or job title.
This post is not to complain about what is, but instead offer hope that we can harness the positive energy from the demonstrations for change and start a new chapter in America based on better understanding of race relations.
As Americans, we must deal with behavior that is unacceptable in today’s global world. The first step in changing negative behavior is to understand the underlying imagery of the black male, which doesn’t represent reality. Whether it’s Michael Brown in Ferguson, Trayvon Martin with his Skittles®, Eric Garner who died after a chokehold, or the 12-year old killed because he was waving a toy gun, when you see a black man killed, the imagery is more complicated than one might think. For example, words used by the white police officer to describe Michael Brown included adjectives such as hulking and demonic — words that bring up images going back to the days of slavery.
If you’re not black, it’s hard to relate to situations as a black man might. So you know I’m speaking from a realistic rather than theoretical standpoint, here are a few personal examples I’ve experienced in the past couple of months:
Recently I was shopping in an upscale store and I was being watched and also followed by an overly anxious person. This was not someone trying to be helpful, but someone who was assessing why I was there. Other shoppers did not have “help” following them throughout the store.
I have gone to dinner at fine restaurants and had the food server explain the tipping program, since apparently black men don’t understand this concept.
Sometimes I observe two or three white customers ahead of me and after me pay by credit card — and I am the only one singled out to provide proof of who I am before I can make my purchase.
Most CEOs don’t leave their corporate offices, change clothes, and have car doors locked as they walk by or women move to the other side of the street hugging their purses as they see me out exercising. Even as a CEO, the black male experience is my reality.
Years ago, my father taught me explicitly how to behave myself if ever confronted by a police officer and I experienced being disrespected in my early twenties by someone who was supposed to protect my rights. I hold to this day that the biggest battle within me was the rage at how I was being treated while having to do what my father told me and respond appropriately. If I acted out how I was feeling at the time, I might not be here today.
So where do we go from here? In the Ferguson situation, we need to disregard the small percentage of criminals who are getting publicity for their destruction of property and instead pay attention to the sincere marchers and protestors who are voicing their demands for change. This is our opportunity to focus on improving race relations for the future, especially for young black men and also for those picked up to be deported based on their race. A few ideas have great potential to revolutionize race relations:
I endorse the idea that every police officer videotapes interactions as the first major step to protect both individuals and the police officers.
We must engage community activists to sit down with police, the government and local businesses to work together in different ways. Over time we will see the current environment of police officers going to white neighborhoods to “protect and resolve issues” and going into black neighborhoods to “combat and control” change to become a culture of police officers being in all neighborhoods to protect and participate.
We must collectively support local school and church leaders as they reach out to youth and adults to start a more positive dialogue to make all our neighborhoods safer.
We can ask businesses in our communities for their support as we build a greater sense of community, both locally and nationally.
The pursuit of life, liberty and happiness can become a reality for everyone if we eliminate issues standing in the way of improved race relations. I love this country and we’ve made so much progress, but we’re not there yet. With deeper understanding and thoughtful and positive participation, America — and Americans — can live up to our full potential in a country built on diversity of thought, spirit, race and experience.
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Category Archives: Jianbing
China-United States: Two states that never intend harm can begin to perceive each other as growing threats
What’s going in Pacific these days is very interesting, America’s concerns about rising Iran and China’s defences within a region is one rise. How should America respond to that? The collapse of the Soviet Union had persuaded China’s leaders that an arms race with the world’s only superpower could squander enough money to pose a threat to the party’s grip. To challenge America head on made no sense. Instead China put its efforts into affordable “asymmetric” weapons. Earlier December, Economist published an extensive REPORT on rising China, with oulining the options US have in western pacific. China is becoming a military force to reckon with in the western Pacific. How should America respond? According to this report Three areas of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) modernisation stand out. Before I comment of these, have a look:
First, China has created what the Pentagon calls “the most active land-based ballistic- and cruise-missile programme in the world”. The Second Artillery ( is the strategic missile forces of the PLA) has about 1,100 short-range ballistic missiles facing Taiwan and has been extending their range and improving their accuracy and payload. The Second Artillery is also improving its medium-range ballistic missiles, able to carry either conventional or nuclear warheads. PLA is developing the world’s first anti-ship ballistic missile, fitted with a manoeuvrable re-entry vehicle for added menace.
Second, China has transformed and enlarged its submarine fleet, which can now berth in the newly completed base on Hainan Island. In the eight years to 2002 China bought 12 Russian Kilo-class submarines, a big improvement on its own Ming and Romeo class boats. Since then the PLA navy has been introducing longer-range and stealthier Chinese designs, including the nuclear-powered Jin class, which carries ballistic missiles, and the Shang class, a nuclear-powered attack submarine. China has about 66 submarines against America’s 71, though the American boats are superior. By 2030, according to the Kokoda Foundation, an Australian think-tank, China could have 85-100 submarines.
Finally, China has concentrated on what it calls “informatisation”, a tongue-twister that Jiang Zemin coined in 2002 to describe how the PLA needs to function as one force, using sensors, communications and electronic and cyber-warfare. China now has a good idea of what is going on far into the Pacific, thanks to a combination of satellites, over-the-horizon radar, medium-range surface-wave radars, reconnaissance drones and underwater-sensor arrays.
What does this amount to? Military experts in America, Australia and Japan think China’s new arsenals are a greater threat than its higher-profile plans to launch aircraft-carriers in the next decade or so. According to the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), an American research institute, Chinese firepower threatens America’s Asian bases, which until now have been safe from all but nuclear attack. The Second Artillery’s missiles could swamp the bases’ defences and destroy runways as well as large numbers of fighters and ships. Japan is already within range of Chinese missiles, many of them currently pointing at Taiwan.
PLA’s Modernisation
The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed the existence of the DF-21D land-based ASBM system, which is the world’s first and only of its kind. By combining manoeuvrable re-entry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system, the DF-21C is capable of targeting a slow-moving aircraft carrier battle group from a land-based mobile launcher. The maximum range of the missile was said to be 3,000km, possibly achieved by carrying a smaller payload.
Considering the first modernisation: Currently China is developing a land based DF-21D (Nato reporting name CSS-5 Mod-4) Anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM). DF-21D ASBM is based on DF-21 (see above) is a two-stage, solid-propellant, single-warhead medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM). Its beauty is being High Hypersonic (capable of cruising at Mach 10). It has a range of 3,000 km (1,900 miles). This extends the range of DF-21 upto Malacca, Strait (Refer to the figure taken from Economist):
China’s submarines, missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles threaten America’s aircraft-carrier strike groups within 1,000 to 1,600 nautical miles of the Chinese coast
DF-21D ASBM – would be the world’s first and only ASBM and the world’s first weapons system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. It is evident today China can project power out from its coastline well beyond the 12-mile (19km) limit that the Americans once approached without a second thought. These would combine maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with some kind of terminal guidance system. Launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 (shown below) and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites would give the Chinese targeting information from SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and visual imaging respectively.
Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1
The upgrades would greatly enhance China’s ability to conduct sea-denial operations to prevent US carriers from intervention in the Taiwan Strait. DF-21D highlights the fact that the U.S. can no longer assume naval supremacy. China has recently launched a series of satellites to support its ASBM efforts. This range includes: Yaogan-VII electro-optical satellite (December 2009), Yaogan-VIII synthetic aperture radar satellite (December 2009) and Yaogan-IX Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS) constellation (3 satellites in formation) (March 2010).
DF-21A MRBM System in service with the PLA Second Artillery Corps (Chinese Internet)
Furthermore, The DF-21 has also been developed into space launcher and anti-satellite/anti-missile weapon carrier named Kaituozhe 1 Space Launch Vehicle. KT-1 (see below) is a four-stage, solid-propellant space launcher based on the DF-21 design. It is capable of placing up to 50kg payload into 600km Low Earth Orbits (LEO). The launcher made its maiden flight in September 2002 and then a second flight in September 2003, none of which was fully successful. CASIC also developed a larger KT-1A, which is capable of sending 300kg payload into the Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) and polar orbit, and the KT-1B with even greater payload capability (400kg and up to three separate payloads). None of the two designs has ever been launched.
A larger size KT-2A (later renamed KT-1B) was designed for polar orbits missions with greater payload capability (~400kg and up to three separate payloads)
According to a report by Aviation Weeks and Space Technology on 17 January 2007, U.S. intelligence agencies believed that China carried out a successful anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test on 11 January, destroying the retired FengYun-1C meteorological satellite with a kinetic kill vehicle launched onboard a modified intermediate-range ballistic missile. The launch vehicle used during the test was speculated to be the KT-409, a derivation of the KT-1 solid-propellant space launch vehicle. The report suggested that the FengYun-1C satellite (launched in 1999) was attacked by an ASAT system launched from an unknown location near Xichang Satellite Launch Centre (XSLC) as the satellite at 530 miles (853km) altitude 4 degree west of Xichang. The attack occurred at about 17:28 EST on 11 January 2007 (22:28 GMT, 06:28 on 12 January local time).
Originally developed for strategic purposes, the DF-21’s later variants were designed for both nuclear and conventional missions. As well as a nuclear warhead of around 300kt, it is thought that high explosive, submunition and chemical warheads are also available. Final in the DF-21 class is SC-19 Kinetic Kill Vehicle Carrier. The launch vehicle for the kinetic kill vehicle (KKV) used during China’s first ASAT weapon test in January 2007 was reported to be SC-19, a modified variant of the DF-21 or KT-1.
Pacific in name only
Comming back to the Economist report, the article concludes that cold warriors are suffering from a bad case of “enemy-deprivation syndrome”. For all the uncertainties in this debate, three things are beyond dispute. These are:
First, China has already forced American ships to think about how and when they approach the Chinese coast. The closer American vessels come, the more missiles and submarines they face and the less time they would have to react to a strike. To deny America possession of seas it has dominated for decades, China does not need to control its own coastal waters; it just has to be able to threaten American ships there.
Second, China’s ability to project power is improving. Its submarines, fighter aircraft, missiles, and cyber- and electronic warfare, once poor, now pose a threat. China’s weapons will continue to improve, and its forces will gather experience. Provided that the economy does not fall over, budgets will grow, too, absolutely and possibly as a share of GDP. Other things being equal, China can project power into its backyard more easily than America can project power across the Pacific Ocean.
Third, although the United States is able to respond to China, it will have to overcome some obstacles first. America’s military spending in Asia is overshadowed by the need to cut overall government spending and by other military priorities, such as Afghanistan.
All this points to an important principle. Military planning is framed differently from diplomacy. Diplomats are interested in what they think states intend to do, but military planners have to work with what they think states can do. Intentions change and states can mislead. If you are charged with defending your country, you need to be able to meet even improbable threats.If you do not arm, you leave yourself open to attack. If you do, you threaten the other country.
Sources: A special report on China’s place in the world [The Economist, 2 December 2010]. Sino-Defence.com [4th June 2010]
Filed under Anti-ship ballistic missile, ASN-206/207, Asymmetric Weapons, Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), Chengdu Aircraft, China, China Air Force, China Defence, China submarines, Chinease Defence, Chinese Defence, DF-21D, Jianbing, Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1, manoeuvrable re-entry vehicles (MaRVs), Russian Kilo class, Xianglong UAV
Tagged as Apertur Radar Sattelite, ballistic missiles, China, DF-21D, Geostationary Transfer Orbit, Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1, kilo-class, KT-1, Low Earth Orbits (LEO), nuclear warheads, People Liberation Army, Russia, USA
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10/11/2013 Burgert van der Westhuizen South Africa *Fatal*
Post by alb » Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:29 am
Fatal shark attack at Jeffreys Bay
Port Elizabeth - A man has died after a shark attack at Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Friday.
"At approximately 11:30 NSRI Jeffreys Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a shark incident at Lower Point, next to Albatros Beach, Jeffreys Bay," the NSRI said.
Remains of a body, believed to be an adult male, were recovered from the water and handed to police and forensic pathology services.
According to Algoa FM, the man was believed to have been snorkelling when he was attacked.
There were reports that two sharks were involved, but this was apparently due to the large size of the shark involved in the attack, which was estimated to be four metres long.
The beaches in the area have reportedly been closed.
Witnesses took to social media to describe the situation.
Surfer Carel Olivier tweeted: "Just saw NSRI carry the body of a shark attack victim in bag. Hectic man. No surfing today."
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Re: 10/11/2013 Burgert van der Westhuizen South Africa *Fat
Post by alb » Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:58 pm
Swimmer bitten in half by great white in South Africa named
The swimmer who was bitten in half by a great white shark in South Africa's Jeffreys Bay has been named as 74-year-old local, Burgert van der Westhuizen.
According to the IB Times, Burgert was an experienced open-water swimmer who regularly swam along the coastline of Jeffreys Bay.
He was snorkelling in the popular surfing area at Lower Point, Albatross Beach in the Eastern Cape on Friday when he was attacked by a 12ft shark.
In what has been described as a terrifying attack, the shark took several bites at van der Westhuizen before a surfer, Terry Olivier, kayaked to the scene and tried to bat the shark away with his oar.
But the animal was not deterred and came back for a second attempt, when Olivier saw the shark grab Burgert's torso and carry it underwater.
Realising there was nothing more he could do, and that he too could be in great danger, he paddled back to the shore.
Allison Kuhl, of the Supertubes Surfing Foundation, said her son Zach has witnessed the attack.
According to the Independent Online, she said: "He saw a shark lifting the man up and down out the water, and there was blood everywhere."
After hearing of the attack, Kuhl raced to the beach. She said: "Through the binoculars I could see that there was blood everywhere. I have seen fins in the water before, but this time you could see a lot of the shark's body. I could also see the man's blue swimming cap."
Witnesses first thought there were two sharks involved because of its length but it was later reported that a single shark more than four metres long killed the Burgert, who was married.
It is the first fatal shark attack at Jeffreys Bay, which is hailed in the top five surfs spots in the world.
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SMASH: Fact or Fiction?Sharon Wheatley February 08, 2012 Smash11 Comments
SMASH Fact or Fiction? Episode 1 (Come Play Along)
Happy Wednesday! Did you watch SMASH? Let's continue with part two of my SMASH blog series. If you missed yesterday's post about Why Smash Matters, check that out, too.
So we all know SMASH is a TV show, and we're excited to have a show about Broadway on TV. Deep down we know it's a fictional TV show an not a documentary. But.....as a Broadway insider it's enormous fun to talk about what is "real" and what isn't.
Let's get right to it, in a new segment I like to call:
SMASH Fact or Fiction? It's a game show! Everyone please pull out your buzzers and prepare. The top scorer wins the prize behind door #2.
1) In the opening scene, KMP (Katharine McPhee) is seen singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in a fantasy sequence. She is snapped back to reality by the director taking a phone call during her audition and while she is singing. Does that really happen? Fact or Fiction?
Fact.
More common is texting and checking of e-mail, which happens throughout an audition, but absolutely people answer their phone. I have a friend who says they delivered lunch while she was singing. I can add an onstage story--once when I was doing CATS, a group of people came back after intermission and sat down in their onstage seats (CATS on Broadway had onstage seats). During Old Deuteronomy's song--which is very quiet and starts the second act--they passed out the coffee and doughnuts they'd purchased down the street during intermission. My favorite moment? When one of the ladies kept saying, "Pass me one more Splenda." to her friend four seats down, and then, "No, I got the jelly, not the glazed." Full voice. Onstage. While he was singing. So yes. We are trained like combat fighters. We keep going no matter what.
Here's my question about that scene, and it is for the performers out there. Do you guys take all your stuff into auditions? Like, they both had their bags with them, and they took off their coats in the room, etc. I tend to leave mine in the hall and pray I won't get robbed. What do you do?
Here's my observation of that scene. She leaves the audition and slams the door.
Wouldn't happen. Never. No way. You slam a door at an audition and you are black listed from that casting office. Yes, you immediately call and bitch about it to your spouse/significant other/agent but you don't slam the door on the way out. Actors worry way to much about pissing people off to do that.
2) A massive apartment on Riverside drive, and an entire brownstone in (I'm assuming) Brooklyn? Do theater writers make that much money? Fact or Fiction?
The jury is out on this and here is why. All we know so far is that they've had one big hit. We can assume they've had more, but that looks more like TV money or Hollywood money, not really theater money unless you've had a long running hit. Yes, Sondheim owns a brownstone in Gramercy Park and Sir Lloyd Webber owns Buckingham Palace (basically), but they're very established and older and have written for TV and film. So, we just don't have enough information to answer this yet, although I loved a friend's tweet about it (he's an actor and a real estate agent), "So the young songwriter lives in a classic six on Riverside Drive? Hmmmm." We're skeptical over here in Broadway land. I'm calling it the "Friends" kind of New York living, where all living spaces are supersized for TV purposes.
Here's my observation: Kudos to the realistic depiction of the difference between how actors live and how "creative" people live. Notice that Ivy (Megan Hilty) is on Broadway in a hit show, but she still has a dinky kitchen. Notice how tricked out the director's apartment is. This is because people who create shows get "points" in the show (a percentage of the profits) so they make a bundle if the show is a hit. Actors--except in rare instances--do not get points and live pay check to pay check, making minimum. Thumbs up. Accurate.
3) Is it really like that backstage at a theater? Fact or Fiction?
Fiction. I'll point out three things.
1) I don't think you're going to see a composer in the wings, especially in the way of the entrances and exits, during a show.
2) That was a really nice chorus girl dressing room, particularly that it was painted that lovely pink. They are usually a 60-year-old off white and the paint is peeling. At the Golden when I was doing Avenue Q we begged to paint our room--said we'd do it ourselves--and we were denied. I forget why. Now, that said, some people (like Linda Balgord) make a dressing room fabulous, but that is a principal room (one person) and not a whole group.
3) I don't think the composer would come into a ladies dressing room in the middle of the show for a heart to heart with a chorus girl. Too many boobs for a gay guy.
Here's my observation: None of the above bothered me at all. It just made for good TV.
4) Megan Hilty's character Ivy does the demo recording and the "audition" baseball number without getting paid. That seems like a lot of work for free. Fact or Fiction?
Fact. That just couldn't be more factual. The amount of work Broadway performers do for free in the hopes that they will then get taken along with the project is staggering. If we do a "29 hour reading" of a show (which is 29 hours of rehearsal in a week with a presentation for financial backers at the end of the week) there is sometimes a very small stipend--read SMALL--I'm talking, they cover the cost of your subway fare. Doing something called a "workshop" which is what they are casting in the first episode, pays slightly more money and gives you certain rights.
Here's my observation: I like that they made Ivy re-audition for the workshop even though she'd already put in so much work for free--I thought that was totally realistic. Happens all the time. In fact, I had to re-audition to get into the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera even though I'd been a "vacation swing" there for years (covering actor's vacations). By the way, I did not get the permanent job.
5) KMP gets a call from the director late at night asking for a coaching session at his apartment, she is there in 20 minutes, and is supposed to sleep with him to get the job. Does this really happen? Is there a casting couch in theater? Fact or Fiction?
This might be a controversial decision, but I am going to call this one fiction.
I've taken an informal poll of my nearest and dearest friends in the business and tried to cover a wide span of ages, genders and sexual orientations. Not a single person I spoke to had ever heard of anyone getting a late night call DIRECTLY from the director of a show, and I could not find anyone who had even heard of someone sleeping with anyone to get a part.
Now look--I am not saying it doesn't happen because (as my friend David said) "Men are dogs." But even he couldn't think of anyone. Maybe one, was his final answer. It is something people like to speculate about ("She probably slept with him to get this job.") but the reality doesn't seem to be there. On a personal note, I will say that my during my very first performance of The Phantom of the Opera, which was on tour and we were in Denver, I was accused of only getting the job only because my husband was the conductor of the show. I remember distinctly saying to the guy, "The reality is I was cast because I fit in the $30,000 dress and they didn't want to have to alter it. I also think my previous Broadway show experience helped. But that's okay if you want to think that." I know I was snarky to him, but trust me when I say that he deserved it and he was always fairly respectful to me after that.
Here's my observation: I like that they showed Ivy throwing up before the audition--which I've never done, but I know others who have. (try singing after that). I also love that KMP didn't sleep with him and said, "Never gonna happen." Great TV.
Final question:
6) That whole segment where they were singing in the shower and singing in the cab and singing as they walked down the street, that was just cheesy TV stuff, right? Fact or fiction.
Fact. Absolutely fact. David and I were talking tonight about how we warm up on the way to auditions; we sing in cabs, we sing walking down the street--and my personal favorite--I wait until a subway car is coming as I wait for the train and sing full out as it arrives. I might look crazy but NO ONE can hear a thing when that subway is rolling to a stop. Most embarrassing? (And this happens all the time) Singing full out on an empty elevator just to find a crowded hallway of people who can hear you as the doors open. Mortifying but necessary. And pretty funny.
I'm going to stop here. If you have other FACT or FICTION questions, let me know and I will do my best to find out.
I hope you liked the show, I loved it. Hang in there with it--first episodes are notoriously hard to write because so much information has to be crammed in. It will find it's footing. I promise. Theresa Rebeck's smart.
If this seems fun, I'll write SMASH FACT OR FICTION after each new show. Thanks for playing!
SMASH Fact or Fiction? Episode 2 "Callback"
SMASH: Fact or Fiction?Sharon Wheatley February 16, 2012 Smash
Daily Dose (Why SMASH Matters)
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Signs the White House Clearly Needs to Hire A Proofreader
Published on Jun 26, 2018 by Rose Burke
Donald Trump might go through advisors like a puppy goes through its chew toys, but somehow none of them can handle the small task of proofreading. As a member of the generation that grew up on spell check, I can’t spell to save my life. But I have an app for that. And a Chrome extension. And enough respect for the English language to Google any word that I’m unsure of. Besides, as a writer, the whole proofreading thing is kind of part of the gig. If only the writers over at the White House felt the same way! From emails and Twitter updates to official documents, here are just a few signs that the White House needs to hire a proofreader. Desperately.
Apparently Barbara Bush Went Back In Time To Die
When former First Lady Barbara Bush passed away several months ago, the statement released from the White House didn’t exactly do her justice. Unless, of course, she went back in time to die peacefully in 2017 when the world was slightly less screwed up. If only they had run the document by a proofreader, who likely would have caught the fact that the current year is actually 2018. No wonder Barbara didn’t want Trump at her funeral.
An Executive Order Isn’t Important Anyway
The most recent blunder to come out of the White House has been making its rounds in the media, and it’s pretty bad. In the title of an executive order, which is a document straight from the president designed to manage the federal government, the word “separation” was misspelled. It was literally one of the biggest words on the page, and no one caught it. If this isn’t a sign that a proofreader is necessary, then I don’t know what is.
An Official List Of Unreported Terrorist “Attakers”
In an official list released by the White House, a few dozen unreported terrorist attacks were mentioned. Not only was the word attacker spelled wrong, but it was spelled wrong twenty-three times in a row. Additionally, one of the cities on the list was also spelled wrong, and it was later proven that some of the information provided was incorrect. At least one of the mentioned “unreported” terrorist attacks was in fact reported. If only there were people whose job it was to avoid these sort of embarrassing mistakes!
We All Want Lasting “Peach”
When it comes to the United States government, press releases are just about as important as executive orders, so it would make sense that a typo would appear in this document. The press release explained what Trump’s goals were while abroad in Israel, and it would appear that he aimed to “promote the possibility of lasting peach” between Israelis and Palestinians. And that’s not the only error in the document. Does the White House not have enough money for computers? Are they typing these up on some kind of ancient typewriter? Maybe they don’t need a proofreader so much as they need an IT pro to come in and show them how to run an update on their word processing program.
Trump Can’t Even Make Demands Right
Hear by? No, sorry Trump, it’s hereby. And since when can the president of the United States make official demands on Twitter? Using hereby (or “hear by”) might make this statement sound more legitimate, but it’s hardly the platform POTUS should be using to make such a declaration. Especially if he isn’t going to spell it right. Perhaps “hear by” is part of some kind of spell he’s putting on us to keep paying attention to the nonsense he has to say. Let me try it. I hear by demand that Trump jumps off a cliff.
An Awkward Introduction
In another official White House document, Trump’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz made a fool of himself by introducing himself with an unfortunate typo. Of all the words to misspell in this letter, “Predisent” has got to be the most embarrassing. Aside from that horrendous error, a proofreader would have been able to catch the sudden change of font and awkward spacing between sentences. At least Kasowitz and Trump have something in common, a unique way of leaving a lasting impression.
A Divided Country Will “Heel”
Our president doesn’t even know the difference between heal and heel. Think about that for a second. It’s not even a commonly confused homophone like “their” and “there” or “your” and “you’re.” This is just one of the many reasons why the White House needs to hire a proofreader. Perhaps other countries would respect our government a bit more if they actually took the time to look over the things they write before publishing them. Even Trump’s tweets should be reviewed, especially when they’re being written in the middle of the night.
It Started Before Trump Took Over The Country
Before Trump had even moved into the White House, a period in time that will likely be referred to as The Golden Age in the history books, he and his team still couldn’t put a sentence together. This is Trump’s official inauguration portrait with that incredibly obvious grammatical error smack dab in the middle of the page. If you didn’t catch it, the second half of the first sentence should read, “…no challenge is too great.” Perhaps this poster was made during a time when the creator thought it would never be used. To their surprise and ours, it was.
Make “American” Great Again
Obviously, Trump’s team is quite useless in regards to proofreading the content they release both online and internally. Even on Trump’s own website, his presidential slogan was wrong in the title. Likely the article was written by an intern or someone pretty low on the totem pole, so why not hire someone to take on the role of editor or proofreader? It would appear that White House employees aren’t being paid enough to put that kind of effort into their work though. Perhaps we should pay them more out of our pockets. Giving them a bit extra of our hard-earned money just might encourage them to get a handle on these simple tasks.
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World Cup Dream Team
Karthick Gopal
12th ICC World Cup is coming in 2019. SportsDoo releases its cricket world cup dream team based on the previous performances and the records. The analysis for selecting each player has been given in the article along with their position in the team.
Ricky Ponting has been named Captain for the team due to his successful captaincy. There are 3 full time fast bowlers, 1 spinner in the team. And to assist them, there are 2 part time spinners and 1 part time fast bowler.
SportsDoo team (World Cup) – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting [C], Kumar Sangakkara [WK] [VC], Yuvraj Singh, Kevin O’Brien, Brendon McCullum, Lance Klusenar, Muttiah Muralitharan, Lasith Malinga, Glenn McGrath
Sanath Jayasuriya (Opening Left hand batsman)
The left handed batsman from the island nation has the most destructive attack against the strong opponents. The Sri Lankan is also an useful part time spin bowler. The all rounder is the only player in the world cup history to score more than 1000 runs and take more than 25 wickets. The carnage batsman was the real maestro in the 1996 world cup triumph of Sri Lanka. The part time spinner had contributed much along with Muralitharan and also has good economy rate of 4.84
Country – Sri Lanka
Tournaments played – 5 (1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007)
Player of the Match Awards – 5
Special Mention – Jayasuriya was named Player of the tournament in the 1996 World cup. The only player in the history to score more than 1000 runs and take more than 25 wickets.
Sachin Tendulkar (Opening right hand batsman)
India’s most prolific batsman and considered as God of Cricket, this legendary right hand batsman had a good run in the world cup tournaments. He was one among those who played 6 world cups consecutively. The maestro had a good run in 2003 tournament and was a pioneer in 2011 winning team. The master blaster was named player of the tournament in 2003 World cup tournament.
Country – India
Tournaments played – 6 (1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011)
Special Mention – Highest number of runs (2,278), Most centuries (6), Most fifties (16), Most Man of the match awards (9), Most runs in a single tournament (673), Player of the tournament in 2003 WC.
Ricky Ponting (Right hand batsman – No. 3) [CAPTAIN]
The most successful captain in the world cup history is Ponting. The Australian captain had lifted the world cup 2 times consecutively and has more win percentage. He was instrumental in winning 2003 world cup by scoring 140 runs against India. Mostly, he plays at number 3 and can play measured innings.
Country – Australia
Special Mention – Most number of matches (46), Most matches as captain (29), Most win percentage (92.85%), Most catches overall (non wicket keeper) (28), Most catches in a single tournament (11)
Kumar Sangakkara (Wicket Keeper, left handed batsman – No. 4) [VICE CAPTAIN]
The left handed batsman adds key strength to the middle order in the batting line up. The Wicket Keeper had made more dismissals in the World cup history. He also captained Sri Lanka team in 2011 World cup and ended as runners.
Tournaments played – 4 (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015)
Special mention – Most centuries in a single tournament (4), Most Consecutive centuries (4), Most dismissals as a Keeper (54)
Yuvraj Singh (Left hand batsman – No. 5)
The left handed batsman was destructive batsman and also plays as a part time bowler. He was the savior for India more number of times. In 2011, Yuvi was in prime form and adjudged player of the tournament. He was the only player in the history to take 15 wickets and score 350 runs in a single tournament.
Tournaments played – 3 (2003, 2007, 2011)
Special Mention – The only player in the history to score 50 runs and take 5 wickets in a single match, Most Man of the Match in a single tournament (4), Player of the tournament in 2011 WC.
Kevin O’Brien (All rounder – No. 6)
The right handed batsman was instrumental in some shocking matches. Against England he scored his century and made a record for himself. Unfortunately for this 2019 World Cup, Ireland didn’t qualify.
Country – Ireland
Special Mention – Holds the record for the fastest century (50 balls)ever in world cup history against England in 2011 World cup. He scored this feat at number 6 position. He was instrumental in winning against Pakistan and England.
Brendon McCullum (Wicket Keeper(back up) – No. 7)
The Kiwi batsman had been in various positions in the team. He was introduced as number 7 batsman in the team and went on to become as an opener in the world cup history. The wicket keeper batsman has scored quick fifty both as an opener and at number 7 position. He captained New Zealand team and guided the team to the finals for the first time in the history.
Country – New Zealand
Tournaments played –4 (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015)
Special Mention – Fastest 50 ever in World cup history. Scored fifty in 18 balls against England in 2015 World cup.
Lance Klusenar (All Rounder – No.8)
Klusenar was a former South African cricketer, an usual all rounder and number 8 prolific batsman. He had scored usual contribution at number 8 position. The left handed batsman had saved his team many times by his lower order hitting ability. Also the right arm medium bowler took 6 five wicket hauls in the tournament. The all rounder’s crucial cameo 31 runs from 16 balls in 1999 world cup against Australia in Semi finals saw the team to get tied while chasing. Klusenar would be perfectly fit for number 8 position in our team.
Country – South Africa
Tournaments played – 2 (1999, 2003)
Special Mention – Highest average (124) in World cup tournaments, highest strike rate (121.17) after playing 10 matches, Most Man of the Match in a single tournament (4), Player of the tournament in 1999 WC.
Muttiah Muralitharan (Spinner – No.9)
The wizard from Sri Lanka has the most wickets as a spinner in the world cup tournaments. The doosra spinner was present in the 1996 world cup winning team, and came to the finals two times (2007 and 2011)
Tournaments played – 5 (1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011)
Special Mention – Spinner to take most wickets in a World cup history (68), Second in the list to take more wickets in a single tournament (23).
Lasith Malinga (Right arm Fast medium – No. 10)
The lanky fast bowler known to his slinga action was remarkable in world cups. The right arm fast bowler is the only player to take 2 hat tricks in the tournament. He is one among those who are still present in the team after 2007 world cup.
Tournaments played – 3* (2007,2011, 2015, 2019*)
Special Mention – The only player to take 2 hat tricks in the World cup history. Only player to take 4 wickets in consecutive balls (Double hat trick)
Glenn McGrath (Right arm Fast medium – No. 11)
The bowler with the nick name as pigeon was one among those legends in the bowling legacy. He was introduced as express fast bowler in 1996 tournament but couldn’t get success, later on he reduced his speed in 1999 wc and took 5 wickets against the mighty West Indies team. He was part of the 3 world cups winning team (1999, 2003 and 2007). McGrath was named player of the tournament in 2007.
Special Mention – Highest wicket taker in World cup history (71), Most wickets in a single tournament (26), Most wickets in a single match (7), Most world cup titles (3), Player of the tournament in 2007 WC.
Brendon McCullum
Glenn McGrath
Kumar Sangakkara
Lance Klusenar
Muttiah Muralitharan
Ricky Ponting
Sanath Jayasuriya
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Progress and Potential for Achieving Cleaner Air on a Global Basis
April 20, 2018 Asianet Pakistan Asean, General
Adoption of New Generation Diesel Technology
Delivers Rapid Clean Air Benefits
New understanding of global air quality highlights the need for technologies like
new-generation diesel engines, which are capable of accelerating emissions reductions
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Recent reports highlighting air quality conditions in the United States (State of the Air) and globally (State of Global Air 2018) celebrate the progress made in developed and developing countries, but also emphasize significant disparities in progress toward reducing levels of key pollutants such as particulate matter and ozone.
“Achieving continued clean air progress while also sustaining economic growth is possible. Cities and countries must move to proven cleaner engines and fuels,” said Allen Schaeffer, executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum. “We can and should bring the tremendous benefits of new technology diesel engines to communities and countries large and small around the world so they too can reduce emissions while efficiently building their economies and infrastructure, improving the quality of life for people everywhere.”
“While it is surprising the extent that particulate matter from household cooking and non-transportation sources contributes to the health burden in the new report, the opportunities for reducing fine particle emissions from the motor vehicle and industrial engine segments are also part of the solution,” said Schaeffer. “Worldwide harmonization of fuel quality and vehicle engine emissions standards would leverage the societal benefits of new diesel technology to more users around the world.”
For example: Today, nearly one in every two trucks on the road in the United States are equipped with fine particle- and smog-reducing advanced clean diesel technology. In the most comprehensive study conducted on these engines, The Health Effects Institute found “substantial emissions and health benefits from US 2007/2010 and Euro VI/6 engines,” demonstrating “dramatic improvements in emissions and the absence of any significant health effects.”
In 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenged diesel engine and truck manufacturers to achieve near-zero emissions in their products by 2010, with diesel off-road equipment manufacturers targeting 2014. Following a switch to ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel in 2006, today’s industry has not only met the near-zero challenge, but is well into the second and third generations of new diesel technologies. The industry continues to build on this success by seeking lower greenhouse gas emissions and greater fuel efficiency for the diesel engine.
The societal benefits of these efforts are now clear: According to the American Lung Association’s analysis, “…the best progress [in 2018] came in the continued reduction of year-round particle pollution, thanks to cleaner power plants and increased use of cleaner vehicles and engines.”
“Clean diesel technology plays an increasing role in helping cities, states and countries achieve cleaner air quality worldwide,” said Schaeffer. “The latest generation diesel engines – ones that use selective catalytic reduction systems and diesel particulate filters – offer near-zero particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. With such technology, NOx emissions can be reduced by up to 90 percent while simultaneously reducing hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions by 50-90 percent, and PM emissions by 30-50 percent. Ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel immediately cuts soot emissions from diesel vehicles and equipment by 10 percent.”
The State of Global Air 2018, compiled by The Health Effects Institute, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, and the University of British Columbia, dramatically expands our understanding of all the sources that contribute to fine-particle air pollution; this was identified as the greatest environmental risk factor worldwide. Ninety-five percent of the world’s population lives in areas exceeding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guideline for healthy air, and nearly 60 percent live in areas that do not meet even the WHO’s least-stringent air quality target.
“Global considerations of air quality improvement must go beyond the road transport sector because diesel engines not only power the majority of commercial vehicles, but also nearly all marine and rail, industrial, agricultural and construction machines and equipment,” said Schaeffer. “Similar clean diesel technologies that reduce fine particle emissions from commercial vehicles are now available in these large engine applications.”
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Mississippi Gun Control Laws
Gun control laws can be a controversial topic. Undeniably, the U.S. Constitution in the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to own guns. However, there’s much debate as to the extent that gun laws need to be regulated, what types of guns should be illegal (if any), and what types of individuals, such as those with serious mental illness, can lose the right to own firearms.
Mississippi has loose gun laws as compared to most of the United States. Gun control law proponents, such as the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, give Mississippi an F grade for its gun laws. The primary areas of contention involve the state's not requiring background checks before transferring guns between private parties, not prohibiting 50 caliber rifles and assault weapons, nor limiting the number of guns that can be purchased at one time.
The following table outlines the main gun control laws in Mississippi.
Code Sections Mississippi Code Title 97: Crimes, Chapter 37: Weapons & Explosives
Illegal Firearms Although some people believe all guns should be legal, due to federal and state laws, as well as for the safety of residents and cops, some guns and firearm accessories can’t be owned and used in Mississippi:
Machine gun or fully automatic firearm
Short-barreled rifle less than 16 inches or a shotgun less than 18 inches
Silencer or muffler for guns
Toy pistols that can fire or make an explosion (cap pistols are expressly excepted)
Armor piercing ammunition
Waiting Period None
Who May Not Own Guns Several defined groups can’t legally own guns in Mississippi, including:
Students living on a campus or education property (although off-campus storage could be possible)
Children and youth under 18 years old
Convicted felons (unless they have certificates of rehabilitation which is possible to receive through a court petition and expungement process)
Individuals who are chronically intoxicated
People who have voluntarily or involuntarily been committed to mental health facilities (unless recovered for at least 5 years)
Firearms On or Near School Grounds It’s a felony for anyone to possess or carry an open or concealed firearm of any kind, bomb, grenade, etc. on school properties. It’s also a felony to encourage or help a child under 18 to carry a gun or weapon to school (except BB guns). The penalty for either is up to 3 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
You can, however, if the person isn’t a student, has a gun in a car, and doesn’t display it in an angry or threatening manner. Also, parents or guardians who have a gun in their car when bringing or picking up kids at school isn’t a crime.
This section also doesn’t apply to military, National Guard, mail persons, or law enforcement officers when acting in official duties, home schools, or competitors in organized shooting events.
If you have questions about your gun rights, you should contact a Mississippi criminal defense lawyer. However, if you’ve been harmed by a gun, such as with a misfire or other problem, or any other product, you can check with a product liability lawyer about your options.
Note: State laws are revised regularly, it’s best to contact a lawyer or conduct your own legal research to verify these gun laws.
Official State Codes
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Grand Mozart
by Ama Deus Ensemble
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Baroque and Classical period performance orchestra, chorus and soloists perform the monumental "Grand" Mass in the completed, liturgical version and a piano concerto all performed with energy, emotion and excitement.
Genre: Classical: Mozart
1. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: I. Allegro
Ama Deus Ensemble & Valentin Radu
2. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: II. Larghetto
3. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: III. Allegretto
4. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: I. Kyrie
Ama Deus Ensemble & Andrea Lauren Brown
5. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: II. Gloria
Ama Deus Ensemble
6. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: III. Laudamus Te
Ama Deus Ensemble & Sarah Davis
7. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: IV. Gratias Agimus
8. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: V. Domine Deus
Ama Deus Ensemble, Andrea Lauren Brown & Sarah Davis
9. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: VI. Qui Tollis
10. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: VII. Quoniam
Ama Deus Ensemble, Andrea Lauren Brown, Sarah Davis & Timothy Bentch
11. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: VIII. Jesu Christe/Cum Sancto
12. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: IX. Credo
13. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: X. Et Incarnatus
14. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XI. Crucifixus
15. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XII. Et Resurrexit
16. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XIII. Et in Spiritum
Ama Deus Ensemble & Timothy Bentch
17. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XIV. Credo in Unam
18. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XV. Et Vitam
19. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XVI. Sanctus
20. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XVII. Benedictus
Ama Deus Ensemble, Kevin Deas, Andrea Lauren Brown, Sarah Davis & Timothy Bentch
21. Grand Mass in C Minor, K. 427: XVIII. Agnus Dei
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in c minor (K. 491) is dated 24 March 1786 in his autograph catalog of works, K. 491 combines the timbral features of its two predecessors K. 482 and488 by emphasizing minor keys in its opening and closing movements and by expanding the wind contingent. One of only two concertos composed by Mozart in a minor key, the C minor Concerto No. 24 is a work that reflects the increasing density and complexity of Mozart’s music, the development of a style that already perplexed many of his contemporaries.
Mozart’s two greatest religious works were left unfinished, but for very different reasons.The Requiem was interrupted by Mozart’s own mortal illness. The Mass in c minor, K. 427,Mozart’s other monumental sacred work, remained in an incomplete state for reasons that are not clear. It remains one of the monumental choral works of the Classical period. Like the Requiem, it was left incomplete with missing movements provided by his mentor and friend, Sussmayr. All of the music not originally composed for this mass setting is by Mozart, taken from other works, mostly also incomplete.
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Ambassadors to attend meeting in Russian Foreign Ministry on Skripal case
Many experts have shared their views and assessments on the Skripal case, but due to London’s position no one knows what type of substance had been used in Salisbury
MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. Foreign ambassadors will arrive in the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to receive clarification on the situation around the UK’s statement on the use of nerve agents for poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova invited the ambassadors to Moscow on Tuesday. "We’ve invited all the ambassadors accredited in Russia to a meeting with the top officials and experts of the department for nonproliferation and arms control," Zakharova said. "The main topic will be the situation around the UK’s allegations on the use of a nerve agent on its territory."
Many experts have shared their views and assessments on the Skripal case, but due to London’s position no one knows what type of substance had been used in Salisbury, she said. "Consequently, all the allegations only distract attention from the main issue, which is the UK’s reluctance to provide any materials to Russia on the background of showering it with loutish accusations," Zakharova stressed.
Ambassadors making a decision
The ambassadors of the UN Security Council’s permanent member-states to Moscow have not commented on the invitation so far. The UK Embassy told TASS that the decision on taking part in the meeting would be made on Wednesday.
The Embassies of China, the United States and France said they could not answer the question.
Diplomatic missions of 144 states recognized by the UN are located in Moscow as well as the Embassies of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were recognized by Russia and several other countries as independent states.
Ex-Colonel Sergei Skripal from Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent on March 4 and found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, UK. Both of them have been hospitalized and are in critical condition.
British authorities blamed Russia for the poisoning, but failed to provide any evidence to support their accusations. Russia refuted all of London’s allegations. With that, UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats and the suspension of high-level bilateral contacts. On Saturday, in response to London’s moves, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Russia had declared 23 British diplomats personae-non-gratae and would expel them within a week, close the British consulate general in St. Petersburg, and terminate the British Council’s activity in Russia.
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Trump sees no grounds to pardon jailed Russian pilot — Russian human rights chief
Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko who is serving his 20-year prison term in the US jail
© AP Photo/Evan Vucci
MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Russian human rights ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova told TASS on Monday the United States authorities have turned down her appeal to pardon Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko who is serving his 20-year prison term in the US jail.
"I have received a response to my appeal to US President Donald Trump asking to pardon Konstantin Yaroshenko. The letter, signed by the Secretary of State and written at Trump’s instruction, says that they see no grounds for pardoning and consider the sentence legal and well-grounded," she said, adding that the response to her appeal had been received by the Russian Foreign Ministry last week.
Incarcerated Russian pilot faced abuse by US prison authorities for three months — wife
"Since the United States has no human rights ombudsman, contacts are maintained via the Foreign Ministry," she noted.
Konstantin Yaroshenko was convicted in the United States in September 2011 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The pilot was brought to the United States from Liberia, where he had been arrested on May 28, 2010. Agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration operating under cover allegedly exposed Yaroshenko’s criminal intention to transport a large batch of cocaine. He pleaded innocent, described his arrest as a set-up and said all charges against him were fabricated.
He is serving the prison term at the Fort Dix federal prison, New Jersey.
Russia has repeatedly requested the United States to extradite Yaroshenko.
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Crescent Moon With A Star – An Islamic Symbol For Faith And Heritage
All life is touched and stimulated by the moon, particularly dark life. The flora and the fauna also dance in lunar reels, enchanted by the moon. Oceanic mouths open, as well as close in a serenade to the lunar phases. And also, people that are linked-in with hidden powers of the cosmos are prompted to bask in lunar rays for authentic illuminations.
This is a life-affirming symbol. It seems to be changing all the time, hence, reminding people of the consistency of all life. The moon is also a symbol of the cyclical nature of time – even karma. Life moves in non-linear terms, and we all know that karma is a big circle. The moon in her phases also reminds us of this kind of infinite process of regeneration and recycling. Here, we are going to focus on of the crescent moon, and its symbolism when accompanied by a star.
Nowadays, this symbol is universally recognized as the symbol of the Islamic faith, and for that reason, it appears on the flags of a lot of countries in which Islam is a state religion or which has a largely Muslim population. Right now, there are eight countries which have this symbol on their national flags, and all of them are Muslim-majority.
The crescent moon with a star – history, and representation.
As we already mentioned, this is the general symbol of Islam, representing the waning moon and the morning star. The five points of the star actually represent the five pillars of Islam, the Muslim religion which was found by the prophet Mohammed: the profession of faith; prayer; giving of a small percentage of the income of a person to help the poor; fasting in the month of Ramadan; and also pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
However, the crescent and star symbol was not always associated with the Islamic faith. Before the discovering of that religion, the crescent symbol existed in ancient Greece, where it has been associated with different moon goddesses. It has been later adopted by the Byzantines, who utilized it to represent the goddess Artemis. When the capital of Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, became Christian in 330 CE, and 8-pointed star, which is a frequent symbol of the Virgin Mary, was added to the crescent to create the city flag.
So, this was also the symbol of Constantinople, which today is the city of Istanbul, at that time being the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium. When the Turks succeeded in conquering Constantinople, they also adopted the symbol of the city, appropriating it for the Ottoman-Turkish Empire. Eventually, the use of this symbol spread to the flags of the Islamic countries.
The crescent moon with a star tattoo design, meaning, and symbolism.
Both the moon and the star or stars are among the most popular tattoo designs in the whole world. However, what is the unique significance and symbolism behind this tattoo accompanied by a star?
Centuries ago, long before the Turk peoples converted to Islam, as well as adopted the crescent moon with a star as a central emblem for their national flag, the moon and the star were actually symbols of their shamanistic beliefs. It was also seen as the symbol of the ancient city of Constantinople, Istanbul nowadays, which was conquered by Osman, who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. Osman dreamed of a crescent moon which was hanging over the whole world, so he actually kept it as the symbol of his conquest and also as a symbol of the Ottoman dynasty.
As the battles between the Turks and the Christians raged all over Europe and beyond, this symbol with a star was mistakenly attributed to the Islamic faith. But, Islam has historically had no symbol or symbols, and a lot of Muslims find the use of this symbol blasphemous, even nowadays.
The crescent moon with a star was also a common symbol used in tattoo art, particularly by those that were Muslims and wanted to represent their Islamic heritage, as well as faith.
A crescent moon and star tattoo may be done in a lot of different designs and have a great number of meanings. A lot of people focus on the traditional, as well as the simple design of a crescent moon with a star which stands in the open area of the moon. This became a widely utilized tattoo symbol around the world.
There is actually controversy over the meaning of this symbol. Some people utilize the crescent moon and star tattoo as a symbol of the Islamic faith and heritage, while others believe that the moon and stars are actually a symbol of the curiosity of human beings when learning about the tides, universe, as well as time.
Overall, the basic symbolism of the crescent moon with a star tattoo design is open to interpretation, and it may be modified in order to fit the personality of different wearers and tattoo lovers.
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New Nokia Ad Poster Confirms The Launch Of New Nokia X
The Nokia X returns! What was once the Finnish company Nokia’s first smart mobile phone with the Android operating system will now return to the market later this month with a modern version. After earlier this month we knew that the Korean company was working on a new model of smartphone, we now have confirmation that this is the return of the Nokia X.
We knew that HDM Global had scheduled an important event for next April 27 in China and everything indicated that it would be a new smartphone – after having presented three Android One phones in the MWC 2018, along with two high-end terminals, Nokia 8 Pro and Nokia 9. Now we know that it will not be the only news of the company for the first half of 2018: it is also about to present the Nokia X.
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Maybe you have some distant memory of the first Nokia X with Android, although it was not very successful. Presented in 2014, it was a special version of Android, low-end, with a price close to 100 dollars, which had its own store of applications leaving aside Google but compatible with their services. A smartphone that arrived to differentiate itself but that barely managed to get it.
In its old days, it could not succeed that does not imply that it can not do it now, right? At least that must be thought from HDM Global, company that has the rights of Nokia and has decided to bet to bring back the Nokia X. To know it in full we have to wait until the end of this month, however, we have an advance of the Main features of the Nokia X.
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In the promotional image of the event, we see an X formed by two crossed mobile phones that give us some clues about what we will see in two weeks. You can see that the back will be metal, the corners will be rounded and the screen will be of 2.5D glass. Another outstanding aspect is that this terminal could have up to five interchangeable lenses, approaching to be a high range.
An advance that has left us half, since there are many questions left unanswered. Among them, what will be the price of the Nokia X, if it will be sold in India or when it will be available. Some answers about the return of the Nokia X that we will solve on April 27.
So, what do you think about this? Simply share all your views and thoughts in the comment section below.
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Who’s Next? The Bulldog
By David Heiden
The Tech Hockey Guide staff brainstormed potential candidates and settled on our top picks. Through the next few weeks we will break down potential candidates while discussing pedigree as a player and coach as well as likelihood of being Coach Pearson’s replacement. This morning, we discussed UMass Amherst’s Ben Barr. Now we’ll discuss Brett Larson, a Duluth, MN native and assistant at the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
At first glance, Larson feels like a clone of several of the other candidates we’ve profiled such as Dane Jackson, Keith Fisher and Seth Appert. He definitely fits the “few ties to the UP, but has a good resume and will be looking for head coaching experience” mold. Coming from Duluth however, Larson will have a better understanding of the north country and the Keweenaw compared to other candidates in similar positions. Larson both played against and coached against MTU as recently as October 2016.
College: Minnesota-Duluth
Birthplace: Duluth, MN
Current Position: Assistant Coach, Minnesota-Duluth
As a Duluth native and Bulldog defenseman, Larson has spent nearly his whole career tied to the University of Minnesota – Duluth. In four years playing on the blue line for the Bulldogs, he accumulated 67 points (24G, 43A) and wore the Captain’s “C” his senior year. Larson spent 12 years playing pro hockey in the minor leagues and sunk his teeth into coaching as a player-coach with the San Diego Gulls of the WCHL. Larson joined the UMD staff in 2008, returning to college hockey and his hometown in doing so. Larson spent three seasons on the staff as an assistant at UMD.
Credit: Minnesota Duluth Athletics
After winning the 2011 NCAA National Championship at UMD, Larson left to become head coach of the USHL’s Sioux City Musketeers and associate head coach the Ohio State Buckeyes. In Columbus, Larson joined his former UMD colleague and assistant coach Steve Rohlik, who had taken over as head coach of the Buckeyes. Larson returned to UMD in 2015 as an assistant head coach. the Bulldogs are 47-23-12 since Larson returned to Duluth and won the 2017 NCHC tournament title before losing in the NCAA National Championship game.
Brett Larson has a pedigree similar to many of the other assistant coaches around the NCAA, and he’ll be looking to add NCAA head coaching experience to his resume as well. Fresh off an NCAA National Championship Title game appearance, his stock is currently very high. Larson was behind the bench for both of UMD’s recent NCAA tournament appearances, their firsts since 1985. He also has experience head coaching and acting as a GM at the USHL level, which we know from the MTU job posting that Athletic Director Suzanne Sanregret is looking for. Some of the players Larson coached/recruited at UMD include:
Jack Connolly (Hobey Baker Winner)
Justin Faulk
Justin Fontaine
Alex Iafallo
Being a Duluth native, Larson is also more likely to understand and look for a life in the UP compared to many of the other NCAA assistant coaches who we have profiled. He has been to Houghton numerous times and faced MTU at the beginning of the 2016-2017 season. While Larson has been associated with UMD most of his career, he has taken several other coaching positions outside of the Bulldog organization. Current UMD head coach Scott Sandelin has been coaching the Bulldogs since the 2000 season, and his only NCAA National Championship appearances have been with Larson as his assistant. At the age of 52, it is unlikely that Sandelin will be looking to retire in the next few years and with recent NCAA National Championship appearances it is unlikely Sandelin will be let go, so Larson will probably need to leave Duluth if he wants to pursue a head coaching position any time soon.
Like many other NCAA assistant coaches we have highlighted, Larson has very strong ties to the university he is currently employed with. Larson grew up near, played for and has twice coached at UMD . While it may be a few years before Sandelin retires, MTU may be looking to avoid borrowing another school’s rising star again.
At first glance, Larson feels like a clone of several of the other NCAA assistant head coach candidates we’ve profiled, however he has some upsides which the others do not. He is a top assistant at a top program, and has familiarity with the UP and Tech from playing them over the years. While Larson has cultivated very strong ties to the UMD Bulldogs over the years, there is reason to believe he can and will leave Duluth for an opportunity to head coach at the NCAA level.
Featured image courtesy of Minnesota Duluth Athletics.
Brett Larson
About David Heiden
David graduated from Michigan Tech in 2010 with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. His love of hockey started at MTU with seats on the glass next to Misfits, and quickly turned into an addiction. He has often been known to plan travel around the Tech hockey schedule, but now prefers slightly higher seats to see scoring chances develop. David joined THG in 2015 and writes the Weekend Wrap Ups and Road Trip articles. He lives in White Bear Lake, Mn.
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Israel Jails Arab Poet for Online ‘Incitement to Terrorism’
An Israeli court jailed an Israeli Arab poet for five months on Tuesday after convicting her of incitement to terrorism for a poem and remarks she posted on social media during a wave of Palestinian street attacks.
Dareen Tatour, 36, posted on Facebook and YouTube a video of herself reading out her poem “Resist, My People, Resist”, as a soundtrack to footage of masked Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli soldiers.
Tatour published her poem in October 2015 during a spate of deadly Palestinian stabbing, shooting and ramming attacks on Israelis. She was arrested a few days later, and prosecutors said her post was a call for violence. She denied this.
Her case became a cause celebre for freedom of speech advocates in Israel and abroad. It drew attention to the advanced technology used by Israeli security agencies to trawl through social media to identify and arrest users suspected of incitement to violence, or of planning attacks.
Tatour said her poem was misunderstood by the Israeli authorities as it was not a call for violence, rather for non-violent struggle.
U.S.-backed negotiations on a Palestinian state in territory Israel captured in a 1967 war have been stalled since 2014.
Tatour was also charged with supporting a terrorist group. Prosecutors said she had expressed support for the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad’s call for an uprising.
“I wasn’t expecting justice to be done. The case was political from the start, because I am Palestinian and support freedom of speech,” she told reporters at the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court in northern Israel.
Arab minority
Tatour belongs to Israel’s Arab minority, which comprises mainly descendants of the Palestinians who remained on their land after the 1948 Arab-Jewish war that surrounded the creation of the state of Israel. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven from their homes.
The court added a six-month suspended sentence to Tatour’s jail time, according to the official minutes distributed by the Justice Ministry. Her lawyer, Gaby Lasky, said Tatour would appeal both the verdict and the sentence.
Israel says the string of Palestinian attacks that began in 2015 was fueled by online incitement and it has launched a legal crackdown to curb it.
Indictments for online incitement have tripled in Israel since 2014. Prosecutions by the Israeli military have also increased in the occupied West Bank – most of those charged are young Palestinians.
The campaign against alleged incitement has raised questions about the balance between security and free speech.
On July 18 the Israeli parliament was set to pass legislation that would have empowered the justice system to order Internet providers, such as Facebook and Google, to take down social media posts in Israel deemed as incitement.
But hours before the scheduled vote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelved the bill. An adviser to Netanyahu, Jonatan Urich, said the law was open to a too-wide interpretation that could allow cyber-censorship and harm freedom of speech.
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HomeSportsRowingMixed results at Head of the Charles Regatta
Mixed results at Head of the Charles Regatta
Temple places well in Club Fours race, struggles in Championship Eights Sunday.
20 October 2013 Steve Bohnel Rowing, Sports
The Head of the Charles Regatta ended up being a tale of two days for the women’s rowing team.
On Saturday in the Club Fours race, the Owls had a strong showing as their two boats finished 11th and 15th out of 45 teams, with times of 19:39.263 and 19:49.106 respectively.
Sunday was a different story, as the Owls finished dead last in a field of 39 teams, with a time of 20:19.746. This was due largely to a Non-Yield Interference violation that added a minute onto the Owls’ final time.
Despite the poor Sunday, coach Rebecca Grzybowski was positive with her team’s performance during the weekend.
“I was really proud of how we represented Temple, and our team,” Grzybowski said. “I think they did a great job against some really, really fast crews.”
When asked about the violation in the Championship Eights race, Grzybowski said she wasn’t sure of when the violation occurred.
“To be honest, I don’t even know what happened with that, in terms of where and when,” Grzybowski said. “Because the race is three miles [long], I didn’t get to see all of it, and there are referees stationed along the way, so somewhere along the course someone thought we didn’t yield a turn or something like that. There was a lot of action on the course, so I really don’t know.”
However, there were some positives to pull from the weekend. One is that the Owls were able to send three boats up to Boston (two more than last year) to compete in the world’s largest two day regatta. Another is how aggressive the women were when it came to racing in the huge event.
“The best thing I saw, especially in the championship today, was that they were really aggressive,” Grzybowski said. “Like I said, we were up against some really fast teams, but we raced the whole thing and stayed very internal. We definitely have some things to work on, find some extra power in the winter, through some fitness. But I think we’re in a really good spot heading into the last fall race next weekend and then into the winter.”
The Owls will conclude their fall season back home on the Schuylkill River in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta on October 26.
Steve Bohnel can be reached at sbohnel@gmail.com or on Twitter @SteveSportsGuy1.
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A Supreme Court Majority Admits 911 Calls Into Evidence, But Justice Thomas Seeks More Protection for Domestic Violence Victims Part One
A Supreme Court Majority Admits 911 Calls Into Evidence, But Justice Thomas Seeks More Protection for Domestic Violence Victims: Part One
By JULIE HILDEN
julhil@aol.com
Tuesday, Jun. 20, 2006
This is Part One in a two-part series on these two end-of-Term cases. - Ed.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision resolving two companion cases, Davis v. Washington and Hammon v. Indiana, relating to the constitutionality of admitting certain evidence in criminal cases. The decision was 8-1, with Justice Thomas concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part.
In the first case, the Court affirmed as constitutional the use of an accuser's 911-call recordings against the defendant in a criminal case, even when the accuser declines to testify or cannot be located, and thus cannot be cross-examined.
But in the second case, the 8-1 majority held unconstitutional the use of on-the-scene affidavits gathered by police, when their purpose is to establish or prove events for a later criminal prosecution.
The Case's Importance: A Key Ruling for Domestic Violence Victims
This decision may be of particular importance in domestic violence cases like the two that were before the Court here. Reportedly, domestic violence victims often refuse to testify at trial for fear that the original perpetrator may harm them again, in retaliation for their testimony. And that creates a very ugly dynamic: The more threatening and violent the defendant is, the less likely the victim may be to risk his wrath by testifying against him - and the more likely she'll be a no-show when subpoenaed. A defendant who makes threats against a woman's children, in particular, may easily coerce her refusal to testify.
Ironically, given the consequences for domestic violence victims, former women's rights advocate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was among those who joined the majority in leaving one victim out in the cold, while protecting the other. In contrast, Justice Clarence Thomas - not considered a feminist by a long shot -- would have protected both women, as he made clear in his dissent.
While domestic violence victims may be especially benefited by the 911-call ruling, the ruling is applicable much more generally. This ruling should make prosecutors' lives easier in any case where intimidated and frightened witnesses turn out to be no-shows for trial despite subpoenas, or cannot be located because they have gone into hiding.
The Confrontation Clause: The Right of the Accused to Have Prosecution Witnesses Appear in Court To Testify
The Constitution's Sixth Amendment recognizes a number of rights of the accused. At issue in yesterday's decision was its guarantee that "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him."
This clause - called the Confrontation Clause - serves a number of values. Like the evidence rule barring hearsay, the Confrontation Clause ensures that certain out-of-court witness statements that are not susceptible to cross-examination cannot form the basis of a conviction. In our system, the ability to cross-examine witnesses - a process designed to test their truth -- is part of what's deemed necessary for a fair trial.
Also, in a more visceral sense, the Clause typically forces a testifying witness to look into the eyes of the person whom his or her testimony may send to jail. Exceptions are rare, and require strong justification: One was recognized by the Supreme Court in 1990, in Maryland v. Craig. There, the Court allowed a child who was alleged to be an abuse victim to testify via a one-way television - so the defendant could see the child, but the child could not see the defendant - based on the trial court's finding that two-way television would traumatize the child. And even that was a 5-4 decision - showing how seriously the Court takes the Confrontation Clause's protections.
(If a particular statement is not covered by the Confrontation Clause, separate rules against the admission of hearsay may still apply. But these rules are not constitutionally based, and thus are subject to alteration. Moreover, hearsay rules have many exceptions - among them, an exception for "excited utterances" that would cover virtually all 911 calls, as well as many on-the-scene statements to police. Thus, there is good reason for defendants to invoke the Confrontation Clause, rather than simply relying on the protection of hearsay rules.)
Supreme Court Doctrine: Restricting the Confrontation Clause to "Testimonial" Statements
Significantly, the Confrontation Clause requires that a defendant be confronted, in particular, with "witnesses." Based on this reference to "witnesses," as well as consultation of the relevant historical sources, the Court has interpreted the Confrontation Clause to bar only the "admission of testimonial statements."
So which statements are "testimonial" and which are not?
Here's the Court's current guidance on the issue, from yesterday's decision:
A statement is "nontestimonial" "when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency."
Conversely, a statement is "testimonial" "when the circumstances objectively indicate that there is no such ongoing emergency, and that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution."
The Court's language, then, puts the focus directly on the police: It is the police officers' primary purpose in obtaining statements that counts. Granted, the Court looks to the circumstances to figure out what that purpose was, rather than just taking the officers' word for it. But in the end, it's the officers' primary purpose that the Court is trying to discern.
Given that these are criminal cases, this laser-like focus on the police is the right one. Whereas a civil plaintiff may forfeit her case if she fails to show up to testify, the same is not true for an accuser in a criminal case. After all, a criminal case is brought on behalf of the state, as represented by police and prosecutors, not the victim. And a criminal trial is a search for truth -- with one of its goals to protect the community, as well as the particular accuser.
The search-for-truth idea behind the criminal trial argues for examining evidence from the accuser that comes up naturally, such as through a 911 call -- even if she is a no-show at trial. But it does not argue for allowing police to game the system by getting statements from a victim they suspect will be a no-show, so that later, at trial, they can present what is, in effect, testimony that cannot be cross-examined.
Applying the "Testimonial" Evidence Requirement in the 911-Call Case
Here's how the Court applied the test in yesterday's decision:
In Davis, the 911-call case, the Court reasoned that a 911 operator is hardly an interrogator - and thus the recording was not "testimonial." And, rather than trying to collect evidence to prove what happened in the past, the operator is trying to figure out how police can best intervene in an ongoing emergency.
The Court acknowledged that a 911 call may, at times, evolve into an interrogation about past events. But it also held that that was not the case with respect to the relevant part of the call at issue.
And it's quite clear from the transcript sections included in the decision why the Court was confident the relevant part of the 911 call --- where victim Michelle McCottry identified her assailant - was made in the midst of an emergency. That part came during the following excerpted sequence:
"911 Operator: What's going on?
"[McCottry]: He's here jumpin' on me again.
"911 Operator: Are there any weapons?
"[McCottry]: No. He's usin' his fists.
"911 Operator: Listen to me carefully. Do you know his last name?
"[McCottry]: It's Davis.
"911 Operator: Davis? Okay, what's his first name?
"[McCottry]: Adrian.
"911 Operator: Okay. What's his middle initial?
"[McCottry]: Martell. He's runnin' now."
Clearly, the assailant went from fight to flight as the call was occurring. McCottry's statements were "nontestimonial," under the Court's test, since the primary purpose of the 911 Operator's questions were to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency.
In Part Two of this series I will discuss how in Hammon, the companion case to Davis, the Court reached the opposite result in holding that the accuser's statements were, indeed, testimonial.
I will also discuss how, in Hammon, Justice Thomas, in his lone dissent, seeks to provide extra protection to victims of domestic violence. In doing so, he provides strong evidence, contrary to widespread belief, that he is able to look at the world from women's perspective.
Julie Hilden, a FindLaw columnist, graduated from Yale Law School in 1992. She practiced First Amendment law at the D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly from 1996-99. Hilden is also a novelist. In reviewing Hilden's novel, 3, Kirkus Reviews praised Hilden's "rather uncanny abilities," and Counterpunch called it "a must read.... a work of art." Hilden's website, www.juliehilden.com, includes free MP3 and text downloads of the novel's first chapter.
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New Department of Education Regulations Pave the Way for Public Single-Sex Schools and Classes
New Department of Education Regulations Pave the Way for Public Single-Sex Schools and Classes:
Part One In a Two-Part Series
Last week, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Public Schools System voted on whether to open all-boys and all-girls schools next fall. Meanwhile, in South Carolina, a similar decision has already been made: Eighth graders at Carvers Bay Middle School will have single-gender classes offered to them next year. In addition, elementary school students in Owensboro, Kentucky and Hampton, Virginia have already been learning some of their subjects in single-sex environments.
The introduction of these new programs is not a coincidence, but, rather, a result of the new federal regulations adopted by the Department of Education in October 2006. Under these regulations, which took effect in November, public school districts have far greater latitude to create single-sex classes, activities, and schools - all without running afoul of federal law -- than they used to.
In just ten years, the number of public, single-sex schools has risen from 3 to 241, an increase that occurred during a period in which the legality of such programs was uncertain at best. Now, with the imprimatur of the Department of Education, the number of single-sex schools and programs will certainly increase even more dramatically.
In this column, Part One of a two-part series, I will explain the new regulations and the departure they take from existing law - and explain why and how they were introduced. Moreover, I will consider the resurgence of interest in single-sex education.
In Part Two, I will go into further detail about the likely effect of gender segregation in the public schools. In addition, I will assess these programs' constitutionality, and their likely effect on gender equality.
Single-Sex Education and Title IX
Both public and private schools must comply with the mandates of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits schools that receive any federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex. Single-sex education is controlled not only by the core provision of the statute, which broadly bans sex discrimination, but also by statutory exceptions and administrative regulations. (I have described the governing rules in more detail in a previous column.)
Under these provisions, private elementary and secondary schools can operate single-sex, without regard to the opportunities available to students of the other sex. In contrast, public schools were, under the original regulations, more restricted in their ability to maintain single-sex admissions policies, or to offer single-sex programs within a coeducational school.
Public school districts could operate single-sex elementary and secondary schools only if they made a "comparable" school available to students of the excluded sex. OCR interpreted this regulation to require that the comparable school also be a single-sex school. So a school district could operate identical all-male and all-female schools, but could not offer particular programs in one, but not the other, nor operate a single-sex school for only one sex.
In addition, districts could offer a school to students of one sex, without a comparable school for the other sex, only if it was designed to compensate for past discrimination against the sex for whose members the school was created.
Coeducational public schools could not offer single-sex classes, except for those involving participation in contact sports, and those relating to human sexuality. Again, the only exception to this rule was to satisfy an affirmative-action rationale: A single-sex class could be offered if it was designed to make up for prior discrimination against students of one sex.
As noted above, these regulations have been changed. But what has not changed is that public schools must comply with the mandates of the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits governmental entities from utilizing sex-based classifications without an exceedingly persuasive justification for doing so. And, of course, regulations cannot trump the mandate of the U.S. Constitution.
The New Federal Regulations: A Significant Departure from Prior Law
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is famous for - and has been much criticized for -- placing great emphasis on student testing to measure a school's quality and success. Along with this highly-controversial focus of the law, however, came a provision that has received hardly any attention at all. That provision set aside $3 million for grants to local educational agencies for "programs to provide same-gender schools and classrooms (consistent with applicable law)."
That provision was a little odd - for it was unclear when the law was passed, whether anything significant toward this end could be done in a way that was truly "consistent with applicable law." That law consisted of Title IX, its implementing regulations, and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which contains the Equal Protection Clause. And at the time, applicable law left little room for permissible single-sex schools and programs in public school districts.
It thus came as no surprise when, shortly after the Act became law, President Bush called upon the Secretary of Education to draft new Title IX regulations that would take a more "flexible" approach to single-sex educational programs.
The Office for Civil Rights ("OCR"), located in the Department of Education, issued draft regulations in 2004, which it adopted in final form two-and-a-half years later. The stated purpose for the revised regulations is to provide educational entities "with additional flexibility in providing single-sex classes, extracurricular activities, and schools in elementary and secondary education."
Several features of the new regulations are notable for their departure from prior law. First, the regulations open the door generally to single-class classes and extracurricular activities. An elementary or secondary school can restrict classes or activities to one sex in order to meet one of two important objectives: (A) "To improve educational achievement of its students, through [an] overall established policy to provide diverse educational opportunities; or (B) To meet the particular, identified educational needs of its students." With respect to either objective, the "single-sex nature" of the program must be "substantially related to achieving that objective."
As long as one of these objectives exists, the only limits on single-sex classes or activities are these three: School districts must administer them in an evenhanded manner; student enrollment must be completely voluntary; and all students must be provided a "substantially equal coeducational class or extracurricular activity." This is a big leap from the old rule, which, as noted above, permitted schools to exclude members of one sex from a class or activity only for contact sports and sex-ed.
Who determines whether a school district has satisfied this three-part standard? Somewhat disturbingly, it's the school districts themselves: They are directed to perform self-evaluations to "ensure [single-sex programs] are based upon genuine justifications and do not rely on overly broad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of either sex." OCR explicitly rejected the possibility of subjecting single-sex programs to periodic compliance checks, in favor of schools' self-policing - as combined with the right of parents and students to file administrative complaints, and OCR's "audit" authority.
For single-sex schools, the new regulations take another big leap. A district can provide a school for members of only one sex, as long as it provides a substantially equal single-sex or coeducational school for the members of the other sex (along with the members of the targeted sex who choose not to attend the single-sex school). A district can thus offer an all-boys' school without an all-girls' school.
These new regulations throw the door open to single-sex schools and classes in public school systems - yet there exists little consensus about the need for them, the appropriate way to design them, or how best to guard against the gender stereotypes inherent in intentional segregation. Despite these lingering issues, these programs are rapidly proliferating and will no doubt continue to do so.
Why the Resurgence of Interest in Single-Sex Education?
A decade ago, the idea of separate math classes for boys and girls in a public school would have struck most people as strangely outdated, and as troubling, due to its reinforcement of negative stereotypes about girls. Given the century of hard work that led to women's and girls' being integrated into all aspects of public and private life -- and to be presumed as capable as men and boys -- why would an idea like this gain any traction at all?
The answer seems to be, in part, based upon genuine concern about whether public schools are disadvantaging girls in some ways, and boys in others; in part, based upon misplaced frustration with failing schools, more generally; and in part, based upon dubious extrapolation from research on gender differences.
Advocates for single-sex education have put forward many claims to justify the educational model they urge. Some claim biological differences between girls and boys affect the way each sex learns, and the environment in which each learns best (or worst). Girls hear better, goes one such argument, so they might experience the normal voice of a male teacher as "yelling." So girls should sit in the back of the classroom (where the teacher's voice will seem quieter) or have a female teacher. Boys, on the other hand, it is sometimes argued, need to move around regularly -- so they feel stifled by the typical sit-at-your-desk classroom environment.
Sex-segregated classes, these arguments claim, would permit teachers to address such differences not just on an ad hoc basis, but for a whole class of similarly-situated students.
Arguments are also made about the way the sexes interact with each other. Immature sexual attraction between boys and girls is a distraction -- particularly, some say, during the middle school years. These sorts of arguments, at least, have some intuitive appeal.
But what do scientific studies show about the harms and benefits of single-sex education? Such studies are, at best, equivocal. Even the Office for Civil Rights -- the entity that produced these new regulations designed to increase the opportunity for single-sex education -- concludes only that: "Existing educational research suggests that single-sex education may provide some benefits to some students, under certain circumstances."
The danger of OCR's new approach to regulating single-sex programs and schools is that it gives districts the green light to create them, without providing any mechanism for ensuring that their programs, will benefit their students, under realistic circumstances.
In Part Two of this series, I will address, more specifically, the likelihood that public schools can run single-sex programs without undermining the fruits of the hard-fought battle for gender equity in elementary and secondary schools.
I will also consider another important question: Do the gender-segregated schools and programs endorsed by the new regulations violate the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause?
Joanna Grossman, a FindLaw columnist, is a professor of law at Hofstra University. Her columns on family law, trusts and estates, and discrimination, including sex discrimination and sexual harassment, may be found in the archive of her columns on this site.
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And so I went to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens today…
…and no, it wasn’t with Lady Pendleton this time.
It’s remarkably easy to get there. I took the Bakerloo tube line to Oxford Circus, switched to Victoria, got off about four stops later, at Vauxhall (also a rail station). It took a bit of walking and looking at maps to figure out which way to go, but once I found Kennington Lane, I was good. It wasn’t hard—just opposite Vauxhall Bridge, in fact. The old Vauxhall Bridge was not in existence in 1814 when the current story I’m writing takes place (it opened in 1816 and was called Regent Bridge at first), so people had to come by Westminster Bridge or by water. By water seems more romantic than coming by tube, but with all the tall buildings and traffic, I couldn’t see the river anyway.
Kennington Lane
When Jonathan Tyers first leased the “Spring Gardens,” that part of town was pretty much still rural. Not town at all. Which was really the source of its allure. One could get away from all the ugly sounds and smells of the city for an afternoon or an evening. And it was open to all classes—well, anyone with a shilling to pay, that is—and there was always something interesting to see and do.
Sadly, London expanded and took over Vauxhall. As buildings were raised around it, it lost much of its appeal. In any case, the advent of trains meant that people could travel further out to see the country if they wished. In 1859, after more than a hundred years, it finished its final season.
What’s left is hardly even a shadow of its former glory. A handful of grassy knolls, a modern-y stone bench, a basketball court with energetic neighborhood youth dribbling the ball from one side to the other. Further on, there are housing units, parking spaces, and even community vegetable plots on Glasshouse Walk. Nearby is the Vauxhall City Farm, where you can pay to see cattle and horses and such—I suppose there must be people still today who don’t get far out of the city.
Community Plots on Glasshouse Walk.
But the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens still function for the pleasure of local residents. Here’s a link to one event from April of this year: https://vauxhalltrust.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/st-georges-22nd-and-23rd-april-2017/
I feel certain Jonathan Tyers would approve.
This entry was posted on August 20, 2017, in Jonathan Tyers, Vauxhall Gardens: A History, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and tagged Jonathan Tyers, Lambeth, Starbucks, Susana Ellis, Vauxhall Bridge, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. 9 Comments
Vauxhall Gardens: An Era of Change (1786-1822), Part I
Vauxhall Gardens: A History
David Coke & Alan Borg
The Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens is one of the places I’d love to slip back in time to visit, just to catch a glimpse of what it was like. After recently splurging to buy this lovely coffee-table book, I thought it might make a wonderful subject for a new blog series. But do buy the book too, if you can! The photos are fabulous!
While the years from 1732 to 1786 were the undoubtedly the heyday of Vauxhall, the years following the Jubilee continued to attract large numbers of visitors and was the most popular outdoor entertainment for many years. Charles Burney’s daughter Sarah wrote in 1807:
You should quit your Devonshire Shades were it only to share in the universal rage there is for going to Vauxhall. I never knew anything like it. The whole London World seems to be seized with a fit of the fool.
Vauxhall Fashions, engraving (David Coke’s collection) from La Belle Assemblée no. 7 (August 1806). Many dressmakers and retailers advertised their wares as representing the latest fashions seen at Vauxhall.
Scenes from Vauxhall were presented on stage, authors such as John Keats, Pierce Egan, and William Thackeray wrote about it, and others tried to copy it, in London and elsewhere. Bath’s Sydney Gardens, opened in 1795 and much visited by Jane Austen, was modeled on Vauxhall in London, as was Tivoli in Copenhagen. Vauxhalls started appearing everywhere.
One half of the world don’t know how t’other lives, Sung by Mr. Dignum in Vauxhall Gardens, etching, 1805 (British Museum, London, 1861.0518.1087). A very popular tenor at the gardens, Dignum also gave the farewell address at the end of several seasons.
A change in clientele
In the early nineteenth century, however, with England’s middle and working classes rapidly expanding due to the Industrial Revolution and the rapid growth of London’s population, Vauxhall’s clientele began to change as well.
The social balance was changing too; the old aristocracy watched nervously as France spiralled into revolutionary chaos, and several of the great families decided to move back to the country, to avoid the potential dangers of urban unrest… In addition, social circles were becoming more restricted and inward-looking; the London aristocracy was being rapidly overtaken in terms of numbers by the professional middle classes of industrialists, businessmen, doctors and lawyers. To support them, huge numbers of labourers, tradesmen and servants moved to the capital.
Because of this influx, houses began to pop up in and around Vauxhall, which meant that the Kennington Street area was no longer a country hamlet, but a part of the city itself, and the residents didn’t always appreciate all the racket coming from Vauxhall in the early hours of the morning.
Picturesque Elevation of the Iron Bridge created over the Thames at Vauxhall, engraving, 1816 (David Coke’s collection). Designed by the engineer James Walker, the new bridge greatly shortened the land journey from London to Vauxhall Gardens.
A significant advantage was the completion of the new Vauxhall Bridge in August 1816, which shortened considerably the route from the West End.
The bridge remained open all night, both for pedestrians and for coaches, catering for those revellers who stayed on into the small hours, to the annoyance of the local residents who were trying to sleep.
A change of attractions
The form of the entertainments at Vauxhall remained traditional to the end of the eighteenth century. Various new attractions were introduced only gradually and these were directly in response to new forms of popular entertainment that had sprung up elsewhere in London.
One of these was Philip Astley’s enormously popular shows, with “daring displays of horsemanship”, as well as jugglers, tight-rope walkers, and great pageants of historical events. See my post of Astley’s Amphitheatre here.
Vauxhall had always promoted patriotic songs and military bands, and later added battle reconstructions and victory celebrations, after Astley’s model. The Battle of Waterloo was considered to be the “most spectacular event ever staged at Vauxhall.”
Boat races on the Thames was another innovation, which including a rowing race for watermen and a sailing match for ‘gentlemen’s pleasure sailing boats’. Which was followed by a grand gala in the gardens, of course. In 1812, the contest was called the Vauxhall Grand Regatta.
Vauxhall Sailing Match, engraving, 1800 (Minet Library, London, Lambeth Archives Department, V. fo. 57). This appears to be the only surviving image of one of the Vauxhall sailing matches.
Advances in science and technology brought ballooning to the gardens, the first balloon ascension beginning in 1802, but not becoming a regular feature until the 1820’s. André Jacques Garnerin, the first Vauxhall aeronaut, experimented with making parachute jumps from balloons. One of his flights included releasing a cat from a height of 600 feet, who descended safely into some resident’s garden. George Colman the younger, a playwright, wrote
Poor Puss in a grand parachute
Was sent to sail down through the air
Plump’d into a garden of fruit,
And played up old Gooseberry there:
The gardener transpiring with fear,
Stared just like a hundred struck hogs;
And swore, tho’ the sky was quite clear,
‘Twas beginning to rain cats and dogs.
Fireworks, first introduced in 1783, were limited to special occasions at first, but pyrotechnic displays did not become standard until 1798.
When it was time for the fireworks to start, a bell was rung and everyone went to the firework ground at the far eastern end of the gardens. The hours varied, displays being advertised at 9, 10 and 11 p.m.; on gala nights there was often more than one show.
Changes in proprietors and prices
Jonathan Tyers the younger’s son-in-law, Bryant Barrett, managed the gardens until his death in 1809, when his sons Jonathan Tyers Barrett and George Rogers Barrett inherited. Jonathan Barrett became sole owner in 1818. In 1821, the gardens were leased to relatives and business partners Thomas Bish and Frederick Gye, later joined by Richard Hughes, “and the trio used their option to buy the property in 1825 for £30,000.”
In 1792, the price of admission was raised to 2 shillings for regular nights and 3 shillings for the Grand Galas (masquerades), which involved elaborate fancy dress.
Susana’s Vauxhall Blog Post Series
Vauxhall Gardens: Jonathan Tyers—“The Master Builder of Delight”
Vauxhall Gardens: A New Direction
Vauxhall Gardens: The Orchestra and the Supper-Boxes
Vauxhall Gardens: The Organ, the Turkish Tent, and the Rotunda
Vauxhall Gardens: Three Piazzas of Supper-Boxes
Vauxhall Gardens: “whither every body must go or appear a sort of Monster in polite Company”
Vauxhall Gardens: The Competition
Vauxhall Gardens: The Artwork, Part I
Vauxhall Gardens: The Artwork, Part II
Vauxhall Gardens: The Music, 1732-1859
Vauxhall Gardens: The Business Side
Vauxhall Gardens: Developments from 1751-1786
Vauxhall Gardens: Thomas Rowlandson’s Painting (1785)
Vauxhall Gardens: The Third Generation of the Tyers Family and the Jubilee of 1786
Vauxhall Gardens: An Era of Change (11786-1822), Part I
Vauxhall Gardens: An Era of Change (11786-1822), Part II
Vauxhall Gardens: An Era of Change (11786-1822), Part III
Vauxhall Gardens: The Final Years, Part I
Vauxhall Gardens: The Final Years, Part II
Vauxhall Gardens: The Final Years, Part III
Vauxhall Gardens: The Final Years, Part IV
Vauxhall Gardens: Farewell for ever
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Afsar Khan Zazai
Role : Wicketkeeper batsman
DOB : August 10, 1993, Kabul
Afsar Zazai is the primary wicketkeeper batsman for the Afghanistan National team. He is also one of the eleven players to have played an international test match, a feat he achieved against India in 2018. Another fun fact: He is the first cap for Afghanistan in test cricket.
Afsar Zazai’s cricketing talents were identified quite early and he was selected to be a part of the 2010 youth World Cup in New Zealand at the tender age of just 16 years. Prior to that, he had proved his mettle by effecting nine dismissals in six games for the Afghanistan U-19 team during the 2010 U-19 World Cup qualifiers. He even went on to represent the war-torn nation in another youth world cup, the 2012 edition. He then had to wait for two more years to make his senior debut. He was handed his first cap in 2014 against the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He finished the match with a neat 60, a catch, and a stumping.
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Mosaddek Hossain Saikat
Role : Middle-order batsman
Bowls : Right-arm offbreak
DOB : December 10, 1995, Mymensingh
Mosaddek Hossain comes from a family of cricketers. He has played List A and first-class cricket in Bangladesh since 2013. He came into limelight in the 2013 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, helping Abahani Limited fight a disastrous campaign. He made a century and three fifties, before heading to the Bangladesh U-19 training camp ahead of the 2014 ICC World Cup in the UAE. The chance to get out of age-group cricket early played a vital role in his development.
In 2014-15 he passed 1000 first-class runs in his 10th match. He also scored 250 and 282 in consecutive matches that season. In October 2015, he became the first Bangladeshi player to score three double-centuries, reaching the milestone in just 12 matches. Mosaddek made his Test debut in March 2017 in a one-off game against Sri Lanka. Due to his gifted abilities, he has always been in the selectors' radar. Hossain can also bowl handy off-breaks; which are very effective, particularly in the shorter formats. Hossain possesses great skills and a strong temperament and we may see him develop more in the years to come.
tests 1 2 0 88 75 44.00 183 48.08 0 1 9 2 2 0
ODIs 18 15 6 288 50* 32.00 319 90.28 0 1 32 6 8 0
T20Is 6 6 1 99 34* 19.80 91 108.79 0 0 7 3 3 0
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listA 61 56 16 1724 110 43.10 1886 91.41 2 10 143 41 25 0
tests 1 2 42 21 0 - - - 3.00 0 0 0
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T20Is 6 5 64 75 2 1/22 1/22 37.50 7.03 0 0 0
firstClass 22 31 1480 813 17 4/33 7/98 47.82 3.29 1 0 0
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‘AgSharks’ competition seeks next big ‘agtech’ startup
published on August 31, 2018 - 10:33 AM
Written by David Castellon
If you’re looking to start up or grow an agriculture-related business but don’t have the capital, your opportunity is on the way.
Western Growers, the Irvine-based advocacy group for produce farmers in California, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, will host its second AgSharks Competition during the Western Growers 93rd Annual Meeting Oct. 30 in Palm Desert.
Entrepreneurs and startups developing innovative solutions in food, agtech and agriculture will have opportunities to receive a minimum of $250,000 in investment capital to support the development and growth of their businesses from Western Growers and S2G Ventures, the latter a multi-stage venture fund investing in food- and agriculture-related projects.
“The farmers who grow our vegetables, fruits and nuts have never faced as challenging of a regulatory climate as they do today,” Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers, said in a press release. “It’s now more important than ever to invest in innovation solutions and technologies that will play a crucial role in helping farmers grow more with less.
“We welcome S2G Ventures as our partner in providing the resources needed to fuel technology that will solve real world problems.”
The competition varies from the television show, “Shark Tank,” in that five finalists will be selected to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges — the AgSharks — consisting of venture capitalists and fresh produce farmers. Like the show, the judges will decide on the spot whether to invest and how much to invest.
The entrepreneurs must then accept the offer, negotiate it or decline it. In addition to investment capital, successful entrants also will receive international recognition, mentoring from S2G and Western Growers officials and potential access to farms where they can evaluate their new technologies.
“We are excited to partner with Western Growers for the second consecutive year in finding the next great set of entrepreneurs delivering innovative solutions to the farm,” Chuck Templeton, managing director of S2G Ventures, said in the release.
Last year, two agtech startups, Hazel Technologies, Inc. with offices in Salinas and Chicago, and Georgia-based AgVoice received a combined $2.25 million in total investment offers from S2G Ventures. Hazel Technologies, a start-up that develops products that extend the shelf life of fresh produce, receive $2 million.
“The outcome of the AgSharks event was a major step forward for Hazel Tech,” Aidan Mount, the company’s CEO and co-founder, said in the release. “S2G’s investment has had great impact in accelerating our business growth and the opportunity to pitch in front of [Western Growers] members was invaluable. I think the event is only going to get bigger and better from here out.”
To enter the competition, follow the online application process at www.research.net/r/agsharks18 and submit by Sept. 30.
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EPA to clean up toxic Texas site damaged by Hurricane Harvey
published on April 10, 2018 - 1:22 PM
Written by Associated Press, JASON DEAREN, MICHAEL BIESECKER
(AP) — Federal environmental regulators have reached a long-awaited agreement with the owners of a polluted toxic waste site in Texas that was damaged during Hurricane Harvey, releasing dangerous chemicals into a river.
The Environmental Protection Agency says it reached a final deal with International Paper Co. and McGinnes Industrial Maintenance Corp. to design a plan to remove dioxin-contaminated materials from the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund site, located outside Houston.
Both companies, which had fought cleanup efforts for years, said in statements that they look forward to working with EPA to protect the river and community.
EPA says the estimated cost for the project is $115 million and is expected to take more than two years.
The Associated Press reported last year that more than a dozen Superfund sites including the San Jacinto pits were flooded by Harvey. EPA’s press office assailed AP’s reporting as fear-mongering “yellow journalism” but weeks later acknowledged leaks of potentially harmful materials from San Jacinto and a second Houston-area site.
The expansive cleanup project announced Tuesday includes removing 212,000 cubic yards (162,000 cubic meters) of contaminated materials and creating infrastructure to contain remaining pollutants so they don’t spread beyond the site.
The work will be overseen by EPA and state environment regulators.
“EPA will ensure that the remedial design removes all the contamination as quickly and safely as possible and permanently protects the health and safety of the surrounding communities and the San Jacinto River,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a statement Monday.
At the San Jacinto River Waste Pits, a concrete cap meant to contain pollutants from spreading during a hurricane was damaged by the rushing floodwaters, releasing chemicals into the river.
The Superfund site — one of the nation’s most polluted places, according to EPA — is on and around a low-lying island that was completely covered with roiling floodwaters when the AP surveyed it on Sept. 1.
EPA said a sample collected after the damage showed dioxin levels at more than 2,300 times the level needed to trigger a cleanup.
Dioxins in the San Jacinto River are due to paper mill waste that was stored there. The EPA says dioxins, which accumulate in the tissues of fish and other animals, can cause cancer and reproductive and developmental problems in humans. Most exposure is through food.
Environmentalists praised the decision to remove contaminated materials from the site, saying both companies responsible for the pollution have fought efforts for years to clean it up.
“This is glorious news. We never thought we would see the day. This agreement means the site clean-up can move forward without being tied up in a court battle,” Jackie Young, executive director of Texas Health and Environment Alliance, said in a statement.
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Image Credit: Brian Holsclaw
India, Pakistan Ready for Talks
High-level talks are set to resume between India and Pakistan. But the two countries have very different agendas.
By Rajeev Sharma for The Diplomat
India and Pakistan are set to embark on another round of serious engagement when their foreign secretaries meet in Islamabad this month. It promises to be an intense session when Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir meet on June 23-24, and straws in the wind suggest that the talks will be unlike other recent secretary-level discussions held between the two countries. There’s even been speculation that the two sides are set to negotiate some concrete deliverables to bring about a new thaw and pave the way for foreign minister-level discussions.
Yet Pakistan has already struck a disharmonious note, claiming that the agenda will be limited to the Kashmir issue, peace and security and friendly exchanges, while the Indian side is insisting that all issues, including the terror issue, will be discussed. India is determined to get maximum mileage from evidence given over the Mumbai 2008 attacks during Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s trial in Chicago. But Pakistan is in no mood to play ball, and has said India is too fixated on the issue.
It looks like the two sides are indulging in a little posturing through their respective foreign offices, with liberal recourse to the age-old practice of talking to each other through the media before a big event. The end result, however, will be as it has always been: the two sides will discuss exactly what they want to discuss. This is especially likely as the foreign secretary-level talks are designed in a way that allows either side to bring any issue to the table.
Significantly, the talks are taking place against the backdrop of some positive changes on the part of Pakistan that have been noted by India and the international community, including the killing of notorious terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri, who was seen as a greater threat to India than al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, the international diplomatic community has been amazed at indications of a sea change in the Pakistani military establishment’s terrorism policy and suggestions that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has resumed intelligence sharing with the United States. Indeed, there are rumours that Pakistan gave exact details over Kashmiri’s location that enabled the United States to take him out in a drone attack.
With this shift in mind, India will likely press the terrorism issue and seek the expeditious trial of all accused in the Mumbai terror attacks. These talks may very well determine the course of India-Pakistan engagement in the near term.
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